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Bolivia: Drug War
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: JG/ 033AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
ACLA (Atlantic Committee on Latin America) show. Covers Bolivia following the murder of 2 Mormon missionaries the crackdown on left wing guerilla organizations and the US War on Drugs , FBI involvement and $11 million for War on Drugs in 1989. Uruguay from a article in the "Guardian" on massive unemployment, the exodus of youth and youth withdrawal from activism. El Salvador on the ARENA party and Salvadorian refugees in the US and the repression they face when trying to organize against right wing ARENA. Vieques: 4 month stand off between Puerto Rican residents and the US Navy, history of resistance on Vieques and the living/environmental conditions.
Nov 1 Puerto Rico Rally San Francisco
Nov 1 "Puerto Rico" rally in San Francisco in the late 1970’s. This rally was a part of an International Campaign to free the 5 Puerto Rican Nationalists who were incarcerated for their actions to free Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule. Two of these independentistas, Lolita Lebron and Oscar Collazo sent words to be read at the rally. Along with other speakers/performers, Lucas Demont of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party Nucleus, spoke about the revolutionary history of Puerto Rico, including the Nationalist Party's taking up of arms against US imperialism, the ensuing ultra-repressive US colonial occupation, and also the actions that lead to the incarceration of Puerto Rican Nationalists. Mary Ellen Polluck of the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee explained the ways in which the US has turned Puerto Rico into a colony instead of the "free associated state" as it has been named. Also featuring performance by Nina Serano.
Real Dragon
Date: 10/7/1971Call Number: RD 006Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
One-on-one interview with Ernesto "Che" Guevara from 1964. During the interview, Che speaks about some necessary elements for the seizure of power for revolution. He reveals that each movement depends on the people and cannot be an imitation of another movement such as the one that took place in Cuba. He uses the case of Puerto Rico as an example and also feels that in order for a revolution of the people to happen in the U.S- the considerations would be much more complex and need to take on a character of its own.
Conversation about Puerto Rican independence
Call Number: V 395Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dylcia Pagan, Jan Susler, José Solís Jordán and Elizam Escobar, all involved in the struggle for Puerto Rico’s independence, discuss the commitment and passion with which they embrace their cause. They also point out the need for people to fight for their ideals in order to not become accomplices of the system they oppose.
Chicano Moratorium Commemoration - Part 1
Date: 8/29/1987Call Number: CV 267Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
People gather to honor the Chicano Moratorium and other ancestors struggles for freedom. Speakers discuss the need for bilingual education in schools and ethnic studies. Allies from Puerto Rican independence and Native rights movements call for a mobilization against US imperialism.
Como el filo del machete (Like the Edge of the Machete)
Date: 1/1/1978Call Number: Vin 030Producers: Paredon Records, Andres JimenezCollection: General materials
An album of political ballads for independence in Puerto Rico. In traditional decima form, or songs of forty-four lines.
Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1979Volume Number: No. 3 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Free the Pontiac Brothers!
Demands to the California Department of
Corrections from San Quentin Prisoners, Open Letter to Africans of British Isles from an African in N. America, LA County Jail Colonial Violence, Stop the New Prisons, Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!, Aisha Audeh Released from Israeli Prison, Support Minimum Wage Bill for Prisoners.
Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Regional Young Adult ProjectYear: 1981Volume Number: No. 11 April-MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: National demonstrations to free the Pontiac Brothers!, Namibia will be Free, Puerto Rican Prisoners of War Respond to Sedition Charges, Peltier
Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Regional Young Adult ProjectYear: 1982Volume Number: No. 13 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: B.L.A. Communique; Support New Afrikan Freedom Fighters; More on Revolutionary Task Force; Puerto Rican Socialist League; Black August Organizing Committee; James York; Pan Africanist Conference, Azania.
Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1982Volume Number: No. 14 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Support New African Freedom Fighters; The Necessity of Armed Fighters; From Sekou Odinga- New Afrikan Prisoner of War
