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Real Dragon
Date: 2/3/1973Call Number: RD 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Tet: The Lunar New Year passes, spring festival.
100,000 plus patriots locked up as prisoners of Thieu in South Vietnam,
10,000 protest war in China, and thousands in Cuba.
25,000 people and a military parade commemorate the assassinated African
revolutionary leader, Amilcar Cabral in Conakry Guinea. President Sekou
Toure, Amiri Baraka and outlawed Portuguese Communist Party leader Perdo
Suarez speak.
Military resistance and bombings in Portugal support the people’s struggle
in Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique and against Portuguese
colonialism.
Several major strikes by Black workers in South Africa.
Bloody Sunday commemoration in San Francisco calls for unity among
Catholics and Protestants to oppose 21,000 British occupation troops.
Two students killed by police at University of Mexico, student strikes
closes schools over the U.S.
Continued genocide against indigenous people in Brazil. Waimiri Atroari
attack National Indian Foundation that aims to “pacify and help Indians
adapt to civilization”
Puerto Rico House of Representatives passes a resolution asking Nixon to
pardon and release the Puerto Rican 5.
Continued arrest of Native Americans involved in Bureau of Indian Affairs
occupation, convictions reversed for two accused of stealing copper wire
from the Alcatraz occupation, more protests of racist hiring practices of
California.
More on the trial verdicts of Kitty Hawk and sailor resistance. 3,000 men
discharged from Navy (many blacks and poor whites) because they “lack
intelligence.”
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark spoke negatively of the U.S.
position as a paramilitary police state.
Senator Stennis the menace shot and wounded in D.C.
Earl Whittaker, a sympathetic Black Tombs Rebellion Prison guard acquitted
of trumped up charges.
Jury chosen for Rap Browns participation in the 1960 Woolworth lunch
counter sit-in that motivated waves of Black student protests and started
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Includes excerpts from
Brown’s opening statements.
Parole denied to Robert Wells imprisoned for 44 yrs for defending himself
against racist prison guard.
Venceremos: Laura Taulbee and Milton Taulbee jailed for refusing to
testify to Grand Jury. Guns and property seized from December FBI seizure
of Mountain View home returned
Governor Reagan and Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke make misogynist comments
about birth control.
Real Dragon
Date: 2/10/1973Call Number: RD 030Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of news, much international, Native American, prisons, repression
Real Dragon
Date: 8/25/1973Call Number: RD 060 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is the LAST Real Dragon program and has an explanation of the change to the next iteration of the program--Nothing Is More Precious Than...
La Musica y la Literatura de la Raza
Date: 6/9/1973Call Number: RP 072Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Today we feature Music and Poetry from Mexico, Aztlan, Salsa, Cuba, and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico and more on the Prison Struggle
Date: 8/25/1973Call Number: RP 080Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bernice Ramirez, Lillian del Sol, Nina Serrano, Andres Alegria, Isabel Alegria, Rodrigo Reyes, Eric Schilling, Chata Gutierrez, Jose Maria LopezCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
The first fifty minutes are devoted to a mix of poetry by Pancho Cruz read by Pedro Pietri with Salsa and political music of Puerto Rico.
Following is the Reflecciones News and the segment focusing on opinions of ex-prisoners about conditions in the prisons. After some announcements a brief section about the Farmworkers concludes the program
Viva Boricua
Date: 9/1/1973Call Number: RP 081Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bernice Ramirez, Lillian del Sol, Nina Serrano, Andres Alegria, Isabel Alegria, Rodrigo Reyes, Eric Schilling, Chata Gutierrez, Jose Maria LopezCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Program is about Puerto Rico, the Independence Movimiento, emphasizing the the Puerto Rican Prisoners held since the early 1950’s. With Salsa, Musica Boricua, and poetry. Jose Bonet and friends are guests.
Nuyorican poets in California
Date: 6/1/1973Call Number: CAA 011Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Three Nuyorican poets read thier poems: Victor Hernandez Cruz, Miguel Algarin, & Miguel Pinero.
Same as CD 395
Nuyorican poets in California; Poetry of Elias Hruska Cortes; A Poem for Three Pigs; Poems for and by Pablo Neruda; Nina Serrano Live Poetry.
Date: 6/1/1973Call Number: CD 395Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Three Nuyorican poets read their poems: Victor Hernandez Cruz, Miguel Algarin, & Miguel Pinero.
Same as CAA 011
Three poems read and written by Elias Hruska Cortes and a song by Rafael Ramirez
1) El Tiempo es Ya, poem about the Mission
2) Song
3) Alma Bronze, poem about Viet Nam
4) Yellow Peril Woman
Same as CAA 039
A prison poem written and performed by Ruben Ruybal with live guitar accompaniment by Philip Serrano.
Same as CAA 040
A poem by Pablo Neruda read by Nina Serrano and a poem to Pablo Neruda written and read by Nina Serrano. Recorded by phone.
Same as CAA 041
Poems written and read by Nina Serrano.
5/17/1973
1) To Roque Dalton
2) Memorium
3) Must I hear you bragging Conquistador?
Longshoreman’s Hall on 2/18/72
4) Chinatown Fair
5) Woman Pirate
6) To Roque, before leaving to Fight in Unknown terrain
Same as CD 395
Same as CAA 042
“Puerto Riqeno” (Raw Materials)
Date: 9/1/1973Call Number: CAA 137Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Raw Materials related to Puerto Rican struggle and Young Lords Party
same as CD 416
Viva Boricua!
Date: 9/1/1973Call Number: KP 199Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Sidney JohnsonCollection: Puerto Rico
Viva Boricua!
A survey of the independence movement in Puerto Rico as told by independistas. Features interviews with staff and students from the University of Puerto Rico, and Puerto Ricans living in New York City.
Dr. Luis Nieves Falcón, the director of the Social Studies research Center at the University of Puerto Rico speaks about the independence movement since "operation bootstrap," a U.S. colonial program to industrialize Puerto Rico.
Robert Anderson the Dean of Social Studies at UPR comments on the deterioration of Puerto Rico as an agricultural society.
The creator of a socio-cultural book series written for children compares the difference between the colonial curriculum, and her own books which were deemed subversive for showing images of poverty, barefoot children and the realities of a 30% unemployment rate. She describes different ways the independence movement is persecuted in the media, through the judicial process, by forcing employers to fire activists, and by direct FBI harassment.
A Puerto Rican economic advisor living in NYC, describes Puerto Rican migration to New York and criticizes the environmental harm and unjust economic impact of "operation bootstrap."