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Rafael Cancel Miranda: A Man and his Message Rafael Cancel Miranda: A Man and his Message
Date: 1/1/1977Call Number: PM 049Format: Cass A & BProducers: Ed HessieCollection: Breakthrough
Brief Overview of Puerto Rico’s colonial status Background of Rafael Cancel Miranda. He describes action at US capitol, prison experiences and harassment, history of colonization, racism of colonizers, defiant spirit of people. Cuban poem about PR. Objections to conditional release, role of UN and international solidarity
Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 050Format: Cass A & BProducers: Noelle Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. Intro by Gloria Alonzo, Interviews by Avotcha. Recorded voices of Felix Mata, then Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco). Interviews with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92). (duplicated on LA 070)
Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 067AFormat: Cass AProducers: Noel Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit #9: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
(Incomplete Duplicate of LA 050). Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. (Missing LA050’s Intro by Gloria Alonzo, interviews with Felix Mata, Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco), and Rafael Cancel Miranda). Does include interviews by Avotja with Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92).
Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 070Format: Cass A & BProducers: Noel Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
(Duplicate of LA 050.) Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. Intro by Gloria Alonzo, Interviews by Avotcha. Recorded voices of Felix Mata, then Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco). Interviews with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92).
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 11/9/1974Call Number: NI 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Story on Ruchell Magee and the right to rebel, Chilean revolutionary Carmen Castillo, state of siege in Argentina. Report on California Insitute for Women prison repression and protest, Attica, and Los Tres del Barrio, Los Angeles anti-drug community activists arrested and San Francisco rally in their support.
CEML Program - Bob Robideau, Safiya Bukhari-Alston, Rafael Cancel Miranda Moderator Nancy Kurshan CEML Program - Bob Robideau, Safiya Bukhari-Alston, Rafael Cancel Miranda Moderator Nancy Kurshan
Date: 11/17/1990Call Number: V 377Format: VHSProducers: Nancy KurshanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A program by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown about Control Unit Prisons. Harsh prison conditions (including super-max prison, Marion) are described by Bob Robideau of the American Indian Movement, Safiya Bukhari of the Jericho Amnesty Movement and Rafael Cancel Miranda a Puerto Rican Independentista.
CEML Program - Bob Robideau, Safiya Bukhari-Alston, Rafael Cancel Miranda Moderator Nancy Kurshan CEML Program - Bob Robideau, Safiya Bukhari-Alston, Rafael Cancel Miranda Moderator Nancy Kurshan
Date: 11/17/1990Call Number: V 640Format: DV CamProducers: Nancy KurshanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Excerpts from a program by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown about Control Unit Prisons. Harsh prison conditions (including super-max prison, Marion) are described by Bob Robideau of the American Indian Movement, Safiya Bukhari of the Jericho Amnesty Movement and Rafael Cancel Miranda a Puerto Rican Independentista.
Drifting Memories from Marion Prison Drifting Memories from Marion Prison
Author: Rafael Cancel MirandaDate: 10/10/1993Format: StatementCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Personal account of incarceration in control units.
LIBERTAD LIBERTAD
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1994Volume Number: SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Libertad
40th Anniversary of the Attack on Congress/ 14th Anniversary of the Capture of Puerto Rican Prisoners of War. Inside: Editorial; 40 Years Later, the Nation Lives; Viva Puerto Rico Libre!; Message from Alberto Rodriguez; How Much Must we Wait? In Our Eyes, our fathers are Heroes; More Than Fourteen years in Prison; an Interview with Luis Nieves Falcon; Thirteen Years Older with no Oscar; Update
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 4 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Introduction, Letter from Emily Harris, October 27, 1975, Lolita Lebron and Blanca Canales, Susan Saze Statement, June 9, 1975, On Being Underground -- Katherine Power and Susan Saxe, Colation Against Psychiatric Assault: Demonstration, A Collective Letter to the Women's Movement from the Women of the Weather Underground, WUO Women's Brigade bombs Dept of H.E.W., March 1974, Poem, Statement from Sisters of the Symbionese Liberation Army, October 21, 1975, Militant Women: a Brief History, Open Letter to the Fighting Forces, Puerto Rican Solidarity, New World Liberation Front Communique: Fort Ord