Independent Collections
These collections were produced by independent journalists. Many of these recordings make up the bulk of the original collection of the Freedom Archives.
Subcollections
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Colin Edwards Collection
Materials representing the life-work and journalism of a Welsh radio correspondent and journalist who worked for Pacifica stations, the BBC and many other broadcasters. -
Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
This collection is produced by journalist Colin Edwards and represent a comprehensive account of the Free Speech Movement and its effect on the political climate of UC Berkeley. -
Programs produced by Kiilu Nyasha
Kiilu Nyasha is a revolutionary journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party. Kiilu still hosts Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, which now appears as a TV program. -
“Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
KPFA weekly news program running from 1973-1976 featuring in-depth coverage of liberation struggles around the world. -
“The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon was a radio program broadcast on KPFA from 1971-1973. This news show focused on issues of national liberation, political prisoners, Vietnam and other major national and international topics.
Documents
Year-End show 1972
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 027 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Year-end synopses of select 1972 global political affairs. Including but not limited to commentary on:
Indo-Chinese Victories (examples of demonstrations around the world, liberation of territories, destruction of puppet army, U.S. northwest train stoppages and sailors refusing to go to war)
Japan (Tanaka takes Sato's place in power, movement against U.S. war in Indochina grows, Okinawa struggle-U.S. cedes island back to Japan yet keeps military bases)
Philippines (New People's Army grows, Muslim resistance, Marcos imposes marital law)
South Korea (Park Chung Hee imposes martial law, his opponents executed)
Portugese colonial governments push fascism, use napalm and other tactics in Angola Mozambique, Guinea Bissau
Ireland (Bloody Sunday occurs, where British troops murder demonstrators in Northern Ireland, detention of IRA suspects without trial, MacStiofain imprisoned, U.S. Irish supporters attacked by U.S. grand juries)
Brazil (U.S. imperial forces use Brazilian cliques to squash liberation struggles, genocide against Indigenous peoples, Comandante Marcia killed)
UN Special Committee on Colonialism (from which U.S. resigned months before) classifies Puerto Rico as a colony
U.S. (U.S Indigenous Peoples takeover U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington D.C., mass refusals to accept U.S. government checks for land by PIH River Indians, Angela Davis acquitted of charges brought against in her in relation to Aug 7 Marin County Courthouse uprising, Prop 22 defeated- a victory for Farm Workers, restoration of the U.S. death penalty, court upholds Organized Crime Control Act used against radicals, surveillance techniques employed in high schools and on streets of poor communities of color, Hoover dies and Patrick Grey steps in to "streamline and modernize FBI", Nixon strikes deals in Moscow (then Soviet Union) including Arms Limitation, grain and oil deals, push for global capitalism-Pepsi first U.S drink to be make and marketed in S.U., Nixon re-elected)
inserts of: Billy Smith, Ramsey Clark, Thai Binh, MacStoifain, Allende, Angela, Ruchell (EXCELLENT!!), Talamantez
Real Dragon
Date: 1/27/1973Call Number: RD 028Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon program covers:
Cease Fire in Vietnam.
U.S Military Draft officially ended today.
Amilcar Cabral, leader of liberation struggle against the Portuguese Occupation of Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands has been assassinated. Program elaborates on his life and the revolutionary movement in Guinea Bissau and Angola.
Demonstrations in Northern Ireland commemorated Bloody Sunday. Solidarity demonstrations in San Francisco.
U.S. Ambassador to Haiti was kidnapped and held for the release of political prisoners and ransom.
Rap Brown on trial in NY for charges of attempted murder and robbery.
U.S. Supreme Court overruled all state laws that restrict women's right to an abortion in her first three months of pregnancy (Roe vs. Wade 1/22/73)
Clay Whitehead, aide to Nixon, says government might have to control licensing of television networks because reporting is too biased against the president, He also said that many people liked Big Brother (from Orwell's 1984) because he did it in their "interest and concern."
Real Dragon
Date: 4/7/1973Call Number: RD 037Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Mark SchwartzProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Ruchell Magee mistrial, with actuality of juror and Sandy Close, Marilyn Buck report on hearing, Native America, Justice and Gibson, Hugo Pinell, the Harlem 4, Weather Underground Grand Jury, James Davis, Wounded Knee. people’s subpoena against James Dierker, Russell Means long statement read by Lincoln Bergman, Pathet Lao, Vietnam
Real Dragon
Date: 4/28/1973Call Number: RD 040Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
A satiric look at the Watergate crisis, in faux soap opera style/radio drama. Followed by other news, international, Vietnam, Larry Justice and Earl Gibson
Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 11/24/1973Call Number: NI 008Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude MarksProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of week's events, including Greek coup, Chilean repression, Union of Vietnamese statement with poetry, San Quentin 6, Ruchell Magee, Black Liberation Army on the shooting of Twymon Ford Myers, and reports on other political cases.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/18/1975Call Number: NI 054Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Sections with actuality on: San Quentin Six, Ruchell Magee, Bob Hood verdict, American Indian movement. Stories on Joanne Little, Attica trials, and closing section on martin Luther King, Vietnam, Jesse Jackson.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/8/1975Call Number: NI 059Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with Vietnam, then Peru state of emergency, Ethiopia/Eritrea fighting, Menominee protest continues, demonstrations in support of Ruchell Magee and Inez Garcia, Attica trials, police shooting of Black man in Oakland, communiques (read by announcers) from New World Liberation Front (NWLF) for a series of actions, then report on welfare and US economy, with report from a march in Washington DC. Lincoln Bergman poem about the moon and Vietnan at start and end of show.
Year-End show 1972
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 063Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Year-end synopses of select 1972 global political affairs. Including but not limited to commentary on:
Indo-Chinese Victories (examples of demonstrations around the world, liberation of territories, destruction of puppet army, U.S. northwest train stoppages and sailors refusing to go to war)
Japan (Tanaka takes Sato's place in power, movement against U.S. war in Indochina grows, Okinawa struggle-U.S. cedes island back to Japan yet keeps military bases)
Philippines (New People's Army grows, Muslim resistance, Marcos imposes marital law)
South Korea (Park Chung Hee imposes martial law, his opponents executed)
Portugese colonial governments push fascism, use napalm and other tactics in Angola Mozambique, Guinea Bissau
Ireland (Bloody Sunday occurs, where British troops murder demonstrators in Northern Ireland, detention of IRA suspects without trial, MacStiofain imprisoned, U.S. Irish supporters attacked by U.S. grand juries)
Brazil (U.S. imperial forces use Brazilian cliques to squash liberation struggles, genocide against Indigenous peoples, Comandante Marcia killed)
UN Special Committee on Colonialism (from which U.S. resigned months before) classifies Puerto Rico as a colony
U.S. (U.S Indigenous Peoples takeover U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington D.C., mass refusals to accept U.S. government checks for land by PIH River Indians, Angela Davis acquitted of charges brought against in her in relation to Aug 7 Marin County Courthouse uprising, Prop 22 defeated- a victory for Farm Workers, restoration of the U.S. death penalty, court upholds Organized Crime Control Act used against radicals, surveillance techniques employed in high schools and on streets of poor communities of color, Hoover dies and Patrick Grey steps in to "streamline and modernize FBI", Nixon strikes deals in Moscow (then Soviet Union) including Arms Limitation, grain and oil deals, push for global capitalism-Pepsi first U.S drink to be make and marketed in S.U., Nixon re-elected)
inserts of: Billy Smith, Ramsey Clark, Thai Binh, MacStoifain, Salvador Allende, Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee (EXCELLENT!!), luis Talamantez
Year-End show 1972
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 027 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Includes commentary on:
Indo-Chinese Victories (demonstrations around the world, liberation of territories, destruction of puppet army, US northwest train stoppages and sailors refusing to go to war)
Japan (Tanaka takes Sato's place in power, movement against US war in Indochina grows, Okinawa struggle - US cedes island back to Japan yet keeps military bases)
Philippines (New People's Army grows, Muslim resistance, Marcos imposes marital law)
South Korea (Park Chung Hee imposes martial law, his opponents executed)
Portugese colonial governments push fascism, use napalm and other tactics in Angola Mozambique, Guinea Bissau
Ireland (Bloody Sunday occurs, where British troops murder demonstrators in Northern Ireland, detention of IRA suspects without trial, MacStiofain imprisoned, US Irish supporters attacked by grand juries)
Brazil (US imperial forces use Brazilian cliques to squash liberation struggles, genocide against Indigenous peoples, Comandante Marcia killed)
UN Special Committee on Colonialism (from which US resigned months before) classifies Puerto Rico as a colony
Indigenous People takeover US Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington DC, mass refusals to accept government payments for land by Pit River Indians, Angela Davis acquitted of charges brought against in her in relation to Aug 7 Marin County Courthouse uprising, Prop 22 defeated - a victory for Farm Workers, restoration of the US death penalty, court upholds Organized Crime Control Act used against radicals, surveillance techniques employed in high schools and on streets of poor communities of color, Hoover dies and Patrick Grey steps in to "streamline and modernize FBI," Nixon strikes deals in Moscow (then Soviet Union) including Arms Limitation, grain and oil deals, push for global capitalism - Pepsi first US drink to be made and marketed in S.U., Nixon re-elected.
Actuality includes Billy Dean Smith, Ramsey Clark, Thai Binh, MacStoifain, Allende, Angela, Ruchell (EXCELLENT!!), Talamantez