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](images/thumbnails//1916.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails//1917.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails//1918.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails//1919.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails//1920.jpg)
Date: 2/17/1973Call Number: RD 031Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon program Vietnam, international movements, US economy
![Real Dragon](images/thumbnails//1926.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails//1929.jpg)
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
![Real Dragon](images/thumbnails//1935.jpg)
Date: 6/9/1973Call Number: RD 046Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Mary MackeyProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program on Walpole State Prison, Ruchell, and news roundup.
![Real Dragon](images/thumbnails//1951.jpg)
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...
![Nothing is More Precious Than](images/thumbnails//5250.jpg)
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.