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Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 9/13/1975Call Number: NI 036Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program that is centered on the second anniversary of the coup in Chile and the fourth anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. Chile section features actuality of Salvador Allende speech at UN, Pete Seeger on Victor Jara. Attica section features actuality of Frank Smith, William Kunstler, Amiri Baraka and several unnamed prisoners on Attica conditions, the rebellion, and the state's brutal response. Program also includes updates on repression at Wounded Knee and against the American Indian Movement, and an update on the San Quentin 6 trial. Bruce Solloway reports on Attica trials and solidarity events (including Amiri Baraka talk in Buffalo), then Claude Marks/Lincoln Bergman mix of Attica actuality.
Note: Some of the Attica actuality used on Freedom Archives “Prisons on Fire” CD.
Luis Talamantez interview
Call Number: PM 014Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: San Quentin Six
Interview with several long inserts with Luis Talamantez/one of San Quentin 6, interviewer may be Fania Jordan. Talamantez mentions Mark Merin as good defense attorney.
Jalil Muntaqim interview (2 of 4)
Call Number: V 079Format: VHSProducers: John O’ReillyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Continues about the tampering and destruction of evidence in his case. Once you’re convicted the burden is to prove yourself innocent. Discusses cases of Dhoruba and Geronimo, who spent almost 50 years together in prison after proving that the state had set them up. Calls the US a plutocracy, where the rich rule and control the government, operating under a hypocritical veneer of democracy. Hegemonic powers of the media, describes it as the wizard in the background. We need to break the illusion that the system works for the benefit of the people. All he sees in prison are black and brown faces because of the unequal distribution of wealth and poverty being an impetus towards “crime”, and institutional racism has created a mechanism for people of color to go to prison. Talks about bodies becoming commodities, his prison number is like his bar code, economics analysis of PIC. Discusses tax breaks for rural counties who can include prisoners in their population even though majority of prisoners come from NYC. Control units/SHU - for rebellious prisoners and mentally ill inmates who can’t be controlled among rest of general population. Discusses his own most recent experience in the “box”, where the state fabricated evidence that he was organizing a statewide prison strike. Talks about SHU, feed you through a slot in cell, 1 hour of recreation time, everything even food is a privilege, no phone use, visitation once a week but through glass. Talks about the extended effects of isolation and sensory deprivation, claustrophobia, loneliness, anxiety and panic disorders. There is no rehab/education/employment/therapeutic/skill s offered to prisoners, thus they leave embittered and destructive. Talks about manifest destiny and how it was turned into a country. Ideas are power if you know how to take control. Starts to talk about returning to San Quentin adjustment center post-sentencing, housed with San Quentin six. Talking about freeing political prisoners with Ruchell Magee, who just received a letter from Yuri Kochiyama about starting a movement around amnesty.
Prison Movement Roundup
Date: 7/17/1976Call Number: FI 012Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Prison movement related: Gary Tyler, women prisoners, San Quentin 6 trial, Graham & Allen, Gibson & Justice with attorney actuality. Khatari poem performed by Sukari Tate.
Real Dragon
Date: 6/1/1972Call Number: RD 012Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Broadcast begins with a quote by a 15th century Vietnamese hero: "Love of Possession is a Disease" News coverage includes United States mining rice fields in Vietnam in an attempt to keep people from working the fields and bombing provinces with refugee camps; fighting in Cambodia; (Report by Larry Bensky with a spokesperson, Ngo Vinh Long, and others---Vietnamese students present a statement at the San Francisco consulate demanding communication with Saigon, release of all political prisoners, Thieu resign at once, and the dismantling of the repressive Saigon regime, US support for Thieu should be terminated. The demonstrators were mostly Vietnamese student recipients of scholarships from the Agency of International Development, which also supports prisons in Vietnam. The demonstrators were threatened with the revocation of visas) [about 4 minutes, approx 3:00–7:00]; Kissinger's return to the U.S. after a trip to Beijing but no agreement was made about Vietnam; Israeli attacks made on Lebanon by sinking Lebanese boats said to have been carrying Palestinian guerilla forces; Heavy bombings in Northern Ireland; Democratic National Headquarters was bugged; court ruling on illegal wiretaps; Former CIA agent employed by the Republican National Committee was caught while bugging the headquarters; Repressive preparations for Republican Convention (Jerry Rubin actuality); 2 bombings in Berkeley Don Church does not appear for trial; Gay rights issues in Miami Beach, Florida; PG&E trucks destroyed by arson in San Francisco; San Francisco demonstration against American Medical Association for favoring a system that requires charging for health care rather than it being a free service & also that the availability of health care is uneven—Red Star Singers songs and report on the demonstration, Tom Bodenheimer comment and other actuality, Stephanie Klein case; Hopi delegation to UN ecology conference in Stockholm, use their own passports; San Quentin 6 awaiting trial, David Johnson article is quoted from, re Vietnam, Luis "Bato" Talamantez reports on beating of 3 of San Quentin 6 by prison guards—attorney Joel Kirschenbaum reads message.
Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 11/10/1973Call Number: NI 006Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Reading of SLA communiqué on assassination of Oakland School superintendent Marcus Foster. Mark Schwartz report on San Quentin 6, Black Liberation Army, the New York 5, Marilyn Buck and Rosemary McFadden, actuality of Bernice Jones speaking about the BLA—Bill Schechner on Popeye Jackson of United Prisoners Union and a police informant. Andy Truskier on Chicago conspiracy case. Ramsay Clark, Roy Wilkins call for renewed investigation of Fred Hampton/Mark Clark murders. Donald Hickerson case—ruled he could not be fired from Department of Agriculture for being gay. Protest against Casper Weinberger by Medical Committee for Human Rights. Marc Cooper in Beirut on Palestinian movement, amidst attempts by Kissinger for Mideast peace. Chile, junta attempts to gain recognition internationally, demonstration planned against junta representatives. Union of Vietnamese report. Discusses violations of the Paris peace agreement, refusal of Saigon to recognize Provisional Revolutionary government (PRG). Con Son prison island. Reading of letter from Howie Machtinger of Weather Underground explaining why he went back underground after capture in NY, then not appearing for trial.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 11/17/1973Call Number: NI 007Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
San Quentin 6 report, David Johnson, prison interviews with Gabriel Torres and Herman Bell
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 12/15/1973Call Number: NI 011Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of national news, especially Black Liberation Army trials, San Quentin 6, Wounded Knee Grand Jury, GI movement, Indochina, and interview with head of Voice of Vietnam in Cuba
Nothing Is More than Precious 12-29-73
Call Number: CD 576Format: CDProgram: NIMPTCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Program devoted to political prisoners and prison movement, focusing on NYC and CA. First part is interview with Bernice Jones who describes her recent arrest in NYC in relation to BLA trials at the time. Rest of program deals with CA prison movement--hunger strike and reprislas at San Quentin Adjustment Center (with actuality from three prisoners describing their beatings and the conditions); actuality of Doc Holiday on repression against prison movement, and actuality of Warren Wells on Folsom Adjustment center.
12-29-73 [NI 013]
Nothing is More Precious Than (9-13-75)
Call Number: CD 578Format: CDProgram: NIMPTCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Program that is centered on the second anniversary of the coup in Chile and the fourth anniverary of the Attica prison rebellion. Chile section features actuality of Salvador Allende speech at UN, Pete Seeger on Victor Jara. Attica section features actuality of Frank Smith, William Kunstler, Amiri Baraka and several unnamed prisoners on Attica conditions, the rebellion, and the state's brutal response. Program also includes updates on repression at Wounded Knee and against the American Indian Movement, and an update on the San Quentin 6 trial. Bruce Soloway reports on Attica trials and solidarity events (including Amiri Baraka talk in Buffalo), then Claude Marks/Lincoln Bergman mix of Attica actuality.
NIMPT 9-13-75 [NI036]
Note: Some of the Attica actuality used on Freedom Archives “Prisons on Fire” CD.
