The Real Dragon
Date: 8/5/1972Call Number: CD 887Format: CDProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: The Real DragonCollection: Vietnam
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, then Vietnam news, including two limericks about Jane Fonda with actuality of Jane Fonda, in her interview with Asia Information Group, discusses the committee of solidarity. More Vietnam news, on successful offensives against US military, speech by War Secretary Laird disrupted, bomb at Air Force Academy officer’s club with communiqué signed by “the Americong.” Pentagon Papers trial delayed, South Vietnamese student political prisoners/tiger cages—student statement on mistreatment, beating, and torture of student activists, Union of Vietnamese sponsors a Vietnamese Cultural Night with film “The Victory of Dien Bien Phu,” Nguyen Thai Binh poem by LB—“my name it is Thai Binh and Thai Binh means peace,” —“my only bomb is my human heart...” with last verse sung…..Marin County courthouse, “the courthouse slave rebellion,” George Jackson actuality about Jonathan Jackson and the events of August 7, 1971, poem to Jonathan Jackson by Lincoln Bergman, detailed report on Ruchell Magee trial, denied the right to defend himself, H. Rap Brown, Presidential campaign news, Weather Underground bombing, Leslie Bacon case/wiretaps; quotes from Marilyn Monroe from a Ms. Magazine article, Palestine news, demonstrators in Japan against Vietnam war. Hiroshima, Nagasaki----children of the future—the Venceremitos (400 children from 28 countries) in Cuba.
Track 2: RD 066: Real Dragon (Oneness) (has Janice Mirikitani poems). Producers: Roland Young, Glen Howell Program: Real Dragon/Oneness. Part of the program Oneness on which The Real Dragon appeared. Begins with alphabet song sung by Tracy Young, followed by an interview with "Julie," a koto player and the koto accompanies poems by Janice Mirikitani, one on a shooting of a farmworker - "The Price of Peaches," then her well-known poem on Vietnam combined with Japanese concentration camps called “Attack the Water." (juxtaposition of 1947/1972). Closes with her poem to Nguyen Thai Binh, the Vietnamese martyr killed during attempted antiwar hijacking (he had two lemons wrapped in tin foil), "In Memory of Nguyen Thai Binh."
Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 11/10/1973Call Number: CD 890Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: Vietnam
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: 2/2/1974Call Number: CD 892Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartx, with Frances Emley, Elsa JavkinProgram: KPFA BerkeleyCollection: Vietnam
Ongoing repercussions of the Tyrone Guyton killing in Oakland. New trials of Black Liberation Army, Henry “ShaSha” Brown, recess in trial of Assata Shakur (she is pregnant and ill) and Sundiata Acoli; NY Daily News campaign against BLA; Richard Dhoruba Moore interview by Mark Schwartz, on self-defense and armed struggle. Case of Ruchell Magee and his right to defend himself. Sandy Close report on Magee hearing. Prison lockdown of five major California prison goes into its third month, San Quentin 6 case and others. Fighting in Cambodia against the Lon Nol government. Union of Vietnamese report. Special program on a national hero—Nguyen Trai, military leader/strategist, poet, statesman, resistance against China (1380–1442). His proclamation of victory is read–describes overall strategy, guerrilla-type ambushes, battles, surrender of the Chinese generals. Roundup of news from Latin America, especially Bolivia, resistance of peasants and workers to government’s increase of prices, Cochabamba, repression by Hugo Banzer regime