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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: 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
Date: 5/26/1973Call Number: RD 044Program: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon Watergate and Africa, interspersed with limericks.
Independence of Angola
Radio News Program on the independence of Angola.
About the newly won independence of Angola (11/11/1975), ending violence between the Angolan people and their Portuguese colonizers. The MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) is recognized for its strong Leadership of the struggle for independence.
Augustino Neto, leader of the FNLA (National Front for the LIberation of Angola) and UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola - led by Jonas Savimbi). He speaks about the cooperation he saw between the different African countries, and celebrates Angolan independence.
Also discussed are the problems in Rwanda between the different racial groups and the negotiations among colonizers and the people of Rwanda.
Also various people speak about Vietnam, Chile, and world events.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 11/15/1975Call Number: NI 088Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with independence triumph in Angola, followed by stories on Vietnam reconstruction, repression in Chile, various US arrests, protests, prisoners, ending with major segment on Palestine.
World in Action - Volume One
Call Number: V 311Format: DVDProducers: Granada TVProgram: World in ActionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A major strand of British television programming – in this case Granada’s World in Action - roots through its archive and comes up with twelve fascinating offerings made between the 1960s and the 1990s.
• Mick Jagger (tx. 31.07.1967)
• End of a Revolution? (tx. 11.12.1967) Che Guevara and Regis Debray
• The Demonstration (tx. 18.03.1968) Vietnam anti-war
• The Quiet Mutiny (tx. 28.09.1970) Vietnam troops
• The Man Who Stole Uganda (tx. 05.04.1971) Idi Amin
• Death of a Revolutionary (tx. 27.09.1971) George Jackson
• The Siege of Kontum (tx. 05.06.1972) Montagnards
• The Life and Death of Steve Biko (tx. 03.10.1977)
• Prisoner of Terrorism (tx. 10.07.1978) horst mahler
• Banged Up (tx. 02.04.1979) Strangeways Prison
• Killing for a Cure (tx. 16.02.1981) Animal Liberation Front
• The Birmingham Six: Their Own Story (tx. 18.03.1991) Irish Republican Army
Nothing is More Precious Than (8/16/75)
Call Number: CD 579Program: NIMPTCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Nothing is More Precious Than (8/16/75)
Date: 8/16/1975Call Number: NI 077Producers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: NIMPTCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program begins with report on Joan Little's acquittal, featuring actuality of Little describing her case and its relevance to the movements of women, prisoners, and oppressed people everywhere. Reports on San Quentin 6 trial; police violence in Riverside, CA; Eldridge Cleaver's latest break with radical politics; and antiracist struggles in Boston. There is a lengthy report on the American Indian Movement occupation of the Department of the Interior in Portland to draw attention to the ongoing violence at Pine Ridge, with a recording from inside the building occupation, followed by additional reports of repression against AIM. Program ends with international news from Reports from Vietnam, Korea, Angola, and the effect of African liberation movements on Portugal society and politics (with actuality of Philip Agee comparing Portugal to Chile).
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/25/1975Call Number: NI 055Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Show dedicated to the anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreements. Connecting it to the struggles of Vietnam, Amilcar Cabral, and his success in helping Guinea Bissau gain its sovereignty. Show closes off with updates on Latin America focusing on Cuba and Puerto Rico.
The Situation in Sudan: Colin Edwards interviews Dr. Sayed Mohammed El Mahdi, Dean of Law at the University of Khartoum.
This interview spans a wide range of issues related to Sudan and the situation regarding the domination of Northern Sudan (Arab and Muslim) over Southern Sudan (Black and Christian). This dynamic is further explored and explained during the hour long conversation. The speaker plays down divisions between Black Africans and Arabs and instead of race and religion, the speaker identifies underdevelopment as the real root of the problem. Other topics include how the end of British colonialism affected Sudan, the role of missionaries in the colonial process and post-colonial development, challenges of nation building, the prospect of succession and how other events in Africa relate to Sudan. Sudan’s position on Palestine and Vietnam is also discussed.
