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Mission Artists:  Editorial Pocho-Che Mission Artists: Editorial Pocho-Che
Date: 2/12/1972Call Number: RP 009Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Mission Artists read poetry and play music. SENSITIVE LANGUAGE. Featuring poets Roberto Vargas, Elias Hruska Cortes, Alejandro Murgia; and musicians Richard Carrillo (guitar) and Nero de Grazia (Congas). Mission Arts Alliance and Writers Workshop.
Madame Binh Interview by CBS on 60 Minutes Madame Binh Interview by CBS on 60 Minutes
Date: 4/23/1972Call Number: KP 074Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Don Hewitt, CBSProgram: 60 MinutesCollection: Vietnam
Interview of Madame Binh by CBS on 60 Minutes
Real Dragon End of the Year Show 1972 Real Dragon End of the Year Show 1972
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: KP 144Format: CassetteProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon Year End 72Collection: Real Dragon Prison Project
Lincoln Bergmen narrates KPFA’s end of the year show 1972. The show gives the year’s news stories from peoples’ movements throughout the world.
Madame Binh Interview by CBS on 60 Minutes Madame Binh Interview by CBS on 60 Minutes
Date: 4/23/1972Call Number: CD 413Format: CDProducers: Don Hewitt, CBSProgram: 60 MinutesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interview of Madame Binh by CBS on 60 Minutes in 1972.
Real Dragon 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.
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 6/10/1972Call Number: RD 013Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
News coverage includes spoken word on "Napalm of Pain"; North American advisor for Vietnam died there after spending 10 years in Viet Nam; U.S. bombs are ruining infrastructure, including all the dikes for upcoming rainy season; 10 Anti-war Vietnemese students who were protesting were told their study arrangements have been halted and they face deportation to Saigon and imprisonment, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Joey Russo, and Jon Voight offer asylum for the students; Rand Corporation explores the idea of automated warfare; Over 1600 American prisoners being held in Indochina; Haight Ashbury demonstration in San Francisco favors 7 Point Plan; People's Republic of China blames world pollution on capitalist pursuits; Over 20 guerillas in Selan dug an 86 foot tunnel and escaped detention center; Guinea Bissau struggles against Portugese colonialism; In Johannesburg and Cape Town students protest segregated schools and marks the first large scale protest organized by white students; 468 Anglo-American Company miners died in Rhodesia; German student leader arrested after participating in a Black Panther Sympathy march and was convicted of breeching the public peace by encouraging attacks on police; Angela Davis is acquitted on all charges; Ruchell Mcgee trial underway; Death of Dr. Walter Freeman, originator of the lobotomy, claimed women were fine lobotomy candidates because they didn't need to use their brains to earn a living as men do.
Mission Artists:  Editorial Pocho-Che Mission Artists: Editorial Pocho-Che
Date: 2/12/1972Call Number: CD 571Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mission Artists read poetry and play music. SENSITIVE LANGUAGE. Featuring poets Roberto Vargas, Elias Hruska Cortes, Alejandro Murgia; and musicians Richard Carrillo (guitar) and Nero de Grazia (Congas). Mission Arts Alliance and Writers Workshop.
The Real Dragon The Real Dragon
Date: 8/5/1972Call Number: RD 018Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: The Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Save the Planet,” 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.
The Real Dragon The Real Dragon
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: RD 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Call for the Fall, poem by Lincoln Bergman, Vietnam Independence day, history summarized, Ho Chi Minh quote on the elephant and the tiger with poem by Judy Grahn read by LB. Much Vietnam news, then song by captured US pilots-end the war--to tune of Buddy Holly song. Billy Dean Smith fragging trial. Latin America news on Puerto Rico, the Tupamaros in Uruguay, and bio of Raul Sendic.