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
9 Documents Found
![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
![Year-End show 1972](images/thumbnails//5691.jpg)
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 063Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: 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, Salvador Allende, Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee (EXCELLENT!!), luis Talamantez
![Year-End show 1972](images/thumbnails//6072.jpg)
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 027 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Includes commentary on:
Indo-Chinese Victories (demonstrations around the world, liberation of territories, destruction of puppet army, US northwest train stoppages and sailors refusing to go to war)
Japan (Tanaka takes Sato's place in power, movement against US war in Indochina grows, Okinawa struggle - US 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, US Irish supporters attacked by grand juries)
Brazil (US imperial forces use Brazilian cliques to squash liberation struggles, genocide against Indigenous peoples, Comandante Marcia killed)
UN Special Committee on Colonialism (from which US resigned months before) classifies Puerto Rico as a colony
Indigenous People takeover US Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington DC, mass refusals to accept government payments for land by Pit 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 US 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 US drink to be made and marketed in S.U., Nixon re-elected.
Actuality includes Billy Dean Smith, Ramsey Clark, Thai Binh, MacStoifain, Allende, Angela, Ruchell (EXCELLENT!!), Talamantez
![Out takes from Interview with General Gavin- part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 529Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Out takes from an interview with General Gavin, Chairman of the Boar and Chief Executive of Arthur D. Little Inc. General Gavin discusses Britain involvement in the Vet Nam war, as well as post-war economic effects on the British pound.
![Town Meeting of the World - Vietnam](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/3/1965Call Number: CE 549Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: CBS, BBCCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Charles Collingwood, hosts a discussion with British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, US Senator Barry Goldwater, and Maurice Schumann, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the French National Assembly. The group discusses the nature of a possible peace settlement in Vietnam and the nature of peace negotiations versus the escalation of conflict between the United States, Europe, China and Vietnam. The group refers to the Geneva Convention of 1954 and the Neutrality of Laos agreement signed in Geneva in 1962.
![NBC Broadcast: “Laos: The Forgotten War”](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/5/1967Call Number: CE 609Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: NBCCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Ted Yates broadcasts “Laos: The Forgotten War”. Investigation into US military training of Laotian soldiers and how Laos is central to the war in Vietnam. Exposes that $300 million of US government since 1953 has gone into funding the war in Laos.
![William P. Bundy Secretary of State for Eastern Affairs](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
William P. Bundy, assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, gives a speech justifying American actions in Vietnam. He claims that the cessation of aggression of the North Vietnamese is the primary goal of the United States. During his speech, Bundy discusses US objectives in Southeast Asia, why Southeast Asia is important, and his views of the history and colonization of Vietnam and US military and diplomatic policy. There is a brief Q and A after his speech.
![Sproul Hall Rally: 11/4/66](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/4/1966Call Number: CE 749Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Campus rally: first half focused on Vietnam War, second half on the university moving the designated rally area from the Sproul Hall steps to the lower plaza. Speakers include Bettina Aptheker, Campus Conservatives president Dan Rosenthal, and Mario Savio.
![Sproul Hall Rally 11/4/66](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/4/1966Call Number: CE 747Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Campus rally: first half focused on Vietnam War, second half on the university moving the designated rally area from the Sproul Hall steps to the lower plaza. Speakers include Bettina Aptheker, Campus Conservatives president Dan Rosenthal, and Mario Savio.
9 Documents Found