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Women’s Poetry
Date: 3/1/1975Call Number: KP 231Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: WUOProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Women’s poetry written and read by women of the Weather Underground for International Women’s Day and commemorating the Townhouse explosion in 1970. Voices of Bernardine Dohrn, Cathy Wilkerson & Kathy Boudin. Poems from Sing a Battle Song especially one for Assata Shakur
BBC on Weathermen
Call Number: CD 175Format: DVDProducers: BBCCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A BBC documentary on the Weathermen. Actually fairly balanced given the American media frensy during this era. Good interviews with Linda Evans, Bernardine Dohrn, Jennifer Dohrn & Jonah Raskin. This is a DVD!
Interview with George Jackson on prisons, the Weather Underground, Black Panther Party
Date: 7/28/1971Call Number: CD 179Format: CDProducers: Max BloomCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
George Jackson discusses the connections between the prison movement inside and other movements and the importance of democratic centralism to the success of both movements. He discusses the idea of the Black Panther Party as the vanguard party, capable of providing resources for the community. He discusses Mao and Guevara and the idea of revolution in two states. He responds to criticism of the BPP’s statements on the role of women. Also the problems with the defense committees and himself as a possible martyr.
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) Press Statement & Conference
Leslie Mullin and Judith Bissell, as part of the LA Five arrested for conspiracy to bomb the offices of Senator John Briggs, give a telephone interview from prison. They describe D.A. Jorgenson's strategy of "railroading" the trial date leaving them little time to prepare a defense. They talk of the government's fear of the exposure of FBI misconduct and COINTELPRO during the trial, and the inadequacy of prison law research facilities for women prisoners as compared to those in the men's system.
PFOC press conference calling attention to the LA Five case and point to the similarities of illegal government tactics used against other anti-imperialist groups.
Women Political Prisoners Panel
A panel features several women who served time as political prisoners. Main issues discussed include Puerto Rican political prisoners and the effect prison has on families as the women share their experiences. Speakers include a former member of the Weather Underground arrested for planning to bomb the offices of California State Senator John Briggs.
George Jackson and Huey P. Newton interviews
Continuation of George Jackson interview. He speaks about the difference between disciplined and authoritative behavior, saying that blacks find it hard to discipline themselves, but they still have to go forward in revolution and black liberation.
Huey P. Newton is interviewed at the Alameda county jail in Oakland, CA by Alex Hoffman and Charles Gary. He speaks about his sentencing, solitary confinement, and his new trial date. He also discusses being punished for being attacked in jail, even with white and black witnesses. Quotes Malcolm X.
Women’s Poetry
Date: 3/1/1975Call Number: CD 861Format: CDProducers: WUOProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Women’s poetry written and read by women of the Weather Underground for International Women’s Day and commemorating the Townhouse explosion in 1970. Voices of Bernardine Dohrn, Cathy Wilkerson & Kathy Boudin. Poems from Sing a Battle Song especially one for Assata Shakur
Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in the Weather Underground Organization
Publisher: Inkworks; Weather Underground OrganizationYear: 1975Format: MonographCollection: Weather Underground Organization
H.E.W. is an Enemy of Women
Publisher: Weather UndergroundDate: 3/6/1974Volume Number: 6-MarFormat: CommuniqueCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This communique by the Women's Brigade of the Weather Underground states that the actions taken by SLA to give food to the impoverished highlight the amount of people in poverty and in need. They argue that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare denies women their needs and rights and their should be a revolution against the organization.
