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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

Documents

Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 10/6/1973Call Number: NI 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is the first "Nothing Is More Precious Than" (Freedom and Independence) program. Begins with a report from the Union of Vietnamese, commentary on political prisoners. States that under the Thieu regime, huge numbers of people in concentration camps and prisons—more prisons have been built than schools and churches combined. The Union demands that all political prisoners be released, all US aid cut off, and implementation of the agreement take place. Update on Chile, actions against the fascist coup, reports on bomb explosions at ITT and ATT. Weather Underground communiqué read in full. News roundup of events and protests throughout Latin America, October 8th, the Day of the Heroic Guerrilla--international week of solidarity with Chile.
Nothing is More Precious Than... Nothing is More Precious Than...
Date: 10/20/1973Call Number: NI 003Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Stories on political prisoners, Chile, Native American, Weather Underground, Joanne Chesimard, Mark Lane, Pedro Bissonette
Real Dragon 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 Real Dragon
Date: 3/3/1973Call Number: RD 033Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program with emphasis on Native American struggle; also reports on Indochina and text of communiqué from Weather Underground on Vietnam -- “Common Victories”
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 3/24/1973Call Number: RD 035Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon roundup of events: Wounded Knee, grand juries in San Francisco, Harlem 4, Ruchell Magee, H. Rap Brown, international news items
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/23/1974Call Number: NI 021Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, Nancy Kurshan, Howie Emer, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Communiques on the SLA from the Weather Underground, and from Black Liberation Army. Also a history of the occupation of Wounded Knee.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 5/25/1974Call Number: NI 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Entire program records the mass assassination of, and pays tribute to the SLA 6, killed in massive police assault on a house in Compton, in LA. Program includes much actuality from LA, Harlem, San Francisco African-American communities.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 6/1/1974Call Number: NI 030Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Camomile, Mark Sch wartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program includes communiques on armed actions, including a robbery of a savings and loan in Berkeley (claimed by New World Liberation Front and Black Liberation Army) and bombing of the California attorney's general office by Weather Underground. Also actuality of Ruchell Magee and report on San Quentin.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 6/15/1974Call Number: NI 032Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program opens with reading of communique from Weather Underground on bombing of Gulf Oil in Pittsburgh, PA, with extensive history of Portuguese colonialism and national liberation movements. Other Africa news follows. Then story of acquittal of policeman in shooting of Clifford Glover in NYC, then stories on Chile and protests against ship coming to San Francisco, and then a birthday tribute to Che Guevara.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 10/26/1974Call Number: NI 044 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Programs opens with report on five explosions at banks in Manhattan and communique from FALN (Armed Forces of Puerto Rican Nationa Liberation) then the entire remainder of program is extended report on the Boston busing integration struggles, with much actuality and reporting from Boston by Dave Lampell of WLIB New York.