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Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 9/6/1975Call Number: NI 080Format: 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
Programs opens with emphasis on labor news, report on United Farmworkers, then many international stories-Palestine, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Chile, and communique (with music) from Weather Underground on bombing of Kennecott Copper HQ in Salt Lake City in solidarity with Chile. Closes with reports on trial of Cameron Bishop and interview with former fugitive Pat Swinton (Shoshana).
The Split of the Weather Underground Organization: Struggle Against White and Male Supremacy The Split of the Weather Underground Organization: Struggle Against White and Male Supremacy
Publisher: John Brown Book ClubDate: 2/1977Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: MonographCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee published documents of the split in the Weather Underground Organization. CONTENTS: Intro by John Brown Book Club; Class and Revolutionary Politics: the meaning of the Hard Times Conference (Feb.1976); In Defense of Prairie Fire by Clayton van Lydegraf (July 1976); WUO Public Self-Criticism by the RC (Oct.1976); Criticism of the Central Committee by the Revolutionary Committee (Nov. 1976);Tape from Bernadine Dohrn (Nov. 1976); Letter from sisters in the WUO to the women of PFOC (Sept. 1976); John Brown Book Club's Self-Criticism; Open Letter to the RC from Native American Warriors (Jan. 1977); Statement on the Bombing of the INS by the RC (Feb. 1977)
Women's Liberation and Imperialism Women's Liberation and Imperialism
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeDate: 11/1977Volume Number: NovemberFormat: MonographCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
PFOC document on Women's Liberation and Imperialism Preface; Overview; Historical Roots; Structure of Women's Oppression Under Imperialism; Double Shift; Work in the Home; Women's Oppression and Waged Labor; Institutions of Social Control; History of Women's Struggles in the US; Women and the Anti-imperialist Left; I like to think of Harriet Tubman
Prarie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism Prarie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism
Author: Bill AyersPublisher: Communications Co.Format: BookCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Details the ideological position of the Weather Underground Organization and American history from their perspective. The flame that sparked Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Ayer's manifesto details the basis for overthrow of imperialist war-driven domination and the establishment of a socialist society.
Free the SLA Free the SLA
Author: SLAFormat: StatementCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This statement written from the "underground" critiques the current revolutionary groups and provides directions for how the Left should continue. Its idea to unite the masses includes building a non-racist movement, incorporating the ideology of feminism into all theory and practice, and creating organizations capable of surviving repression from oppositional forces.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 1 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: BARC's Statement on Dragon, NWLF Chronology, NWLF Communique: GM Bombing, Fuck-the-World-for-Profits: GM Leaflet, NWLF Communique: PG&E Skyline Blvd, NWLF Communique: PG&E San Jose, Second PG&E San Jose Communique, Critique by Orphans of Amerika, NWLF Response, NWLF Communiqe: CDC Bombing, NWLF Communique: PG&E Berkeley, NWLF Letter to the Barb, Response by BARC & Orphans, Red Guerrilla Family Chronology, RGF Letter to the Alternative Media
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 2 SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Introduction, Analysis of the Trial of Little and Remiro, Statement from Little and Remiro 1/18/74, Remiro and Little's Trial Statements: 4/4/75 & 4/18/75, Russ Little's Statement at Their Sentencing, Letter from Joe Remiro 8/16/75, On the Trials of Gary Garrison and Cameron Bishop, The Correct Handling of Communiques, New World Liberation Front Statement on Popeye Jackson, Peoples' Forces NWLF Respond to BARC/Orphans Criticism, Peoples' Forces NWLF Open Letter to Prisoners, A Letter to the NWLF, BARC Critique of Peoples' Forces NWLF, Jonathan Jackson/Sam Melville NWLF Communique, Poem from a Locked-Down Comrade
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 9 JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Feminism & Homosexuality: New World Liberation Front, The Women's Question is a Class Question: Weather Underground Organization, Responses from: BARC, Emily Harris, Left Bank Political Collective, Peoples' Information Relay-1 NWLF, A Working Class Lesbian Collective, Edward Mead, NWLF Scumlord Campaign, BARC Critique of NWLF Campigns, NWLF Open Letter to BARC, NWLF on Zapata Unit, Seattle Under Attack, To the George Jackson Brigade, Shorts, The Boston Courthouse Bombing, Criticism PIR-1, Fred Hampton Unit
Rectification and the Struggle for Revolutionary Internationalism Rectification and the Struggle for Revolutionary Internationalism
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeFormat: PamphletCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
Pamphlet about rectification, internationalism, COINTELPRO and internal struggles in PFOC.
LA Five Arrest Statement LA Five Arrest Statement
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeFormat: StatementCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
Statement concerning the arrest of Clayton Van Lydegraf and four others and the decision to disband the Seattle chapter of PFOC.