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Interview of Mike Tissong, a white newspaper reporter for a South African white newspaper, about his views on news censorship and the political and social situation in South Africa
Mike Tissong, a white newspaper reporter for a South African Anglo newspaper, is interviewed about his views on news censorship. He speaks about the types of views presented in the news depending on the type of newspaper (liberal, conservative, white, or black),and about the government censorship of black liberation prevalent in South Africa. Tissong also speaks on the dangers of being a white reporter in black townships because that is where the struggle is being waged. He mentions the horrible practice of prison detention of children, and laments the lack of those calling for sanctions (besides prominent people like Desmond Tutu). He comments on the current situation of oppressed people supporting the struggle against Apartheid through armed struggle. He mentions Robert Mugabe’s liberation strategy of a “bullet for a bullet” by killing whites. Tissong speaks about black on black violence in South Africa, pointing out two levels: one of the right wing (IFP - Inkatha Freedom Party), the other from cultural movements in Natal. On political and social movements and organizations, he talks about the Black Consciousness Movement and its call for a stop to violence, and the UDF’s (United Democratic Front) call for violence in the struggle. Lastly, he speaks on the west’s (United States) view of Southern Africa, as they treat it like a game. The west only supports groups like AZAPO (Azanian People’s Organization), but ignores ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union), and only recognizes the ANC (African National Congress), not other South African liberation organizations.
Interview with Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown
This tape is a series of interviews between Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown. They both met each other in prison.
(I believe) in This interview it is Assata that asks Bo to comment on this question: “Is there ways to prevent people (which has happened in the past alot) from getting engaged in armed struggle, by becoming very isolated?”
Resistance Conspiracy
Call Number: JG/ 058Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interviews with Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Lisa Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman part of the Resistance Conspiracy case of the late 80s. Charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," these prisoners discuss their sentences, prison conditions, life on the outside, movement strategy, the U.S. justice system, and the need for continued struggle.
Resistance Conspiracy
Call Number: JG/ 059Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
SAME AS JG/LS058. Interviews with Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Lisa Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman part of the Resistance Conspiracy case of the late 80s. Charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," these prisoners discuss their sentences, prison conditions, life on the outside, movement strategy, the U.S. justice system, and the need for continued struggle.
Liberation struggles in Zimbabwe
Call Number: AFR 078Format: Cass A & BProgram: Zimbabwe Medical: Fundraiser for Struggles in ZimbabweCollection: Zimbabwe
Several speeches aimed at supporting liberation struggles in Zimbabwe. The event begins with several women urging people to aid various liberation movements. The next speaker, the National Coordinator for the National Committee Against Grand Jury Repression, speaks about organizing in the Bay Area and San Francisco for the independence of Puerto Rico. He talks about solidarity between Zimbabwe and Puerto Rico, and their liberation struggles. The next speaker, a man from Zimbabwe, speaks about the need for medical supplies in his country, especially for the Zimbabwean refugees. He also speaks about ZANU’s (Zimbabwe African National Union) tactics of armed struggle, and he talks about the Zimbabwe Development Fund. He explains how it is only hurting the country because it is under foreign control. He asks people not to invest in Rhodesia or South Africa because of the white imperialist control in those countries. Lastly, he urges people to aid the medical drive for Zimbabwe. Paul Smith of the International Indian Treaty Council speaks about international solidarity, and Tiri Kangai speaks for the Zimbabwe Medical Drive Coalition. Barbara Miyangi of the Zimbabwe Medical Drive Coalition speaks about international solidarity with Zimbabwe, health care needs in Zimbabwe, and she also discusses how most diseases in Africa came from the white colonialists.
Interview with Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown
Same as PM212
This tape is a series of interviews between Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown. They both met each other in prison to discuss the isolation of those involved in armed struggle.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 199Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 1 of 6
In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners.
Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism.
Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious.
The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system.
Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 200Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 2 of 6
In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners.
Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism.
Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious.
The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system.
Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 201Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 3 of 6
In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners.
Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism.
Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious.
The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system.
Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 202Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 4 of 6
In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners.
Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism.
Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious.
The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system.
Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
