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Oscar Rios
Speech by Oscar Rios to community members and students in Berkeley, CA. Emphasizes the need for a rise of consciousness and uplifting the community. Encourages young people to recognize allies in other ethnic groups.
African American historians discuss the African tradition and history in the United States.
Call Number: AFR 040Format: Cass A & BProducers: WBAIProgram: WBAI African Liberation Day Special ProgramCollection: Africa- General Resources
A WBAI radio program recorded in 1997. African Historian John Henrik Clarke, Historian and Temple University African American Studies Professor Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, and Syracuse University African American Studies Professor Horace Campbell discuss the African tradition and history in the United States. They speak about the forced migration of Africans to
America, the history and injustices of slavery and the development of African consciousness.
Focus on the Americas with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D. Building Communities of Resistance
Date: 7/10/1991Call Number: JG/ 083AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Bonpane discusses a need to build communities of resistance. Speaks about the population's general acceptance of hearsay excuses to invade countries (e.g. nuclear potential) and to invade homes on the domestic front (e.g. drugs), the criminalization of poverty, support for the Gulf War, and sanctions (i.e. starvation and torture of the civilian population) against Iraq and other countries. Discusses downfalls of US foreign policy noting Nicaragua and El Salvador as examples and argues against defending an institution or a nation "as if it were an idol and can do no wrong." Calls for citizens to seek knowledge as collaborative effort in order to thwart the depression of facing these issues alone. Instead to celebrate life, community, struggle and knowledge. To use as resources the media, government, education and mass mobilization to bring about change.
Dr. Ben on the anthropology of African Peoples / Michael Lerner on the relation between Jewish and Black peoples
On side A is a somewhat poor recording of Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben), an African anthropologist/historian who speaks on the history of African indigenous peoples and how it relates with religion, culture, etc.
The second side is a recording of a radio program on the relationship between Black and Jewish people. Michael Lerner a Rabbi interested in a coalition between the two. The program begins abruptly and then he takes calls from the audience.
Pan African Congress speeches
PAC (Pan African Congress) speeches.
A PAC representative gives a speech on his experiences as a political prisoner in Robben Island, South Africa. He recounts the PAC’s role in fighting Apartheid and describes the PAC’s goals, which are not to remove Apartheid, but to destroy the whole system and create a new South Africa. A woman representative of the PAC speaks about the PAC’s and United States’ roles in fighting Apartheid in South Africa. She also speaks about the Springbok tour in America. Others speak about reconciling the US and South Africa, being involved in the community, and about PAC accomplishments in Southern Africa and Azania.
Latino Alcohol Policy and Advocacy Action in California: Keynote Presentation by Jerry Tello
Jerry Tello uses storytelling and humor to talk about issues such as alcohol and drugs in the Latino community.
County Jails and Repression
Call Number: PM 350Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist RadioProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Michael Novick, a member of LA-based People Against Racist Terror (PART), talks about police abuse and repression. He discusses KKK members who stand trial without their political affiliations revealed and political prisoners such as Geronimo Pratt whose role as a Black Panther led to his prosecution and criminalization.
The Vanguard Under Attack
Publisher: The Black PantherDate: 4/20/1974Volume Number: 20-AprFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
There is both the original and copy of this article. Produced by the Black Panther Party, this editorial highlights the postive work the Black Panthers have done.
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