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Interview with Adolfo Matos Interview with Adolfo Matos
Date: 1/7/2003Call Number: V 140Format: SVHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In Spanish. Artist, independence figher, and former political prisoner Adolfo Matos talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, his history and current projects, his use of art as liberatory, formal and informal/social prisons, his poetry book, and reads a poem (min 47), etc. NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited interviews of him and other PR Independentistas.
Interviews with Puerto Rican former political prisoners and their lawyer Interviews with Puerto Rican former political prisoners and their lawyer
Date: 1/30/2003Call Number: V 143Format: VHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
First 20 minutes: Edited and subtitled (both English and Spanish) interviews on the connection between the release of the prisoners and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. First footage of a march for peace for Vieques; then former political prisoner Dylcia Pagan talks about the connection between Vieques and PR Independence and the prisoners’ release; lawyer Jan Susler talks about fear and action; former political prisoner Jose Solis Jordan talks about solidarity, love, formal and informal/social/internal prison, the academy/university, and freedom; former political prisoner Elizam Escobar talks about art and liberation. Next 40 minutes: Roughly edited clips from interviews with these Independence fighters, as well as with Luis Rosa and Adolfo Matos. In English and Spanish, Not subtitled. To use these or other clips, see full interviews -- V 135 through V 142.
CD release party at La Pena for Chile: Promise of Freedom CD release party at La Pena for Chile: Promise of Freedom
Date: 9/12/2003Call Number: V 164Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom Archives release party at La Pena of the CD Chile: Promise of Freedom commemorating the coup in Chile in 1973. Features poetry and comments.
Dennis Brutus reads Marilyn’s “One Hour Yard Poem” and his own, “Letter #18” Dennis Brutus reads Marilyn’s “One Hour Yard Poem” and his own, “Letter #18”
Date: 4/1/2003Call Number: WP 003Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Dennis Brutus, poet and former political prisoner in South Africa, reads “One Hour Yard” by Marilyn Buck, with intro on his support of her as a sister political prisoner. and his poem, “Letter #18” about his time in prison. 2 intros about his work. Had to call poems letters because South Africa government forbade him to write poems. Recorded for Wild Poppies CD.
Rajasvini (Vini) Bhansali reads her poem, “Yellow Asters” Rajasvini (Vini) Bhansali reads her poem, “Yellow Asters”
Date: 12/3/2003Call Number: WP 013Format: CDProgram: Wild PoppiesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Vini Bhansali reads her poem, “Yellow Asters” about Marilyn Buck and political prisoners. Bhansali was a poet/teacher at Dublin Federal prison.
Akwasi Evans and Mariann Wizard read Marilyn Buck’s poems Akwasi Evans and Mariann Wizard read Marilyn Buck’s poems
Date: 12/1/2003Call Number: WP 023Format: CDProducers: Mike KellerCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Mariann Wizard, reads Imperatives , To the Woman Standing Behind Me in Line, and her own poem - The Real Dragon - about Marilyn’s eventual release from prison. Akwasi Evans reads Marilyn’s poems Space and No Frills.
Professor Edward Said - 1935-2003 Professor Edward Said - 1935-2003
Publisher: University of California, BerkeleyYear: 2003Format: AgendaCollection: Palestine Related Academic Papers
Agenda for a celebration of Edward Said's life, work and resistance in English and Arabic