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Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
A Defiant Heart: U.S. role in Peru
Date: 6/1/1993Call Number: JG/ 091Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Reading of articles about the situation in Peru between both armed and peaceable opposition movements and the Fujimori government, including the U.S. role in the conflict. David Wilson of the Nica Network in New York condemns the Sandero Luminoso, a violent communist opposition group committing human rights violations. Wilson notes however, that the situation is very
complex because U.S. foreign policies conflict with the will of the peaceable mass opposition movement to the Fujimori government. Abemal Guzman declares the United States the main terrorist force in the hemisphere.
Terror on Sacred Ground
Publisher: Mother JonesYear: 1987Volume Number: Vol. XII No. VI August-SeptemberFormat: ArticleCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
The glittering, exquisitely tiled Dome of the Rock Mosque, on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, is a holy site for Muslims the world over. But the 35-acre Temple Mount is holy to Jews, and a surprising alliance of fundamentalist Jews and evangelical Christians want to build a temple on the site to spur on the coming of the Messiah. To get their way some of these Temple Mount activists are willing to resort to decidedly unholy means.
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