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Maria Poblet Reads Thirteen Springs
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Queer Latina poet and tenant organizer Maria Poblet reads Marilyn Buck's piece, originally published in "Syracuse Peace Letters", "Sojourner", "States of Confinement", and "Rescue the Word".
Carlos Quiles Reads A Vieques, en solidaridad
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Carlos Quiles reads a poem in solidarity with the people of Vieques by Marilyn Buck. Audio in Spanish.
Piri Thomas Reads For Vieques, in Solidarity
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Activist and Puerto Rican independentista Piri Thomas reads Marilyn Buck's poem for the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Marilyn Buck reads Wild Poppies
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Autobiographical poem read by the author, Marilyn Buck.
Amilcar Cabral
Format: mp3Collection: African liberation movements
Amilcar Cabral, leader of the liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands, assassinated by the Portuguese and the CIA. He talks informally in New York in October 1972 with representatives of African-American organizations. This talk is the basis for his book Return to the Source.
Angela Davis Release Speech
Format: mp3Collection: Black Panther Party general
Angela Davis, African-American leader, scholar, and prison abolitionist. She was charged in connection with events at the Marin Courthouse on August 7, 1970. this is from her first statement after her acquittal.
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side."
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
Same as PM 227. This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side."
Assata Shakur Communique- Think Positive
Assata Shakur, now in exile in Cuba, was liberated from prison in New Jersey where she was held on charges connected with the Black Liberation Army. This is from her first statement after being liberated from prison. She speaks of positive strategies of revolutionary struggle.
Attica Prison Rebellion
Collection: Attica
Frank "Big Black" Smith and L.D. Barkley, who proclaimed the Attica Manifesto, and Elizabeth Fink, an attorney for the Attica Brothers. Barkley was killed in the massacre. Smith survived mass torture to help lead the eventually successful legal battle on behalf of the Attica Brothers.
