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Ralph David Abernathy: Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War
A speech given to huge outdoor rally in SF Bay Area in 1969 condemning imperialism and the war in Vietnam. GREAT materials!
Jane Fonda speech inserts
Date: 1/22/1973Call Number: KP 016Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Vietnam
Selections from this speech were used in Nothing is More Precious Than Vietnam Victory program and on Roots of Resistance
Same as CD 398
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 10/6/1973Call Number: NI 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is the first "Nothing Is More Precious Than" (Freedom and Independence) program. Begins with a report from the Union of Vietnamese, commentary on political prisoners. States that under the Thieu regime, huge numbers of people in concentration camps and prisons—more prisons have been built than schools and churches combined. The Union demands that all political prisoners be released, all US aid cut off, and implementation of the agreement take place. Update on Chile, actions against the fascist coup, reports on bomb explosions at ITT and ATT. Weather Underground communiqué read in full. News roundup of events and protests throughout Latin America, October 8th, the Day of the Heroic Guerrilla--international week of solidarity with Chile.
Vietnam Victory
Date: 5/3/1975Call Number: NI 056Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nancy Barrett, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is a Vietnam victory program.
NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
George Jackson
Call Number: PM 004Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: short excerpts from George JacksonCollection: George Jackson
George Jackson comments directly on Aug. 7, military mindedness of Jonathan, Cuba, Vietnam, more. Detailed notes inside box.
Huey P. Newton interview
Date: 8/1/1971Call Number: PM 065Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada TVProgram: raw sound for Panther movieCollection: Huey Newton
Newton discusses Vietnam and international solidarity and the significance of George Jackson’s murder. Raw, unedited footage.
Year-End show 1972
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 027 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Year-end synopses of select 1972 global political affairs. Including but not limited to commentary on:
Indo-Chinese Victories (examples of demonstrations around the world, liberation of territories, destruction of puppet army, U.S. northwest train stoppages and sailors refusing to go to war)
Japan (Tanaka takes Sato's place in power, movement against U.S. war in Indochina grows, Okinawa struggle-U.S. cedes island back to Japan yet keeps military bases)
Philippines (New People's Army grows, Muslim resistance, Marcos imposes marital law)
South Korea (Park Chung Hee imposes martial law, his opponents executed)
Portugese colonial governments push fascism, use napalm and other tactics in Angola Mozambique, Guinea Bissau
Ireland (Bloody Sunday occurs, where British troops murder demonstrators in Northern Ireland, detention of IRA suspects without trial, MacStiofain imprisoned, U.S. Irish supporters attacked by U.S. grand juries)
Brazil (U.S. imperial forces use Brazilian cliques to squash liberation struggles, genocide against Indigenous peoples, Comandante Marcia killed)
UN Special Committee on Colonialism (from which U.S. resigned months before) classifies Puerto Rico as a colony
U.S. (U.S Indigenous Peoples takeover U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington D.C., mass refusals to accept U.S. government checks for land by PIH River Indians, Angela Davis acquitted of charges brought against in her in relation to Aug 7 Marin County Courthouse uprising, Prop 22 defeated- a victory for Farm Workers, restoration of the U.S. death penalty, court upholds Organized Crime Control Act used against radicals, surveillance techniques employed in high schools and on streets of poor communities of color, Hoover dies and Patrick Grey steps in to "streamline and modernize FBI", Nixon strikes deals in Moscow (then Soviet Union) including Arms Limitation, grain and oil deals, push for global capitalism-Pepsi first U.S drink to be make and marketed in S.U., Nixon re-elected)
inserts of: Billy Smith, Ramsey Clark, Thai Binh, MacStoifain, Allende, Angela, Ruchell (EXCELLENT!!), Talamantez
Real Dragon
Date: 1/27/1973Call Number: RD 028Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon program covers:
Cease Fire in Vietnam.
U.S Military Draft officially ended today.
Amilcar Cabral, leader of liberation struggle against the Portuguese Occupation of Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands has been assassinated. Program elaborates on his life and the revolutionary movement in Guinea Bissau and Angola.
Demonstrations in Northern Ireland commemorated Bloody Sunday. Solidarity demonstrations in San Francisco.
U.S. Ambassador to Haiti was kidnapped and held for the release of political prisoners and ransom.
Rap Brown on trial in NY for charges of attempted murder and robbery.
U.S. Supreme Court overruled all state laws that restrict women's right to an abortion in her first three months of pregnancy (Roe vs. Wade 1/22/73)
Clay Whitehead, aide to Nixon, says government might have to control licensing of television networks because reporting is too biased against the president, He also said that many people liked Big Brother (from Orwell's 1984) because he did it in their "interest and concern."
Real Dragon
Date: 3/3/1973Call Number: RD 033Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program with emphasis on Native American struggle; also reports on Indochina and text of communiqué from Weather Underground on Vietnam -- “Common Victories”
Real Dragon
Date: 3/17/1973Call Number: RD 034Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon program focusing on not guilty verdict in Oakes killing, Native American reports, poetry
