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Emergency Campiagn to Drop Charges Emergency Campiagn to Drop Charges
Publisher: Emergency Committee to Defend the Human and Legal Rights of Political PrisonersYear: 1989Format: CompilationCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Form letter from the 'Emergency Campaign to Drop the Charges' of three of the R.C.C. Includes form letter to Attorney General, fact sheet and an article about the prosecution from the New York Times.
Greetings of Solidarity Greetings of Solidarity
Publisher: Emergency Committee for Human Rights for Political PrisonersDate: 9/30/1989Volume Number: 30-SepFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
A letter from the Defendants in the 'Resistance Conspiracy Case' petioning for help in the reprinting and distribution of their 'Open Letter to the Progressive Community'. Includes a form for reprinting the letter and donating ad space.
Puerto Rico status Puerto Rico status
Date: 9/9/1989Call Number: JG/ 003Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
ACLA show, Just Peace Today Program, Bill Crossman from the Free PR committee on upcoming US government referendum on PR's status.
Public Schools Public Schools
Date: 11/9/1989Call Number: JG/ 004Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Tom Keating on public schools, Halloween community forum.
FENASTRAS in El Salvador FENASTRAS in El Salvador
Date: 12/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 017Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Julio Cristalis (?) about FENASTRAS (Federation of Workers) about the repression from the ARENA government. Discusses support of the FMLN, and the most recent bombings by ARENA of FENASTRAS' offices
Norman Solomon speech: Propaganda Today: The Manipulation of the American Media Norman Solomon speech: Propaganda Today: The Manipulation of the American Media
Date: 11/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 028AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Author Norman Solomon speaks in Santa Cruz on "Propaganda Today: The Manipulation of the American Media". He co-authored "Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media"
Interview about ecological devastation in El Salvador Interview about ecological devastation in El Salvador
Date: 9/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 028BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Daniel Faber, the research director at the Environmental Project on Central America (EPOCA). He discusses the ecological devastation in El Salvador.
Bolivia: Drug War Bolivia: Drug War
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: JG/ 033AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
ACLA (Atlantic Committee on Latin America) show. Covers Bolivia following the murder of 2 Mormon missionaries the crackdown on left wing guerilla organizations and the US War on Drugs , FBI involvement and $11 million for War on Drugs in 1989. Uruguay from a article in the "Guardian" on massive unemployment, the exodus of youth and youth withdrawal from activism. El Salvador on the ARENA party and Salvadorian refugees in the US and the repression they face when trying to organize against right wing ARENA. Vieques: 4 month stand off between Puerto Rican residents and the US Navy, history of resistance on Vieques and the living/environmental conditions.
El Salvador: FMLN and ARENA negotiations in Mexico City El Salvador: FMLN and ARENA negotiations in Mexico City
Date: 9/15/1989Call Number: JG/ 033BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
El Salvador: FMLN and ARENA negotiations in Mexico City. FMLN demanding purification of the army to rid it of the death squads responsible for the assassination of Arch Bishop Romero. Interview of FMLN member. Colombia- Drug War article written in the "Guardian" including its effects on peasants, Bush administration military aid and the emergence of the far right paramilitary forces which enjoys the complicity of the Colombian military.
El Salvador: Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks El Salvador: Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks
Date: 9/8/1989Call Number: JG/ 036AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks on the 9/7/'89 announcement that the FMLN wants to sit down with ARENA Pres. Cristiani for peace negotiations. Judy Gerber reads a NACLA interview w/ ARENA Colonel Juan Zapata, Zapata in ARENA's vice minister of defense, he defines the FMLN as terrorists.