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Interview with Assata Shakur Interview with Assata Shakur
Date: 5/26/1997Call Number: PM 051Format: DATProgram: Interview with Assata ShakurCollection: Assata Shakur
Assata talks about US imperialism and Cointelpro She discusses her 1979 escape, going to Cuba in 1984, relationship between political prisoners and the larger prison population, Mumia Abu Jamal, impor tance of studying and becoming conscious, women in prison, exile and the need to build movement for amnesty for all those targeted by Cointelpro. Copy from vhs original.
Interview with Sandy Nicholas Interview with Sandy Nicholas
Date: 3/1/1997Call Number: SS 011AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Sandy Nicholas on mass media's body construction.
Interview with Zack Lyde Interview with Zack Lyde
Date: 8/1/1997Call Number: SS 011BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Zack Lyde, the director of "Save the People." It is about the environmental racism and toxics in Brunswick, GA.
Interview with Kiilu Nyasha Interview with Kiilu Nyasha
Date: 9/1/1997Call Number: SS 021Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Kiilu Nyasha regarding the Soledad Brothers.
G is Free G is Free
Date: 6/10/1997Call Number: V 007Format: VHSCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Approximately 10 separate news blitzes/interviews about Geronimo Pratt’s release from prison. Footage of him addressing the judge and maintaining his innocence. Most news blurbs discuss Pratt’s history in the Vietnam War, membership in LA chapter of the Black Panther Party, and his being framed by the chief witness, Julius Butler, an FBI and police informant in the murder case of Carolyn Olson, a Santa Monica schoolteacher. Shots of his welcoming back to Marin City, with family, friends and community members, anxious for their “hero” to return. One later news clipping is an interview with Pratt on the one year anniversary of his release. Again Pratt openly discusses the corruption of the FBI and their targeting of the Black Panther Party.
NACLA Report On The Americas NACLA Report On The Americas
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1997Volume Number: Vol. 31-3 November-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
Still Paying: Ten Years After Debt Crisis. Plus Venezuela: The Politics of Privatization; Hawaii: Stirrings in the Colony; Anniversary Essay on Socialism
Message to the Black Movement: A Political Statement from the Black Underground Message to the Black Movement: A Political Statement from the Black Underground
Author: Coordinating Committee Black Liberation ArmyPublisher: Autonomous ZoneDate: 3/1997Volume Number: MarchFormat: MonographCollection: BLA
A manifesto from the Black Liberation Army which they believe was issued in 1974 and 1975.
All Power to the People All Power to the People
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 014Format: VHSProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism
Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 063Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Slides of Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show to Save Mumia Abu Jamal Art & writings against the Death Penalty
Angela Davis: The Prison Industrial Complex Angela Davis: The Prison Industrial Complex
Date: 5/5/1997Call Number: CD 062Format: CDProducers: David BarsamianCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Angela Davis lecture, The Prison Industrial Complex, traces how prisons are becoming an integral part of the US economy, at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, May 5, 1997.