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Let your motto be Let your motto be
Publisher: Resistance Task ForceYear: 1983Volume Number: No. 1 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Coalition to Defend October 20th Freedom Fighters
Let your motto be Let your motto be
Publisher: Resistance Task ForceYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 2-3 October-NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Coalition to Defend October 20th Freedom Fighters
No Middle Ground: Chile Ten Years After No Middle Ground: Chile Ten Years After
Publisher: No Middle GroundYear: 1983Volume Number: No.2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Chile
An update on Chile ten years after the coup.
We Contiune Forever Sorrow and Strength of Guatemalan Women We Contiune Forever Sorrow and Strength of Guatemalan Women
Publisher: Women's International Resource ExchangeDate: 11/1983Volume Number: NovemberFormat: CompilationCollection: Guatemala
En El Centenario de la Muerte de Carlos Marx En El Centenario de la Muerte de Carlos Marx
Author: Victor Tirado LopezPublisher: la Central Sandanista de TrabajadoresYear: 1983Format: MonographCollection: Nicaragua
Why is the FMLN fighting? Why is the FMLN fighting?
Author: Commander Joaquin VillalobosPublisher: Radio Venceremos System EditionsDate: 9/1983Volume Number: SeptemberFormat: MonographCollection: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional
Includes: Why is a war going on in El Salvador?; Who is winning the war?; Why is the FMLN engaged in sabotage?; Are the election a solution to the war? Can a foreign intervention defeat the FMLN?; Why is the FMLN fighting?; Original Spanish edition was edited and printed by the Comando Internacional de Informaci
Grand Jury Repression and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement Grand Jury Repression and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement
Date: 4/5/1983Call Number: KP 525Format: Cass A & BProgram: WBAICollection: Puerto Rico
Two lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild and their activist clients join radio host to discuss issues in Puerto Rico and especially the efforts of the F.B.I. to stop the Puerto Rican independence movement. Guests, Elizabeth Finkel and Bob Bloom are lawyers whose clients are activists and often subject to grand juries. Julio Rosado, another guest, was a member of Comite Unitario Contra la Represion y Para la Defensa de los Presos Politicos (CUCRE) and former political prisoner incarcerated for civil contempt. They discussed prison conditions and independentista Carlos Noya, member of Movimiento Liberacion Nacional (MLN) joins the general conversation about economic, health, environmental, and political problems in Puerto Rico caused by the U.S.
MLN program at May 19th communist organization office MLN program at May 19th communist organization office
Date: 2/27/1983Call Number: LA 214Format: Cass A & BCollection: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional
Daniel Solis, as a part of the MLN (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional), gives an in depth history on anti-imperialist movements in Mexico, including, the 1910 revolution and information on Ricardo Flores Magon. He goes on to connect this history to the creation and purpose of “la migra” and border patrol, establishing them not just as a government organization, but an oppressive force made to suppress the indigenous Mexican people. He includes factual information on the migra’s budget, weapons, immigration process, and connection to the FBI and CIA. Tape includes English translator summarizing Daniel’s points.
MLN program at May 19th communist office MLN program at May 19th communist office
Date: 2/27/1983Call Number: LA 215AFormat: Cass ACollection: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional
Continuation of previous tape. MLN representative, Daniel Solis, asks for live questions from the audience. Topics from questions asked include, leftist tendencies in Mexico, differences from reform and revolution, gaining international support for Mexican struggle, and the Mexican governments role in the revolution.
El Grito Estudiantil El Grito Estudiantil
Publisher: Union for Puerto Rican StudentsYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 7-9 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Que Ondee Sola
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