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Amiri Baraka on Malcolm X
Amiri Baraka talks about Malcolm X in Harlem, NY in 1981.
Mumia Abu Jamal speaks in tribute to Safiya Bukhari
Date: 8/30/2003Call Number: CD 143Format: CDProducers: Prison Radio Project, Mumia Abu JamalCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia Abu Jamal speaks about the life and passing of Safiya Bukhari, Dedicated, nationally known Black liberation fighter and leader in the Jericho Amnesty Movement, died in the early hours of August 24, 2003 from complications due to prolonged illness.
Passin’ It On: The Story of a Black Panther’s Search for Justice
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 116Format: VHSProducers: John ValadezCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About the same time the Black Panther Party entered the realm of the legendary, one of its favorite sons went to prison for the attempted murder of two white New York City police officers. While Richard Moore was serving over 19 years for a crime he swears he didn't commit, the Black Panther movement disintegrated because of FBI harassment and internal power sturggles.
Now, Richard Moore is Dhoruba Bin Wahad. And he is a free man, the result of his conviction being overturned on the basis of "prosecutorial misconduct." Passin' It On vibrantly brings to life the history of the Black Panthers, and dramatically tells the story of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, offering an unforgettable window into the African-American experience.
In My Own Words: Welcome to the Terrordome! Communique from the Belly of the Beast
Call Number: V 118Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A 45 minute interview with New Afrikan Anarchist Prisoner Of War Ojore N Lutalo. A long time Black Liberation solider, imprisoned since 1982, this interview was conducted while Ojore was in New Jersey State Prison's infamous Management Control Unit. Ojore shares his revolutionary outlook on topics such as the state, class, racism, black leadership, the function of prisons, political prisoners, the Black Liberation Army, vegetarian survival in prison, and maintaining one's sense of purpose under repressive conditions.
Kwame Ture on the history of black student revolutionary organizations
Date: 3/22/1994Call Number: AFR 051Format: Cass A & BProgram: Student Organizing from 1960 to 1994Collection: Kwame Ture
Kwame Ture speaks about the history of black student revolutionary protest organizations such as SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) and the BPP (Black Panther Party). He talks about the oppression of the capitalist system in disorganizing black organizations. He explains how Africans are used to having a hard life and constantly struggling for freedom. Struggle makes you stronger, and brings progress. Ture calls people to push black consciousness and to talk about both the oppressed and the oppressor, so as to avoid blaming the oppressed in the end. He also talks about how it is the capitalist system’s job to instill ideas of inferiority in African Americans, but he calls people to fight inferiority, and to increase their consciousness of African contributions to America. Ture talks about how Africa was the first continent to unite different countries under the OAU (Organization of African Unity). Lastly, he speaks about African’s high level of unity in action, but not in thought, because of the prevalence of ignorance of the value of organizing.
Women in Prison
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison.
The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
The objectives of the Black Panther Party in the Vietnam War
Side A: Angela Davis, Raymond Masai Hewitt, Terrence Hallinan, and Charles Gary speak about the objectives of the Black Panther Party. They discuss the freeing of political prisoners, how the US constitution is not relevant for black people, and they call blacks to be more violent in order to make themselves known and to attain peace. Charles Gary relates Bobby Seale’s message for the people: that it is important for them to rally around the moratorium of the Vietnam war and the war in the ghettos.
Side B begins with liberation music and songs.
Charles Gary continues speaking on the peace movement. Angela Davis speaks about raising the level of awareness and consciousness. She speaks about using the same tactics as used in the Vietnam war in minority areas. Terrence Hallinan speaks about making demonstrations relevant to black people. He calls people to action against the struggle in Vietnam and at home.
Break the Silence
Date: 9/28/1989Call Number: FI 018Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln Bergman, KPFAProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Lincoln Bergman interviews Jewish women artists who are trying to make peace in the Middle East - Break the Silence Mural project. About their work and goals for peace, solidarity, and on their experiences. Includes music and Lincoln Bergman reading poems about Huey P. Newton.
Nictche Tanifa on Sundiata Acoli
Call Number: JG/ 060AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Community ForumCollection: Sundiata Acoli
Judy Gerber interviews Nictche Tanifa of the Acoli Freedom Campain. Tanifa describes Sundiata Acoli’s involvement with the New York Black Panther party, his movement from community organizer to underground fighter, the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike and his subsequent arrest and imprisonment. Tanifa also discusses the harsh sentences used against political activists and the treatment of political prisoner and prisoners of war on the inside.
BET News on Assata Shakur, Interview with Geronimo Pratt
This BET news story done in approximately 1987 is based on a longer interview done with her in exile in Havana, Cuba (Part 1 only) 5 minutes.
Judy Gerber interviews Geronimo Pratt in prison about his case. 6 minutes.
