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Adelaide Sanford on African values
Date: 3/3/1990Call Number: AFR 050AFormat: Cass AProgram: To Be African in Today’s America - Toward Liberation!Collection: Africa- General Resources
Continuation of AFR 049
Adelaide Sanford speaks about improving education in America. She talks about changing education in America and fighting for educational freedoms. She calls the people to be aware of the power of the African story and to get it out to all people through the media. She speaks about the destruction of black civilization in America. Because of the association of the black man and drugs, particularly crack, a derivative of cocaine, as an agent of melanin in black skin pigment, people need to be educated about cocaine’s dangers.
AIDS in Focus: Joyce and Jackie music performance
Call Number: JG/ 072Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: AIDS in FocusCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The tape begins abruptly in the middle of a lecture on AIDS. The taping is from the same conference as JG/LS 071. What is primarily on the tape is a concert performed by two feminist folk musicians Joyce and Jackie. It is about forty-five minutes of their music which such songs as “Higher Ground” and “Sisters of the World.”
Interview with Joane Camell on Peru
Joane Camell and an unidentified radio interviewer discuss the dynamics of the Peruvian cocaine trade, the history of its prominence in the Huallaga valley, its effects on the economy of Peru and the pressure to eradicate from the American government.
Interview with Colleta Youngers on Colombia
Colleta Youngers of the Associate Washington Office on Latin America, a nonprofit organization following issues of US Foreign Policy and human rights speaks of the political struggle and structure of the Colombian drug trade. She speaks of the main components there of: the guerillas, the traffickers and the military organizations and death squads. She addresses as well the misperceptions in the United States of who really controls the drug trade in Colombia.
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side."
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
Same as PM 227. This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side."
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
Same as PM227
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side." .
Dhoruba Bin Wahad Program
Event celebrating the freedom of former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad. Dhoruba was unjustly imprisoned 19 years and was freed after disclosure of suppressed evidence and the FBI Cointelpro program. Members of the community welcome Dhoruba with solidarity statements and applause. According to Dhoruba, Black America is in need of a new revolution based on an analysis of facts, courage, and principles and the support of other political prisoners. Discussion of the concept of power as "the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired fashion," and how this concept is applied to the government's racist agenda and the potential power of Black people. Dhoruba states that the economy, the war on drugs, and private prison systems are industries deliberately created to oppress people of color. Dhoruba sets a goal of organizing international attention and action to free U.S. political prisoners, specifically liberating Geronimo Pratt.
All Power to the People
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
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200 Years of the Penitentiary
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: PM 282Format: Cass A & BProducers: Robert Foxworth; Jeff HansonProgram: American Dialogues; Second OpinionCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Starting on the B side with American Dialogues, Linda Thurston of the American Friends Service Committee discusses the 200 Years of the Penitentiary project and the war on drugs. Second Opinion with Erwin Knoll features an interview with Brian Glick, author of 'War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It' (continues onto A side). A side also includes a news program discussing the Iran-Contra affair and the war on drugs.
