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Trafficking in women lecture by Ninotchka Rosca
Date: 4/9/1994Call Number: JG/ 069Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Trafficking in WomenCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Ninotchka Rosca is a renowned feminist, political prisoner and human rights activist. This is a recording of a lecture she gave in 1994 about the disastrous effects of trafficking women throughout the globe as well as the connection between the military and commercial sexual slavery. Her discussion focuses on women who are exported from Thailand and the Philippines including the history of exporting women, widespread diseases, the targeted exploitation of young girls, the connection to the exportation of domestic servants, and mail-order brides. Following her lecture is a short question and answer period.
Conditions in Zimbabwe and political consciousness America
Call Number: AFR 077Collection: Zimbabwe
Judy Jensen,of the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) is interviewed about raising support in America for revolutionary struggles in Africa. A passionate anti-imperialist, she speaks about the wrongs being done to Africans, particularly those in Southern Africa. She aims to educate Americans on the revolutionary struggles in Africa, and to teach them about anti-Apartheid goals. She details the measures and protests the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU will use to achieve their objectives. She speaks about war in Central America, and about American political consciousness, saying that people are slowly realizing the American government’s aggressive and imperialist nature.
Side B contains an interview between two women. They discuss the problems facing Zimbabwe, such as land issues and dwindling resources. Next, the provincial secretary for the ZANU Women’s League, Eastern Province, is interviewed about the organization’s work for the Zimbabwean elections and their work in the provinces. Lastly, several women speak about problems getting material and supplies in Zimbabwe, expressing their thoughts on the newly independent Zimbabwe, and their hope for more equality between men and women.
Zimbabwe Minister Teurai Ropa Nongo on Zimbabwean women and land.
A representative of the AAI (African American Institute) interviews Zimbabwe Minister Teurai Ropa Nongo. She speaks about women in Zimbabwe, and about women from developing rural towns and urban areas. Shye says that the people love their land, and it is a large part of society, culture, and is central to the family structure and well-being. Interview cuts off at 8:40.
AZAPO and conditions in Southern Africa
Program on AZAPO and the state of Southern Africa. AZAPO chairman Pokela, SWAPO representative, and AZAPO representative Nick Tucker speak.
AZAPO (Azanian People’s Organization) chairman Pokela speaks about the lack of knowledge people in the United States and Europe have about the struggles in Azania. He also speaks about how the native African people lost their land and their rights to the white imperialists. He says that in order for Africans to fight back, they must remove their inferiority complexes (as Robert Sobukwe, former president of the PAC (Pan African Congress), suggests). He speaks about the injustices of the Pass Laws in South Africa, and encourages blacks to go to the prisons and challenge the police to arrest them.
Next, a woman representative of SWAPO (South West African People’s Organization - dedicated to opposing injustice in Southern Africa) speaks about the problems of violence in South Africa, and also about the bloody war going on in Namibia. She speaks about the policy of “Destabilization” that was designed by the white Nationalists, and about the Western media’s perception, pressure, and influence on events in South Africa.
Lastly, Nick Tucker of AZAPO speaks about AZAPO and the current events and conditions in Southern Africa, mourning the large number of murders in the area.
He quotes Amilcar Cabral, “We should tell no lies and claim no easy victory”.
Tucker speaks about two theories that determine revolutions: 1) To have a revolution, one must have a revolutionary theory and convey it to the masses. 2) Continued economic depression will heighten revolutionary anarchy and the masses will want to organize and revolt. He says that AZAPO is trying to do the former strategy. Lastly, Tucker speaks about the formation of black worker’s unions - that they form under Black Consciousness because black men can truly understand the hardships and oppression of other blacks, and can then translate that idea to whites.
Angolan music and poems/KPFA program on injustices of the US government
Date: 1/3/1976Call Number: AFR 084Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: Nothing Is More Precious Than... ProgramCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Poetry and revolutionary Angolan music.
Wounded Knee Massacre and countless atrocities against Native Americans.
The state of South Africa and relations with the United States.
Interviews about the state of South Africa.
Elizabeth Sebeko is interviewed about the South African Freedom Charter, the ANC (African National Congress), the PAC (Pan African Congress), land issues, race issues, and discrimination and overt oppression in South Africa. She speaks about how the Freedom Charter is designed and should be for the native black people of South Africa, not the colonizers.
Next, Harold Fuluin, South African Minister of Cooperation and Development & “black affairs”, responds to a question about the government’s reforms increasing violence in the country. He responds, saying that the ones inciting the violence are the militant leftist groups in South Africa, who are only looking for complete revolution. He states that in the government’s reforms, the term “one man, one vote” does not apply to black enfranchisement because of such population diversity in the country. In response to the interviewer’s claim that the South African white government is only moving toward reform in response to black violence, Mr. Fuluin answers by repudiating the claim, instead saying that the reform process bagan around 1982, “long before there was any sign of organized violence in the country” (which, of course, is not true).
Next, a news program discusses Washington D.C.’s perceived pressure on Pretoria, South Africa, to step up reforms in the country. Mr. Maines of Washington speaks about President Ronald Reagan’s administration getting much opposition to its foreign policy on South Africa. He says that Prime Minister P. W. Botha does not seem to respond to the pressure. He also says that Reagan is in a quandry because his support comes from the Right and their ties with South Africa, but he is facing major pressure from all over the US to impose sanctions on South Africa. Lastly, poor recording of a woman and man speaking about the Congo and the Belgians.
A Native Voice - Bringing Life to hawaii’s Forgotten Past
Date: 4/1/2005Call Number: CD 329Format: CDProducers: Samson Reiny, Freedom ArchivesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A narrative about Indigenous land rights in Hawaii.
Reflecciones: Puerto Rico, United Farmworkers, and community land ownership.
Date: 5/24/1973Call Number: RP 070 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Emiliano Echeverria, Chata Gutierrez, Lillian Del Sol, Nina Serrano, Andres AlegriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Interview about Fiesta Campesina, and the United Farmworkers struggles. Also poetry from Puerto Rican poets Pedro Pietri, Pancho Cruz, and Sandy Estebes. In addition, an interview with La Raza Unida Party Chairman Jose Angel Gutierrez about the question of community land ownership
Real Dragon
Date: 9/23/1971Call Number: RD 005Producers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Richard Oakes shot and killed by Michael Morgan. He was active in the native American Resistance whereby the "Proclamation of Alcatraz" reads that the Indians will purchase Alcatraz for $24- the same price whites paid when they bought Manhattan.
A poet from Laos draws parallels between Indians in America and those in Indochina.
A Vietnam resolution is yet to be approved by the Senate. North Vietnam ministry reports U.S. bombing of 11 provinces; 33, 000 Saigon troops are deserted in provinces.
President Marcos of the Phillippenes imposes Martial law to save the country from a communist revolution.
Israel invades Lebanon.
Viva Boricua!
Date: 9/1/1973Call Number: KP 199Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Sidney JohnsonCollection: Puerto Rico
Viva Boricua!
A survey of the independence movement in Puerto Rico as told by independistas. Features interviews with staff and students from the University of Puerto Rico, and Puerto Ricans living in New York City.
Dr. Luis Nieves Falcón, the director of the Social Studies research Center at the University of Puerto Rico speaks about the independence movement since "operation bootstrap," a U.S. colonial program to industrialize Puerto Rico.
Robert Anderson the Dean of Social Studies at UPR comments on the deterioration of Puerto Rico as an agricultural society.
The creator of a socio-cultural book series written for children compares the difference between the colonial curriculum, and her own books which were deemed subversive for showing images of poverty, barefoot children and the realities of a 30% unemployment rate. She describes different ways the independence movement is persecuted in the media, through the judicial process, by forcing employers to fire activists, and by direct FBI harassment.
A Puerto Rican economic advisor living in NYC, describes Puerto Rican migration to New York and criticizes the environmental harm and unjust economic impact of "operation bootstrap."
