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![May Day Tribute](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/5/1975Call Number: FI 079Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
A tribute to May Day, opening with poetry and "Hard Work" by John Handy. Poems: by Carl Sandburg, Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, David Diop, and Bertold Brecht recited by Lincoln Bergman.
![Ho Chi Minh poetry](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/5/1976Call Number: NI 105Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Series of short excerpts from Ho Chi Minh's Prison Diary from a 1976 Vietnam program, read by Lincoln Bergman and Claude Marks.
![Real Dragon (Oneness)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/11/1971Call Number: RD 066Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Roland Young, Glen HowellProgram: Real Dragon/OnenessCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Part of theprogram Oneness on which The Real Dragon appeared. Begins with alphabet song sung by Tracy Young, followed by an interview with "Julie," a koto player and the koto accompanies poems by Janice Mirikitani, one on a shooting of a farmworker - "The Price of Peaches," then her well-known poem on Vietnam combined with Japanese concentration camps called “Attack the Water."
(juxtaposition of 1947/1972). Closes with her poem to Nguyen Thai Binh, the Vietnamese martyr killed during attempted antiwar hijacking (he had two lemons wrapped in tin foil), "In Memory of Nguyen Thai Binh."
![Poetry Music Mix](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Mix of poetry and music. First poem: Sunrise, maybe Roberto Vargas; next several poems by unknown poets; Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and This Can't Be Real (Another Brother Dead), and Ain't No New Thing (with spoken intro).
![Vietnam Blues Protest Poems](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Series of antiwar poems recited by various actors/readers. The names of the poets, some who were soldiers in Vietnam, are stated before each poem is read. These are excerpts from a book entitled Vietnam Blues. Closes with a song from a poem entitled 'The Defoliation Blues."
![Poetry](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Chicano Poetry in English and one in Spanish by unknown author(s), read by Bernice Ramirez. Last poem on Chicanos in Vietnam.
![The Crimes of Richard Nixon](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Poem on the crimes of Richard Milhaus Nixon, "a found Halloween Poem by the San Francisco Kid," recited by Nina Serrano.
![It's 1992 And America Hasn't Discover Itself](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
An epic poem by Gerardo Navarro performed by him and Elena Rodrigo in August 1989. Themes include the Columbus "discovery" and the encounters of different North American and Latin American cultures.
![The Cultural Perspective - 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: FI 062Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Cultural Perspectives, featuring new book by San Francisco poet janice Mirikitani. Long reading about Ben Linder's life and work in Nicaragua before he was murdered by the Contras there. Poem about Columbus by Oakland poet Marian McDonald. Music throughout, including Danny Kalb, The Blues Project.
![Poems for Native Peoples](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/14/1992Call Number: CV 128Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Ernesto Cardinal, Nicaragua's Minister of Culture, recites poems for Indigenous peoples of the Americas. On the occasion of 500th anniversary of Columbus invasion.