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Julio Portillo- Trade Unionist El Salvador
Call Number: JG/ 065BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Julio Portillo, a trade unionist from El Salvador, discusses economic situation, government policy that only responds to 20 oligarchy groups of El Salvador, re-privatization of banks health, education, impunity of armed forces, humanitarian rights, International Monetary Foundation, privatizing education for profit, solidarity movement.
Focus on the Americas
Separation of Media and State with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D.
Call Number: JG/ 080AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Recorded in October 1990, Blase Bonpane uses the example of Liberation Theology to illustrate the need for a separation of media and state, or media and power. Uses misrepresentation of Liberation Theology, exemplified by October 9, 1990 LA Times article, "The Cross and The Gun" by Kenneth Freed, as a framework in which to discuss media as advocates of the agenda for the affluent. Bonpane discusses liberation theology from the perspective of the poor, focusing on Central American cases, which sharply contrasts the representation of it in the article. Discussion of media acceptance of institutional violence and Imperial Theology, and its rejection of oppressed people's response to institutional violence and liberation theology. Defines Liberation Theology as based on human need, not advocating violence and in opposition to Imperial Theology which advocates the relationship between the cross and gun or cross and crown.
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.
The Road to Wounded Knee III
Date: 7/18/1974Call Number: CD 443Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFACollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Carter Camp, One of the founders of AIM talks about the oppression of the Native American and the civil rights struggle that has developed.
SAME AS KP112
Puerto Rican Solidarity Day
This bilingual broadcast of Puerto Rican Solidarity Day features Bay Area and international activists shedding light on the history of US and Spanish domination of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican resistance, the movement for independence, and the connections of those struggles with the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world. The event begins with the comical, yet serious play by Bay Area Grupo Claridad and Mexican Grupo Zapilote portraying how indigenous Puerto Ricans have been exploited and manipulated in the past by the colonial Spanish conquerors and in the present by United States politicians and oil, coffee, and sugar tycoons. The groups convey the message that in spite of this foreign domination, Puerto Ricans have maintained a rich tradition of spiritual, cultural, and political resistance that will continue until Puerto Rico is free.
A quick interlude showcases the Puerto Rican National Anthem sung by Lolado Rodriguez, followed by an introductory political and economic history lesson and statement of solidarity with the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by organizer Ruth Rodriguez. Rodriguez highlights
the industrialization of Latin America, Puerto Rican unemployment, militarism, cultural genocide, and the struggle of Puerto Rican political prisoners. Enrique Valle Ester of Sopelote then sings two Mexican folk songs illustrating Latin American resistance to U.S. imperialism. The event is concluded with a speech on the connections of the American Indian Movement to the Puerto Rican freedom movement, by one of the
original founders of the American Indian Movement, the Red School House, and the Freedom School for Native American Children, Eddie Sounding Voice Benton.
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.
Real Dragon
Date: 10/7/1971Call Number: RD 006Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
One-on-one interview with Ernesto "Che" Guevara from 1964. During the interview, Che speaks about some necessary elements for the seizure of power for revolution. He reveals that each movement depends on the people and cannot be an imitation of another movement such as the one that took place in Cuba. He uses the case of Puerto Rico as an example and also feels that in order for a revolution of the people to happen in the U.S- the considerations would be much more complex and need to take on a character of its own.
Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill speaks on the liberation of indigenous people
focusing on Leonard Peltier, a political prisoner. He then speaks on his book The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality.
Ward Churchill Uncut! Tape 2 of 2
Ward Churchill, a member of the Colorado chapter of the
American Indian Movement, speaks on his Cherokee heritage, Leonard
Peltier's incarceration, the United States repression of indigenous
people, conservative Colorado based journalist Charlie Brennan, and Churchill's own anachronistic analysis of the Palestine situation.
Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (a little bit of so much truth)
Date: 6/1/2006Call Number: V 268Format: DVDProducers: Corrugated FilmsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.
But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.
A 90-minute documentary, A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
