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Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 11/1/1975Call Number: NI 086Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Nina SerranoProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program is dedicated to the five Puerto Rican National Party political prisoners, Lolita Lebron, Oscar Collazo, Irving Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, stemming from 1950 and 1954 attacks in Washington DC. Includes much actuality, including of Carlos Feliciano, at that time a recently released Puerto Rican Nationalist political prisoner.
Cuba: Andres Gomez
Chuy Varela interviews Andres Gomez. coordinator for the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the leftist progressive Cuban organization out of Miami. Topics include the contemporary state of US-Cuban relations, right wing Cuban Americans, and the Cuban economy's troubles.
Prison Movement Reports
Date: 1/4/1977Call Number: FI 057Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber Dreher, Mark SchwartzProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
On Jamaica with a quote (not actuality) from Assata Shakur; man speaking of his arrest with one of the San Quentin 6, Willie Tate; an excellent interview with activist Gary Lawton, just acquitted in Riverside.
Revolutionary Dissident
Interview with Enrique, a Cuban professor and translator of Portuguese and French. Enrique talks about his support for the revolution in spite of his seemingly contradictory interests in religion, British radio, and books of ill repute. Interview includes discussions about race in Cuba, Enrique's time in the military and agronomy school, which resulted in a six-month jailing.
Interview with Cuban double agent, "Annie" who infiltrated CIA
Interview of "Annie" about her espionage activities in the United States and the information that she learned about from the CIA. Information about the Cuban economy, and possible counterrevolutionary attacks on the island - biological warfare in the form of dengue fever. Annie discusses her role as a mother, spy, Cuban patriot, and wife. Interview is followed by radio commentary about the life and death of Tamara "Tania" Bunke.
Fidel Castro on the Embassy Scandal of 1990
Date: 7/26/1990Call Number: CV 150Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
A speech given by Fidel Castro during the Embassy Scandal of 1990 in which a total of about 50 cubans sought political asylum in foreign embassies in Havana, Cuba. By the 26 of July 1990, the date of the speech, groups of cubans had, some forcefully and others non-violently, entered the Czech, Italian, Swiss and Spanish embassies seeking for asylum. In this speech Fidel explains the crisis and denounces the actions of these foreign nations, going as far as to end political cooperation with Spain. Important themes are Human Rights, anti-imperialism and political asylum.
Interview with Miguel Angel Garcia
Date: 6/14/1995Call Number: CV 146AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
About the popularity and history of Afro-Cuban music. Interview in Spanish.
Interview with Antonio Cruz Colon
Call Number: CD 617Format: CDProducers: Juventud Nacionalista Puertorriquena de Nueva YorkCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Antonio Cruz Colon is a patriot and Nationalist combatant of the 1950 Puerto Rican insurrection.
Cruz Colon was but one of the approximately 150 combatants of the Liberation Army of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) who rose up in arms in late 1950, declaring the independence of Puerto Rico and rejecting the then-developing process towards the “commonwealth” system.
Puerto Rican Independence and Steven Biko
Date: 9/24/1977Call Number: FI 089Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is S Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Roundup of Puerto Rico independence news: grand juries, UN decolonization, statement of Rafael Cancel Miranda. Speech in SF by a representative of MIR of Chile. Interview on situation in Namibia and plans for San Francisco demonstration. Protests against police murder of Steven Biko in South Africa.
Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean people, Part 1
Date: 1/16/1985Call Number: CD 652Format: CDProgram: African Activists in AmericaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Michael Warren, chairman of African Activists in America, speaks about Maurice Bishop, and introduces Samouri Marksman. Marksman speaks about struggles of African people around the world; how Europeans control Latin American economies, cultures, and societies, and the struggle for Latin American independence; the struggle to alter the slave relationship with Europeans in the Carribean and Africa; critisizes the IMF (International Monetary Fund) ; and American politics in South Africa and the struggle against Apartheid.