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CD release party at La Pena for Chile: Promise of Freedom CD release party at La Pena for Chile: Promise of Freedom
Date: 9/12/2003Call Number: V 164Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom Archives release party at La Pena of the CD Chile: Promise of Freedom commemorating the coup in Chile in 1973. Features poetry and comments.
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 1 Mabel Williams Interview, Part 1
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 021Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 1 of 3 CDs, addresses: making change; effects of segregation; RFW's upbringing; Williams family home life in Monroe; making change part 2; things can change - surprises; international allies; first trip to Cuba; early relationship to Malcolm X; support groups in New York City; RFW's military training; role in the NAACP and the legal system; position on self-defense; the rifle club; publishing The Crusader; dialogue with Malcolm X; alleged kidnapping in Monroe; decision to leave Monroe; support in NYC after leaving Monroe; government support of KKK in Monroe; Mabel William's role and specific activities; different kinds of targeting by the government.(50:11)
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 2 Mabel Williams Interview, Part 2
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 022Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 2 of 3 CDs, addresses: conflicting relationship with the NAACP; takeover of NAACP rally in Harlem and crowd booing speakers; activist spirit of the time after leaving Monroe; sense of internationalism; visit from Japanese woman student and professor; alleged kidnapping part 2; decision to leave Monroe; decision to leave New York; decision to leave Canada; decision to go to Cuba; getting to Cuba; reception in Cuba; production of The Crusader in Exile; birth of Radio Free Dixie; response to the events in Birmingham; political struggles in Cuba; decision to leave Cuba; conflict with US Communist Party in Cuba; previous visits to China; political understanding of differences between communism in China and Soviet Union; RFW interviewed by Czech theorist; RFW interviewed and called a Trotskyite (66:28)
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 3 Mabel Williams Interview, Part 3
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 023Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 3 of 3 CDs, addresses: decision to leave Cuba part 2; arrival in China; previous visit to Hanoi; living in China; meeting with Premier Chou; meeting with Kissinger at party; RFW's time in Tanzania; Williams family in Tanzania; Mabel Williams and boys return to the US; RFW returns to the US; RFW's legal battles upon return to the US; "the struggle continues"; contradictions within the US government; power of community-building; message to young people (48:03)
Mabel Williams interview Part 1 Mabel Williams interview Part 1
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 062Format: VHSProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Video backup of Mabel Williams interview by Freedom Archives - Part 1
Mabel Williams interview Part 2 Mabel Williams interview Part 2
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 063Format: VHSProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Video backup of Mabel Williams interview by Freedom Archives - Part 2
Interview with Mabel Williams - Part 1 Interview with Mabel Williams - Part 1
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 064Format: DATProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 1 of 3 Original recordings: addresses: making change; effects of segregation; RFW's upbringing; Williams family home life in Monroe; making change part 2; things can change - surprises; international allies; first trip to Cuba; early relationship to Malcolm X; support groups in New York City; RFW's military training; role in the NAACP and the legal system; position on self-defense; the rifle club; publishing The Crusader; dialogue with Malcolm X; alleged kidnapping in Monroe; decision to leave Monroe; support in NYC after leaving Monroe; government support of KKK in Monroe; Mabel William's role and specific activities; different kinds of targeting by the government (50:11)
Interview with Mabel Williams -Part 2 Interview with Mabel Williams -Part 2
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 065Format: DATProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 2 of 3 Recording addresses: conflicting relationship with the NAACP; takeover of NAACP rally in Harlem and crowd booing speakers; activist spirit of the time after leaving Monroe; sense of internationalism; visit from Japanese woman student and professor; alleged kidnapping part 2; decision to leave Monroe; decision to leave New York; decision to leave Canada; decision to go to Cuba; getting to Cuba; reception in Cuba; production of The Crusader in Exile; birth of Radio Free Dixie; response to the events in Birmingham; political struggles in Cuba; decision to leave Cuba; conflict with US Communist Party in Cuba; previous visits to China; political understanding of differences between communism in China and Soviet Union; RFW interviewed by Czech theorist; RFW interviewed and called a Trotskyite (66:28)
Interview with Mabel Williams - Part 3 Interview with Mabel Williams - Part 3
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 066Format: DATProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 3 of 3 Recording addresses: decision to leave Cuba part 2; arrival in China; previous visit to Hanoi; living in China; meeting with Premier Chou; meeting with Kissinger at party; RFW's time in Tanzania; Williams family in Tanzania; Mabel Williams and boys return to the US; RFW returns to the US; RFW's legal battles upon return to the US; "the struggle continues"; contradictions within the US government; power of community-building; message to young people (48:03)
The Revolution will not be Televised The Revolution will not be Televised
Date: 1/1/2003Call Number: CD 334Format: DVDProducers: Kim Bartley, Donnacha O’BrienCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Hugo Chavez, elected President of Venezuela in 1998, is a colorful folk hero, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington‚s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba." In Spanish with English Subtitles