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Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean people, Part 2
Date: 1/16/1985Call Number: CD 653Format: 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.
Conversations with Grenadians in 1985, Part 1
Date: 6/7/1985Call Number: CD 654Format: CDProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Documentary on Grenada after the United States invasion in 1983. Includes speeches, interviews, music and poetry.
Conversations with Grenadians in 1985, Part 2
Date: 6/7/1985Call Number: CD 655Format: CDProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Documentary on Grenada after the United States invasion in 1983. Includes speeches, interviews, music and poetry.
Max Blanchet Interview on Haiti
Speaking on possible US involvement and return of President Aristide after 1991 Military coup in Haiti.
Immigrant Rights, A Civil Right Issue For the 1990's - Part 5
Date: 10/28/1990Call Number: CV 266Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discussion of the HIV tests imposed on immigrants from Mexico and Central America at border detention centers. Forum on refugee communities from Guatemala and Haiti. Also discussion of the Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Act and the Motley Bill which impacts on refugees from Guatemala. Raids on day laborers are criticized.
The Last Revolutionary
Date: 7/18/1996Call Number: V 489Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dan Rather interviews Fidel Castro about his life and the state of Cuba in the 1990s for 60 Minutes. Discussions of the Bay of Pigs victory for Cuba, as well as interviews with anti-Castro figures such as Castro's own sister.
The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez
Date: 7/27/1989Call Number: V 490Format: VHSProducers: Catherine Ryan, Gary WeimbergCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Traces the life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez/ Guillermo Morales, the son of FALN Prisoner of War Dylcia Pagan and exiled Puerto Rican independentista William Guillermo Morales. Guillermo’s early life with the Gomez Gomez family and the subsequent discovery of who his biological parents are and why they were in prison fighting for Puerto Rico’s independence lead him on a journey to reconnect with Dylcia while she was incarcerated in California. Dylcia recounts her history with the FALN, her charge of “seditious conspiracy,” and her life underground with Guillermo when he was a baby. Guillermo and Dylcia are interviewed extensively about the emotional ride that their reunion brings both of them.
Oye Latino!
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CV 282Format: Cass A & BProducers: MNF 88.5 FMCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Wrangler Jeans upsets many Puerto Ricans when they refer to the island as Indians and Creoles. The Broadway show the Cape Man focused on the life of Salvador Argon, a 16 year old Puerto Rican youth who became the youngest person sentenced death. The show had a musical score that included Ruben Blades and Marc Anthony. The history of the musicians Arsenio Rodriguez, and Javier Solis. The visit of Pope John Paul to Cuba, and the Pope’s denunciation of the US embargo on the nation. Dr. Kenya Jimenez of UC Berkley, discusses the book The Buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes, and details the life of Juana Ibanez de la Cruz. The music of Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona.
Internews Inserts
Call Number: KP 464Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Banning Garrett, Steve Talbot, Jan Austen, Doug Dowie, Elizabeth FarnsworthCollection: General materials
Series of news inserts on: disarmament between US and Soviet Union; situation in Zaire and charges of Cuban involvement; China reported canceling foreign aid to North Vietnam; abortion bill in California State Assembly; State Board of Equalization; election of Antonio Guzman as President of Dominican Republic.
Genocide in Hispaniola
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: KP 467Format: CassetteProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Indigenous Struggles
Interview with historian Woodrow Borah of UC Berkeley, a leading expert on the genocide against the Native peoples of the Caribbean by Columbus and the conquistadors who followed. Detailed facts and figures on genocide.
