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Lolita Lebron on safety and terrorism
Puerto Rican Political Prisoner, Lolita Lebron on safety and terrorism. Lebron emphasizes the vital and irreplaceable role that women play and describes the role of Puerto Rican women as transcendental. She also discusses three liberation events: el Grito de Lares, el Grito de Jayuya y el Grito de Washington. Lebron talks about key figures involved in each battle for freedom against oppressive colonial powers. She stresses the immediate need for women to realize that they are still led by men and that they must first free themselves before they can help anyone else. Lebron ends with a solidarity statement calling for revolutionary education and action.
What Will You Say In 2030?
(Cassette begins on side B)
Angela Davis hosted a conference with NPR with an audience of mostly young people. The conference is titled "What Will You Say In 2030?" Davis encourages her audience to think of the present as history in the making, and to truly analyze the past, present, and future to synchronize them into a coordination of meaningful events. Davis articulates the importance of activism and reclaiming the future of humanity. Davis articulates the racist agenda behind Aboriginal incarceration in Australia, the Reagan administration and the war on drugs, prison population, the death penalty, education, and corporate America. The concealment of private agendas and groups influencing national law and social structure is another point Davis makes. In this conference, Davis ultimately stresses the importance of critical thinking when analyzing the causes, effects, intentions, and implications of political history socially, racially, and economically and learning to create a solid understanding of history's affect and importance on the present and the future.
Voices on and of Prisons in the US-
1. Safia Bukari-Alston 2. Akil Al-Jundi
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 241BFormat: Cass BProducers: Undercurrents RadioProgram: WMUACollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Side B: Former Black Panther Party Member Safia describes why she was incarcerated and targeted because of her membership in the Black Panther Party and more specifically, her dissenting political views. Former Attica Prisoner Al-Jundi describes what he saw being present during the infamous 1971 Attica rebellion. He goes on to detail the conditions in the prison prior to the rebellion.
Totalitarian Control
J. C. Lewis speaks in front of the Trilateral Commission about totalitarian control: media, education, and the police state, and why farmers should get parity. Side B music.
“Malcolm X: The Last Message”
Malcolm X delivered this speech in Detroit, Michigan February 14, 1965: the same evening his home was attacked in New York. In his speech, Malcolm X provides an extensive and in depth analysis and explanation of the condition of Black people both in the United States as well as around the world. He examines the colonial powers and provides several examples of terror committed on the part of the United States and other Imperial powers against Africans, African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Central and South American and all other non-white people across the globe. An extensive portion covers important issues in Africa and their direct relation to struggles in the US. Malcolm defines his view of Power in an oppressive society and speaks to the issue of religion, specifically Christianity and Islam. The idea of fear and false propaganda created by ruling powers are highlighted as methods "the man" employs in hopes to create a permanent and unchallenged vibe of ignorance in the Black community. The Media and press are thoroughly explored, discussed and critiqued. He explains how the media removes all responsibility of society and places it on the Black community. He continues on to compare and contrast situations of political and racial oppression in the US as well as all around the globe. He describes organized attacks of genocide against innocent villages at the aid of United States political, military and economic forces. He continues on to interpret the situation of Black people in the US and focuses on how all images given to Black people of themselves are always negative or uncivilized. This very extensive speech covers much of Malcolm X's thoughts on the situation of Imperialism and what must be done immediately to protect not civil rights, but human rights across the globe.
Green Guerrillas - Volume 1
Date: 6/6/2006Call Number: V 257Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The "Green Guerrillas" are local young people who knew relatively nothing about digital media, green building, organic food, or renewable energy at the start of the summer. Through twenty hours per week of hands-on instruction with an all-volunteer staff and limited equipment, the Green Guerrillas learned how to use computer and video technology to build entrepreneurial job skills, convert a diesel engine to run on vegetable oil, and make a music video for a local hip hop group.
Columbia Strike Press Conference
Date: 5/1/1968Call Number: CD 547Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A 1968 Press Conference during the student-community strike at Columbia University with campus spokespeople David Gilbert and Joe Barthel.
Journey with the Revolution
Call Number: V 267Format: DVDProducers: Global Women's Strike - Finn Arden, Nina LopezCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A journey into the heart of the Venezuelan revolution. Meet the midwives, nurses, doctors, housewives, teachers, gay and disability activists, who are transforming Venezuela. Visit health clinics, soup kitchens, land committees, education and micro-credit programmes… The excitement of the revolution is contagious.
Features: President Hugo Chávez, “the president of the poor”; Nora Castañeda, President of the Women’s Development Bank; Sharmini Peries, Adviser to President Chávez on International Relations.
Henry Cisneros: United States Demographic Explosion (Part 1 of 2)
Henry Cisneros speaks on four interrelated issues: the reality of the U.S. demographic changes, economics, immigration and the need for local leadership to promote local changes. He encouraged especially Latino students, to be leaders and to get involved in public service.
Global Climate Change
Live debate with Climate experts, Dr. Peter Glick of The Pacific Institute for Development Environment and Security and Dr. Ken Watt of U.C. Davis. Brief interview with Appolo Astonaught Russel L. Schweickart and lengthy interview with Biologist Dr. Lynn Margulis who codeveloped of modern version of Gaia Hypothesis.
