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You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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Economic Depression in Music and Poietry Economic Depression in Music and Poietry
Date: 8/1/1981Call Number: FI 142Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Economic depression always has been linked to war, with blues and labor song mix, poem on greed written by Marge Piercy, Langston Hughes landlord poem recited by Ruby Dee, interview of Cuban musician on economics for artists, closes with street drama and Barbara Dane singing "Buddy Can You Spare A Dime" and Billie Holiday, "God Bless the Child."
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Communiqué 2/12/1974 Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Communiqué 2/12/1974
Date: 2/12/1974Call Number: KP 423Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Cinque introduces SLA, discusses media-fascism and Hearst Empire, and demands Hearst establish free food giveaway programs as ransom for Patty Hearst. Patty Hearst speaks to assure family of her safety, discusses press distortions of SLA actions, and identifies herself as a prisoner of war.
SLA Commentaries SLA Commentaries
Date: 5/1/1974Call Number: KP 424Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Two commentaries about Patricia Hearst and the SLA regarding bank robberies, safe houses, and other actions.
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Communiqué 2/21/74 Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Communiqué 2/21/74
Date: 2/21/1974Call Number: KP 425Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: SLACollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Cinque clarifies SLA demands for the free food giveaway program. Discusses Hearst family wealth to compel Randolf Hearst to comply with SLA demands. Tape played at FBI press conference. Tape purportedly made by six former Symbionese Federation members claiming to have left the Federation after the murder of Marcus Foster and with criticism the revolutionary violence of the SLA.
SLA Communiqué - 6/1/1974 SLA Communiqué - 6/1/1974
Date: 6/1/1974Call Number: KP 426Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: SLACollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Tape received by KPFK about the SLA leaving the Bay Area and the shootout at Mel's Sporting Goods in Los Angeles. References May 17th police murder of SLA members.
SLA: Berkeley Police - Hearst Press Conference SLA: Berkeley Police - Hearst Press Conference
Date: 2/12/1974Call Number: KP 427Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Interview with chief of Berkeley PD Detective Unit. Hearst at a press conference, tape is played from Patty Hearst just after her kidnapping. Includes portions of KP 235.
SLA - Patty Hearst SLA - Patty Hearst
Date: 1/6/1974Call Number: KP 428Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
About the murder of SLA members in Los Angeles, May 17, 1974.
SLA - Hearst Complies with Food Giveaway SLA - Hearst Complies with Food Giveaway
Date: 2/18/1974Call Number: KP 429Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Charles Gould, Publisher of SF Examiner speaks on behalf of Hearst Corporation announcing their plan to comply with the demands of the SLA regarding the food giveaway program.
Southern Conference for Human Welfare Southern Conference for Human Welfare
Call Number: KP 430Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Southern Conference for Human WelfareCollection: Voices from the South
Interviews with two leading women in the early southern civil rights movement, on a 1938 conference, in Birmingham Alabama that is considered one of the sparks that led to the growth of the civil rights movement. From 1938 to 1948, the Birmingham-based Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) tried to bring long-overdue New Deal-inspired reforms to the South. In particular, the organization was committed to improving social justice and civil rights and instituting electoral reform in the region by repealing the poll tax. Perhaps the most noteworthy of a number of organizations that grew out of the movement for regional reform in the 1930s, the SCHW folded because of funding problems and charges of harboring Communist sympathies, but it laid the groundwork for future civil rights activism.
An Evening with Judge Bruce Wright and Friends An Evening with Judge Bruce Wright and Friends
Date: 1/1/1974Call Number: KP 449Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: WBAI New YorkProgram: An Evening with Judge Bruce Wright and FriendsCollection: General materials
Poetry reading and tribute hosted by Harry Belafonte, with William Kunstler, Dennis Banks. and Jennifer Dohrn reading some of their favorite poems of struggle and liberation to benefit Bruce Wright, progressive African-American judge threatened with removal from the bench because of supposed leniency in cases involving poor defendants.