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NICH Presents: Introduction to Chile (A Cartoon History)
A cartoon history of Chile from colonial history to 1976.
Interview of workers organizing against Capwell's Department Store
Rosalie Jones, Alice Stanford, and George Edward Junior speak of gaining community support for their lawsuit against Capwell's Department Store and The Culinary Union, Local 28. After experiencing racism and sexism, the two women went to their union for support but were denied. Managers and union representatives began threatening the two women and their families to suppress the development of their suit.
Interview of workers organizing against Capwell's Department Store.
Rosalie Jones, Alice Stanford, and George Edward Junior speak of gaining community support for their lawsuit against Capwell's Department Store and The Culinary Union, Local 28. After experiencing racism and sexism, the two women went to their union for support but were denied. Managers and union representatives began threatening the two women and their families to suppress the development of their suit.
KPFA Radio News Summary and Update on the San Quentin Six Trial.
Attorney for David Johnson, Frank Cox, filed an affidavit regarding Melvin Cotton Smith's role as a paid informant for the L.A. police department. The news summary gives a good and detailed history of the events surrounding George Jackson's death up to the circumstances involving the San Quentin Six. Included is information on James Carr, COINTELPRO, and the ideological split between Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton in the Black Panther Party. Contains excerpt of a recording of George Jackson talking three months before his murder, excerpts of an interview with Eldridge Cleaver in exile from Paris, and a telephone interview with Bob Gardner who witnessed the 1970 shootings of W. L. Nolan, Alvin Miller, Cleveland Edwards at Soledad Prison.
Dennis Banks speech
Date: 4/26/1976Call Number: KP 242Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Native Americans
Recording of a forum/rally for Native American solidarity, with speech and comments by AIM leader Dennis Banks and other speakers. Side A speech focus on political prisoners; Side B speech includes Banks in detail on FBI/CIA infiltration, naming Doug Durham as infiltrator, etc.
Lolita Lebron and Puerto Rican National Liberation Movement
Lolita Lebron talks about her involvement with Puerto Rican independence movement along with the action at the US House of Representatives in 1954. Lebron also talks about her experience inside the prison and her thoughts on racism, US colonialism and imperialism. She comments on dehumanizing conditions of prisons and imprisonment of free thoughts. She also talks about her prison reform movement including hunger strikes and her creative work behind the bars.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/7/1976Call Number: NI 099Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, with Mark Schwartz, Andres Alegra, Molly Frankel, Peggy BerryhillProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with poetic refelection on huge earthquake in Guatemala, then roundup of Latin America news, Puerto Rico solodaity demonstration in San Francisco, then local demonstrations re Angola and the Phillipines. Next segments on prison ruling in Massachusetts, and San Quentin Six, and arrest of Dennis Banks and other Native American resistance developments.
Fidel Castro
Discussions of Fidel Castro's role in the Socialist-Cuban revolution, the U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion, the second declaration of Havana, and the solidarity with Chile and Angola.
The Voice of Vietnam
The Voice of Vietnam exposes the corrupt and violent impact of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Vietnamization, a form of neocolonialism, and Nixon's disregard for the Paris Agreement aggravated US-Vietnamese relations. As the Vietnamese people struggled to reunify their homeland after the war, Cuba emerged as an ally in this struggle.
Ho Chi Minh poetry
Date: 5/5/1976Call Number: NI 105Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Series of short excerpts from Ho Chi Minh's Prison Diary from a 1976 Vietnam program, read by Lincoln Bergman and Claude Marks.
