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Herman Bell interview (1 of 3)
First of 3 interviews with Herman Bell in Clinton Correctional Facility. Interviewed by two NYC high school teachers, both presumably white and middle class. Discusses building a national campaign around political prisoners, defines/distinguished between political and social prisoners and who to prioritize in an amnesty movement, talks about the role of the church specifically in the black community, reparations and what the government owes to all black people, voting and representation, racism and incarceration rates, the growth of prisons and industry of incarceration, the Black Panther Party and their opposition to drugs and their success with the Free Breakfast Program, lack of economic control in the black community, need for land and self-determination, a large piece on Nuh Washington and how they met and Nuh’s personality, on missing his family and especially being absent while his children grow up, the wretched conditions of prison health care. Great stuff just avoid using questions/sound from interviewers.
Herman Bell interview (all 3 tapes)
Compilation of Videos 74-76 (see those descriptions)
Women in Zimbabwe: Interview with Silvia Baraldini
Date: 1/1/1979Call Number: KP 019Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Austin Feminist Radio CollectiveCollection: African liberation movements
Silvia Baraldini describes her experience in Zimbabwe and the history of the Independence Movement in Zimbabwe (ex-British colony of Rhodesia), specifically how the movement for women’s rights took place within the struggle against colonialism. Gives history of Lancaster House Conference, description of the British represented by Lord Carrington, the White settlers represented by Ian Smith and his puppet Bishop Muzarewa, and of the Liberation Forces under Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkromo of ZANU and ZAPO. Discusses the first and second elections, the role of South Africa, Muzarewa’s private army, multinational corporations, Henry Kissinger’s “Detente Effort,” and Mozambique’s assistance of the Liberation Forces. Discusses the mobilization and organization of women primarily to liberate the nation and secondarily in the struggle for women’s rights. Gives analysis of patriarchy within the context of colonialism and imperialism. “Liberation through Participation.”
La Mujer
Date: 2/17/1973Call Number: RP 058Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nina Serrano, Lillian del Sol, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Interviews and poetry about and by women. Themes include music, Puerto Rico, Lolita Lebron, child care, education, work opportunities, and abortion.
Assata Interview Excerpt
Call Number: FI 049Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Brief excerpt from longer series of interviews by Barbara Lubinski with Assata Shakur
Redstocking Interview
Call Number: FI 048Producers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview by Barbara Lubinski of an unidentified activist in the New York area women’s movement.
Interview with Huey Newton
Date: 8/11/1970Call Number: KP 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonProgram: KPFA generalCollection: Huey Newton
This interview with Huey P. Newton took place shortly after the Marin county courthouse rebellion incident. It is the first press contact with Newton after his release from prison. Newton discusses how the Panther party looked to form alliances with the Vietnamese on an ideological level and speaks of common goals of oppressed people, with special attention to organizations like the Women's Liberation Front in the United States and homosexual rights advocates.
This tape includes a brief discussion of the movement to decentralize the police in Berkeley, CA., and has a brief discussion of Eldridge Cleaver in exile and the expectations of the United Nations to return Cleaver to the U.S.
The Woman’s Prison at Santa Rita
Date: 8/18/1967Call Number: PM 140Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Prisons - Women
Bettina Aptheker Kurzweil, who had just finished serving a 45-day sentence in Santa Rita County jail on charges arising out of her FSM activities, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. This is an in-depth description of the jail’s physical appearance, daily work schedule, food, the ranking system of the police guards and deputies, the medical facilities and their inadequacies, the economic/ethnic composition of the prisoners, the charges made against the women prisoners and how they are often made worse by the court system, the discrepancies between the women and the men’s prisons, how economic factors effect who goes to this jail, the visiting room and its no child under 14 policy, the library, and the rules. Bettina was pregnant during her time in jail which adds an interesting element to her interview. She also talked about “The Cell” which is the jail’s way of arbitrarily punishing prisoners with solitary confinement. “The Cell” means a minimum of ten days in solitary confinement with no maximum amount declared until the deputy decides it is time for the prisoner to be released. This is a wonderful, genuine, interview that should not be missed.
Amilcar Cabral
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source."
Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973.
NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Winnie Mandela interview
Call Number: KP 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: African liberation movements
Winnie Mandela is interviewed on her political trajectory, discrimination she encountered, and the freedom struggle in South Africa. Speaks to her role both as a social worker and organizer with Black Women's Federation.
