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Conditions in Zimbabwe and political consciousness America
Call Number: AFR 077Collection: Zimbabwe
Judy Jensen,of the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) is interviewed about raising support in America for revolutionary struggles in Africa. A passionate anti-imperialist, she speaks about the wrongs being done to Africans, particularly those in Southern Africa. She aims to educate Americans on the revolutionary struggles in Africa, and to teach them about anti-Apartheid goals. She details the measures and protests the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU will use to achieve their objectives. She speaks about war in Central America, and about American political consciousness, saying that people are slowly realizing the American government’s aggressive and imperialist nature.
Side B contains an interview between two women. They discuss the problems facing Zimbabwe, such as land issues and dwindling resources. Next, the provincial secretary for the ZANU Women’s League, Eastern Province, is interviewed about the organization’s work for the Zimbabwean elections and their work in the provinces. Lastly, several women speak about problems getting material and supplies in Zimbabwe, expressing their thoughts on the newly independent Zimbabwe, and their hope for more equality between men and women.
Liberation struggles in Zimbabwe
Call Number: AFR 078Format: Cass A & BProgram: Zimbabwe Medical: Fundraiser for Struggles in ZimbabweCollection: Zimbabwe
Several speeches aimed at supporting liberation struggles in Zimbabwe. The event begins with several women urging people to aid various liberation movements. The next speaker, the National Coordinator for the National Committee Against Grand Jury Repression, speaks about organizing in the Bay Area and San Francisco for the independence of Puerto Rico. He talks about solidarity between Zimbabwe and Puerto Rico, and their liberation struggles. The next speaker, a man from Zimbabwe, speaks about the need for medical supplies in his country, especially for the Zimbabwean refugees. He also speaks about ZANU’s (Zimbabwe African National Union) tactics of armed struggle, and he talks about the Zimbabwe Development Fund. He explains how it is only hurting the country because it is under foreign control. He asks people not to invest in Rhodesia or South Africa because of the white imperialist control in those countries. Lastly, he urges people to aid the medical drive for Zimbabwe. Paul Smith of the International Indian Treaty Council speaks about international solidarity, and Tiri Kangai speaks for the Zimbabwe Medical Drive Coalition. Barbara Miyangi of the Zimbabwe Medical Drive Coalition speaks about international solidarity with Zimbabwe, health care needs in Zimbabwe, and she also discusses how most diseases in Africa came from the white colonialists.
Zimbabwe Minister Teurai Ropa Nongo on Zimbabwean women and land.
A representative of the AAI (African American Institute) interviews Zimbabwe Minister Teurai Ropa Nongo. She speaks about women in Zimbabwe, and about women from developing rural towns and urban areas. Shye says that the people love their land, and it is a large part of society, culture, and is central to the family structure and well-being. Interview cuts off at 8:40.
Solidarity with Zimbabwe’s Struggle for Liberation Part 2
Luis Rosado of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War speaks about Puerto Rican independence. Sylvia Baraldini of the May 19th Communist Organization speaks about the rebuilding and reconstruction of Zimbabwe.
Oshewa Kudze: SF Medical Center
The commander of medical care in Mozambique's refugee camps explains the problems of displaced refugees. Because of the heightened political turmoil, refugee camps in surrounding areas such as Rhodesia, Zimbabwe are being overpopulated. The commander explains that Mozambique's numbers in camps are rapidly increasing due to displaced people joining their camps. Population is passing 150,000 and people in crowded camps make medical care difficult. Threats of an epidemic such as typhoid can create a massive danger and vaccines are not being provided efficiently. Along with this current struggle, the commander explains the past injustices the Rhodesian army was doing to innocent refugees. Injustices like US supplied napalm, infecting drinking water and just providing the vaccination to white Africans, killing 700 in one camp, and poisoning crops.
ZANU: Zimbabwe African National Union
Program recorded off mic
Chain Gangs in Alabama
Date: 6/1/1995Call Number: PM 332Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Prison Labor
Michael Corsentino on the reinstitution of chain gangs in Alabama and excerpts from an article by Reese Erlich on prison labor.
Wilfred Burchett
Call Number: FI 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
In-depth 1977 interview with famous radical Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett on national liberation movements in Africa and on solidarity between movements. Reports on near-victory over Somoza in Nicaragua.
South Africa Update
Date: 12/4/1976Call Number: FI 035Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
General update on situation in South Africa, possible invasion of Namibia, and liberation struggle in Zimbabwe. Includes information on horrific conditions for miners in the gold mines in South Africa. Interview with ZANU representative to UN.
Zimbabwe and ZANU
Date: 12/8/1979Call Number: FI 036Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Focuses on Zimbabwe with actuality of Mugabe speech ("year of the people's storm"), actuality of ZANU women's leader on women's involvement (10,000 women fighters), and extensive nterview with ZANU representative to the UN. Also actuality of ZANU chant from a demonstration.
