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Puerto Rican Plebiscite
Date: 8/28/1989Call Number: LA 055Format: Cass A & BProducers: Gloria AlonzoProgram: public talkCollection: Puerto Rico
Jose Lopez gives public talk on the Plebiscite and Puerto Rican status as a Free Associated State. Welcome by Gloria Alonzo. Lisa Roth talks about Huey P. Newton’s funeral and his legacy. Lopez talks about Pedro Albizu Campus’ legal trial and it’s legacy. He talks about the plebicscite as a form of consulting the people you conquer. Talks about Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners. question & answer.
Puerto Rican Plebscite Seminar -Tape 1 of 3
Date: 6/30/1989Call Number: LA 060Format: Cass A & BProgram: recorded conferenceCollection: Puerto Rico
Tape 1 of 3. In Spanish. Off-mic reording of a day-long seminar at the University of Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican Plebiscite and Independence. Carlos Gallisa starts in the middle of a sentence, talks for 15 min. Jose Lopez talks for 15 minutes. 15 Minutes blank. Juan Mari Bras starts in middle of a sentence, talks for 20 minutes. Carlos Quisos talks for 20 min, then cuts off to blank for 5min.
Puerto Rican Plebscite Seminar -Tape 2 of 3
Date: 6/30/1989Call Number: LA 061Format: Cass A & BProgram: recorded conferenceCollection: Puerto Rico
Tape 2 of 3. In Spanish. Off-mic reording of a day-long seminar at the University of Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican Plebiscite and Independence. Carlos Quisos continues to talk. Then a number of other men speak. One woman speaks on side B -- Milsa Medina.
Puerto Rican Plebscite Seminar -Tape 3 of 3
Date: 6/30/1989Call Number: LA 062AFormat: Cass AProgram: recorded conferenceCollection: Puerto Rico
Tape 3 of 3. In Spanish. Off-mic recording of a day-long seminar at the University of Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican Plebiscite and Independence.
The Resistance Conspiracy
Date: 4/13/1989Call Number: PM 222Format: CassetteProgram: In our VoicesCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Judy Greenspan, Mary O’Melviney, and Nikichi Taifa -- lawyers and activists-- discuss the Resistance Conspiracy Case and the struggles for Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman, all charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," specifically stemming from a bombing of the Capitol Building in 1983.
This broadcast explores the political nature of the case, the lack of evidence and due process involved in this case, as well as the horrendous conditions faced by these prisoners of war. Judy Greenspan, Mary O'Melviney, and Nikichi Taifa also try to contextualize the actions of these prisoners with a broader justice movement against the crimes of the U.S. nationally and internationally.
Presentation on Puerto Rican political prisoners by Josefina Rodriguez
Josefina Rodrieguez, mother of two Puerto Rican prisoners in the United States speaks about her international work and solidarity with political prisoners, and her fight to have Puerto Rican political prisoners recognized around the world. She discusses also the prison conditions in which prisoners are subjected, expecially women prisoners within the system.
W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report
Date: 11/11/1989Call Number: JG/ 038BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
WFRG Judy Gerber talks with CISPES alert editor Mike Silinsky about El Salvador’s FMLN “peace talks” and the insistence that the US government stop aid to their military. He outlines some of the demands of the FMLN, including, removing all officers from the military involved in the death squads.
EPLF Press Conference
Jimmy Carter began traveling to Africa in 1987 and became aware of various publicly unknown conflicts in countries such as Sudan and Ethiopia. In this press conference, he announces and maps out the peace negotiations he is to mediate between the EPLF and the Ethiopian government. In the conference, both groups make statements expressing their desire to peacefully end the conflict.
FMLN and El Salvador News
Date: 12/1/1989Call Number: LA 085AFormat: Cass AProducers: Atlanta Committee for Latin AmericaProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: El Salvador
Judy Gerber, host of a Defiant Heart, reads recent news from El Salvador concerning attacks in San Salvador and other major cities and the controversy surrounding the supply of arms to the FMLN.
Interview with William Leo Grand on Panama
Date: 12/29/1989Call Number: LA 085BFormat: Cass BProducers: Atlanta Committee for Latin AmericaProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Struggles in Latin America
This interview with William Leo Grand, a professor of government at the American University explores the dynamics of the recent US invasion of Panama. He explains the relationship of Noriega with the CIA, the relationship of Panama with Nicaragua and Cuba, nationalism in Panama and the predicted outcome of the invasion.
