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Hard Time
Publisher: VoiceDate: 12/11/1990Volume Number: 11-DecFormat: ArticleCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Article looks at Linda Evans case and imprisonment in comparison to prominet right wing prosecutions.
Children of Fire
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 119Format: VHSProducers: Mai MasriCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of Nablus after a 14 year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinians fighting for their freedom: the children of the Intifada. A 50 minute documentary, made in 1990 of the lives of the Palestianian kids, who shout and throw stones at Israeli soliders, play war games together, and create childish paintings that are filled with the violent images that surround them - of their young friends and relatives who have lost their lives in the fight for their homeland. "Dramatic, bravely filmed stuff...if you closed your eyes you could have been witnessing the Nazi occupation of the Warsaw Ghetto." [Daily Express] In Arabic with English subtitles.
Adelaide Sanford on African values
Date: 3/3/1990Call Number: AFR 049Format: Cass A & BProgram: To Be African in Today’s America - Toward Liberation!Collection: Africa- General Resources
Adelaide Sanford speaks about how Africans in America have rid themselves of the chains of oppression. She talks about how ancestral strengths and power do not fit into American society, and thus causes harm to the black psyche. Sanford says Blacks built the American economy and society (for example, music, religion, and ideas) that Europeans took credit for and denegrated the blacks while enjoying all that the black contributed. She also speaks about education in American prisons as a myth of justice. In feeling anger towards racial discrimination from whites, it is ok to feel anger, it just depends on what you do with that anger. Whites want to see a reaction, but do not give them the satisfaction or predictability. Lastly, she calls people to not buy into white American values because the black person’s strength only comes from African value systems.
Adelaide Sanford on African values
Date: 3/3/1990Call Number: AFR 050AFormat: Cass AProgram: To Be African in Today’s America - Toward Liberation!Collection: Africa- General Resources
Continuation of AFR 049
Adelaide Sanford speaks about improving education in America. She talks about changing education in America and fighting for educational freedoms. She calls the people to be aware of the power of the African story and to get it out to all people through the media. She speaks about the destruction of black civilization in America. Because of the association of the black man and drugs, particularly crack, a derivative of cocaine, as an agent of melanin in black skin pigment, people need to be educated about cocaine’s dangers.
Alan Berkman Interview
Date: 10/30/1990Call Number: PM 218AFormat: Cass AProgram: Where We LiveCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
An interview with political prisoner Dr. Alan Berkman’s lawyer, on his then deteriorating health condition and the medical treatment of prisoners, political prisoners in particular, within the prison system.
Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners
Date: 12/1/1990Call Number: CD 167Format: CDProducers: Zenzile Khoisan, Sally O’BrienCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A series on U.S Political Prisoners produced for the Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in United States Prisons and Jails. The series of profiles offer insight into the political activity, incarceration, and prison conditions of: Dr. Alan Berkman, whose discussion includes his work as a doctor and his treatment of fugitive and captured members of Liberation movements, the torture of political prisoners, his movement into underground activity, the nature of national liberation struggles in the U.S. and elsewhere, his experience as a grand jury resister, and the relationship between spontaneous political action and organized political action; Sekou Abdullah Odinga, who discusses his work as a "soldier of Black Liberation," his involvement in the Panther 21 case, his capture and torture, the popular depiction of radicals in the U.S., and the use of the legal and prison system in defusing radical activity; Marilyn Buck, who discusses her work as a North American Anti-Imperialist, her work with Black Liberation Army and her role in the liberation of Assata Shakur, political prisoners' depiction as terrorist, the disparate sentencing of political prisoners and prisoners of war, the prison conditions faced by political prisoners, and strategies for the furtherance of political struggle; Bashir Hameed, who discusses his work with the Black Panther Party, His role in the Black Liberation Movement, his multiple trials and the racist and biased treatment he received during these trials, media depiction of revolutionaries and liberation struggles, and the propensity of the general population to support revolutionary struggles; and Susan Rosenberg, who discusses her work as and what it means to be a "revolutionary humanist," the relationship of revolutionary struggle to the mass movement, government and media depictions of revolutionaries, life in prison, and continued struggle and action within the prison system.
Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners
Date: 12/1/1990Call Number: PM 219Format: CassetteProducers: Zenzile Khoisan, Sally O’BrienCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
A series on U.S Political Prisoners produced for the Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in United States Prisons and Jails. The series of profiles offer insight into the political activity, incarceration, and prison conditions of: Dr. Alan Berkman, Sekou Abdullah Odinga, Marilyn Buck, Assata Shakur, Bashir Hameed and Susan Rosenberg. They individually discuss their treatment as prisoners and specifically political prisoners. Other issues brought up are Black Liberation Movement, Panther 21 case, the relationship of revolutionary struggle to the mass movement, government and media depictions of revolutionaries, life in prison, and continued struggle and action within the prison system.
Resistance Conspiracy
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 132Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world.
Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”.
They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Carmin Perez on the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence -Part 1
In Spanish. Carmin Perez is interviewed by Marta Martinez, Loti Reyos Casio, and Ana Lopez. She talks about her history, family and political development, her time in prison, Lolita Lebron, Dona Laura, Albizu Campus, etc. On side B she talks about more events, stories, history, Albizu’s physical demise/abuse/arrest, photos apparently being looked at, etc. Continued on LA 069.
Carmin Perez on the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence - Part 2
In Spanish. Carmin Perez is interviewed by MArta MArtinez, Loti Reyos Casio, and Ana Lopez. She answers off-mic questions about peoples’ strength in marches, repression, poverty.
