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Trafficking in women lecture by Ninotchka Rosca
Date: 4/9/1994Call Number: JG/ 069Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Trafficking in WomenCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Ninotchka Rosca is a renowned feminist, political prisoner and human rights activist. This is a recording of a lecture she gave in 1994 about the disastrous effects of trafficking women throughout the globe as well as the connection between the military and commercial sexual slavery. Her discussion focuses on women who are exported from Thailand and the Philippines including the history of exporting women, widespread diseases, the targeted exploitation of young girls, the connection to the exportation of domestic servants, and mail-order brides. Following her lecture is a short question and answer period.
Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #1
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 073Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. Diedra McCalaugh (sp?) is a feminist singer/songwriter from Berkeley and performs songs from her album, “Everyday Heroes and Heroines”.
Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #2
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 074Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. On this tape many of the speakers talk about the need for increasing the public lesbian community through demonstrations and gatherings. This recording follows JG/LS 073.
Every Which Way But Out
Publisher: California LawyerDate: 7/1994Volume Number: JulyFormat: ArticleCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Reproduction of article about Stuart Hanlon, Geronimo Pratt's lawyer.
International Human Rights Day, 1994
Date: 12/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 088AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Judy Siff and Bill Crossman of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee about International Human Rights Day, 1994. International Human Rights Day, December 10, is a global holiday not well known in the U.S. that champions human rights for political prisoners. The U.S. focus of this year's campaign are the 150+ political prisoners held currently by the U.S. justice system, many of whom were social activists of the 1960's, 70's, 80's. Siff and Crossman stress that with political prisoners it is important to factor not what illegal actions they committed but rather what their conscience was. They deplore the suppression of popular information on political prisoners within the U.S that leads to a popular attitude of disbelief about the problem. They explore the cases of Mumia Abu Jamal, Geronimo Pratt, Leonard Peltier, Sylvia Baraldini, and discus the Amnesty campaign for Puerto Rican prisoners of war. They note that any victory for any prisoner helps the effort as a whole and illustrate the grassroots efforts to shut down the inhumane Lexington, KY prison. They lament that the U.S. does not allow dissent because it gives abnormally long sentences to "freedom fighters." They offer info on how to support the campaign for human rights.
Report on Mexico, December 1994
Date: 12/16/1994Call Number: JG/ 088BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
News Report on Mexico, December 1994. EZLN returns to militarized activity in Chiapas with the appointment of a new PRI governor to that state. To foster a closer examination of the recent Mexican elections, there is a reading from the November 'Latin American News Update' that exposes injustices and even electoral fraud in the PRI dominated elections. Reports have surfaced in 'Excelsior' that there were patterned anomalies in the election's voting records, representing a culture electoral impunity. Rural elections were significantly less clean than those in urban areas; in widespread cases, ballots were not marked, polls were not opened on time, and re-voting and violations of secret ballot were allowed.
Reading of a December 10, 1994 article from 'Peace Net' by Herman Bellinghausen. This article reports the EZLN's remilitarization and notification of civilian areas for future war under Geneva Convention procedures. Bellinghausen notes mass population movements, town preparations, and a large army presence in Chiapas. U.S. Human Rights Watch condemns the U.S. and other Western powers for putting trade before human rights.
Speech by Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section
Date: 10/21/1994Call Number: JG/ 089AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section in the U.S. (the only formal forum of Cuba/U.S. diplomatic contact) speaks at Emory University, GA, October 5, 1994. Ponce summarizes the history of Cuba following the Spanish-American War. He glorifies the achievements of the Cuban communist system: full literacy, power, free education, universal healthcare, antiracism efforts, advances for women, Cuban aide to needy foreign countries. He decries U.S. attempts to sabotage Cuba, specifically the trade embargo which has cost $40 billion dollars, restrictions on remittances, travel bans, and assassination attempts. He argues that the embargo and subsequent loss of infrastructure gave Cuba with no other choice but to ally itself with COMECON and copy the Soviet model. He explains how the 1989 USSR collapse and subsequent loss of 85% of its national trade greatly diminished the Cuban standard of living. He discounts the Cuban pro-democracy protests because he argues Cuba is already a democracy with a rich grassroots political life and elected parliament, just not a multiparty system. He discusses how Cuba is currently debating the first tax in its post-revolutionary history to help revive the declining economic infrastructure.
Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad on The Phil Donahue Show
Date: 5/23/1994Call Number: KP 118Format: CassetteProducers: NBCProgram: Phil Donahue ShowCollection: General materials
Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad appeared on The Phil Donahue Show, a nationally aired daytime talk show, after Muhammad was publically penalized by the mass media about his comments and book on the relationship between the Black and the Jewish populations historically in the world. The show emphasizes the one sided picture of mainstream television with the hostility he receives from the host, Phil Donahue. Donahue constantly badgers Muhammad with miniscule questions and talks down to him when he answers them with a more general overview of a situation. There is little interviewing that occurs, rather it is a situation where Donahue is constantly attacking Muhammad, and Muhammad is cleverly answering and pointing out the flaws in Donahue’s argument. Some of the topics which Muhammad does briefly touch upon are: Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Black Liberation, Black Unity, South Africa, Coleman Ferguson, and the Nation of Islam.
A Defiant Heart New Year 1995: Political Prisoner Program
Date: 12/30/1994Call Number: JG/ 089BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
New Year 1995 show with a focus on political prisoners. Accounts of Puerto Rican political prisoners of the earlier 20th century. Reading of an article by Jan Sassler of the People’s Law Office of Chicago in ‘Bulldozer’ magazine that stresses biases in the American parole system. Discusses the San Francisco prison group Out of Control’s work as well as ‘The Key,’ a lesbian and gay prisoner newsletter.
Dr. Ben on the anthropology of African Peoples / Michael Lerner on the relation between Jewish and Black peoples
On side A is a somewhat poor recording of Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben), an African anthropologist/historian who speaks on the history of African indigenous peoples and how it relates with religion, culture, etc.
The second side is a recording of a radio program on the relationship between Black and Jewish people. Michael Lerner a Rabbi interested in a coalition between the two. The program begins abruptly and then he takes calls from the audience.
