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El Salvador in Focus
Date: 1/13/1990Call Number: LA 117Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
FMLN seeks united nations mediation in any future peace talks with Salvadorian Government. The Catholic archdiocese denounces Christiani’s investigation of the murder of six Jesuit priests. The Salvadorian military seeks to expand it’s economic holdings. Radio Farabundo Marti celebrates it’s eighth anniversary.
Voice of Sandino
Sugar workers and sugar commission talks broke down. Government repealed a law that prohibited the commercialization of Christmas. Health ministry region declared that 2 children die everyday of illness. Hospitals in Managua are hit hard by bacteria resistant to antibiotics, bacteria was attributed to basic hygiene.
Dhoruba Bin Wahad Program
Event celebrating the freedom of former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad. Dhoruba was unjustly imprisoned 19 years and was freed after disclosure of suppressed evidence and the FBI Cointelpro program. Members of the community welcome Dhoruba with solidarity statements and applause. According to Dhoruba, Black America is in need of a new revolution based on an analysis of facts, courage, and principles and the support of other political prisoners. Discussion of the concept of power as "the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired fashion," and how this concept is applied to the government's racist agenda and the potential power of Black people. Dhoruba states that the economy, the war on drugs, and private prison systems are industries deliberately created to oppress people of color. Dhoruba sets a goal of organizing international attention and action to free U.S. political prisoners, specifically liberating Geronimo Pratt.
Discussion with DHoruba Bin Wahad
Discussion group addressing the state of the black revolution, featuring Dhoruba Bin Wahad. Issues include cross cultural hostility, Black revolutionaries vs. reactionary activists, the state of the Black Muslim community, the importance of political prisoner, and AIDS in the community and prison.
A Defiant Heart: Focus on Sodomy
Date: 1/8/1990Call Number: JG/ 104Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld Georgia state sodomy laws in the landmark case "Bowers vs. Hardwick". Recorded here is a mass demonstration against such laws. The demonstration takes place at the Georgia state capitol on the opening day of its 1990 state legislature. Groups represented ranged from the Aids Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the National Organization for Women (NOW) to religious groups to advocates for AIDS awareness, pro-choice, anti-racism, and anti-ableism. Speakers touched upon many subjects, from the importance of choice in and out of the bedroom, the danger of sodomy laws' silencing consequences in the face of the AIDS crisis to sodomy laws' place in the long-standing history of persecution in the U.S. and in the world. Many of the speeches featured are intended to rally the crowd and do not go into great depth.
Inmates Kafka-esque case to be reheard
Publisher: The TrentonianDate: 5/13/1990Volume Number: 13-MayFormat: ArticleCollection: Control Units
reproduction of original article.
Jeanette Lazan Interview [part 2] (EH)
Date: 11/13/1990Call Number: IH 023Format: Cass A & BCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Part 2 of interview between Estella Habal and Jeanette Lazam begins with the internal dynamics of the I-Hotel struggle. Lazam started with the UFA, which got her involved with the IH. Still a student at SF state, Lazan participated in a program that connected students with social service agencies. At that time, the UFA represented the tenants of IH as well as all housing issues in Manilatown. After spending a year Philippines, Lazan returned to San Francisco with a greater sense of cultural sensitivity. With motivation to continue activist work, she joined the KDP in '74. As her work became more politicized, Lazam moved into the hotel and befriended many of the tenants. With age and gender differences between her and the tenants, Lazan and the tenants still shared a working class identity that provided unity. Lazam describes the Roosevelt Hotel plan to pressure Moscone's declaration for eminent domain, and the plan for a buyback. Lazam ends with saying Cultural nationalism and its role in the movement creates tension between seeing the goal of saving the ethnic community of Manilatown and protecting all people's right to obtain housing.
Jeanette Lazan Interview [part 3] (EH)
Date: 11/13/1990Call Number: IH 024Format: CassetteCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Interview between Estella Habal and Jeanette Lazam on social-political forces relating to the I-Hotel. Lazan examines white solidarity with the I-Hotel struggle as well as coalitions with artists, working class folks and farm workers, all of whom united around affordable housing. Within the left, Lazam analyzes the political spectrum which ranged from "radical/ultra-extreme left" to liberal. These groups often clashed and made it difficult to work together. Lack of movement and coalition building experience was a major weakness of activists supporting the I-Hotel struggle. Finally, she looks into the city forces, specifically Sheriff Hongisto.
Bruce Occena Interview [Tape 1] (EH)
Date: 11/16/1990Call Number: IH 025Format: Cass A & BCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Estella Habal interviews Bruce Occena, a former U.C. Berkeley student activist and volunteer of the International Hotel (60s-70s). Bruce Occena talks about his interactions with prominent figures in the struggle for residents to keep their homes. Occena also describes the issues facing the Filipino American student activists of UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Issues such as the inter-ethnic tension between activists groups such as Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese American activists. Finally Occena touches on the relationship between the Shorenstein corporation and United Filipino Association (UFA) and the appointment of a UFA supporter as property manager.
Inmates Kafka-esque case to be reheard
Publisher: The TrentonianDate: 5/13/1990Volume Number: 13-MayFormat: ArticleCollection: Control Units
reproduction of original article.
