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You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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La Chicana en el Movimiento La Chicana en el Movimiento
Date: 5/22/1972Call Number: RP 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Irene (Bernice) Ramirez, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
From East LA to the Bay area and beyond, Las mujeres de la Raza speak out. Discuss the La Raza Unida Conference. Ideas include: education in la familia, welfare, labor and immigration, male/female roles, abortion, drug abuse, teacher/student relationship. Maria Elena Gaytan speaks powerfully about situations facing today’s Chicanas, and addresses the need for the community to mobilize. She talks in specific detail about the Mexican economy and the US hand involved, Chicanos v. Mexicanos, outsourcing, border policies, voting protocol for La Raza Unida, and the Dixon Arnett Law.
Cinqo de Mayo Play Cinqo de Mayo Play
Date: 5/3/1972Call Number: RP 067Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Rodrigo Reyes, Emiliano Echeverria, Rodolfo UsigliCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Dramatization of events surrounding the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Directed and produced by Rodrigo Reyes Co-produced and engineered by: Emiliano Echeverria Written by Rodrigo Reyes and Rodolfo Usigli
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 6/30/1972Call Number: RD 061Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Newscast covering wide variety of topics, worldwide struggles, long section on Ruchell Magee, poem on US bombing of the dikes in North Vietnam. Cuts off before end of broadcast.
Amilcar Cabral Amilcar Cabral
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: KP 044 R2Format: Reel 2Collection: African liberation movements
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source." Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
The Real Dragon The Real Dragon
Date: 10/28/1972Call Number: RD 024Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: The Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Detailed coverage of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia situation, with poem written by Xuan Thuy, Vietnamese negotiator in Paris, huge demonstrations in Germany.
Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 1 Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 1
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: CE 386Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Eli Lobel who is a former member of Matzpen, the Israeli Socialist Organization, and the editor of Izrak, a newspaper in France that reviews news in the Middle East. He was expelled from Israel in 1952 for his anti-Zionism. Early Arab revolts were anti-colonial rather than anti-Jewish. He talks about Jews and Arabs coexisting in the Ottoman times, which is what they should strive for now. Lobel says that the Palestinian issue should be an Arab issue, which can be solved through Arab unity against Western elitists and Zionism. Lobel talks about the right of return and living in a binational state. He also explains the split of Matzpen, which was mainly between the Trotskyists and Non-Trotskyists.
Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 2 Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 2
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: CE 387Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Eli Lobel who is a former member of Matzpen, the Israeli Socialist Organization, and the editor of Izrak, a newspaper in France that reviews news in the Middle East. He was expelled from Israel in 1952 for his anti-Zionism. Early Arab revolts were anti-colonial rather than anti-Jewish. He talks about Jews and Arabs coexisting in the Ottoman times, which is what they should strive for now. Lobel says that the Palestinian issue should be an Arab issue, which can be solved through Arab unity against Western elitists and Zionism. Lobel talks about the right of return and living in a binational state. He also explains the split of Matzpen, which was mainly between the Trotskyists and Non-Trotskyists.
Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 3 Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 3
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: CE 388Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Eli Lobel who is a former member of Matzpen, the Israeli Socialist Organization, and the editor of Izrak, a newspaper in France that reviews news in the Middle East. He was expelled from Israel in 1952 for his anti-Zionism. Early Arab revolts were anti-colonial rather than anti-Jewish. He talks about Jews and Arabs coexisting in the Ottoman times, which is what they should strive for now. Lobel says that the Palestinian issue should be an Arab issue, which can be solved through Arab unity against Western elitists and Zionism. Lobel talks about the right of return and living in a binational state. He also explains the split of Matzpen, which was mainly between the Trotskyists and Non-Trotskyists.
Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 4 Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Part 4
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: CE 389Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Eli Lobel who is a former member of Matzpen, the Israeli Socialist Organization, and the editor of Izrak, a newspaper in France that reviews news in the Middle East. He was expelled from Israel in 1952 for his anti-Zionism. Early Arab revolts were anti-colonial rather than anti-Jewish. He talks about Jews and Arabs coexisting in the Ottoman times, which is what they should strive for now. Lobel says that the Palestinian issue should be an Arab issue, which can be solved through Arab unity against Western elitists and Zionism. Lobel talks about the right of return and living in a binational state. He also explains the split of Matzpen, which was mainly between the Trotskyists and Non-Trotskyists.
Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Extras Eli Lobel: Matzpen - Extras
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: CE 390Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Eli Lobel who is a former member of Matzpen, the Israeli Socialist Organization, and the editor of Izrak, a newspaper in France that reviews news in the Middle East. He was expelled from Israel in 1952 for his anti-Zionism. Early Arab revolts were anti-colonial rather than anti-Jewish. He talks about Jews and Arabs coexisting in the Ottoman times, which is what they should strive for now. Lobel says that the Palestinian issue should be an Arab issue, which can be solved through Arab unity against Western elitists and Zionism. Lobel talks about the right of return and living in a binational state. He also explains the split of Matzpen, which was mainly between the Trotskyists and Non-Trotskyists.