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Puerto Rican Solidarity Day Puerto Rican Solidarity Day
Date: 10/27/1974Call Number: LA 157Format: CassetteCollection: Puerto Rico
This bilingual broadcast of Puerto Rican Solidarity Day features Bay Area and international activists shedding light on the history of US and Spanish domination of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican resistance, the movement for independence, and the connections of those struggles with the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world. The event begins with the comical, yet serious play by Bay Area Grupo Claridad and Mexican Grupo Zapilote portraying how indigenous Puerto Ricans have been exploited and manipulated in the past by the colonial Spanish conquerors and in the present by United States politicians and oil, coffee, and sugar tycoons. The groups convey the message that in spite of this foreign domination, Puerto Ricans have maintained a rich tradition of spiritual, cultural, and political resistance that will continue until Puerto Rico is free. A quick interlude showcases the Puerto Rican National Anthem sung by Lolado Rodriguez, followed by an introductory political and economic history lesson and statement of solidarity with the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by organizer Ruth Rodriguez. Rodriguez highlights the industrialization of Latin America, Puerto Rican unemployment, militarism, cultural genocide, and the struggle of Puerto Rican political prisoners. Enrique Valle Ester of Sopelote then sings two Mexican folk songs illustrating Latin American resistance to U.S. imperialism. The event is concluded with a speech on the connections of the American Indian Movement to the Puerto Rican freedom movement, by one of the original founders of the American Indian Movement, the Red School House, and the Freedom School for Native American Children, Eddie Sounding Voice Benton.
Jewish Critics of Zionism - A Testamentary Essay with The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter Jewish Critics of Zionism - A Testamentary Essay with The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter
Author: Moshe MehuhinPublisher: Arab Information CenterYear: 1974Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionist Criticism
Self-Determination in the Mideast - A Debate from the pages of the Militant and Daily World Self-Determination in the Mideast - A Debate from the pages of the Militant and Daily World
Author: Dave Frankel versus Tom FoleyPublisher: Pathfinder PressDate: 4/1974Volume Number: AprilFormat: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionist Criticism
The Middle East Between War and Peace: A Staff Report prepared for the use of the Subcommittee of Near Eastern Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate The Middle East Between War and Peace: A Staff Report prepared for the use of the Subcommittee of Near Eastern Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing OfficeDate: 5/5/1974Volume Number: 5-MayFormat: Government DocumentCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
The Middle East Between War and Peace Novemeber-december 1973
U.S. Politics and Arab Oil: Some Nettles to Grasp U.S. Politics and Arab Oil: Some Nettles to Grasp
Author: Elmer BergerPublisher: Americans for Middle East UnderstandingYear: 1974Volume Number: Public Affairs Series No. 2 AprilFormat: MonographCollection: Americans for Middle East Understanding
An analysis of the political basis of the Arab Oil Embargo
The Role of International Law in Achieving Justice and Peace in Palestine-Israel The Role of International Law in Achieving Justice and Peace in Palestine-Israel
Authors: W.T. Mallison, Jr and S.V. MallisonPublisher: Americans for Middle East UnderstandingYear: 1974Format: MonographCollection: Americans for Middle East Understanding
Presented at the Conference on Human Rights in Palestine of the World Conference of Christians for Palestine, Geneva, switzerland, January 11-14, 1974.
The Gulf Solidarity The Gulf Solidarity
Publisher: Support Committee for the Liberation Movement in the GulfYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 2-3 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Revolutionary Movements and History
Contents include: The Nixon Doctrine in Action- The $hah Invades Oman; Iran- From a Protective Shield for Imperialism to a Cat's Paw; Who Sold Our Country to the Invaders?; What the Reactionaries did in the War!; The Iranian Role in the American Peace; more
Information Papers No. 14 - The Development of Palestinian Resistance Information Papers No. 14 - The Development of Palestinian Resistance
Author: Walter LehnPublisher: Association of Arab-American University Graduates Inc.Date: 6/1974Volume Number: JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Palestine Related Academic Papers
A history of Palestinian Arab resistance to colonialism, beginning in 1882 to 1971
35% Puerto Rican Women Sterilized 35% Puerto Rican Women Sterilized
Publisher: Committee for Puerto Rican DecolonizationYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 2-5Format: ArticleCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
An article from the Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization in New York exposing the massive sterilization program carried out by the U.S. Government and the Rockefeller Foundation in response to the "population problem" in Puerto Rico that was seen as responsible for widespread unemployment.