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Call Number: CD 327Format: CDProducers: Norman Jayo with Third World News ProductionCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
April 1977 pre-eviction broadcast of KPFA audio documentary on the International Hotel struggle. Fully produced and edited program with narration, music, interviews and recorded speeches. Detailed chronological account of the events leading to the eviction which discusses the involvement of Milton Meyer, Walter Shorenstein, Sherrif Richard Hongisto, Mayor George Moscone, The Four Seas Investment Corporation and Judge Ira Brown. Includes interviews and/or audio of tenants Emil de Guzman, Nita Rader, Wahat Tampao and Felix Ayson and city officials Moscone and Hongisto.
Discusses the affordable housing struggle, the "Buy-Back" plan that was proposed to the tenants, how the power of Eminent Domain was used for the first time to try and prevent an eviction, Hongisto's contempt of court, and how the greater progressive community joined by the thousands to support the tenants by creating human chains around the building. Program ends asking listeners to support the struggle of the I-Hotel tenants.
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