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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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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.
Amilcar Cabral, Part 1 Amilcar Cabral, Part 1
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: CD 550Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
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.
Amilcar Cabral, Part 2 Amilcar Cabral, Part 2
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: CD 551Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
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: 8/12/1972Call Number: RD 019Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with grandmother poem by Lincoln Bergman on anti-imperialism, then Vietnam, Cambodia, war crimes trials, and much Vietnam news & bombing the dikes. Portugal, Africa, Ruchell Magee case, Amistad rebellion history, San Diego border rape case, Chavez Ortiz hijacking case. Overall theme: the dreams that we dare to dream come true.
Sa'adat Hasan - Representative of PLO - Part 1 Sa'adat Hasan - Representative of PLO - Part 1
Date: 6/17/1972Call Number: CE 277Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Reorganizing the Palestine RevolutionCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About reorganizing the Palestinian Revolution after Black September and other failures of Arab regimes to support the operations of Palestinian liberation organizations. The PLO's mistake of relying on Arab regimes instead of networking with left-wing groups from Arab countries and how the PLO is forced into clandestine operations in Jordan. Also about the Israeli assault on the refugee town of Karameh and how the Jordanian government ordered their troops not to protect the PLO.
Sa'adat Hasan - Representative of PLO - Part 2 Sa'adat Hasan - Representative of PLO - Part 2
Date: 6/17/1972Call Number: CE 278Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Reorganizing the Palestine RevolutionCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About reorganizing the Palestinian Revolution after Black September and other failures of Arab regimes to support the operations of Palestinian liberation organizations. The PLO's mistake of relying on Arab regimes instead of networking with left-wing groups from Arab countries and how the PLO is forced into clandestine operations in Jordan. Also about the Israeli assault on the refugee town of Karameh and how the Jordanian government ordered their troops not to protect the PLO.
Clovis Maksoud Clovis Maksoud
Date: 11/13/1972Call Number: CE 322Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Former Associate Editor of Al Akhram and former Arab League Ambassador to India on Egyptian inaction in the face of Israeli occupation in the Sinai Peninsula, why Egypt expelled the advisors from the USSR and Egypt's attempts at reconciliation. King Hussein of Jordan and his collaboration with Israel in search of a "separate peace" - his persecution of Palestinian liberation organizations, trade unions, and progressive groups. On Egypt's move to the right internally and in its political relationships with Libya and Sudan.
Clovis Maksoud - News Items Clovis Maksoud - News Items
Date: 11/13/1972Call Number: CE 323Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Former Associate Editor of Al Akhram and former Arab League Ambassador to India on Egyptian inaction in the face of Israeli occupation in the Sinai Peninsula, why Egypt expelled the advisors from the USSR and Egypt's attempts at reconciliation. King Hussein of Jordan and his collaboration with Israel in search of a "separate peace" - his persecution of Palestinian liberation organizations, trade unions, and progressive groups. On Egypt's move to the right internally and in its political relationships with Libya and Sudan.
Israel Shahak Israel Shahak
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: CE 340Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Israeli Human Rights Activist Israel Shahak discusses whether the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank have been crushed. Claims that the resistance out of Gaza was a result of Israeli repression but that Palestinians need to create propaganda in Israel if they want Israelis to be their partners. While claiming to be anti-Zionist he criticizes the Palestinian left, specifically the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, because of their reluctance to share platforms with Israeli Jews.
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.