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Attica Anniversary Program in Bay Area
Date: 9/13/1991Call Number: PM 086AFormat: Cass AProgram: Attica anniversary event, not for radioCollection: Attica
This tape in a recording of the 20th Attica anniversary event held in San Francisco. Bobby Castillo speaks on Native American and African American solidarity within the National Liberation movement, and the Movimento Liberacion Nacional (MLN) marching on Washington that week. Attorney. Bob Bloom gives an update on the Geronimo Pratt case. Dharuba Bin Wahad, s.n. Richard Moore, gives a talk on the history of national liberation struggle, including the Black Liberation Army, Attica, San Quentin and Cointelpro.
Freedom Now Prison Event
Note: Tape at 0331.
Muhjah Shakir hosts a Freedom Now event in commemoration of the Attica Uprising, the murder of George Jackson and the 21st year of Geronimo Ji-Jaga's imprisonment. The commemorative event is related to the ongoing conditions of the U.S. prison system and includes; updates on the lawsuit in behalf of Attica prisoners tortured after the uprising by Dennis Cunningham; recording of Leonard Peltier speaking on the Attica uprising, presented by Bobby Castillo; and an update on the conditions in the Special Housing Unit in Pelican Bay Prison by Corey Weinstein.
Historical Perspectives
Date: 11/15/1991Call Number: PM 249Format: CassetteProducers: Prison Radio ProjectProgram: Can't Jail the Spirit #1Collection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Discussion of definitions of political prisoners and the US government's denial of their existence in the US. Readings from Harriet Jacob's "Diary of a Slave Girl", from Assata Shakur's "Assata", and from Emma Goldman, in addition to discussions from Dr. Chinasole from San Francisco State University, and a question and answer segment with Gloria Alonzo of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Dr. Candace Falk, Dr. Jose Lopez from the Movimento de Revolucion Nacional, and former political prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez from the Jailhouse Conveyor.
Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners
Date: 11/29/1991Call Number: PM 251Format: CassetteProducers: Prison RadioProgram: You Can’t Jail The Spirit #3Collection: New Afrikan Prisoners
About the Black political repression, exile, incarceration, and the criminal justice system's interference with political resistance through a discussion of the lives of Mumia Abu Jamal, Assata Shakur, and Geronimo Pratt. Soffiyah Elijah, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, and Kiilu Nyasha, discuss the criminalization of revolutionaries and the future of radical organizing.
Can't Jail the Revolution - Leonard Peltier
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 378Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with many US political prisoners about revolutionary politics and actions. Includes Black Panther Assata Shakur, Puerto Ricans Guillermo Morales, Alejandrina Torres & Dylcia Pagan, Native American Bob Robideau, and anti-imperialist Laura Whitehorn. Ahmed Obafemi explains how maximum security jails are intended to break political prisoners down mentally and physically. Safiya Bukhari-Alston also talks about her own experiences being locked down in a maximum security prison for eight years. Others include Kwame Ture, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Mutulu Shakur, and Fred Hampton.
Interview with Native American activist Leonard Peltier conducted in 1990 by Trella Laughlin in Leavenworth USP.
Incident at Oglala Resource Packet
Educational Materials and additional resources related to the documentary film.
Political Prisoner Installation - International Women's Day
Date: 10/21/1991Call Number: V 492Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Street celebrations of International Women’s Day include the Women Against Imperialism Quilt, a political prisoner and prisoner of war street installation and street theater. Activists portray various figures like Linda Evans, Alejandrina Torres, Ricardo Flores Magon as well as pay tribute to the indigenous peoples of California, the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico. The performance is part of the International Women’s Day theme of 500 Years of Resistance.
Chasky Quilt
Date: 10/1/1991Call Number: V 527Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Close up shots of quilt made for International Women's Day to honor 500 years of resistance through women's eyes. Panels on quilt commemorate North American indigenous struggle, the end of US occupations across the globe, and the release of all political prisoners and prisoners of war.
Chasky Quilt - 500 years of resistance
Date: 10/12/1991Call Number: V 528Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The quilt is displayed at International Women's Day march. The progressive women of color drum performance group Sistah Boom also performs.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Date: 4/14/1991Call Number: JG/ 147Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Speeches by Dhoruba Bin-Wahad and Lesbian and Gay Folks Supporting Political Prisoners, from an event in support of Black political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal entitled, “Lesbian and Gay Men: Is Political Activism a Crime Punishable by Death?”, held in NY on 4/14/91.
