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Interview with Luis Talamantez
Date: 10/1/1995Call Number: SS 140BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Luis Talamantez on women's prisons in California.
Women Prisoners Dublin (1 of 2)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
Women Prisoners Dublin (2 of 2)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 134Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
First Person: Mumia Abu Jamal, Live from Death Row
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: CD 156Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The entire text of Jamal’s book Live from Death Row; a video interview recorded in 1989 and an audio interview from 1994; almost 50 commentaries and background information.
Set up as an educational CD for computers.
Farewell to Freedom
Date: 7/29/1995Call Number: FI 078Format: CassetteProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Lincoln Bergman, Heber Dreher, Barbara Lubinski, Emiliano Echeverria, Kiilu Nyasha, and Nina Serrano give a bittersweet farewell to the weekly broadcast of Freedom is a Constant Struggle. Recalling the past 24 years of the program, the producers discuss past shows and struggles and dicuss the current efforts to free Mumia Abu Jamal. Also included are is the music of Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, Barbara Dane, as well as the recitation of a poem by Langston Hughes.
International Women’s Day 1995
Date: 3/5/1995Call Number: JG/ 087BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Judy Siff of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee who speaks of the creation, destruction and recreation of International Women's Day. It is a day when women recognize women who are in struggle around the world. Siff advocates visiting women in prison and describes the situation of Laura Whitehorn, an anti-racist political prisoner accused of resistance conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years of prison.
Readings from Margaret Randall's 'Sandino's Daughters Revisited,' a book of interviews and commentary about Nicaraguan feminism following the defeat of the FSLN in 1990. The book describes how the Sandinista movement brought women into public leadership but within its male-dominated power structure. Following are excerpts of an interview with Michelle Nageles, a feminist activist at the University of Central America who envisions a newfound solidarity amongst women in Nicaragua.
Voices on and of Prisons in the US-
1. Dr. Steven Whitman 2. Ward Churchill
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 241AFormat: Cass AProducers: Undercurrents RadioProgram: WMUACollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Side A: Dr. Steven Whitman of the Committee to end the Marion Lockdown, called "Overview on Race, Imprisonment and Control Unit Prisons". Dr. Whitman goes into detail on exactly what a control unit is and why the United States is utilizing it in a racist, oppressive fashion. Mr. Churchill discusses the right to self-determination and the US led attacks on AIM movements and members.
Voices on and of Prisons in the US-
1. Safia Bukari-Alston 2. Akil Al-Jundi
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 241BFormat: Cass BProducers: Undercurrents RadioProgram: WMUACollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Side B: Former Black Panther Party Member Safia describes why she was incarcerated and targeted because of her membership in the Black Panther Party and more specifically, her dissenting political views. Former Attica Prisoner Al-Jundi describes what he saw being present during the infamous 1971 Attica rebellion. He goes on to detail the conditions in the prison prior to the rebellion.
Conditions and Chain Gangs in Alabama
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 278Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Prison Labor
Arun Rasiah of the American Friends Service Committee's police and jail accountability project on speaks prison conditions. Then an interview with an Alabama prisoner discusses the conditions on Alabaman prison chain gangs, as allowed by a state law passed in 1995 and then abandoned again in 1996.
HIV and Aids in prison
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 280Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Medical Care In Prison
Judy Greenspan of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project discusses the state of medical care in prisons as well as the Shumate v. Wilson class action lawsuit filed in April 1995 to address this inadequate care. An interview with Jean Stewart of the Disabled Prisoners Justice Fund also highlights the case.
