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Interview with Assata Shakur Interview with Assata Shakur
Date: 5/26/1997Call Number: PM 051Format: DATProgram: Interview with Assata ShakurCollection: Assata Shakur
Assata talks about US imperialism and Cointelpro She discusses her 1979 escape, going to Cuba in 1984, relationship between political prisoners and the larger prison population, Mumia Abu Jamal, impor tance of studying and becoming conscious, women in prison, exile and the need to build movement for amnesty for all those targeted by Cointelpro. Copy from vhs original.
Interview with Kiilu Nyasha Interview with Kiilu Nyasha
Date: 9/1/1997Call Number: SS 021Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Kiilu Nyasha regarding the Soledad Brothers.
Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 063Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Slides of Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show to Save Mumia Abu Jamal Art & writings against the Death Penalty
Angela Davis: The Prison Industrial Complex Angela Davis: The Prison Industrial Complex
Date: 5/5/1997Call Number: CD 062Format: CDProducers: David BarsamianCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Angela Davis lecture, The Prison Industrial Complex, traces how prisons are becoming an integral part of the US economy, at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, May 5, 1997.
Mumia Abu Jamal: spoken word with music by man is the Bastard Mumia Abu Jamal: spoken word with music by man is the Bastard
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CD 318Format: CDProducers: Alternative TentaclesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
1. "A Bright, Shining Hell" (3:15) 2. "A Message To Mumia" (3:27) 3. "A House Is Not A Home" (3:27) 4. "May 13th Remembered" (4:14) 5. "Father Hunger" (5:25) 6. "Black August" (4:45) 7. "Legalized Crime" (3:01) 8. "Diversity On The Airwaves" (0:40) 9. "The Freedom To Write" (1:06) 10. "Statement" (0:58) 11. "The Depth Of Our Courage" (0:42) 12. "Who Is Not On Death Row?" (0:32) 13. "Alignment" (2:07) 14. "Infiltration" (6:58) 15. "Fusing Skull And Anvil" (8:03) 16. "Subterfuge" (8:00)
Interview with Assata Shakur Interview with Assata Shakur
Date: 5/26/1997Call Number: CD 356Format: DATProgram: Interview with Assata ShakurCollection: Assata Shakur
Assata talks about US imperialism, Cointelpro, her 1979 escape, going to Cuba in 1984, relationship between political prisoners and the larger prison population, Mumia Abu Jamal, importance of studying and becoming conscious, women in prison, exile and the need to build movement for amnesty for all those targeted by Cointelpro
Art Against the Death Penalty Art Against the Death Penalty
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: PM 274Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Art Against the Death Penalty's show and the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project. Also partially taped is a panel discussion highlighting a talk by a former political prisoner (possibly Lorenzo Komboa Erwin).
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Rally Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Rally
Date: 5/9/1997Call Number: PM 287Format: Cass A & BCollection: Prisons - Women
Rally held by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children consisting of speeches by prisoners and prison activists concerning women in prison.
Mumia Abu Jamal & the Death Penalty Mumia Abu Jamal & the Death Penalty
Date: 7/14/1997Call Number: PM 312Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Features the legal proceedings about Mumia Abu Jamal and connects them to the death penalty in California and nationwide. The state of California is scheduled to execute Tommy Thompson at San Quentin. Includes a speech by Leonard Weinglass, Mumia Abu Jamal's lead attorney, at UC Santa Cruz. Weinglass discusses Mumia's and how the penal system works to benefit candidates for public offices and the economic inequality of how the death penalty is applied. Also a segment from The Imprisonment of America Conference" in Birmingham, AL about the "war on crime." Brother William Muhammad speaks about how the war on crime, poverty and drugs impacts on Black and poor communities. He challenges the relationship between crime and imprisonment, citing the Unified Crime Report and NCBF statistics on crime rates, imprisonment rates post 1972, and a British study about incarceration and the Black population.
National Campaign to Stop Control Units National Campaign to Stop Control Units
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: PM 314Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Control Units
Members of the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons speak about control unit prisons and movements seeking to abolish them.