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![Black August Commemoration](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/29/2003Call Number: CD 325Format: CDProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Kiilu NyashaProgram: Real Dragon RadioCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Inserts for Black August 2003. Archie Shepp, Blues for George Jackson, Kiilu Nyasha reading a poem of Marilyn Buck, Youth Against Prisons, Sweet Honey & the Rock performing Assata Shakur’s poem “What is Left”, Mumia Abu Jamal on Haiti & Black August, Amandla poets.
![Mumia Abu Jamal speaks in tribute to Safiya Bukhari](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/30/2003Call Number: CD 143Format: CDProducers: Prison Radio Project, Mumia Abu JamalCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia Abu Jamal speaks about the life and passing of Safiya Bukhari, Dedicated, nationally known Black liberation fighter and leader in the Jericho Amnesty Movement, died in the early hours of August 24, 2003 from complications due to prolonged illness.
![Day of the Gun](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2003Call Number: V 131Format: VHSProducers: KRONCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
KRON’s description:
In the fall of 1970 George Jackson skyrocketed to international fame with the publication of his book, "Soledad Brother, The Prison Letters Of George Jackson".
By the next year, he was dead.
The story of George Jackson is a story of the dark side of America.
In August of 1971 when Jackson was a 29 year old inmate at California's San Quentin Prison he became the central figure in the prison's bloodiest day.
Jackson obtained a gun and in less than 30 minutes a murderous rampage turned the adjustment center into a slaughterhouse. Six men, including Jackson were killed.
During his prison life, George Jackson was a polarizing figure, hated as much as he was loved.
In the end when George Jackson's cause had been lost, and the cult of hero worship contaminated his heart and soul, Jackson sought comfort in a few loyal friends... Marx... Lenin... And Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese revolutionary who predicted...'When the prison gates fly open, the dragons will emerge.'
On a hot August day with gun in hand Jackson would tell the world just that.
The ascendancy of George Jackson came at a time when America's soul and its people were coming apart.
The turbulent decades of the 1960's and 70's merged as one. The country's democratic institutions were severely challenged. Some advocated revolution.
The unpopular war in Vietnam had become the longest and most divisive in American history. The bitter struggle for civil rights confirmed the failed promise of equality for all. Riots turned American cities into burning embers.
The political assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy deepened the country's paranoia.
Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party wanted justice beyond the streets of Oakland.
The prisons of California had become a target for revolutionary change as well. The 'new left' viewed the growing convict population as symptomatic of the country's deeper social ills. Inmates were championed as political prisoners, vanguards of the coming revolution, victims of their fascist, capitalist oppressors.
When George Jackson emerged as the new god and leader of the left, those on the right saw him as the most powerful threat in the prison system.
![March for Vieques; Elizam Escobar](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/12/2003Call Number: V 135Format: Mini DVProducers: hana tauber, nyla rosen, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited video taping used for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. All in Spanish except interview with Dylcia.
First half hour is at a March to get the Navy out of Vieques. Former political prisoners Dylcia Pagan (min16) and Luis Rosa (min. 19) talk about the connection between the Vieques struggle and PR Independence and the political prisoners. Korean war vetran talks about serving time for civil disobediance on vieques (min. 3). Also includes brief interview with a teacher’s union at the March and the union’s band playing music, and brief interview on the connection between Palestinian and Puerto Rican liberation.
Second half hour is the continuation of an Interview with former politcal prisoner Elizam Escobar at his hosue (V 139). Talks about the role of art in the struggle for freedom, self-determination and Puerto Rican liberation.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited and english-subtitled interviews of these and other PR Independentistas.
![Interview with Jose Solis Jordan](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/8/2003Call Number: V 136Format: Mini DVProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to take clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. Mostly in Spanish with some English. Teacher, Independence figher and former political prisoner Jose Solis Jordan talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, about freedom, formal and informal/social/internal prisons, intellectuals, solidarity, fear, and love. Continued on V 137
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited and english-subtitled interviews of him and other PR Independentistas.
![Interview with Jose Solis Jordan](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/8/2003Call Number: V 137Format: Mini DVProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Continued from V 136. Unedited interview used to take clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. Mostly in Spanish with some English. Teacher, Independence fighert and former political prisoner Jose Solis Jordan talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, about freedom, prison, solidarity, fear, intellectuals, and love.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited and english-subtitled interviews of him and other PR Independentistas.
![Interview with Dylcia Pagan](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/14/2003Call Number: V 138Format: Mini DVProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In English.
Independence figher, media creator, artist, and former political prisoner Dylcia Pagan talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, about her history and current projects, about the women Nationalists, about Vieques, etc.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited and english-subtitled interviews of her and other PR Independentistas.
Dylcia is also briefly intervied on V 135.
![Interview with Elizam Escobar](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/14/2003Call Number: V 139Format: Mini DVProducers: hana tauber, nyla rosen, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited video taping used get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In Spanish.
Interview with former politcal prisoner Elizam Escobar at his hosue (V 139). Talks about the role of art in the struggle for freedom, self-determination and Puerto Rican liberation. Continued on V 135. NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited and english-subtitled interviews of these and other PR Independentistas.
![Interview with Adolfo Matos](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/7/2003Call Number: V 140Format: SVHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In Spanish.
Artist, independence figher, and former political prisoner Adolfo Matos talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, his history and current projects, his use of art as liberatory, formal and informal/social prisons, his poetry book, and reads a poem (min 47), etc.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited interviews of him and other PR Independentistas.
![Interview with Jan Susler](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/7/2003Call Number: V 141Format: SVHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In English.
Jan Susler, one of the lawers for the Puerto Rican Political prisoners talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, the struggle for independence, her political history, the campaign to shut down the Lexington Control Unit and fear (min 25), how Luis Rosa and the other prisoners changed her (min 47), visibility (min 1), North Americans supporting Puerto Rico’s liberation struggle, etc. Continued on V 142.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited, and subtitled interviews of her and some of the former prisoners.