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Real Dragon
Date: 5/26/1973Call Number: RD 044Program: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon Watergate and Africa, interspersed with limericks.
Militant Workers in Detroit, 8/27/73
Poor conditions in Detroit auto factory’s result in strikes against the Chrysler Corporation , among others. Jefferson Ave. and the Detroit Forge Plant were two sites of strike activity. Jim Jacobs explains some of the reasoning behind the strikes, and relates the issue to black equality as well.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Date: 1/1/1973Call Number: V 224Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In order to improve his standing with Black voters, a White Senator starts a campaign for the CIA to recruit Black agents. However, all are graded on a curve and doomed to fail, save for a soft-spoken veteran named Dan Freeman. After grueling training in guerrilla warfare, clandestine operations and unarmed combat, he is assigned a meager job as the CIA's token Black employee. After five years of racist and stereotyped treatment by his superiors, he quietly resigns to return to his native Chicago to work for a social services agency...by day. By night, he trains Black youth to be the vanguard & Freedom Fighters in an upcoming revolutionary struggle, using all that the CIA has taught him...
This film was suppressed after its release.
Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Date: 12/13/1973Call Number: CD 553Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Andy TruskierCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Documentary about the Chicago eight conspiracy trial, includes amazing actual courtroom recordings including the exchange between prosecutors, Judge Hoffman and Black Panther Bobby Seale - resulting in Hoffman having Seale bound and gagged, Bobby Seale tring to speak while bound and gagged, the outrage expressed by Attorney William Kunstler in Court at Bobby Seale's treatment and the refusal of the court to allow Ralph Abernathy to testify. Other interviews include Attorney Leonard Weinglass and defendant Tom Hayden.
Father Joseph Ryan
Date: 10/22/1973Call Number: CE 332Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: NAJDAProgram: The Jerusalem ControversyCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discusses religious segregation in Jerusalem and Israel and the role of churches.
Emphasizes US responsibility to challenge Israeli use of torture, forced mass deportations of Arabs and Palestinians, and Israel's refusal to comply with UN resolutions.
Father Joseph Ryan
Date: 10/23/1973Call Number: CE 333Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProgram: The Jerusalem ControversyCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Explains his work to resist and organize against Israeli settler colonialism of Palestine.
Discusses religious segregation in Jerusalem and Israel and the role of churches.
Emphasizes US responsibility to challenge Israeli use of torture, forced mass deportations of Arabs and Palestinians, and Israel's refusal to comply with UN resolutions.
A Strategy for Struggle
Publisher: The Black ScholarDate: 11/1973Volume Number: NovemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This article by Rob Karenga appears in the Black Scholar of November 1973. Karenga calls for liberation of Afroamericans by accessing "critical space" inside economic and political institutions. In his article he provides ways to meet objectives of the liberation struggle and comments on Pan-Africanism.
The Black Panther Party: Its Origin and Development as Reflected in its Official Weekly Newspaper The Black Panther Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 9-21 March 10Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Parents Protest Nixon's Child Care Cuts
The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 10-1 May 19Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: A Peoples Victory on May 15th
The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 10-11 July 28Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Boycott Safeway. Also inside: Pontiac Prison Talks, Philly Welfare, Protest, Gibson and Justice, Southern U Murders, N.Y. Prisoners Boycott Courts, Attica Hearings, Portuguese Massacre, Bahama Independence, more.