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Raza Unida Convention - Post Election Interview with Jose Angel Gutierrez (Press Conference) Raza Unida Convention - Post Election Interview with Jose Angel Gutierrez (Press Conference)
Date: 9/3/1972Call Number: LA 016Format: CassetteCollection: Xican@
This is an interview with Jose Angel Gutierrez from the Raza Unida Convention after the election. The questions posed focus on: What was the reason for not endorsing a Presidential or Vice presidential candidate? According to Gutierrez, the idea was proposed by two Chicano delegates who refused to be bought or sold. “We like ourselves much better! We have the beginning of a structure, we got this far unorganized, now we’re united. The Congress will give power to any issues which will come up. We will not accept concessions, we are in resistance even if our movement may be undetected. “
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah State Reports- Liberty Hall Report Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah State Reports- Liberty Hall Report
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: LA 019Format: CassetteCollection: Xican@
“Una cosa que se es que muchos vamos a morir, pero muchos vamos a ganar!” What makes Raza Unida a necessary imperative that we participate in politics, but not through the Democratic or Republican Party “ porque no lo debemos ni madres a los dos!”
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 6/1/1972Call Number: RD 012Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Broadcast begins with a quote by a 15th century Vietnamese hero: "Love of Possession is a Disease" News coverage includes United States mining rice fields in Vietnam in an attempt to keep people from working the fields and bombing provinces with refugee camps; fighting in Cambodia; (Report by Larry Bensky with a spokesperson, Ngo Vinh Long, and others---Vietnamese students present a statement at the San Francisco consulate demanding communication with Saigon, release of all political prisoners, Thieu resign at once, and the dismantling of the repressive Saigon regime, US support for Thieu should be terminated. The demonstrators were mostly Vietnamese student recipients of scholarships from the Agency of International Development, which also supports prisons in Vietnam. The demonstrators were threatened with the revocation of visas) [about 4 minutes, approx 3:00–7:00]; Kissinger's return to the U.S. after a trip to Beijing but no agreement was made about Vietnam; Israeli attacks made on Lebanon by sinking Lebanese boats said to have been carrying Palestinian guerilla forces; Heavy bombings in Northern Ireland; Democratic National Headquarters was bugged; court ruling on illegal wiretaps; Former CIA agent employed by the Republican National Committee was caught while bugging the headquarters; Repressive preparations for Republican Convention (Jerry Rubin actuality); 2 bombings in Berkeley Don Church does not appear for trial; Gay rights issues in Miami Beach, Florida; PG&E trucks destroyed by arson in San Francisco; San Francisco demonstration against American Medical Association for favoring a system that requires charging for health care rather than it being a free service & also that the availability of health care is uneven—Red Star Singers songs and report on the demonstration, Tom Bodenheimer comment and other actuality, Stephanie Klein case; Hopi delegation to UN ecology conference in Stockholm, use their own passports; San Quentin 6 awaiting trial, David Johnson article is quoted from, re Vietnam, Luis "Bato" Talamantez reports on beating of 3 of San Quentin 6 by prison guards—attorney Joel Kirschenbaum reads message.
Amilcar Cabral, Part 1 Amilcar Cabral, Part 1
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: CD 550Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source." Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Amilcar Cabral, Part 2 Amilcar Cabral, Part 2
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: CD 551Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source." Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Clovis Maksoud Clovis Maksoud
Date: 11/13/1972Call Number: CE 322Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Former Associate Editor of Al Akhram and former Arab League Ambassador to India on Egyptian inaction in the face of Israeli occupation in the Sinai Peninsula, why Egypt expelled the advisors from the USSR and Egypt's attempts at reconciliation. King Hussein of Jordan and his collaboration with Israel in search of a "separate peace" - his persecution of Palestinian liberation organizations, trade unions, and progressive groups. On Egypt's move to the right internally and in its political relationships with Libya and Sudan.
Clovis Maksoud - News Items Clovis Maksoud - News Items
Date: 11/13/1972Call Number: CE 323Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Former Associate Editor of Al Akhram and former Arab League Ambassador to India on Egyptian inaction in the face of Israeli occupation in the Sinai Peninsula, why Egypt expelled the advisors from the USSR and Egypt's attempts at reconciliation. King Hussein of Jordan and his collaboration with Israel in search of a "separate peace" - his persecution of Palestinian liberation organizations, trade unions, and progressive groups. On Egypt's move to the right internally and in its political relationships with Libya and Sudan.
Ballads of Black America Ballads of Black America
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: Vin 052Producers: Folkways Recordings, Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Pete Seeger, Jeanne HumphriesCollection: General materials
A collection of songs from the Ballads of Black America project, which sought to educate children about black leaders in American history, including Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Paul Robeson. The project was started by Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, who also founded the Deacons For Defense and Justice during the civil rights movement. Accompanied by Pete Seeger and Jeanne Humphries. With extensive liner notes.
Raza Unida Convention - Post Election Interview with Jose Angel Gutierrez (Press Conference) Raza Unida Convention - Post Election Interview with Jose Angel Gutierrez (Press Conference)
Date: 9/3/1972Call Number: CD 828Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
This is an interview with Jose Angel Gutierrez from the Raza Unida Convention after the election. The questions posed focus on: What was the reason for not endorsing a Presidential or Vice presidential candidate? According to Gutierrez, the idea was proposed by two Chicano delegates who refused to be bought or sold. “We like ourselves much better! We have the beginning of a structure, we got this far unorganized, now we’re united. The Congress will give power to any issues which will come up. We will not accept concessions, we are in resistance even if our movement may be undetected. “
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah State Reports- Liberty Hall Report Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah State Reports- Liberty Hall Report
Date: 9/2/1972Call Number: CD 829Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
“Una cosa que se es que muchos vamos a morir, pero muchos vamos a ganar!” What makes Raza Unida a necessary imperative that we participate in politics, but not through the Democratic or Republican Party “ porque no lo debemos ni madres a los dos!”