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Freedom is a Constant Struggle

The Freedom Is A Constant Struggle collection extends from February 1976 to August 1995. It continues the weekly summary of international, national, and local struggles o many fronts, interspersed with poetry and music. Producers during the early years of the collection were Barbara Lubinski, Heber Dreher, Emiliano Echeverria, and Lincoln Bergman, later joined by Nina Serrano and Kiilu Nyasha. Among emphases in this collection are southern Africa, Central America, the prison movement and political prisoners, Wounded Knee and other Native American struggles, the International Hotel, poverty, gay and lesbian liberation, police repression, Latino/a culture, revolutionary poetry, as well as special series on Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes (“Hughes and Blues”) and Pete Seeger. There were also subtitles used for ongoing series, such as a talk show on the first Saturday of the month presented by Heber Dreher entitled “Frank Talk,”  and a music program “In the Midst of Struggle,” produced by Emiliano Echeverria on the last Saturday of the month.

Documents

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Prison Protest Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Prison Protest
Call Number: PM 009Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant Struggle Collection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Barbara Lubinski reports on prison protest and resistance…roundup of national, then strike at Folsom Prison, with actuality of demonstration, protester, then Luis Talamantez statement/poem on rebellion and revolution. Ok quality, end actuality is better.
Redstocking Interview Redstocking Interview
Call Number: FI 048Producers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview by Barbara Lubinski of an unidentified activist in the New York area women’s movement.
Assata Interview Excerpt Assata Interview Excerpt
Call Number: FI 049Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Brief excerpt from longer series of interviews by Barbara Lubinski with Assata Shakur
Middle East Middle East
Call Number: FI 017Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
War in the Middle East and U.S. intervention in foreign politics. Anti-war songs and poetry. Owen Davis performs a song-poem about values, racism, drugs, war, and love. Miranda Bergman is interviewed about the Middle East and Palestine.
Soweto Uprising Speech Soweto Uprising Speech
Call Number: FI 276Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Three sections speech in US by Tsietsi Mashinini, a major leader of the June 1976 historic student uprising. He describes the rebellion, the contradictions that have led to the freedom struggle, and the use of the "Communist" label as a reactionary justification for the murder of Black and revolutionary people in South Africa and all over the world.
Transgender Interview Transgender Interview
Call Number: FI 053Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant SrtruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview by Barbara Lubinski of a transgender woman named Ginger Coleman, explaining how she grew up in the Midwest, how she decided to have surgery, and her life since then in San Francisco.
Montgomery Bus Boycott Montgomery Bus Boycott
Call Number: FI 054Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Includes Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks.
Wilfred Burchett Wilfred Burchett
Call Number: FI 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
In-depth 1977 interview with famous radical Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett on national liberation movements in Africa and on solidarity between movements. Reports on near-victory over Somoza in Nicaragua.
The Cultural Perspective - 1 The Cultural Perspective - 1
Call Number: FI 062Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Cultural Perspectives, featuring new book by San Francisco poet janice Mirikitani. Long reading about Ben Linder's life and work in Nicaragua before he was murdered by the Contras there. Poem about Columbus by Oakland poet Marian McDonald. Music throughout, including Danny Kalb, The Blues Project.
Zimbabwe and COINTELPRO Zimbabwe and COINTELPRO
Call Number: FI 076Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Sterilization of Native American and Puerto Rican women; Zimbabwe breakthrough in negotiations; housing issues; hearings with statistics about COINTELPRO dirty tricks.