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Meridel LeSueur Speaks
Date: 2/22/1980Call Number: FI 041Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Special program on Meridel LeSueur, including speech from her 80th birthday in Minnesota on survival. Overview of 20th century, with continuation of Barbara Lubinski interview with Meridel LeSueur.
Children's Poetry
Date: 1/12/1980Call Number: FI 044Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Poems are read by their authors: Carla, Johanna, Paul, Melinda
Last interview with Archbishop Oscar Romero
Date: 3/22/1980Call Number: LA 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: John Clemente, Arnaldo RamosCollection: Struggles in Latin America
The last interview done with Archbishop Oscar Romero, recorded the day before his assassination. Interviewed by John Clemente & Arnaldo Ramos. English translation by Andres Alegria. Same as CD183.
Speech by Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe to African Americans
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe gives a speech to African Americans living in Harlem, at a rally on Harlem Day, August 23, 1980. On the occasion of Zimbabwe’s admission to the United Nations, Mugabe thanks people for their support of Zimbabwe’s struggle for national independence and against colonial racist white rule. He celebrates the victory of the black man in Zimbabwe and the continued struggle for non-racialism and equality. He ends his speech with the hope that the victory of Zimbabwe will inspire the oppressed Africans in South Africa and Namibia.
Interview with Joyce Kangai of the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League
A representative from the New York Material Aid Campaign for ZANU interviews Joyce Kangai, Publicity Secretary of the ZANU Women’s League. Kangai talks about how the Zimbabwean elections are being discredited and attacked by outside, imperialist forces such as Britain, Ian Smith of Rhodesia, Rhodesian armed forces, and South Africa. She states that these armed forces are all harrassing ZANU, attempting to forcibly keep the organization from the polls, and trying to eliminate democratic elections by claiming ZANU violated the ceasefire and by attacking ZANU leaders and supporters & their families, and homes. She also speaks about the increased participation of ZANU women in the struggle against the oppressors, the conditions of life for women under the whites and the goals and needs of the women of ZANU.
Joyce Kangai of the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League
Joyce Kangai of the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League speaks about the Zimbabwean people losing their land, outside forces imposing their power, and the oppressive nature of colonialism on language and culture. She calls the women to fight for liberation, and explains how they can be part of the struggle.
Ariel Ricardo on Cuba
Date: 4/6/1980Call Number: LA 088AFormat: Cass AProducers: Atlanta Committee on Latin AmericaProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Cuba
This brief interview with Ariel Recardo, the press attaché at the Cuban Interest Section in Washington DC, speaks about the issues surrounding the birth of TV Martì as well as the possibility of new US military aggression against Cuba.
Last interview with Archbishop Oscar Romero
Date: 3/22/1980Call Number: CD 183Format: CDProducers: John Clemente, Arnaldo RamosCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The last interview done with Archbishop Oscar Romero, recorded the day before his assasination. Interviewed by John Clemente & Arnaldo Ramos. English translation by Andres Alegria. Same as LA 029.
Fred Dube of the African National Coingress (ANC)
Date: 1/21/1980Call Number: FI 232Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview with Fred Dube, representative of the African National Congress. Discusses situation in South Africa, impact of victory in Zimbabwe, his prison experience, white supremacy, and international solidarity.
ZANU: Zimbabwe African National Union
Program recorded off mic
