La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
"La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues" is the result of a 3 year collaboration between Susan Greene and Freedom Archives. Together they consulted with local community organizing and activist groups, neighbors and business owners, to consider which people to add to the mural. Many factors were taken into consideration, including: who lives in the Mission, what connections are to be made globally, and which historical figures have been largely forgotten.
The Mural itself was located between 3260 23rd St - between Mission and Capp Streets in San Francisco. Viewers could dial a number and enter an extension associated with each portrait of an important figure, and hear an audio clip by or about the revolutionary.
Leila Khaled On Liberation and Freedom
Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement
Excerpt from "A Litany for Survival"
Patrice Lumumba Speaks
Archbishop Oscar Romero
A Vast Prison
The Mural itself was located between 3260 23rd St - between Mission and Capp Streets in San Francisco. Viewers could dial a number and enter an extension associated with each portrait of an important figure, and hear an audio clip by or about the revolutionary.
The collaboration between Greene and Freedom Archives was a natural one. Both parties are vitally concerned with the role history plays and with the ways in which histories can be revealed. During the now completed mural painting process Greene reports how people would stop and thank her, tears running down their faces to see familiar faces in the public space of the mural that they do not ever see otherwise in the urban landscape.
The collection includes audio and graphics related to the production of "La Lucha Continua".
Documents
![Leila Khaled On Liberation and Freedom](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
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Leila Khaled (also Layla Khalid), long-time activist and Central Committee member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), speaks on the right to resist and fight for her people's liberation.
![Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
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Interview with Lebron after her arrest for the shooting of US Congressman Alvin Bentley in 1954.
![Excerpt from "A Litany for Survival"](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Audrey Lorde reads her poem, "A litany for survival" from "The Black Unicorn".
![Patrice Lumumba Speaks](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Patrice Emery Lumumba was born July 2, 1925, Onalua, Belgian Congo [now Congo (Kinshasa)] and was killed on January 1961, in the Katanga province. He was an African nationalist leader and the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (June -- September 1960). Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
![Archbishop Oscar Romero](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Oscar romero speaks on involving himself as clergy in the people's struggle.
![A Vast Prison](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Said likens the pervasive Israeli occupation in Palestine to a "vast prison".