Independent Collections
These collections were produced by independent journalists. Many of these recordings make up the bulk of the original collection of the Freedom Archives.
Subcollections
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Colin Edwards Collection
Materials representing the life-work and journalism of a Welsh radio correspondent and journalist who worked for Pacifica stations, the BBC and many other broadcasters. -
Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
This collection is produced by journalist Colin Edwards and represent a comprehensive account of the Free Speech Movement and its effect on the political climate of UC Berkeley. -
Programs produced by Kiilu Nyasha
Kiilu Nyasha is a revolutionary journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party. Kiilu still hosts Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, which now appears as a TV program. -
“Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
KPFA weekly news program running from 1973-1976 featuring in-depth coverage of liberation struggles around the world. -
“The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon was a radio program broadcast on KPFA from 1971-1973. This news show focused on issues of national liberation, political prisoners, Vietnam and other major national and international topics.
Documents
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![Nothing Is More Precious Than](images/thumbnails//5265.jpg)
Date: 2/9/1974Call Number: NI 019Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
News reports on Africa, Vietnam and Cambodia, Latin America/Chile, California prisons, Wounded Knee trials
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Date: 6/29/1974Call Number: NI 034Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Major stories on Africa, especially Mozambique (FRELIMO), Latin America, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, AIM and Native American-Treaty council conference, Gay Pride, Attica, and California prisons.
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Date: 6/28/1975Call Number: NI 074 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program features reports and poetry on the independence of Mozambique. Also has reports from Wounded Knee, section of prison-related news, report on 25th anniversary of Korean War.
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Date: 1/3/1976Call Number: NI 095Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, with Nina SerranoProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Theme of program is recurrent "that's just a lie" from Holly Near No More Genocide song, and a mix from Grain of Sand group. Includes stories poems on Native American struggle, poem from Weather Underground dedicated to Assata Shakur, African leader Amilcar Cabral speaking about connection between Africa and Afro-America, and a section on Cuba/Puerto Rico.
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Date: 2/14/1976Call Number: NI 100Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks with Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with major focus on Angola with report by Stave Talbot, and report on Roy Innis of CORE's statements on Angola and protests against them. Then focus on native American struggle at Pine Ridge, Arthur Kinoy on Puerto Rico, San Quentin Six (with info on George Jackson 1971 assassination), and speech at the Hard Times conference in Chicago by Carlos Vasquez on issue of undocumented workers.
![Real Dragon](images/thumbnails//1918.jpg)
Date: 2/3/1973Call Number: RD 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Tet: The Lunar New Year passes, spring festival.
100,000 plus patriots locked up as prisoners of Thieu in South Vietnam,
10,000 protest war in China, and thousands in Cuba.
25,000 people and a military parade commemorate the assassinated African
revolutionary leader, Amilcar Cabral in Conakry Guinea. President Sekou
Toure, Amiri Baraka and outlawed Portuguese Communist Party leader Perdo
Suarez speak.
Military resistance and bombings in Portugal support the people’s struggle
in Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique and against Portuguese
colonialism.
Several major strikes by Black workers in South Africa.
Bloody Sunday commemoration in San Francisco calls for unity among
Catholics and Protestants to oppose 21,000 British occupation troops.
Two students killed by police at University of Mexico, student strikes
closes schools over the U.S.
Continued genocide against indigenous people in Brazil. Waimiri Atroari
attack National Indian Foundation that aims to “pacify and help Indians
adapt to civilization”
Puerto Rico House of Representatives passes a resolution asking Nixon to
pardon and release the Puerto Rican 5.
Continued arrest of Native Americans involved in Bureau of Indian Affairs
occupation, convictions reversed for two accused of stealing copper wire
from the Alcatraz occupation, more protests of racist hiring practices of
California.
More on the trial verdicts of Kitty Hawk and sailor resistance. 3,000 men
discharged from Navy (many blacks and poor whites) because they “lack
intelligence.”
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark spoke negatively of the U.S.
position as a paramilitary police state.
Senator Stennis the menace shot and wounded in D.C.
Earl Whittaker, a sympathetic Black Tombs Rebellion Prison guard acquitted
of trumped up charges.
Jury chosen for Rap Browns participation in the 1960 Woolworth lunch
counter sit-in that motivated waves of Black student protests and started
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Includes excerpts from
Brown’s opening statements.
Parole denied to Robert Wells imprisoned for 44 yrs for defending himself
against racist prison guard.
Venceremos: Laura Taulbee and Milton Taulbee jailed for refusing to
testify to Grand Jury. Guns and property seized from December FBI seizure
of Mountain View home returned
Governor Reagan and Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke make misogynist comments
about birth control.
6 Documents Found