“Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Nothing Is More Precious Than…derives from a quotation of Ho
Chi Minh—“Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom,” and reflects
one of the main anti-imperialist messages of this news program. The program was
produced, from 1973–1976, by Claude Marks and Nancy Barrett, was
one-hour-long, and ran weekly on Saturday evenings on
KPFA-FM. A number of other producers contributed to the program, notably Mark
Schwartz, who did consistent and excellent reportage on the
rising prison movement. The content includes extensive coverage of Indochina,
reports from Havana by Lincoln Bergman from 1973-4, in-depth coverage of the fascist
coup in Chile, of the American Indian and Black liberation movements, defense
of political prisoners, women’s and gay/lesbian liberation, Puerto Rico,
Southern Africa, and a wide diversity of struggles and events in the Bay Area
and nationwide, along with music and poetry reflective of the times.
Documents
Nothing is More Precious Than
Honors Martin Luther King and Amilcar Cabral (with Cabral speaking), and includes reports on the SLA (tape from Nancy Ling Perry), BLA trials in NYC (Francisco Torres), Wounded Knee trials (Dennis Banks), and San Quentin 6.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Roundup of news, including Lincoln Bergman report from Havana, Africa liberation movements, SLA, Latin America, California prisons
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General roundup of trial and prison news, with long statement from Martin Sostre on the SLA, and BLA communique #14, and women's section of program.
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Nixon-related possible impeachment stories, followed by wide selection of international news, Africa, Portugal, Latin America, Northern Ireland, Chile, then national/local trials/repression.
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Worldwide roundup, much international news, especially on Ireland, Mozambique and Indochina. Then prison and political trial news, and edited inserts of tape from the Symbionese Liberation Army, and stories on Attica trials, Ruchell Magee case, Reyes Tijerina, and Pitt River Indians.
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Program opens with reading of communique from Weather Underground on bombing of Gulf Oil in Pittsburgh, PA, with extensive history of Portuguese colonialism and national liberation movements.
Other Africa news follows. Then story of acquittal of policeman in shooting of Clifford Glover in NYC, then stories on Chile and protests against ship coming to San Francisco, and then a birthday tribute to Che Guevara.
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Opens with international news, Vietnam, then Africa, Zimbabwe, then report on demonstrations against Chilean ship arriving in San Francisco, Gay Pride Day events, bombings of Chicano activists in Boulder, Colorado, shooting of Union City police chief, imprisonment of Will Lewis, KPFK station manager for refusing to turn over tapes from SLA and Weather Underground that came to the station, Attica legal defense and San Quentin 6 civil suit against the state prison system.
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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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First program after KPFA strike. Opens with Ho Chi Minh speaking in English, roundup of news from Vietnam, Inez Garcia case with actuality of her speaking, prison movement with George Jackson actuality, Latin America, Puerto Rico, and Africa, with actuality of Amilcar Cabral.