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Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes

Documents

Amilcar Cabral: Return to the Source Amilcar Cabral: Return to the Source
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: CD 034Format: CDProgram: AIS conferenceCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Portions of Cabral’s comments are in his book “Return to the Source." Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Interviews: Angela Davis, David Hilliard Interviews: Angela Davis, David Hilliard
Date: 3/19/2001Call Number: CD 037Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interviews with Angela Davis (3/19/01) and David Hilliard (3/22/01) for Prisons on Fire CD
Interviews: Angela Davis Interviews: Angela Davis
Date: 3/19/2001Call Number: CD 041Format: ProTools CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interview with Angela Davis (3/19/01) for Prisons on Fire CD
Interview: David Hilliard Interview: David Hilliard
Date: 3/22/2001Call Number: CD 042Format: ProTools CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interview with David Hilliard (3/22/01) for Prisons on Fire CD
Che Guevara in New York Che Guevara in New York
Date: 12/18/1963Call Number: CD 047Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Che Guevara is asked many questions by American journalists. Translated from Spanish on the spot. Questions range from bureaucracy, Cuban propaganda, the Black struggle in America, Puerto Rico. When asked, “Do you think it will be possible for Latin America to live in peace without the fall of the U.S. Government”? He replies that the question is difficult but there will be a need for struggle.
Che Guevara at the United Nations General assembly Che Guevara at the United Nations General assembly
Date: 12/11/1964Call Number: CD 048Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
From Cuban LP released for the 5th Anniversary of his death, Che Guevara’s address to the United Nations General Assembly
Che Guevara at the United Nations General assembly Che Guevara at the United Nations General assembly
Date: 12/11/1964Call Number: CD 049Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
From Cuban LP released for the 5th Anniversary of his death, Che Guevara’s address to the United Nations General Assembly copy of CD 048
1st communiqué of the Weather Underground, Declaration of War 1st communiqué of the Weather Underground, Declaration of War
Date: 5/1/1970Call Number: CD 166Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Delivered by Bernardine Dorhn. The lines are drawn and revolutionary violence is the only way. Weather is officially underground. A call to youth culture “guns and grass united in the revolution”. And a declaration of solidarity with the Black Liberation struggle. Same as KP003.
Interview with George Jackson on prisons, the Weather Underground, Black Panther Party Interview with George Jackson on prisons, the Weather Underground, Black Panther Party
Date: 7/28/1971Call Number: CD 179Format: CDProducers: Max BloomCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
George Jackson discusses the connections between the prison movement inside and other movements and the importance of democratic centralism to the success of both movements. He discusses the idea of the Black Panther Party as the vanguard party, capable of providing resources for the community. He discusses Mao and Guevara and the idea of revolution in two states. He responds to criticism of the BPP’s statements on the role of women. Also the problems with the defense committees and himself as a possible martyr.
The Weather Underground: the Explosive Story of America’s Most Notorious Revolutionaries The Weather Underground: the Explosive Story of America’s Most Notorious Revolutionaries
Date: 7/1/2004Call Number: CD 192Format: DVDProducers: Sam Green, Bill SiegelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The Weather Underground is a feature-length documentary that explores the rise and fall of this radical movement, as former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world. Ultimately, the group's carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the group's members would reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire. Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group's path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago's streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, the former members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times, and the forces that drove their resistance.