“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
First half of program updates prison movement, a women’s union conference in San Francisco, prison movement, AIM, and SLA. The second half of the program featured the second half of “The Incredible Rocky.”
Nothing is More Precious Than
Latin American news roundup, Chile, Argentina, Peru; report on Assata Shakur upcoming trial, report on Wounded Knee and related Native American news.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Roundup of international, Asia and Latin America, report from Havana, BLA trials in NY, Wounded Knee trial report, and some local news.
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
BLA trials in NYC, Union of Vietnamese in US, AIM Wounded Knee trials, and report on protests in Bolivia, with other brief news reports.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Roundup of news, including Lincoln Bergman report from Havana, Africa liberation movements, SLA, Latin America, California prisons
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Communiques on the SLA from the Weather Underground, and from Black Liberation Army. Also a history of the occupation of Wounded Knee.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Roundup of local news, report on SLA, then national and international, with emphasis on women and women's liberation and report on Wounded Knee and NY 5 trials.