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Pierre Labossiere
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, November 21, 2008. Pierre Labossiere, a Haitian national, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, has been a long-time social-justice activist and advocate for the Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, currently exiled in South Africa. Pierre has also been active in the campaigns to free political prisoners in Haiti and the U.S. Learn more at: www.haitiaction.net and www.haitisolidarity.netPublished 10 months ago
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Robert King
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, November 28, 2008. Our guest, Robert Hillary King, (aka Robert King Wilkerson), one of the "Angola Three" (members of a prison chapter of the Black Panther Party), along with Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, was serving a life sentence at Angola State Penitentiary. In February 2001, after 31 years of imprisonment and 29 continuous years of solitary confinement, King walked out of the gates of Angola a free man. King continues to struggle for the release of his comrades and all political prisoners. He has also written a book, From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King, with an introduction by Terry Kupers, M.D., M.S.P. (PM Press). For more information, visit www.angola3.org or www.angola3news.comPublished 10 months ago
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Richard Brown: The San Francisco Eight
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, September 5, 2008. Richard Brown is a former Panther and long-time community activist. He was employed for 20 years as a program coordinator at the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center. For the past nine years, Richard has been a Community Court Judge Arbitrator working with the San Francisco District Attorney's office. Brown says: "We place a lot of emphasis on restorative justice, so most of the community service done will be done in our own community where the offender can give back to the community." Brown is one of the San Francisco Eight. Since this show was filmed, the charges against him have been dismissed and Cisco Torres is the only one still facing charges. Torres has an evidentiary hearing on March 2, 2011, where supporters are urged to attend. For the latest developments in the case and what you can do to help, please go to: http;//www.freethesf8.orgPublished 11 months ago
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Luis "Bato" Talamantez and Willie "Sundiata" Tate: The San Quentin Six
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, August 22, 2008. Guest, Willie Sundiata Tate (Sundi), was a member of All of Us or None, a group of ex-prisoners actively fighting discrimination against people who have done time in prison, and was a member of TIMERS, another group of former Black Panthers and activist ex-prisoners who organized an annual Black Family Reunion Day in West Oakland with food, speakers and a bicycle give-away for many years. http://www.allofusornone.org/ Guest, Luis "Bato" Talamantez works with California Prison Focus and hosts a weekly radio show on KPOO, 89.5 FM, called "Prison Focus." http://www.prisons.org Sundi and Bato were formerly two of the six defendants put on trial for the assaults and murder of guards on that fateful day, August 21, 1971, when Soledad Brother George L. Jackson was assassinated. They became known as The San Quentin Six. Sundi and Bato were both acquitted of all charges and have been out of prison for over 35 years, continuing to advocate for the release of political prisoners and equal justice.Published 11 months ago
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San Francisco Welcomes home Gaza Flotilla Heroes (part 1)
San Francisco residents give a warm welcome to Janet Kobren and Gene St. Onge who just got back from the Gaza flotilla that was violently intercepted in international 80 (or so) miles waters off the coast of the besieged Gaza StripPublished 1 year ago
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part 3--Phavia Kujichagulia
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, July 25, 2008Phavia Kujichagulia, a Griot / Djialli (Oral Historian), musician, writer, poet, dancer who utilizes music, poetry and dance to heal and reveal history -- was a professor of Ethnomusicology and African Civilizations at World College West and Stanford University's Workshop on Political and Social Issues. For more than 16 years, she taught Creative Writing and Performance Art for the California Department of Corrections at Folsom, Soledad, Vacaville, Susanville and San Quentin Prisons. Her performances include the World Drum Festival, National Black Expo, and the John Coltrane Festival. Her most recent CD is "THE HUMAN RACE." Phavia currently writes for the SF Examiner, and you can read her articles here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-20443-Oakland-Ethnic-Community-Examiner
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part 2--Phavia Kujichagulia
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, July 25, 2008Phavia Kujichagulia, a Griot / Djialli (Oral Historian), musician, writer, poet, dancer who utilizes music, poetry and dance to heal and reveal history -- was a professor of Ethnomusicology and African Civilizations at World College West and Stanford University's Workshop on Political and Social Issues. For more than 16 years, she taught Creative Writing and Performance Art for the California Department of Corrections at Folsom, Soledad, Vacaville, Susanville and San Quentin Prisons. Her performances include the World Drum Festival, National Black Expo, and the John Coltrane Festival. Her most recent CD is "THE HUMAN RACE." Phavia currently writes for the SF Examiner, and you can read her articles here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-20443-Oakland-Ethnic-Community-Examiner
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part 1--Phavia Kujichagulia
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, July 25, 2008Phavia Kujichagulia, a Griot / Djialli (Oral Historian), musician, writer, poet, dancer who utilizes music, poetry and dance to heal and reveal history -- was a professor of Ethnomusicology and African Civilizations at World College West and Stanford University's Workshop on Political and Social Issues. For more than 16 years, she taught Creative Writing and Performance Art for the California Department of Corrections at Folsom, Soledad, Vacaville, Susanville and San Quentin Prisons. Her performances include the World Drum Festival, National Black Expo, and the John Coltrane Festival. Her most recent CD is "THE HUMAN RACE." Phavia currently writes for the SF Examiner, and you can read her articles here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-20443-Oakland-Ethnic-Community-Examiner
Published 1 year ago
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part 3--Ricardo Alvarez
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV Show, May 23, 2008.Our Guest, Ricardo Alvarez, is the medical director of Clinica Esperanza, the Mission Neighborhood Health Center's HIV clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of mostly Latino uninsured or underinsured HIV patients. Clinica Esperanza is one of the premier HIV clinics in the city of San Francisco. It creatively engages in theatrical and artistic expressions of the community to tell the story of HIV. His research interests include medication adherence and institutional distrust.
www.clinicaesperanza.com
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part 2--Ricardo Alvarez
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV Show, May 23, 2008.Our Guest, Ricardo Alvarez, is the medical director of Clinica Esperanza, the Mission Neighborhood Health Center's HIV clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of mostly Latino uninsured or underinsured HIV patients. Clinica Esperanza is one of the premier HIV clinics in the city of San Francisco. It creatively engages in theatrical and artistic expressions of the community to tell the story of HIV. His research interests include medication adherence and institutional distrust.
www.clinicaesperanza.com
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part 1--Ricardo Alvarez
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV Show, May 23, 2008.Our Guest, Ricardo Alvarez, is the medical director of Clinica Esperanza, the Mission Neighborhood Health Center's HIV clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of mostly Latino uninsured or underinsured HIV patients. Clinica Esperanza is one of the premier HIV clinics in the city of San Francisco. It creatively engages in theatrical and artistic expressions of the community to tell the story of HIV. His research interests include medication adherence and institutional distrust.
www.clinicaesperanza.com
Published 1 year ago
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part 3--Georgia Schreiber & Charles Minster
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV Show, January 25, 2008.Our first guest will be Georgia Schreiber, Board Chair of California Prison Focus (CPF). Formerly known as The Pelican Bay Information Project, CPF was founded shortly after the supermax prison opened in 1989. CPF staff work with prisoners and their family members to expose human rights abuses with a larger vision of closing the SHU and ultimately abolishing California's racist, genocidal prison system (see www.prisons.org). Also joining us will be Charles Minster, a retired trade union activist and supporter of the Partisan Defense Committee (www.partisandefense.org). Both activists have recently visited political prisoner, Hugo 'Yogi' Pinell, now enduring his 18th year in SHU, his 38th in solitary, and his 44th in California prisons.
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part 2--Georgia Schreiber & Charles Minster
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV Show, January 25, 2008.Our first guest will be Georgia Schreiber, Board Chair of California Prison Focus (CPF). Formerly known as The Pelican Bay Information Project, CPF was founded shortly after the supermax prison opened in 1989. CPF staff work with prisoners and their family members to expose human rights abuses with a larger vision of closing the SHU and ultimately abolishing California's racist, genocidal prison system (see www.prisons.org). Also joining us will be Charles Minster, a retired trade union activist and supporter of the Partisan Defense Committee (www.partisandefense.org). Both activists have recently visited political prisoner, Hugo 'Yogi' Pinell, now enduring his 18th year in SHU, his 38th in solitary, and his 44th in California prisons.
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part 2--Raymond A. Rock, III and CC Campbell-Rock
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, February 29, 2008.Our guests will be Katrina survivors Raymond A. Rock, III and wife, C.C. Campbell-Rock, college-educated activists and servants of the people. Prior to Katrina, Rock, a carpenter, and C.C., a journalist, built an educational justice movement in LouisianaParents for Educational Justice, challenging the states testing program. They also produced and co-hosted Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, a live TV program, for four years. Since their arrival in the Bay Area, the couple has advocated for Gulf Coast Justice and the Right to Return, participated in a theater production about Katrina survivors experiences, and Rock has written Katrina in the Hood. Parents of two teens and two adults, they are in the midst of rebuilding their home in New Orleans.
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part 3--Mike Wong
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, December 7, 2007.Our guest, Mike Wong, was born and raised in San Francisco, and became a soldier during the Vietnam War. He was very influenced by the anti-war movement. So when he received Viet Nam orders, he went AWOL, then turned himself in to the Presidio stockade with his lawyer, pleaded guilty to AWOL, and attempted to press a limited conscientious objector case. The Army turned him down, and put him back on Viet Nam orders. Mike escaped to Canada and lived in exile for five years. He returned after the war, pleaded guilty to Long Term AWOL, and received an Undesirable Discharge.
He later earned a Masters degree in Social Work, and has been a social worker for 30 years, as well as war resistance activist. Mike was featured in the movie "Sir! No Sir!" and the anthology, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace."
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
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