California Audiovisual Preservation Project

  • Teach-in on the implications of People’s Park (Episode 7 of 8, Part 2 of 2)

    On May 28, 1969, two weeks after the first street fighting in connection with People’s Park, there was an all-day teach-in entitled “The Politics of Ecology” at Lower Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus, which was broadcast live on KPFA. Speakers addressed themselves to various aspects of the Park – urban planning,…

  • Panther raid.

    Special report on the early morning raid on the Black Panther headquarters,[ Los Angeles?, California.]

  • Report on the deaths at San Quentin : 21 August, 1971.

    A report on the events from August 27, 1971 through August 31, 1971 related to the death of George Jackson in San Quentin prison. Included are a press conference with Aaron Reid, representing California State Employees’ Association and State Director of Corrections Raymond Procunier regarding plans for additional security staffing and programming changes in the…

  • An informal discussion of radical Bay Area politics

    Tom Hayden (1939-), author, lecturer, and a founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), leads a discussion of New Left politics; topics include the Black Panthers, the rent strike movement, and People’s Park. The talk was arranged by the Sociology Liberation Movement of the American Sociological Assocation (ASA), and was held on September 2,…

  • The search of KPFK by the Los Angeles police department

    The New World Liberation Front was a radical urban guerrilla collective known for a series of bombings they carried out throughout California in the wake of the Symbionese Liberation Army’s actions. In a communique mailed to Los Angeles’ Pacifica station KPFK, the NWLF took credit for the bombing of the ITT Sheraton Hotel in Los…

  • Turn on turn in cop out : the real dope on Leary? / produced by Adi Gevins and Kris Welch.

    Discussion of the actions of Timothy Leary by Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Eldridge Cleaver, Ken Kesey, Wavy Gravy, Baba Ram Dass and Michael Horowitz.|TURN ON TURN IN COP OUT: THE REAL DOPE ON LEARY? / produced by Adi Gevins and Kris Welch. – Is LSD prophet Dr. Leary turning in his friends to a federal…

  • The big four state their cases (Episode 6 of 8)

    City officials and protest organizers speak about the violent battle to maintain People’s Park for the community. During the People’s Park crisis, several spokesmen emerged representing different factions in Berkeley. The Mayor of Berkeley, Wallace Johnson, spoke for the City Administration; the Chancellor of the Berkeley campus, Roger Heyns, spoke for the University Administration; Frank…

  • What it’s like to be on general assistance (Episode 2 of 2)

    The second program includes talks by State Senator Nicholas Petris, Berkeley City Councilman Ronald Dellums, and the director of the Oakland Economic Development Council, Percy Moore, as well as testimony by welfare recipients and social workers. Prepared and narrated by Don Porsché.

  • The Chicano moratorium

    On August 29, 1970, over 20,000 protesters, mostly Mexican Americans or Chicanos, gathered in Laguna Park in East Los Angeles to peacefully protest the Vietnam War. By August of 1970, the mortality rate in the Vietnam War was disproportionately high within the Chicano demographic, while funding for schools, jobs, healthcare, housing, and other important areas…

  • The moving center : Isla Vista (Part 1 of 2)

    A documentary about the riots in Isla Vista, California, near the University of California, Santa Barbara, in late February 1970. After the first night of rioting, the Bank of America building in Isla Vista was burned to the ground. This program, which was recorded by KPFK’s music director William Malloch, documents the events of the…