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This week on From the Vault, we continue our celebration of Black History Month with a unique Pacifica concert recording featuring reggae singer Judy Mowatt (one-time member of the I-Three's and backup singer for Bob Marley and the Wailers).

This week on From the Vault, we spend some time with experimental composer and musician Frank Zappa.

This week on From the Vault we reach back to July 8th, 1996 and listen to a radio show called We the People, hosted by former and future California Governor Jerry Brown. We The People debuted on Pacifica Radio in early 1994 and ran until 1997, when Brown retired the series to begin what was to be a successful run for Mayor of Oakland, California in 1998.

This week on From the Vault we present two recordings from Pacifica Radio Archives featuring Fidel Castro. First, we share a short excerpt of Castro addressing the United Nations General Assembly in 1960, where he focuses on Cuba's relations with the United States and Cuban support for Third World independence movements.

We continue this week on From the Vault with our presentation of one of the most important dystopian novels written in modern history, George Orwell's classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.