Program

KPFK's labor reporters Bob Aldrich and Sam Kushner interview Crystal Lee Sutton, the textile worker who organized fellow employees despite anti-union activities of the J.P Stevens Company and others. Her experience was the model for the film Norma Rae, starring Sally Field.

KPFT's News Director Tom Curtis interviewed Irish Catholic militant Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) while in Houston to speak at the University of Houston about Northern Ireland. She discusses the struggles there and what Americans can do. Includes phone calls. Recorded by Tom Curtis, edited by Tracy German.

This program is an examination of the San Quentin Six, Black and Latino prisoners on trial in Marin County in connection with the events surrounding the death of George Jackson. The prisoners were Fleeta Drumgo, David Johnson, Hugo Pinell, Johnny Larry Spain, Luis Talamantez, and Willie Tate.

Former Black Panther Warren Wells talks about the Panthers' abandonment of the "prison movement." Wells is serving time in Folsom Prison from a 1968 Oakland shootout that resulted in the death of Bobby Hutton. He talks about conditions, intra-prison fighting and the failure of people outside to organize around Folsom, especially around those men housed in the adjustment center.

KPFA's Yolanda de Freitas, Jean Wiley of Third World Media News, and Cheryl Johnson of the Third World Women's Alliance interviews Black Panther Party communications secretary Kathleen Cleaver (1945 - ) upon her return to the United States after having spent three years in Algeria.