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  [Chicago 21]

  Black, Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television, Latinx

  Interviews conducted by students from Ruiz Belvis about a bar that had recently burned down.

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  [Rally for Andres Cordero upon his release from prison]

  Chicago, CLIR, Communities, Guerrilla Television, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Peoples Video Theater/Survival Arts Media

  This tape features footage of a Puerto Rican Nationalist community meeting in Chicago celebrating the release of Andres Cordero, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who had gone to prison for taking part in an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954.

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  [Maria Cueto – Andres Jimenez]

  Chicago, Communities, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators

  This tape features footage of an interview with Maria Cueto, who had recently been released after being imprisoned for ten months for refusing to give information about FALN bombings to a grand jury. The second segment on the tape features a Puerto Rican Nationalist event, and ends with a musical performance by Andres Jimenez.

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  [FALN church rally for four released Puerto Rican Nationalists]

  Chicago, Communities, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators

  This tape features footage of a National Liberation Armed Forces (FALN) support gathering in September 1979 in Chicago. It took place right after Puerto Rican Nationalists Oscar Collazo, Irving Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and Lolita Lebron were released from jail upon President Jimmy Carter’s commutation of their sentences. Collazo was incarcerated for the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman. Flores, Miranda, and Lebron had been in jail for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives. This tape features a church service and meeting honoring the four nationalists. Folksinger and activist Marta Rodriguez also performs.

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  [10 PM TV News]

  Chicago, Communities, Latinx, White Sox

  This is a tape of the 10 o’clock news on June 6, 1978. The tape switches between channels several times at the beginning to show some segments on each of Channels 2, 5, and 7. Many of the news segments cover the first anniversary of the 1977 Humboldt Park Riot, and give a report on the Humboldt Park community one year following the riots. These are followed by part of “Inside Spring Training” with the 1978 White Sox. Following this is part of “Overnight Man,” a candid documentary about WBBM radio journalist Joe Cummings. Cummings is interviewed, as well as many of his colleagues, who comment on his work and his personality as a “character.”

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  [Rafael Cancel Miranda Speech: Being a Puerto Rican]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Latinx, Outside Agitators, Politics

  “Rafael Cancel Miranda gives a speech after a University is named in honor of the Nationalists”

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  [#4 At School]

  Latinx

  Puerto Rican Nationalists visit a conference in Chicago in honor of their actions, supporters group leaders speak to demonstrate their support.

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  [Workshops – Jose de Molina interview – plenary #1]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Latinx

  0:00 A woman interviews Jose de Molina. She asks him what he thinks of the conference. He says that it is a step in the right direction. Organizations have small effects but one from the conference perhaps in the future will have a larger impact.  2:25 The video changes to a group conversation in a room. 14:08 A man gives an English summary of the what the workshops discussed from the previous days. 32:52 End of Tape.