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ACT UP/NY and PNHP Contingent at Reclaim Pride 2021
Brandon Cuicchi of ACT UP/NY discusses the Reclaim Pride march organizing, ACT UP & PNHP's joint contingent. Also he discusses ACT UP's rolle in the health fair in Washington Sq Park and describes some of the high points, including Joints for Jabs. More at https://reclaimpridenyc.org
Lesbian of Color Activist on Her ‘70s Persecution for Supporting Political Prisoner Assata Shakur
Paola Bacchetta Ph.D.
Assata Shakur
This is Part 2 of a two-part interview that Out-FM’s Bob Lederer did recently with Paola Bacchetta, a lesbian of color of mixed heritages who has been a radical intersectional feminist activist for over four decades. Today she is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California Berkeley, the author of the book Gender in the Hindu Nation, co-editor of the anthology Right-Wing Women, as well as the author of 40 academic articles and book chapters. This is another installment of our history series called Queerly Defiant, in which we profile U.S.-based LGBTQ+ activists with multi-issue politics over the past century who have personally faced government repression because of their progressive politics and activist work.
In Part I, Prof. Bacchetta recounted her work in the 1970s with a militant lesbian group in Philadelphia called DykeTactics! and their long battles with the police department. In the current program, Part 2, she will narrate the harrowing story of her arrest and pre-trial detention in 1977 for completely invented charges of plotting to mount an armed breakout of political prisoner, Black freedom fighter and former Black Panther Assata Shakur from a New Jersey prison, charges which were dropped before our guest, Paola Bacchetta, could come to trial. But even then, those false charges forced Ms. Bacchetta into exile, and she engaged in further radical activist endeavors for many years in Italy, France and Italy before she returned to the US and ultimately became a professor in Berkeley.
