'The only solution is revolution'
Broadcast Date: June 10, 1970
With her out-to-there natural Afro and intense gaze, to say nothing of her fierce condemnation of the capitalist system, Kathleen Cleaver is a force to reckon with. The communications officer with the radical Black Panther Party in the United States, she's part of a Take 30 panel on taking action to fight the powers that be. At her side are urban living advocate Jane Jacobs, aboriginal artist Alanis Obomsawin, professor Margaret Norquay and student leader Jennifer Penny.'The only solution is revolution'
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver was the wife of Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of the Black Panther Party. They divorced in 1987. Kathleen went on to become a lawyer, professor of law and advocate for the rights of political prisoners.
• American-born but a longtime resident of Toronto, Jane Jacobs was best known in the 1960s for successfully spearheading community opposition to a proposed downtown freeway. See a CBC Digital Archives clip in which the newly arrived Jacobs talks about her impressions of Canadian cities.
• Filmmaker and storyteller Alanis Obomsawin was born in New Hampshire but grew up on the Odanak reserve in Quebec. She began working with the National Film Board in the 1960s and, among many other films, went on to make the documentary Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance after the Oka Crisis in 1990. She was awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 2008. Hear a 1971 CBC Digital Archives clip in which Obamsawin relates the legend of Nanbozho.
'The only solution is revolution'
Medium: Television
Program: Take 30
Broadcast Date: June 10, 1970
Guest(s): Kathleen Cleaver, Jane Jacobs, Margaret Norquay, Alanis Obomsawin, Jennifer Penny
Host: Adrienne Clarkson
Duration: 26:35
Last updated:
April 27, 2009
'The only solution is revolution'.
The CBC Digital Archives Website.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Last updated: April 27, 2009.
[Page consulted on Feb. 13, 2012.]