Women's liberation: women in prison

Program Title:
Women's liberation: women in prison
PRA Archive #: 
BB4824
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Discussion of the life and conditions in women's correctional facilities, through the reading of letters, interviews and poetry by women in prison. The letters offer a glimpse of the brutality women face in prison, and also how jails reinforce the racism and sexism found in larger society. The correspondence was authored by Jane Kennedy, who was a member of the Beaver 55 who protested against Dow Chemical; Lee Weinberg, one of the Tucson Five (four of whom were women), jailed for contempt for not testifying before a grand jury; Barbara Deming, a pacifist who served time for civil disobedience against the Vietnam War; a poem by a man about his loved one, who was serving time in a women's facility in New York City; excerpt from an interview with a white woman who spent six weeks in a house of detention; an interview between two women, one Black and one white, who were both heroin addicts, and who were brought to Niantic State Farm; a poem by Ericka Huggins; and an excerpt from a letter from Angela Davis to Huggins while both women were in prison. Readings by Barbara Berner, Ronnie Solomon, and Candy Brown. The theme song is sung by Ruthie Gordon.

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22 June 1971.
Date Broadcast on: 
KPFK, 29 June 1971.
Item duration: 
1 reel (32 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
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Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
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This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.



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