The collection is an exploration of eleven subjects within the Campus Campaign Series: Wealth and Poverty, Journalism and Law, Society, Holidays, Science and Environment, Civil Rights, Writers, Artists, Performances and Readings, Gays and Lesbians, and Native Americans; over 90 hours of selected material by Pacifica Radio Archives collaborators and advisors, presented in mp3 format. You will receive one USB memory stick loaded with the complete collection, and the school or library of your choice will receive nine mp3-formatted CDs loaded with the same 90 hours of recordings. *After your order is completed, we will send you a follow up email for the name of the school/library of your choice.*
Wealth and Poverty: The Criminalization of Poverty / Sabina Virgo (1992 – FTV242) Pacifica’s Labor Teach-in (2011 – FTV257): 1934 San Francisco Waterfront Strike Sacco and Vanzetti (1990 – FTV250): politicians and organized labor
Journalism and Law: Crime and Capital Punishment (1959 – FTV 283): Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, Reproductive Rights (1982 – FTV328): Abortions – A Matter of Life and Death Alexander Meiklejohn (1955 – FTV320): U.S. Constitutional Law Pacifica’s Coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising (1992 – FTV311) The Art of Muckraking (1962 – FTV297): Christopher Hitchins, Jessica Mitford, Alexander Cockburn Women and Media in the Age of Obama (2012 – FTV304)
Society: Sister Helen Prejean and Death Row (May 2000 – FTV280): Dead Man Walking Who is Reverend Sun Myung Moon? (1975 – FTV331): cult figure-head in the U.S. Rudy Gernreich, Fashion Icon (1971 – FTV327) Gore Vidal Tribute (1966 – FTV325): features excerpts of several speeches and interviews The 2012 Medal of Freedom: Morrison, Huerta, and Dylan (1968 – FTV316) Howard Zinn: Virtual Optimism (1992 – FTV314) Naomi Wolfe: The Beauty Myth (1991 – FTV313) Female Beauty Rituals (1985 – FTV312): Beauty as seen through the eyes of a Martian reporter Selma James (1974 – FTV308): feminist author Laughter from the Left (2010 – FTV241): Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Groucho Marx, Richard Pryor
Holidays: The Nutcracker’s Journery (2011 – FTV240): the creation of The Nutcracker Ballet To All A Good Night (2012 – FTV293): drama, the history of Santa Claus The Christmas Connection (1983 – FTV 292): Steve Allen and holiday adventures
Science and Environment: Charles Darwin (1959 – FTV182): Julius and Aldous Huxley on Darwin’s theories Tales of Whales (20 Nov 1976 – FTV239): First Whale Day Jared Diamond – The Collapse of Civilizations (1999 – FTV243) Dr. Helen Caldicott – If You Love This Planet (1993 – FTV253) Pacifica’s Nuclear Energy Teach-in (2011 – FTV256): Lord Bertrand Russell, Linus Pauling, Edward Teller Wangari Maathai (2011 – FTV281): Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1957 – FTV244): The Power of Peaceful Persuasion / America’s Chief Moral Dilemma The Reverend Ralph Abernathy (18 Oct 1960 – FTV247) Manning Marable (May 1993 – FTV260) The Freedom Riders’ 50th Anniversary (2011 – FTV263) The Japanese in California, 1959 (FTV269): internment camps and life in them Women Speak Out Against Fascism (1969 – FTV252): Elaine Brown and Marie W. Johnson Redefining Black Power (2012 – FTV229): mass incarceration, role of black leadership Gloria Steinem – 1997 Kennedy Lecture Series (1997 – FTV303) Bayard Rustin Centennial Celebration (1960 – FTV305)
Writers: Tim Robbins in Conversation with Studs Terkel (Jan 2000 – FTV237) Mark Twain (1959 – FTV307): a tour of his house! Edward Said (2003 – FTV234): selected speeches Aldous Huxley (1959 – FTV245): lecture Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Julius Lester (1981 – FTV282) Ray Bradbury Memorial (1964 – FTV318) Adrienne Rich Tribute (1969 – FTV309) Rita Mae Brown, Feminist Author (1976 – FTV330)
Artists: John Lennon’s 70th Birthday Celebration (2010 – FTV238); Women in Film 2 (1968 – FTV251): Spring Byington and Una Merkel; Sarah Vaughan and Esther Phillips (1967 – FTV248); Jane Fonda (1975 – FTV270); Master Class in Acting with Rod Steiger (1967 – FTV264); Bob Dylan on Pacifica Radio - The Complete Collection: Introducing Bob Dylan (1962 -IZ0940), Bob Fass with Bob Dylan (Jan 1966 – IZ1210a-b), Bob Dylan and Cynthia Gooding (Mar 1962 – IZ1210a-b), and Bob Dylan Assorted Interviews (IZ1209); Leonard Cohen, 1974 (1974 – FTV329); Documentary Pioneers Albert and David Maysles (1971 – FTV326); Radio Bloomsday (2012 – FTV317): Celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses; Jimmy Cliff (1975 – FTV332); Two Painters: Van Gogh and Lichtenstein (1967 – FTV290); Pacifica Radio in the United Kingdom (2011 – FTV266): Fela Kuti, Jack Nicholson, Arthur Miller; Harvey Fierstein and Charles S. Dutton: Actors in Conversation (1984 – FTV278).
Performances and Readings: *Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (complete reading, 40 hours) To Be A Slave, Parts 1-3 / Julius Lester (1980 – FTV300, FTV301, FTV302): author reading Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones (1964 – FTV268) Dial-a-Poem (1975 – FTV258): Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs Aram Saroyan and Poetry (1950’s – FTV259): Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, Kerouac Women’s Music and Poetry from the Coffeehouse (1977 – FTV254): Alice Walker, Sharon Thompson James Joyce’s The Dead (FTV275): read by Geraldine Fitzgerald James Thurber’s The 13 Clocks (1969 – FTV279): dramatic radio adaptation Halloween Fantasy: Vampires (1971 – FTV181): history of Count Dracula The Body Snatcher (1971 – FTV284): Dudley Knight reads Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of the Portuguese Revolution (1974 – FTV322) Cello Master Class with Janos Starker (1971 – FTV321) William Carlos Williams (1955 – FTV319): American poet Trumpeter Donald Byrd (1987 – FTV315) Poetry of Bukowski and Levertov (1962 – FTV310) Freddie Hubbard Live at La Bastille Jazz Club (1973 – FTV298): trumpeter Les Guérillères: Feminist Radio Drama (1973 – FTV306): only recording of this in existence
Gays and Lesbians: Quentin Crisp (1978 – FTV246) James Baldwin - The Free and the Brave (1963 – FTV249) Robert Duncan (28 Oct 1969 – FTV271) Jack Spicer (1965 – FTV273) Audre Lorde (1980 – FTV276)
Native Americans: Peggy Berryhill’s Why Wounded Knee? (1975 – FTV261) Ganienkeh - An Iroquois Tale (1976 – FTV262) In the Beginning: A Native American Woman's View (1985 – AZ0842) Geronimo Pratt (1997 – FTV267)