Program

  • Everybody’s Studying Us (Number 2)

    Bea Frankel discusses San Francisco poet and playwright Irene Paull’s book “Everybody’s studying us: the ironies of aging in the Pepsi Generation.” Bea talks with two people from the California Association for Older Americans, Helen Boelke [sp?], program coordinator, and Jack Kaufman, staff writer for the Association, about the organization, why they published the book,…

  • Joanna Brouk / Conch Shell: the Sea at Sunset (1973)

    Joanna Brouk: Conch Shell: The Sea at Sunset (1973). Joanna Brouk was born in 1949 in St. Louis Missouri. She resides in Berkeley, California, where she composes electronic music and writes poetry. She produces a radio program on KPFA Radio incorporating music of a spiritual nature from many ethnic catagories as well as electric rock…

  • Phumzile Zulu interviewed by Laurie Garrett

    Laurie Garrett interviews Phumzile Zulu at the 11th Annual People’s World Banquet at Goodman’s, Jack London Hall in Oakland, California, November 15, 1980. Phumile Zulu is a 23 year old South African woman living in exile in Morogoro, Tanzania. She was part of the Soweto Movement and was a prominent student leader at Zulu University…

  • Activist Donna Allen and her experience with HUAC

    Feminist and political organizer Donna Allen speaks on her experience with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). She is on the National Committee to Abolish HUAC.

  • Tricia Alexander and Lori Noelle

    Musicians Tricia Alexander and Lori Noelle, April 26, 1980. Blues is just a bad dream. Note on box: Return to Susan Sailow, KPFA

  • Meg Christian performs at Inez Garcia benefit concert (Parts 1 and 3 of 3)

    Meg Christian performs at a benefit concert on June 10, 1976 to raise money for Inez Garcia, who was charged with the 1974 murder of a man who attempted to rape her. Christian performs the following songs: Reel 1: 1. Hello, Hooray Let the Show Begin; 2. Face the Music — Annie Dinnerman (10:35); 3.…

  • Interview with attorney Susan McGreivy on the Norton Sound lesbian purges from the Navy

    Susan McGreivy, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the present state of the Norton Sound 8 case, where eight women were purged from the United States Navy for homosexuality. McGreivy talks about the evidence being presented against the women in the case as insubstantial and the result of jealousy, as well as the…

  • The music of Witchazel

    The music of Witchazel, a Portland, Oregon women’s band. Members are: Robin Flower, Mary Wings, and Sharon Luckerman. All tracks on reel 2 appear to be from the same live performance (venue unknown). On Reel 1: 1. Medley: Little Maggie/Run Rabbit/The Cuckoo (studio version); 2. Whiskey After Breakfast (studio version); 3. Still Ain’t Satisfied (studio…

  • Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus live at the Working Women’s Conference

    Excerpt from a Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus performance at the Working Women’s Conference, possibly in Berkeley, 1973. The Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus included Bonnie Lockhart, Elaine Magree, Laurie Olsen and Janet Rachel. Songs performed are Nine to Five (written by Boston clerical workers who were organizing), a song in Spanish, and Still Ain’t Satisfied (written by Lockhart).

  • The Rubber Band performs Falling Spaces and Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues

    The Rubber Band performs “Falling Spaces” by Carolyn Brandy and “Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues” by Ida Cox, recorded at the Women on the Rise Concert at San Francisco State, November 13, 1976. Musicians: Rhiannon-vocals, Michele Rosewoman-keyboard, Carolyn Brandy-percussion, Annette Lipson-percussion, Marie Wilson-stand-up bass. Recording engineers Susan Elisabeth, Fran Tornabene, Martha Oelmann, Joan Medlin.