Program
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Clips of women’s voices and issues
Tape labeled “Women’s” and contains a list of clips related to the women’s movement, reproductive rights, etc., beginning with 12-20-79 Activist Kim Klein (Coalition for Medical Rights of women) on IUD’s and ending with 1-22-83 10th Anniversary Roe vs. Wade, Roxanne Merryfield. Clips are from various Pacifica stations and are a mixture of actuality, news…
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We regret to inform you: a radio drama by Grace Cavalieri
This radio drama was written by Grace Cavalieri, directed by Dorothy Biondi [sp?], and consists of four characters: Doctor (Jeremy Gage); Nurse Jane (Ellen Mead); Nurse Brown (Kate van Burick); Allen (Cotter Smith). The story: a mad scientist has created the perfect machine. He hires a night watchman to stay with it until its heart…
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History of Black women’s movement
Compilation of three KPFA Majority Report news segments about Black women’s history. 1. Segment on Lorraine Hansberry (same as AZ0642.07) — 2. Segment on Marian Anderson (same as AZ0642.04, though read by a different person) — 3. Segment on Shirley Chisholm (not the same as AZ0642.04). No credits on tape, which appears to be a…
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Women Against Pornography Conference (1979): Welcome and Speakout
These four reels contain actuality from the Women Against Pornography Conference, which took place in New York City, September 15 & 16, 1979. Tape one includes bits from Saturday’s “Welcoming Remarks” including Dolores Alexander and Lynn Campbell, founders of Women Against Pornography (WAP, the audio is poor and choppy), and a “Speakout”, coordinated by Lynne…
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Kids talk about drugs / produced by Pamela Brooks
A Washington D.C. Public Schools Radio Project with several children (mostly Black) from Savoy Elementary School talking about their experiences with drugs, drug users, pushers, and why they hate drugs. One student, Angela Pyles [sp?] reads her poem “King Heroin.” Len Whitney is host, Pamela Brooks is producer, and Bob Frazer is engineer. Self-contained.
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Government surveillance and the control of women: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
This recording contains of excerpts (not complete) of the panel “Government Surveillance and the Control of Women” at the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The conference was held ca. June 16-18, 1981 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Speakers and talks were the following: Blanche Wiesen Cook of John Jay College on…
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Radiation victim advocate Janet Gordon and victim Gloria Gregerson interviewed by Eileen Zalisk
Production reel for a program produced by Eileen Zalisk, possibly Velvet Sledgehammer. Includes a speech by Joan Ruddock of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and an interview by Zalisk with Janet Gordon, Director of Citizen’s Call, a radiation victims organization in Utah, and Gloria Gregerson (1941-1983), a radiation victim.
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Jane Fonda and the Indochina Peace Campaign in Houston
Aircheck of an interview with Jane Fonda of the Indochina Peace Campaign, along with Bob Chenowith, a POW in North Vietnam for five years, and Jean-Pierre Debris, French school teacher arrested in South Vietnam for distributing leaflets and jailed for 2.5 years. The guests note that POWs are being kept in tiger cages in South…