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The third collage, produced by the San Francisco Women's Liberation Media Project, to further the struggle for women's liberation. Includes brief segments concerning the treatment of Black Panther Peggy Hudgins in jail; the Catholic Church's filling of convents with peasant girls from poor countries; the mistreatment of striking women employees at Safeway during the grape boycott; gender discrimination at Newsweek; reports on war atrocities in Vietnam, including rape and murder of women; the disruption of a wedding on the UC Berkeley campus by the Contra Costa Anti-Rape Squad; women protesting the sale of sexist banners in Williamstown, MA; the formation of women's liberation groups in India and China; and satirical takes on advertising directed towards women. Pre-recorded music woven between each segment. None of the speakers are introduced.

A member of Mothers for Peace, the organization which brought a lawsuit against the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, delivers an unsolicited address from the floor of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensing Board hearing in San Luis Obispo in Summer 1981. Contains sensitive language.

Tape label: "According to Mothers for Peace, the legal intervenors in the Diablo Canyon case, local opposition to the plant has sky-rocketed over the last 2 months, as the licensing date drew near and as the people of San Luis began to realize that Federal authorities were not going to keep the plant from opening. For many San Luis residents, that realization came during the most recent set of license hearings held in their town."

Sappho. The lyrics of the Greek poetess born between 615-612 BC are read by Beryl Grafton, accompanied by Daniel Moore on the harp.

Speeches and interviews given by Free Speech Movement defendants as they are sentenced, enter, or are released from the Santa Rita detention center for their activities three years prior. Narrator Elsa Knight Thompson explains how on June 12, 1967 the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the Free Speech Movement case, she reads the appeal brief, and speaks of the details of the sentencing of the participants of the Sit-In at Sproul Hall in December 1964. On June 21, 1967 they began serving their sentences for trespassing and refusal to disperse during the sit-in. In 1967 a rally was held to honor those now being sentenced and serving. At the rally, Anita Levine speaks about her experience at Santa Rita Jail. She describes her day-to-day life in jail. English Professor Thomas Parkinson reads from an FSM student's letter from Santa Rita. Roberta Alexander, a FSM defendant and a student, speaks about her recent experience in Spain and being expelled from the country and forced to serve this sentence. Several other speakers address the crowd about the police brutality and their thoughts on FSM, including Hal Draper, Chairman of the Independent Socialist Club and editor of the journal New Politics, John Searle, Professor of Philosophy, FSM leader Bettina Aptheker, who served her sentence while 7 months pregnant, and Mario Savio is interviewed. Produced by the News and Public Affairs Department at KPFA.