American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
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The California grape strike / reported by Nanette Rainone.
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Abortion : what now? / produced by Bob Kuttner and Nanette Rainone.
Examination of New York’s liberal abortion laws which went into effect on July 1, 1970. This program asks whether women are better off now under the new laws, whether poor people can now get abortions in public facilities, and what health institutions are doing to prepare for the results of the new law. Includes interviews…
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Everyone was brave / William L. O’Neill interviewed by Nanette Rainone
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Radical feminists : the Stanton-Anthony Brigade / interviews by Kay Lindsey.
Kay Lindsey discusses the group, New York Radical Feminists, with members of its Stanton/Anthony Brigade, Martha Gershun, Anne Koedt, and Diane Crothers. The group is composed of “brigades” and “phalanxes.” The Stanton/Anthony Brigade, named for Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is new and thus far has organized itself and has formulated the New…
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What every woman should know about abortion / Dr. Robert E. Hall ; interviewed by Mary Orovan
Dr. Robert E. Hall, President of the Association for the Study of Abortion discusses his activities. Hall is also a practicing obstetrician, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia Medical Center, and is an activist for abortion reform. Mary Orovan interviews Dr. Hall on what women can do if faced with an unwanted…
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Dolores Huerta : Vice President of the United Farm Workers / interviewed by Maria Huffman.
Dolores Huerta, Vice President of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee discusses the Delano grape strike, racial discrimination, and farm work with WBAI’s Maria Huffman. She describes the exploitative conditions of California farm workers, the lack of recourse available to non-unionized underpaid agricultural laborers, and how the UFW was able to secure union contracts with…