American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Women organizing for decent housing / produced by Peggy Bray and Ann Arbogast

    This program focuses on how single mothers and Third World women are being threatened by discriminatory trends in the Berkeley housing market, through interviews, drama, music, and commentary. The program talks about Berkeley, but the same info applies to L.A., St. Louis, Washington, DC, or wherever. Contains actualities and music. Produced by Peggy Bray and…

  • Women and the military / produced by Carole Bennett, Laurie Garrett, Adi Gevins, and Karla Tonella

    This program explores the actual effect on women currently in the military and what meaning the draft has for women especially in relationship to the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) and the feminist position against the military. The women interviewed for the program are Liz Rigali, chair of the California NOW Task Force on Women and…

  • Doomsday / Helen Caldicott

    Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks before the American Association for Advancement of Science and Physicians for Social Responsibility, recorded January 5, 1980. Caldicott, a pediatrician and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, gives her horrifying account of what the world will be like after a nuclear war, giving examples of the radiation disease resulting from the…

  • Peggy Seeger at KPFA / produced by Susan Kernes

    Peggy Seeger visited KPFA and talked about performing, writing music, why she doesn’t call herself a feminist, and why women need to work together. Interspersed with the interview are excerpts from a performance at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, recorded by Tony Ferro on November 21, 1978. The interview was also recorded…

  • The Debt trap / Cheryl Payer interviewed by Laurie Garrett

    Cheryl Payer, author of “The Debt Trap” and member of the Rome Declaration Group, gives a critical analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, how loans disrupt developing economies, solutions to world poverty.

  • An Interview with Jessica Mitford / interviewed by Alan Snitow and Wendell Harper.

    An interview with author and journalist Jessica Mitford (b. 1917 – d. 1996) by KPFA’s Alan Snitow and Wendell Harper. She discusses techniques behind investigative reporting, such as using the language of the profession of the person you’re interviewing and not putting them on the defensive, and how to deal with negative reactions from interviewees.…

  • Teurai Ropa interviewed by Laurie Garrett

    Teurai Ropa (Amai Joice T.R. Mujuru) discusses the Zanu women’s movement in Zimbabwe and her role in it. Ropa, 25 years old at the time of the interview, was Secretary of Women’s Affairs in Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a member of the ZANU Central Committee, and a field commander with Zimbabwe African National Liberation…

  • Galicia, USSR / interview by William Mandel

    Jewish woman describes her life in Galicia (formerly “Galitsia”), Ukraine and her experiences with Ukrainians during WWII; her husband, a Jewish man discusses his experience fighting in the Soviet Army in WWII. Other people present participate in the conversation with questions and comments. A Jewish man, a weight-lifter, journalist, and former construction worker, and the…

  • Kirghizian woman interviewed by William Mandel

    First audio heard is William Mandel introducing the phone-in portion of the show (about 9 seconds), which is cut off and there is a brief news report on the PLO’s relations with Syria and Cairo, reported by Russ Stetler for Internews. At 35 seconds, an unidentified speaker announces Soviet Lives with William Mandel. Mandel says…

  • Central Asian woman interviewed by William Mandel

    On the previous episode of Soviet Lives, William Mandel interviewed a 16 year-old girl at her home in Samarqand (AZ0355). Her family were friends of a Russian journalist, whom was also an associate of Mandel. The two journalists were invited to the family’s home for dinner. While the father, a college teacher, prepared the meal…