American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • KPFA Evening News: a KPFA aircheck from Oct. 29, 1981. produced by Aileen Alfandary and Mark Mericle

    The News: a KPFA aircheck from October 29, 1981 / produced by Aileen Alfandary and Mark Mericle. Broadcast: Berkeley: KPFA, October 29, 1981. |Stories reported: United States economy plunge; President Reagan’s approval rating; Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike (Tim Frasca reporting from Washington, D.C.); Three new unions created in California: the American Federation of…

  • A Feminist view of St. Patrick / produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy.

    In this brief program, KPFA’s Padraigin McGillicuddy discusses the pre-Christian acolytes of the ancient goddess Danu, then moves to the Brehon, or Early Irish Law of medieval Ireland, and the introduction of Saint Patrick. The status of women as it changed from Pagan Ireland to Christian Ireland is discussed. Appears to be different in content…

  • Older men, older women / Lucy Forrest (April 22, 1980)

    This program, part of KPFA’s regular series for and about the elderly, is an interview by Harry Sheer and Teddy Lewis with Lucy Forrest. Forrest recently returned from a visit to Vietnam and Cambodia (Kampuchea). She went to those two countries as a representative of both the International League for Peace and Freedom, and the…

  • Soviet nuclear power plants / Helen Caldicott interviewed by William Mandel

    Dr. Helen Caldicott talks of Soviet nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons, SALT II, and Afghanistan. The distinguished Australian medical researcher, now living in the United States, visited the USSR last Fall with a delegation of the American Friends Service Committee. This Quaker group had very high-level talks in the USSR, going frankly into many questions…

  • Latvian women / William Mandel

    Interview with a 36-year old woman of white formerly-tribal Livonian minority within Latvia, which is in turn a republic of the Soviet Union. Born into an extremely poor family of fisherfolks “bread was a holiday dish” (they lived on potatoes and a little fish). She now has a PhD and studies relationships people-to-people among socialist…

  • On the road to the 1980 Democratic National Convention.

    Actualities — Democratic Party Convention coverage. New York, 1980 (Aug.) Includes: Ron Dellums, Gene LaRoque, Bella Abzug, Leo McCarthy, Coretta Scott King, Jerry Brown, Phyllis Schlafly, Jimmy Carter, Majorie Phyfe, Harvey Milk, and the voices of several male and female reporters, including Brenda Wilson. Opens with recording of phone call that gets repeated twice. Much…

  • Where I’ve been: writings by Valerie Miner and Sandy Boucher / produced by Julia Randall

    Feminist authors Valerie Miner and Sandy Boucher read from their works on treks through time and cross-country. Valerie Miner’s “Movement” (Crossing Press, New York) follows one woman (ad)venturing through the 1970’s — a story told by many characters, from many walks of life. Sandy Boucher’s “Heartwomen: an Urban Feminist’s Odyssey Home” (Harper and Row) chronicles…

  • I don’t like atheists very much / Madalyn Murray O’Hair

    A speech and question-and-answer session by Madalyn Murray O’Hair, an atheist, and the moving force behind numerous atheist institutions. In this speech delivered at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Houston in June 1971, O’Hair catalogs 57 varieties of atheists and explains her contempt of them. Both the speech and the Q&A period have been cut…

  • Women living in communes.

    Five U.C. Berkeley women students discuss their experiences living in communes. The discussion, with women from the Campus Women’s Forum audience, brings out both the difficulties encountered and the advantages available from this kind of living situation for a woman, and probably dispels several myths about communal living. Contains sensitive language.

  • A Visit with Annea Lockwood / with interview by Charles Amirkhanian.

    One of the most remarkable avant-garde composers in the world is Annea Lockwood, who was born in 1939 in New Zealand.  Charles Amirkhanian visits her at her home in the English countryside to find out about her remarkable sonic experiments. Lockwood’s “Glass Concert” and “Tiger Balm” are heard, and you will take a walk through…