Antinuclear movement — United States

  • Rukeyser Reading Series: Grace Paley and Allen Ginsberg interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

    Rukeyser Reading Program on the Air. Part one: [30 min.] Dennis Bernstein interviews Grace Paley about her fight against the nuclear madness in America. She talks about the big lie about civil defense and the history of struggle against the evil effects of nuclear science and what can be done. Need for renewable resource living.…

  • Dark Circle: interview with the producers / Julia Randall

    Judy Irving and Ruth Landry, co-director/writer and producer, respectively, of the anti-nuclear documentary film Dark Circle (1982), are interviewed by Julia Randall of KPFA’s Women’s Department. Irving and Landry talk about plutonium pollution and how nuclear power and weapons affect everyday people, and their specific focus on women as the leading voices of the anti-nuclear…

  • Medical consequences of nuclear war symposium

    This is a series of lectures delivered at the Medical Consequences of Nuclear War symposium organized by Physicians for Social Responsibility. Recorded by KPFK at the University of California, Los Angeles on October 31, 1981. |Contents: reel 1. Helen Caldicott — reel 2. John Kenneth Galbraith on economic consequences — reel 3. H. Jack Geiger…

  • Disarmament now! / Linus Pauling and Henry Way Kendall (Episode 1 of 4)

    Disarmament Now! Episode 1 of 4. Linus Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) and Professor Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999). Professor Kendall, MIT, describes the results of nuclear warfare, how the USSR is vulnerable to nuclear attack, how it would affect the ozone shield and therefore us. His…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 4, 1980

    Production reel for June 4, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Includes recording of Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000) speaking on ways women can use boycotting as a way of protest; activist Freda Rosen (1945– 2007) is interviewed about the Coalition of Grassroots Women and the upcoming Women’s Convention (June 22, 1980); 3. Judith Loren[sp?] and…

  • Working together / produced by Ralph Steiner.

    Examination of the people in and the expansion of the anti-nuclear movement.

  • Katya and her struggle behind bars / interviewed by Nancy Clark.

    Telephone interview with Katya Komisaruk, a 29 year old MBA from U.C. Berkeley who has been sentence to 5 years in Federal prison for destroying the NORAD computer at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. She pleaded not guilty, basing her defense upon the Nuremberg principle–a private citizen can oppose the actions of their government if…

  • Lysistrata’s daughters / produced by Trevor Thomas and John Harris

    Documentary on the Women’s Strike for Peace organization, founded by Dagmar Wilson and Bella Abzug. This program includes actualities from the United Nations Plaza protest for peace. One participant says their motivation is “Emotional, not political. We want to save our children.” Actualities, interviews, speeches over megaphone. Includes interview with Dagmar Wilson, co-founder of Women…

  • That jackass across the street / Derrel Myers interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    “That jackass across the street” is what a neighbor called Derrel Myers when he launched his 30-day vigil on the steps of the Atomic Energy Commission in Berkeley, to dramatize his support of the Everyman 1 crew serving 30-day sentence for its sailing. Everyman I and II were American boats that sailed from San Francisco…

  • The Battle for Bodega Head / produced by John McIntyre.

    Documentary on the fight of residents near Bodega Head to keep Pacific Gas and Electric from building a nuclear power plant in the area.