Children – Pacifica Radio Archives

Women and the world in the 1980s: February 26, 1982

Blanche Wiesen Cook hosts. Interview with Ruth Meyers, one of the founders of Women Strike for Peace and a child psychologist and Kathy Engel, poet, co-director of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability who is active in the Anti-Klan Network. The program begins with a call-in from Theresa Funicello of the Downtown Welfare Advocacy…

August 24, 2025

Democracy Now! September 4, 1998

Rwanda; Million Youth March; March Continued -Issues/Media; Leadership |(2 Minutes) Rwanda (12 Minutes) Million Youth March Sept. 5 youth are expected to gather in Harlem for the Million Youth March. The March is convened by Khallid Mohhamed, the controversial former Nation of Islam Speaker who has been highly criticized for his negative remarks about jews,…

August 24, 2025

Democracy Now! September 23, 1997

Smithsonian Controversy; Nike and Human Rights Abuses; Korea |(14 Minutes) Smithsonian Controversy 46 members of Congress last wek wrote to teh Smithsonian Institution in support of an exhibition on sweatshops at the National Museum of American History. The show is called Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Dialogue on American Sweatshops 1820- to…

August 24, 2025

Democracy Now!

Fast Track Legislation; Juvenile Justice; Chicago Juvenile Cases |(14 Minutes) Fast Track Legislation A look at the fast track bill that is going through Congress. fast track legislation would allow the president to put forward trade agreements and treaties which Congress could not ammend. GUEST: Dan Seligman, dir. of the Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Campaign.…

August 24, 2025

Democracy Now! September 3, 1997

Car Safety; Shool and Testing; Education and Crime |(14 Minutes) Car Safety Discussion on automobile safety, especially with seat belts and airbags. GUEST: Joan Claybrook, pres. Public Citizen. (14 Minutes) School and Testing The issue of testing remains a contested topic among many educators, parents, and activists. GUEST: Monty Neill, assoc. dir. of National Center…

August 24, 2025

Democracy Now! September 5, 1997

Campaign Finance Abuse Hearings; Bounty Hunters; Wall Street and Public Education |(4 Minutes) Campaign Finance Abuse Hearings Hearings resumed yesterday. Testimony from 3 Buddhist nuns, invonved in teh Sdi Lai Temple findraiser. GUEST: Don Rush, Pacifica Network News reporter. (19 Minutes) Bounty Hunters Recent case of bounty hunters raiding a house and held family at…

August 24, 2025

The Fragile Promise of Choice

Documents rise of anti-choice minority 20 years after Roe vs. Wade landmark decision. since 1977, there have been over 12, 000 incidents of violence at abortion clinics in North America-including the cold-blooded murders of many doctors who pergorm the prcedures. In addition to harassment, protests, and bomb threats at clinics, there are new legal restriction…

August 24, 2025

Democracy Now! January 11, 1999

Essay on Impeachment , the Sentate and the Supreme Court; The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day; Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages |(6 Minutes) Essay on Impeachment, the Senate and the Supreme Court, Amy Goodman (8 Minutes)The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day A federal judge ruled that the Ku Klux Klan…

August 24, 2025

Revolution for breakfast

Jeff Kamen narrates this audio documentary about the Free Breakfast for School Children program put on by the Black Panthers and the Young Lords throughout the United States. Includes interviews with Joan Kelly, national coordinator of the Free Breakfast program; Bobby Rush, Chicago Black Panther Party Minister of Defense; Jimmy Johnson, coordinator of Free Breakfast…

August 24, 2025

Emergency conference on runaway children : II.

Actuality of the children, parents, ministers, and psychiatrists working with juveniles.

August 24, 2025