Domestic violence

  • Sojourner’s Journal: Battered women

    Sojourner’s Journal hosted Yasmine Pierre. Today’s episode is about battered women, and the guest is Carolyn Rice of the Brooklyn Legal Services.

  • Battered women

    Recordings from a conference on battered women sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee in February 1977. The recording includes testimony from battered women as well as historical information on the oppression of women, legal aspects, and ways of overcoming this problem. Produced by Kimberly Willis for WBAI.

  • Poetry from Violence (Edited) / Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco

    Poetry from Violence (edited version), a poetry reading in conjunction with the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women (to be held December 4 & 5, 1976). This reading was held at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, November 19, 1976. Contents: Intro by Ruth Hughes, who reads a poem; Kathy Barr: A Woman Is Sitting…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: November 26, 1982

    Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Lucy Gilbert, psychotherapist in private practice specializing in work with women who have experienced violence in their lives and Paula Webster, co-director of the Institute for the Study of Sex in Society and History, about their book Bound by Love: The Sweet Trap of Daughterhood (Beacon Press, 1982).

  • Sojourn Shelter for Battered Women

    This program was produced to be broadcast during Domestic Violence Awareness Week. This interview with Dorothy Hudson of the Sojourn Shelter for battered women, in Los Angeles, takes up some of the issues. Interview conducted and program produced by Jeannie Pool.

  • Democracy Now! June 17 , 2002

    POET AND ACTIVIST JUNE JORDAN DIES |The great poet and activist June Jordan died on Friday. She was the most-published African-American in history. And, on the thirtieth anniversary of Watergate, we’ll talk to one of the greatest whistleblowers in US history Proposed constitutional reforms in Bolivia spark a nationwide march for “popular sovereignty, territory and…

  • Democracy Now! August 13, 1997

    CIA Documents; Domestic Violence; Moon and the Republican Right |(14 Minutes) CIA Documents CIA coming under fire re: stonewalling the release of decades-old documents. It is making an official US diplomatic history the target of ridicule and scorn. GUEST: Warren F. Kimball, prof. of American diplomatic history of Rutgers University. He is the head of…

  • Domestic violence / produced by Brad Cleveland

    A short documentary consisting of interviews with battered women and women involved in providing support services to these women. Guests include the director and some volunteers at WAVES (Women Against Violence Emergency Services) in Berkeley. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / produced by Bradley Cleveland. Recorded: by Philip Maldari, Feb. 1980. Broadcast: KPFA, Feb. 1980. Produced by Bradley…