Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed).

  • Mabel Vernon : suffragist / produced by Melanie Maholick.

    Juanita Weaver interviews the suffragist who began organizing with the National Women’s Party in 1913 and worked for the Equal Rights Amendment until 1930.|MABEL VERNON: SUFFRAGIST / produced by Melanie Maholick. – Mabel Vernon began organizing in 1913 with the National Women’s Party for suffrage and continued until 1930 working for the Equal Rights Amendment.…

  • The women’s suffragist movement / Susan Rennie

    Feminist historian and co-editor of “The new woman’s survival catalog,” Susan Rennie talks about the suffragist movement with Helene Rosenbluth and Annette Hunt. Rennie discusses the early feminists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others…their efforts and accomplishments from 1848 to 1919. She speaks about the general opposition from the Church, and the linking…

  • The Equal Rights Amendment : will it pass? / Brenda Feigen Fasteau ; interviewed by Jan Legnitto.

    An interview with Brenda Feigen Fasteau, a coordinator of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, about the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and its possibility for passage by various states. Fasteau argues that “fringe” elements, particularly far-right conservatives, are driving the backlash against the amendment’s passage and outlines how the…

  • Women speak at the Democratic Convention

    Sonia Johnson (Mormons for ERA) rallies for ERA ratification; Paulina Cardenas provides a personal account in favor of abortion and reproductive rights, especially as it relates to underprivileged people and people living at the poverty level.

  • 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…

  • The Big swindles / produced by David Burket and Susan Richman.

    “1976 THE BIG SWINDLES” produced by David Burket and Susan Richman. A somewhat sardonic look back at the news events of the bicentennial year 1976, and examination of what has happened in relation to these events, since. Topics include: Congressional sex scandals, Earl Butz, ERA and abortion legislation, the Moonies, the swine flu epidemic, and…

  • Exerpt from Shoulder to shoulder / Midge McKenzie interviewed by Beverly Polokoff

    Midge MacKenzie, producer of the BBC documentary on women’s sufferage in England, “Shoulder to Shoulder,” compares the women’s rights movements in Britain and America. Interviewed by Beverly Polokoff. Originally produced for “Holding up more than half the sky.” Produced by the KPFK Women’s Coalition. This recording is just an excerpt from the complete 1 hour…