International Women’s Day

  • Which side are you on? / produced by Susan Anderson.

    Susan Anderson hosts an episode of “Richland woman” in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, 1978. She presents music of the working woman for the holiday, and the program was rebroadcast for Labor Day that year. Songs heard on the program are: Barbara Dane, “Working class woman”; Carmen Moreno and Los Lobos, “Corrido de…

  • International struggle for abortion rights.

    On March 10, 1973, the Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition (WONAAC) held on International Women’s Solidarity Day Meeting at Town Hall in New York City. The subject wsa the history and progress of the International Strugggle for Abortion Rights. Speakers from the United States, Canada, France, Belgium, and Britain gave a history of abortion from…

  • Women and the New Right / produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

    On Saturday, March 7, 1981, Los Angeles City College sponsored a day of panels celebrating International Women’s Day. Erica Silverman of the Jewish Feminist Coalition and Cecily Kahn of the Southern California Anti-Klan Network spoke on the rise of the New Right. Silverman voices her concerns about anti-Semitism infiltrating both the right and the left…

  • Asian American women vs. the women’s movement

    Panel discussion between Asian-American women on how racism, ageism, and classism have corrupted the women’s movement. The panelists are Rina Hirai, former member of NOW’s National Task Force on Women in Poverty; Siew-Hwa Beh, co-founder of the periodical Women & Film; Chris Kobayashi and Giselle Dohan (the latter two unidentified in the program). Produced by…