Radio call-in shows

  • Labor fights for the ERA

    This episode of “Them and Us” is asking “Should labor unions support ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?”. Hosts are Carmen Delle Donne and Karen Boyd. Guests are Lizzie Corban, Sarah Nelson, and Susan Holleran. Includes live call-ins. Broadcast 1-19-78 Thursday, 7:00pm-8:00pm.

  • Phone-in questions (Part 4 of 4)

    This is the fourth and final program produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. In this live program, Tompkins answers questions from call-in listeners, but first plays a 15…

  • Soviet lives (Series record)

    William Mandel was a United Press expert on Russia in World War II and a post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University in 1947. He taught at Syracuse, UC Berkeley, San Francisco, and San Jose State Universities, and Law School of Golden Gate University. Mandel visited the USSR nine times at the time of this series, including…

  • The death of George Jackson

    George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers, was killed in San Quentin prison on August 21, 1971, three days before his trial for the 1970 murder of prison guard John Mills was to commence. Once the news got out, KPFA reporters rushed to San Quentin to start reporting on the scene. All previously scheduled programming…

  • Roland Young, Seale, Craven on George Jackson (Part 2 of 2)

    Continuation of the panel discussion moderated by Roland Young, with guests Bobby Seale and Carolyn Craven, regarding the death of George Jackson. This part of the program consists of panel interaction with listeners calling in, including a statement from the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of New York, who announce an upcoming demonstration in New York.

  • Orange Tuesday Reaction / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective

    Fruit Punch produced this program the day after Dade County voters denied gay people their civil rights. Featured are news feeds from around the country, national reaction to the Dade County vote denying gay people civil rights. Contains actuality, Paul Harvey, Anita Bryant, listener call-ins, coverage of a spontaneous demonstration in San Francisco, and Bryant’s…

  • Roland Young, Seale, Craven on George Jackson (Part 1 of 2)

    Roland Young moderates a discussion between Bobby Seale and Carolyn Craven on the implications of George Jackson’s death. At the beginning of the program, Bobby Seale reads a statement written by Huey P. Newton, who was incarcerated at the time, in reaction to the death of George Jackson. Also includes interviews with callers listening to…

  • Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel

    Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel. Soviet news stories on world events. Phone-ins. pt.1. story on the escape of Assata Shakur, a Black woman poet, from a U.S. prison. — pt.2. stories about Iranian embassy takeover. — pt.3. phone-ins.

  • Woman’s magazine editor interviewed by William Mandel

    1. Mandel bawls out audience for its behavior the previous week* (Duration 17 minutes) 2. Translated interview with editor of Ukrainian women’s magazine Radianska Zhinka (which means Soviet Woman in Ukrainian) in USSR, who holds a PhD. This portion has the Russian playing in the right channel, while Mandel translates into English in the left…

  • Income trend in the Soviet Union ; Women in the Soviet Union / William Mandel

    Soviet Press and Periodicals. Regular weekly show on KPFA, hosted by top Soviet Analyst William Mandel. Position of women in medical science is highlighted. Contains phone-ins. Mandel states it is his 20th annual program for International Woman’s Day. Program begins with an answer to the last week’s question regarding the Soviet income spread. (From label)…