Radio news programs

  • Clips of women’s voices and issues

    Tape labeled “Women’s” and contains a list of clips related to the women’s movement, reproductive rights, etc., beginning with 12-20-79 Activist Kim Klein (Coalition for Medical Rights of women) on IUD’s and ending with 1-22-83 10th Anniversary Roe vs. Wade, Roxanne Merryfield. Clips are from various Pacifica stations and are a mixture of actuality, news…

  • Women’s News: July 14, 1980

    Women’s News on KPFA with Helen Mickiewicz and Julia Randall, July 14, 1980. Contents: 1. News items concerning the GOP dropping the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform: includes actuality of NOW members protesting at the Republican Campaign Headquarters in San Francisco, reported by Trey Aarons [sp?]; 2. News items concerning the Hyde Amendment: includes…

  • Women’s News: October 13, 1980

    Women’s News for KPFA, October 13, 1980. The anchors are Julia Randall and Helen Mickiewicz. Segments: 1. Abortion fund limits: State control of Medicaid; 2. Sterilization laws in California, mandatory consent; 3. San Francisco Women’s Building struck by pipe bomb – features interviews with Women’s Building staff members; 4. Resignation of Mary Cunningham as Senior…

  • Majority report, January 21, 1982

    Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for January 21, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Berson talks with Chris Carroll, station manager of WRFG in Atlanta, Georgia, and chairman of the Women’s Advisory Committee of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) about women in public broadcasting — 3. Paci Hammond…

  • Majority report, February 18, 1982: Shirley Chisholm and Maya Angelou #1

    Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for February 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. A report by NPR’s Jo Ann Allen on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY), who the week before had announced her retirement from politics, followed by an interview with Chisholm — 3. The first part of a three-segment…

  • Majority report, May 13, 1982: Hansberry, Mother’s Day March, Studio W

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 13, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. A birthday tribute to playwright Lorraine Hansberry produced by Ginny Z. Berson; includes audio from a performance of her play “A Raisin in the Sun” and an excerpt from a TV interview with Hansberry by Mike Wallace…

  • Majority report, June 3, 1982: NOW, Jewish Feminist Conference, Vida Gallery, survivors of Hiroshima

    Ginny Z. Berson and Marci Lockwood host Majority Report, June 3, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Ginny Foat, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-California, discusses last-minute strategies to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment with Ginny Z. Berson — 3. A report by Marci Lockwood on the Jewish Feminist Conference held in…

  • Majority report, November 4, 1982: Davis women fight back, Z Budapest play, Abortion rights and elections.

    Marci Lockwood and Peggy Bray host Majority Report, November 4, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Karen Sundheim speaks with Joanne Ball and Ann Marie Wagstaff from Davis Women Fight Back on the disruption of the recent Take Back the Night event at UC Davis by fraternities, with a comment by Intra-Fraternity Council President…

  • Majority report, November 18, 1982: Schlafly v. English, Olivia’s 10th Birthday, Update on Silkwood, Planetary conjunction

    Marci Lockwood and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, November 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Highlights from anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly and Mother Jones editor Deirdre English’s debate on the role of women in San Francisco on November 17, 1982 — 3. Julia Randall reports on the preparations for Olivia Records’ 10th…

  • Majority report, December 2, 1982: Tina Fishman, Bay Area women in music

    Reyna Cowan and Pam Scola host Majority Report, December 2, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Marci Lockwood reports on the case of Tina Fishman, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party who lost custody of her daughter to her ex-husband for what she maintains are her political beliefs; features interviews with Fishman and Paul…