Swerdlow, Amy

  • Government surveillance and the control of women: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

    This recording contains of excerpts (not complete) of the panel “Government Surveillance and the Control of Women” at the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The conference was held ca. June 16-18, 1981 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.  Speakers and talks were the following: Blanche Wiesen Cook of John Jay College on…

  • Women’s Pentagon Action Rally

    Banded reel of actuality from the Women’s Pentagon Action on November 17, 1980, held in Washington, D.C, during which over two thousand women surrounded the Pentagon to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the destruction of the Earth and the oppression of women. Begins with a reading of the Statement of Purpose for the Action…