Women for Racial and Economic Equality (Organization)

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 2, 1980: WREE Seminar on Racism

    Production reel for the July 2, 1980 episode of the Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains excerpts from the Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) Seminar on Racism- a conference on racial discrimination (1980). First speaker (unnamed) introduces the seminar. Second speaker (unnamed). The second speaker (unnamed, possibly South African), asking for world to enforce U.N. mandate…

  • Report back from Copenhagen

    Tapes edited and selected from “Report back from Copenhagen,” an event for women to report back from the the mid-decade World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, which took place in Copenhagen in September 1980. The event was sponsored by Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE). Speakers include Walteen Grady, president of…

  • Everywomanspace: November 1, 1982

    Aircheck of Everywomanspace with Angela Gilliam from November 1, 1982. The guests are Sonja Dean Williams and Cecilia McCall from the group Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE). The theme for the evening’s discussion is childcare versus warfare. Includes listener phone calls.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 30, 1980 (Part 1 only)

    This is the production reel for the July 30, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. This recording contains a reading by Kate Millet of her statement denouncing death by stoning of Iranian women in Iran. Next is Eileen Zalisk interviewing Marge DeFazio about Women 80 and a planned march down 5th Ave upcoming on August…

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women

    This is the first tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) recorded in Spring 1981. In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits from racism, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to…