Women — Political activity.
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Helen Caldicott in Moscow / recorded by Helene Rosenbluth.
Caldicott’s first speech since her self-imposed “retirement” from the anti-nuclear movement. Given at the Woman’s International Democratic Federation sponsored conference, Towards The Year 2,000–Without Nuclear Weapons, Caldicott reflects on the insanity of nuclear technology, and the political problems within the anti-nuclear movement which pushed her toward retirement.|HELEN CALDICOTT IN MOSCOW / recorded by Helene Rosenbluth.…
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Women’s voices in the nuclear age / Robin Morgan ; introduced by Eduardo Villoseca.
Robin Morgan, author of Sisterhood is Powerful, and The Anatomy of Freedom, speaks at the Fate of the Earth Conference on the role women must play in ending the nuclear threat.|WOMEN’S VOICES IN THE NUCLEAR AGE / Robin Morgan| introduction by Eduardo Villoseca. – SERIES: The Fate of the Earth: Human Values in the Nuclear…
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Ourselves, our children / produced by Pearl Skotnes.
February 14th, 1979 episode of “Holding up more than half the sky”. Segments include: a tribute to Susan B. Anthony, including a dramatization of her trial for “having voted knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully”; Janet Dodson interviews Ruth Bell and Joan Ditzion, members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and co-authors of “Ourselves and our…
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The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.
A short documentary on the life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977), leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Includes Hamer’s recollections about the early civil rights movement. Hamer speaks about her early exposure to voting rights and her conversion to the campaign for human rights, about her torture at the hands of Mississippi…
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If you love this planet : the threat of American consumption / Helen Caldicott ; interviewed by Evelyn Tully Costa.
Dr. Helen Caldicott, noted environmental activist, discusses the basic conclusions set forth in her latest book, If You Love This Planet. She criticises American consumerism, the continued Federal expenditures on military projects over social services, and how transnationals have used money to persuade Congress to pass the GATT agreement. The result of a Western Hemisphere…
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Sheila Tobias speaks at the NOW conference, 1972; recorded by Lynne Robbins.
Sheila Tobias, Associate Provost of Wesleyan University, speaks on the programs for and problems with women achieving political power. Intro: The following program was recorded at the Connecticut State Conference of the National Organization for Women, held at Connecticut College in New London on August 26, 1972. This speech was recorded for WBAI by Lynne…
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W.I.L.P.F. organizer and lobbyist / Annalee Stewart ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
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Bettina Aptheker interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Bettina Aptheker discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson her reasons for being a Communist Party member, her experiences as a young woman, traveling in Europe, and various related subjects. Knight mentions that it has been a year since Sproul Hall and the FSM activities, and asks Aptheker to discuss where she thinks the student movement is…
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Indigenous women’s world view / produced by Pat Collins.
Tamika Watu (All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party), Fay Graes (National Island Women’s Association), Andrea Carmen (La Raza Unido Partido), Beatriz Rosales (PESCO), Patricia Serpas (AMES), and Agnes Williams (Women of All Red Nations), discuss how indigenous women are taking a lead in fighting Euramerican “development,” the forces of greed, and cultural genocide.
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Charlotte Bunch: organizing in the ’80s / interviewed by Karla Tonella
Charlotte Bunch talks about women organizing in the Reagan years. The mobilization organization needed in the changing political climate, the new theory that is needed, how we can test our politics are some of the topics covered in this interview conducted with Karla Tonella, KPFA, 9/81. Feminist strategies, organizations, and coalitions in the 1980s are…