Women revolutionaries.

  • Bernadette Devlin speech on Northern Ireland

    Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947), a leader of the Catholic Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s, gives a speech about the recent history of Northern Ireland since its creation in the 1920’s. She also gives a history of religious conflict and the women’s peace movement in Northern Ireland. Introduced by Mark Weiss.

  • Reds : politics or romance? / Robert Rosenstone ; with Nancy Hollander.

    Rosenstone, author of John Reed’s biography, discusses the history of the film, its metaphors and its use of witnesses; art and revolution; and Louise Bryant. Includes phone interviews with Judith Evans, the post-production researcher, and Carolyn Porter of U.C. Berkeley.

  • Nicaragua : the women / produced by Molly Boster.

    During a June 1981 trip to Nicaragua, a group of KPFK listeners met with Yvonne Siu and Gloria Carrion of AMNLAE, the Nicaraguan National Women’s Association. They discuss the integration of women in that country’s revolution, the role of women in the revolution, the problems they face now, health care, contraception, nutrition, and the unresolved…

  • Women In Arms / Victoria Schultz interviewed by Norma Smith

    Interview with Victoria Schultz film-maker regarding her film “Women In Arms” about the Nicaraguan revolution, beginning with the general strike in June 1979 and culminating on July 17, 1979 with the overthrow of the Samosa family dictatorship. Schultz visited the KPFA studios in February 1981 to talk with Mariah Gallardon and Norma Smith about her…

  • International women, past and present / produced by Pearl Skotnes.

    A documentary celebrating the history of women in political struggle: Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Alexandra Kollontai, La Pasionara (Dolores Ibárruri), women in the French Revolution, and South African women under apartheid. Music by Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, and Joan Baez. Includes a performance of the African National Anthem (N’Kosi Sikelel’ iAfrika) sung by African people.…