Women Strike for Peace

  • Lysistrata’s daughters / produced by Trevor Thomas and John Harris

    Documentary on the Women’s Strike for Peace organization, founded by Dagmar Wilson and Bella Abzug. This program includes actualities from the United Nations Plaza protest for peace. One participant says their motivation is “Emotional, not political. We want to save our children.” Actualities, interviews, speeches over megaphone. Includes interview with Dagmar Wilson, co-founder of Women…

  • Women strike for peace / discussion moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    A panel of women organizing for peace are moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson. They all received and responded to a form letter from Dagmar Wilson, urging them to spread the word to all of their contacts regarding disarmament. Frances Herring is the only participant identified by both first and last name. The other women on…

  • Hal Draper’s commentary on the San Francisco Examiner’s attack on Women for Peace

    Hal Draper, socialist activist and author comments on the San Francisco Examiner’s attack on Women for Peace, which had been holding demonstrations all over the country against bomb testing. In an article printed in the San Francisco Examiner on Monday, May 21, 1962, it was suggested that the Women for Peace movement was infiltrated and…