Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

  • 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…

  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom conference, 1981

    Two speakers at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom conference, recorded May 27, 1981. Joanna [no last name given] on U.S. strategic policy and its impact on Europe; 24:00–Edith Ballantyne, General Secretary for the League Office in Geneva, Switzerland speaks about her European perspective on the U.S. armament policy.

  • 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…

  • Blanche Cooke on Crystal Eastman

    Blanche Cooke talks about the life and work of Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), a radical, feminist, and socialist, and an attorney who graduated from the NYU law school in 1907. She was the first women New York State commissioner advocating for workers compensation, and she founded the Women’s International Peace Movement, now called the Women’s International…

  • WILPF: Women speak out

    Talking today about the arms race. Produced by Lois Hamer- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

  • The challenge of the selective service system / Evelyn Whitehorn; introduced by Ruth Gage-Colby

    Mrs. Evelyn Whitehorn speaks before the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom February 7, 1969. Mrs. Whitehorn is involved in litigation resulting from her refusal to allow her son Eric to register with the Selective Service system. Ruth Gate Colby emcees. Recording ends abruptly.

  • Peace for Southeast Asia : a woman’s perspective / Ruth Cadwalader ; interviewed and produced by Sue Supriano.

    Cadwalader, Chair of the Asian Pacific Committee, U.S. section, for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, discusses her experiences in Southeast Asia over the last 30 years. She traces her work in Thailand with women refugees from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. She also discusses her concern about the legacy of United States involvement…

  • Older men, older women / Lucy Forrest (April 22, 1980)

    This program, part of KPFA’s regular series for and about the elderly, is an interview by Harry Sheer and Teddy Lewis with Lucy Forrest. Forrest recently returned from a visit to Vietnam and Cambodia (Kampuchea). She went to those two countries as a representative of both the International League for Peace and Freedom, and the…