Somos Hermanas : embracing our sisters in solidarity / produced by Kris Welch, Katherine Davenport, and Cindy Madron.

Program Title:
Somos Hermanas : embracing our sisters in solidarity / produced by Kris Welch, Katherine Davenport, and Cindy Madron.
PRA Archive #: 
AZ0819
Description: 

Actuality from the first West Coast Conference on Women in Central America. Examines how women's oppression in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are laced with high infant mortality, illiteracy, hunger, unemployment, marginalized economic existence, torture, rape, and political oppression. Also examines the limited advances in Nicarauga.

r.1. Opening remarks / Carmen Vazques (53 min.) -- r.2. Keynote speakers from Nicaragua and El Salvador (39 min.) -- r.3. South African women and apartheird / Julianne Malveaux (25 min.) -- r.4. Panel / Digna Sancez, Eva Jefferson Patterson, Miriam Louie (54 min.) -- r.5. Panel conclusion (31 min.) -- r.6. Cultural event of March 9 : music of Carolyn Brandy Percussion Ensemble (34 min.) -- r.7. Panel : know your enemy, the legal risks involved in being an activist (37 min.) -- r.8. Workshop : our sisters in Nicaragua (48 min.).

r.1. Opening remarks / Carmen Vazques (53 min.) -- r.2. Keynote speakers from Nicaragua and El Salvador (39 min.) -- r.3. South African women and apartheird / Julianne Malveaux (25 min.) -- r.4. Panel / Digna Sancez, Eva Jefferson Patterson, Miriam Louie (54 min.) -- r.5. Panel conclusion (31 min.) -- r.6. Cultural event of March 9 : music of Carolyn Brandy Percussion Ensemble (34 min.) -- r.7. Panel : know your enemy, the legal risks involved in being an activist (37 min.) -- r.8. Workshop : our sisters in Nicaragua (48 min.).

Station: 
Date Recorded on: 
8-10 Mar. 1985.
Date Broadcast on: 
KPFA, June 1985.
Item duration: 
8 reels (321 min.) : 7 1/2 ips. mono.
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1985.
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