American Women — Activists

  • Clips of women’s voices and issues

    Tape labeled “Women’s” and contains a list of clips related to the women’s movement, reproductive rights, etc., beginning with 12-20-79 Activist Kim Klein (Coalition for Medical Rights of women) on IUD’s and ending with 1-22-83 10th Anniversary Roe vs. Wade, Roxanne Merryfield. Clips are from various Pacifica stations and are a mixture of actuality, news…

  • Perspectives on criminal justice: Women in and after prison

    Perspectives on Criminal Justice for August 19, 1981, likely the first episode. Guest is Sister Mary Nerney, Executive Director of Project Green Hope, a residence for women who have been recently released from prison.  Host is Tom O’Connor, and they discuss women in prison and prison reform.

  • Interview with members of NOW-New York Chapter

    Judy Pasternak interviews two members of the New York chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) about the organization and why they each joined it. The guests are Noreen Connell (1947 – ), president of New York Chapter of NOW, and Cathy Roche(Raush/Rauch/Rouch), who is running for president of NOW-NY. Date of broadcast unknown…

  • Black Awareness: Ti-Grace Atkinson

    Feminist author and activist Ti-Grace Atkinson discusses her involvement with the feminist movement and her decision to leave the Women’s Liberation group. Atkinson also discusses Mayor John Lindsay asking Gloria Steinem to mobilize the women’s movement to support moving welfare recipients from hotels into abandoned housing near Floyd Bennett Field. Hosted by Deloris Costello.

  • Florynce Kennedy speaks at Memorial Church in New York City

    Flo (Florynce) Kennedy (1916-2000) speech given at “Memorial Church [New York City]” advocating peace activism. [Unclear from label of location–Judson Memorial Church? Memorial Baptist Church?] Theme of the meeting is “Swords into Plowshares.” She promotes personal powers of the body, dollar, and vote to change the pathology of oppression and the oppressive system. She uses…

  • 1981 Abortion Rally in New York City

    Speakers at a rally in New York City on abortion and equal rights for women, circa June 1981. Speakers include Carolina Castillo, representative of the Executive Council of the General Association of Salvadoran University Students (in Spanish, with English translation); an unidentified speaker who discusses upcoming ERA rally in front of the New York Public…

  • Vanessa Redgrave: candidate for Parliament / Paul McIsaac

    Vanessa Redgrave, campaigning for a seat in Parliament for the Worker’s Revolutionary Party (Redgrave is a Marxist and a famous actress), canvasses council housing, or low income houses, in Great Britain and is recorded doing so and defending her politics to a reporter in this program by Paul McIsaac (WBAI reporter) during his visit to…

  • Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett

    Poetry readings by Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, recorded at St. Peter’s Church in New York City, March 7, 1979, and a talk by Kate Millett recorded at Judson Memorial Church, May 4th, 1979. Poems read by Rich include: 2:21–“For Julian in Nebraska”, 5:32–“The Image” (1976 trip to Crete), 13:20–“Spring 1979” (unfinished poem). Poems read…

  • Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett (Part 2 of 2)

    This reel (Part 2 of 2) continues a talk by Kate Millet about her visit to Iran and the March 8 International Women’s Day March protest against the Shah’s corrupt government that she experienced. Millett’s comments from the Judson Memorial Church on May 4th.

  • Phumzile Zulu interviewed by Laurie Garrett

    Laurie Garrett interviews Phumzile Zulu at the 11th Annual People’s World Banquet at Goodman’s, Jack London Hall in Oakland, California, November 15, 1980. Phumile Zulu is a 23 year old South African woman living in exile in Morogoro, Tanzania. She was part of the Soweto Movement and was a prominent student leader at Zulu University…