American Women — Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
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Majority report, June 3, 1982: NOW, Jewish Feminist Conference, Vida Gallery, survivors of Hiroshima
Ginny Z. Berson and Marci Lockwood host Majority Report, June 3, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Ginny Foat, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-California, discusses last-minute strategies to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment with Ginny Z. Berson — 3. A report by Marci Lockwood on the Jewish Feminist Conference held in…
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Women’s legal clinic: August 6, 1979- ERA
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The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 6, 1983
Production reel for the July 6, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. First segment is “The Utah papers,” excerpts from a journal of an ERA mission to Salt Lake City during the 1982 conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, written and read by Karen Perlman,…
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The Velvet Sledgehammer – August 26, 1980: Women’s Equality Day 1980
Edited selections from Women’s Equality Day rally in Bryant part 26 Aug 1980. Also called “Women 80.” 1980 marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Speeches focus on the the state of women in 1980. Part one opens with chanting, then a speech by Rosemary Gaffney. The…
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The end of E.R.A. news conference / Eleanor Smeal.
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Feminist forum : the Equal Rights Amendment / Carol Burris.
Carol Burris, National Organization for Women (NOW) and a coordinator of the Equal Rights Amendment, talks about the proposed Amendment. Burris discusses the fact that the 5th and 14th Amendments have not prevented discrimination against women in the areas of divorce, alimony and child support laws, labor laws, and military service regulations. She traces the…
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The Equal Rights Amendment : will it pass? / Brenda Feigen Fasteau ; interviewed by Jan Legnitto.
An interview with Brenda Feigen Fasteau, a coordinator of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, about the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and its possibility for passage by various states. Fasteau argues that “fringe” elements, particularly far-right conservatives, are driving the backlash against the amendment’s passage and outlines how the…
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Women and the military / produced by Carole Bennett, Laurie Garrett, Adi Gevins, and Karla Tonella
This program explores the actual effect on women currently in the military and what meaning the draft has for women especially in relationship to the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) and the feminist position against the military. The women interviewed for the program are Liz Rigali, chair of the California NOW Task Force on Women and…
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The Big swindles / produced by David Burket and Susan Richman.
“1976 THE BIG SWINDLES” produced by David Burket and Susan Richman. A somewhat sardonic look back at the news events of the bicentennial year 1976, and examination of what has happened in relation to these events, since. Topics include: Congressional sex scandals, Earl Butz, ERA and abortion legislation, the Moonies, the swine flu epidemic, and…