American Women — Peace and Antinuclear activism

  • Nuclear disarmament: moving forward / Charlene Spretnak, Willis Harman and Bill Wahpepah

    An excerpt from the “Nuclear Disarmament: Moving Forward” conference sponsored by Meeting of the Ways, held in San Francisco, September 23-25, 1983. Charlene Spretnak (1946 – ), author and ecofeminist, speaks about the founding ideas of the Green Party in Germany and how it influenced the nascent American Green Party. Willis Harman (1918 – 1997),…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: November 6, 1982 (Production reel)

    Production reel containing excerpts for the June 8, 1982 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Part one contains clips of Helen Caldicott speaking about the threat of nuclear weapons; part two contains an unnamed speaker (Parsons?) at an Upper West Side Manhattan, NY town meeting on nuclear freeze and nuclear reduction, reading a telegram from Senator…

  • Radiation victim advocate Janet Gordon and victim Gloria Gregerson interviewed by Eileen Zalisk

    Production reel for a program produced by Eileen Zalisk, possibly Velvet Sledgehammer. Includes a speech by Joan Ruddock of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and an interview by Zalisk with Janet Gordon, Director of Citizen’s Call, a radiation victims organization in Utah, and Gloria Gregerson (1941-1983), a radiation victim.

  • Educating for peace

    Educating for Peace, a program about teaching peace in the schools. Hosts are Greg Haycock[sp?] of KPFK’s “Catch 22” and Pat Ducrany (nee Benson).  Guests are Betty Reardon, noted as the most renounced peace educator in the world; Priscilla Prostman, of the Children’s Creative Response to Conflict program; Madeleine Ray of Educators for Social Response…

  • Women’s Antinuclear Rally (incomplete)

    Recording of speeches from an anti-nuclear rally. No date or location is given but it may be Mother’s Day, 1979? in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY (Medgar Evers College is mentioned). First speaker on this is named Susan (last name not given), and she speaks about being a mother with the risk of nuclear pollution. Second…

  • Interview with filmmaker Joan Harvey

    Rich Schrader speaks with Joan Harvey, producer and director of the film “American: from Hitler to M-X” about nuclear war and disarmament.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Helen Caldicott on The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 25, 1978

    WBAI’s Velvet Sledgehammer program for June 25, 1978. Opens with Judie Pasternak giving information about upcoming anti-nuclear protest in NYC as part of the show’s Community Bulletin Board segment, followed by Eileen Zalisk’s Medical News segment. At 00:10:00, Helen Caldicott is interviewed over the phone about her activism against nuclear energy, weapons, and war by…

  • Rukeyser Reading Series: Grace Paley and Allen Ginsberg interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

    Rukeyser Reading Program on the Air. Part one: [30 min.] Dennis Bernstein interviews Grace Paley about her fight against the nuclear madness in America. She talks about the big lie about civil defense and the history of struggle against the evil effects of nuclear science and what can be done. Need for renewable resource living.…