American Women — Peace and Antinuclear activism

  • The Women Peacemakers: October 18, 1982

    This program is in three parts: 1. Cora Weiss interviews Kathy Jarvis of Advocates for Children about militarism and ROTC programs in New York City schools; 2. Jarvis takes phone calls; 3. Cora Weiss presents info on European Peace Conference. Contains note with instructions for engineer.

  • The Women Peacemakers: November 8, 1982

    Hosted by Cora Weiss. Guests are Liz Brando from Leicester, UK, of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (“Ban the Bomb”) and Peace Camps; and Patsy Lake of the American Friends Service Committee and the New York Metropolitan Freeze Campaign.

  • Dark Circle: interview with the producers / Julia Randall

    Judy Irving and Ruth Landry, co-director/writer and producer, respectively, of the anti-nuclear documentary film Dark Circle (1982), are interviewed by Julia Randall of KPFA’s Women’s Department. Irving and Landry talk about plutonium pollution and how nuclear power and weapons affect everyday people, and their specific focus on women as the leading voices of the anti-nuclear…

  • Majority report, May 13, 1982: Hansberry, Mother’s Day March, Studio W

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 13, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. A birthday tribute to playwright Lorraine Hansberry produced by Ginny Z. Berson; includes audio from a performance of her play “A Raisin in the Sun” and an excerpt from a TV interview with Hansberry by Mike Wallace…

  • May 3, 1981 march on the Pentagon / Bella Abzug

    May 3, 1981 March on the Pentagon organized by the People’s Antiwar Coalition/May 3 Coalition. Speech on American militarism. Actuality from march. Includes speech by Bella Abzug. This protest is against military involvement with El Salvador. Recording was made from about 11am until 2pm. Part one contains speeches by Michio Kaku, Sister Geraldine (Gerri) Brake,…

  • Women Against War forum at NYU

    Women Against War event at NYU, June 1980. From the book “Peace as a women’s issue: a history of the U.S. movement for world peace and women’s rights” by Harriet Hyman Alonso: “On June 10, 1980, soon after the House Armed Services Military Personnel Committee rejected (President) Carter’s proposal to register women, “Women, USA” met…

  • 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…

  • Diary of a pacifist feminist

    On this episode of Everywomanspace, a reading from the book “Lella Secor: A Diary in Letters, 1915-1922” (Burt Franklin & Co., 1978), and interview with the books editor Barbara Moench Florence. Selections from the letters read by Bonnie Delorme[sp?]. Produced for the WBAI Women’s Department by Penelope Franklin. Hosted by Didi Goldenhar. Recording may have…

  • June 12th Rally: Nuclear disarmament rallies in San Francisco and New York (1982)

    The International March and Rally for a Freeze and Reduction of Nuclear Arms and a Transfer of Funds from the Military to Human Needs. On June 12, 1982, the largest antinuclear demonstration was held in New York City’s Central Park, while a simultaneous demonstration was held in San Francisco at its Civic Center. Over one…

  • Disarmament now! / Dr. Helen Caldicott (Episode 2 of 4)

    Disarmament Now! Episode 2 of 4. Dr. Helen Caldicott, a pediatrician and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, gives her horrifying account of what the world will be like after a nuclear war, giving examples of the radiation disease resulting from the bombs dropped on Japan. Then she gives some chilling statistics about bombs and…