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  • Women’s News: July 14, 1980

    Women’s News on KPFA with Helen Mickiewicz and Julia Randall, July 14, 1980. Contents: 1. News items concerning the GOP dropping the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform: includes actuality of NOW members protesting at the Republican Campaign Headquarters in San Francisco, reported by Trey Aarons [sp?]; 2. News items concerning the Hyde Amendment: includes…

  • Women’s News: October 13, 1980

    Women’s News for KPFA, October 13, 1980. The anchors are Julia Randall and Helen Mickiewicz. Segments: 1. Abortion fund limits: State control of Medicaid; 2. Sterilization laws in California, mandatory consent; 3. San Francisco Women’s Building struck by pipe bomb – features interviews with Women’s Building staff members; 4. Resignation of Mary Cunningham as Senior…

  • The music of Witchazel

    The music of Witchazel, a Portland, Oregon women’s band. Members are: Robin Flower, Mary Wings, and Sharon Luckerman. All tracks on reel 2 appear to be from the same live performance (venue unknown). On Reel 1: 1. Medley: Little Maggie/Run Rabbit/The Cuckoo (studio version); 2. Whiskey After Breakfast (studio version); 3. Still Ain’t Satisfied (studio…

  • The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective

    The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective in concert, recorded Winter 1975. Members of the group include: Susan Shanbaum, Nancy Vogel, Debbie Lempke, Nancy Henderson, and Bonnie Lockhart. Songs performed (Reel 1): 1. SF Bank Song — Shanbaum (4:00); 2. Back to Boston — Vogel (2:00); 3. Work Song — Lockhart (3:30); 4. Harp Solo — Shanbaum…

  • The music of Witch Hazel (Part 2 of 2)

    Witchazel, a Portland, Oregon women’s band. Members are: Robin Flower, Mary Wings, and Sharon Luckerman. On this reel: 1.? 2.? 3.? 4. River Raft Song; 5. Still Ain’t Satisfied 6. Fiddle Tune-June Apple. (Recording may be pre-recorded music) Notes on box: “Sound Effects” “Changing Directions”.

  • The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective (Part 2 of 2)

    Intro: Good afternoon. This is “Ain’t I A Woman.” Today we present the Berkeley Women’s Music Collective in concert, recorded last winter. The music collective will be releasing an album through Olivia Records, and all women’s record company, this fall. Members of the group include: Susan Shanbaum, Nancy Vogel, Debbie Lempke, Nancy Henderson, and Bonnie…

  • Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus live at the Working Women’s Conference

    Excerpt from a Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus performance at the Working Women’s Conference, possibly in Berkeley, 1973. The Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus included Bonnie Lockhart, Elaine Magree, Laurie Olsen and Janet Rachel. Songs performed are Nine to Five (written by Boston clerical workers who were organizing), a song in Spanish, and Still Ain’t Satisfied (written by Lockhart).

  • Everybody’s Studying Us (Number 2)

    Bea Frankel discusses San Francisco poet and playwright Irene Paull’s book “Everybody’s studying us: the ironies of aging in the Pepsi Generation.” Bea talks with two people from the California Association for Older Americans, Helen Boelke [sp?], program coordinator, and Jack Kaufman, staff writer for the Association, about the organization, why they published the book,…

  • Joanna Brouk / Conch Shell: the Sea at Sunset (1973)

    Joanna Brouk: Conch Shell: The Sea at Sunset (1973). Joanna Brouk was born in 1949 in St. Louis Missouri. She resides in Berkeley, California, where she composes electronic music and writes poetry. She produces a radio program on KPFA Radio incorporating music of a spiritual nature from many ethnic catagories as well as electric rock…

  • 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…