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  • 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…

  • Activist Donna Allen and her experience with HUAC

    Feminist and political organizer Donna Allen speaks on her experience with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). She is on the National Committee to Abolish HUAC.

  • Tricia Alexander and Lori Noelle

    Musicians Tricia Alexander and Lori Noelle, April 26, 1980. Blues is just a bad dream. Note on box: Return to Susan Sailow, KPFA

  • Meg Christian performs at Inez Garcia benefit concert (Parts 1 and 3 of 3)

    Meg Christian performs at a benefit concert on June 10, 1976 to raise money for Inez Garcia, who was charged with the 1974 murder of a man who attempted to rape her. Christian performs the following songs: Reel 1: 1. Hello, Hooray Let the Show Begin; 2. Face the Music — Annie Dinnerman (10:35); 3.…

  • Inez Garcia Benefit musical performances (Part 3 of 3)

    June 10, 1976 Inez Garcia Benefit. Inez Garcia was charged with the 1974 murder of a man who attempted to rape her. Meg Christian performs the following: 1. Walkin’ Around in Little Pieces (intro 35 sec., 5:40); 2. Where Do We Go From Here (intro 2:40, 9:20). This is Part 3 of 3, Part 2…