Artist and musician Yoko Ono discusses the evolution of her art during the 1960s with Liza Cowan and Jan Albert at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City on September 11, 1971.
Danice Bordett and Nanette Rainone interview former nun and one of the Catsonville 9, Marjorie Melville, in WBAI's studio on February 10, 1971. Melville and her husband wrote a book, "Whose Heavan, Whose Earth" (1971) which describes their experience with the Guatemalan revolutionaries. Mrs.
KPFA commentator Cy Schoenfeld interviews Jim "Elijah" Rankin, San Francisco Gay Liberation activist, who analyzes the gradual developments in the gay movement to its newest level of involvement with the Women's movement. Contains sensitive language.
Portia Shapiro of KPFA talks with Louise Alaimo about "The Woman's Film," an exploration by members of San Francisco Newsreel of the economic and psychological oppression of poor women.
A visit to the Josephine D. Randall Junior Museum in San Francisco. The children play tree to a boa constrictor and are led on a sawdust safari by Assistant Life-Science Curator Juanita Richardson. Director A. Kirk Conragan discusses some of the other activities at this busy institution on top of Corona Heights. Produced by Erik Bauersfeld and Clay Grillo.
This program is a review of six independent films produced by women filmmakers which were shown at the San Francisco Art Institute on July 15 under the auspices of the Canyon Cinematheque.
Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980), writer, director and producer of the film "Wanda" (1970) discusses women in the film industry before a San Francisco Film Festival audience. Some of the questions asked by the audience are about Loden's filmmaking process, the film's political message, and why she chose to set the film in eastern Pennsylvania.
In July of 1970, Dr. Claude Steiner, one of the founders of the Rap Center of Berkeley, offered a course in Radical Psychiatry at the Free University of Berkeley. This presentation of the course is on women's oppression and how he now deals with it in his groups.
At a commemoration of Law Day held by the Alameda County Bar Association. Student Lynn Rose discusses changing society; Californian Attorney General Evelle Younger refutes her remarks.