Program

Betty Friedan vs. the Third World.

Betty Friedan, co-founder of the National Organization of Women and author of The Feminine Mystique, addresses questions from Third World women of the press on such issues as the family's future, how American women handle family as well as a career, and how Third World women's problems contrast with those of women from more developed countries.

Anatomy of a manifesto

During the Journalist Encounter, which preceded the United Nations International Women's Year conference, feminist journalists - along with conference delegates who had already arrived - got an early sampling of the political divisions that would prove so disruptive during the two-week conference in Mexico City.

Global speak-out at the U.N. International Women's Year Conference, 1975

Finding even the less formal Tribune too constricting for real communication, non-governmental delegates to the 1975 U.N. International Women's Year Conference organized "Global speak-outs." This is the First Global Speak-Out, held Monday, June 23.

Judith Vivell moderates panel with four women art critics.

Judith Vivell moderates a panel of four women art critics including Ellen Lubell, contributing editor to Arts Magazine; Phyllis Derfner, advisory editor to Arts International, writer for Art in America, and teacher at William Patterson; Corrine Robins, writer for Art Spectrum, Arts Magazine, and the New york Book Review section; and April Kingsly, writer for Art in American, Arts Magazine, and

The gray depression

This program examines how current economic crises are affecting the elderly in Southern California. Focuses on the older communities of Venice and East Los Angeles and how those who are living on a fixed income are faring with regard to food, housing, income maintenance, and jobs. Produced by Marlene Adler Marks.

Weather underground poems : for International Women's Day.

Bernardine Dohrn, Kathy Boudin, and Cathy Wilkerson read poems from "Sing a battle song: poems from the Weather Underground." The poems read are For Assata Shakur -- Riding the subways -- Venom -- Waiting.

Anne Sexton / produced by Ruth Hirschman.

A tribute to the life and work of the poet Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974). Ruth Hirschman reads poet Denise Levertov's tribute to Sexton, "Light Up the Cave," written shortly after Sexton's death by suicide. Also features a recording of Anne Sexton reading her poems at the YMHA in New York City.

Sing a battle song: poems by women of the Weather Underground

Reading of "Sing a Battle Song"; a clandestine publication of the Red Dragon Print Collective, March 8, 1975. Poems by women in the Weather Underground organization read by KPFK staff and volunteers. Directed by Ruth Hirschman, produced by Peter Sutheim, and engineered by Phil Mendelson.

Population control as the new fascism : Germaine Greer at UCLA.

Germaine Greer (1939 - ), Australian theorist, feminist and academic, speaks at UCLA, November, 1974. From the box label: The new fear in the world now is overpopulation, and some say that to overcome it, we must limit people's choices: i.e. compulsory birth control. But what we must do, she argues, is not submit to control, because that control is fascism.

Let us now praise laboring men and women

A collage of labor news, history, music, poetry and comment. Produced by Jim Berland of KPFK's Public Affairs Department. Interviews by Mike Davis, Sam Kushner, Heather Dashner and Jim Berland. History and commentary written and read by Neil Goldberg. Section on Woody Guthrie written and read by Judy and Vic Wolfenstein.

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