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Our days in court / produced by Fran Watkins and Isabel Welsh.

Overview of the history of legal issues concerning women, including name changes in marriage contracts, control of one's earnings, divorce and custody rights, and employment discrimination. Includes interviews with Nancy Davis, Mary Dunlap and Wendy Williams, Equal Rights Advocates attorneys in San Francisco. Produced by Fran Watkins and Isabel Welsh.

Speaking of exotic dancing : unlearning to not speak / Zenia Daragahey and Donna Whitley ; interviewed by Betty Mayer and Marina Bostead.

A discussion originally broadcast live November 15, 1971 on Unlearning to Not Speak. It brings out the differences between American nightclub "belly dancing" and the meaning of such dancing in Moroccan and Indian villages. And the subject of dance is but the point of departure for an interesting comparison of women's lifestyles in these different societies.

A Private joke that got out of hand / reported by Phil Williams, Bob Bender and Marc Haarz.

Report on the world's first underground comic convention. Includes discussions of sex and sexism, science fiction, overground vs. underground comics, and women's comics. Music by R. Crumb and His Keep on Trucking Orchestra. Contains sensitive language. Participants include: Clay Geerdes, one of the organizers of the convention; cartoonists Bill Griffith (Mr.

Programming the human biocomputer / John Lilly ; produced by Jeffrey Mishlove.

Lilly discusses his L.S.D. research during the 1950s and early 60s, and his recent work with dolphins.

Sylvia Plath program / produced by Anita Barrows and Debbie Sweeney.

This program presents a mix of readings of Sylvia Plath's poetry, excerpts from her novel The Bell Jar, and writings about Plath by others, including Elinor Friedman Klein's "A Friend Recalls Sylvia Plath" (Glamour Magazine, Nov. 1966) and A. Alvarez's book "The Savage God: A Study of Suicide" (New York: Random House, 1972). No intro or outro.

Huey Newton-Charles Garry press conference

KPFA volunteer Claude Marks reports from the office of San Francisco attorney Charles Garry to report on the press conference hosted by Garry and Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party. Newton had just been released from a two-year jail sentence on $50,000 bail and planned to appeal his conviction on manslaughter charges.

The road to Wounded Knee III: history and philosophy of AIM / Carter Camp (Part 3 of 5)

This is a special report on Wounded Knee and the Red Power movement. Carter Camp, one of the founders of AIM, talks about the oppression of the Native American and the civil rights struggle, discusses the birth of the American Indian Movement and the spiritual rebirth of the Indian people, and explains the shortcomings of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The road to Wounded Knee II: chronology of events at Wounded Knee (Part 2 of 5)

Report on the Indian occupation of Wounded Knee from February 27, 1973 through March 29, 1973, the day this program was created and broadcast.

The road to Wounded Knee I: conditions at Pine Ridge (Part 1 of 5)

Examination of the living conditions at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the functions of the Tribal Council, and the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Vernon Bellecourt interviewed by Lincoln Bergman

Discussion of the Native American movement, specifically about the conditions at Wounded Knee. At the time of the interview, Vernon Bellecourt, representative to the United Nations of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) Nation, was founder and National Director of the American Indian Movement (AIM), on a tour of the U.S. to raise awareness and money for the Wounded Knee Defense Fund.

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