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Attorney Carol Ruth Silver, Director of Berkeley Neighborhood Legal Services, is interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. The topic is PLEA (Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy), a group of lawyers who provide legal aid to the poor and underprivileged. Berkeley Neighborhood Legal Services is funded by a grant produced from the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

Leo Kanowitz, professor of law at University of New Mexico and author of "Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution" (University of New Mexico Press, 1969) about women's legal situation, talks with Carol Amyx, KPFA news volunteer. Kanowitz says he wrote the book as a course of general human rights, seeing that women were struggling for equality in status in the U.S.

Steven E. Kroll, president of the Boalt Hall Student Association of the U.C. law school in Berkeley, tells Elsa Knight Thompson about the U.C. law students' complaint to the FCC against television station KPIX. Boalt Hall is the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mrs. Evalyn Dundas, whose son Malcolm is serving a prison term for non-cooperation with the draft, discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson the problems that such a situation poses for parents. Malcolm was granted the status of conscientious objector, and joined the Peace Corps through which he was a teacher in Tanzania. He was then recalled by the government and given the draft status of 1A.

Barbara Garson discusses her controversial play, MacBird, with Jack Weinberg. The conversation was recorded at KPFA during Mrs. Garson's recent return to Berkeley for the opening of her play at the New Committee in San Francisco on April 4, 1967. An episode of Where It's At, March 22, 1967. Previously cataloged as BB2111.