KPFA

The Dinner Party / Judy Chicago interviewed by Karla Tonella

Feminist visual artist Judy Chicago, one of the founders of the Women's Building in Los Angeles and author of "Through the Flower" talks with Karla Tonella, KPFA, about her exhibit "The Dinner Party." In the making for five years, "The Dinner Party" is a major piece of sculpture that encompasses the history of western women from the beginning of time using tr

The lesbian underground: on being a lesbian before the women's liberation movement

Sabrina Sojourner hosts a discussion on the lesbian underground, or what it was like to be a lesbian before the feminist and gay liberation movement.

Lesbians and alcoholism / produced by Karla Tonella

Host: Ann Noolen, Lesbian Task Force of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Guests: Ann Worthington, Women's Alcohol Coalition; Celinda Cantu, Center for Feminist Therapy & Education; Bonnie Malcolm, Whitman Radcliffe Foundation; and musician Meg Christian, Olivia Records. Includes a song by Meg about her own alcoholism. Includes listener phone-in comments.

Wanderground : stories of the hill women / Sally Gearhart ; produced by Karla Tonella.

Sally Gearhart reads from her book "The wanderground: stories of the hill women" (Boston: Persephone Press, 1978), a feminist fantasy fiction account of a separate woman's culture wherein the women have highly developed psychic powers, have children parthenogenetically, and live in harmony with all the rest of the Earth, except the men who control the cities.

KPFA's 1978 sampler / produced by Laurie Garrett, Warren Van Orden, and Karla Tonella.

Reexamination of thirty years of listener-supported radio.

The Crash of '79 / Paul Erdman ; interviewed by Jill Hannum and Robert Manning.

The author discusses the Middle East, the energy crisis, Iran, national and international politics, and economics.

Risk-benefit analysis / produced by Laurie Garrett.

Investigates how the government used risk/benefit analysis to sanction potential health hazards like recombinant DNA research, environmental carcinogens, and occupation related hazards.|RISK-BENEFIT ANALYSIS / produced by Laurie Garrett. - SERIES: KPFA thirty year retrospective| 1977.

The International Hotel

For over fifteen years tenants of the International Hotel, primarily elderly Filipinos, struggled to defend themselves against eviction from their home. The issue reached dramatic proportions in San Francisco, with Sheriff Richard Hongisto going to jail for initially refusing to carry out the eviction and Mayor George Moscone risking an entire political career on the issue.

Rude awakening / produced by Vic Bedoian.

Examination of foreign and domestic intelligence activities following the Vietnam war. Includes interviews with ex-CIA agents Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti.

Putsch comes to shove / produced by Laurie Garrett.

A farcical documentary on Watergate. Includes an interview with Peter Dale Scott.

Pages