KPFK

Panel discusses the traditional categories of response to the future; the recently established Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA); bureaucratic reform and a proposed Experimental Futures Agency; and the consumer movement and issue politics.

Dorothy Eletz attended the U.N. International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City [June 19-July 2, 1975], and this recording is an interview she conducted with Ruth Gage-Colby (1899-1984), a leader in the peace, disarmament, and human rights movements, at the conference on July 2. They discuss the International Women's Conference and women's rights.

Jim Berland interviews Communist Party activist Dorothy Healey and community organizer Bob Wells about radical politics, activism, violence, and the Weather Underground.

A biographical portrait of Chilean folk singer Violeta Parra (1917 - 1967). An activist and crusader for her art, she was considered in Latin America and in Europe as one of the most gifted folk singers and folk artists of the continent. Early in 1967, she committed suicide in Chile, her native country.

An experimental radio drama by Laurel Brodsley, for three voices and electronic workshop. This premiere KPFK performance, featuring Michael and Candy of the Provisional Theater and Kevin Sullivan, concerns itself with the developing madness of a child and his experience of his family. The play was directed by Laurel Brodsley with sound engineering and synthesizer system by Phil Mendelson.