This is a report on the Western Energy Supply and Transmission Associates (W.E.S.T.) plan to acquire development rights to Hopi and Navajo reservations. Includes an extended interview with David Monongye, elder of the Hopi Nation. Produced by Mitchell Harding.
Sister Helen Kelly, President of Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, delivers her Baccalaureate Address to the graduating class of 1969. Her talk concerns the Church, the violence of men, and how our indifference leads to the perpetuation of cruelty. Music by Hoyt Axton, "The Epistle." Introduced by Tom Ritt. Recorded at Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles.
Earl Anthony of the Black Panther Party interviews Black poet and playwright LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), who talks about his life and work. They also discuss the court case brought against Jones, Barry Wynn, and Charles McCray for unlawful possession of weapons and resisting arrest during the Newark riots in July 1967. The recording quality is low volume, with much background sound.
Maxine Serett, who wrote the book "The Housewife's Handbook of Selective Promiscuity" under the name Rey Anthony, discusses her book and her ideas concerning sex in modern American life.
Six concerned, politically active citizens met to talk about the General Election of November 1966; and specifically about the future of the state of California.
Panel discussion with: Walter Trinkaus, professor at Loyola University, and President of the Right to Life League; Lana Clarke Phelan, co-author of the Abortion Handbook, and Western Regional Director of Women's National Organization (NOW); and Rev. J. Hugh Anwyl, minister of the United Church of Christ, and director of Clergy Counseling Service for Problem Pregnancies.
The final program in the series presents the real songs of the time -- readings of poetry and sonnets by Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser and others.