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Alice Walker Reads Her Poetry

Alice Walker Reads Her Poetry| Produced by WBAI and Dennis Bernstein| Recorded on October 11, 1978. - CONTENT: Author Alice Walker reads her poetry at the Parkslope poetry project. Walker describes being a student of Muriel Ruckheiser in whose honor Parkslope takes place.

P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York): Pornography

Iris De La Cruz interviews artist and activist Annie Sprinkle, who describes her experience making pornography as the "good life." She describes how she came to work in pornography and her experience with Linda Lovelace. Sprinkle discusses censorship and women against pornography, and is asked about her family's response to her making pornography.

P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York): Decriminalization of Prostitution

Iris De La Cruz, chairperson of Prostitutes of New York, interviews Yolanda Jones from Black Women for Wages for Housework and Karen Green from the New York Collective of Prostitutes. They discuss the recent joint press conference held by those groups, in addition to Lesbians for Wages for Housework and the Gay Activist Alliance, about the push for the decriminalization of prostitution.

Women in sports: Ultramarathoning

Sharon Barbano interviews Marcy Schwan, one of the top female ultramarathon runners in the world. She's competed in over 20 ultramarathons, and recently set three World Records in one race. Two weeks ago she was the first woman to compete in a 6 day race since the late 19th century, and came in second place in the entire men's field. Recorded on July 28, 1981.

Seven times around: interview with Women's suffrage activist Isola Dodic

Marjorie DeFazio interviews suffragist, Isola Dodic (1892-1986) about her suffragist activity and continued protesting for women's rights throughout her life. Her first march was at the age of 20, the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 1913, in a march organized by suffragist-activist Alice Paul.

Human Scale| Danilo Docli

HUMAN SCALE| DANILO DOLCI| Produced by Kirk Patrick Sales| Recorded on October 26, 1983. - CONTENT: Kirk Patrick Sales interviews Danilo Dolci, the Italian pacifist. - Broadcast on October 26, 1983.

Interview with Margaretta D'Arcy

Viv Sutherland interviews Margaretta D'Arcy (b. 1934), Irish activist, actress, and writer. They discuss Northern Ireland, hunger strikes, the women who were sent to Armagh Prison and their horrible treatment by interrogators, and Bloody Sunday.
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