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Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms

Historical Note: This collection contains grassroots radio programming produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms. This programming primarily occurred during the 1980s and 1990s.

Contents: Reel to Reel and cassette tapes.

Major Topics of Focus:

Political Prisoners- Focused on Puerto Rican political prisoners, women political prisoners and the Resistance Conspiracy Case. 

HIV/AIDS- Focused on prisoners with AIDS, AIDS and its impact on women and communities of color, AIDS awareness events.

Latin America- Focused on the Sandinista revolution and government in Nicaragua, civil war, peace negotiations and subsequent elections in El Salvador, the drug war in Colombia and Bolivia, political events in Mexico, and the Cuban embargo. 

LGBTQ- Focused on identity, experiences of LGBTQ folks, civil rights, education, awareness events.  

Health care- Focused on abortion, HIV/AIDS, women’s health in communities of color in the US, healthcare inside US prisons, women’s health in Latin America.

Important Names:

Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Alan Berkman, Sylvia Baraldini, Susan Rosenberg,  Geronimo Ji Jaga, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, George Jackson, Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Sundiata Acoli, Oscar Rivera Lopez, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez, Assata Shakur, Alejandrina Torres, Alfredo Cristiani, Archbishop Oscar Romero      


Documents

Just Peace Interview with Judy Gerber and Judy Siff Just Peace Interview with Judy Gerber and Judy Siff
Date: 5/9/1988Call Number: JG/ 110Format: Cass A & BProducers: Bethanne, Gary WashtingtonProgram: Just PeaceCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Amid theme songs, two women are interviewed about their work with the John Brown Anti Klan Committee, describing the interconnectedness of all social issues and why "The Klan" and other such organizations are beyond free speech rights as they incite hate and encourage a climate of white supremacy to this day. They also speculate as to the US government's historic crack down on liberation organizations rather than the Klan.
Judy Gerber's Report on El Salvador Judy Gerber's Report on El Salvador
Date: 3/29/1992Call Number: JG/ 112Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: slide show presentationCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Audio recording of a slide show presentation. Gerber describes the country two months after the Feb. 1st cease-fire, particularly in terms of women's conditions and rights. Issues of health care, land ownership, sexual and domestic abuse, single female heads of households, illiteracy, and women-as-property are addressed amid discussion of El Salvador's path to reconstruction.
Operation Rescue Operation Rescue
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: JG/ 113Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This radio show discusses Operation Rescue and other antiabortion movements that utilize sometimes violent intimidation and harassment of abortion clinic workers and women coming into the clinics. It analyzes the shifting the argument focus from preserving the rights and well being of the woman to a moral issue of murdering a fetus. Includes interviews with religious activists who previously had abortions and concludes that the movement is really a way for white males to regain control over women.
AIDS Unity March- World AIDS Day AIDS Unity March- World AIDS Day
Date: 1/12/1990Call Number: JG/ 118Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
A live recording of Atlanta’s first Women and AIDS Unity March and Rally, held for World AIDS' Day.Includes interviews with members of the medical community, ACT UP Massachusetts and students speaking out against the CDC’s definition of AIDS which excludes women.
Women in El Salvador Women in El Salvador
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: JG/ 119Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with members of the El Salvadorian Women's Social Movement on the post-war situation in El Salvador and its relation to women at work and at home. Because women are a majority in El Salvador, their participation in the processes of transition, democratization and social change in the country—after the signing of accords and leading up to the 1994 elections—is crucial.
Marion Wirth- Beyond Acceptance Marion Wirth- Beyond Acceptance
Date: 7/3/1986Call Number: JG/ 120Format: Cass A & BCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Co-author of Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians & Gays Talk About Their Experiences and cofounder of P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), talks about her son's coming out process and her increasing interest in organizing as a parent of an LGBT child.
Ginni Clemmens - Sing A Rainbow and Other Children's Songs Ginni Clemmens - Sing A Rainbow and Other Children's Songs
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: JG/ 121Format: Cass A & BCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Blues and folk performer, Ginni Clemmens, with excerpts from “Sing A Rainbow and other Children’s Songs.” Clemmens is an important contributor to women’s music and in 2000 was the recipient of the Jeannine Ray award.
El Salvador and La Intersectorial El Salvador and La Intersectorial
Call Number: JG/ 122Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
An interview with members of El Intersectorial, a coalition of 13 social justice organizations including farmers, students, professors and women in El Salvador working towards peace through intersectional organizing.
The Human Future: Global Warming The Human Future: Global Warming
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: JG/ 129Format: Cass A & BCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
KPFA program introducing the theory (and evidence) of global-warming.
Cobb County Gay Rights Rally Cobb County Gay Rights Rally
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: JG/ 132Format: Cass A & BCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Gay and lesbian community members speak in response to legislation passed by the Georgia county to "condemn" homosexuality and cut off all public funding for arts and anything opposed to "traditional family values." 4,000 rallied to voice their disapproval.