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Interview with Joan Lohman
Call Number: SS 013BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Joan Lohman speaks about "CAPACITAR," an organization working in Central America to promote wellness activities and education.
First African Book Fair
Call Number: SS 057BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
First African Book Fair interviews with Zimbabwe women.
Interview with Luis Talamantez
Date: 10/1/1995Call Number: SS 140BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Luis Talamantez on women's prisons in California.
Critical Resistance Conference: Conversations with Women in SF Jail
Date: 9/27/1998Call Number: SS 027BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Conversations with women in San Francisco jail with conference onvideo shown during Critical Resistance Conference.
Interviews with Maria Cecilia Santos and Millie Thayer
Call Number: SS 040BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interviews with Maria Cecilia Santos and Millie Thayer about women in Brazil.
Nuclear Peace Fair in Zimbabwe
Call Number: SS 060BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Segments from the Nuclear Peace Fair in Zimbabwe. Includes speeches, a play, music and two interviews with a Craft Co-op artist and Amanda Hammer, who is the planning officer for the Ministry of Community Development and Women's Affairs.
Pajaro Latino
Date: 5/10/1990Call Number: JH 301BFormat: Cass BProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Marina Peña de ADEMUSA de El Salvador
International Women’s Day 1991
Call Number: JG/ 077BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
In celebration of International Women's Day, 1991. Readings from Angela Bronstein's 'Triple Struggle: Latin American Peasant Women': an account of Rosa Dominga, a Bolivian peasant women's organizer, on hardships faced by her fellow women and their struggle for a national women's congress. "Hay una Mujer," a song by Ronnie Gilbert and Holly Near. Reading of a poem by a female Puerto Rican Revolutionary and of a poem, "Expectation," by Assada Shakur, imprisoned black revolutionary. Report of protests at prisons to commemorate International Women's Day. Speech by Linda Evans, female political prisoner, antiwar protester. Evans declares herself an anti-imperialist prisoner, supports women's and lesbian liberation, cries out against the Middle East war and against the unjust U.S. criminal justice system.
Gender Issues in Russia, 1992
Call Number: JG/ 085BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Gene Peters, lesbian & gay activist who traveled to Russia in 1992 with Friendship Force to examine women's issues after the dissolution of the USSR. Peters talked extensively with female Russian professors and officials. She describes how many women were forced out of the workforce with the fall of communism, particularly in high status jobs. 70% of the Russian unemployed are women and fewer women have been elected to office since the fall of USSR. Peters describes the work of the Russian Federation of Women, a Soviet women's organization. She notes a lack of adequate medical supplies and dearth of contraceptives in Russia that renders an average of 8 abortions per woman. She describes the AIDS epidemic in the former USSR and current Russian AIDS campaigns. She also describes political reform initiatives for gay men & women who were brutally repressed under the Soviet regime, as well as the development of open gay life. She concludes with a general warning against Western media coverage of Russia, noting remarkable social retrogression and stratification in the wake of the fall of the USSR.
International Women’s Day 1995
Date: 3/5/1995Call Number: JG/ 087BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Judy Siff of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee who speaks of the creation, destruction and recreation of International Women's Day. It is a day when women recognize women who are in struggle around the world. Siff advocates visiting women in prison and describes the situation of Laura Whitehorn, an anti-racist political prisoner accused of resistance conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years of prison.
Readings from Margaret Randall's 'Sandino's Daughters Revisited,' a book of interviews and commentary about Nicaraguan feminism following the defeat of the FSLN in 1990. The book describes how the Sandinista movement brought women into public leadership but within its male-dominated power structure. Following are excerpts of an interview with Michelle Nageles, a feminist activist at the University of Central America who envisions a newfound solidarity amongst women in Nicaragua.
