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Tape of various television clips Tape of various television clips
Call Number: V 060Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
0-1150 People for the American Way- Radical right 1/2 hour. 1200-newsclip of viacom demonstration 1288-1425 CNN on abortion controversy 1425 News on women’s demonstration
W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report
Call Number: JG/ 038AFormat: Cass AProducers: Frida Warden, Kathleen DavenportCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
1989: the first news story, “Abortion goes to court in Canada” is about the latest attack on womyn’s rights in Quebec, Canada regarding a new anti- abortion law. the second story, “U.S womyn organized against Rape” covers the 11th annual National Coalition against Sexual Assault conference in Philadelphia. The third story discusses the leadership of African womyn in “response to disasters.” the fourth story is on a conference, the national assembly of religious women held, titled “risk and resistance in the south.” The fifth story is about the Israeli court of justice ruling that the homes of Palestinians can not be demolished. The last story on this segment, talks about corporate backers taking control of 3 womyn magazines such as MS and sassy.
Abortion interviews outside Midtown Hospital Abortion interviews outside Midtown Hospital
Call Number: JG/ 066Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Pacifica RadioCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a series of interviews with different people inside and outside of an abortion clinic in Atlanta, Georgia. The clinic is called Midtown Hospital and Judy Gerber begins her interviews inside with an abortion worker who has been at the hospital for the past nine years. She talks about how the pro-life protesters are not deterring women from getting abortions, they are just making a difficult decision more uncomfortable then it need be. Next Judy goes outside and talks to a handful of pro-life and pro-choice people outside. The pro-life organization protesting outside are known as Operation Rescue. Underneath the interviews are Christian songs being sung loudly by Operation Rescue. Many of the female pro-life protesters claim they are there because they had abortions when they were younger and now regret their decisions. Almost all of the pro-life people interviewed claim that if women knew what really happened to the fetus they may change their mind and blame the abortion clinics as spreading lies. Whereas, ironically, many of the pro-choice people interviewed claim that women have already made up their mind when they come to the clinic, and the pro-life protesters do not sway their decision, but rather they only make it more difficult to physically enter the clinic.
W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report
Date: 11/11/1989Call Number: JG/ 038BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
WFRG Judy Gerber talks with CISPES alert editor Mike Silinsky about El Salvador’s FMLN “peace talks” and the insistence that the US government stop aid to their military. He outlines some of the demands of the FMLN, including, removing all officers from the military involved in the death squads.
International Women's Day demonstration San Francisco 1985 International Women's Day demonstration San Francisco 1985
Date: 3/8/1985Call Number: KP 282AFormat: Cass AProducers: Katherine DavenportProgram: KPFACollection: General materials
International Women's Day in SF, with the theme of solidarity with Central America and opposition to further CIA involvement. Includes: street sounds, interviews of women in the streets, and the speaker reading the signs.
Wall of Women Against the War Wall of Women Against the War
Date: 10/11/1993Call Number: V 570Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Annual celebration and demonstration on International Women's Day, Wall of Women Against the War connect anti-abortion legislation, the Gulf War, and political prisoners to the struggle for women’s self-determination.
Our Bodies Ourselves Our Bodies Ourselves
Publisher: Boston Women's Health Course Collective and New England Free PressDate: 4/1971Volume Number: AprilFormat: MonographCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
First Printing December 1970
Notes from the Second Year: Women's liberation: Major Writings of Radical Feminists Notes from the Second Year: Women's liberation: Major Writings of Radical Feminists
Publisher: Radical FeminismFormat: CompilationCollection: Gender and Sexuality
Feminist Essays on the new Women's Liberation Movement. I. Women's Experience (5 articles); II. Theories of Radical Feminism (4 articles); III. Founding of a Radical Feminist Movement- Issues: The Left Debate (6 articles); Consciousness-Raising (5 articles); Organizing (9 articles); Manifestos (5 articles).