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![Women Against Rape, San Quentin, the PLO](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/15/1976Call Number: FI 007Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Strong anti-rape message and summary of cases of women on trial for self-defense against it. Mark Schwartz report on grand jury used against San Quentin prisoners. Historical summary of Zionism and Palestinian struggle for national liberation, speech in NY by member of Executive Committee of the PLO.
![W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![War in Vietnam programs](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1970Call Number: CD 154Format: MP3 CDProducers: PacificaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Anti-war movement broadcasts; testimony about US war crimes; GI testimony - programs largely from WBAI in 1970-1971. Includes Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit, Dewey Canyon III & Mayday Demonstrations in Washington, DC.
![Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
![Her Wits About Her: interviews with women who defended themselves against rape and assault](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1987Call Number: JG/ 082Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Her Wits About HerCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The program consists of a series of interviews and testimonies from women who defended themselves from rapists and assault. The stories are often quite emotionally difficult to listen to, but the stories are ultimately hopeful and inspiring.
![Her Wits About Her Rebroadcast](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/3/1995Call Number: JG/ 094Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Rebroadcast of 'Her Wits About Her' from several years prior.
![June Jordan Poetry reading](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
June Jordan reads her poems about Black women's struggles, love, rape, and male authority. She dedicates one poem to Fannie Lou Hammer. The audience asks her questions about her work.
![Red Star Singers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Five less well known songs by The Red Star Singers: Kaiser, Prices Gotta Come Down, Amnesty, Rape Song, and Won't Cross That Line. Recorded in 1974.
![Women's Liberation Conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/7/1978Call Number: FI 100Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, NatalieProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Long poem on violence against women followed by excerpts from a socialist conference on women held in Berkeley.
![WAI and SF War - Lorena Bobbit Protest](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/29/1993Call Number: V 435Format: SVHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Protest in support of Lorena Bobbitt who was going on trial for cutting off her rapist husband's penis. Women Against Imperialism and SF Women Against Rape argue that Bobbitt acted in self-defense and that male batterers and abusers are rarely punished in the same way as women defending themselves.