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Women Against Imperialism, Blazing Redheads, The Third World Special
Women Against Imperialism protest against a Berkeley military recruitment center in July 1987. Women in Music program highlights the Blazing Redheads and includes interviews with band members. Walter Turner interviews Father Jivan Joseph about literacy in Haiti.
Medical Neglect
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 302Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: Prison Activist RadioCollection: Medical Care In Prison
Prison Activist Radio discuss the battle for medical care and healthcare rights for prisoners. Judy Greenspan, director of HIV/AIDS in Prison Project and member of California Coalition for Women Prisoners, speaks about the lack of women's healthcare in prisons, the serious medical conditions that men and women prisoners enter the system with, and the hostility of doctors, officials, and guards towards prisoners. She also discusses prisoner-activist Joanne Walker and the effective campaign for HIV/AIDS care and medical rights. Jean Stewart, from the Disabled Prisoner's Justice Fund and ADAPT discusses the abuses suffered by prisoners with disabilities. She also discusses health care issues, including the Armstrong and Shumate cases. Stewart states that the biggest problem with medical justice is the public's ignorance of people with disabilites.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 7/12/1975Call Number: NI 074 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Mark Schwartz, Melinda RorickProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Entire program a recorded interview with Pat Swinton (Shoshana) who was arrested by the FBI in March 1975 after being underground for some years.
June Jordan Poetry reading
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.
500 Years of Chicano History
Interview with Elizabeth Martinez in 1992 about her book "500 Years of Chicano History". Themes are "what is Chicano?" and positive images of Chicanos.
Out of Control Lesbian Committee
Date: 8/28/1995Call Number: PM 317Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Rita Brown and Jane Segal discuss the Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. They organize to support women political prisoners, publish a newsletter and are organizing a grassroots movement. The interview includes a discussion of their lives as political activists.
Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis
Date: 5/26/1998Call Number: PM 324Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Prisons - Women
Rally for women in prison in San Francisco's U.N. Plaza including: medical neglect of women in prison,discriminatory drug laws, Human Rights Watch's study that found that sexual exploitation and abuse of women by guards is an institutionalized and largely ignored practice, news of Mumia Abu Jamal, and women's rights coalitions about the need for more recovery centers and other treatment facilities.
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.
Witchcraft Rebellion
10 songs from Witchcraft Rebellion, a women's political singing group, Some in Spanish and some in English.
Main words or titles of the songs:
1. We are the river
2. Yankee cuidado
3. Black nigger die
4. It's alright to be a woman
5. De colores
6. Lucharemos y vencer
7. I'm still unsatisfied
8. Mexican boarder
9. Viva Vietnam
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Norma Jean Croy
Date: 8/28/1995Call Number: PM 327AFormat: Cass AProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The Outside Collection: Norma Jean Croy
Norma Jean Croy & the 1978 Hooty Case are discussed in great detail in an interview with Rita Brown and Jane Segal. The claim for self-defense helped Hooty get acquitted from his sentence, but not Norma Jean Croy. She remains at Chowchilla for life. Bo and Jane encourage people to advocate for her release. They also question the government's use of prisons in the U.S.
