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International Women's Day: Aminata Traoré 1992
Aminata Traoré talks about the links between the black liberation movements and the anti-sexism struggle. She defines imperialism and sexist oppression. Quoting bell hooks, she opposes white-middle-class-individualist-feminism. She compares African history to rape.
Women in the struggle for Puert Rico's liberation
The role of women in the history of the Puerto Rican liberation struggle. Recordings of several female political prisoners captured in 1980 and songs in Spanish. The other side of the tape is an inaudible interview by phone about Puerto Rico.
Lesbians Against Police Violence
Short interviews with witnesses to police brutality at Lesbian bars in the Mission late 70's or early 80's.
Tape continues on with an apartheid protest in San Francisco and news reports from the time.
"Turning Up the Heat": Moving the Social Justice Agenda in 1995
A panel of women discussing four key issues confronting the social justice agenda: 1) Prop 187 effects on the election 2) emerging campaign to prohibit voluntary affirmative action 3) gender equity in education settings and 4) short and long term impact of these issues and the resolutions on women political, economic and social equality. The presentations are followed by a discussion.
Real Dragon
Date: 9/5/1971Call Number: RD 062Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon (Midnight Flash)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Poem by Lincoln Bergman to women's liberation. September 2 women's march at Presidio in San Francisco. Report on Ingleside Police station in San Francisco. (Note: at end of tape is actuality of Georgia Jackson, George Jackson's mother)
Sara Jane Olson event
A public appearance by Sara Jane Olson just prior to being sentenced to prison in which people discuss political prisoners and fighting state repression - both politically and through the courts.
Transgender Interview
Call Number: FI 053Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant SrtruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview by Barbara Lubinski of a transgender woman named Ginger Coleman, explaining how she grew up in the Midwest, how she decided to have surgery, and her life since then in San Francisco.
One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike
Ending of retrospective on Lydia Mendoza leads into radio program about the Watsonville Canning Strike and the role of Chicana workers in the success and solidarity of the strike. Program includes interviews of workers, Secretary Treasurer of Teamsters Local 912 Sergio Lopez, strike leader Gloria Betancourt. Includes speeches by Gloria Betancourt at Mecha in Berkeley, and Jesse Jackson in Watsonville.
Stew Albert Commentary
Date: 2/13/1969Call Number: KP 340Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: CommentaryCollection: General materials
Commentary by well-known activist Stew Albert talking about women's liberation, starting from a list of notable women in US that did not include hardly any who accomplished things on their own.
Women of Vietnam
Date: 8/23/1973Call Number: KP 341Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Laurie SimsProgram: Unlearning to Not SpeakCollection: Vietnam
Interview with Arlene Eisen Bergman, author of book Women of Vietnam. Wide-ranging interview in which she discusses status of women in colonial Vietnam, advances in North and especially in liberated zones of the South. Says that 40% of the liberation force commanders in South were women. Also discusses women political prisoners. Emphasizes that southern forces did not take military steps until political groundwork has been laid. Also discusses changes in divorce law.
