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Health Care, Police Brutality, Karen Silkwood
Date: 5/5/1979Call Number: FI 107Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Picket line actuality of 1600 lowest-paid hospital workers on strike in East Bay with SEIU. Crisis in health care system in Detroit and New York City. Case of Terrence Johnson, Black youth who defended himself against two policemen who were beating him. Report on anti-nuclear protest and report on suit by Karen Silkwood's family.
AIDS Unity March- World AIDS Day
Date: 1/12/1990Call Number: JG/ 118Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
A live recording of Atlanta’s first Women and AIDS Unity March and Rally, held for World AIDS' Day.Includes interviews with members of the medical community, ACT UP Massachusetts and students speaking out against the CDC’s definition of AIDS which excludes women.
Yvonne Swan
Member of the Colville Tribe, Swan speaks about the environmental and health impacts of nuclear power plants and mining on Native American reservations in the US. Also the personal health effects on her family and the genocidal role of corporations on Native American reservations.
Joann Tall
About Tall's personal experiences with the sterilization of Native American women starting in the 1960's. Also about the detrimental health impacts of sterilization as well as contaminated water, radiation exposures, and pesticides. Also about the boarding schools and political obstacles to resisting the destruction of her tribes health and land. Brief mention about the positive impacts of the Occupation of Wounded Knee.
Yvonne Swan and Lisa Michel
Yvonne speaks about Native American spirituality in contrast with religion, which she associates with the history of Christianity. Also about personal spiritual experiences, followed by a prayer of strength and peace, and a song.
Lisa speaks about her personal experiences with childbirth and the lack of medical attention during pregnancy and birth. As a Native American woman, she remarks on all the diseases children are born with and how sterilization isn't effective because doctors do not explain the procedure.
Tina Fry
Speaks about her personal experiences with traumatic health problems during childbirth, forced sterilization and experimental drugs in her Native American community. Also about a lack of doctors, poor access to care, and medical malpractice.
Fenette Blackbear
About her and her children's health problems, distrust in western medicine, and how doctors have either neglected or blamed Native American women for the birth defects of children rather than examining contaminated water.
Jackie Huber
About the range of medical care problems occurring on Native American reservations ranging from miscarriages to high infant mortality rates due to contaminated water. Also government's unresponsiveness and lack of studies and funding that women on the reservation have been working towards.
Alison Govings
About personal health problems and her decision to be sterilized. Also about doctors denying care, and a lack of pediatricians and specialized health care providers.
Alison Stewart
About health problems facing pregnant women and coerced sterilization. Also about Native Americans being exploited by logging companies and mines and the challenges to acting against these corporations. She also discusses her personal health, activism, and the environmental issues facing the Native American community.
