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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Community health care and Medicaid cutbacks (Episode 5 of 6) |
Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 5: Community health care and Medicaid cutbacks. Discussion of the challenges of providing care to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have no other medical resources, and the need for a new healthcare system that can provide dignified, continuing, and comprehensive care to those who must rely on public medicine. Voices heard in this program include Dr. Philip Hennig, director of ambulatory care at Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan; Dr. Howard Brown, former New York City health services administrator; Columbia economist Robin Elliott; Robb Burlage, head of the Health Policy Advisory Center; Victor Soloman of Harlem CORE; Mrs. Gloria Martinez of the lower east side; Columbia medical student Dick Clapp; New York state senator Seymour Thaler; economist Robin Elliott; Ramon Velez, director of the Hunts Point Multi-service Center in the Bronx; hospitals commissioner Joseph Terenzio; and unidentified mothers and community members of Harlem. |
Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York, Health facilities -- New York (City)., Medical care -- Economic aspects., Voluntary hospitals, Brown, Howard, 1924-1975, Burlage, Robb, 1937-, Medicaid, Clapp, Richard, 1945-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BB3817.05 | |
| Switching on the sun / produced by Peggy Hughes |
A look at the potential of solar energy and the technical obstacles it faces. The first part of the program, explores its uses -- ranging from earliest times to blueprints for solar space stations. It points out how the use of solar energy would implicate changes in energy use. Written and produced by Peggy Hughes, narrated by Chris Welch and Tiger, edited by Philip Maldari and Gregor Pais, and engineered by John Rieger. The second part of the program is a panel discussion on solar energy with Bruce Wilcox of the Berkeley Solar Group, Ida Burke, the director of Community Services in Contra Costa County, Bill McKee of Pacifica Gas and Electric, and moderated by Aileen Alfandary of KPFA News. Edited and produced by Peggy Hughes, engineered by John Rieger, Karla Tonella and Kevin Vance. Greg Kelley played harmonica. This part of the program begins with a long tone. Program was part of KPFA's Energy Day, March 12, 1980. |
Alternative energy sources., Renewable energy sources., Solar energy., Energy resources., Switching on the sun / produced by Peggy Hughes., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilcox, Bruce A. | American Women -- Science and scientists, American Women -- Environmentalism | AZ0407 | |
| Post ERA: Denise Fuge and Gail Gabler |
Nancy Kramer speaks with Denise Fuge, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-New York and Gail Gabler, organizer, on the recent defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and on what comes next for the movement. Includes listener phone calls. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Fuge, Denise., Gabler, Gail, National Organization for Women | American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), American Women -- Feminism | IZ0391.02 | |
| Maureen Owen reads her poetry |
Poet Maureen Owen (b. 1943) reads selections from her own work. She is the author of two books "Country Rush" and "No Travels Journals". She is also the editor of Telephone magazine and the Assistant Director of the St. Marks Poetry Project. Hosted by Susan Howe. |
Poetry., Owen, Maureen, 1943-, Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC2361 | |
| Pearls that coalesce / by Loretta Lottman |
Los Angeles Theater of the Ear (LATE) presents "Pearls that coalesce" by Loretta Lottman, a one-act play for voices. The play explores the coming to awareness of a young woman who learns to embrace her sexuality. Recorded live before a studio audience at KPFK. Carolyn was played by Valerie Mamches. Carol was played by Denise Latella. Lynn was played by Carol Goldman. Sound effects: Carol Selman. Trumpet music composed and performed by Bob Fraser. Technical production: Janet Dodson, Peter Sutheim and James Feld. LATE is a co-production of KPFK and the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre. Coordinated by Patrick Tovatt. Directed by Loretta Lottman, KPFK. First broadcast August 16, 1977. |
Lottman, Loretta., Lesbianism, Radio plays., Drama., Women -- Drama., Women -- Sexuality., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Sex | KZ0294 | |
| Alice Walker reads Fame from her book You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down / Karla Tonella |
Alice Walker reads her short story "Fame" from her book of short stories, "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down," at the San Francisco Women's Building on May 23, 1981. Susanne Lee and Karla Tonella recorded the reading. Walker is the author of three books of poetry: "Once" (1968), "Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems" (1973), "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" (1979). She also edited an anthology of the work of Black Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston entitled "I Love Myself When I'm Laughing: a Zora Neale Hurston reader." |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Walker, Alice, 1944-, Tonella, Karla., African American women authors, Lee, Susanne | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1127 | |
| I know it's your day off, dear, but / produced by Marsha Bartlett. |
Examination of domestic workers who manage the homes and children of other people. Intro: How does it feel to manage, maintain and otherwise be responsible for the homes and children of other people? A look at domestic workers through their own eyes and the eyes of those who place them in jobs, and of those who are helping them to organize. Produced by Marsha Bartlett. |
Working classes -- United States., Household employees, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions | BC0874 | |
| Sex without babies (Episode 4) |
Dr. H. Curtis Wood, medical consultant of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, and author of "Sex without babies" meets with panelists Peggy Still, executive director of Planned Parenthood, Los Angeles; Helen Colton, director of the Family Forum; and Dr. Joseph Still, physician and scientist in the area of personal preventative medicine. Dr. Wood discusses the concept of voluntary sterilization (popularly known as "getting one's tubes tied"), the themes of his book, other birth control methods, forced sterilization, new procedures for vasectomies, and other related topics. Moderated and produced by Harry Pollard, executive director, Henry George School of Los Angeles. |
Wood, H. Curtis, Colton, Helen., Still, Joseph., Still, Peggy, Sterilization (Birth control)., Birth control, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB4485.04 | |
| People's law update: Lennox Hinds interviewed by Bob Lefcourt |
Bob Lefcourt speaks with attorney Lennox Hinds from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in New Jersey, second president of the National Conference of Black Lawyers. Discussion on trial of Assata Shakur, who was kept in solitary confinement for two years before her trial in New Jersey. Hinds was summoned from the Bar association and refused to go saying that what he had said in the press undermined the judicial system. Produced by WBAI. Recorded on June 6, 1979. Broadcast on June 6, 1979. "People's law update" was a sub-series of the WBAI series "Bread and roses." Previously cataloged as "Lenox Hines" and "Ashatasha Kur." |
People's law update, Bread and roses, Hinds, Lennox S., Shakur, Assata., Black Panther Party, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ0528.01 | |
| Women and breast cancer / Rose Kushner ; interviewed by Kathy McAnally. |
Kathy McAnally talks with Rose Kushner, author of Breast Cancer, A Personal History and an Investigative Report (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1975). Kushner discusses breast cancer as it affects women's relationships with men, her own personal experience with breast cancer, and the general lack of literature on the subject. |
McAnally, Kathy., Cancer, Women -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Kushner, Rose, Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography. | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | BC2679 |