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The perspective of five Chicanas in today's movement, featuring Adelaida Del Castillo, linguistics major at UCLA and associate editor of the first Chicana magazine, entitled Encuentro Femenil; Francisca Flores, director of the Chicana Service Action Center, which provides employment and job training; Alicia Escalante, founder of and consultant to the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization; Evelina Alarcon, first Chicana director of the Marxist organization El Instituto del Pueblo; and Maria Santilenas, former inmate at the California Institute for Women (CIW) in Frontera, mother of three children and community worker at Community Concern, who talks with Rene Madas, UCLA student and organizer of Mexican-American Research Association (MARA), a Pinta (Chicana prisoner) organization at CIW. Produced by Ana Soto for La Raza Nueva on KPFK 90.7 FM. Victor Vazquez from KPFK News and Public Affairs department introduces the program.

This half-hour documentary focuses on a dual theme: the increasingly internationalized manufacturing strategy of multinational corporations, especially in Mexico and Hong Kong, and their equally strategic employment of women, both here and in the Third World. Explores why they often hire women, especially minority women, and what working conditions are like for women working on these assembly lines, both here and in the Third World. Highlights the booming American electronics industry. Produced for International Women's Day, 1981, by Mary Sinclair and Maggie Geddes. Engineered by Susan Elisabeth. BROADCAST: KPFA, 8 Mar. 1981.

Examination of the human mind; how it works and how it should/could work. Get together with R.D. Laing, Harry Partch, Loudon Wainwright III, Ben Johnston, Swami Vivekananda, Tom Lehrer, Roxy Morgan, Germaine Greer, United States Marine Corps., Carly Simon, Beaver & Krause, Ranger and Phoenix, The Eureka Institute, The Incredible String Band, John Cage, Buffy St. Marie, Biff Rose, and Diane Markowitz. Also the voices of Jimmy Elmer, Richard Fiorivanti, Caryl Ratner, and Ed Schechman. From the folio: "A look at the human mind from people who perhaps have different points of view as to how it works and how it should work. The program will include scientific, spiritual as well as practical ways of looking at that organ that lies between your two lobes...By the way, why not use your mind now to figure out the two things wrong with the above paragraph." Sort of a free-form clip show with no host. Carol Ratner and Mark Spector produced the program with the technical assistance of Nancy Allen and David Rapkin.

In February 1973, the New York Radical Feminists held a marriage conference which they called "the Marriage Speak Out." This program is excerpts from that conference, with talks by women on their changing consciousness about their marriages - many of which ended in divorce. From the folio: "Very personal, non- judgmental style of speaking by the women; some of the stories are sad, some funny, but all reflect the reality behind the divorce statistics very well". Produced and edited into a one-hour tape by Nanette Rainone.