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In July 1985, more than 14,000 women gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the UN's Third World Conference on Women, which marked the end of the Decade for Women. The conference marked a decided evolution from the 1975 International Women's Conference in Mexico City, which was dominated by middle-class white women. Sylvia Borren of the International Lesbian Information Service ("ILIS") talks with KPFK's Helene Rosenbluth about "the lavender connection" - the role of lesbians and Third World women in the women's movement. Kenyan women attending the conference ask Borren questions after her talk. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

Elsa Knight Thompson interviews three Bay Area women who have just returned from the disarmament conference in Geneva. They were part of a group of 50 American women who went to the disarmament conference under the auspices of Women For Peace to urge the 17 nations assembled to take positive steps toward world peace. 1. Fred Haines reads an excerpt of I.F. Stone's article "How the Newspapers are Brainwashed and the Neutrals Gulled," which is about the women's visit to Geneva and how the news reaches the world's public. 2. At 14 minutes in, Thompson interviews Dr. June Brumer, Dr. Sadja Goldsmith, and Emily Lewis about the women they met at the Geneva conference, and about their experiences at the conference. In closing, Thompson reads a statement signed by 91 women from the United States, Austria, Canada, France, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, West Germany, and the Soviet Union which they presented along with petitions bearing 50,000 signatures at the Geneva conference. Introduced and produced by Elsa Knight Thompson. Program originally aired on KPFA's Eleventh Hour.

This is the first episode "The Crippled Person" in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled "Woman as slave." This episode is in three parts. In part one, Dr. Faber is interviewed prior to KPFK's presentation of the first lecture by Helene Rosenbluth, a young lesbian feminist and Roy Tuckman, male feminist, about what he means to say in the lecture series, his motivations, audience reactions, the situation of a man talking to women about women, his data sources, and male versus female feeling experience.

Part two is the lecture portion of this episode, Dr. Faber's "The Crippled Person," given in January 1977. In this lecture, Faber says men can't define women's roles and that psychology is piggish. The deal with men has been for women to be crippled, allowed various thoughts and roles and disallowed others. The essence of woman's experience of self is hurt and impotence, which may overwhelm her entire life. At the same time, her slave master man leans on her for self respect and love, which makes her hate him more. The essential problem: women are ripped off.

Part three is the second interview of Dr. Faber by Rosenbluth and Tuckman about how men can avoid abusing women and being sexist; women working alone versus women in a group; coupleism versus groupism; definitions of vulnerability; ego defense; and eastern versus western philosophical points of view. Instructions given "This interview should be played right after lecture #1 (Part 2). There is an introduction to lecture #2 at the end, so the announcer should indicated when lecture #2 will be broadcast."

Interviews with Dr. Faber were recorded in March 1977. Program produced by Roy Tuckman.

Susan Sailow talks about Rickie Lee Jones' life and music. Program features her eponymous debut album on Warner Brothers Records; no interview. Produced by Susan Sailow.