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Women's news and commentary for KPFA, September 11, 1975. Segments: 1. The radical feminist group Redstockings' charges that feminist activist Gloria Steinem was once involved with the CIA. Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings is interviewed about those charges and discusses Steinem's ascendancy to her platform and MS Magazine's ignoring of radical feminist causes and possible complicity with the CIA; 2. The FBI tracking the women's movement, with special focus on Jane Alpert, who cooperated with a grand jury investigation; Shoshona, aka Patricia Swinton, who was fingered by Alpert, discusses Alpert's politics; 3. Shoshona talks about Assata Shakur; 4. A report of the first National Conference of Socialist Feminists, held in Yellow Springs, Ohio in July 1975, whose goal was to define feminism in revolutionary terms; 5. A report on Wilma Schneider, first woman prison guard at San Quentin, who recently announced her retirement; 6. Reading of a passage from Jo Freeman's book The Women's Liberation Movement. Produced by the Women's News Collective of KPFA, including Susan Elisabeth, Peggy Hughes, Joan Medlin and Janet Potter.

Women's News on KPFA with Helen Mickiewicz and Julia Randall, July 14, 1980. Contents: 1. News items concerning the GOP dropping the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform: includes actuality of NOW members protesting at the Republican Campaign Headquarters in San Francisco, reported by Trey Aarons [sp?]; 2. News items concerning the Hyde Amendment: includes interviews with ACLU lawyer Margaret Crosby; Valerie Edwards, abortion counselor for the Buena Vista Women's Health Center; Pat Cody from the Coalition for the Medical Rights for Women; Barbara Rabe[sp?] of the Oakland Feminist Health Collective; 4. A report on the United Nations Conference on Women in Copenhagen, Denmark; 5. Analysis of how the June 30th abortion decision from the Supreme Court will affect women in California; 6. Boston-based artist Evernine[sp?] creates sculptures depicting rape victims, placed in the areas they were raped; reported by Joanne Kaywell[sp?] 7. Community calendar; 8. News briefs: criticism of Warren Hinkle's articles on Eldridge Cleaver's support of wife-beating; impending hotel workers' strike in San Francisco; Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department not hiring Denise Krebs as Deputy Sheriff because she's a lesbian (includes an interview with Krebs' lawyer, Donna Hitchens of the Lesbian Rights Project); Los Angeles Sheriff's Department no longer chaining pregnant inmates by the ankle while they give birth; Swiss firm developing a do-it-yourself pregnancy kit by spitting on a piece of paper; proposed expansion of California's child-care program; State Health Department undertaking a campaign to locate women who have taken DES; Mary Decker, Olympic track runner, breaks her fourth national record in Stuttgart; Joann Dahlkoetter of Portland finishes first in the women's division of the San Francisco Marathon.

Discussion of the life and conditions in women's correctional facilities, through the reading of letters, interviews and poetry by women in prison. The letters offer a glimpse of the brutality women face in prison, and also how jails reinforce the racism and sexism found in larger society. The correspondence was authored by Jane Kennedy, who was a member of the Beaver 55 who protested against Dow Chemical; Lee Weinberg, one of the Tucson Five (four of whom were women), jailed for contempt for not testifying before a grand jury; Barbara Deming, a pacifist who served time for civil disobedience against the Vietnam War; a poem by a man about his loved one, who was serving time in a women's facility in New York City; excerpt from an interview with a white woman who spent six weeks in a house of detention; an interview between two women, one Black and one white, who were both heroin addicts, and who were brought to Niantic State Farm; a poem by Ericka Huggins; and an excerpt from a letter from Angela Davis to Huggins while both women were in prison. Readings by Barbara Berner, Ronnie Solomon, and Candy Brown. The theme song is sung by Ruthie Gordon.

Elizabeth Farnsworth of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) interviews Marta Acevedo, organizer of the first women's action in Mexico on Mother's Day in May 1971. Acevedo wrote one of the first articles on women's liberation to appear in a Mexican periodical, Siempre. She talks about her decision to write the article, about the action she organized in Mexico, and about the status of women in Mexico. This program was first broadcast on NACLA's Latin American Report in November, 1971.