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Interviewing Equal Rights Amendment activists, Marianne Bell and Shirley Wallace, who were fasting as a political statement, and Illinois state representative and outspoken advocate of ERA, Susan Cantania.
Madalyn Murray discusses her family history, feminism, and theology and how her experiences with those subjects have shaped her worldview.
Author, grassroots organizer, and activist Linda Stout discusses her book “Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing.” Growing up in a low-income family, Stout discusses poverty as “the lack of knowing about options” and how this served as the driving force in her activism. Studs plays “Bread and Roses” - Judy Collins (1976).*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
Discussion of Division Street: America [Continuation of interview at the end of 1925659-3-1]
Father Leonard Dubi and community advocates Denise Ponzetti and Mary Lou Wolff discuss the Citizen's Action Program and community activism in Chicago.
Philosopher and nonviolent activist Lanza Del Vasto discusses his work as a nonviolent activist and his book "Return to the Source." Terkel refers to del Vasto as "Shantidas" occasionally during the interview.
Lady Dhanvanti Rama Rau discusses economic inequality, poverty, and the growing population in India. She discusses the need for family planning to combat these issues. Studs plays “A Morning Raga” - Ravi Shankar.
Lady Dhanvanti Rama Rau discusses economic inequality, poverty, and the growing population in India. She discusses the need for family planning to combat these issues. Studs plays “A Morning Raga” - Ravi Shankar.
Interviewing novelist, essayist, and poet Kay Boyle. She discusses her work as an educator at San Francisco State College and as an advocate for her students.
Discussing battered women with the director of the Evanston Shelter for Battered Women, June Terpstra. Two women, Ann and Donna, talk about their experiences of abuse with their husbands.
Northeastern Illinois University professor June Sochen discusses her book "Movers and shakers;: American women thinkers and activists, 1900-1970". Sochen and Studs cover a wide range of female activists and radicals who fundamentally reshaped American society via their efforts in the labor movement and union organizing, the arts and culture, and research.
Dr. Joseph Collins co-authored the book, "Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity". Among the topics in the book include world hunger, famine, food policies and politics. Collins asks the readers to think about being ok with eating food grown in another country when the workers of that country are so poor, they themselves are starving for food.
Studs has a spirited discussion with Jonathan Kozol who shares his adventures and learnings in Cuba that formed the basis of his book "Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schools." Kozol explains the ambitious Cuban Literacy Campaign begun in the 1960s that aimed to educate the entire population, tells of children teaching adults in remote villages by lantern light, and the unity and national pride that resulted. He and Studs explore the idea of generative words in literacy education and contemplate Kozol's hope to adapt a similar approach to American education.
Interviewing members of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, John Donahue and Calvin Hill.
*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations