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Discussing Nicaragua with authors and activists Charles Gray and Dorothy Granada
Apr. 2, 1992
Discussing mad cow disease with the Director of the Humane Society of the United States, Howard Lyman
Apr. 11, 1996
Discussing life in El Salvador with development worker Jennifer Casolo
1980
Discussing Guatemala with human rights activist and author Dr. Raul Molina and an exiled Guatemalan, Maria X
Mar. 23, 1984
Discussing grassroots organizing with folk singer and activist Si Kahn and Rev. James Williams
Mar. 12, 1992
Discussing Concerned Care, Inc., a Chicago home nursing service, with Debbie Zack and Denise Hennessey
Sep. 2, 1985
Studs Terkel interviews Debbie Zack and Denise Hennessey about their careers as nurses and why they decided to go into home nursing services.
Discussing civil liberties in Chile
Sep. 1, 1978
Discussing civil liberties in Chile with Isabel Letelier and Michael Moffitt, the authors of a report for the Institute for Policy Studies: "Human Rights, Economic Aid, and Private Banks: The Case of Chile."
Discussing Chiswick Women's Aid with Erin Pizzey and Steve Harper
1980
Founded in 1971, Chiswick is Great Britain's first refuge for battered wives and their children.
Discussing battered women and the Greenhouse Shelter with four Greenhouse Women; women's rights activist Alice Cottingham, attorney Andrea Schleifer, Marva Butler White, and Angie Fields
Apr. 29, 1985
Chicago's Greenhouse Shelter provides 24-hour crisis intervention.
Discussing and reading poetry from the books "The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984" and "Sources" with Adrienne Rich
Jul. 17, 1985
Discussing and reading from the book "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South" with journalist and author John Egerton
Nov. 3, 1994
Discussing and debunking welfare myths with Wilma Green; Lynda Wright, Bottomless Closet board member; Doug Dobmeyer, head of the Illinois Public Welfare Coalition; Margaret Welsh; and journalist Henry De Zutter
Jun. 22, 1989
Discussing Amnesty International and interviewing Rose Styron
Feb. 9, 1976
Discussing agribusiness with photographer George Ballis
Apr. 16, 1979
Discussing a trip to the Soviet Union with Sharon Tennison and Barbara Rinnan of The Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI)
Feb. 1, 1985
CCI maintains citizen-to-citizen networks between the US and the USSR in an attempt to empower ordinary citizens to take responsibility.

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