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  • Social workers discuss international youth welfare ; part 2

    Jan. 9, 1965

    Social workers discuss their work in youth welfare in various parts of the world including India, Germany, Peru, and Malaysia.

  • Social workers

    Social workers discuss international youth welfare ; part 1

    Jan. 9, 1965

    Social workers discuss their work in youth welfare in various parts of the world including India, Germany, Peru, and Malaysia.

  • Rose Styron

    Poet and activist Rose Styron reads works by exiled writers

    Nov. 8, 1977

    Rose Styron and Studs read works by exiled writers and performers and discuss Amnesty International.

  • Pat Duncan discusses Apartheid and South Africa ; part 1

    1963

    South African anti-apartheid activist Pat Duncan discusses Apartheid and South Africa, part 1.

  • Jack Nelson discusses his book "Hunger for Justice: The Politics of Food and Faith"

    Jan. 31, 1980

    Discussing the book, "Hunger for Justice: The Politics of Food and Faith," and interviewing the author Jack Nelson.

  • Interviewing William Schulz

    Dec. 5, 1996
  • Herman Badillo

    Herman Badillo discusses "A Bill of No Rights: Attica and the American Prison System"

    Jun. 26, 1972

    Congressman Herman Badillo discusses the prisoner uprising at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, and how race played a role in the unwarranted killing of inmates and the subsequent government and administrative cover up of the incident. Badillo reads excerpts from his book, "A Bill of No Rights: Attica and the American Prison System," and discusses prisoner rights, rehabilitation, and the endemic injustice and racism in the American prison system.

  • Helmut Frenz

    Helmut Frenz discusses Amnesty International

    Sep. 22, 1980

    Discussing Amnesty International with Helmut Frenz.

  • Father Don Hedley, Sister Kay Kelly, Rene Golden and Secundine Ramirez discuss the tragic state of El Salvado

    Feb. 19, 1981

    Who's guilty for the death of 10,000 peasant farmers in El Salvador, the group of Father Don Hedley, Sister Kay Kelly, Rene Golden and Secundine Ramirez want to know. The fight and struggle for basic human rights has been going on in El Salvador for many, many years. The most recent tragic deaths of the four Catholic missionaries were because they sided with the poor.

  • Discussing Amnesty International and interviewing Rose Styron

    Feb. 9, 1976
  • David Hawk discusses his work with Amnesty International

    Feb. 7, 1984

    History, genocide, human rights and Amnesty International are all topics of this interview with David Hawk. Solutions to the problems in Cambodia are presented by Hawk, too. There is also an excerpt from Studs Terkel's conversation with William Shawcross.

  • Amy Conger, Arthur Warner, and Natalie Warner discuss Chile and the coup d'etat of 1973

    Oct. 20, 1975

    Art historian Amy Conger and Arthur Warner and Natalie Warner discuss Chile and the coup d'etat of 1973.

  • Allan Berube discusses his book "Coming Out Under Fire"

    Apr. 30, 1990

    The military's attitude toward gay people is what's covered in Allan Berube's book, "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II." For some people, hiding their true identity was necessary because they would have been discharged by the military.

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