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  • Sidney Lens in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Apr. 21, 1986
  • Sidney Lens in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Feb. 15, 1983

    Discussing the book "The Maginot Line Syndrome: America's Hopeless Foreign Policy" (published by Ballinger) with the author, labor activists, and historian Sidney Lens.

  • Reverend Grant Gallup discusses his time spent in Nicaragua

    Jan. 13, 1992

    Even though unemployment is at 60% in Nicaraqua, and the people are very poor, Father Grant Gallup would rather live in Manaqua, Nicaraqua than in the United States. Gallup explained there are 600,000 shacks in Nicaraqua. In the US, police tear down shacks that the homeless build. According to Gallup, the press is freer in Nicaraqua as opposed to self-serving in the United States.

  • Presenting music with folksinger, songwriter, guitarist and political activist Si Kahn

    Jan. 19, 1989

    Terkel comments and a presents musical performance by Si Kahn

  • Kathy Kelly, Bradford Lyttle, Margaret Barnes, Tim Doran in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jul. 22, 1993

    peace activists

  • Jonathan Kozol

    Jonathan Kozol discusses his book "Illiterate America"

    Dec. 1, 1985

    Jonathan Kozol discusses his book "Illiterate America." Includes an interview of a black teenager student named Jimmy.

  • John Bernard discusses his life, politics and his work with the Farmer Labor Party

    Aug. 1, 1977

    Interviewing labor organizer, civil rights activist, and former Congressman John Bernard. Bernard was elected as a Farmer-Labor candidate to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1937-1939.

  • Interviewing students Marvin Jackson, David Furey and Debbie Mooney about their upcoming participation in the May 8th peace march in Chicago

    Apr. 25, 1983
  • Interviewing political activist Frank Wilkinson, chairman of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL)

    Mar. 7, 1984

    NCARL was formed to fight the McCarthyism of the 1950s and 1960s, and today continues to work to protect civil liberties.

  • Interviewing peace and political activists Joe and Jean Gump, Kathy Kelly and Rick McDowell

    Dec. 13, 1996
  • Interviewing peace and political activists Jean, Joe and Joey Gump

    Aug. 29, 1986
  • Interviewing peace and political activists Jean & Joe Gump, and Kathy Kelly

    Sep. 17, 1992
  • Interviewing members of a humanitarian aid caravan to Cuba; Gisela Lopez, Lisa Brocke and Dr. Peter Orris

    Jul. 13, 1993

    Interviewing members of a humanitarian aid caravan to Cuba; Gisela Lopez, Lisa Brocke and Dr. Peter Orris.

  • Interviewing Lutheran minister and political activist Daniel Solberg and his brother, actor and political activist David Soul, about their work with union activists and unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania

    Apr. 10, 1986
  • Interviewing Jack Weinberg, Coordinator, Great Lakes Project, Greenpeace International (USA)

    Dec. 11, 1990
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