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THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: LESSONS FOR WOMEN'S LIBERATION
Kathie Sarachild, 1983. A firsthand evaluation of the powerful radical organizing principles learned participating as a volunteer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Mississippi projects in 1964-65. "Shows dynamically how Women's Liberation came from Civil Rights Movement work." - Judith Brown. Presented at "The Sixties Speak to the Eighties" 1983 conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
8 1/2 X 11 pamphlet, 10 pages.
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 WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE, 1960-1966
Video recordings of the historic SNCC conference and reunion at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in April 1988 that Redstockings once made available in audio. A full complement of the true "best and brightest" of the 1960s. Panels on feminism and Black Power show these topics to be still controversial.
Click here for videos of the conference.
(*Note that part "A" is at the bottom of the list of videos on the second page)
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ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING IN THE SOUTH: GAINESVILLE OR TAMPA?
Judith Brown, 1986. Some detailed history of the origins of consciousness-raising in the form of a letter protesting distortions of movement history in a New York Times article.
8 1/2 X 11 pamphlet, 8 pages.
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WOMEN FOR PEACE OR WOMEN'S LIBERATION?
THE VIETNAM ERA SOIL FOR FEMINISM
Redstockings essays by Jenny Brown and Kathie Sarachild that appeared in the journal Vietnam Generation's "Gender and the War" issue, summer/fall 1989. Drawing from the Archives, they apply the history of radical feminism's criticism of women's peace groups to new conditions.
32 5 1/4 X 4 pages.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR MEMORIAL SPEAKOUT
May 1, 1986. The U.S. memorial for the mother of radical feminism, held 2 weeks after her death. Testimonies by many early feminist organizers,
including Ti-Grace Atkinson, Ros Baxandall, Corinne Coleman, Patricia Mainardi, Irene Peslikis, Victoria Schultz, Celestine Ware with messages from Judith Benninger Brown, Shulamith Firestone, Patricia
Robinson, Brooke Williams, and Julia Wright.
Click here to listen.
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ABOLISH THE TIME LIMIT ON THE ERA!
Redstockings political expose and Woman's Party historical critique of the unusual and reactionary time limit grafted onto the 1970's version of the Equal Rights Amendment that was a major factor in the ERA's defeat. Includes an original, poster-sized red and white Redstockings broadside.
6 photocopied documents, 11 pages.
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THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT,
AND THE SPIRIT OF THE '60's
Speech given by Colette Price of Redstockings at a symposium on China's Cultural Revolution, Hunter College, New York City, 1987.
8 1/2 X 11 pamphlet, 10 pages.
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ARCHIVES FOR ACTION PACKET
Some documents from and media
responses to Redstockings Abortion Speakouts, 1969 and 1989.
8 1/2 X 11 packet, 25 pgs.
Click here for full PDF.
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Photo: February 22, 1969, Dan Hogan Charles,
New York Times
The "radical feminist action group" that would soon take
the name Redstockings leads the disruption of an abortion
reform hearing. The women demanded repeal of all abortion
laws and that women testify as the real experts on abortion
- the hearing consisted of 14 men and a nun. Redstockings'
co-founder Ellen Willis, standing in the middle of the uproar
with her notes, will soon write about her group's actions in
unsigned reflections in the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town,"
February 22, 1969. Click here for the article (and notice the
sexist cartoon on the second page).
Other coverage of the disruption is in the Archives for Action packet, described on left.
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ABORTION: WOMEN TELL IT LIKE IT IS, WAS,
AND OUGHT TO BE, 1969-1989
Audiotapes of the 20th anniversary tribute to the first women who spoke out publicly about their then-criminal abortions. Redstockings 1969 testifiers and new workers take stock of 20 years of personal and political experience - for refueling and moving forward. Includes interviews with reunion participants before and after the speakout by WBAI radio correspondent Sasha Nyary, as well as her news broadcast about the event.
2 CD set.
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Photo: Jonathan Kaufman, March 3, 1989, New York City
20th Anniversary Abortion Speakout in Washington
Square Methodist Church, where Redstockings held
the first speakout. From left: Irene Peslikis,
Elizabeth Most, Barbara Susan, Donna Fyfe.
Click here to listen.
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 Photo: Jonathan Kaufman.
Florynce Kennedy speaking,
March 3, 1989, New York City
From the 1989 Redstockings Abortion speakout:
"My name is Flo Kennedy and I'm a lawyer and I crawled off my death bed to come down here... I feel the speakout was absolutely fantastic... What we must remember is, every struggle pays off... and I think the next 20 years will find progression depended on the amount of struggle."
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FOUND AT LAST, 1994:
FULL AUDIO OF THE FIRST ABORTION SPEAKOUT - 1969
The original Redstockings abortion speakout in New York City, March 21, 1969. Women, defying law and custom, for the first time tell publicly about their then-criminal abortions.
"We are the ones that have had the abortions... This is why we're here tonight, to make things come home... We are the only experts." - A women testifying in 1969.
Click here to listen.
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 FOUND IN 2022!
AUDIO OF DISRUPTION OF COOPER UNION PANEL ON ABORTION, NYC - 1969
A great find in a time of high urgency for the abortion rights battle! Partial audio recently found! On November 19, 1969 Redstockings’ disrupted a panel on abortion at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City, continuing their demand that women testify as the only real experts on abortion and for the immediate and total repeal of all abortion laws.
Click here to listen.
FLYER HANDED OUT & READ BY
THE WOMEN DEMANDING TO SPEAK
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 FREEDOM FOR WOMEN: FORGING THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT, 1953-1970
Co-founder of Gainesville (Florida) Women's Liberation in 1968 and longtime Redstocking, Carol Giardina provides a largely untold history of the early years of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States. Among other contributions, this book takes a much-needed close look at the crucial role of Black feminist leaders and examines how Civil Rights activists in the southern university town of Gainesville helped spur the revival of radical feminism worldwide. Drawing extensively from previously unavailable original sources from the Redstockings Archives - including pamphlets, journals, and correspondence - Freedom for Women seeks to reclaim the radical roots and fuel the future prospects of the WLM and the Left in the U.S.A. (University Press of Florida, 2010.)
To learn more about the book and order a copy, read the Redstockings press release here.
 WOMEN'S STUDIES OR WOMEN'S LIBERATION STUDIES?
Carol Giardina, as a Gainesville Women's Liberation organizer and Redstocking, challenges Women's Studies to return to its Women's Liberation Movement roots and purpose. "The first reason to learn history is to learn that the important things we have now were taken in a fight... taken, not given.... You can't have a Women's Studies program and won't have one much longer unless there is a movement against the oppression of women." Presented for Women's History Month at the University of Florida, Gainesville, 1991.
8 1/2 X 11 pamphlet, 11 pages.
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