Historical Note:This collection contains grassroots radio programming produced by Judy Gerberand Laurie Simms. This programming primarily occurred during the 1980s and1990s.

Contents: Reel to Reel and cassette tapes.

Major Topics of Focus:

Political Prisoners- Focused on Puerto Rican political prisoners, women political prisoners and the Resistance ConspiracyCase. 

HIV/AIDS- Focused on prisoners with AIDS, AIDS and its impact on women and communities of color, AIDS awareness events.

Latin America- Focused on the Sandinista revolution and government in Nicaragua, civil war, peace negotiations and subsequentelections in El Salvador, the drug war in Colombia and Bolivia, political events in Mexico, and the Cuban embargo. 

LGBTQ- Focused on identity, experiences of LGBTQ folks, civil rights, education, awareness events.  

Health care- Focused on abortion, HIV/AIDS, women’s health in communities of color in the US, healthcare inside US prisons, women’shealth in Latin America.

Important Names:

Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Alan Berkman, Sylvia Baraldini, Susan Rosenberg, Geronimo Ji Jaga, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, George Jackson, Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Sundiata Acoli, Oscar Rivera Lopez, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez, Assata Shakur, Alejandrina Torres, Alfredo Cristiani, Archbishop Oscar Romero