April 20, 2005
TOPIC: The Legacy of Andrea Dworkin
GUESTS: Catherine MacKinnon, lawyer, teacher, writer, activist, and expert on sex equality, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
Andrea Dworkin, the feminist writer and anti-pornography campaigner died in her home on Saturday April 9th. He work was a lightning rod for the debate on pornography and censorship that raged through the United States in the 1980's. Derided for years by the right wing as the archetypal “feminazi” man-hater, she authored books such as “Pornography and Intercourse.”
Dworkin befriended Linda Lovelace, the housewife turned porn star of the 1972 fashionable porn film “Deep Throat.” The film featured cameos of Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer and Camille Paglia — who described the film as “an epochal moment in the history of modern sexuality.” It was hailed for making pornography “chic” and Linda Lovelace initially claimed: “I did it because I loved it.” But she later alleged that her abusive husband had forced her at gunpoint to film porn. “Every time you see me having sex in Deep Throat, you’re watching me being raped,” she said. Lovelace died in a car crash in 2002, and Andrea Dworkin, with the feminist lawyer Catharine MacKinnon campaigned to amend the law to define pornography as violence against women. Their case inspired hundreds of women to document their experience of the sex trade.
TOPIC: Testimony: The Maria Guardado Story
GUESTS: Maria Guardado, Randy Vasquez, film maker
A few years ago, as an activist, I would attend rallies and demonstrations regularly. There were always familiar faces among the crowds that would show up to every protest. One of them was Maria Guardado, who I remember clearly. Before I saw the documentary by my guest Randy Vasquez, Testimony: The Maria Guardado Story, I had no idea that Maria was a victim of rape and torture at the hands of CIA operatives in El Salvador. Maria Guardado and film maker Randy Vasquez join us in studio.
For more information visit www.mariaguardado.com.
TOPIC: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries changed the World
GUESTS: Rex Wyler, Founder of Green Peace
We turn now to the founder of the group, Greenpeace. On it’s website, Greenpeace says it “exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.” Greenpeace has been campaigning against environmental degradation since 1971 when a small boat of volunteers and journalists sailed into Amchitka, an area north of Alaska where the US Government was conducting underground nuclear tests. Rex Weyler was co- founder and director of the original Greenpeace Foundation from 1974-1979. His photographs and environmental essays have appeared in numerous magazines including the New York Times, Oceans, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, New Age Journal, and National Geographic. Weyler received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his native American history, Blood of the Land and co-authored the spiritual classic, Chop Wood, Carry Water.
Rex Wyler will be speaking on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 from 7-9pm (doors open at 6:30) at the Los Angeles Peace Center, 8124 W. 3rd St. (near Crescent Heights) in L.A.
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