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Jailed for Breaking the Lunch Counter Taboo (26:30 min version)
From susan galleymore | 26:29
This is the longer version of piece of the same title
Fifty years ago this month, six people began a 30-day jail sentence for sitting down at the Patterson drug store lunch counter in Lynchberg, Virginia.
On December 14, 1960, four white and two African American college students— entered the drugstore hoping to convince the owner to let them have coffee together.
The result—the city’s first sit-in—landed the college students in jail, and ignited a firestorm of controversy throughout the city. It also brought the civil rights movement to a head.
Read the accompanying article: That Moment People Say, "No!" pub'd on Commondreams, Feb 22: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/20-8
MT Silvia, producer and director of documentary film, Atomic Mom
From susan galleymore | 30:02
Film maker MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 to 1956....
MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 to 1956. Other branches of the military conducted their own research too; even as they entertained Las Vegas toursits they exposed military personnel and those down-wind of the Nevada blast zones to radiation.
Back then MT Silvia was a peace- and anti-nuclear activist. Today she is producer and director of the award-winning documentary, Atomic Mom (http://atomicmom.org/) exploring the past with her mother who had never before talked about her work. Atomic Mom includes interviews with Hibakasha and doctors, engineers, and others and shares footage of bombed-destroyed Hiroshima, atom-bomb pop culture and "novelty music", and other crazy propaganda of the time.
This wide-ranging interview with MT Silvia highlights the sobering reality that still threatens our world.