Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
November 7, 1977 - A report on the march and rally in support of striking steelworkers held in Virginia, Minnesota. Includes a sound portrait and interviews with members of rally. Among the speakers were Lloyd McBride, president of the International Steelworkers Union.
November 11, 1977 - Isabel Letelier, wife of slain Chilean economist Orlando Letelier, speaking in Minneapolis at a meeting sponsored by Minnesota Clergy and Laity Concerned and the United Church of Christ. Isabel speaks of her husband and conditions in Chile. Orlando Letelier was an economist in Chile during Allende regime, and was assassinated September 26th, when a bomb attached to his car exploded on a Washington, D.C. street. An associate of Letelier's, Ronni Moffitt, was also killed as the two drove to work at the Institute for Policy Studies.
November 11, 1977 - Shawn Kenny, an Irishman and a member of the Chile-Ireland Solidarity Committee, speaking in Minneapolis at a meeting sponsored by Minnesota Clergy and Laity Concerned and the United Church of Christ.
November 12, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, Dorothy Hozza of the Minnesota Energy Agency; and Barb Weinschenker of the Center for Local Self-Reliance in Minneapolis, discuss financial incentives for home energy conservation.
November 14, 1977 - Capturing Minnesota history on tape is the subject of talks by Arthur L. Finnell, Assistant Director of the Southwest Minnesota Historical Center in Marshall; Kenneth Smemo, Director of the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center in Moorhead; and Ramedo J. Saucedo, Project Director of the Mexican-American History Project at the Minnesota Historical Society's annual convention. In 1975 the Minnesota Historical Society began a two-year Mexican-American History Project under the direction of Ramedo J. Saucedo to collect the historical resources of this ethnic group: personal papers, records of organizations, photographs, articles and other material, including 74 oral history interviews with people living throughout the state.
November 17, 1977 - MPR reporters Claudia Hampston, Kate Williams, and Janet Carter preview the concerns and issues that Minnesota representatives will take to the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.
November 26, 1977 - MPR’s Bob Potter presents “The Role of the Courts in a Changing Society: A Look at Conciliation Court,” a documentary that examines Minnesota's lower courts, including the first taped excerpts ever broadcast from local conciliation and municipal court in Minnesota.
November 29, 1977 - Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, speaking at a forum on biomedical ethics organized by the Minnesota Inter-religious Committee for Biomedical Ethics, and sponsored by a grant from the Minnesota Humanities Commission in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Siegel’s speech was entitled, "Human Experimentation and Informed Consent". To what lengths should researchers go to gather data using humans as subjects? How much should a potential human subject be told about the experiment he or she is to take part in? These and related questions were topics of speech.
December 1, 1977 - Bill Walker, Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner, speaking at the National Farmers Union annual meeting in Saint Paul. Walker spoke about dangers that huge farm conglomerates poser for co-ops, of Minnesota farmers' dependence upon foreign energy sources, and of the need to develop alternative sources for agriculture.
December 1, 1977 - South Dakota Senator James Abourezk speaking at Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association meeting in Minneapolis about the impending crisis facing United States farmers. Often described as a political populist and friend of the family farmer, Abourezk began his speech by listing three problems he believes farmers must address.