Scope and Contents The DES Action Group Records, 1972-76, consists of letters, brochures, timetables, newsletters, news clippings, planning and meeting notes, and collected research material documenting the Group's planning, purpose, and publicity efforts; its public hearing on DES; and its preliminary application to the American Cancer Society for a grant. Also includes some materials of the local "Action Faction" of the New American Movement, including notes and newsletters documenting its relations...

Scope and Contents Springfield affiliate of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, organized in 1980. Aired half hour programs on WSSR-FM. Associated with SSU's Studies in Social Change Committee. Over 35 audio tapes of Crystal Radio productions. Producers include Harv Koplo, Doug Nicodemus, Cat Feral, Ron Sakolsky, Kathy Mastroddi, David Lasley, and Center for Alternative Education. Topics include home birth, religion, Native Americans, "Grass Roots Group of Second Class Citizens,"...

Scope and Contents Papers of Ron Sakolsky, Assistant Professor of Public Administration (1972-), and the People's Institute, a non-profit corporation that did research, consulting and related activities for powerless individuals and groups in Springfield (1974-78). Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, papmhlets, manuscripts, planning material and memoranda as well as newsclippings, press releases and a CBS News interview tape. Correspondence includes letters received from or sent to Sakolsky,...