Shows Featuring: Profiled Women
Featured Topics: Amazon, Animal Rights, anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Ecology, environmental racism, forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, Land Rights for Women, Nonviolent, petrochemicals, petroleum, Water Issues
Currently the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest are in a struggle with worldwide multinational corporations that want to take over their lands for oil extraction, commercial palm oil, commercial agriculture, mining, and other massively destructive enterprises. Women leaders have
Featured Topics: climate change, displaced people, doctors and healers, epidemics, refugee issues and immigration, resource poor nations, war
Women Rising Radio follows four women working with Doctors Without Borders, three M.D.’s and a nurse. On board a ship rescuing refugees drowning at sea, treating malnutrition in the rural areas of South Sudan, in Liberia working on Ebola, saving
Featured Topics: antinuclear activists, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, nuclear abolitionists, nuclear radiation, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights
Women Rising Radio presents Part Two of our two-part miniseries on Antinuclear Abolitionists. In Part One we profiled women struggling to eliminate nuclear weapons and war. In Part Two we profile activists working to eliminate nuclear energy, including power plants,
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, antinuclear activists, atom bomb, climate change, Nuclear Issues, Peace, war and conflict
This is Part One of a two part investigation by Women Rising Radio, which profiles women advocating for abolition of nuclear weapons and power plants. This program focuses on nuclear weapons and war, and features Jackie Cabasso, executive director of the
Featured Topics: forced labor, forced labor workers' rights, Human Rights, human trafficking, slavery, Women's Rights, workers' rights
Ima Matul, CAST LA Joanna Ewart-James WALK FREE Elena Urlaeva Independent Human Rights Monitor Supriya Awasthi FREE THE SLAVES Credits Host: Sandina Robbins Producer: Lynn Feinerman Audio Engineer: Vanessa Lowe, Monica Lopez
Featured Topics: biodiversity, Conservation, Eco-justice, Farmer's Suicides, farming and women, food sovereignty, indian cotton, indian rice, Indigenous Rights, mexican corn, Transpacific Partnership, World Trade Organization
Vandana Shiva, Navdanya (India) Adelita San Vicente Tello, Seeds of Life (Mexico) Sage La Pena, Native American Clinical Herbalist Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Native American Youth Educator Credits Host: Sandina Robbins Producer: Lynn Feinerman Audio Engineer: Stephanie Welch
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, Eco-justice, epidemics, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Religion, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights, World women's movements
Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service (USA) Amber Khan, Women For Women International (USA) Zainab Salbi, Emerita, Women For Women International (USA) Martha Karnga, Executive Director, Bassa Women’s Development Association, (Liberia) Credits Host: Sandina Robbins Producer: Lynn Feinerman Audio Engineer:
Featured Topics: biodiversity, democracy and trade policy, Eco-justice, Ecology, environmental racism, farm worker women, farming and women, Health (physical, Human Rights, mental), refugee issues and immigration, sustainable agriculture, trade agreements
Featuring: Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez, founder and director of the Center for Farmworker Families Women farmworkers
Featured Topics: anti-fossil fuel activism, biodiversity, climate change, climate justice, Climate March NYC, Climate Train, environmental racism
In September of 2014, Women Rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join the largest climate change march in history.