Shows Featuring: climate change

Women Rising Radio 45: Resisting US Military Bases and US Domination


Across the world, the United States has over 800 military bases, lily pads, installations, whatever you want to call them. And resistance to US military presence is growing. We speak with leaders spearheading movements to rein in and stop US

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Women Rising Radio 43: Deforestation Emergency


Deforestation is killing the planet and life on the planet. Women are on the forefront of the battle to stop deforestation worldwide. Listen to the awesome activists saving our trees, our oxygen/air, our Earth. Links and References https://www.pachamama.org/effects-of-deforestation https://globalforestcoalition.org/ https://earthfirstjournal.news/

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Women Rising Radio 42: “Proactive on Plastics”


Women Rising Radio profiles five courageous women tackling the huge problems of plastic and petrochemicals globally, and in particular one notorious company, Formosa Plastics. They’ve won big battles against Formosa Corporation!

Women Rising Radio 36: Indigenous Women’s Climate Uprising


During the week in 2018 of California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, women took to the streets to let attendees at the summit know they don’t want Brown’s policies, including cap and trade.  Indigenous women made their views

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Women Rising Radio 35: Guardians of the Amazon


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

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Women Rising Radio 34: Rescuing the Isolated and Displaced, Doctors Without Borders


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

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Women Rising Radio 33: With Healers at Standing Rock


Women Rising Radio gathers eyewitness accounts of Standing Rock, from medical activists who worked in the medic healing unit during the heroic Lakota, Dakota and Nakota standoff with Energy Transfer Partners, local law enforcement and hired security operatives.

Women Rising Radio 32: Antinuclear Abolitionists Part two


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,

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Women Rising Radio 31: Antinuclear Abolitionists


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

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Women Rising Radio 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train


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.