Shows Featuring: displaced people

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

Featured Women: Estrella Lasry, Melanie Capiccioni, Neema Kaseje, Sarah Giles
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 Read full description for this show »

Women Rising Radio #33: With Healers at Standing Rock

Featured Women: Maria Michael, Revery Barnes, Rupa Marya
Featured Topics: anti-fossil fuel activism, climate change, climate justice, displaced people, doctors and healers, Eco-justice, environmental racism, Health (physical, Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, mental), resource poor nations, standing rock, war and conflict

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 XI: International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

Featured Women: Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, Flor De Mayo, Rita Pika Blumenstein
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, Arts and Social Activism, Conservation, displaced people, Eco-justice, Ecology, Health (physical, Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, mental), Peace

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program, we visit with three eloquent members of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. The Council is a global Read full description for this show »