Shows Featuring: environmental racism

Women Rising Radio #35: Guardians of the Amazon

Featured Women: Aura Tegria, Gloria Ushigua, Kandi Mossett, Leila Salazar Lopez
Featured Topics: Amazon, Animal Rights, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, Ecology, environmental racism, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights for Women, Nonviolent, 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 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, 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 Radio XXVII: A Farm Worker Advocate

Featured Women: Ann Aurelia Lopez, Profiled Women
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 Read full description for this show »

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

Featured Women: Lauren Wood, Penny Opal Plant, Teresa Jimenez, Valerie Love
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.