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Featured Women: Alice Rothchild, Ola Ziaro
Featured Topics: Israel-Palestine, war and conflict, War profiteering
Featured Topics: Israel-Palestine, war and conflict, War profiteering
Women Rising Radio #47 is Part Two of a two-part series on the trouble in Israel-Palestine. We profile two physicians who have worked in Gaza. Alice Rothchild is an American MD who helped to build a new state-of-the-art facility for
Featured Women: Ariela Ben Ishay, Samah Salaime
Featured Topics: Israel-Palestine, war and conflict, War profiteering
Featured Topics: Israel-Palestine, war and conflict, War profiteering
This is Part One of a two-part program featuring women leaders grappling with the horrible conflict in Israel-Palestine. In this program we visit with two leaders of the world-renowned peace community in Israel, Wahat al Salaam-Neve Shalom, Oasis of Peace
Featured Women: Ann Wright, Berta Oliva Nativi, Corazon Valdez Fabros, Margaret Kimberley, Victoire Ingabire
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, climate change, Ecology, military, Peace, war and conflict, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, climate change, Ecology, military, Peace, war and conflict, Women's Rights
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
Featured Women: Katsitsionni Fox, Louise Mama Bear Herne, Michelle Schenandoah, Uncategorized
Featured Topics: Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, Land Rights for Women, Rematriation
Featured Topics: Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, Land Rights for Women, Rematriation
Three indigenous North American leaders present the idea of Rematriation, at a time when mass graves of Native children are being unearthed on the grounds of what were hundreds of “residential schools” that were designed to destroy the identity, beliefs
Featured Women: Bernarda Pesoa, Camila Romero, Camila Romero, Eva Cachana, Naomi Wagner, Simone Lovera
Featured Topics: anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, Nonviolent, climate change, climate justice, cooperatives, deforestation, Eco-justice, environmental racism, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, forests, Indigenous Rights, resource poor nations
Featured Topics: anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, Nonviolent, climate change, climate justice, cooperatives, deforestation, Eco-justice, environmental racism, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, forests, Indigenous Rights, resource poor nations
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/
Featured Women: Diane Wilson, Echo Lin, Gloria Majiga Kamoto, Nancy Bui, Sharon Lavigne
Featured Topics: anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Eco-justice, environmental racism, Formosa, Indigenous Rights, petrochemicals, petroleum, plastics
Featured Topics: anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Eco-justice, environmental racism, Formosa, Indigenous Rights, petrochemicals, petroleum, 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!
Featured Women: Andrea Miller, Carolina Miranda, Pam Wilmot
Featured Topics: Election Activists, Election Protection, Election Reform, Elections, Electoral College
Featured Topics: Election Activists, Election Protection, Election Reform, Elections, Electoral College
Election protection is increasingly seen as a critical issue in the United States, a nation that travels worldwide to “supervise” other nations’ elections. Since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court, there’ve been major problems with
Featured Women: Cirenia Dominguez, Gunesh, Jilaan, Maria Veronica Romero, Silvia Federici
Featured Topics: capitalism, cooperatives, domestic workers, feminist history, witches, Women's Rights, women-led communities, World Bank
Featured Topics: capitalism, cooperatives, domestic workers, feminist history, witches, Women's Rights, women-led communities, World Bank
Women Rising Radio #40 explores the global women’s movement to resist the violence and greed of capitalism. A women-led village in Kurdish Syria establishes democracy, gender equality, religious freedom and sustainability. And in New York city, women-led cooperative businesses are
Featured Women: Andrea Miller, Jennifer Cohn
Featured Topics: Election Activists, Election Protection, Election Reform, Elections, Electoral College, Private Equity Voting Machine Companies, Voter Suppression, Voters rights, Voting, Voting machines
Featured Topics: Election Activists, Election Protection, Election Reform, Elections, Electoral College, Private Equity Voting Machine Companies, Voter Suppression, Voters rights, Voting, Voting machines
The United States boasts of its free and fair elections but even in Congress, official reports are pointing out massive suppression of voters, massive purging of voter rolls, and alarming malfunction of election technology. Two courageous advocates work on these
Featured Women: Devi Machete, Satsuki Ina, Serena Adlerstein, Uncategorized
Featured Topics: Children's Rights, displaced people, Gender Rights, Human Rights, Immigration policy, Indigenous Rights, refugee issues and immigration, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Children's Rights, displaced people, Gender Rights, Human Rights, Immigration policy, Indigenous Rights, refugee issues and immigration, Women's Rights
The USA and many nations in Europe, have slammed the gates shut against desperate immigrants and refugees, criminalizing and brutalizing them. Three activist women co-founded groups to challenge the policies of detention, deportation, discrimination and denigration of migrants. They are