Shows Featuring: Profiled Women

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 44: Indigenous Women Envision 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

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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 41: Election Protection Advocates Part Two


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

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Women Rising Radio 40: Women Challenge Capitalism


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

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Women Rising Radio 39: Election Protection Advocates


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

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Women Rising Radio 38: Migrations, Solidarity with the Desperate


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

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Women Rising Radio 37: Choice, Church and State: Poland, Ireland, the USA


Abortion and women’s reproductive rights are still hot button issues around the world.  Women have a long way to go to obtain control over our own bodies, our own                   family planning,

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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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