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This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
This April 3rd on Women’s Magazine we will talk to documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto director of "Divorce Iranian Style" and "Pride of Place" just two of her many films being shown at the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley this April 13th thur April 15th. Kim Longinotto’s direct, compassionate documentaries take us into the often inaccessible … Continued
Theme: Middle-Eastern women’s voices. Today’s show features voices of several women from the Middle East including Malalai Joya, an Afghani woman in the U.S. speaking on the oppressive conditions in her country; an excerpt from the book Dancing in the No Fly Zone: A Women’s Journey Through Iraq by Hadani Ditmars; Bonnie Bone on the … Continued
Theme: Global Women’s Voices. Today’s show is devoted to International Women’s Day. The show starts with the early history or International Women’s Day tracing it’s roots from 1908 when 30,000 women marched to New York demanding the right to vote to the present and how International Women’s Day will be observed on March 8th in … Continued
Theme: women and globalization, reproductive rights. An interview with Ninotchka Rosca about the effects of the WTO’s free trade policies on women in the Asia Pacific region; the sounds of the pro-choice rally from the Bay Area Coalition for Reproductive Rights protesting the Second Annual Walk for Life, a group that brought their anti-abortion message … Continued
Theme: women on death row. A look at the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker in complimentary tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day; the lives of women on death row; a commentary by Elizabeth Creely on the potential loss of our right to an abortion. In celebration of Martin Luther King Holiday, … Continued
A look back at the year 2005 on the status of women in the past year and what’s in store for women in the US and world wide in 2006.
