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#20-31 Leaderless Organizing in the '90s ... ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers

Wed 12/30/2020
"From the WINGS archive, Laura Yaros's interview with Sarah Schulman covers the origins and methods of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a

#20-15 Casa Internazionale delle Donne ... The International Women's House in Rome

Wed 12/30/2020
The Casa Internazionale delle Donne -- the International Women's House -- is a former convent in Rome that was occupied by feminists in 1987 and appro

#20-28 Andrea Dworkin at Seneca Falls ... Invokes Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the fight against patriarchal terrorism

Wed 12/30/2020
It's 100 years since the US Constitution was amended to say women have the right to vote, and a new biography of the late Andrea Dworkin is hot off th

#20-12 Slovenia Uprising ... Rejecting the Right

Wed 12/30/2020
Slovenia is a social democracy that was the first to secede from the Yugoslav Federation.

#20-25 Street Children in Kenya ... A woman's commitment to help

Wed 12/30/2020
Unicef estimates there are 30 million street children in Africa. In Kenya, they are concentrated in highly populated urban slums.

#20-09 Stacey Abrams of Fair Vote -- An interview from Mother Jones Magazine

Wed 12/30/2020
On May 7, 2020, Mother Jones Magazine hosted a live interview via Zoom titled Protecting Our Democracy.

#20-22 Attacks on Gender Studies ... An international conversation

Wed 12/30/2020
In many parts of the world, governments and other actors are attempting to limit or banish Gender Studies and the concepts it explores.

#20-06 WorldPulse ... A global network of women activists

Wed 12/30/2020
WorldPulse.com is an online network where women activists working specifically on women's and girls' issues in their countries and regions tell their

#20-19 Beijing Memories -- Part 1 ... 25th Anniversary of UN 4th World Conference on Women

Wed 12/30/2020
The conference was held in Huairou and Beijing, China, from August 30th through September 15th, 1995.

#20-03 Music Teacher Mother ... Special for the week of Mother's Day

Wed 12/30/2020
Until the virus isolation began, my mother was still teaching music at age 94.

#20-32 Waring's Counting ... New Zealand's first woman in Parliament debunked the GDP

Wed 12/30/2020
"In the film Who's Counting?

#20-16 After Incest ... The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Wed 12/30/2020
Excerpts from the film The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse highlight the long process of recovering from childhood incest trauma.

#20-29 Women of India's Panchayats ... 50% of local government seats are now for women

Wed 12/30/2020
In August 2020, the world lost broadcaster and author Indu Ramesh to the Covid pandemic.

#20-13 Guardians of the Amazon ... Indigenous Women Rising

Wed 12/30/2020
It was 1920 when the first international oil corporation entered the Amazon region.

#20-26 Worker-Owned Businesses ... and Cooperative Economics

Wed 12/30/2020
Cooperative Economics is older than capitalism, and it is also the wave of the future, says Kate Washington, on her daughter's radio program.

#20-10 The Aunt Jemima Struggle --- How her image became an offense

Wed 12/30/2020
In 2020, Quaker Oats announced it would remove Aunt Jemima from its syrup and pancake mix brands.

#20-23 20th Century Plagues ... Controlling epidemics is a tricky business

Wed 12/30/2020
From the WINGS archive: Laurie Garrett, speaking in San Francisco in 1995, about epidemics emerging around the world, with a focus on the Ebola epidem

#20-07 The Feminist Press Turns 50 ... Founder Florence Howe details the early years

Wed 12/30/2020
Founded in the US in 1970, the Feminist Press publishes neglected masterpieces by women of many cultures, countries and races, not only living women,

#20-20 UN 4th World Conference on Women -- Part 2 ... Politics, Work, and Money

Wed 12/30/2020
25 years ago, the United Nations held its 4th and so far its last World Conference on Women, in China.

#20-04 MayDay 2020 ... Worker organizing under Covid in India and the Philippines

Wed 12/30/2020
Women leaders from India and the Philippines talk about organizing for Mayday (May 1 -- International Workers' Day) in their respective countries in 2

#20-33 Radical Futures ... Young Climate Feminist Leaders Talk

Wed 12/30/2020
On September 25, 2020, WEDO (the Women's Environment and Development Organization) hosted a virtual "Radical Futures Roundtable: Young Climate Feminis

#20-17 Safe Cities Audits ... Safetipin, founded in India, covers 50 cities around the world

Wed 12/30/2020
In 2005, the Jagori Women's Resource Centre in Delhi began to develop a multi-stakeholder research and organizing project for women to evaluate their

#20-01 Pastoral Woman in Kenya ... Adapting tradition to climate change

Wed 12/30/2020
In this interview with Diana Wanyonyi, Agnes Leina describes how water shortages forced a change in the lives of herding peoples in Kenya but how her

#20-30 India's Water Warrior Women ... Essential approaches to fast-encroaching drought

Wed 12/30/2020
In India, water is a women's issue and a woman's burden, but only concerted community action can ensure water for survival as groundwater and lakes dr

#20-14 How Lesbians Wed -- in the old days

Wed 12/30/2020
rom the WINGS archive back in 1996, these are two short stories read by their authors.

#20-27 The Canadian Pornography Decision ... and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Wed 12/30/2020
Kathleen Mahoney, who argued both the Keegstra and the Butler cases before Canada's Supreme Court, explains how these two cases -- one on hate speech

#20-11 Wife Beaters --- A tough problem to beat

Wed 12/30/2020
"From the WINGS archive, two leaders in the movement to stop domestic violence, share their experience and ideas on topics like why batterers often ge

#20-24 Purna Sen v. Harassment and Discrimination ... Interview upon leaving UN Women

Wed 12/30/2020
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#20-08 Women on the COVID Frontline -- Reports from India and Cameroon

Wed 12/30/2020
Nilanjana Bhowmick reports from New Delhi on 3.5 million women who are "barefoot health workers"; Patience Wirngo interviews women workers confronting

#20-21 4th World Conference on Women -- Part 3 ... Sisterhood and Strategies

Wed 12/30/2020
A panoply of events, speakers and burning topics. Voices: All-woman Chinese orchestra; Helvi Sipila of Finland; Hillary Clinton; youth from West

#20-05 bell hooks on Transforming Rage ... From the WINGS archive (1993), and still good advice

Wed 12/30/2020
Renowned cultural critic and feminist theorist bell hooks gave the keynote address at the 12th annual conference of the Texas Council on Family Violen

#20-18 Nawal el Saadawi, exile from Egypt ... On the price of freedom and the price of oppression

Wed 12/30/2020
Nawal el Saadawi gave a rousing speech in San Francisco's Mission District in October 1993 covering feminism, colonialism, and other forms of oppressi

#02-02 Sexing the Web ... Exploring sex and gender through the brand new world wide web

Wed 12/30/2020
This show from the archives (1996!) has new relevance now the pandemic renders many courtships virtual. Caitlin Sullivan and Kate Bornstei