6:00 AM – The Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice
On September 11, 2018, women climate activists from around the globe gathered in San Francisco for The Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice. The day-long assembly was organized by the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network International, known as WECAN. The Women’s Assembly was part of a week of actions, including the largest march for climate the West Coast has ever seen.
In this hour, we’ll be hearing stories and analysis from:
- Indigenous women from North America and the Ecuadorian Amazon,
- A poet from the Marshall Islands which are threatened by rising sea levels,
- A representative of the youth-led Sunrise Movement promoting a Green New Deal,
- Voices and chants from the streets of the Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice March that filled SF with 30,000 marchers on Sept 8th, 2018.
- And more!
Link: The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Producer and Host: Chana Wilson
7:00 AM – IWD: Global Celebration
In this hour we will learn about the radical socialist herstory of International Women’s Day with two American scholars, Eillen Boris, Professor at U.C. Santa Barbara, and Professor Premilla Nadasen from Barnard College. While IWD doesn’t generate mass marches anymore in the U.S., Women’s Day is still an important day for protest and celebration in many places around the world. Host Lisa Dettmer talks to feminist activists around the world who speak about the importance of Women’s Day marches against gender violence and patriarchy in their countries.
Guests include Pregs Govender, South African Feminist human rights activist and author of Love and Courage, A Story of Insubordination ; Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur and medical doctor with expertise advocating for universal health access, HIV care, youth friendly services and family planning in South Africa; Karen Tanada, Executive Director of Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute in the Philippines, and Lulu V Barrera, Feminist activist and human rights defender based in Mexico City. Lulú founded and currently leads Luchadoras, a Feminist NGO that explores the intersections between gender, technologies and human rights, and works for an Internet free of violence against women. She is part of the National Network of Women Human Right Defenders in Mexico and the Latinamerican Network of Political Innovation.
Hosted by Lisa Dettmer
8:00 AM – Black Women’s Liberatory Leadership
In a time when society is marshalling calls to #LetBlackWomenLead and #ListentoBlackWomen, actual Black women leaders experience little in the way of material and actual support and resources to manifest the large goals and aspirations for their leadership. So we ask, Why?
In this hour, host Micia Mosely invites us into a conversation about Black Women’s Liberatory Leadership with Social Justice Educator and Consultant, Tanya Williams, Antiracist Leadership Coach and Facilitator, Daneen Keaton, and Dean of the Mills College School of Education, Wendi Williams. They will consider why it is important to let Black Women lead, what it is about Black Women’s leadership practices folks are drawn to and, they will explore what roles Black Women’s Liberatory Leadership practices play in responding to our current conditions and what this bodes for our imagining of a Feminist Future.
Hosted by Micia Mosely