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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.
Harriet Whitman Lee wears many hats, including mediator. Rhodessa Jones, a Bay Area treasure, uses artistic creativity as a tool for social justice and change. Katharina Dress is a mediator for conflict management, with a focus on the aging. Catherine Orland, a trainer and facilitator, specialises in multicultural education, cultural competency, organisational development and conflict … Continued
Think the days of 'Help Wanted: Male' and 'Help Wanted: Female' are gone? Not really, say commentators Linda Hirschman and Paula England, who speak with Women's Magazine reporter and producer Kate Raphael about Hirschman's recent op-ed in the New York Times and the women involved in President Elect Barack Obama's transition team. Also, Swedish Social … Continued
Woman's Magazine looks at the housing crisis and its affect on women. Research has found that women have been credit profiled by the home lending industry. With slightly better credit scores than men and similar credit usage patterns, women have been targetted for subprime loans, hi-cost loans that have been at the center of the … Continued
Greater Options and Assistance for Lifelong Success for Women–G.O.A.L.S. for Women, is not your traditional mental health resource centre. For the past five years, G.O.A.L.S for Women has been providing counseling and mental health support services within a homelike atmosphere, complete with videos, music, walls of art. This afternoon, clinicians Gwen Wilson (founder) and Lauren … Continued
Elaine Brown, former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party speaks candidly about the election of Barack Obama, what it means to her, and how it will affect her work as an AfAm activist. You will also hear author and filmmaker, Sharim Sarif discuss the adaptations to film of her two books, The World Unseen, and … Continued
A look at Proposition 8 and talk about what went wrong with the No on 8 campaign, whether issues of racism have divided us, and we look at the invisible underlying economic issues of the anti-gay marriage movement and move us beyond looking at religion and homophobia and give us an alternative progressive vision of … Continued
This week on Women's Magazine we air the 3rd episode of the radio novela, Las Comadres, three senoras who meet regularly at a cafe to discuss how to repair the world. Today they make plans for the annual international day for the elimination of violence against women and girls. On Nov 25, they will meet … Continued
