#42-20 Sistah Boom: 40 years in the streets … San Francisco Bay Area drumming group brings beats to life
Girls don’t drum was the rule of the day. Sistah Boom members shattered it. They’ve enlivened LGBTQ, human rights and
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Politics
#40-20 and #41-29 Death Penalty, Parts 1 and 2 Interview with Sister Helen Prejean
Part 1: Prejean describes how she came to be an activist for poor and racialized people and against the death
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#39-20 Mobilizing Resentment … Anti-feminist, racist, anti-liberal methodologies of the right
From the WINGS archive: Jean Hardisty’s 1999 plenary speech to the US National Women’s Studies Association describes the tactics and
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#36-20 COVID in Kenya … Its effects on women’s economic development
Measures taken by the Kenyan government to stop the spread of COVID include imposing a curfew, travel bans, and closing
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#35-20 Doughnut Economics … A 21st century guide to sustaining the planet
Kate Raworth’s address to the Meaning Conference of business people for change, in Brighton, England, in 2017. She explains the
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#34-20 UN Women Marks the 16 Days against Gender Violence … with a call to stop rape and an inter-generational feminist discussion
On the International Day Against Violence Against Women (Nov. 25), UN Women’s Executive Director delivered a scathing address about her
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#33-20 Radical Futures … Young Climate Feminist Leaders Talk
On September 25, 2020, WEDO (the Women’s Environment and Development Organization) hosted a virtual “Radical Futures Roundtable: Young Climate Feminists
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#32-20 Waring’s Counting … New Zealand’s first woman in Parliament debunked the GDP
In the film Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Economics, Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining
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#31-20 Leaderless Organizing in the ’90s … ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers
From the WINGS archive, Laura Yaros’s interview with Sarah Schulman covers the origins and methods of the AIDS Coalition to
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#30-20 India’s Water Warrior Women … Essential approaches to fast-encroaching drought
In India, water is a women’s issue and a woman’s burden, but only concerted community action can ensure water for
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