#43-19 Fasia – Afro-German survivor sang for peace
Her mother was German, her father a Liberian diplomat. When the Nazis came to power, young Fasia Jansen was sent
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Society and culture
#42-19 Winnie Mandela at Million Woman March
On October 25, 1997, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela addressed the first Million Woman March, held in Philadelphia. After an introduction summarizing the
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#40-19 Child Sex Work in Kenya … Girls below age of consent trade sex to feed their families
At Gasi Bay, Kenya, poverty exacerbated by drought is leaving foreign fishermen and local motorcycle transport drivers as the richest
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#38-19 Non-Defensive Communication … Taking the War out of our Words
Defensiveness is an automatic response that keeps conversations at the level of power struggle. Sharon Ellison has suggestions for quitting
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#37-19 How 2nd Wave Broke … Sheila Tobias on Faces of Feminism
Sheila Tobias gives highlights from her book Faces of Feminism: An Activist’s Reflections on the Women’s Movement. She recalls a
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#36-19 Spiritual Politics of Marta Benavides … Grassroots organizing vs oligarchy in El Salvador
Marta Benavides’s parents were an indigenous healer and a bureaucrat. She grew up Catholic, was recruited to the Baptists, and
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#35-19 Starhawk … A Voice Along the Path
From the WINGS archives, in a recording from a book release of her novel Walking to Mercury and her handbook
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#34-19 Cameroon Major National Dialogue … Where were the women?
From Sept 30- Oct 4, 2019, the government of Cameroon held a Major National Dialogue to discuss ending conflict and
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#33-19 Union Democracy … Diana Kilmury and the Teamsters
Labor unions are starting to gain more recognition internationally as a legitimate element of a functioning economy. To be effective
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#32-19 Let Them Eat Cake! … Food, famine and revolution
An Aural Tapestry – discussion about European history of food, famine and revolution, while the interviewee bakes a kugelhopf, Marie
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