#21-20 4th World Conference on Women – Part 3 … Sisterhood and Strategies
A panoply of events, speakers and burning topics. Voices: All-woman Chinese orchestra; Helvi Sipila of Finland; Hillary Clinton; youth from Western Sahara;
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Spirituality and religion
#18-20 Nawal el Saadawi, exile from Egypt … On the price of freedom and the price of oppression
Nawal el Saadawi gave a rousing speech in San Francisco’s Mission District in October 1993 covering feminism, colonialism, and other
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#13-20 Guardians of the Amazon … Indigenous Women Rising
It was 1920 when the first international oil corporation entered the Amazon region. The struggle against destructive extractive industries has been
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#04-20 MayDay 2020 … Worker organizing under Covid in India and the Philippines
Women leaders from India and the Philippines talk about organizing for Mayday (May 1 – International Workers’ Day) in their
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#01-20 Pastoral Woman in Kenya … Adapting tradition to climate change
In this interview with Diana Wanyonyi, Agnes Leina describes how water shortages forced a change in the lives of herding
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#51-19 Peace Poetry … at the start of America’s longest war
On October 9, 2001, poet Susan Bright read peace poetry in Frieda Werden’s kitchen, as both were grieving Bush’s bombing
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#48-19 Election Protection … or, How To Hack a Democracy
Unlike Canada, which has paper ballots counted in the presence of scrutineers, the United States has fallen prey to the
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#46-19 Matilda Joslyn Gage, Renegade Suffragist
Historian Sally Roesch Wagner discusses her favourite US suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage modeled her feminism on the practices of
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#45-19 Not from Man’s Rib!
A rousing talk by Islamic theologian Riffat Hassan, exploring how the story of Adam and Eve crept into Islam, though
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#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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