#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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#29-20 Women of India’s Panchayats … 50% of local government seats are now for women
In August 2020, the world lost broadcaster and author Indu Ramesh to the Covid pandemic. Among her achievements were many
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#28-20 Andrea Dworkin at Seneca Falls … Invokes Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the fight against patriarchal terrorism
It’s 100 years since the US Constitution was amended to say women have the right to vote, and a new
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#27-20 The Canadian Pornography Decision … and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Kathleen Mahoney, who argued both the Keegstra and the Butler cases before Canada’s Supreme Court, explains how these two cases
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#26-20 Worker-Owned Businesses … and Cooperative Economics
Cooperative Economics is older than capitalism, and it is also the wave of the future, says Kate Washington, on her
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#25-20 Street Children in Kenya … A woman’s commitment to help
Unicef estimates there are 30 million street children in Africa. In Kenya, they are concentrated in highly populated urban slums.
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#24-20 Purna Sen v. Harassment and Discrimination … Interview upon leaving UN Women
Dr. Purna Sen is leaving UN Women after 5-1/2 years as first Policy Director and then Executive Coordinator and Spokesperson
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#23-20 20th Century Plagues … Controlling epidemics is a tricky business
From the WINGS archive: Laurie Garrett, speaking in San Francisco in 1995, about epidemics emerging around the world, with a
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