07:00-07:30 WINGS:  16 Days Is Not Enough 

Canadians vs. violence against women 

November 25-December 10 is recognized worldwide as the 16 Days Against Violence Against Women. But dedicated women work all year long behind the scenes for societal change and accountability. This program from Canada covers carefully built successes, from changing coverage of the 1989 Montreal Massacre to influencing official reports, journalism and police practices.

Speakers:News report by Laura Yaros and Beth Blackmore of Radio Centreville's Matrix Collective; interview with Montreal Gazette reporter Mary Lamey. Voices from roundtable: Hilla Kerner, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter; Rosa Elena Arteaga, Mgr. of Direct Svces & Programs, Battered Women's Support Services; Darla Goodwin, Coord. of Aboriginal Women's Svces. at Women Against Violence Against Women; Laura Robinson, journalist and athlete; Asia Czapska, advocate and co-director, Justice for Girls; unidentified; Shanie Roy, student activist, feminist, and anarchist from Montreal. 

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07:00-07:30 WINGS Cancer Math: The deep research of biometrist Rosalie Bertell 

Biometry is the application of mathematical analysis to biological data. Mathematician Bertell was enticed into health research and did complex analyses on large data sets with many variables. Her first breakthrough was in showing how exposure to radiation increased the risk of metastasizing cancers - which convinced the US Congress to limit the use of X-rays to diagnostics. She was also able to trace the spike in breast cancers among cohorts of American women to their exposure to above-ground nuclear testing. Based on her Xray research, she came out against routine mammography, especially on younger women. Among other research topics, she worked on how pollution affects the health of whole communities. She was offended by campaigns that led individuals to try all sorts of things to prevent disease in themselves without looking at the environment around them. She was shunned and vilified by various persons with financial stakes that would be adversely affected by her work. But all the work she discusses in this 1994 interview is still relevant and not overturned today. The lessons she conveys are still needed. 

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07:00-07:30 WINGS  Saunas and Finnish women's culture 

Kaarina Kailo's recent book (in Finnish) on the rich history of women and saunas reminded WINGS of this beautiful documentary, provided to WINGS by the now-defunct Euroquest series from Radio Netherlands. You really feel yourself there, and get an idea of how saunas have adapted to modern living in Finland and yet remain a major source of social cohesion, especially among women - perhaps accounting for the relatively high status and achievements of women in that country. (Kaarina's Sauna book will be out in English when she finds a publisher.) 

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7:00-7:30 -WINGS  El Nino in Kenya 
Women prepare for disastrous rains 

Despite President Ruto's announcement that severe El Nino rains would not affect Kenya, the country's meteorologist was right - there are floods and disasters and diseases seriously affecting the populus this rainy season. Three women talked with our Mombasa correspondent about how their organizations are dealing with those problems, and the increase in domestic violence, too. 

Hamisa Zaja, program officer, Maji na Ufanisi (Water and Development); Aisha Al-Husseni, Mombasa County coordinator, Red Cross Society; Topista Juma, activist, Muhuri (Muslim for Human Rights) 

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Interviews by Diana Wanyonyi (who herself has been displaced by the rains). Editing and additional narration, Frieda Werden.  

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07:00-07:30 WINGS Unmaking War, Remaking Men (Red Poppy Day Special)

[This program is good other times, but it references November 11, which is called Veterans' Day in the US and Remembrance Day in many other countries.]

Kathleen Barry is the author of several books, including /Female Sexual Slavery/, which triggered a global movement against sex trafficking, and this last work, /Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves/. She spoke with Kate Rafael, host of Women's Magazine on community radio KPFA in Berkeley, California, about both of those books. The discussion includes some details about the Geneva Conventions, and examples of how empathy affected men's behaviours and beliefs during war.

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07:00-07:30 WINGS Ocean Ecocide

The deep sea floor has become a highly contested region of the world. Mining companies are eager to scrape up something called "nodules" that contain various minerals in high demand. Deep sea explorers and other environmentally conscious people are terrified about what damage that could cause not only to the oceans and its inhabitants, but to the climate of the earth. One of the world's most knowledgeable persons about the ocean floor - and avid opponent of Deep Sea Mining - is longtime deep sea explorer Sylvia Earle. In June 2023, she appeared for a Fireside Chat with John Vermilye of Mission Blue, at the Explorers Club. Includes sound track of a short film for which Earle collaborated with famed cellist YoYo Ma. She gives important information about fish and farming.
Credits: https://www.stopecocide.earth/events/protecting-the-ocean-via-criminal-law-a-fireside-chat-with-sylvia-earle
Series editor, Frieda Werden


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07:00-07:30  WINGS Women's Refuge in India  
                      Sumangali Seva Ashram and Its Founder

Sumangali Seva Ashram is a women's refuge and community service organization founded by Dr. S.G. Susheelamma in the 1970s. Now its services have reached millions of people. They include safe free accommodations, counselling, job training, community, schools, and love. Indu Ramesh of Bangalore, India produced this documentary for WINGS, interviewing residents and others involved in the Ashram, and especially the founder herself. Their motivations are inspiring. Produced in 2003, updated to 2023.  

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07:00-07:30 WINGS Which Witch? 
How the Western imagination has seen them over time 

Starting with the witch scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth, this program illuminates how in different eras, and among different classes in Western Europe and North America, who was considered a witch, what was believed or disbelieved about them, and how they were treated - whether tortured, despised, or admired - have all gone through remarkable transformations over time.  

Dr Diane Purkiss, witchcraft historian, Oxford University and Anne Laveau, trans Dutch magical worker  

Produced by Mindy Ran; Series Producer, Frieda Werden. Shakespeare's 3 witches performed by: David Swatling, Jonbathan Groubert and Howard Shannon; Yeats and Bradley-Zimmer readings by Bertine Krol, Liesbeth de Bakker, and Ann Blair Gould. Portions of this programme were previously broadcast on Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Vox Humana series, and reused with permission. 

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7:00-7:30  WINGS #26-23 The Nordic Model vs. the Sex Trade ... in Canada, Sweden, and the world.

Summary: In September 2023, a Superior Court judge in Ontario ruled that Canada's 2014 law outlawing the purchase of sex did not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That law was loosely modelled on Sweden's 1999 legislation - AKA the Nordic Model - which focuses on criminalizing the buyers. This program includes excerpts from a talk by Gunilla Ekberg, Special Advisor to Sweden's Division of Gender Equality, as well as audience members attending the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres conference in 2005. Includes recognition of controversy, and the importance of financial supports to help with exits and to prevent recruitment. Updated to 2023.

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07:00-07:30  WINGS Jobs for the Girls 
What Do You See When You Look in the Mirror? 

Norie Neumark is an audio and installation artist who teaches in Australia. Jobs for the Girls - What Do You See When You Look in the Mirror? - is her documentary about women who don't fit the anglo stereotype of blond, Barbie-like beauty, and the pressure to change from their own culture of origin's appearance norms. The "jobs" on offer include nose jobs and boob jobs - but also the jobs that are easier to get if you look and sound like the dominant race. Produced in 1991 and previously featured on New American Radio, Jobs for the Girls was updated by the producer in 2023 for WINGS. 

Norie Neumark immigrated from the US to Australia decades ago. She produces audio and installations with Maria Miranda as Out-of-Sync. She also teaches and is the author of Voicetracks: Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts

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Produced by Norie Neumark; WINGS Series Producer, Frieda Werden. Audio recovered from the New American Radio archives at somewhere.org with prior permission from the late Helen Thorington. (Find a bio of Neumark and more programs by her at somewhere.org - search for Neumark on that website under N.) 

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WINGS #24-23 Gaslighting and Philosophy 
It's not all in your mind 

Kate Manne, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophyat Cornell, focuses on moral philosophy (esp. metaethics and moral psychology), and feminist and social philosophy. Her books include Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, and Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women. Forthcoming: Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. She publishes in mainstream periodicals, and her Substack newsletter is called More to Hate. Her talk Philosophy and Gaslighting: It's Not All In Your Mind was featured in the online conference What Good is Philosophy?, a fundraiser for the Ukrainian Academy hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. The conference was organized and moderated by Aaron James Wendland, Asst. Prof. of PhilosophyKings College London, co-editor of the book Wittgenstein and Heidegger, and a producer for the CBC Radio series Ideas. This event was lightly edited for the WINGS format. To watch the original, visithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FXeGitYkuMTo donate to the Ukrainian Academy fundraiser, visit https://civic.ukma.edu.ua/donate/ 

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Thanks to Kate Manne, Aaron James Wendland, and the Munk School of Global Affairs for permission to broadcast. Edited for WINGS by Frieda Werden. 

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07:00-07:30 WINGS  Mother for Gays 
In homophobic Kenya, a mother spreads acceptance 

Kenya is a country where homosexuality is heavily stigmatized. According to international polls, more than 80 percent of Kenyans oppose acceptance for homosexual relations, and more than 90 percent oppose same-sex marriage. There are harsh penalties prescribed by law, insults like "mashoga" are tossed about, and violence - and even death - are serious possibilities. In the US, parents of gays played a major role in societal acceptance. Kenyan mother Mary Mumbi tells the story of how she came to terms with her daughter's sexuality and has come to provide emotional support for other gays, to connect with the gay rights movement, and to speak out to family and associates - even. in church - about accepting and respecting gay people. She says gays were created by God, and that people who insult them may well have closeted gays in their own families.
 
Mary Mumbi, mother of a lesbian daughter (and also a bisexual one) in Mombasa, Kenya 

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7:00-7:30 WINGS #22-23 Matrix Societies 
Suppressed Histories explored by Max Dashu und RADIA Musik

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07:00-7:30  WINGS African Foods Revival

Returning to what grows well 

A movement is afoot to recover traditional African food plants, preserve them, and disseminate the knowledge about how to grow and use them. Many have medicinal advantages as well as nutritional ones, and can be grown without any costly inputs. Anastacia Cheruiyot is a leader in this movement and a consultant in biodiversity conservation, climate-smart agriculture, and value-chain development for indigenous vegetables. She is based in Mombasa, Kenya.

Links for more information:
Bio of the speaker: http://consult.richana.co.ke/about
Haller foundation: https://haller.org.uk/
African Women's Agribusiness Network: https://awanafrika.org/  

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WINGS #20-23 Vanastree Seed Savers 

Vanastree.org is a women-run seed saving collective and agroecology training location in the Malnad region of the Western Ghats in Southern India. They are dedicated to promoting forest garden biodiversity and small scale food systems through the conservation of traditional seeds and tubers. Vanastree means women of the forest and the agrarian communities in their area are part of an age-old way of life where the wilderness, spice orchards, paddies and homesteads are closely intertwined. The role of women farmers and gardeners is seen as integral to the social, cultural and ecological fabric of the unique Malnad region. The women promote small scale farming as vital to food security and positive social change.
 
Sunita Rao, founder of Vanastree; Manorama Joshi , Co-founder; Shamala Hegde, active member who composed and wrote the song; Lakshmi, of African heritage; Dr. Pratibha Joshi translated Shamala's language; co-hosts: Indu Ramesh, Smita Ramanathan 

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Music written and performed by Shamala Hegde; Producer, Indu Ramesh; co-producer, Smita Ramanathan; M.R. Ramamurty, recordist. Series Producer, Frieda Werden 

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7:00-7:30 WINGS #19-23 Haitian Women's Radio 
REFRAKA in times of disasters 

Rezo Fanm Radyo Kominote Ayisyen (REFRAKA) is the Women's Community Radio Network of Haiti. Since the devastating earthquake that destroyed its headquarters, REFRAKA has recovered, again trains and empowers women broadcasters, and distributes broadcasts with music, news, and life-saving information through community radios across the country. Combating the cholera epidemic brought by foreign troops was a major concern. As of 2021-2023, REFRAKA is funded to work with 30 community stations across Haiti to raise awareness of violence against women and train radio hosts - especially women. 

Imedien Eluis, Lise Marie DeJean, Marie Guerlaine Justin, Maria Suarez, Mona Lisa Delva, Marie-Mona Mesidor, Nora Irma Morales de Corti as. Narrator: Frieda Werden. Unnamed BBC reporter.  

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WOMEN S RADIO IN HAITI WAS PRODUCED BY FRIEDA WERDEN, JANA JUNIPER GEE, AND BEA BERNHAUSEN, WITH CONTENT EXCERPTED FROM REFRAKA MAGAZIN . FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL RADIO ENDEAVOUR, HAITI GRASSROOTS WATCH; AMARC, THE SOCIETY FOR THE ANIMATION OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS, AND THE BBC. ADDITIONAL SOURCE: BEVERLY BELL. TRANSLATIONS FROM KRAYOL BY MONA LISA DELVA, MARIE-MONA MESIDOR, AND INOTTE DELVA. TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH BY CECILE WEIL.

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07:00-07:30 WINGS #12-23 Building Peace in Kenya 
By Rescuing Youth 

Summary:
Featured speakers/guests:
Queen describes the situation that caused her to turn to crime to support her sibling. She describes her narrow escape from becoming a terrorist fighter for Somalia-based Al Shabaab, plus a number of different techniques she and her associates used for robbery, and how getting a government job and support from Mama Shamsa made it possible for her to earn a legitimate living. Mama Shamsa describes how she came to receive the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi, and give many details of how she builds community and interfaith dialogue and collaboration that has made a tremendous difference in the safety of her part of the world; but also how Al Shabaab continues to evolve in its terrorist recruitment techniques. 
Reformed robber and teenaged terrorism recruit, Queen; Shamsa Abubakar Fadhil, internationally recognized community peace organizer based in Mombasa, Kenya 

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Interviews and production by Diana Wanyonyi; series producer, Frieda Werden. Opening audio clip from Shamsa's acceptance speech for the Zayed Award,https://zayedaward.org/en/ceremonies 

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07:00-07:30 WINGS #11-23 Naomi Klein on the hubris of geo-engineering

AS THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE BECOME MORE OBVIOUS ACROSS THE WORLD, THE IDEA OF DOCTORING EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE TO REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING IS MAKING A COMEBACK.  SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN HEADLINED ITS REJECTION OF THIS SUPPOSED SOLUTION IN APRIL 2023; BUT ENGINEERS AT MAJOR UNIVERSITIES LIKE HARVARD AND OXFORD EMBRACE GEO-ENGINEERING.  SOME MAJOR MEDIA ARE TOUTING IT.  AND  SO ARE SOME PROMINENT TECH ENTREPRENEURS - EVEN THOSE WHO ACKNOWLEDGE IT WOULD  ALSO DO A LOT OF DAMAGE.

A UN SPACE TREATY FROM 1972 HOLDS GOVERNMENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A SPACE LAUNCH FROM THEIR TERRITORIES; BUT TODAY SPACE IS COLONIZED BY PRIVATE ACTORS, CAPABLE OF BLITHELY TRYING WHATEVER THEY IMAGINE.

NAOMI KLEIN CALLED OUT THE HUBRIS OF GEO-ENGINEERING IN A TALK TO THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM.  THE AUSTRALIAN RADIO SHOW WOMEN ON THE LINE BROADCAST THAT TALK, AND SHARED IT WITH WINGS.

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07:00-07:30 WINGS#10-23 Two-Spirit Women Speak Out 
Reviving Two-Spirit as a title of respect

Update of an archival recording. Two-spirited women presented at the 1994 Indigenous Women's Network conference on sustainable communities, held at White Earth. They talked about prejudice and acceptance, leadership, AIDS, and tradition. Conference co-organizer, Marsha Gomez, discussed the growing two-spirit acceptance in an interview. 
Tahnahga Yako Myers, Mohawk/Anishinabe, indigenous counselor and healer; Bonnie Blackwolf, Blackfeet nation, human rights activist, person With AIDS. Marsha Gomez, a Founding Mother of the Indigenous Women's Network, sculptor.  

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