WINGS#08-22 Leymah Gbowee on Peacemaking 
Women must make space for ourselves from the very start of negotiations 

Shortly before she was announced as a Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee was on a book tour in the US. She gave Janie Rezner of Women's Voices a passionate and wide-ranging interview about herself, her children, and how women need to get over our socialization to stay out of politics and not just support the men.

Janie Rezner, host of Women's Voices

Featured Speakers/Guests: Leymah Gbowee [pronounced LAY"mah, BEAU-wee] led the movement of Liberian women to force a peace agreement, which was documented in in Abigail Disney's film Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Gbowee authored the book Mighty Be Our Powers. She continues to work with women to make peace across the African continent and the world. 

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Battered Women's Defense 
Why would she kill her husband? 

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Speaking to a group of attorneys in Kansas City, forensic psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker explains the development of battered women's syndrome as closely akin to the PTSD suffered by soldiers in battle. The effects of repeated trauma can create an overwhelming sense of threat and terror even when not in the throes of an immediate attack. This understanding can be used to defend women who kill their abusers, who have often been handed more severe sentences than those given men who kill the women they are abusing.  

Psychologist and expert witness, Dr. Lenore Walker, author of The Battered Woman Syndrome 


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Recorded and edited by Frieda Werde

WINGS #06-22 Let 'Em Eat Cake!  und RADIA Musik

Marie Antoinette's famous phrase. If she said it, why? 

An "Aural Tapestry." Food journalist Lizet Kruyff cooks Marie Antoinette's favourite cake from her childhood - an Austrian kugelhopf, while reporter Mindy Ran follows her around the kitchen asking questions about both cooking and history. The wealthy French were using food for conspicuous display and class distinctions, while much of of the French populace was starving. Revolution ensued. Lizet Kruyff, journalist and food historian; Mindy Ran, interviewer 

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Produced by Mindy Ran. Original aired in Radio Netherlands now-defunct Euroquest series, and had technical production support by Mark Brauer; adaptation for WINGS and update by Frieda Werden

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Accounting for Whom? 

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Waring asserts and documents that the UN-prescribed system of international accounts was designed to justify expenditures on war, that it serves weapons manufacturers very well, but has severe deficiencies as a set of decision-making statistics for governance. She gives examples from various countries of the perverse results of using money annually spent as the only measure of value and national success and taking no notice of other human activity or environmental conditions.  

Marilyn Waring formerly chaired the Public Expenditures Committee of New Zealand's Parliament. Her most famous book is If Women Counted. She has a doctorate in Political Economy, and continues to mount international campaigns against the GDP. 

Credits:

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Audio documentary by Maria Gilardin of TUC Radio, based on the 1996 documentary film Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, produced by Canadian filmmaker Terre Nash and now available to view at nfb.ca - Program adapted for WINGS by Frieda Werden.

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Butch Is Not a Dirty Word 
Masculine women claim their stripe in the gender rainbow. 

Women who find themselves "on the masculine side of centre" often experience disapproval, rejection, and pressures to change. Butch Is Not a Dirty Word is a magazine and organization designed to admire, appreciate, and network those who live with butch identity. The guests talk about their experiences in queer and straight settings, including overriding the butch/femme binary as a butch/butch couple; the pressures attendant on butch motherhood; views of butchness in communities of colour in the US and Australia; and the power to be comfortable in one's own preferred self-presentation and identity. Various butch identities are referenced, including trans butch.  
Madelaine Imber and Tandiwe Aebi-Moyo, Butches associated with Butch Is Not A Dirty Word, a publication and organization by and for butches, based in Sydney, Australia, with readership and membership around the world. 

Credits:
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service has been covering the global women's movement and related issues for community radio since 1986. Contact: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!.  
Interview by Jiselle Hanna, first aired on 3CR community radio, Melbourne, Australia, in the program series Accent of Women. Adapted for WINGS by series producer, Frieda Werden. [Note: both the website butchisnotadirtyword.com and the Facebook page butchisnotadirtyword have beautiful photography.]

WINGS #01-22 Mary Daly Meets 3rd Wave 

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Mary Daly, a Catholic theologian born in 1928, became a fierce feminist critic of patriarchal religion. Her first books were The Church and the Second Sex in 1968, and Beyond God the Father in 1973. Her later works were famously full of outrage and playful language. In 1999, Daly lost her job at Boston College for insisting on teaching a class to women only. The last of her 9 books, released in 2006, is titled Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big. Mara Williams (DJ Cariad), a third wave feminist, reached across the generation gap to talk with Daly about it on campus radio KDVS at University of California, Davis. Sendungen des feministischen Radionetzwerkes und von freien Radios weltweit.

WINGS #01-22 Mary Daly Meets 3rd Wave 
One of the last interviews of the late time traveler, theologian and radical feminist pirate. 

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Summary:
Featured speakers/guests:
Mary Daly, a Catholic theologian born in 1928, became a fierce feminist critic of patriarchal religion. Her first books were The Church and the Second Sex in 1968, and Beyond God the Father in 1973. Her later works were famously full of outrage and playful language. In 1999, Daly lost her job at Boston College for insisting on teaching a class to women only. The last of her 9 books, released in 2006, is titled Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big. Mara Williams (DJ Cariad), a third wave feminist, reached across the generation gap to talk with Daly about it on campus radio KDVS at University of California, Davis. 
See program description 
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Credits:
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Irish Grannies Rage for Peace and for Ireland's neutrality 

Documentary by Margaretta D'Arcy includes songs and lyrics by Galway's Raging Grannies and other granny groups, and an overview of Ireland's neutrality, its erosion - especially in allowing US military to use of Shannon airport - and some Irish public opinion.
Notes: 1. Around 5:26, you are NOT hearing the F-word; the phrase, spoken twice, is "blood-sucking vulture capitalists"
2. WINGS has fact-checked the numbers of US military suicides and deaths in war. This source from Brown University has figures slightly higher than D'Arcy's: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/06/24/suicide-combat-veterans
3. We endeavoured to fact-check the number 5 million deaths in wars led by the US and NATO. No reliable death counts exist for most of these wars, as enemy death numbers were usually not reported - much less the collateral damage from hunger, disease and displacement. However, 5 million may be on the conservative side. A figure of 3 million for the Korean War alone - the first US-NATO joint military venture - is widely cited. This site puts the combined death toll of US wars since WW2 at 12 million: http://www.worldfut

WINGS#52-21Model Matriarchy 
The Iroquois example of women's responsible power 

Barbara Alice Mann describes the inner workings of a long-established North American matriarchal society, where women lead the arrangement of life, including festivals, collective decision-making, management of longhouses, food storage, marriages, childrearing, inheritance, rotating land use, agriculture, food storage, sharing, and gift-giving. And war and peace. Introduction by Bernedette Muthien, a KhoeSan scholar/activist from South Africa. 
Barbara Alice Mann, Ph.D., lives, teaches, researches, and writes in Ohio, the homeland of her Seneca ancestors for the last 1,500 years. She spoke in a virtual event titled Rematriation, around the UN CSW 2022. 
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