According to Time Magazine, women are stocking up on emergency contraception since Trump appointed 2 members to the Supreme Court. Program reviews the long and controversial process of getting it made available without a prescription and speculates on its near future. Featured speakers: Dr. Susan Baldwin, researcher/ women's health advocate; Dr. Michelle Selig, physican and researcher; anonymous pharmacist; Alina & Caroline, Plan B users; Dr. Susan Wood, former Asst. Commissioner for Women's Health, FDA

Since 1991, thousands of women's organizations around the world have marked 16 Days of Activism against gender violence from November 25 through December 10th. In this program, you hear about efforts on the Kenya coast. Speakers: Violet Muthiga, Chief Executive Officer of Sauti ya Wanawake Pwani (voice of women in the Coast region); Mary Kiambi, a para-legal for the International Center for Reproductive Health at the Gender Violence Recovery Center; Betty Sharon, Chief Execuitve Officer of Coast Women in Development; additional voices from a video about Coast Women's work with sex offenders in prison.
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- What do you learn when you pay attention to the women embroiled with the action around torture, imperialism and war? Dr. Cynthia Enloe, a scholar of Political Science and Women's Studies, has made a career around this question. Among her many books are Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link; Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Womens Lives; The Curious Feminist; and, Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered. Her latest, 2017, is The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy. In this talk given at the US National Women's Studies Association in 2004, Enloe enumerated women and their roles around the US torture of prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The program ends with a survey of women who appear (and sometimes speak) in the Swedish documentary WikiRebels, including member of the Icelandic parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir, and Hillary Clinton. Also heard is Julian Assange.

- In 1999, historian of technology Rachel Maines published The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction. By 2011, this history had spawned a documentary, a play, and a feature film. Program features a talk by Maines, followed by excerpts from a press conference about the film Hysteria.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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The book Canada's Promises to Keep: The Charter and Violence Against Women (CASAC Report for short), tells the gripping history of Canadian feminists' work to carve out legal and economic space for fighting violence against women, in a country undergoing neoliberal structural adjustment. The promises they try to hold the country to are those in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (installed in Canada's Constitution in 1982) and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW - ratified by Canada in 1981). A summary of the research in the book can be found here: http://www.casac.ca/content/canadas-promises-keep-charter-and-violence-against-women - CASAC stands for the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres

Conclusion of 2-part interview with biologist Karen Messing about gendered research on gendered work and its effects on health and stress. Both parts are full of examples.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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The inclusion of life-threatening domestic and gang violence as reasons for seeking asylum abroad is being weakened and effectively deleted by the current US Attorney General. This documentary covers women who have fled Guatemala to try to access asylum in the USA. One succeeds, one does not. Voices in the program: Albertina Gutierrez, US Asylum Seeker, Mother of Two, from Guatemala; Denise Gilman, San Antonio-based Immigration Attorney; Alessandra, recently arrived from Guatemala to the US; Sister Consuelo, Backpack Volunteer with RAICES in San Antonio, Texas; Lynn Stephen, Oregon-based anthropologist and president-elect of the Latin American Studies Association; Lucia, asylum seeker from Guatemala who was rejected by the US

An interview with Sizani Ngubane, co-founder of the Rural Women's Movement based in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, about the origins of rape culture in her region, its confusion with the traditional cultural practice of ukuthwala, and the delicate process of bringing communities to reject, prosecute and defend against all forms of rape and abduction.
Host(s): Sarah Newton, Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Sizani Ngubane is a lifelong activist. Since the end of apartheid, she has focused her attention on women's rights at local, national, and international levels. In 1998, she left her position as a Gender Specialist at the Association for Rural Development to concentrate on building the Rural Women's Movement, which does many kinds of projects

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Excerpts from a talk in Vancouver by Sarah Schulman, author of the book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair.
Sarah Schulman is the author of a dozen novels, a playwright and nonfiction writer. She has had a long activist career, including being a founder of the Lesbian Avengers, an early member of ACT-UP, and an advisor to Jewish Voices for Peace. She is now a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at College of Staten Island (CSI) and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.
The United Nations World Conference on Population and Development, 1994, was a battleground between feminists and the Vatican. Maria Suarez Toro was there as both activist and broadcaster from Latin America. She tells how she and others from Latin America organized around the document that emerged.

Mara Surez Toro was a founding producer of the Costa Rica-based Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE)/Radio Feminista Internacional. For many years she did live broadcasting on shortwave and then on the internet. She also taught communications at universities in the US and Sweden, and provided grassroots adult literacy training across Latin America. Her published works include Womens Voices on FIRE, chronicling the program's first eight years.

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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- Lively and informative recording of a rally outside Connecticut's only women's prison in May 2018. Groups around the country have been holding Christmas bail-outs and Mothers Day Bail-Outs to free incarcerated women. most of whom are mothers, from pre-trial detention. The Connecticut Bail Fund raised $30,000 to bail out 30 women in time to be home for Mothers Day 2018. That included four women released from immigration jail.

- From the podcast series Gender at Work, feminists with experience in United Nations and aid organizations explain how policies to stop discrimination and abuse of privilege fail, and what might discourage the culture of impunity.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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Terry Blackhawk, www.terrymblackhawk.com founded Detroit's InsideOut Literary Arts Project (www.insideoutdetroit.org) in 1995 and retired in 2015. She is the author of Escape Artist, winner of the 2002 John Ciardi Prize from BkMk Press, The Light Between (Wayne State University Press, 2012) and five other books of poetry. In 2015, with Peter Markus, she co-edited To Light a Fire: Twenty Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a collection of essays by the program's poets-in-residence. She was twice named Michigan Creative Writing Teacher of the Year and received the Michigan Governors' Award for Arts Education as well as grants from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment from the Humanities. Blackhawk received the 2010 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from Nimrod International and is a 2013 Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellow. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and on line at Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Solstice, ONE and she has essays in An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, anthologies from Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and on line at the Collagist. Her most recent book is The Whisk & Whir of Wings, a chapbook of collected poems about birds. She is a past board member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and blogs for the Detroit Huffington Post.
Since 1982, feminists in Oslo have had a regular piece of the airwaves. They consider theirs to be the first women's radio station. They go the extra mile to get mostly female-oriented content in news, interviews, and music. This hip community station is constantly renewed by being passed on to younger women through training and mentorship. Interviews from 2000 and Norwegian women's music from 1999 feature in this gem from the WINGS archive.
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Leymah Gbowee, Feminist Peacemaker
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 culture, the successful Liberian women's peace movement, and why women must take our share of responsibility for politics and peacemaking. References UNSCR 1325 Leymah Gbowee [pronounced LAY-mah, BEAU-wee] is a trained trauma abuse counsellor, a domestic abuse survivor, and a hereditary matriarch. She led Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, which forced the negotiations that ended the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Their actions are featured in the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Gbowee authored the book Mighty Be Our Powers. She continues to work with women to make peace

UNSCR 1325
Adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on 31 October 2000, 1325 calls for women's participation in conflict resolution, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. The now-closed Women's Tribune Center, which specialized in disseminating information from the UN in forms usable at the grassroots, commissioned radio announcements and dramas on the topic. Included in this 2007 WINGS production are dramas from Uganda, the Philippines, and Liberia. Also two interviews - see Guests.
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For Black History Month, WINGS reprises Kate Raphael's 2016 interview with Robin Williams, Civil Rights Director for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Williams discusses the revitalization of the labor movement under the influence of the Fight for $15 and Black Lives Matter. She recounts trials and triumphs from her and others' organizing work. Detailed bios of Robin Williams here http://www.ufcw.org/2016/02/23/black-history-month-spotlight-an-interview-with-robin-williams-ufcw-international-vice-president/ and here: http://www.naacp.org/naacp-board-of-directors/robin-williams/ Williams was one of the 27 Black women labour leaders profiled in the 2016 book "And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders' Voices/ Power/ Promise," published by the Institute for Policy Studies, which examines the effectiveness of Black women's contributions to the US labor movement ."
On January 26, 2018, an official Australian holiday, some 60,000 people marched in Melbourne protesting the celebration of a day that began the genocidal assaults on the aboriginal people of the continent, who are still suffering racist official policies today. The march was organized by young black women. Featured Speakers/Guests: Aunty Jenny Munro, elder activist and founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy; Meriki Kalinya, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman and one of the convenors of the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, a grassroots activist group that organized the march; Dtarneen Onus-Williams, a professional community organizer and the chair of the rally; Ruby, "the smartest woman you'll ever meet," who reads her "Letter to White People"; and 17-year-old Aretha Brown, the first female elected Prime Minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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With mental health care increasingly mechanized, and families being responsible yet left out, Lisbeth Riis Cooper realized there had to be another way to help the mentally ill, and set about to create it. She runs both a live-in care facility and an international network for family support.
A Greek Parliamentarian tells international women journalists of the ravages of austerity on her country; a resident of the Greek island of Kos describes the generosity of islanders towards the many thousands of refugees that appear on their shores without food, water, shoes, or legal status after fleeing Syria and other countries.
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Former US Congresswoman Bella Abzug, founder of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, convened the World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet to bring women's united voices to the UN's Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and to demand women have an equal role in decision-making on the environment. WEDO is still active in 2017, working on the agenda hammered out in a large international consultative process in Miami.
Batgirl and Wonder Woman have changed over time, but psychoanalyst Hilda Fernandez and interviewer Frieda Werden cling to favourite earlier versions that formed their identities. They discuss how superheroines and heroes shape the world.
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Even with the price of crude oil low, there are still companies investing in and working the vast bitumen mines in Alberta, and building pipelines to refining and shipping points. The local devastation is massive and the effects on local and global environment worse. Activists from Canada and Texas speak. Heard in the program: Osprey Orielle Lake, President of the Women's Earth and Climate Caucus; Crystal Lameman, a Beaver Lake Cree from Alberta working with Sierra Club and Indigenous Environmental Network Alberta; Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a Lubicon Cree environmentalist from Northern Alberta, working with Greenpeace and the Indigenous Environmental Network; Julia Trigg Crawford, Manager of her family's farm in northeast Texas, in court against TransCanada's condemnation of their land; Eleanor Fairchild, 78-year-old farmer from eastern Texas working to defend her land against the Keystone XL pipeline; Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe indigenous rights activist and environmentalist, and Executive Director of Honor the Earth.

A loud but peaceful demonstration demanding Justice for Martha, the slain 32-year-old mother of one whose murder by a client is unsolved, also provides an occasion for discussing the general abuse of rights of women who support themselves and their families by selling sexual services. The murder took place in a popular nightclub patronized largely by white tourists. The disrespect and abuses are all around, however. Host: Diana Wanyonyi Featured Speakers/Guests: Chanting and screaming demonstrators; Josephine Ajiambo, an officer from Sex Workers Alliance; Mary Kiambi, an officer from International Centre for Reproductive Health in Mombasa; an unnamed sex worker who has been in the industry for more than 15 years; Esther Nelima, an officer from Coast Smart Women Against HIV/ AIDS and Violence; Francis Auma, an officer from Haki Africa, a human right organization based in Mombasa that receives complaints of rights abuses against sex workers daily; Jackline Polo-Kawere is Senior Legal Counsel in Mombasa for FIDA Kenya - a branch of the International Federation of Women Lawyers.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.