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When the bosses abandon a business, women workers take over & put it in the black.  Then they win the fight to keep it.  Documentary produced by Pauline Bartolone with Indymedia Argentin’s Toya, Ruana, and Marcela.  Voices: women workers from the Brukman factory in Argentina, recorded 2001-2003: Estela, Elena, Graciela, Rita, Monica, Marta, y Rosa.  Link to 2008 Canadian film on Brukman: www.lesfemmesdelabrukman.ca Time: 28:42

Producer Indu Ramesh in discussion with Vatsala Iyengar, writer; Gayatri Balu, Indian music & theatre enthusiast; & Aparna Devagiri, Indian philosophy researcher. Part 1 looks at a diversity of Indian village goddesses still revered today; Part 2 considers the consolidation of village goddesses into India’s Great Goddesses.  Traditional music from non-copyright sources.

Indrani Sinha, founder & director of Sanlaap [Dialogue]. Calcutta, India, works with all sectors to rescue girls who have been trafficked or born into brothels and give them help for another life.  Interview recorded by Frieda Werden, at the Fleshmapping conference, Vancouver, Dec. 6, 2008. Time: 28:45

Explores conflict between those who live on the land and industrial society, and between “natural law” and “white man’s law.” Mario Savio Free Speech Lecture originally recorded Dec. 4, 1998, by Aimee Pomerleau. Time: Part 1 / 28:35 | Part 2 / 28:44

A selection of stories from the UN Radio program “Women.”  Producers: Diane Bailey, Bissera Kostova, et al. Time: 28:40

Karen Messing, biologist, kinesiologist, co-founder Centre for the Study of Biological Interactions between Health & Environment, U. of Quebec at Montreal; author, One-Eyed Science: Occupation, Health & Working Women.  Interview by Frieda Werden covers stressors in jobs done primarily by women and the need for more research. Asst. ed., Kellia Ramares.  Music: “Bread & Roses” written by Mimi Farina, sung by Solidary Notes Choir. Time: 28:40 each

Judy Orstav, Machsom [checkpoint] Watch; Ruth Hiller, co-founder, New Profile. , Produced by Rachel O’Connell of Women on the Line Australia www.womenontheline.org.au. Time: 28:46

Indu Ramesh  visits Himatsingka linen factory in Hassan, which has model working conditions for young rural women. On air: Purnima, Human Resources Manager; Mr. E. Wilson, corporate V-P; workers: Baby K, Netravati, & Parvati; parents: Mr. & Mrs. Puttuswami, Tangyamma.  Ushalata, Programme Officer, National Radio, Hassan. Time: 28:51.

Vicki Noble, author of The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power, addressed the 2nd World Congress on Matriarchal Studies in 2005. saying Amazons were real and didn't cut off  one breast.  Prod: FW. Event convened by Heide Gottner Abendroth and Genevieve Vaughan. Time:28:53.

Dec. 2008 UN climate negotiations in Posnan, Poland failed, but ideas were circulating that never made it to the table. Anne Petermann, co-director, Global Justice Ecology Project, talks with Kellia Ramares. Links: www.globaljusticeecology.org, www.empivot.com/watch.php?mdid=1112, www.twnside.org.sg/title2/climate/info.service/climate.change.20081204.htm. Time: 28:46.

Activists Mariann Wizard and Gloria Castillo discuss hemp with respect to traditional healing, racism and class struggle, civil rights and justice, industry, and the environment. Recorded Austin, Texas 1995; update 2009.  Prod: Frieda Werden. Time: 28:50.

For black history month 2009, Canada Post honoured Jamaica-born Rosemary Brown (d. 2003), the first black woman elected to a Canadian legislature. After 14 years in BC’s Assembly, Brown went on to head Match International, be a columnist, and teach women's studies. This 1991 speech exhorts women of the Canadian Journalists Assn. to have more analysis and to stay the course of feminism against all backlash. Prod: Katherine Davenport. Time: 28:48.

Dr. Sara Roy, senior researcher, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, says from 2005-2008, factories in Gaza declined by 99%. Economic pressure by Israel, the US, and other countries is reducing Palestinians to living on humanitarian aid. Prod: Elanor McInerney, Women on the Line, Australia; music: “Bryson,” by Pikelet. Time: 28:45.

In 2008, the state Supreme Court ruled the Civil Union law was discriminatory and opened the door for same sex marriage. On air: Anne Stanback, E.D., Love Makes a Family (CT); Kathleen McTigue, Sr. minister, Unitarian Society of New Haven; Carissa Cunningham, pub. affairs dir., GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders); Barb Levine-Ritterman, plaintiff, Kerrigan v. CT Dept. of Public Health. Time: 28:40.

Women lost seats in December’s election but a former Supreme Court justice is the 1st woman Speaker of Parliament.  Producer: Patience Dapaah.  On air: Mrs. Leticia Osafo-Addo, CEO Processed Foods and Spices Ltd, Tema, Ghana; Mrs. Francesca Pobee-Hayford, Dir. Dept of Women, Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs; Dr. Cherub Antwi-Nsiah, Board Chair, Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF); Right Hon. Justice (Mrs.) Joyce Bamford Addo, Speaker of Parliament; Bernice Sam, Ghana Program Coordinator, Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF). Time: 28:40.

Patricia Powell, Jamaican-American novelist, at 10th triennial Women's Worlds/ Mundos de Mujeres conference, Madrid 2008. Producer FW. Time: 28:49

From rising seas in the Sunderban Islands, land grabs in Gujjarat's industrializing coastal belt and the proposed "special economic zones" of Maharashtra, women and their families cope and resist. Speakers: In the Sunderban Islands: environmental refugees Rohima Bibi and Sabita Kayal, oceanography research fellow Rajyoshri Dasgupta. In Gujjarat: Manshi Asher is an independent researcher studying land use in India. In Maharashtra: Vaishali Patil leads a coalition of indigenous people’s organizations working to rid the land of speculators; Ulka Mahajan is an activist on Indians’ communal rights.  Produced by Jean Parker and Kalpana Pradhan; series producer, Frieda Werden. Time: 28:42

Popular musician talks with Margaretta D’Arcy in Galway about the lyrics of the songs she sings and their connection to domestic violence. Links: www.marycoughlanmusic.com/  and www.margarettadarcy.com/radio.htm NOTE - THIS PROGRAM HAS A US AND NON-US VERSION.  THE US VERSION IS CENSORED. Time: 28:34

Canada is not meeting its obligations under the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the UN CEDAW Committee reports. Sharon McIvor, professor of aboriginal law and co-chair of Canada's Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), helped file Canadian women’s shadow report and attended the hearing.  She talks with Frieda Werden on CJSF-FM’s program “Intra-Venus.”  Topics include women in prison, welfare rates, and aboriginal women’s nationality and property rights. Edited for WINGS by FW. Time: 28:39

Lui directs the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative for the Insight Center, Oakland, California, USA. She told her personal and political story to Masu Mamaya, curator of Women, Power, and Politics, International Museum of Women, San Francisco - www.imow.org. IMOW podcast re-edited for WINGS by Frieda Werden Time: 28:50

Filipina Jean Enriquez is Exec. Dir. Asia-Pacific Region of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.  They work on sex trafficking both in and from the region, through legislative lobbying, youth education, and economic interventions. Interview by Frieda Werden during the 2008 Fleshmapping project organised by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. Links: www.catw-ap.org and www.ustream.tv/fleshmapping/videos Time: 28:40

In her talk titled Women, Power and Politics: Counterplanning for New Lifeworlds, Resistance to a Racialized Market Patriarchy, the founder/director of the Kenyan Debt Relief Network and debt campaign chair of the African Women’s Policy Network says forget "women and development," that the "less developed" countries' problem is "developed" countries' overconsumption, theft, and plunder. Part 2 emphasizes cooptation of Kenyan men after independence by colonial patriarchal market economy. 12th annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture, hosted by the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education in Toronto, Recorded by Kristin Schwartz. Editor, Frieda Werden.  www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/lecture.html Time: parts 1 & 2.  28:41, 28:52.

Is the global financial debacle a gendered thing? Caution shapes women's business success and failure to reach top posts, say speakers at the First World Summit on Women and the Many Dimensions of Power (Montreal, June 1990) - Joanne de Laurentiis, Pres. & Dir. Canadian Bankers' Assoc. Public Affairs Section and Marie le Tourneau Galante, Publisher, US-based France Today.  Producer Katherine Davenport, update Frieda Werden. Time: 28:53

Diane Wilson, shrimp boat captain, is the author of Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out, or, How I Quit Loving the Blue-Eyed Jesus. Claudia Cragg of KGNU interviews Wilson about fundamentalist faith, environmental and anti-war activism, and tuning in to the energy of the world.  Link to the publisher: www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/holy_roller:hardcover Time: 28:40

1) In West Bengal, Nachnis live the 5,000-year-old Jummur tradition of song and dance. Recently they organized to demand dignity and rights. By Nilanjana Bhowmick, Calcutta.  On tape: Postubala Devi, Pres., Nachni Welfare Association; other nachnis.  2) A tribunal on human rights violations and genocide accusations is taking place in Indian-administered Kashmir. By Nusrat Ara, Srinigar. On tape: Dr. Angana Chatterjee, Prof. at Calif. Institute of Integral Studies, co-founder, Int'l Tribunal on Human Rights & Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir. Time: 28:57

Recent elections in Rwanda have returned the world’s first female-majority parliament.  On tape: Dr Shirley Randell, Senior Adviser in Gender, Governance and Education with the Rwandan-based Dutch Development Organisation; Annie Kairaba, director of the Rwandan Initiative for Sustainable Development, and a leading advocate for women’s rights. Produced by Rachel O'Connell for Women On The Line - http://www.womenontheline.org.au Time: 28:39

Women and men talk about gender roles in this Moslem-identified country formerly under Soviet control.  Produced by Carla Seidl.  On tape: Carla Seidl, recent Harvard grad and Peace Corps volunteer;  Peace Corps volunteer Kate Stearns; and Azerbaijanis Narmin Mammadova, Anar Usubov, Vugar Ahmadov, Flora Poladova, Sura Umarova, Shamsiyya Mustafayeva, Shefiqe Agakishiyeva, Nigar Baimova, Gulnara Rahimova, Elnar ___, Emil Karimov. Mehriban Umarova, and Humay Shikhiyeva. Time: 28:51

Speakers explain dangers of biotechnology applications in agrofuel cropping; the reasons for and risks of terminator seeds; and "poorwashing" - false justification of biotech by pointing to the hungry.  On tape: Anne Petermann, Co-director, Global Justice Ecology Project; Lucy Sharratt, with Sierra Club of Canada's Safe Food Sustainable Agriculture Campaign and Ottawa-based Ban the Terminator Campaign, and corporate watchdog Polaris Institute; Ricarda Steinbrecher, Co-Director of EcoNexus, UK; and Anuradha Mittal, founder of The Oakland Institute, and former co-director of Food First (USA).  Produced by Stacy Pettigrew. Time: 28:40

Complexity and dangers of genetic modification marketed with inadequate research.  On tape: Bioethicist Dr. Laurie Zoloth; geneticist Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, Co-Director EcoNexus, UK; Anne Petermann, Co-director, Global Justice Ecology Project, USA. Produced by Stacy Pettigrew; additional audio, Kellia Ramares. Time: 28:53

On tape: Maria Perkovic, Women in Black, Serbia; Bene Shelm, project coordinator, and Aida Durite, asst. dir., Kosovo Women's Network. Produced by Amy Miller, additional script by Frieda Werden. Original music by Kostas Vombolis. Time: 28:36

Recorded in 1989, this talk about evading the Washington-prescribed economic worldview and the struggle for rootedness and memory, is very relevant today. Dr. Vandana Shiva, coordinator, Research Foundation of Science and Ecology in India, and author of several books, including Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development in India. She was recorded at an environmental public interest law conference about Grassroots Strategies for Our Global Future in Eugene, Oregon, USA, by Paul Rowland of KBOO. Produced for WINGS by Nancy Lupo. Time: 28:55

“We didn't use the word Lesbian, but we knew what we were doing,” said a member of ER's friend circle. Lorena Hickock was an Associated Press reporter who gave up her career for the first lady, reports historian Blanche Weisen Cook. Produced for WINGS by Ginger Miles. Time: 28:37

Genetic Legos may soon be assembled to bioengineer new forms of life. Kellia Ramares interviewed Laurie Zoloth, who is Director of the Center for Bioethics, Science and Society; Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities; Professor of Religion at Northwestern University.Time: 28:42

German architect and urban planner authored "Interest & Inflation Free Money: Creating an exchange medium that works for everybody and protects the earth." Interview: FW. Host: Kellia Ramares. Download book at: www.margritkennedy.de/index.php?modus=BUE&inc=ENG&lang=EN Time: 28:43

Patricka Dallas, WINGS UN correspondent, interviews Sylvia Munoz-Ordonez, Exec Dir Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics, Philippines; Dr. Lee-in Chen Chou, Research Fellow, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Resch. Taiwan; Dr. Hilda Tandria of Uganda, Chair & Co-Founder, African Women’s Development Fund; Nyamko Sabini, Minister of Integration and Gender Equality, Sweden.Time: 28:40

Sally Roesch Wagner, executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, tells Elayne Clift about the radical origins of feminism in the contact between US settlers and Iroquoian First Nations women. [Suggested reading: Iroquoian Women:The Gantowisas, Barbara A. Mann.] Time: 28:45

Dr. Shamaan Eagle of The Living Well Show interviews Col. Katherine Platoni, Chief Psychologist for the US Army Reserve and National Guard. The war in Iraq has mentally damaged more than half a million US combatants so far. Platoni describes techniques for dealing with an overwhelming problem. Ends with audio from the Stop Loss, a film by Kimberly Peirce.Time: 28:39

Dr. Lenore Walker, US-based international forensic psychologist, tells juries that women who kill their abusers can have a syndrome related to post-traumatic stress disorder, in which their own fear of being killed becomes a constant. Time: 28:54

Joan Marler, founder of the Institute of Archaeomythology, speaks on “Old Europe Through a Matriarchal Lens,” introduced by Heide Gottner Abendroth at the 2nd World Congress on Matriarchal Studies : www.second-congress-matriarchal-studies.com . Focus on Marija Gimbutas’s findings on material culture, sustainability, and spirituality of Neolithic pre-patriarchal cultures. Recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. Time: 28:58

Finland formerly advertised itself as living proof that a good social safety net meant increased productivity. But since joining the EU, "productivity" is eating the safety net.  Speaker: Kaarina Kailo, women's studies scholar, activist, and editor of the forthcoming book from Toronto’s Inana Press, Women and Bears.  Interview by Frieda Werden. Time: 28:40

The US House of Representatives has sent impeachment resolutions against Bush to the Judiciary Committee. Does impeachment still matter? Elizabeth Holtzman, Barbara Jordan, Nancy Pelosi (cameo), Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney.  Produced by Frieda Werden, with audio from www.americanrhetoric.com ; The Living Well Show, hosted by Dr. Shamaan Eagle; and YouTube. Time: 28:50

The Eleventh Annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, was "Women’s Rights, HIV/AIDS, and the Appropriateness of the Response: Lived realities from Malawi and Southern Africa," by Seodi White, Executive Director of Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust (WLSA Malawi). Intro by Sarah Hendricks of Plan Canada.  Audio courtesy of OISE Women's Studies; special thanks to Angela Miles. Time: 28:59 (part I) 28:56 (part II)

By 2014, 8000 American Marines will relocate from Okinawa to Guam, a non-self-governing territory of the U.S. Only 30 miles long, Guam already houses 12,000 U.S. military personnel. Activists from both areas spoke at a 2008 workshop in Melbourne.  Produced by Elanor McInerney for Women on the Line.  Speakers: Maki Yonaha of Japanese for Peace (Australia), and Dr. Lisa Natividad, professor at Unviersity of Guam and an activist for her indigenous people, the Chamoru. Music: "A River of Birds" by Libana, "She's Got a Story, Too," by Kerrianne Cox; "Japan” by CocoRosie. For more about Women on the Line, visit www.womenontheline.org.au Time: 28:40

In 2006, Kenya's Parliament passed a landmark Sexual Offenses Act, but after the December 2007 election sexual violence increased. Women are working on the problem.  Produced by Victoria Fenner, with segments by Leah Rita Murugui of Radio Koch, Diane Bailey and Deanne Penn of UN Radio Women, and Fatuma Roba of UNICEF Radio.  Speakers: Hon. Njoki Ndung'u, Parliament of Kenya; Elizabeth Beers, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Veronique Taveau, UN Children's Fund; Fatuma Roba, UNICEF Radio; Halima, Bridget, Diana, Charity Njeri, Zeba Kog, and Alice Noboke, all young women in Kibera slum; Leah Rita Murugui, and young women survivors of sexual violence in Korogocho slum; Maryan Hussein, Exec Dir of the Women's Advancement Initiative, a local NGO in Kenya; Rukia Subow, National Chair, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake; Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji, program director, Womankind Kenya. Music: girls' choir of Njaga's Hope Children's Home, recorded by Victoria Fenner. Time: 28:39

Witty Australian linguist Dr. Dale Spender recounts her studies of the conversational behaviours of women and men. Speech at San Francisco Women's Building 1987, recorded & edited by Frieda Werden. Time: 28:59

Katherine Spillar, Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine, explains their investigation into Ward Connerly, whose deceptive ballot initiatives in many US states trick supporters of affirmative action into voting for the opposite of what they want. The interview by Shamaan Eagle first aired on The Living Well Show. Producer: Donna Descoteaux Time: 28:37

After more than 60 years, this weekly news program about women is threatened with cancellation.  Here are recent highlights. This interesting series can be played or downloaded at http://radio.un.org. Time: 28:41

Hina Jilani of Pakistan, the UN Secy. General’s Special Representative on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, 2000-2008, says UN member states are not fulfilling their obligations; Kathy Black of US Labor Against War says now-illegal unions are part of broad resistance to privatization of Iraq’s oil. Produced by Elanor McInerny of Australia’s Women on the Line. Update for WINGS by Frieda Werden. Time: 28:40

Savithri de Toureil, of the Faculty of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal, describes the society she grew up in, in Kerala state.  Intro by Heide Gottner Abendroth, Convenor of the Second World Congress on Matriarchal Studies, San Marcos, Texas, 2005. Recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. Time: 28:47

In Sept. ’05 at the Second World Congress on Matriarchal Studies, Patricia Mukhim described her own culture in Northeast India, its practices and challenges. Response by Savithri de Toureil. Recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. Time: 28:46