Women Rising XVIII: Rescuers of Wildlife

December 31, 2008, 12:00 pm

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Clockwise from Top Left: Alice Ng, Rosamira Guillen, Lorena Aguilar, Elena Bykova. Sources: www.arconference.org, www.genderandenvironment.org, www.proyectotiti.com, www.wildlifeconservationnetwork.org

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program we profile four animal rights activists:

• Alice Ng has worked with Wild Aid, founded Animal Balance in the Galapagos Islands and is now the executive director of Animals Asia Foundation.

• Rosamira Guillen is the executive director of Proyecto Titi, promoting the survival of the Cotton -top Tamarin Monkey and its habitat in Colombia.

• Lorena Aguilar is an executive with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, specializing in community and gender issues.

• Elena Bykova heads up Wildlife Conservation Network’s Saiga Conservation Alliance to preserve the Saiga Antelope in Uzbekistan.

Women Rising Staff:
Women Rising Producer: Lynn Feinerman
Women Rising Host: Sandina Robbins
Women Rising Sound Editor: Stephanie Welch

Making Contact Staff:
Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Producer/Co-host Andrew Stelzer
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
Interns: Keisha Thomas and Asma Mohseni

For more information:

Animals Asia Foundation (U.S. Office)

International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN)

International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN)

Wildlife Conservation Network

Saiga Conservation Alliance (antelopes)

Wildlife Conservation Network

Proyecto Titi (Cotton-top Tamarin)

Wildlife Conservation Network

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Women Rising XIX: Masters of the Spoken Word

March 11, 2009, 11:00 am

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Top: Playwright Eve Ensler. Bottom: Storyteller Diane Ferlatte. Sources: Top: John O'Hara, SF Chronicle. Bottom: caverunstoryfest.org

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment, and civil society. In this program, we profile two American masters of the spoken word, provoking, inspiring, and moving us to action. Eve Ensler, playwright of the hit “Vagina Monologues” shares the innovative work of her organization, V-Day, and renowned storyteller, Diane Ferlatte, talks with us about using her art as an international bridge over cultural divides.

Featuring:

Diane Ferlatte, storyteller; Eve Ensler, Vagina Monologues writer and V-Day founder.

Women Rising Staff:
Producer: Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions
Host: Sandina Robbins
Sound Editor: Stephanie Welch

Making Contact Staff:
Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Producer: Andrew Stelzer
Producer/Webmaster: Pauline Bartolone
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
Production Coordinator: Elena Botkin-Levy
Interns: Asma Mohseni and Patti Restaino

For more information:

Diane Ferlatte – Award Winning International Storyteller

Eve Ensler – The Vagina Monologues

National Storytelling Network – Jonesborough, TN

V-Day––A Global Movement to End Violence Against Women and Girls

Women Rising IV: Women as Religious Activists (encore)

April 8, 2009, 11:00 am

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Irshad Manji. Source: www.canada.com

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program we profile three courageous women struggling with religious issues. Elana Rozenman is co-director of the Women’s Interfaith Encounter in the Middle East. Irshad Manji is a Canadian Muslim lesbian and feminist who wants a reformation of her own faith. And Regina O’Callahan helped found the Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum to support religious diversity in her country.

This Women’s Desk program is a special collaboration with the Women Rising Radio Project, Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.

Featuring:

Elana Rozenman, Co-Director of the Women’s Interfaith Encounter; Irshad Manji, Author; Regina O’Callahan, Founder, Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum.

Producer/Writer: Lynn Feinerman
Host: Sandina Robbins

For more information:

Irshad Manji

Review of this program on PRX (Public Radio Exchange)

Women Rising XX: Leaders Struggling with War

January 12, 2010, 12:25 pm

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Retired Colonel Anne Wright in the Making Contact Studios, Oakland, CA. Credit: Lisa Rudman

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program, we profile two government leaders tackling the monumental problem of war. Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda is Deputy Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, a judicial body dedicated to human rights. And retired Colonel Ann Wright, a former United States military leader and diplomat for the State Department is an outspoken opponent of the U.S. war economy.

Featuring:

Retired Colonel Anne Wright, former United States military leader and diplomat for the State Department; Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Special thanks to Women Rising founder and producer, Lynn Feinerman; to Women Rising Host Sandina Robbins; and to Women Rising Engineer, Stephanie Welch for producing this show.

For More Information:

CodePink: Women for Peace
Washington, DC

International Criminal Court
The Netherlands

The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
Video Documentary about the story of the International Criminal Court

United for Peace and Justice
New York, NY

Women Rising XXI: Women’s Rights to Water, Land, and Farming

July 12, 2011, 7:53 am

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Photo by Irene Florez

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment, and civil society. On this program we profile a dynamic partnership between the Women’s Earth Alliance and the Global Women’s Water Initiative: working on women’s rights to water, land, farming and basic human dignity.

This is a special collaboration with Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.

Featuring:

Rucha Chitnis, director, Women’s Earth Alliance India; Maame Yelbert-Obeng, Women’s Earth Alliance Africa; Gemma Bulos, director, Global Women’s Water Initiative; Sandra Hay, CEO and filmmaker, Unseen Pictures; Mama Catherine, activist in Cameroon.
Note: Vandana Shiva is an international advisor for Women’s Earth Alliance. She is not on the board, as stated on the program.  We apologize for the error.

For More Information:

Women’s Earth Alliance
Global Women’s Water Initiative

Women Rising
WEA-Voices of Hope film
A Single Drop for Safe Water
Evan Fraser

Articles, Videos, etc
‘We Rise’ Million Voice Choir
Tribal Women’s Struggle for Water in India
2010 West African Women & Water Training Program

* Also check out the new Women Rising  featured essays – http://www.womenrisingradio.com/explore/featured-essay/
MUSIC:
‘We Rise’ by Gemma Bulos
‘Solar Rising’ by Evan Fraser
‘Mother Mbira’ by Evan Fraser
‘Zawo’ by Evan Fraser

Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists

November 13, 2012, 2:07 pm

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Indiana Nuclear power plant, texture by ~Brenda-Starr~, image by (cc) Flickr user MEaves.

With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories: Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shutdown Japan’s nuclear power plants, after the Fukushima disaster. Winona LaDuke, has spent much of her life working to oppose uranium mining on indigenous land. And Alice Slater is part of a global initiative to ban nuclear weapons. On this edition, is the anti-nuclear movement on the rise? This is a special collaboration with Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.

Featuring:

Kaori Izumi, Japanese anti-nuclear activist, Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe activist, Alice Slater, Abolition2000 founder.

For More Information:

Women Rising Radio
Shut Tomari
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Honor the Earth
Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Fukushima Update
Fukushima reactor 4 requires urgent intervention; coalition calls for emergency UN action to halt catastrophic release of radiation
Japanese Fukushima Eye-Witnesses Challenge Capitol Hill Lawmakers and US Regulators to Stop Promotion of Nuclear Power
Indian Point Community Teach-in at SUNY-Purchase
Winona LaDuke on the Colbert Report
Alice Slater: Sustainable Energy Will Bring Peace on Earth, 3-21-12
The Folly of Mindless Science

Cecile Pineda Author of Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step

MUSIC:

Alicia Keys, “Nihon311″ (Japanese re-versioning of Empire State of Mind)
Ian Campbell Folk Group, “The Sun is Burning”
Kraftwerk, “Radio-Aktivitä”
Buffy Sainte-Marie, “Up Where We Belong”

Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists

March 5, 2013, 1:55 pm

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Indiana Nuclear power plant, texture by ~Brenda-Starr~, image by (cc) Flickr user MEaves.

With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories: Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shutdown Japan’s nuclear power plants, after the Fukushima disaster. Winona LaDuke, has spent much of her life working to oppose uranium mining on indigenous land. And Alice Slater is part of a global initiative to ban nuclear weapons. On this edition, is the anti-nuclear movement on the rise? This is a special collaboration with Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.

Featuring:

Kaori Izumi, Japanese anti-nuclear activist, Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe activist, Alice Slater, Abolition2000 founder.

For More Information:

Women Rising Radio
Shut Tomari
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Honor the Earth
Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Fukushima Update
Fukushima reactor 4 requires urgent intervention; coalition calls for emergency UN action to halt catastrophic release of radiation
Japanese Fukushima Eye-Witnesses Challenge Capitol Hill Lawmakers and US Regulators to Stop Promotion of Nuclear Power
Indian Point Community Teach-in at SUNY-Purchase
Winona LaDuke on the Colbert Report
Alice Slater: Sustainable Energy Will Bring Peace on Earth, 3-21-12
The Folly of Mindless Science

Cecile Pineda Author of Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step

MUSIC:

Alicia Keys, “Nihon311″ (Japanese re-versioning of Empire State of Mind)
Ian Campbell Folk Group, “The Sun is Burning”
Kraftwerk, “Radio-Aktivitä”
Buffy Sainte-Marie, “Up Where We Belong”

Women Rising 23: La Via Campesina

September 24, 2013, 8:23 pm

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We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights and social justice.  Canadian Nettie Wiebe fights to keep seeds in the hands of small farmers.  From the US, Dina Hoff takes on climate change and trade agreements. Elizabeth Mpufo of Zimbabwe raises issues facing women.  And Japan’s Ayumi Kinezuka shares the effects of the Fukishima nuclear disaster on her organic farm.
This show was produced by the Women Rising Radio Project.

Featuring:
Nettie Wiebe, Canadian farmer, La Via Campesina; Dina Hoff, US farmer, La Via Campesina;  Elizabeth Mpufo, Zimbabwean farmer,  International Coordinator,  La Via Campesina;  Ayumi Kinezuka,  Japanese farmer,  La Via Campesina.

For more Information:
Women Rising Radio
Flush the TPP
Grassroots International
Oakland Institute

Articles:
Revolt against worst trade agreement
Global Revolt against corporate domination
TransPacific Partnership
TransPacific and Health system
Democracy Empowerment
Land deals in Africa

 

 

 

 

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Women Rising #24—Activist Women of Greenpeace

March 4, 2014, 11:13 am

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We profile women of Greenpeace, the legendary eco-activist organization. Hettie Geenan is first mate on the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior. Leila Deen leads the campaign against fracking. And Laila Williams connects Greenpeace with indigenous communities, women’s groups and people of color.  Happy International Women’s Day March 8th!

Featuring:   

• Leila Deen, Greepeace Senior Campaigner
• Hettie Geenen, First Mate on the Rainbow Warrior
• Laila Wiiams, Ruckus Society program associate

 

Host: Sandina Robbins

Contributing Producer: Lynn Feinerman

Sound Editor:  Shora Zamani

Field Sound Recordist on Rainbow Warrior: Laura Flynn

Making Contact  Producers: George Lavender,  Andrew Stelzer

 

• More information:
• Articles:

• Greenpeace
• Rainbow Warrior
• The Ruckus Society
• Women Rising Radio 

• Greenpeace on lifting of fracking moratorium
• Closure of Chicago’s Crawford, Fisk electric plants ends coal era
• Fisk, Crawford coal plants had long history, as did battle to close them

 

Women Rising #25 Activists Against Global Armaments and War

July 1, 2014, 9:48 pm

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Miriam Nobre. Image from Marcha Mulheres

We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence. Korean sister Stella Soh campaigns to save an UNESCO world heritage site from a planned military base.

US activist Kathy Kelly founded Voices for Creative Nonviolence. And Brazilian Miriam Nobre works with the World March of Women.

Featuring:   

• Sister Stella Soh, Catholic Nun and activist with Save Jeju Island
• Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinator
• Miriam Nobre, Coordinator Of The International Secretariat Of The World March Of Women 

More information

Women Rising Radio

Save Jeju Now

Save Jeju Island-No Naval Base!

Voices for Creative Nonviolence

World March of Women

Gangjeong Island

Unite to End Violence Against Women

Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train

November 18, 2014, 7:36 pm

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Photo courtesy of People’s Climate March

In September of 2014, Women Rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join the largest climate change march in history.

Featuring:

• Valerie Love, Center for Biological Diversity, No Tar Sands Campaigner
• Penny Opal Plant, Indigenous climate activist
• Lauren Wood, Utah’s Peaceful Uprising co-founder
• Teresa Jimenez, Urban Tithe organizer
• Shannon Biggs, Global Exchange Community Rights program director
• Rosalind Harris, Global Climate Justice Alliance
• Michael Brune, Sierra Club executive director
• Sister Santussika, Tony Sirna, Camille Herrera, Carrie, Riders on the People’s Climate Train
• People’s Climate Train Singers

Host: Sandina Robbins

Producer:  Lynn Feinerman

Engineer:  Jeff Wessman

Senior Producer:  Andrew Stelzer

More information:

• Women Rising Radio
• People’s Climate March
• People’s Climate Train
• Flood Wall Street
• Center for Biological Diversity
• 350.org
• Avaaz
• Sierra Club
• Urban Tithe
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
• Artisan Hub
• Global Exchange
• Peaceful Uprising (Utah)
• Breakthrough Communities
• Citizens’ Climate Lobby
• Earth Island Institute
• Spirit Rock Meditation Center
• Naomi Klein-This Changes Everything

Photos from the March

Photos courtesy of the People’s Climate March

Women Rising 27: Ann Lopez on the reality of farm workers in the US and Mexico

March 3, 2015, 7:00 pm

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We follow Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez as she shows us the reality of farm workers’ lives in the United States and Mexico. Dr. Lopez founded the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, California.

Featuring:   

• Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez, founder and director of the Center for Farmworker Families 
• Women farmworkers

Host: Sandina Robbins

Producers: Lynn Feinerman, Antonio Ortiz

More information

• Women Rising Radio
• Center for Farmworker Families
• California Rural Legal Assistance
• Lettuce Wars: 10 years of work and struggle in the fields of California
• Farmworker Justice
• Monarch Services
• Center for Farmworker Families

Full disclosure, Ann Lopez has made small donations to Making Contact over the years.

WOMEN RISING RADIO XXVIII: Global Community

October 7, 2015, 6:00 am

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Women Rising Radio 28 profiles global community organizers – whose work is based in their compassion and common sense, and whose organizing is making a worldwide impact.

Featuring

• Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service (USA)
• Amber Khan, Women For Women International (USA)
• Zainab Salbi, Emerita, Women For Women International (USA)
• Martha Karnga, Executive Director, Bassa Women’s Development Association, (Liberia)

Credits

• Host: Sandina Robbins
• Producer: Lynn Feinerman
• Audio Engineer: Stephanie Welch

More Information

• American Jewish World Service
• Women for Women International
• BAWODA Liberia
• Women Rising Radio

Women Rising 29: Food Sovereignty in indigenous communities

January 6, 2016, 6:00 am

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Women Rising radio profiles food sovereignty activists from India, Mexico, and Native American communities.

If you are interested in GMOs, TTP, seed saving, herbal medicine, food, trade & activism –then tune in!

Featuring:

• Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya
• Adelita San Vicente Tello, founder of Semillas de Vida
• Sage La Pena, Native American, ethno- botanist and food sovereignty activist
• Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Native American youth educator

More information

• Navdanya
• fundación semillas de vida
• The Women’s Herbal Symposium of Northern California I Who are the Teachers
• Kanyon – Portfolio
• https://www.organicconsumers.org
• TPP Fine Print: Biotech Seed Companies Win Again | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
• What drove a Korean farmer to kill himself in Cancun?

Women Rising 30: International Slavery and Human Trafficking

March 9, 2016, 6:00 am

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Women Rising Radio #30 profiles women fighting slavery, trafficking and forced labor globally.

Featuring:

• Ima Matul, with CAST LA, was trafficked to Los Angeles, was rescued by the Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking in Los Angeles, and now heads CAST’s leadership program.
• Joanna Ewart-James is the executive director of WALK FREE, an online and on-the-ground network battling trafficking, forced labor, and servitude worldwide. WALK FREE is based in London.
• Elena Uraleva is an independent human rights monitor in her home country of Uzbekistan.  She works with WALK FREE to document forced labor and human rights abuses there.
• Supriya Awasthi works on children’s rights and on freeing bonded slaves in India.  She is a staff member of FREE THE SLAVES.

Credits

• Producer: Lynn Feinerman
• Host: Sandina Robbins
• Audio Engineer: Vanessa Lowe
• Additional Audio: Monica Lopez, Stephanie Welch
• Other Staff: Meerim Ilyas, Urgent Action Fund for Women, Umida Niyazova,  Journalist, Russia

More information:

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
• Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
• Forced labour, human trafficking and slavery

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Women Rising #25 Activists Against Global Armaments and War

July 1, 2014, 9:48 pm

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Miriam Nobre. Image from Marcha Mulheres

We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence. Korean sister Stella Soh campaigns to save an UNESCO world heritage site from a planned military base.

US activist Kathy Kelly founded Voices for Creative Nonviolence. And Brazilian Miriam Nobre works with the World March of Women.

Featuring:   

• Sister Stella Soh, Catholic Nun and activist with Save Jeju Island
• Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinator
• Miriam Nobre, Coordinator Of The International Secretariat Of The World March Of Women 

More information

Women Rising Radio

Save Jeju Now

Save Jeju Island-No Naval Base!

Voices for Creative Nonviolence

World March of Women

Gangjeong Island

Unite to End Violence Against Women

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Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train

November 18, 2014, 7:36 pm

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Photo courtesy of People’s Climate March

In September of 2014, Women Rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join the largest climate change march in history.

Featuring:

• Valerie Love, Center for Biological Diversity, No Tar Sands Campaigner
• Penny Opal Plant, Indigenous climate activist
• Lauren Wood, Utah’s Peaceful Uprising co-founder
• Teresa Jimenez, Urban Tithe organizer
• Shannon Biggs, Global Exchange Community Rights program director
• Rosalind Harris, Global Climate Justice Alliance
• Michael Brune, Sierra Club executive director
• Sister Santussika, Tony Sirna, Camille Herrera, Carrie, Riders on the People’s Climate Train
• People’s Climate Train Singers

Host: Sandina Robbins

Producer:  Lynn Feinerman

Engineer:  Jeff Wessman

Senior Producer:  Andrew Stelzer

More information:

• Women Rising Radio
• People’s Climate March
• People’s Climate Train
• Flood Wall Street
• Center for Biological Diversity
• 350.org
• Avaaz
• Sierra Club
• Urban Tithe
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
• Artisan Hub
• Global Exchange
• Peaceful Uprising (Utah)
• Breakthrough Communities
• Citizens’ Climate Lobby
• Earth Island Institute
• Spirit Rock Meditation Center
• Naomi Klein-This Changes Everything

Photos from the March

Photos courtesy of the People’s Climate March

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Women Rising 27: Ann Lopez on the reality of farm workers in the US and Mexico

March 3, 2015, 7:00 pm

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We follow Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez as she shows us the reality of farm workers’ lives in the United States and Mexico. Dr. Lopez founded the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, California.

Featuring:   

• Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez, founder and director of the Center for Farmworker Families 
• Women farmworkers

Host: Sandina Robbins

Producers: Lynn Feinerman, Antonio Ortiz

More information

• Women Rising Radio
• Center for Farmworker Families
• California Rural Legal Assistance
• Lettuce Wars: 10 years of work and struggle in the fields of California
• Farmworker Justice
• Monarch Services
• Center for Farmworker Families

Full disclosure, Ann Lopez has made small donations to Making Contact over the years.

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WOMEN RISING RADIO XXVIII: Global Community

October 7, 2015, 6:00 am

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Women Rising Radio 28 profiles global community organizers – whose work is based in their compassion and common sense, and whose organizing is making a worldwide impact.

Featuring

• Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service (USA)
• Amber Khan, Women For Women International (USA)
• Zainab Salbi, Emerita, Women For Women International (USA)
• Martha Karnga, Executive Director, Bassa Women’s Development Association, (Liberia)

Credits

• Host: Sandina Robbins
• Producer: Lynn Feinerman
• Audio Engineer: Stephanie Welch

More Information

• American Jewish World Service
• Women for Women International
• BAWODA Liberia
• Women Rising Radio

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Women Rising 29: Food Sovereignty in indigenous communities

January 6, 2016, 6:00 am

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Women Rising radio profiles food sovereignty activists from India, Mexico, and Native American communities.

If you are interested in GMOs, TTP, seed saving, herbal medicine, food, trade & activism –then tune in!

Featuring:

• Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya
• Adelita San Vicente Tello, founder of Semillas de Vida
• Sage La Pena, Native American, ethno- botanist and food sovereignty activist
• Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Native American youth educator

More information

• Navdanya
• fundación semillas de vida
• The Women’s Herbal Symposium of Northern California I Who are the Teachers
• Kanyon – Portfolio
• https://www.organicconsumers.org
• TPP Fine Print: Biotech Seed Companies Win Again | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
• What drove a Korean farmer to kill himself in Cancun?

The post Women Rising 29: Food Sovereignty in indigenous communities appeared first on Making Contact Radio: Media that helps build movements.