Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy Part Two
Making Contact · Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy Part Two Election protection is increasingly seen as a critical issue in the United States, a nation that travels worldwide to...
View Article70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
Making Contact · 70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago Today, in the lead up to the next general election, many Americans in custody still cannot vote. According to the...
View ArticleWomen Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism
Making Contact · Women Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism Women are challenging male-dominated power structures, and creating alternatives to the profit-driven economic model of capitalism....
View ArticleWomen Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy (Encore)
Making Contact · Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy (Encore) Election protection is increasingly seen as a critical issue in the US. Since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by...
View ArticleElection Protection and Democracy, with Women Rising Radio
Election Protection and Democracy, with Women Rising Radio Election protection is increasingly seen as a critical issue in the US. Since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court,...
View ArticleWomen Rising. Migrations: Standing in Solidarity With the Desperate
Migrations: Standing in Solidarity With the Desperate: The USA and many nations in Europe, have slammed the gates shut against desperate immigrants and refugees, criminalizing and brutalizing them....
View ArticleChoice, Church and State: Poland, Ireland, the USA : Women Rising 37
Women Rising 37 Abortion and women’s reproductive rights are hot button issues around the world. Women have a long way to go to obtain control over our own bodies, our family planning, our...
View ArticleClimate Uprising: Indigenous Women at the Global Climate Action Summit
Indigenous Women Speak Their Truth On The Climate Crisis The climate emergency on Earth has become critical. So when California Governor Jerry Brown called for a Global Climate Action Summit in San...
View ArticleGuardians of the Amazon Rainforest – Women Rising Radio #35
Currently the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest are in a struggle with worldwide multinational corporations that want to take over their lands for oil extraction, commercial palm oil,...
View ArticleWomen Rising Radio: Rescuing The Isolated and Displaced, Women of Doctors...
Most of the world simply has no health care… vast tracts of land and vast populations of people don’t have doctors – or at best must make great efforts to reach medical care. In addition, masses of...
View ArticleWomen Rising Radio 33: With Healers At Standing Rock
Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician on the faculty of UCSF, and an activist who formed the Do No Harm Coalition at UCSF. Dr. Maria Michael is a Lakota Dine spiritual elder and healer with a Ph.d in...
View ArticleWomen Rising 32: Pt 2 Phasing Out Nuclear Power
As nuclear plant accidents mount, and nuclear waste becomes a greater threat to health and safety worldwide, {and a new President Trump will influence nuclear policy} Women Rising Radio features...
View ArticleWomen Rising 31: Nuclear Weapons Abolitionists
As relations between the United States and Russian governments continue to deteriorate, people are growing concerned that we’re on the brink of another nuclear arms race. Both the U.S. and Russia are...
View ArticleWomen Rising 29: Food Sovereignty in indigenous communities
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 &...
View ArticleWomen Rising 30: International Slavery and Human Trafficking
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...
View ArticleWomen Rising 29: Food Sovereignty in indigenous communities
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 &...
View ArticleWOMEN RISING RADIO XXVIII: Global Community
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,...
View ArticleWomen Rising 27: Ann Lopez on the reality of farm workers in the US and Mexico
Strawberry Fields by Glenn Nelson via Flickr Download 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...
View ArticleWomen Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train
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...
View ArticleWomen Rising #25 Activists Against Global Armaments and War
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...
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