Shows Featuring: Women’s Rights
Featured Women: Ann Wright, Berta Oliva Nativi, Corazon Valdez Fabros, Margaret Kimberley, Victoire Ingabire
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, climate change, Ecology, military, Peace, war and conflict, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, climate change, Ecology, military, Peace, war and conflict, Women's Rights
Across the world, the United States has over 800 military bases, lily pads, installations, whatever you want to call them. And resistance to US military presence is growing. We speak with leaders spearheading movements to rein in and stop US
Featured Women: Cirenia Dominguez, Gunesh, Jilaan, Maria Veronica Romero, Silvia Federici
Featured Topics: capitalism, cooperatives, domestic workers, feminist history, witches, Women's Rights, women-led communities, World Bank
Featured Topics: capitalism, cooperatives, domestic workers, feminist history, witches, Women's Rights, women-led communities, World Bank
Women Rising Radio #40 explores the global women’s movement to resist the violence and greed of capitalism. A women-led village in Kurdish Syria establishes democracy, gender equality, religious freedom and sustainability. And in New York city, women-led cooperative businesses are
Featured Women: Devi Machete, Satsuki Ina, Serena Adlerstein, Uncategorized
Featured Topics: Children's Rights, displaced people, Gender Rights, Human Rights, Immigration policy, Indigenous Rights, refugee issues and immigration, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Children's Rights, displaced people, Gender Rights, Human Rights, Immigration policy, Indigenous Rights, refugee issues and immigration, Women's Rights
The USA and many nations in Europe, have slammed the gates shut against desperate immigrants and refugees, criminalizing and brutalizing them. Three activist women co-founded groups to challenge the policies of detention, deportation, discrimination and denigration of migrants. They are
Featured Women: Aileen Mioko Smith, Claire Greensfelder, Ursula Sladek
Featured Topics: antinuclear activists, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, nuclear abolitionists, nuclear radiation, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: antinuclear activists, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, nuclear abolitionists, nuclear radiation, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights
Women Rising Radio presents Part Two of our two-part miniseries on Antinuclear Abolitionists. In Part One we profiled women struggling to eliminate nuclear weapons and war. In Part Two we profile activists working to eliminate nuclear energy, including power plants,
Featured Women: Elena Urlaeva, Ima Matul, Joanna Ewart-James, Supriya Awasthi
Featured Topics: forced labor, forced labor workers' rights, Human Rights, human trafficking, slavery, Women's Rights, workers' rights
Featured Topics: forced labor, forced labor workers' rights, Human Rights, human trafficking, slavery, Women's Rights, workers' rights
Ima Matul, CAST LA Joanna Ewart-James WALK FREE Elena Urlaeva Independent Human Rights Monitor Supriya Awasthi FREE THE SLAVES Credits Host: Sandina Robbins Producer: Lynn Feinerman Audio Engineer: Vanessa Lowe, Monica Lopez
Featured Women: Amber Khan, Martha Karnga, Ruth Messinger, Zainab Salbi
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, Eco-justice, epidemics, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Religion, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights, World women's movements
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, Eco-justice, epidemics, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Religion, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights, World women's movements
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:
Featured Women: Hettie Geenen, Laila Williams, Leila Deen
Featured Topics: (physical, Anti-militarism, Arts and Social Activism, Children's Rights, Civil Disobedience, Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Eco-justice, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Law & Conservation, mental), Nonviolent, Peace, war and conflict, Water Issues, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: (physical, Anti-militarism, Arts and Social Activism, Children's Rights, Civil Disobedience, Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Eco-justice, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Law & Conservation, mental), Nonviolent, Peace, war and conflict, Water Issues, Women's Rights
Featured women: Hettie Geenen, First Mate Rainbow Warrior Leila Deen, Senior Campaigner Greenpeace Laila Williams, Campaigner Greenpeace We profile women of Greenpeace, the legendary eco-activist organization. Hettie Geenan is first mate on the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior. Leila Deen leads
Featured Women: Ayumi Kinezuka, Dina Hoff, Elizabeth Mpufo, Nettie Wiebe
Featured Topics: Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, farming and women, Gender Rights, GMO issues, GMO's, Grassroots Organizing, Health (physical, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Labor Rights, land grabbing, land rights, Land Rights for Women, Law & Conservation, mental), Monsanto, Nuclear Issues, peasant movments, peasants and democracy, pesticide damage worldwide, pesticides, Politics, resource poor nations, sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, TPP, trade agreements, Transpacific Partnership, women, women farmers, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, farming and women, Gender Rights, GMO issues, GMO's, Grassroots Organizing, Health (physical, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Labor Rights, land grabbing, land rights, Land Rights for Women, Law & Conservation, mental), Monsanto, Nuclear Issues, peasant movments, peasants and democracy, pesticide damage worldwide, pesticides, Politics, resource poor nations, sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, TPP, trade agreements, Transpacific Partnership, women, women farmers, Women's Rights
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
Featured Women: Devorah Brous, Lydia Alpizar, Wangari Maathai
Featured Topics: Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Entrpreneurism, Gender Rights, Indigenous Rights, Misogyny, Politics, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Entrpreneurism, Gender Rights, Indigenous Rights, Misogyny, Politics, Women's Rights
Women worldwide are gaining influence as leaders: struggling for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. On this edition of Making Contact, we profile three tireless and effective women: Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya; Devorah Brous, founder of