Shows Featuring: Ecology
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 Topics: Amazon, Animal Rights, anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Ecology, environmental racism, forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, Land Rights for Women, Nonviolent, petrochemicals, petroleum, Water Issues
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, commercial agriculture, mining, and other massively destructive enterprises. Women leaders have
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 Topics: biodiversity, democracy and trade policy, Eco-justice, Ecology, environmental racism, farm worker women, farming and women, Health (physical, Human Rights, mental), refugee issues and immigration, sustainable agriculture, trade agreements
Featuring: Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez, founder and director of the Center for Farmworker Families Women farmworkers
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 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 Topics: Anti-militarism, antinuclear activists, Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, farming and women, Indigenous Rights, Law & Conservation, Nuclear Issues, Peace, sustainable agriculture, war and conflict
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
Featured Topics: Animal Rights, Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Entrpreneurism, Indigenous Rights
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
Featured Topics: Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Entrpreneurism, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights for Women, resource poor nations
Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program we profile four women entrepreneurs, bravely starting businesses where no one else has ventured and who are leading a