| #27-04 Voting Machine Corruption |
Bev Harris, author of Black-Box Voting: Ballot
Tampering in the 21st Century, interviewed by Jane Williams of
Vancouver Coop Radio’s Redeye Collective, and Vicki Karp, a local
voting safety organizer in Austin, Texas, interviewed by Frieda Werden
of WINGS, explain the stunning transformation of voting in the US,
through the machinations of the five large voting machine companies and
some major defense contractors. The industry (which is also
selling equipment to other countries) is pushing for doing away with
all paper records related to voting, eliminating any possibility of
audit or recount – and they have made huge progress toward that
goal. A federal law already in place mandates voting machines be
used in all federal elections by 2006; but problems including vote
tampering, machine failures, and many obvious miscounts are
mounting. An antidote bill introduced by Democrats in Congress
(but currently bottled up in the House Finance Committee) would require
printers be added to all electronic voting machines by the November
2004 elections, or else paper ballots to be used, to create a
voter-verifiable, auditable paper trail. You can listen to a
recent funny and scary two-hour presentation by Bev Harris and
co-researchers by pointing your browser to: www.teslaphone.com/OTE/Bev_Harris.mp3 Selected web sites with information about voting computer mishaps, research, lawsuits, policy recommendations, and activism: www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/28/florida.voting.ap/ www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/#info-sheets www.blackboxvoting.org www.acluutah.org/evotepolicy.pdf www.verifiedvoting.org www.evote-mass.org/resources.htm |
| #26-04 Matriarchy Past, Present and Future |
Dr. Claudia von-Werlhof is a full professor of
women’s studies and political science at the University of Innsbruck,
in Austria. Frieda Werden interviews her about her forthcoming
paper, “Capitalist Patriarchy and the Struggle for a Deep Alternative,”
to be presented at the conference A Radically Different World View is
Possible: The Gift Economy Inside and Outside Patriarchal
Capitalism. The professor sees both capitalism and international
socialism as attempts to realize an impossible and disastrous
patriarchal fantasy: men and technology replacing women and nature as
the sources of life. According to von-Werlhof, matriarchy
literally means not female domination but something like: origination
in the uterus. She cites Genevieve Vaughan’s analysis of the gift
economy as a life-affirming matriarchal second culture that can still
be observed within even the most industrialized societies, if one has
the concept. The conference on the gift economy takes place in
Las Vegas November 12 through 14, 2004. See www.gifteconomyconference.com. |
| #25-04 Bush's Estrogen Shield |
Pokey Anderson, a producer at KPFT-FM in
Houston, interviews Laura Flanders, who is herself a talk show host on
the new liberal network Air America. Flanders is a reigning
authority on the women in the Bush administration, having authored the
recent best-seller Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, and edited
the anthology The W Effect: Bush’s War on Women. Flanders also
wrote Real Majority, Media Minority: the Cost of Sidelining Women in
Reporting (Common Courage, 1997). You can find her books and her
radio schedule at www.lauraflanders.com |
| #24-04 India's New Beauty Myth |
Documentary produced by Lesley Branagan,
features feminist author Anita Anand, author of The Beauty Game
(Penguin, 2002), and the voices of pageant contestants, professionals,
admirers, and hopefuls associated with the recently booming big
business of beauty in India |
| #23-04 Granny D for Senate |
Doris Haddock, better
known as Granny
D, was a
nonagenarian when she walked across the United States in 1999 to
promote
campaign finance reform. Five years
later, she’s not only walking but also running – as the Democratic
nominee for
the United States Senate in her home state of New Hampshire.
Melinda Tuhus joined Haddock on the campaign
trail and produced this moving documentary.
American citizens (but not corporations) can donate to the
campaign. See the web site www.grannyd.com. |
| #22-04 Nanotech and Terminator Seeds |
Hope Shand is Research Director of the Canada-based ETC Group (Erosion, Technology and Concentration), and writes on agricultural biodiversity, corporate concentration and the social and economic impacts of emerging technologies. Her works include "Human Nature: Agricultural Biodiversity and Farm Based Food Security". She spoke with Sue Supriano, producer of the series Steppin’ Out of Babylon, at a Reclaim the Commons Teach-In, in San Francisco in June 2004. Links: www.etcgroup.org , http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0039.htm , www.suesupriano.com. Closing song: excerpt from “The Tree of Life” by Genevieve Vaughan. For more about Genevieve Vaughan and the November 2004 conference on the Gift Economy, go to http://www.gifteconomyconference.com/ |
| #21-04
Science, Identity and Memory |
Dr. Rita Arditti is a feminist biologist and author of Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina. In June 2004, she addressed the US National Women's Studies Association, at a plenary on "Feminist Uses of Science and Technology." Arditti's other works include "Breast Cancer: The Environmental Connection," and "Test Tube Women -- What Future for Motherhood?" Her talk was recorded for WINGS by Frieda Werden. |
| #20-04 Folk
Tales of Domestic Abuse |
You
might think folk tales about domestic
violence are depressing or politically incorrect, but anthropologist
and
therapist Dr. Lenora Ucko has found a new use for them – empowering
abused
women to think and talk about abuse situations, and figure out their
own options. Dr. Ucko has founded an
organization to
promote this kind of therapy – StoriesWork, in Durham, North Carolina
In this interview by Frances Presma, Ucko
tells three stories and explains how women respond to them, when
appropriate
questions are asked. Web link: www.storieswork.org . |
| #19-04 Arctic
Meltdown |
Sheila
Watt-Cloutier chairs the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, an international
organization representing the common interests of Inuit people. In this interview by Kellia Ramares,
Watt-Cloutier describes the now visible effects of global warming, and
how they impact Inuit culture. Watt-Clouthier lives in Nunavut,
the newly formed northernmost Territory of
Canada. Inuit Circumpolar Conference web
site: www.inuit.org . |
| #18-04 Feminist Eyes on Abu Ghraib |
”Feminist foreign policy
analysis is not naïve,”
writes Dr. Cynthia Enloe, in her article “Masculinity as a Foreign
Policy
Issue.” In June 2004, Enloe addressed
the US National Women’s Studies Association. Her
talk enumerated both the women in the news pictures
about this
prison scandal and the women who belong to the “unphotographed picture”
of
actors involved in the issue – women in
the military, women in government, women who investigate from inside
and outside
the system, and women in the families of the torturers and the tortured. And as a speaker to the audience brought up
during Q and A, women who themselves are prisoners.
Enloe’s books include “Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives,” and the re-issued classic: “Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics.” She is currently studying how militarization continues to operate in post-conflict societies, due to privileging of certain forms of masculinity. |
| #17-04 Street Stories - Defying Dowry |
Payment (or
receipt) of dowry
is now illegal in India, but in the current atmosphere of globalised
consumerism, the practice is actually more common – and more expensive
– than
ever before The demands of a groom’s
family on the bride’s family often escalate to the level of extortion,
and
continue long after the wedding. Wives
whose dowry is not topped up may risk being harmed or killed by their
in-laws. Activists against dowry and
dowry deaths include families and associates of women who have been
killed, and
young women who called off their own weddings. A version of this
striking documentary by Lesley Branahan
aired in
Street Stories, a series on Australian’s Radio National. |
| #16-06 Berit As, Feminist Statistician |
Berit As is a former member of the Norwegian Parliament, a founder of the Democratic Socialist Party of Norway, and a founder of a feminist university in Norway. She is also a professional statistician and professor of statistics. In this interview with Frieda Werden, As discusses her early feminist work as a statistician in accident research, as a case in point for how a feminist perspective can change ways of looking at the world. |
| #15-04 Global Warming |
In the first of a two-part series
on Global Warming, Kellia
Ramares talks to Dr. Margaret Torn, staff scientist at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California and Jennifer Morgan,
director of the World Wildlife Federation's Climate Change Programme,
about the science and politics of global warming. |
| #14-04 Sexual Murders in Mexico - Part 2. |
Shannon Young reports
on the shocking numbers of young working-class women being kidnapped
and
murdered in Ciudad Juarez and other parts of Chihuahua State, Mexico. In an area where violence has been on the
upswing since new drug cartels hit the scene in 1993, police have
failed to
stop the perpetrators of what are now estimated as between 90 and 400
unsolved
“sexual murders” of women in their teens. Public
outcry coming from women’s groups, families of the
dead, and even
Amnesty International stimulated Mexico’s President to appoint a
special
prosecutor earlier this year, but results in the past decade have been
next to
nil – or perhaps worse than that, including false arrests, and false
confessions
extracted by torture. Good web sites
for articles and updates are: www.juarezwomen.com
, and http://takenbythesky.net/juarez/articles.html . A Reporter's Theory. Diana Washington Valdez, an award-winning investigative reporter for the El Paso Times, has been following the Juarez murders and the Mexican drug cartels for years. She believes that the mass murderers are six extremely wealthy men, big contributors to both major Mexican political parties, who use the young women at sex orgies, and that the law will never touch them. According to Valdez, police investigators who discovered the truth have been ignored and persecuted, and people who press too hard for justice have been hounded and even killed. She has been courting publishers for the English and Spanish versions of her book Harvest of Women (Cosecha de Mujeres), which she still hopes to bring out in 2004. |
| #13-04 Sexual Murders in Mexico - Part 1. |
Shannon Young reports
on the shocking numbers of young working-class women being kidnapped
and
murdered in Ciudad Juarez and other parts of Chihuahua State, Mexico. In an area where violence has been on the
upswing since new drug cartels hit the scene in 1993, police have
failed to
stop the perpetrators of what are now estimated as between 90 and 400
unsolved
“sexual murders” of women in their teens. Public
outcry coming from women’s groups, families of the
dead, and even
Amnesty International stimulated Mexico’s President to appoint a
special
prosecutor earlier this year, but results in the past decade have been
next to
nil – or perhaps worse than that, including false arrests, and false
confessions
extracted by torture. Good web sites
for articles and updates are: www.juarezwomen.com
, and http://takenbythesky.net/juarez/articles.html . In "Failed Investigations," Diana Washington Valdez, an award-winning investigative reporter for the El Paso Times, has been following the Juarez murders and the Mexican drug cartels for years. She believes that the mass murderers are six extremely wealthy men, big contributors to both major Mexican political parties, who use the young women at sex orgies, and that the law will never touch them. According to Valdez, police investigators who discovered the truth have been ignored and persecuted, and people who press too hard for justice have been hounded and even killed. She has been courting publishers for the English and Spanish versions of her book Harvest of Women (Cosecha de Mujeres), which she still hopes to bring out in 2004. Young
interviews Dr. Martha
Smithey, criminologist and director
of
Women's Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso; Sally
Meisenhelder from Amigos de la Mujeres de Juarez -- a Las Cruzes, New Mexico-based group that
organizes actions and campaigns to
raise awareness about the murders; and Cynthia
Kiecker, a prisoner in
Chihuahua who says she and her husband were tortured by police in
Chihuahua
City until they confessed to the murder of a teenager they had never
met. |
| #12-04 Baby-Friendly Hospital in Brazil. |
Melinda
Tuhus interviews pediatrician Silvia
Fonseca, who practices at a “baby-friendly” public hospital in Ribero
Prieto Brazil. Fonseca explains that to
get the baby-friendly designation they have to promote both
breast-feeding and
natural birth (as opposed to Caesarian). There
are now more than 15,000 hospitals worldwide that
UNICEF and the
World Health Organization have designated as “baby-friendly.” Common diseases for which risk is diminished
by breast-feeding include ear infections, allergies, diabetes, and
asthma in
children, and breast cancer, hip fracture and ovarian cancer in mothers. For more information, see http://www.babyfriendly.org.uk/health.asp. |
| #11-04 Peace Accords -- Why No Peace? |
Dr. Laurie King-Irani is the former editor of Middle
East Report
and currently a
lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Victoria in
Canada.
In this speech she describes a phenomenon of
peace agreements -- including the two most recent Israel-Palestinian
agreements, Oslo and Geneva -- that ignore and try to bypass
international
human rights law and the Geneva Convention.
In her view only international law and the will of the states parties
(almost all the world's states) that have ratified the Geneva
Convention can
bring just peace in the Middle East or elsewhere. Book
mentioned: Crimes
of War: What the Public Should Know (
www.crimesofwar.org )
. Laurie King-Irani is also a
co-founder of The Electronic Intifada: (www.electronicintifada.net ). Her speech in Vancouver was
sponsored by the Trade Union Committee for Justice in the Middle East,
the
Canada-Palestine Support Network, and Jews for
a Just Peace. Recording/editing
for WINGS by Frieda Werden. |
| #10-04 Documenting Stories in Post-Conflict Uganda |
Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng is the director of Isis-WICCE (Isis Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange).In this speech, presented as part of a panel discussion at the first World Summit on the Information Society, Ochieng talks about the importance of African women using information communication technology in their own ways. Her organization has been teaching women in post-conflict Uganda to use recording equipment to document their own stories and helping them use those tools to lobby the Ugandan government. For more information, contact Isis-WICCE, P.O. Box 4934, Kampala, Uganda; Tel: (256-41) 543-953; Fax: (256-41) 543-954; E-mail: isis@starcom.co.ug or visit their website: http://www.isis.or.ug |
| #09-04 How Subalterns Speak. |
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Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon
Professor in the
Humanities at Columbia University. Famous for her self-described
"turgid" intellectual work, she teaches and lectures around the
world, but she also runs a school for literacy in her home country of
India.
The most famous line of Spivak's collected works is "Can the subaltern
speak?" In this 1999 keynote
address to the US National Women's Studies Association, Spivak explains
the
origin of that phrase in her family history, and what the phrase means
today. Of course, she says, subalterns
can speak, but the problem is whether they will be understood by those,
including many feminists, who are imposing their own paradigms on the
globalizing world. |
| #08-04 Cutting Cancer Risk. |
Dr.
Janette Sherman is a physician and
toxicologist and the author of Life's
Delicate Balance: Causes and
Prevention of Breast Cancer. In
today’s far-ranging interview with
Kéllia Ramares, she gives her best advice for reducing exposure
to
carcinogens
that cause many kinds of cancer. To ask
her questions or order copies of her out-of-print
book, e-mail toxdoc.js@verizon.net
. Web site: www.janettesherman.com. |
| #07-04 Choice: The March for Women's Lives. |
More
than a million people attended the annual March for Women's Lives on
April 25
in Washington DC, to express their views about domestic and foreign
policy
around abortion, birth control, women's rights and related issues.
Melinda
Tuhus of WINGS waded into the crowd to conduct interviews, record
chants and
speeches, and get a feel for what may have been the largest political
demonstration in US history. To see photos, try these web sites among
others: http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000530.html http://www.now.org/history/slideshows/march2004/index.php?margin=150 |
| #06-04 Mama Mongella of the Pan-African Parliament. |
On March 18,
2004, Gertrude Mongella was elected first
President of the newly-formed 53-nation Pan African Parliament. Dr. Mongella is Tanzania’s ambassador to
India, but is best known worldwide as the former Secretary General of
the UN 4th
World Conference on Women in Beijing.
|
| #05-04 Iraqis Women: Better Off Today? |
In
January, the US-appointed
Governing Council of Iraq approved Resolution 137, which overrode the
secular
1954 Iraqi Constitution to install Islam as the official religion of
Iraq and
transfer all family and civil laws to Islamic Sharia courts. After
protest by
Iraqi women and their allies, US Ambassador Paul Bremer vetoed the
Resolution. However,
the governing council is still dominated by religious extremists,
poised to act
again on this matter.
|
| #04-04 Whose Information Society? |
Two
talks by women from the first World Summit on the Information Society,
held in Geneva. (1) December 10, 2003, Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki, executive Director of FEMNet, an African women's information network based in Kenya, and Deputy Presidetn of AMARC (Association Mondiale des Radiodiffusers Communautaires/ World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. Moderated by Susana George of ISIS International (Manila). (2) December 11, 2003, Talk and video clip about fighting against poor people's media invisibility, with Cheri Honkala, Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and National Spokesperson of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. From the embedded daylong World Forum on Communication Rights. |
| #03-04 Building Empire on the Backs of Women. |
A
speech in Houston by Sonali Kolhatkar, Vice President of the Afghan
Women's Mission. Produced for WINGS by Shannon Young. |
| #02-04 Terror Economics II: Osama, etc. | A
two-part series, based on a speech by Italian economist Loretta
Napoleoni, author of the recent book "Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars
Behind the Terror
Networks" (Pluto Press), at the Vancouver Public Library in January
2004. Napoleoni talks about how Osama bin Laden rose to power through his providing alternative funding to Afghan resistence; the concept of the "shell state," and comparison with CIA activity; relationship to the US money supply, two-thrids of which "leaves the country and never returns" and is largely used to fund drug dealing and terrorism. The speech was recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. |
| #01-04 Terror Economics I: Red Brigades, etc. | A
two-part series, based on a speech by Italian economist Loretta
Napoleoni, author of the recent book "Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars
Behind the Terror
Networks" (Pluto Press), at the Vancouver Public Library in January
2004. Introduction to the speaker, and her process of researching and trying to market the book. She got into this line of research because her childhood friend was arrested allegedly for being one of the leaders of the Red Brigades. Napoleoni explains profiling by terrorist groups, and the concept that terrorism is largely an economic activity, albeit with an ideological line. The speech was recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. |
| #52-03 Copyright and Human Rights. | One of the Community Media sessions at the
World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva in December 2003
was about the enclosure of the information commons, and the threats
that new intellectual property rights elements of laws and treaties
pose to the right of freedom of expression. Today’s WINGS program features introductory remarks by session moderator Olga Drossou of the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Germany, followed by the keynote speaker, attorney Robin Gross, founder of IP Justice (www.ipjustice.org), a San Francisco-based non-governmental organization working on issues of balanced copyright law in the digital era. Recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. Special thanks to AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (www.amarc.org) and to IAWRT, the International Association of Women in Radio and TV (www.iawrt.org). |
| #51-03 International Women's News. | International Women’s Day Greetings from
Vancouver, BC, Canada,
produced by Frieda Werden (1:58). [followed
by WINGS sound logo]. Women in the New Afghanistan features Sima Wali of Refugee Women in Development interviewed by Melinda Tuhus (5:23). Exxon Mobil Harms Sakhalin Island features a speech by Russian environmental lawyer Diana Tarsovich (translation voiced by Liz Cole). Produced by Stacy Pettigrew. (9:36) Links: www.stopexxonmobil.org and www.pacificenvironment.org Women for Cascadia Forests, produced by Jenka, covers legal, political and direct actions women are taking to preserve remaining old-growth forests in the US’s Pacific Northwest, even as the Bush administration rolls back most of the major environmental protections of the last 30 years. (5:01) Link: www.siskiyou.org |
| #50-03 Hospital Privatisation Rollback. |
Carolyn Leckie is a midwife, a member of the Scottish Parliament, and Branch Secretary for Glasgow North UNISON hospitals in Scotland. UNISON is Britain’s largest trade union with over 1.3 million members, many of them women whose salaries fell prey to hospital privatisation and “contracting-out”. With help from patients whose standard of care had fallen, they successfully battled multi-national corporation Sodexho to roll back most hospital privatisation in Scotland, reviving the UK labour movement. In November 2003 Leckie addressed the BC Federation of Labour in British Columbia, Canada -- where the provincial government is also using privatisation to drastically cut jobs and wages. Produced by Kéllia Ramares. View another Leckie speech at: http://www.workingtv.com/carolynleckie.html |
| #49-03 Immigrants Ride for Rights (US) |
In 2003, immigrant workers made a union-backed Freedom Ride across the US to call for rights. Melinda Tuhus reports on the rally at the end of the ride in New York, and talks with women immigrants who work legally and illegally, about their hopes and fears. |
| #48-03 Iranian Women Inch Forward. |
Azadeh
Rahsepar was at the Tehran airport when Iranian women welcomed home
Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In this program she
evaluates the huge response, and discusses the ways Iranian women (and
especially the
younger generation) have been able to inch their way forward inside the
Islamic Republic. Voices on tape include: Shirin Ebadi; Jane
Modarressian
(an Englishwoman married to an Iranian); and Massoume Price, who has
written
extensively on history and culture of Iran. |
| #47-03 Women's Day in Nepal. |
Margaretta
D’Arcy, of Radio Pirate Woman in Galway, Ireland, visited Nepal in
February and March of 2003. There she met and interviewed well
known Nepalese feminist and prisoners’ rights activist Indira
Ranmagar. Ranmagar
visits women and their children in Nepal’s prisons, and works
especially
with the children, who without help will grow up hungry and isolated in
the jails with their moms. On International Women’s Day, March 8,
Ranmagar
got permission to bring women and children out of the female central
jail
in Kathmandu to participate in the Global Women’s Strike. The
program
has sounds from their demonstration and songs by Ranmagar and the
children.
Contact information given in the program: Prisoners’ Assistance Nepal,
PCN363,
PO Box8974, Kathmandu, Nepal. Telephone number (country code:
977;
city code for Kathmandu, 1) 429590. Fax: 415547 E-mail: info@panepal.org; Website under construction as of
February 2004. |
| #46-03 Bush Radio: Domestic Violence. |
Formerly a pirate radio station opposing the apartheid
regime, Bush Radio is now licensed to serve as community radio to Cape
Town, South Africa. Gender issues are a priority for the station. This
broadcast includes excerpts about Domestic Violence from two programs:
"Along Gender Avenue," which was produced and presented by Juanita
Williams; and "Sakisizwe: Building the Nation," produced and presented
in January 2004 by Lindiwe Magija. Contact: tanja@buradio.ca.za |
| #45-03 Post 9-11 Racial Profiling. |
Racial-profiling
of Latinos and African Americans has long been a problem. But after
September 11, 2001, several more groups became victims of undeserved
law enforcement scrutiny: Arabs, Muslims, South Asians, anyone who
appeared to be a member of these groups (e.g. more Latinos and
African-Americans), and immigrants. Samina Faheem Sundes, executive
director of American Muslim Voice,
has been helping Arab and Muslim men and boys, and their families, deal
with the onerous
and racist registration requirements the United States Government
imposed
post 9-11 on certain male immigrants from certain countries. (All of
the
counties, except one, North Korea, are Arab and Muslim countries). On December 1, 2003, Samina Faheem addressed a gathering sponsored by the Mendocino Bill of Rights Committee in Willits, California. The Pakistani native, who became an American citizen in 1988, called her speech, "Arab Disappeared." But she covered more than this, speaking about airport and car searches and personal experiences with racial profiling she has had. She also mades salient remarks about the so-called "USA Patriot Act." The speech, which was edited down to the WINGS time slot by Kéllia Ramares, was recorded in its entirety by Dan Roberts of OutFarPress. The entire speech is available online. |
| #44-03 Shock. |
Bonnie
Burstow is a counseling psychologist who teaches at the University of
Toronto's Transformative Learning Centre. On March 23, 2003, she spoke
in the Feminist Speakers Series at the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education on the subject of Electro-Convulsive Therapy, more commonly
called shock treatment. Contrary to common belief, shock treatment has
not been discontinued. It's used three times more often on women than
on men, and it's used increasingly on disoriented elders. Yet it's been
found emperimentally to be no more
effective than a placebo. Burstow marshals evidence that shock causes brain damage, often with severe memory loss and emotional damage. She explains the continued use of shock on women, seniors, and low-status men, as a function of an ongoing shock industry and the sexism, and elitism in the psychiatric field and in society. Burstow calls on feminists to unite with the psychiatric survivor movement against the psychiatric use of electroshock. This talk was first distributed by CKUT radio's news collective, via radio4all.net. Burstow's publications list is here. |
| #43-03 110 Years of Suffrage. |
In
1893, New Zealand became the first country to bow to the will of the
women's movement and give women full voting privileges. On September
19, 2003, the anniversary of this decision, the program Women on the
Air played a celebratory program on Christchurch community radio
station Plains FM. Guests in order of appearance: Ann Charlotte from Lesbian Radio; Dame Ann Hercus, New Zealand's first Minister of Women's Affairs; Powhire Rika-Heke, lecturer in Naori writing in the English Department at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch; and Kirsten Chambers, who mentions Helen Clark of the Labour Party, who has been New Zealand's Prime Minister since 1999. Producer: Roth Todd. Sound Engineer: David Glenn. Music: Judy Small (Australia) What Was Her Name? --Global Village-- Crafty Maid Records CMM009CD; Bic Runga (New Zealand) -- Election Night -- Beautiful Collision -- Columbia 5084032000; Ariana Tikao (New Zealand) -- E Hoa -- Whaea -- Maorimusic MMDC106 |
| #42-03 Transgenderism & Feminism. |
The address of transgender
novelist
Leslie Feinberg at the US’s National Women’s Studies Association in
Oklahoma
City in 1995. Feinberg makes a tightly argued call for feminists to go
beyond
a biological definition of womanhood to see the similar bases of
women’s
struggle, the transgender struggle, and the class struggle. A WINGS classic. |
| #41-03 DRIVING AWAY THE FTAA |
Women from around the world
converged on Florida in November 2003 to protest negotiations for a
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. For the time being, negotiations
have failed. Indymedia producer Jenka prepared this special program for WINGS. |
| #40-03 TOWARDS EARTH
DEMOCRACY.
Part 2 |
On October 20, 2003, Dr. Vandana Shiva of India gave the
prestigious Templeton Lecture at Sydney University, hosted by the
Centre for Human
Aspects of Science and Technology. Her title was “Beyond
Corporate
Globalisation, Towards Earth Democracy.” Dr. Shiva heads
the
Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology, in
India. Her speech was recorded and edited by Helen Lobato, for the Australian national community radio program “Women on the Line,” which exchanges audio with WINGS. |
| #39-03 TOWARDS EARTH
DEMOCRACY.
Part 1 |
On October 20, 2003, Dr. Vandana Shiva of India gave the
prestigious Templeton Lecture at Sydney University, hosted by the
Centre for Human
Aspects of Science and Technology. Her title was “Beyond
Corporate
Globalisation, Towards Earth Democracy.” Dr. Shiva heads the Research
Foundation
for Science, Technology, and Ecology, in India. Her speech was recorded and edited by Helen Lobato, for the Australian national community radio program “Women on the Line,” which exchanges audio with WINGS. |
| #38-03 BLUE GOLD. |
Maude Barlow chairs The Council of
Canadians, is a Director with the San Francisco-based International
Forum on Globalization, and co-founded the Blue Planet Project. Her
latest book is Blue Gold, The Battle to Stop Corporate Theft of the
World’s Water. Sue Supriano interviewed Barlow about the world’s water issues, at the 2003 Bioneers Convention in California. |
| #37-03 MATRIX
SOCIETIES. |
Independent feminist historian Max
Dashu describes non-patriarchal societies, including those that exist
today. Interview and editing by Kéllia Ramares. |
| #36-03 REDLIGHT #1:
FIRST NATIONS
WOMEN. |
On October 10, 2003, Vancouver
Rape
Relief and Women’s Shelter held a public forum to discuss whether the
Canadian
city should open a “redlight district” before the 2010 Winter
Olympics.
Among the five panelists who said no were two First Nations women –
Terri
Brown of the Native Women’s Association, and Cherry Kingsley, from the
International Centre to Combat Exploitation of Children, herself
formerly a child working in the sex trade. Moderator is Shelagh
Day. Produced by Frieda Werden. |
| #35-03 BRUKMAN. |
Documentary about workers’
takeover
of the Brukman textile factory in Buenos Aires after the fall of the
Argentine economy, and the women workers’ struggle to keep the company
open and under worker control. A victory was won October 31,
2003, thanks in part to the piqueteros (unemployed workers’ movement)
and others who supported the Brukman employees. Produced by Pauline Bartolone and women from Argentina Indymedia, including Toya, Marcela, and Ruana. |
| #34-03 WOMEN’S SERVICE
ASHRAM. |
The Sumangali Seva Ashram, is a
non-religious refuge that helps destitute and troubled women and
provides community services such as jobs training, children’s
education, family counseling, and help to form cooperatives.
Among the women heard on tape is the founder, Susheelamma. Produced by Indu Ramesh of Bangalore, India. |
| #33-03 ABORIGINAL
GREENS. |
Fifty years ago, October 15, 1953,
the British set off atomic blasts at Maralinga, on aboriginal lands in
Australia. A group of elder women affected by that event, the
Coober Pedy Kunga Juda, now fight against a nuclear waste dump and
other abuses of their watershed. The women, have re-created
cultural rituals and and formed a strong alliance with the
“greenies” – Australian environmentalist youth. [The Kunga Juda website appears to be down as of this writing – part of it can be found archived on the site: http://www.undercurrents.org/operationalchemy/uranium.html] Megg Kelham, of Alice Springs, Australia, produced this lively documentary. |
| #32-03 UNIVERSAL SPY
DEVICES. |
There's
a sci-fi technology
that is
already in use and may become mandatory – something that can allow a
corporation or a government to track where you go and who you know
through the stuff you buy, wear, and carry. Concerns about abuse of the
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are expressed by Katherine
Albrecht of CASPIAN [Consumers
Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering], and California
State Senator Debra Bowen. Reporter Kéllia Ramares produced this program. |
| #31-03 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S NEWSCAST. | Headlines ; WINGS logo
music Story #1 (5:01) WOMEN’S RADIO IN GHANA. In/outcues: "The International Association of Women in Radio and TV . . . Reporting for WINGS, I’m Frieda Werden." On tape: Diana Heyman-Adu, Radio Meridian, Tema, Ghana. Story #2 (3:40) THIRTY-FOUR MILLION CAMPAIGN FOR UNFPA. In/outcues: "The United Nations Population Fund works for safe motherhood . . . This is Sue Supriano, for WINGS.” On tape: Jane Roberts, co-founder 34 Million Friends of UNFPA. Story #3 (6:45) BRIDE SHORTAGE IN INDIA. Story #4 (5:22) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE – AFTER THE ARREST (USA). Story #5 (5:45) REFUSING LESBIAN MARRIAGE IN CANADA. Story #6 (6:50) KAY GARDNER, HEALING MUSICIAN, REST IN PEACE. In/outcues: "[music] In closing, WINGS pays tribute … Gardner plays the flute [music in the clear til 1:18 then segues under the next Track, program credits.] " On tape: script by Frieda Werden, music Viriditas" from Kay Gardner's album Garden of Ecstasy ((c) Ladyslipper, Inc., 1989) [A Ladyslipper music stream & catalog are online.] Closing credits: "This is the Women's International News Gathering Service [music fades]" Five seconds of space. |
| #30-03 WOMEN IN UNIONS
AT YALE. |
The successful strike by
clerical
workers at Yale University, concluded in September 2003; the
decades-long labor
struggle in which women developed their leadership towards this moment;
and the solidarity among workers – and feminists -- that went into
making
it a success. Other primarily-female unions still struggling for
recognition
at Yale include the graduate teaching assistants and hospital service
workers. Melinda Tuhus produced this exciting documentary. |
| #29-03 WHY WE NEED
ALL-WOMAN
SPACES. |
This WINGS classic was
recorded in
1989, when Dr. Dale Spender spoke in San Francisco. Spender is a
well-known feminist linguistics scholar from Australia and the UK, who
today works in the area of intellectual property rights and the
internet. She is the author of 31 books, including Nattering
on the Net, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done To Them,
and Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Produced for WINGS by Frieda Werden. |
| #28-03 PEACE RADIO IN
SIERRA
LEONE. |
Feminist and community
radio
veteran Sheila Patricka Dallas of Jamaica built and manages Radio
UNAMSIL – a station created to support peacebuilding and peacekeeping
for the UN mission in
Sierra Leone, West Africa. She vividly described her experiences
and
the success of the station in May 2003. Interview by Frieda Werden. |
| #27-03 FAIR
TRADE. |
The fair trade movement
originated
from the international women’s movement, and many women participated in
the
first International Fair Trade Fair and Symposium, which was held in
parallel
with the 2003 World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Heard
in this program: Sophia Murphy, of the US-based Institute for
Agriculture
and Trade Policy, interviewed by Jenka Soderberg, plus speakers at the
Symposium: Kath Anderson, UK-based International Fair Trade Association; Evelyn Herfkens, Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, and coordinator of the UN Millennium Goals Campaign; Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan indigenous rights activist and Nobel Laureate. Jenka Soderberg interviewed Sophia Murphy. Radio Cancun supplied audio from the Symposium. |
| #26-03 AWARD FOR AFGHAN
LEADER. |
Dr. Sima Samar, first
Women’s
Minister of post-Taliban Afghanistan, now heads the country’s Human
Rights Commission and its largest women’s non-governmental
organization. On June 11, 2003, in Washington DC, she received the
first annual Perdita Huston Human Rights Award, and spoke on women in
Afghanistan. Also speaking: Page Wilson, friend of the late
Perdita Huston; US feminist Gloria Steinem; and Eleanor Smeal,
President of the Femnist Majority. Smeal explains efforts to get
the US Congress to budget the money authorized for rebuilding
Afghanistan. Audio included from the film “Afghanistan Unveiled,”
shot by Afghan girls under the auspices of the French NGO Aina. Recorded and researched by Nafisa Hoodbhoy. Editing and narration, Frieda Werden. |
| #25-03 WOMEN:“REWARDS”
FOR
WARRIORS. |
Patricia Hynes is
Professor of
Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health, and
Director of the Urban Environmental Health Initiative. Much of
her writing is on the health effects of war, especially the
little-documented area of rape, sexual abuse and prostitution as public
health problems caused and exacerbated
by war. Interview conducted by Helen Lobato of Australia’s community radio program Women on the Line. Music clip from Sweet Honey in the Rock. |
| #24-03 STORYTELLING FOR
PEACE. |
Dr. Noeleen Heyzer has
been
Executive Director of UNIFEM, the UN women’s fund, since 1994. In
this May
2003 speech to the International Association of Women in Radio & TV
(IAWRT) in Accra, Ghana, Heyzer describes the uses of storytelling in
promoting
peace and an end to violence against women. Recorded by Frieda Werden, edited by Alison Brown and Frieda Werden. |
| #23-03 ODIOUS DEBT. |
Speech in Guelph,
Ontario, by
Patricia Adams, resource economist and head of Probe, International,
which investigates the links between environmental damage and lax and
corrupt lending. First recorded in 1992, Adams continues to
promote understanding of the
international law on Odious Debt which says the public in
non-democratic
coutnries are not liable for debts that were incurred in their name but
not
for their benefit. Recorded and edited by Cindy Duffy. Update by Frieda Werden. |
| #22-03 DEALING WITH
DOMESTIC
ABUSE,
Part 2 Judge Not. |
Ellen Pence, founder of
Praxis
International, works to help men who abuse their spouses reevaluate and
change their lives. Debby Tucker is executive director of the US
National Training Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence. Much of
their interesting dialog that could not be included in the video is
heard in this two-part WINGS series. Part 2: Dealing with Domestic Abuse--Judge Not! Re-educating batterers, and the role of courts; and how pornography and sexism shape violence against women. Words have been blanked to protect US stations from the Federal Communications Commission. The Pence-Tucker dialog dialog, and a speech by Pence, were recorded by videographer Anne Lewis for the recently released Appalshop/PBS video "Shelter". |
| #21-03 DEALING WITH
DOMESTIC
ABUSE,
Part 1 Gimme Shelter. |
Ellen Pence, founder of
Praxis
International, works to help men who abuse their spouses reevaluate and
change their lives. Debby Tucker is executive director of the US
National Training Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence. Much of
their interesting dialog that could not be included in the video is
heard in this two-part WINGS series. Part 1: Dealing with Domestic Abuse--Gimme Shelter Advances and setbacks for victims, police and the women's movement in addressing violence against women; and problems of dealing with the non-ideal victim. The Pence-Tucker dialog dialog, and a speech by Pence, were recorded by videographer Anne Lewis for the recently released Appalshop/PBS video "Shelter". |
| #20-03 PAY FOR CARE, NOT KILLING. |
Selma James is the
founder of the
International Wages for Housework Campaign, and author of a new book, The
Milk of
Human Kindness: Defending Breast Feeding from the Global Market and the
AIDS Industry. James’s organization coordinates a Global Women’s Strike each
March 8. Interview by Sue Supriano. |
| #19-03 GAY MARRIAGE IN CANADA. |
Vancouver lesbian
lawyer-activist
Barbara Findlay, QC, talks about Canada’s unique changes to the status
of same-sex couples, and related matters of parenting, divorce, and
taxation. Interview by Frieda Werden. |
| #18-03 THINK GLOBALLY,
EAT
LOCALLY.
|
Helena Norberg-Hodge is
Swedish,
lives part time in Ladakh, northern India, and runs the International Society for Ecology and
Culture, based in London. Norberg-Hodge says world trade in
agricultural products is in most cases demonstrably unneccessary; it
also eliminates jobs, abuses government subsidies, and adds numbers to
national economies but hurts most people economically. She advises our
strongest way of changing the system is to eat food as unprocessed and
local as possible, and to purchase from small local businesses. Helen Lobato of Australia's Women on the Line interviewed Norberg-Hodge. |
| #17-03 NO INTEREST IN
MONEY. |
German environmental
architect Margrit
Kennedy says
money is a brilliant invention but the use of interest to keep it
circulating
is a failed invention. She touts an alternative system called
demurrage,
which instead of rewarding people for circulating money penalizes them
mildly
for not doing so. By eliminating massive hidden interest and inflation,
demurrage saves people and governments a bundle. It can be used in
parallel
with the current currency system rather than having to replace
it. Interview by Frieda Werden; editing and narration by Kéllia Ramares. |
| #16-03 WHAT DU DOES. |
Depleted uranium, a
heavy metal
now
being widely used to harden weapons and armor, has long been suspect as
the
cause of Gulf War Syndrome, a mysterious disease that American and
allied
soldiers seem to pass to their wives and to children they conceive.
Leuren
Moret, Past President of the Association for Women Geoscientists,
explains
how DU does its damage in the body; and Susan Riordan, Atlantic
Director
of the Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association describes the course
of
the disease in a Canadian soldier who had "Gulf War Syndrome" on his
death
certificate. That soldier was her husband. Depleted uranium
particles
affect not only soldiers but also noncombatants, animals, and and even
plants, Moret says. A world uranium weapons conference will take
place in
Hamburg in October: http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm.
Other web sites mentioned: Canadian
Peacekeeping Veterans Association; The Campaign Against Depleted Uranium, and the Traprock Peace Center. This program was produced by Kéllia Ramares. |
| #15-03 THE GAG RULE.
|
A leadership conference
in June
2003 brought family planning professionals from seven countries
together to
discuss unmet needs. One major problem is unsafe abortion -- a subject
that reproductive health providers are not permitted to discuss if they
receive US family planning aid. Kathy Hall Martinez of the Center
for Reproductive Law and Policy explained this Global Gag Rule (a.k.a.
Mexico
City Policy) imposed by three of the four most recent US Presidents,
starting
with Reagan. WINGS producer Pauline Bartolone interviewed participants from Ethiopia, Pakistan, Burma, and India for WINGS. |
| #14-03 THE WISDOM OF
ROSEMARY
BROWN. |
Jamaica-born Rosemary
Brown became
the first black woman elected to a Canadian legislature. She contended
for
party leadership, stayed 14 years in the British Columbia assembly,
then
went on to head an NGO of women from the poorest countries, write a
newspaper
column, and be a women's studies prof. Until the last day of her
life,
April 26, 2003, Brown exhorted women to stay the course as feminists to
win full social and political equality. This program features
Brown
at the top of her game, in 1991, in a speech to women of the Canadian
Association of Journalists. Producer: Katherine Davenport. Update: Frieda Werden. |
| #13-03 WOMEN ON WAR: AN
EVENT.
|
On April 23, Daniela
Gioseffi,
editor of the new anthology titled Women on War, hosted an event for
writers and activists at Manhattan's Cooper Union. In this selection
produced by Melinda Tuhus, you'll hear Gioseffi reading from Enheduanna
(Sumer, 2300 BC) and Wislawa Szimborska (Poland, contemporary).
Pastor Mary Ann Muller
of Brooklyn reads from Mairead Corrigan Maguire. Reading their own
works:
Nina Cassian of Rumania, Jayne Cortez, and Clara Sala. Music by the Brooklyn Woman's Chorus. |
| #12-03 ARGENTINA: WOMEN
IN A
STATELESS SOCIETY, Part 2 - The Neighborhood |
When its economy
collapsed in late
2001, Argentina became basically a country without a state. Two women
grassroots organizers from Santa Fe, Argentina, addressed a crowd at
London's Conway Hall in September 2002, to explain what had happened to
them, and describe how they were surviving and organizing themselves. Audio from Laura Levac. Edit, script: Frieda Werden. Part II: The Neighborhood. Isabel Zanutigh and Beatriz Marega give specifics about how women organize for survival in working class neighborhoods: e.g., group ovens, bartering between neighborhoods, rotating local leadership, and placing unified demands upon the remaining government administrators--who must come to the local committees or risk being brought to them by a mob. |
| #11-03 ARGENTINA: WOMEN
IN A
STATELESS SOCIETY Part 1 - The Big Picture |
When its economy
collapsed in late
2001, Argentina became basically a country without a state. Two women
grassroots organizers from Santa Fe, Argentina, addressed a crowd at
London's Conway Hall in September 2002, to explain what had happened to
them, and describe how they were surviving and organizing themselves. Audio from Laura Levac. Edit, script: Frieda Werden. Part 1: The Big Picture. Introduction by Nina Lopez Jones of the International Wages for Housework Campaign -- who also serves as translator. Discussion of the national collapse by Isabel Zanutigh of the Housewives' Union and the Inter-Neighborhood Network of Women. |
| #10-03 FAMILY PLANNING
IN IRAN. |
Since its theocracy was
established
in 1979, Iran has first abolished and then re-established a highly
successful family planning program, belatedly reducing its birth rates
from 6 to 2
children per woman. Frederica Aalto, from Six Rivers Planned Parenthood
in Eureka, California, explains the situation, and how she helped with
the
export of Iran's family planning methods to Afghanistan. Interview and production by Melinda Tuhus. |
| #09-03 CANADA VIOLATES
CEDAW.
|
As a signatory to the UN
Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW),
Canada must report in to the UN CEDAW Committee every four years.
This
year, the committee asked hard questions, based on shadow reports and
lobbying
by non-governmental organizations. It rebuked Canada and
especially
the province of British Columbia for rolling back women's
equality.
On tape: Sharon McIvor, aboriginal lawyer; anti-poverty activist
Shelagh
Day. Rosemary Collins of Re-Sister Radio reports. |
| #08-03 IRAQI WOMEN
PRAISE SADDAM. |
Two Iraqi Christian
women, Romi
Kanani and "Marie", who talked to Sue Supriano in California, describe
Saddam
as a progressive ruler who put the oil money Iraq had nationalized into
the wellbeing of his people, including childcare, child allowances,
education and jobs for both men and women, and infrastructure like
roads, water,
and electricity, for all ethnic groups including the Kurds. The women
weave
their family histories with standard Iraqi versions of events, for a
story
virtually unheard elsewhere in Western media. Edited and narrated by Frieda Werden. |
| #07-03 WOMEN ELECTED IN
PAKISTAN. |
Nafisa Hoodbhoy talks
with Anis
Haroun, Resident Director of the Aurat Foundation (an NGO that works
with women
and politics), and Zubeida Mustafa, a newspaper editor, about the vast
numbers of women getting elected to local and national political seats
in recent elections. Topics include the irony of having this
increase in democratic participation offered by a military regime, the
ways in which the women
are effective or are prevented from being effective, the roles of the
political parties, and the overall strategy of General Musharraf in
giving an appearance of democracy. Edited by Rosemary Collins. |
| #06-03 "MOLLY'S BASH" |
Australia's National
Pioneer
Women's Hall of Fame in Alice Springs was founded largely through the
efforts of a now-elderly woman named Molly Clark. For a decade
from 1992-2002, Clark held a folk festival at her rural home on
Mother's Day (second weekend in May), to raise money for the museum. The Vashti's Voice women's radio program from Alice Springs sent WINGS this documentary about Molly's Bash and the "ordinary women doing extraordinary things" who were Australia's pioneer women. |
| #05-03 MUSLIM WOMEN ON
THE
NET. |
This documentary is
about the use
of ICTs [Information Communication Technologies] and their influence on
the lives of Muslim women, including those who are isolated in the
home. Among the well known forms of ICTs.are radio, internet, and
video. Documentary jointly produced by the Women's Learning Partnership, WINGS, and editor/narrator Nafisa Hoodbhoy. |
| #04-03 AUSTRALIAN WOMEN
vs.
REFUGEE
POLICY |
Refugees have a
universal right of
asylum, but often are further traumatized by their treatment in the
host country. February 16, 2003, Women for a Humane Refugee Policy
sponsored a forum
in Victoria, Australia. The speakers are Dr. Louise Newman, Executive
Director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry; Dr. Carmen
Lawrence, Member of Parliament and former Minister on the Status of
Women; and former Liberal MP Marie Tehan, now a Board Member of the
Refugee and Immigration Legal
Centre in Victoria. Edited by Helen Lobato of Women on the Line, Music is "Refugee Song for Aishya," sung by the Melbourne Millennium Chorus on their new CD Flight--A Concert for Refugees. |
| #03-03 FREE TRADE vs.
AUSTRALIAN
WOMEN. |
Helen Lobato, producer
of the
Australian national community radio program Women on the Line,
interviews Dr. Susan Hawthorne, feminist economic theorist and
publisher. Hawthorne is author
of the book Wild Politics [Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 2003],
and of an article in the Australian left magazine Arena, titled "Australia-United
States Free Trade Agreement: Free Trade or Free Access for U.S.
Companies?" Music: "Everybody's Crying Mercy," sung by Jeannie Lewis on the Australian Green Songs Compilation CD. |
| #02-03 INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S
NEWSCAST. |
Story #1 (5:57) WOMEN
JUDGES
CHOSEN
FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT. In/outcues: "International
criminal
justice finally has become a reality . . . Latvia. For WINGS, I'm
Melinda
Tuhus." On tape: Gabrielle Kirk-MacDonald, American
judge
on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; Ana
Elena
Obando, Costa Rican NGO activist working on gender equality on the ICC;
Aisha
Dyfan, of the International Women's Tribune Centre; Elizabeth Odio of
Costa
Rica, former ICTY justice now elected to the ICC. Story # 2 (3:51) KOREANS WANT JUSTICE IN TEEN GIRLS' DEATH. In/outcues "Five South Korean delegates...KPFK, Los Angeles, for excerpts from "The Morning Show." On tape: Interviewer, Sonali Kolhatkar; Haesook Kim, a delegate with the Pan-Korean Committee for the Two Girls Killed by US Armored Vehicle; translator,Yong Bin-Yook (male), from the Lindullae Center for Korean Community Development, Los Angeles. Story #3 (4:49) INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION SUPPORTS WESTERN SHOSHONE WOMEN. In/outcues: "We're saying that because we're connected . . . This is Jenka, reporting for WINGS. On tape: Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone grandmother; Julie Fishel, an attorney and Director of the Land Restoration Program at the Western Shoshone Defense Project in Crescent Valley, Nevada. Story #4 (6:52) U.S. ARMS MEXICO BORDER. In/outcues: "In June of 2002 . . Brackin Firecracker reporting for WINGS.” On tape: Jennifer Allen of Border Action Network. See: http://www.resistmilitarization.org Story #5 (5:44) NEW BOOK by BANGLADESHI ATHEIST, TASLIMA NASRIN. In/outcues: "Taslima Nasrin can't go home … This is Melinda Tuhus, for WINGS." On tape: Taslima Nasrin, exiled feminist author from Bangladesh. Closing credits Cut 10 / 13 seconds of WINGS sound logo music, til 29:00 |
| #01-03
IMPEACHMENT. |
What violations of the
U.S.
Constitution form grounds for impeachment of the
President and other Executive Branch officials? Kéllia Ramares of WINGS and R.I.S.E.-Radio Internet Story Exchange, interviews Doris Brin Walker, the 83 year old former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and Riva Enteen, who, at the time of this interview, headed the NLG's Emergency Response Network for activists harassed by the government. |