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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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Una Nowling is one of the producers of Every Woman and the Tenth Voice, which air every Saturday. She also produces the Goth, darkwave, and industrial music show "The Darkest Hours" as DJ Nightshade. In April 2016 she was elected to the KKFI Board of Directors for a 3-year term. In April 2017 she was elected to be Vice President of the Board of Directors of KKFI, and in April 2018 she was elected as President of KKFI and retired as President on January 1, 2020.
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world. WINGS programs are used by non-commercial radio stations, women’s studies, and individuals. Programs can be heard on local radio stations, on shortwave, on the internet, and on cassettes. The WINGS Mailing List provides updates on stories and new information about women’s media. “Though I have been involved in women’s issues for years, I was still struck by the contrast of your broadcast to the news we are usually hearing — news reflecting male interests in a basically male world. Women’s affairs are a hidden current in the flow of world events.”– Kristin Reilly, listener, Buffalo, New YorkWINGS Mailing List:E-mail [email protected] to receive periodic e-mail updates about WINGS programs and women’s media issues.
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September 18, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Jeannette Armstrong – Leading by Giving
Jeannette Armstrong has been named to the Order of Canada in 2021. Here are excerpts from her address to the International Conference on the Gift Economy in Las Vegas in 2004. Her themes include diversity in environment and culture, and how communities are sustained by unilateral giving, deep listening, and genuine equality.
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September 11, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
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India's new female priestesses are solemnizing weddings, breaking barriers and stereotypes in the formerly patriarchal sphere. These weddings are trending among educated women and their mothers, who want equal female participation in place of the traditional Kanya daan, in which father gives daughter to husband. Women priests and their clients see changes in ritual as a way of social reform.
ListenSeptember 4, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
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Ucko speaks about her book Endangered Spouses: The Legacy of Marital Inequality, which compares folk tale models of power dynamics in marriage from different cultures - patriarchal, egalitarian, and mixed.
Read MoreAugust 28, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
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Adapted from the documentary film When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories (https://www.concentric.org/films/when_abortion_was_illegal.html).
Read MoreAugust 21, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
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Starting in 2019, a group known as Las Tesis created a chant against impunity for perpetrators of rape and systemic violence against women. It was performed across Chile in the context of public resistance against the entire regime, and soon was taken up in versions in other languages across the world. In this program, you hear multiple iterations of this chant, and an interview with one of the performers, Dignity Wonderwoman - conducted by Mindy Ran. THIS PROGRAM IS THE WINNER OF THE KATHERINE DAVENPORT AWARD FOR HOTTEST WOMEN'S RADIO NEWS STORY OF 2020.
Read MoreAugust 14, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
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Reporter Diana Wanyonyi from Mombasa investigates farmland degradation and restoration in the drylands area of her region. She talks with two women who do land restoration - one of whom is successful, and one whose land was stolen after she restored it. Two experts give background on restoration techniques and gender discrimination problems in areas like getting formal deeds and farm loans.
Read MoreAugust 7, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Intersectional Feminist Media
Laura Hill is a Columbian journalist with a background in foreign affairs and peace building. Today's show provides excerpts from a June 30, 2021 webinar hosted by Laura with guests from Columbia, Lebanon, and the United States.
Read MoreJuly 31, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Indigenous Women’s Strategy
Mililani Trask speaks to a conference on the Gift Economy in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in November 2004, about the economic, cultural and spiritual differences between corporations and communities, and and about the first time a court honored an indigenous claim of prior invention against a party attempting to patent neem.
Read MoreJuly 24, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Secrets for feminist radio survival
Founded in 1982 and still on the air, RadiOrakel is said to be the oldest feminist radio station in the world. Two active station participants spoke to Frieda Werden in 2000 about the model for their station's success, which includes factors like location, voluntarism, freedom from funding constraints, and a persistent positive attitude towards new recruits. The interview took place at an AMARC Europe conference in Balatonfured, Hungary.
Read MoreJuly 17, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Affirmative Action
In 2019, the FBI broke up a criminal conspiracy to guarantee rich kids entrance to prestigious universities. But traditional ways the admissions system is biased are not against the law. In this 1995 speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, Guinier exposed how biased criteria perpetuate class privilege in law school admissions, employment, and other opportunities.
Read MoreJuly 3, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Law and Sharing
Janelle Orsi co-founded the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), which facilitates the growth of sustainable and localized economies. She spoke to Kellia Ramares-Watson about the creation of Sharing Law as a category and the uses of this new legal field. The US and Australia are leaders in this movement, as are many women.
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