WINGS

Persecuted Falun Gong practitioners given a chance at justice

wingsradio — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:00:31 +0000

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In 1999, Chinese leader Jiang Zemin implemented a program to eliminate the practice of Falun Gong from the country. This persecution developed into a program of mass arrests, "re-education" through torture, executions and widespread allegations of organ harvesting for the medical market. A change in China's courts has allowed those who suffered to file complaints, and many are doing so.

Host: Kerry Foster

Resistance, to the inauguration and beyond

wingsradio — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 06:53:35 +0000

RESISTANCE (to the Inauguration and beyond)

Description: From the series The Joy of Resistance on WBAI community radio, New York City, many voices say (and sing) why and how they have resisted and plan to resist. Original show aired January 8, 2017.

Host(s): Fran Luck, Farah Diaz-Tello

Women leading energy innovation inside the U.S. government

wingsradio — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:33:33 +0000

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The U.S. military is the world's biggest consumer of energy, and Katherine Hammack has spent six years working to make it more energy-efficient. In another part of the U.S. government, Ellen Williams is building bridges between energy ideas and their manifestation on the market. She tells about that and offers advice for women on moving up in the energy field.

Hosted by Joan Michelson, host/producer of the podcast series Green Connections Radio.

Native women's multi-generational struggles in Canada

wingsradio — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 07:07:17 +0000

WINGS #37-16 Memee (Dr. Dawn Memee Lavelle-Harvard) Native women's multi-generational struggles in Canada

In 1971, Janette Lavelle sued Canada for a part of the 19th-century Indian Act that violated native women's human right to be status Indians. Her daughter Memee shared in activism around that cause and others such as the fight against violence against native women, and she brought her own daughters into the struggle. Dr. Dawn Memee Lavelle-Harvard is past president of the Native Women's Association of Canada and editor of two books on Indigenous mothering. This radio program is excerpted from her 2016 speech to the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.

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The hormone replacement scam

wingsradio — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:37:14 +0000

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As of 2016, pharmaceutical companies are once again raising old complaints about the massive women's health study that showed almost all claims about hormone replacement therapy pushed on aging women were untrue. It was one of their biggest moneymakers, and they keep trying. (A recent article in the Globe and Mail pressed the same objections that are debunked in this podcast).

Executive Director of UN Women on violence against women in Canada

wingsradio — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:23:02 +0000

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Description: During an organic discussion with four members of Canada's National Campus and Community Radio Association, held at CHUO Radio Studios at the University of Ottawa ahead of the Association's annual conference, the Executive Director fielded questions on violence against Indigenous women, how to include transgender people in the conversation on women's rights, and how Canada can take a global lead on ending discrimination. She urged broadcasters to use their influence to change the world and make a difference.

Host(s): Sarah Newton

Waiting for Hillary

wingsradio — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 22:55:35 +0000

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From the WINGS archives, this is a talk by then First Lady Hillary Clinton at the NGO Forum of the 4th UN World Conference on Women in 1995, at which she lauds the work of non-governmental organizations as being essential to making governments be accountable to their commitments to women and families. Included in the show are crowd reactions while waiting in the rain, some lusty singing of "Keep on Moving Forward," and an update from 2008 of what had been the Clintons' mixed record on women.

Host(s): Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Shirley Mae Springer Staten; Irene Santiago, Exec Dir of the NGO Forum; Hillary Clinton

Immigrants send gifts across borders

wingsradio — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:30:46 +0000

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Remittances back home from primarily low-wage immigrants sustain families, communities, and countries. A talk by Maria Jimenez at the International Conference on the Gift Economy in 2004 is even more current in the anti-immigrant climate of today. Jimenez is an immigration rights activist and policy analyst based in the U.S. Audio recorded at the 2004 Gift Economy conference in Las Vegas by L.A. Sound Posse, edited by Kellia Ramares and Frieda Werden. Transcript of complete original talk here.

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Who talks, who listens?

wingsradio — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 04:45:50 +0000

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