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... on the eve of new national elections
04 Jul, 2022 | 0:28:46 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Zuleikha Hassan is one of the most outspoken members of Kenya's Parliament. This episode covers several years of her political career, including being expelled from the floor of the Assembly for bringing her baby to work. Issues covered include breastfeeding, gender inclusive politics, and violence against women. Concludes with excerpt from a speech about a crackdown on rogue boda boda...
Women must make spaces for ourselves in all the negotiations, Nobel Laureate said
29 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:45 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Shortly before she was announced as a Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee was on a book tour in the US. She gave Janie Rezner of Women's Voices a passionate and wide-ranging interview about herself, her children, and how women need to get over our socialization to stay out of politics and just support the men.
The Iroquois system has lasted hundreds of years
11 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Barbara Alice Mann describes the inner workings of a long-established North American matriarchal society, where women lead the arrangement of life, including festivals, collective decision-making, management of longhouses, food storage, marriages, childrearing, inheritance, rotating land use, agriculture, food storage, sharing, and gift-giving.  And war and peace.
At the Functional Foods Lab, part 2
21 Mar, 2022 | 0:30:00 |
EN | Ivan Emke | Fit to Eat: The NL Farm and Food Show

Today, we are back in the Functional Foods lab of Grenfell Campus in Corner Brook, talking with three researchers on functional food – “food with a purpose,” as one of them said. In this lab, there is lots of work being done on ensuring that nutritious foods find a place on people’s plates. They analyze tastes, textures, smells, appearances, alter...
Hosting a fund-raising show with colleagues Rico, Ugonna and Scott
25 Feb, 2022 | 0:56:14 |
EN | Michael Welch | Global Research News Hour

This show features host Michael Welch together with fellow station host Ras Rico discussing the subject of decolonization at length touching on Haiti, Angola, Cuba and other places in the cross-hairs of the U.S. Empire. We also allow cameos by Volunteer Coordinator Ugonna Chigbo and by Program Director Scott Price. We also talk about the station itself and encourage listeners...
The slow work of ending female genital mutilation
24 Jan, 2022 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

From 1951 to 2022, the task of ending this widespread harmful practice is perhaps only halfway done. Heroines of the struggle tell what they know. It's complicated, but efforts are converging.
Africa's Indigenous Food Revival
15 Nov, 2021 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

A movement is afoot to recover traditional African food plants, preserve them, and disseminate the knowledge about how to grow and use them. Many have medicinal advantages as well as nutritional ones, and can be grown without any costly inputs. Anastacia Chheruiyot is an enthusiastic advocate for and leader in this movement.
Breaking cultural barriers to protect animals and people
01 Nov, 2021 | 0:28:39 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Team Lioness are 16 women wildlife rangers who manage the interface between humans and wildlife around Amboseli National Park. Also working on wildlife conservation in their own ways are the First Lady of Kenya and the manager of a wildlife tourism lodge who is breaking the grass ceiling in her own community.
A continuing scourge
24 Oct, 2021 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Witchcraft Accusations, Violence and Torture of Women and Children was a parallel event at the 2015 UN Commission on the Status of Women. Organized by Lois Herman of the Women's United Nations Rights Network, it included information from Nigeria, Papua-New Guinea, India, and other countries and regions - going into the rationales and motives behind such charges, and their sad...
Women doing that work in drylands areas
09 Aug, 2021 | 0:28:47 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

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...
Figures pay respects to the recently deceased legend
08 Aug, 2021 | 0:59:16 |
EN | Michael Welch | Global Research News Hour

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we profile the life and legacy of the veteran journalist, anti-imperialist and executive director of Black agenda Report, Glen Ford. Joining up over the course of the 60 minute program, we will read part of a write-up by Margaret Kimberley, hear Jared Ball's commemoration, and listen to interviews with Ajamu Baraka, Ann...
Reviewing the role of the FBI and NYPD in the death of Malcolm X
29 Jul, 2021 | 0:59:35 |
EN | Michael Welch | Global Research News Hour

This episode of the Global Research News Hour turns its attention to the murder of the celebrated freedom movement leader, and advocate for racial justice, Malcolm X! It examines the background and the circumstances that permitted the FBI, the CIA, and the New York Police Department unprecedented interest in surveilling this man eventually leading to an orchestrated death. Our guest...
Outside the country, but connected - and they care
05 Jul, 2021 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

In the premier edition of the podcast version of her radio show HotSeat, Violet Gonda interviewed Thandiwe Newton, filmstar and human rights activist. Some highlights of the one-hour interview are excerpted in this program.
on the origins of Kenya's Green Belt Movement
21 Jun, 2021 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Long before she was a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, biologist Dr. Wangari Maathai came to San Francisco to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1991. There she also gave this address to the Sierra Club, in which she explains the origins, purposes, methodology and political ramifications of the Greenbelt Movement. As of 2021, the Greenbelt Movement says its members have...
FGM is illegal again, but not forgotten
10 May, 2021 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

In 2020, Sudan's transitional government outlawed female genital mutilation. Dr. Nahid Toubia thoroughly explained the practice, its health effects, its cultural effects, and the prospects for ending it, to Diane Bailey of UN Radio, in 1992.
on Mothering, Activism, and Care
26 Apr, 2021 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

On April 24th, 2021, two well known activists came together online to tell stories from their lives about the gift economy - a source of survival value outside the world's economic calculus. Their dialogue was streamed in the series "Maternal Gift Economy Breaking Through" (to be found at https://www.maternalgifteconomymovement.org/previous-salons/ )
With guests Abayomi Azikiwe and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
18 Mar, 2021 | 0:59:24 |
EN | Michael Welch | Global Research News Hour

The Global Research News Hour marks the 10th anniversary since the start of the US/ NATO led assault on Libya with two informed critics. Our first, Abayomi Azikiwe examines some of the history, the geopolitics, and the state of the country today. Then in our second half hour, we talk to one of the journalists, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, located in...
Converting laws into actions
01 Mar, 2021 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

At the 63rd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meetings, Sheila Dallas-Katzman, President of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television, USA chapter, interviews Rita Aciro-Lakor, about how her organization works to try to bring laws and policy about women's equality into practice. Part of the secret is, that they must negotiate with the male leaders.
Great South African organizer claimed by COVID
14 Feb, 2021 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

One of the great organizers of our times, Sizani Ngubane of South Africa, has died of COVID-19. From 1997, here is the first interview she gave to WINGS. She tells of organizing for the ANC as a teenager and young mother, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Process, the stolen rule by the Inkatha Party in Natal Province, and educating and...
Speaking the truth is step one
08 Feb, 2021 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Girls and women in Cameroon are being urged to speak the truth about rapes they have experienced, for their mental health, and to help address the problem.
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