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Abigail Spanberger swore an oath at age twenty-four “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and d...
- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 21:33
In this episode, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson talk with us about their documentary, And So I Stayed. This award-winning film centers three...
Bought by WUWM, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jul 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.
- Added: Mar 30, 2023
- Length: 01:59
Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.
- Added: Mar 09, 2023
- Length: 01:59
California garment workers organize and win passage of a state law that holds fashion brands responsible for unpaid wages.
Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KZYX, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 10, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Women Rising Radio #40 explores the global women's movement to resist the violence and greed of capitalism. A women-led village in Kurdish Syria e...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: What's at stake in the Alabama abortion battle -
In Alabama in the Untited States, the legal battle about abortion rights c...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 30:00
Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Kh...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 43:44
- Purchases: 1
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 21:25
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 1
Highly frustrated at this bold resistance right under their noses, the Nazi Powers-That-Be identified and arrested Sophie, her brother and one othe...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
Smith-Robinson was voted the SNCC's Executive Secretary (its chief administrator) and, as such, was a focused and militant Black Power proponent.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:38
Her anthology entitled Sisterhood is Powerful, called one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the New York Library, covered su...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:25
She's the one who told a bunch of Pentagon leaders -- when she was on the House Armed Services Committee -- that if they were women, they'd be preg...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:23
When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:45
Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States, where she began distributing, among other things, diaphragms...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:54
While birthing and raising five children, Pankhurst turned her home into a center where abolitionists, anarchists, activists and revolutionaries of...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:41
Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:51
In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:58
