Sonoma County Gazette February 2022 article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio. Download pdf:
---- Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
on
February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
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the show's page. ---- Marianne Williamson has returned to Women's Spaces for
our show in 9/18/2023
Conversation. Previously she was on our 1/14/2013
and
2/25/2013 shows on Law of DivineCompensation.
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Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
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Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
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on
Monday June
29, 2020 as a guest on Women's Spaces to discuss the Millionth
Circle of women coming together.
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the show's page by clicking here.
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2/1/2022: Sonoma County Gazette February 2022
article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio.
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3. Maria Dwyer, Executive Assistant at Community
Baptist Church; Martin Luther King, Jr, Celebration Committee; Day
On Not Day Off, Community Baptist Church
4. Janet Reynolds, Vice-President of
Communications, Santa Rosa Democratic Club
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Our Featured Guests
1. Leslie
Graves reports on how the Women's March and Rally is
shaping up for this Saturday January 18th in Santa Rosa's Old
Courthouse Square, with the featured line up of speakers and the
booths to expect.
About our Guest: Leslie Graves
is the Coordinator of the Women's March in Santa Rosa and a member of the Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project
steering committee. This is a year-long project to celebrate the
centennial of the 19th amendment and create programs which explore
the complex long history and continuing fight for inclusion of all
women. They are a chapter of the California 2020 women’s suffrage
project which was created by the national women history alliance
which was founded in Sonoma County, in order to support all 58
County California in creating celebration and educational
opportunities for the public to engage in this historic moment.
2. Melissa Willaby
and3. Maria Dwyer
talk of some of the events planned for the celebration of
the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday January 19th.
The theme this year is Living the Legacy. This is
the 39th annual celebration of this holiday in the Santa Rosa High
School Auditorium, featuring the winners of the annual oratory
contest among high school students and the display of the children's
poster contest entries and winners. Maria shares some of the
actities of community service that will happen during the 20th
annual Day On Not Day Off activities coordinated by the Community Baptist Church over
next weekend, and in the church itself on Monday, January 20th.
About our Guest: Melissa Willaby
is retired from teaching at Brook Hill Elementary school in Santa
Rosa. Influenced by her own mother’s activism and influence she grew
up believing in diversity and equality. , She brought her daughter
to the Santa Rosa Dr. King Celebrations, beginning 35 years ago, and
later joined the Celebration Committee to head the children's Poster
Contest.
About our Guest: Maria Dwyer
is the executive assistant to r pastor, rev. dr. h. lee turner at
community Baptist Church. Her roles include both administrative and
ministry roles at the church. The Biblical Studies Director- working
with all ages. As well as being the coordinator for, Feeding the
Homeless Picnic in Doyle Park, and Four Seasons of Giving, which-
through donations, provides those in need in our community with
clothing, household items. She also oversees “A Day on Not A Day
Off" MLK birthday celebration and day of service.
4. Janet Reynolds first reads us a
selection from her husband's play, A Voice of Her Own: Women’s
Suffrage by Bill Trzeciak in honor of the Centennial.
It can
be read lower on this webpage. Janet shares how
she became active in the Democratic Party and what attracted her to
change from the party of her parents. She leads in the
organizing of the monthly dinner meetings for the Santa Rosa
Democratic Club, which is the largest Democratic Club in Sonoma
County, and announces the next gathering on Wednesday evening,
January 22nd at the Santa Rosa Veteran's Hall, which will feature a
debate between the two candidates for the 3rd District County
Supervisor office, Shirley Zane running for her 4th term, and former
Santa Rosa Mayor Chris Coursey.
About our Guest:Janet Reynolds is VP of
Communications for Santa Rosa Democratic Club – the oldest and
largest Democratic club in Sonoma County. Janet currently serves as
the Volunteer Coordinator for Sonoma County Democratic Party’s 2020
Campaign Headquarters. Her club duties include the club’s Facebook
page, website, monthly dinner announcement and the club’s
newsletter, The Donkey Tale. . Her main focus as a Democratic
Activist has been in voter registration.
A
Voice of Her Own: Women's Suffrage
by Bill Trzeciak
An amendment to the United States Constitution that would allow
women to vote in our national elections was first introduced on the
floor of the United States Senate in 1878. It read:
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account
of sex.”
Those few words were written by suffragists Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
In 1872, in Rochester, New York, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other
women voted in the Presidential election in violation of the law.
“May it please the Court and Gentlemen of the Jury: On the 5th of
November, 1872, there was held in this State a general election. The
defendant, Miss Susan B. Anthony voted for a representative in the
in the Congress of the United States. At that time, she was a
woman …”
And that is what she was guilty of – being a woman.
By 1911 the vote for women was on the California ballot, and on
October 10, 1911, California became the sixth state to allow equal
suffrage. A Santa Rosa Press Democrat article wrote:
“Sonoma county won by 4 points. Petaluma, Sonoma, Windsor and
Healdsburg all voted against allowing women to vote; local support
was only enthusiastic in Santa Rosa, where male voters approved by a
14-point margin.”
Finally, in 1919, the Nineteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress.
When the measure hit Tennessee in 1920, it was a toss-up whether
that state would carry it forward to achieve full ratification.
It seemed clear that the men in the statehouse had enough votes to
deny it, but one man had a telegram from his mother, Phoebe Burn.
“Dear Son: … Don’t forget to be a good boy and put the “rat” in
ratification. Your mother.”
He listened to his mother and the Nineteenth Amendment was finally
enacted, by one fateful vote.
Women's March Santa Rosa of January 2019.
Photo by Leslie Graves
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020, Sonoma County 3rd District
Supervisor Debate, Santa Rosa Democratic Club Meeting and
Dinner, Doors open at 5:45 PM followed by the business meeting and
dinner, with the debate beginning at 7:30 PM. The meeting is free
but there is a cost for the dinner. RSVP at
http://democlub.org/; Submit
questions by Wednesday, January 15th for the 3rd District Supervisor
candidates Zane and Coursey at
http://democlub.org/node/402
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Friday, January 24, 2020 Opening Reception, From Suffrage to
#MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County. We will gather
from 5 - 5:15PM in the 7th Street parking garage, 521 Seventh Street
and walk to the Museum together as Modern Suffragists. Wear your
suffrage outfits and gear or borrow a suffrage sash from our stash
of sashes. Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For
more information visit
https://museumsc.org/events/?eid=6193. Questions about this
gathering to attend the reception direct to
socowomen2020@gmail.com
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Saturday, January 25, 2020,
Building Neighborhood Power, presented by Santa Rosa Together,
Santa Rosa Housing for All, The Sonoma Intersections Coaltion and
the City of Santa Rosa. Join neighbors as we begin defining the
types of services, structures and support we want in our
neighborhood. With well-defined neighborhood visions, we can better
help policymakers and developers deliver the neighborhoods of our
dreams! We will be led by world-renown community builder, Jim Diers,
the former Dir. of the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and
Professor at the University of Washington's Asset-Based Community
Development Institute.
Eventbrite link.
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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has
scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See
their webpage listing the events at
https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/
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Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
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February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
Click here for
the show's page.
Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
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