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Sonoma County Gazette February 2022 article on Women's Spaces Celebrating 10 Years on Radio. Download pdf:

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Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams

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. Click here for the show's page.
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Marianne Williamson - Official Campaign Marianne Williamson resident 2024 Photo

Marianne Williamson - Official Campaign Marianne Williamson resident 2024 Photo

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 Divine Compensation.
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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.
Click the dates above for show's webpage.
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Lynn Woolsey, Former Congresswoman, Marin/Sonoma

Lynn Woolsey, Former Congresswoman, Marin/Sonoma

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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, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
returned on Monday June 29, 2020 as a guest on Women's Spaces to discuss the Millionth Circle of women coming together. Visit the show's page by clicking here.
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When our representatives are making important decisions that impact all of our lives I believe it is important to ask one basic question before making
those decisions,
Is this good for
the children?
Just imagine what our world would be like if that question was asked prior to making decisions about going to war, the environment, education or healthcare.

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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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3/5/2018: Women's Spaces Show begins to air a repeat broadcast on Radio KPCA
103.3 FM Petaluma and at this link stream
on Wednesdays at 11:00 AM.
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10/30/2017: Women's Spaces celebrates its 5th Anniversary returning to Radio KBBF for a weekly live 1-hour show at 11am, repeating at 11pm.
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3/21/2017: The mp3 audio player has been changed so the shows no longer autoplay on opening the webpages of shows archived in 2017 and forward, as well as on the home page.

7/13/2015: The 11 AM Monday show on Radio KBBF FM-89.1 now repeats at 11 PM.
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9/1/2012: Radio KBBF FM-89.1 for North San Francisco Bay Area begins broadcasting a regular weekly Women's Spaces Show on Mondays at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. See our Radio page (its tab is on the menu bar above) for the links to archive pages of the live shows that have been broadcast.
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Archived Radio Show

Show Produced Live at Radio KBBF Studio

Date of Show Produced

Founder Vesta Copestakes on Retiring
from the Sonoma County Gazette

Duration minutes

12/7/2020

Original Radio Show ID:
WSA201207

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Featuring Guest

1. Vesta Copestakes, Founder, Former Publisher, Sonoma County Gazette

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Discussion with Featured Guest:

1. Vesta Copestakes recalls how she started from publishing an elementary school newsletter to transforming the Forestville Chamber of Commerce newsletter into the Sonoma County Gazette in 2001. She learned from her marketing background the value of building relationships, and for the first years of the Gazette she herself promoted and delivered the monthly Gazette. The Gazette was founded just before the terror attack on 9/11/2001 and Vesta immediately set the format as a reader contributed news format, since so many opinions were being expressed about the event and its relation to the County of Sonoma. Vesta saw the value of constructive criticism and informed opinion which were solution-minded. Vesta believed in citizen journalism and selected volunteers of different communities in Sonoma County as regular contributors to keep the readers informed on each part of our county for a sense of unity in living and working together. Vesta helped with the choice of the new publisher, Amie Windsor, when Sonoma Media Investment took over the Gazette in January 2020, whom we interviewed on Women's Spaces on November 16, 2020. Since Covid-19 pandemic struck our county in March 2020, the ad revenue plummeted, so it was fortunate that Sonoma Media Investment bought the Gazette, as it is large enough financially to carry the Gazette through these trying months for small businesses. Vesta followed her passion and with the Gazette her feet felt like they were finally on her Path. And this is Vesta's advice to aspiring writers and publishers, "Follow your passion!" Vesta is now on to further her dreams with Vesta Publishing.

About our Guest: Vesta Copestakes is the former publisher of the Sonoma County Gazette, a community-building publication both in print at local newstands and online at SonomaCountyGazette.com. Her mission was to connect people to share knowledge, experiences, and love of our home. In 2020 Vesta realized her retirement dream to sell the Gazette so she can head into her next adventure, exploring creative pursuits. Sonoma Media Investments purchased the Gazette and by 2021 will be carrying on the tradition of citizen journalism the gives readers a vehicle to share their ideas, opinions, and passions.

Guest Links:

SonomaCountyGazette.com

Gazette Article Link: VESTA: Intelligence, Charm, Laughter, & Undying Commitment to Equity and Community By Ceylan Karasapan Crow (and their are other tributes to Vesta presented in the December Issue of the Gazette, available at local newstands for free)

Vesta Copestakes fb page: https://www.facebook.com/vesta.copestakes

Vesta Publishing LLC
@VestaPublishing · Media/News Company https://www.facebook.com/VestaPublishing

Vesta Copestakes Email Vesta@sonic.net

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Herstory

Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Events:

December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; her arrest sparks the modern civil rights movement in the US.

December 5, 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Women.

December 7, 1941 – Capt. Annie Fox receives the first Purple Heart awarded to a woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor.

December 9, 2002 – Award-winning ABC News journalist, Michele Norris, becomes the first African American female regular co-host of National Public Radio’s news magazine, All Things Considered, she stepped down in 2012.

Herstory Birthdays:

December 6, 1815 (1884) – Jane Swiss helm, suffragist, wrote articles for local papers against slavery, for women’s rights, and against legal inequities, led to close friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln.

December 6, 1927 (2002) – Patsy Mink, first Japanese-American Congresswoman (D-HI), wrote the Women’s Educational Equity Act, played a key role in the enactment of Title IX, which was renamed posthumously as the “Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act”.

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Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project's YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women's Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States. www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 - November 8, 2020 online video available, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

Petalulma Museium Women's Suffrage Exhibit 2020

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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021, From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County. Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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Sonoma County Women's Suffrage Project https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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Music Selections

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women's Wax Works) - www.alixdobkin.com

She Rises Like the Dolphin, sung by Kate Wolf from the album Live in Mendocino (2018 Owl Records).

It’s A Good Day, sung by Anna Marie Kaufman from the album It’s A Good Day (2012 Anna Marie Kaufman).

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Link: Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show

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