Archived Radio Show

February 21, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220221

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Duration 57 minutes

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Featuring

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces

2. Faith Ross, Co-Founder, Petaluma Blacks for Community Development

3. Mary Munat, Member, Braver Angels, Sonoma County Chapter

3a. Trina de La Chapelle, Member, Braver Angels, Sonoma County Chapter

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz:  February is Black History Month, or National African American History Month It is an annual celebration of achievements by Black Americans and a time for recognizing the vital role of African Americans in U.S. history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week,” and Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating Black history.
In honor of this month and to honor the accomplishments of African American Women. Each Monday I will be highlighting some African American woman and for this show. I will be honoring Congresswoman Barbara Jordon, Opera Singer Marian Anderson, and lawyer and one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Pauli Murray. We will be playing a special song that was inspired by Pauli Murray's writings and poetry. See the Herstory and Music sections below.  I will be honoring Congresswoman Barbara Jordon, Opera Singer Marian Anderson, and lawyer and one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Pauli Murray. We will be playing a special song that was inspired by Pauli Murray's writings and poetry. Joining me on the phone will be Faith Ross on the events sponsored by the Petaluma Blacks for Community Development.

In the studio guests Mary Munat and Trina de La Chapelle share the hope of bridging the partisan divide through Braver Angels' workshops.

2.  Our first guest, Faith Ross, talks about the 44-year mission of Petaluma Blacks for Community Development (PBCD) to raise the consciousness of Black History and Culture. This year for Black History Month, PBCD is offering exhibits in February at the Petaluma Library, their annual Black History Program with the theme Black Health and Wellness via Zoom on Saturday February 26, 6:30 - 8 PM for an evening of speakers, music, dance, and celebration, and a Gospel and R&B Concert on Sunday February 27 at the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum. The events this coming weekend need RSVP, with links on the PBCD website. Faith explains how the history of slavery affects Black Health and Wellness today, as well as the determination to belong to this country.

About our Guest: Faith Ross is currently involved in her community of Petaluma through Petaluma Blacks for Community Development (PBCD), Petaluma Historical Library and Museum., A native of California raised in Louisiana, Ross received a degree in Business Administration from the Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Ross retired from the Auditor/Assessor's Office at the County of Sonoma and was former member of the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission.
Ross has been the curator of several successful exhibitions at the museum including “Women who fought for Civil Rights” and “The Many Faces of Petaluma – The Ethnic and Cultural Diversity of our City.” As one of the founding members of PBCD, Ross has helped to promote an understanding of Black history and culture by providing a free community Black History Program, and other events during February which is Black History Month.

Guest Link: 

Petaluma Blacks for Community Development: https://pbcd4us.com/

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3.  Our second segment guests, Mary Munat and Trina de La Chapelle, talk how workshops offered by the national movement Braver Angels, founded just after the 2016 elections, helped them reach across the partisan divide to begin dialogs between Red and Blues, Republicans and Democrats and whatever other political party is vying for a say in our democratic republic. Mary explains how Bill Doherty, a Professor in Family Social Science, was disturbed by the toll the angry political representations on the news media have taken on family health and subsequently developed workshops to address this. Braver Angels has grown to 80 alliances across the nation that have exposed folks to workshops to learn better communication and listening skills. Trina describes her losing her becoming annoyed with some policies of the Democratic Party to which she had a long-standing loyalty. She especially decried the partisan bubbles created by the media sources of information, so that the bubble cannot stand the other partisan bubble, and each are operating under different versions of reality. Braver Angels meet ups encourage folks to find out about other views with no pressure to change the view. Part of the depolarization also happens within. Mary and Trina announce a couple of Braver Angels' workshops open to the public to be sponsored by the Sonoma County Chapter in March: Skills to Bridge the Divide on March 6, from 11 am to 1 pm, and the Red/Blue Workshop on March 12, from10:00 am - 4:00 pm. See Guest Events below for more information.

About our Guest:  Mary Munat is a long-time Sonoma County resident moving here in 1997. She has a varied career background as well, with years spent in automobile sales, mortgage banking, the construction industry, and six years in the Army Reserves. She is an avid activist in the political, environmental, and social justice arenas.
Mary is the owner of Green Mary, a 20-year-old company that provides greening services to public events around the San Francisco Bay Area. During a community forum on race and racism in 2021, Mary learned about the vital national organization, Braver Angels and then started a local alliance tapping one of her friends to be the other county co-chair. Currently getting her master’s degree in Consciousness studies, for fun, she skis, reads, does dog fostering, works, plays, and reads lots.

About our Guest: Trina de La Chapelle moved to Santa Rosa in 2000. She graduated from Santa Clara University and worked as a social worker. She also worked as veterinary technician and more recently as a pharmaceutical sales representative.
Trina was a hard-core Democrat for over 40 years. She reports being glued to CNN all through the Trump Presidency. In 2020 Trina says she no longer recognized her party and walked away from her blue “tribe” and registered as an independent and is now on the Right.
Trina was attracted to Braver Angels after she attended, a Red-Blue workshop last November, because she is so concerned about the polarization in the country. Trina lives with her dog in Santa Rosa.

Guest Links: 

Braver Angels (national organization): https://braverangels.org/

Guest Events:

 Skills for Bridging the Divide, March 6, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST, hosted by Sonoma County Braver Angels. For more information visit: https://braverangels.org/event/skills-for-bridging-the-divide-12/

Red/Blue Workshop – Sessions 1 & 2, March 12, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm PST, hosted by Sonoma County Braver Angels.  For more information visit:  https://braverangels.org/event/red-blue-workshop-sessions-1-2-8/

-  reports by Ken Norton, Co-Producer, Women's Spaces

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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 Event:

Herstory Biography:

Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, women's rights activist, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry in 1977, Murray was the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest, in the first year that any women were ordained by that church.[3][4].
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Murray was virtually orphaned when young, and she was raised mostly by her maternal grandparents in Durham, North Carolina. At the age of 16, she moved to New York City to attend Hunter College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1933. In 1940, Murray sat in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus with a friend, and they were arrested for violating state segregation laws.[5] This incident, and her subsequent involvement with the socialist Workers' Defense League, led her to pursue her career goal of working as a civil rights lawyer. She enrolled in the law school at Howard University, where she was the only woman in her class.[6] Murray graduated first in her class, but she was denied the chance to do post-graduate work at Harvard University because of her gender. She called such prejudice against women "Jane Crow", alluding to the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. She earned a master's degree in law at University of California, Berkeley, and in 1965 she became the first African American to receive a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Yale Law School.
As a lawyer, Murray argued for civil rights and women's rights. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall called Murray's 1950 book, States' Laws on Race and Color, the "bible" of the civil rights movement.[4][7] Murray was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve on the 1961–1963 Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.[8] In 1966, she was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg named Murray as a coauthor of a brief on the 1971 case Reed v. Reed, in recognition of her pioneering work on gender discrimination. This case articulated the "failure of the courts to recognize sex discrimination for what it is and its common features with other types of arbitrary discrimination."[8] Murray held faculty or administrative positions at the Ghana School of Law, Benedict College, and Brandeis University. - Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray

Herstory Birthday:

February 21, 1936 (1996) – Barbara Jordan, politician, star debater at Texas State University, served in Texas state legislature 1962-72, elected to the House of Representatives 1973-78 where she sponsored expanding the coverage of the Voting Rights Act and voted to impeach Nixon, taught 17 years at University of Texas, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994). 

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Announcements 

Monday, February 28, 11 AM # repeats 11PM, we will feature guest Katrina Phillips on the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission and guest Aja Gianola-Norri, the Director of the musical Hair at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa. Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live/

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Wednesday February 23, 11 AM, we will feature guest Katrina Phillips on the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission and guest Aja Gianola-Norri, the Director of the musical Hair at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA.

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February 1 through 28, 2022, Black History Month 2022 at the Petaluma Museum:  Click Here for info.

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February 26, 2022, 6:30 PM - 8 PM, Virtual Black History Program - Black Health and Wellness, Petaluma Blacks for Community Development, RSVP by 5:30 PM 2/26/2022 by Clcking Here. 

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February 27, 2022 at 3 PM and 5 PM, Gospel and R&B Concert in honor of Black History Month, February 27th at 3pm or 5pm at the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum. Click here for info.  ; purchase tickets online at Brownpapertickets site.

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March 6, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST, Skills for Bridging the Divide, hosted by Sonoma County Braver Angels. For more information visit: https://braverangels.org/event/skills-for-bridging-the-divide-12/

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March 12, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm PST, Red/Blue Workshop – Sessions 1 & 2, hosted by Sonoma County Braver Angels.  For more information visit:  https://braverangels.org/event/red-blue-workshop-sessions-1-2-8/

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Music Selections

The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just announced - Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview with Alix Dobkin on 12/1/2014 at    and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 11/24/2021  at .

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For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: 

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