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May 2, 2022 Original Radio Show ID:
Duration 57 minutes
--- Featuring Click the Name to access the Segment below 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces 2. Dr. Harriet Fraad, Author, Podcaster, Mental Health Counsellor, founder of the Women's Liberation Movement in New Haven, CT, in 1968. ---- ---- 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz: Sunday was May 1 which is International Workers Day. For this show we will be talking about “Women in the Union Movement,” we will also be giving some background into the Great Depression, what made it happen and some of the issues that motivated organizing of Unions. What is so interesting a lot that is going on now has a familiar ring. On April 28, 1964, I gave birth to my daughter Susan. Happy Birthday Susan. I am so blessed to have given birth to her. Watching her be a grandmother is such a wonderful experience for me. Happy Birthday Susan. I want to wish my dear friend Celeste Austin whose Birthday is today. She has reached a milestone, 70 years strong, 70 years young. A special Happy Birthday to you. And a shout out to Tim and Sharon Morgan on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. ----
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Our guest Dr. Harriet
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About our Guest: Dr. Harriet Fraad is a founding mother of the Women’s Liberation Movement in New Haven CT and has been an activist for her entire life. She is a mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in practice in New York City. Along with being a founding member of the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism, for 40 years, she has been a radical committed to transforming US personal and political life. Harriet specializes in speaking and writing about topics in which psychology and economics overlap, as these topics remain loaded with taboos, confusions, ignorance, and fear preventing us from asking big questions and daring to discuss big answers. By analyzing issues where psychology and economics collide, we can better analyze our society and our individuality as well. Books: Class Struggle on the Home Front, (w/Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Imagine Living in a Socialist USA: Imagine…Personal Emotional and Sexual Life Without Capitalism (w/Tess Fraad Wolff), (Edited F. Goldin, D. & S. Smith), New York: Harper Collins, Jan 2014. Podcasts: Capitalism Hits Home; and Interpersonal Update (w/Tess Fraad Wolff), formerly broadcast on WBAI-FM, New York, Thursdays, 1-2PM EST; and is a regular guest on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff. Guest Link: ---- Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance
Herstory Events:
May 1, 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks
becomes the first African
American woman to receive the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, named
Library of Congress’s Consultant
in Poetry (later called Poet
Laureate) in 1985 Herstory Birthdays:
May 1, 1830 (1930) – Mary
Harris “Mother” Jones, labor
leader and organizer.
May 3, 1912 (1995) – May Sarton, prolific writer, poet, and memoirist, published in Poetry magazine at 17 years of age, she also taught at several universities including Harvard and Wellesley. May 5, 1921 (2008) – Del Martin, lesbian rights pioneer, who along with her wife Phyllis Ann Lyon founded the daughters of Bilitis in San Francisco (1955) the first social and political organization for lesbians in the U.S., they were the first same-sex couple to be married in California (2004 and 2008) ----
Announcements Tuesday, May 3, 5pm, Protest SCOTUS' Plan to Revoke Roe v. Wade, Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, Sponsored by Santa Rosa Democratic Club. Post event article in Press Democrat: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/protesters-rally-in-santa-rosa-against-possible-anti-abortion-court-decisio/ ----
Friday, May 6, 2022, 7:00 pm to
9:00 pm, Bans Off Our
Bodies! Basta De Controlarnos!,
Old Courthouse Sq,
Santa Rosa. For event
information: ----
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May 12- May 29, 2022.
Real Women
Have Curves, 6th
Street Playhouse, Monroe Stage,
by Josefina López, directed by
Marie Ramirez Downing, ---- Ongoing Events: Meet our
candidates for Superintendent of
Sonoma County Schools, Amie
Carter, Brad Coscarelli, and Ron
Calloway! ---- January 22 - June 5, 2022, Exhibition, Agency: Feminist Art and Power, Sonoma County Museum, for more information visit: https://museumsc.org/exhibitions/ ----
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
The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album
Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women's Wax Works) -
www.alixdobkin.com
Happy Birthday, sung by The Countdown Kids from the album 100 All Time Favorite Kids Songs (2001 Countdown Media, A Division of BMG Rights Media IUS). Brother Can you Spare a Dime, sung by Thea Gilmore from the album Loft Music (2005 Compass Records). Which Side are You On by Bev Grant from the album We Were There – Women’s Labor History (2002 Human Condition Music)
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role women played in the
labor union movement. The
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
of 1911 took the lives of 123
women and 23 men, due to the
doors being locked out of
distrust of the workers. This
spurred the founding of the
International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union (ILGWU), which
fought for better working
conditions for sweatshop
workers. The Great Depression
spurred laborers to take to the
streets, led by socialists and
communists. All depressions and
recessions are caused by the
speculative rules of Capitalism.
Francis Perkins had witnessed
the women and girls jumping out
the burning Triangle Shirtwaist
factory, and she would later be
picked to be FDR's Labor
Secretary, who pushed through
many protections for the labor
force, including Child Labor
Laws. By the 1950s, 35% of
workers were unionized. Joe
McCarthy's red baiting in
created such distrust of
socialists and communists,
claimed by him to be treasonous,
that unions felt more
regulations hindering their
organizing efforts. President
Ronald Reagan fired all the
Airline Controllers, which was a
big blow to unions. The
Glass-Steagall Act was enacted
in 1935 to restore public
confidence in the banks again
yet was removed by the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act signed by
President Bill Clinton in 1999,
which eliminated the
Glass-Steagall Act's
restrictions against
affiliations between commercial
and investment banks and most
likely led up to the Recession
of 2008. This recession hurt
those who entered into the
suspect mortgages with
insufficient credit, yet
punishment of the banks was
spared by President Obama. Today
there is a resurgence of labor
unionizing at Amazon warehouses,
Walmart, fast-food restaurants,
and call centers. Women are
leading the charge for better
conditions for nurses and
teachers.
