Archived Radio Show

July 4, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220704

Listen to the Show on the Mp3 Player below

Duration 57 minutes

This show was uploaded to the Elaine B. Holtz YouTube Channel at https://youtu.be/6q6ztR1BCVg

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Featuring

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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

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz on the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe V. Wade after nearly 50 years as precedent for Women's Choice over her own body. She also talks a bit about the history of July 4th and reads what Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams.

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2. Our guest Dr. Harriet Fraad joins our host Elaine B.Holtz in discussing the ramifications of the recent SCOTUS decisions, especially their overturning Roe v. Wade with their majority conservative opinion. They took away Women's Rights, asserted state-control over people's bodies, and took away any protections if it deals with profit. Guns, even military style guns, can be carried anywhere. Rather than policies in place protecting rights people are left to their prayers. The SCOTUS majority are "originalists" despite history changing our country. The 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause with the right to privacy as applied in Roe v Wade was discounted. Sex abuse does not stop. Currently a 12-year-old girl that was raped was ordered to carry the fetus to term, which affects her whole family. Women are in jeopardy in those states with such oppressive anti-abortion laws. 60% of women have less than $400 in savings, making interstate travel prohibitive to another state that does provide legal and safe abortions. SCOTUS with its recent decisions has curtailed the right to make decisions over one's body if you are a woman, the right to breathe with curtailing EPA's mandate, the right to life and peaceful assembly with the proliferation of guns, and the right to be free of Covid infection in the workplace.

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;  Interpersonal Update and It's Not Just In Your Head (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:

www.harrietfraad.com

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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:

July 4, 1876 – Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall to present the Vice President with the “Declaration of the Rights of Women” written by Matilda Joselyn Gage.

Philadelphia’s July Fourth, 1876 celebration kicked off the nation’s one-hundredth birthday celebration to large, enthusiastic crowds. Among those in the city for the festivities was the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA), an organization founded in 1869 to advocate for a constitutional amendment insuring women’s right to vote. The NWSA planned to participate in the Centennial event by presenting their “Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States” to the nation.
Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States - July 4, 1876. This declaration was written by Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on behalf of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).

Despite hostility and ridicule, the Women’s Declaration said, “We, therefore, women of the United States of America, do solemnly publish and declare that we are by nature, and of right, ought to be by law, free and independent citizens, possessing equal political power with our brother men.

 Article From: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/declaration

Herstory Birthdays:

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Announcements   

Monday, July 11, 11am # repeats 11pm, the show will be featuring special guest Gloria Allred, who pled the case Roe v Wade, to talk about SCOTUS overturning it.  Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live

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Wednesday July 13, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will will be featuring special guest Gloria Allred, who pled the case Roe v Wade, to talk about SCOTUS overturning it. Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca 

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Wednesday, July 13, 5 to 8 PM, Women's March Santa Rosa Reproductive Rights Rally, Old Courthouse Square on 3rd Streeet side, Santa Rosa.  Click for Fb Event Notice.

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Monday, July 18, 2022, 7 to 8:30 PM, Sonoma County NOW Board and Membership meeting via Zoom.  For details see NOW's Events page at http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html#1 

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Saturday July 23, 2022, Keeping Hope Alive - Athena House Fundraiser Gala, RSVP at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/keeping-hope-alive-athena-house-fundraiser-gala-tickets-363451401927

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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 and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 5/24/2021 .

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