Archived Radio Show

August 8, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220808

Unfortunately the Recording failed.
 

Duration 57 minutes

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Featuring

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

2. Shekeyna Black, Executive Director, Peace & Justice Center

3. Debbie MacKay - Secretary, League for Women Voters of Sonoma County

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz:  Shout out to artist Sue Kearney on her Fluid Art — Flow and Fascination showing her art at Cafe Frida through the end of September. Ken and I went to the opening reception and were impressed at how our imagination was engaged.

Elaine Holtz, artist Sue Kearney, Ken Norton at Cafe Frida Gallery

This month's Sonoma County Gazette is on the streets. Make sure you read the Radioland section, Women’s Spaces is featured.

See the Announcements below for events coming up which Women's Spaces recommends..

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2. Our guest Shekeyna Black announces the Raise the Roof Festival/Fundraiser on this Saturday August 13 at the Monte Rio Amphitheater for the new roof needed by the Peace and Justice Center. See the poster for the lineup and visit the Center's website to RSVP your tickets.

About our Guest: Shekeyna Black is the Executive Director of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County. She wears a second hat as the Public Relations Specialist at 6th Street Playhouse. She is passionate about the creative arts and the key role that music, theatre & dance play in our lives.
Previously, she was the Booking Agent at Redwood Cafe in Cotati until the pandemic happened, where she and the team were the recipients of the 2019 Boho Award for Best Live Music Venue.

Guest Links:  

https://www.pjcsoco.org/raise-the-roof-festival---august-13.html

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3. Our guest Debbie MacKay shares the history of the League of Women Voters (LWV), from its founding to encourage the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. Citizenship classes were then offered to educate women on the government of the USA and its voting laws. All positions in LWV are staffed by volunteers: women and men. Most of the active LWV members became active after their mothering duties were relaxed with children leaving the fold. Great courage was needed since they faced much backlash. Volunteer opportunities are available now with the Sonoma County Chapter of the LWV. Zoom meetings will be available this year with simultaneous Spanish translation for the forums and debates. The county chapter was founded first in Santa Rosa in 1951 and grew to include the whole county by 1987. Last year 4,000 people tuned into the Zoom meetings, and more viewed the recordings online at their YouTube channel. 

About our Guest: Debbie MacKay has always been active in her community. In the past she served on the Affordable Care Child Care Committee and on the boards of the Extended Child Care Coalition and the YWCA of Sonoma County. She is currently actively involved with the League of Women Voter of Sonoma County, serving on many committees and as a past President and current Secretary of their board. This fall she will help provide the League’s candidate forums.

Guest Links:  

League of Women Voters - Sonoma County (Go to the Voting tab and Calendar tab to find all our forums): https://www.lwvsonoma.org/

Email: secretary (at) LWVsonoma.org

LWV Sonoma YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvppI3yS3Hcus_mTECDsbFA

LWV Sonoma fb page: https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty

Useful Websites Recommended by LWV:

On-line Registration/Voting Questions (Secretary of State’s website): http://registertovote.ca.gov/

Voter Education (Non- partisan information on candidates and ballot measures): http://votersedge.org/ca

Vote Forward:  https://votefwd.org
Vote Forward is a 501 (c) (4) nonprofit organization, with a mission is to empower grassroots volunteers to encourage their fellow citizens in underrepresented communities to vote. They build tools to facilitate communications between Americans to help strengthen our democracy.

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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:

 August 8, 1969 – Executive order 11478 issued by President Nixon requires each federal department and agency to establish and maintain an affirmative action program of equal employment opportunity for civilian employees and applicants

August 9, 1995 – Roberta Cooper Ramo becomes the first woman to hold the office of president of the American Bar Association.

August 10, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second woman and 107th Justice to serve on the US Supreme Court..

Herstory Birthdays:

August 11, 1941 – Elizabeth Holtzman, youngest woman elected to U.S. Congress, (D-NY, 1973-81), first woman District Attorney in New York City (1981).

August 12, 1889 (1981) – Zerna Sharp, author, called the “Mother of Dick and Jane,” helped create the popular reading series with bright action picture stories and one unfamiliar word on each page.

August 13, 1818 (1893) – Lucy Stone, suffragist, and supporter of rights for women and African Americans, boldly kept her own name when she married.

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Announcements   

August 2022: This month's Sonoma County Gazette is on the streets. Make sure you read the Radioland section, Women’s Spaces is featured: Focus of Women in Leadership. Download the pdf of the article: 

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Saturday, August 13, 2022, Noon to 8 PM, Raise the Roof Festival  - Fundraiser for Peace & Justice Center's new roof, Monte Rio Amphitheater, 9925 Main St., Monte Rio, CA, RSVP at  https://www.pjcsoco.org/raise-the-roof-festival---august-13.html

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Monday, August 15, 11am # repeats 11pm, the show will be featuring guest Nancy Pemberton to continue our discussion on IOLERO formed to hold the Sonoma County Sheriff accountable.  Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live

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  Wednesday August 17, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will will be featuring guest Nancy Pemberton to continue our discussion on IOLERO, formed to hold the Sonoma County Sheriff accountable..  Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca 

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Monday August 15, 2022, 7 to 8:30 PM, via Zoom, Monthly meeting of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Sonoma County Chapter.  For details and zoom info see http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html .
To celebrate the 102nd Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, NOW will have a special guest presentation by Molly Murphy McGregor, one of the co-founders of the National Women’s History Alliance which happened right here in Sonoma County. The Alliance aka the National Women’s History Project founded In 1980, in Santa Rosa, California by Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett, and Bette Morgan to broadcast women’s historical achievements. Prior to this event there was a limited amount of Women’s History. Molly MacGregor will be a guest on Women's Spaces on the 22nd of August,

The 19th amendment, which was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

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Monday, August 22, 11am # repeats 11pm, the show will be featuring guest Molly Murphy McGregor of the National Women’s History Alliance.  Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live

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  Wednesday August 24, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will will be featuring guest Molly Murphy McGregor of the National Women’s History Alliance.  Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca 

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Through End of September 2022,  Sue Kearney: Fluid Art — Flow and Fascination, Cafe Frida Gallery, 300 S A St, Santa Rosa. About Sue: https://suekearney.com/ Sue's show continues through end of September. Meet the Artist, each Wednesday 10:30–noon. Feel free to tell your friends, and to come by again for a sit and a cuppa.

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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

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

Get Together, cover sung by Indigo Girls from the album Strange Fire (CBS Records, Inc.).

Remember November, sung by Sandy Rapp from the single  Song for Choice (Released 2022 @ Publisher Sandy Rapp)

Celebration of Winning the Vote - Carrie Chapman Catt, performed by Laura Holland, The Discourse Project - Chapter Two: The Economics of a Democracy, https://youtu.be/YCXk8UDgnOo

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For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: 

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