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June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
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the show's page.----  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. ----  Attorney
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January 29, 2024 Original Radio Show ID:
Duration 57 minutes The Guest interview begins at 26 minutes.
--- Featuring Click the Name to access the Segment below 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces 2. Guest: Jan Blalock, Outgoing Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) ---- ---- 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz: I have a special guest this morning, joining me in the studio is Jan Blalock. Jan represented the 1st District on the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women since October 2015 and after service as the Chair for the Commission for four terms is retiring. I wanted to honor her service and take this time to know more about the commission, its mission and importance to our community. I am looking forward to our conversations. Today, if you can believe it, is the last Monday of the Month and Women's Spaces Pledge Time, which we will recite with our guest. To begin with I have several important announcements to make. Next month is Black History Month and there is a lot going on. I love February as there are a lot of major events happening to help us understand the amazing contributions Black Women in our community have made. The Sonoma County Library has truly stepped up to the plate and are offering several programs. For more information see https://sonomalibrary.org/blackhistorymonth . The song I will be playing for our first musical break will be Finlandia (This is My Song) sung by Joan Baez. It was written by Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius. However, it was Joan Baez’s interpretation that truly brought this remarkable composition to life. These lyrics beautifully convey a message of unity, peace, and hope. The song speaks of the desire for harmony among nations, acknowledging that while each country has its unique beauty, all people share the same dreams and aspirations. --- 2. Our guest: Jan Blalock, Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in Sonoma County, shares her journey from questioning gender norms as a young athlete to becoming a dedicated advocate for women's issues. Blalock's interest in feminism was sparked by a high school teacher who introduced her to the works of Gloria Steinem. Having survived sexual assaults herself, she became an early supporter of One Billion Rising in 2014. Appointed to CSW in 2015 by Supervisor Susan Gorin, Blalock infused activist energy into the commission, promoting events like One Billion Rising. Established in the 1960s in the nation and in 1975 in Sonoma County by the Board of Supervisors, CSW focuses on reproductive health, LGBTQ rights, and has a Junior CSW for high school students. The Voices of Sonoma County Women project addresses issues like housing affordability and elderly homelessness. Notable is that Molly Murphy MacGregor, as an early Commissioner of our county’s CSW, started the first movement to have a National Women's History week, which then grew to a national movement and the eventual recognition in 1987 by U.S. Congress for March every year as National Women's History Month. To join CSW, Blalock suggests attending meetings every 2nd Thursday at 6 PM and contacting the supervisor of your district for an interview through the BOS website.
About our guest Jan
Blaock: Jan Blalock has
been a CSW Commissioner
representing the 1st District
since October 2015 and will
serve until February 5, 2024. In her four
terms as Chair, Jan has made it
her mission to create a more
engaged, activist, collaborative
Commission, representing our
diverse community of women,
girls and families while
developing deeper partnerships
with local nonprofit
organizations. Guest Links:
Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women (CSW): Click link here. Sonoma County CSW facebook page: Click link here. Sonoma County Board of Supervisors: Click link here. Voices of Sonoma County Women 2020 Report of CSW: Click link here. CSW Report on the Status of Women in Sonoma County: Click link here. ---- Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance, where the date descriptions were sourced unless otherwise indicated.
Special thank you to the National Women’s History Alliance for making women’s history alive. Shout out to Co-Founder and Retiring Executive Director, Molly McGregor who will be on the show when we celebrate Women’s History Month in March for making the fabulous list of Women in History where I get most of the info I present in this Herstory segment. Herstory Events: Two African-American women are being honored with Quarters in the American Women Series: 1. January 26, 1892 (1926) – Bessie Coleman, first African American woman in the world to fly a plane and earn an international pilot’s license. Found out that on January 3rd this year they released the Bessie Coleman quarter. https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/american-women-quarters/bessie-coleman
2. Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray quarter is being released in 2024 and is available at https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/american-women-quarters/pauli-murray The 2024 Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray Quarter is the 11th coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray was a poet, writer, activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest. She is regarded as one of the most important social justice advocates of the twentieth century. She fought tirelessly for civil rights, women’s rights, and gender equality.
Herstory Birthdays: January 29, 1926 – Violette Neatly Anderson is the first Black woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. January 29, 1941 – Robin Morgan, poet, political theorist, activist, co-founder of the Women’s Media Center, author of over twenty books, edited trailblazing anthology Sisterhood is Powerful in the 1970s.
"Sisterhood Is Powerful: An
Anthology of Writings from
the Women's Liberation
Movement" is a 1970
anthology of feminist
writings edited by Robin
Morgan, a feminist poet and
founding member of New York
Radical Women.[1] It is one
of the first widely
available anthologies of
second-wave feminism. It is
both a consciousness-raising
analysis and a
call-to-action.[2]
Sisterhood Is Global: The
International Women's
Movement Anthology (1984) is
the follow-up to Sisterhood
Is Powerful.[3] After
Sisterhood Is Global came
its follow-up, Sisterhood Is
Forever: The Women's
Anthology for a New
Millennium (2003).
Background: Kathie Sarachild coined the phrase "sisterhood is powerful" in 1968, in a flier she wrote for the keynote speech she gave for New York Radical Women's first public action at the convocation of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisterhood_Is_Powerful January 30, 1890 – Angie Debo, spent lifetime examining historical implications of settlements of Native Americans Indians, wrote And Still the Waters Run in 1940 describing the “criminal conspiracy” that defrauded Oklahoma’s Five Civilized Tribes of their lands.
“And Still the Waters Run”
tells the tragic story of
the liquidation of the
independent Indian republics
of the Choctaws, Chickasaws,
Cherokees, Creeks, and
Seminoles, known as the Five
Civilized Tribes. At the
turn of the twentieth
century, the tribes owned
the eastern half of what is
now Oklahoma, a territory
immensely wealthy in
farmland, forests, coal, and
oil. Their political and
economic status was
guaranteed by the federal
government—until American
settlers arrived. Congress
abrogated treaties that it
had promised would last “as
long as the waters run,” and
within a generation, the
tribes were systematically
stripped of their holdings,
and were rescued from
starvation only through
public charity. Called a
“work of art” by writer
Oliver La Farge, And Still
the Waters Run was so
controversial when it was
first published that Angie
Debo was banned from
teaching in Oklahoma for
many years. Now with an
incisive foreword by Amanda
Cobb-Greetham, here is the
acclaimed book that first
documented the scandalous
founding of Oklahoma on
native land.
Source: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691237770/and-still-the-waters-run
Announcements
---- February 2024 NAACP Black History Month Activities, for more information see https://www.facebook.com/naacpsonoma
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Thursday, February 15,10:00 - 11:00 AM, Catch A Beat, Led by Tina Rogers, Sonoma County Library Roseland Branch, Sunday, February 18, 2:00 PM, Catch A Beat, Led by Tina Rogers, Sonoma County Library Rohnert Park-Cotati Branch, For moe information see link: https://events.sonomalibrary.org/events/upcoming?keywords=catch-a-beat , Download PDF for Catch-a-Beat in English and Spanish . ---- Sunday, February 18, 2024, 2:00 - 3:30 PM, Rohnert Park/Cotati Regional Library, Telling Our Stories Through Ethnic Studies Panel Discussion, sponsored by Sonoma County Office of Education and NAACP of Sonoma County. Part of the Celebrate Black History Month series of Sonoma County Libraries - For more information on this series see : https://sonomalibrary.org/blackhistorymonth ----
Click Here for Video of Marianne Williamson 11/20/2023 in Conversation. ----
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 Finlandia, This Is My Song, sung by Joan Baez, from the album MITA Vapaus On (Released May 2011 Full Stream Records)
We Are the Women, sung
by Betsy Rose and the Women’s
Chorous from
the album Welcome to the
Circle
(Released July 2007 @ 2006 Paper
Crane Music)
---- For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: Link: Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show
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Wednesday,
January 31, 2024 Peace
and Justice Center
issues new weekly list of events
and links to community
non-profit organizations:
Saturday,
February 3, 2024, 10:00 AM -
2:00 PM, Lunar New Year
Celebration at Children's Museum
of Sonoma County. The
Museum of Sonoma County and the
Redwood Empire Chinese
Association are proud to present
a celebration of Lunar New Year.
Featuring amazing performances
by the RECA including lion
dances, traditional Chinese
music, a traditional tea
ceremony, and a Xinjiang
performance
Tuesday
February 6 2024, 6 PM, League of
Women Voters Civics Class:
Democracy: It's Up to Us!
Three FREE, virtual (Zoom)
presentations in February and
March at 6pm on Tuesdays.
Registration is required; sign
up for each class separately,
click RSVP link below for class
date. Guaranteed to be
interesting, fun and inspiring! 
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