Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Lauren Ornelas on the Food Empowerment Project has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM on Monday 12/21/2020 at 11 AM, repeats at 11 PM on KBBF, and then repeat broadcasts in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on the following Wednesday 12/23/2020 at 11 AM.
Read description of the show and bios of the guests, see links referenced on the show and the playlist, on its archive page at:
http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201221.html
Featuring Guest
1. Lauren Ornelas, Founder and President, Food Empowerment Project (FEP)
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Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz
Winter Solstice is today marking in our northern hemisphere the beginning of winter and the shortest daylight hours, only to increase until the Summer Solstice in June. It is also Humbug Day, recognizing the Scrooges, grinches and curmudgeons who such the joy out of the holiday season. It is a stressful time of year and a time to acknowledge we may be expecting too much than is humanly possible. This is a good time to simplify the holidays and lessen our load to allow more joy to be spread.
Discussion with Featured Guest:
1. Lauren Ornelas enlarges our view of food, as nutrition, as a commodity requiring much human labor, and as a vital community bond that requires respect for one another. The mission of the Food Empowerment Project is to “create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one’s food choices. We encourage healthy food choices that reflect a more compassionate society by spotlighting the abuse of animals on farms, the depletion of natural resources, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the unavailability of healthy foods in low-income areas.” This can mean purchasing chocolate that is harvested not with child slavery but with fair wages. The FEP website has information and guides to more ethical shopping for food, as well as more humanely grown food. Lauren is a vegan and explains her reasons for not eating the flesh of animals and some animal products.
About our Guest: Lauren Ornelas is the founder of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for workers, and works on lack of
access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities. She has been an animal activist for three decades, during which she has launched numerous groups, investigated factory farms, run consumer campaigns, and helped stop the construction of an industrial dairy in California. Watch Lauren’s TEDx talk on The Power of Our Food Choices. Learn more about F.E.P.’s work on her website.
Guest Links:
Food Empowerment Project website: https://foodispower.org/
FEP Veganism: https://foodispower.org/veganism/
Power of Our Food Choices, TEDx talk by Lauren Ornelas https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ph7y1
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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 Birthdays:
December 22,1912 (2007) – Claudia “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson, First Lady (1963-69), advocate for civil rights, National Chair of Head Start, led “Beautification” efforts across the country involving environmentalism, conservation, and anti-pollution.
December 23,1867 (1919) – Sarah “Madam C. J.” Walker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, first woman and first African American woman self-made millionaire, revolutionized hair care and cosmetics industry in early 20th century.
December 24,1951 (1998) – Marsha Gomez, activist, used pottery and sculpture from her Choctaw ancestry to teach and further demand rights for indigenous women of many cultures, achieved NGO status for indigenous women in the United Nations, began the Foundation for a Compassionate
Society with a group of about 20 artists.
December 25, 1806 (1875) – Martha Wright, called the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848 with her sister Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton and others, president of women’s conventions in 1855 in Cincinnati, Saratoga, and Albany, a founder of the American Equal Rights Association in
1866, continued working for equal suffrage during Civil War.
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Annnouncements
Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:
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Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/
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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ
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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States. www.2020centennial.org/.
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August 26 – November 8, 2020 online video available, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit
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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021, From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County. Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/
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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar
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Music Selections
The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com
We Wish You a Merry Christmas, sung by The Countdown Kids from the album Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer (2014 Countdown Media GambH BMG Co).
Healthy Farms, Healthy Schools, sung by KJ and Friendsfrom the album Farms, Food and Fun (Release date December 5, 2008 @2007 KJ).
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