Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz Women’s Spaces Radio Show of 6/7/2021 with host Elaine B Holtz commenting on the weekend’s graduation ceremonies and guests Christine Byrue and Maddy Ruddell on the Sunrise Youth Movement March to Fight Climate Change 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 6/7/2021 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 6/9/2021 at 11 AM.
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Sunrise Youth March to Fight Climate Change
Featuring
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Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women’s Spaces
1. Christine Byrue, Sonoma County Sunrise Movement Coordinator, Environmental Science Educator for Sonoma Water, Elementary School Teacher
2. Madeline (Maddy) Ruddell, Sunrise Youth, High School Student
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Commentary by our host Elaine B. Holtz: “Many of the schools had outdoor graduation ceremonies along with Zoom presentations, which was great after missing them in 2020 due to the pandemic restrictions. I watched the graduation ceremonies on Zoom for Piner High School in Santa Rosa. A special shout out to Hayden Celeste Rogers who is the granddaughter of one of my regular guests Nancy Rogers. Watching all those young people getting their diplomas brought tears to my eyes as I watched and thought to myself, ‘What does the future hold for them?’. Our guests from the Sunrise Youth Movement are concerned about their future and one of them is actually marching with Sunrise Youth 266 miles from Paradise to San Francisco to demonstrate her commitment and a call to action to fight Climate Change in support of President Biden’s proposed Civilian Climate Corps (CCC).”
1. Our first guest, Christine Byrue, remembers the 2017 wildfire devastation in Sonoma County, which was caused by human induced Climate Change. Christine as an elementary school teacher saw how the students were affected disproportionately by economic class, with less well-off students with homes destroyed having to sleep on relatives’ couches. The Sunrise Youth Movement helps students turn their frustration with unaddressed Climate Change issues into action. This week 7 youth started the 266-mile trek from Paradise, CA, to San Francisco to draw attention to President Biden’s proposed Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) as part of the New Green Deal. The Sunrise Youth see many future CCC jobs created in our county and in counties throughout the USA. On Thursday June 10th, the Sunrise marchers arrive at Santa Rosa’s Juillard Park for a rally from 10-11 am, where more will join the march continuing to Cotati. On Monday June 14th, the marchers will reach the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where a large rally has been called to join them crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and continuing on to rally for the CCC before the homes of House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Diane Feinstein. Updates are available on Instagram at IG @sunrisegenonfire and Twitter at @smvmtgenonfire . Such marches are scheduled around the country. Links are posted below under Guest Links for becoming involved.
About our Guest: Christine Byrue is a Sunrise Movement Sonoma County Coordinator and an environmental science educator for Sonoma Water. She attended UC Berkeley where she studied conservation and resource studies and has since been teaching environmental content to k-12 students at several schools around the bay area and fighting for climate justice right here in Sonoma County.
Guest Links:
Sunrise Youth March Updates are available on Instagram at IG @sunrisegenonfire and Twitter at @smvmtgenonfire
Generation on Fire: Sunrise Youth 2021 California March Itinerary and Information : www.sunrisemovement.org/california-march/
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2. Our second guest, Maddy Ruddell phones in from Winters, CA, as she marches with other Sunrise Youth from Paradise to San Francisco. So far she has marched 130 miles as the Sunrise marchers head toward Santa Rosa for the Thursday 10-11 am rally at Juillard Park. She wants CCC livable wage jobs created to address the Climate Change issues. Maddy started out with Sunrise Youth at Paradise, CA, of which 7 youth are committed to march the whole 266-mile trek to San Francisco, cross the Golden Gate Bridge with supporters, and proceed to rally for the CCC before the homes of House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Diane Feinstein. Maddy gives her report with much passion. She has been talking to people on the way, even those with Trump hats and insignias, which energizes Maddy to take one step after the other. She encourages people to rally with them.
About our Guest: Madeline (Maddy) Ruddell is a 16-year-old organizer with Sunrise Movement. She has been an activist for 5 years and has organized with sunrise for 1 and a half years. She is currently marching 266 miles for a Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) and Green New Deal.
Guest Links:
Sunrise Movement Sonoma County Chapter https://www.sunrisesoco.org/
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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
June 9, 1949 – Georgia Neese Clark confirmed as the first woman treasurer of the United States.
June 10, 1963 – Equal Pay Act enacted: “To prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.” (PL 88-38).
June 11, 1913 – Women in Illinois celebrate passage of a state woman suffrage bill allowing women to vote in presidential elections.
Herstory Birthdays:
June 7, 1917 (2000) – Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950).
June 8, 1900 (1981) – Estelle Griswold, birth control advocate and pioneer, defendant in the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut which legalized contraception for married couples in 1965.
Announcements
Thursday, June 10, 2021 10-11 am Rally with Sunrise Youth March at Juillard Park, Santa Rosa,
Monday, June 14, 2021 Rally with Sunrise Youth March at Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco as they complete the 266-mile march. Time to be determined. To join, visit the Sunrise mobilization page by clicking here.
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Thursday, June 17, 2021, Sonoma County Chapter of NOW monthly meeting via Zoom. See website for details. http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html
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Sunday, June 20, 2021 5ist Annual MLK/Juneteenth Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion in Sonoma County, this year by zoom. Before the pandemic it has been held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Santa Rosa. The zoom event is free, family oriented and open to the public. Registration will occur at www.sonomacountyjuneteenth.com
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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 at and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 11/24/2021 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
The Earth is our Mother, sung by The Revels Children Choir from the album Seasons For Singing – A Celebration of Country Life (Classical – 1995)
Singing for Our Lives, sung by Solidarity Sing Along from the album This is What Democracy Sounds Like
(2012 @ Solidarity Sing Along)
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