Women’s Spaces Radio Show of 9/6/2021 with host Elaine B Holtz commenting on Labor Day and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on the Contribution of Women to Fair Labor Policies 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 9/6/2021 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 9/8/2021 at 11 AM.
We took a week off and replayed this show. Next show is Monday September 20, 2021
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/ArchiveWSA21/WSA210906.html
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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, Mental Health Counsellor, Feminist
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1. Commentary by our host Elaine B. Holtz: Our great granddaughter Satori Trinity Jensen celebrates her 3rd birthday today, to whom we dedicate a birthday song. Satori is a blessing in my life. Her parents, our Grandchildren Ryan and Amber, have second daughter on the way, so Satori will be a big sister soon. I feel blessed.
Today is also Labor Day: Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally observed on the first Monday in September. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894. Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labor union leader, was the person who came up with the idea for Labor Day. He thought American workers should be honored with their own day. He proposed his idea to New York’s Central Labor Union early in 1882, and they thought the holiday was a good idea, too.
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2. Our guest, Dr. Harriet Fraad, delves into the history of women influencing policies affecting Labor. She reminds us
that the early colonizing ships from England included indentured servants, as well as indentured wives. People had to pay off their societal debt of a petty crime or the cost of the ship passage by agreeing to sseveral years of service with their labor. After her dress shop is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones begins working in 1871 as a labor organizer. In 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York kills 144 garment workers, 123 women and girls, and 23 men. During the Great Depression, one fourth of American families were socialist or communist. There was a huge labor organizing movement with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), founded by John Lewis. Under the pressure of demonstrations of organized labor, communists and socialists, the New Deal was executed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). In 1933 FDR brought the first woman into a presidential cabinet, Frances Perkins, as Secretary of Labor, who spearheaded such Acts as Social Security, the 40-hour work week, and abolishment of child labor. Frances Perkins witnessed as a young woman seeing the women and girls jumping to their deaths trying to escape the flames of the 1911 Triangle Shirt Fire, which fired her passion for to set up protections for labor. She remained as Secretary of Labor until the death of FDR in 1945. With the end of WWII the USA viewed the Soviet Union as a threat and all socialists and communists were soon under the fire of Senator Joseph McCarthy as the Republicans sought to wrest control of the Presidency in the early 1950s and began to undo New Deal policies. Dr. Fraad notes that 80% of the shares of stocks are owned by top 10% wealthy Americans, that Wall Street is not a measure of the nation’s health. She encourages us to celebrate work, and the workers should be rewarded for the work.
About our Guest: Dr. Harriet Fraad is a Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been in practice for 46 years. She writes and speaks on the intersection of politics, economics, and personal life in the USA. Her work can be found on her website, harrietfraad.com. Her podcast, Capitalism Hits Home, now with Julianna Forlano can be found at her website, harrietfraad.com, and at Democracyatwork.info as well as on YouTube. Her newest podcast with Max Golding is directed to the psycho-therapy community. It is called “It’s Not Just in Your Head.”
Harriet Fraad appears as a regular guest on Economic Update’s 100 radio stations, as well as on The David Feldman Show at 8:00 PM, EST Mondays on WBAI and on the internet. She appears regularly on Women’s Spaces on KBBF broadcasting to Sonoma County and North San Francisco Bay, Her latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics. NY: Routledge 2019. Dr. Fraad was a founding mother of the Women’s Liberation Movement in New Haven CT and has been an activist for her entire life.
Guest Links:
Podcast: Capitalism Hits Home
Podcast: “It’s Not Just in Your Head.”
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Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance
Herstory Birthdays: September 1, 1933 (2006) – Ann Richards, second woman elected governor of Texas (1990).
September 6, 1860 (1935) – Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago, first major settlement house, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1931), suffragist, helped establish American Civil Liberties Union (1920).
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Announcement
Thursday, September 9, 2021 5:00 – 6:30 pm, Membership Planning Meeting, via Zoom, see details at http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html#1
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Saturday, October 2, 2021, Women’s March to Mobilize and Defend Our Reproductive Rights. Nationwide.The U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes on October 4th, so the Women’s March and more than 90 other organizations, including National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, Planned Parenthood, SHERO Mississippi, Mississippi in Action, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, The Frontline, Working Families Party, and SisterSong, are organizing a national call to mobilize and defend our reproductive rights. Check the link for events in your area, and if none, you and your friends organize an event at https://womensmarch.com/mobilize . When a local action has been organized in the SF North Bay, we will share the details here.
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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
Happy Birthday, sung by The Countdown Kids,from the album 00 All Time Favorite Kids Songs (12001 Countdown Media, A Division of BMG Rights Media IUS, LLC).
Bread and Roses sung by Bobby McGee, from the album Love Still Remains (2006 Smithsonian Folkways)
Which Side are You On, by Bev Grant, from the album We Were There – Women’s Labor History (2002 Human Condition Music)
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