Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Shekeyna Black on the 2019 Peacemaker Awards and segment guest host Leslie Graves Interviewing Elaine on Finding Her Voice. has been uploaded to the web archive

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Finding One's Voice, Peacemaker

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Shekeyna Black on the 2019 Peacemaker Awards and segment guest host Leslie Graves Interviewing Elaine on Finding Her Voice. has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 11/4/19 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 1/4/19 at 11 AM. 

Listen to the show at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA191104.html

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Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center Peacemaker Awards 2019

Finding Her Voice – The Interview of our regular host Elaine B. Holtz

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Featuring Guests

1. Shekyna Black,  Center Coordinator, Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center

2. Leslie Graves, Guest Host for today’s second segment. Leslie interviews our regular host Elaine B. Holtz

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Announcements (Click for section below)

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Our Featured Guests

1.  Shekyna Black talks of the work of the Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rolsa and announces their Peacemaker Awards and Fundrasiser at the Old Redwood Cafe in Cotati on Saturday, November 9th.

About our Guest: Shekyna Black has been the Center Coordinator of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County for 4 years. She grew up in Los Angeles County and moved to Sonoma County in 1986 to attend Sonoma State University where she earned a degree in Theatre Arts. She went on later to earn another Bachelors in Organizational Management and a Masters in Entertainment Business. She is passionate about music as a way to connect people from diverse backgrounds. Additionally, she has her own business called A Miracle Production that produces bands, concerts, festivals and events. She does bookings and publicity for shows at Redwood Cafe in Cotati. She is the Director of Entertainment for the publication, Upbeat Times. She is a mother to four adult kids.

Guest Links: www.pjcsoco.org

Guest Event:

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2.  Leslie Graves.is our guest host in this segment. Leslie interviews the regular host of Women’s Spaces, Elaine B. Holtz. Leslie helps us discover when and how Elaine began to question the war policies of the USA and find her voice to express her concerns in spite of being raised with fervent patriotism by her immigrant father and first generation American mother .

About our Regular Host: Elaine B. Holtz is a longtime activist and producer of Women’s Spaces on Public Access TV Santa Rosa, She is also President of the National Organization for Women, SC Chapter and writes the column, Santa Rosa SNippetts for the So County Gazette. She holds an AA degree in Journalism/Public Relations from Los Angeles City College. Her BA is from Sonoma State University in Sociology and her Masters degree from San Francisco State University is in Education. She believes women need to involved in the peace process and promote and support the idea that all women and children in are entitled to an environment that supports life and is safe and free of war and hunger.

About our Guest Host:  Leslie Graves is a member of the Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project steering committee. This is a year-long project to celebrate the centennial of the 19th amendment and create programs which explore the complex long history and continuing fight for inclusion of all women. They are a chapter of the California 2020 women’s suffrage project which was created by the national women history alliance which was founded in Sonoma County, in order to support all 58 County California in creating celebration and educational opportunities for the public to engage in this historic moment.

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Women’s Herstory

California ratified the 19th Amendment on November 1, 1919 becoming the 6th State to ratify women’s right to vote. By August of 1920, 36 states (including California) ratified the 19th Amendment, ensuring that the right to vote could not be denied based on sex.

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Announcements

The NOW 2020 Woman Suffrage Centennial Calendar will be available for purchase at the Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Centennial Kick-off on December 8.

Sunday, December 8, 2019, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Centennial Kick-off, Saturday Afternoon Club, 430 10th St, Santa Rosa. Seating is limited to 70 people so please RSVP at fb Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/395937627766549/

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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

Angels Among Us sung by Becky Hobbs from the album Best of the Beckaroo – Part One (Beckaroo Records)

I Am Woman sung by Pink Martini from the album I Am Woman – Single (Audiogram)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Kayra Martinez and Vicki Trapalis on Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need and Vicki Trapalis on Domestic Violence has been uploaded to the web archive.

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migrants, refugees

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Kayra Martinez and Vicki Trapalis on Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need and Vicki Trapalis on Domestic Violence has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 10/14/19 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 10/16/19 at 11 AM. 

Listen to the show at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA191014.html

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Love Without Borders For Refugees in Need

Domestic Violence Month

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Featuring Guests

1. Kayra Martinez, Founder, Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need

2. Vicki Trapalis, Dendency Attorney, Parenting Coordinator, City of San Francisco; Volunteer, Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need

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Announcements (Click for section below)

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Our Featured Guests

1. Kayla Martinez and 2. Vicki Trapalis talk about the work of Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need and their attraction to this project.  Kayla recounts how as an airline attendant she encountered refugee camps first around Frankfurt in 2015, Germany and then in Greece.  These refugees, including many families with children, had fled war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan and the dangers they encounter as they make the journey, from their countries, to Europe, by foot and inflatable boats.  Through social media Kayla was able to broadcast her mission and Love Without Borders was founded in 2016 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Vicki learned of Kayla’s project and took an upaid leave of absence from  her job in San Francisco to visit and work alongside Kayla in a northern Greek refugee camp at Nea Kavala.They describe the camp’s squalid conditions of tents and outhouses. On Sunday October 27,2 – 4 pm, a Benefit Concert will be given for Love Without Borders at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa.

About our Guest: Kayra Martinez has made it her mission to help refugees who have arrived in Greece after fleeing from their war-torn countries. Kayra’s mission began over three years ago, after she volunteered to help refugees arriving in Frankfurt, Germany, where she is based as a Flight Attendant. Her volunteer work in Germany eventually led her to Greece, where she visited the Nea Kavala camp in northern Greece in 2015. “When I got to Greece, I saw the tragic conditions in which refugees were living, and I realized I needed to do more,” said Kayra. After that trip, Kayra founded the nonprofit Love Without Borders – For Refugees In Need, which has allowed her to provide housing, teach English and offer art sessions to thousands of refugees. Definitely an ordinary woman doing an extraordinary thing for humanity.

Guest Links:  http://lovewithoutborders4refugees.com/

https://www.facebook.com/lovewithoutborders4refugees/

Guest Event:  Sunday October 27,2 – 4 pm,  Benefit Concert featuring Gradina Balkan Choral and Instrumental Music will be given for Love Without Borders at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa. fb Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/466971580825256/

2. Vicki Trapalis stays with us this second segment to helps us understand some deeper issues she has encountered in helping clients overcome domestic violence as a Dependency attorney and Parenting Coordinator for the City of San Francisco..

About our Guest: Vicki Trapalis is a Dependency attorney representing children in San Francisco, a job she has held for the past fourteen years. Additionally, Vicki is a Parenting Coordinator in San Francisco and Marin, assisting families involved in high conflict custody disputes. Prior to her current assignments, Vicki was an adult probation officer in San Francisco and before that worked as a counselor at Juvenile Hall, also in San Francisco. In addition to her law degree, she holds a Master’s degree in Social Work and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science/Criminal Justice. Last year Vicki took an unpaid leave of absence and spent the year volunteering at a refugee camp in Greece.

About the song with which we introduced this segment  Quiet by MILCK: Visit this site for the songwriter’s own description of the song on domestic violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB7LwF9vmZ0

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Announcements

Covering Climate Now www.coveringclimatenow.org “is a global journalism initiative committed to bringing more and better coverage to the defining story of our time. The initiative includes more than 300 outlets worldwide, and dozens of institutional and independent partners, with a combined audience of more than 1 billion people.And follow the coverage on social media, with the hashtag #coveringclimatenow. “

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Monday, October 16, 2019, 1 – 3 pm, NOW Sonoma County Chapter Monthly Meeting over lunch at at Roundtable Pizza, Marlow & Guerneville in Santa Rosa.

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Monday, October 16,  2019 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Screening of Iron Jawed Angels, Community Room, Radio KBBF, 1700 Corby Avenue, Suite B, Santa Rosa, The 2020 Women’s Suffrage Centenial Calendar will be available for suggested donation of $15 hot off the printing press! Seating is limited so please RSVP at the fb Event Page https://www.facebook.com/events/2353588951569165/

The NOW 2020 Woman Suffrage Centennial Calendar will be available for purchase at the film screening.of Iron Jawed Angels on October 16.

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Saturday, October 19, 2019, Noon and 2 pm, Russian Tea & Fragrance Festival, featuring Gradina Balkan Choral and Instrumental Music,  Russian River Rose Company,, 1685 Magnolia Dr., Healdsburg, $5 Donation.

Gradina Balkan Choral and Instrumental Music

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 Saturday, October 26, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Centennial of League for Women Voters Kickoff, Rincon Valley Library, 6959 Montecito Blvd., Santa Rosa, For information call 707-546-5943.  To kick off the 100th anniversary celebration of the League of Women Voters, the Sonoma County League and the Sonoma County Library will present a program on suffragists and their supporters. Moderated by Gaye LeBaron, the speakers Molly MacGregor, National Women’s History Project; Ann Galantine, Santa Rosa Historical Society; Mary Paul Dodgion, Western Sonoma County Historical Society and Museum; and Peg Rogers, Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women will discuss women’s struggle to obtain the vote.

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Sunday October 27,2 – 4 pm,  Benefit Concert featuring Gradina Balkan Choral and Instrumental Music will be given for Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa. fb Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/466971580825256/

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Sunday, December 8, 2019, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Centennial Kick-off, Saturday Afternoon Club, 430 10th St, Santa Rosa. Seating is limited to 70 people so please RSVP at fb Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/395937627766549/

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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

Democracy sung by Burns Sisters Band from the album Wild Bouquet (2006 Ithaca Records)

I Ai’nt Afraid sung by Citizens Band from the album Grab a Root and Growl (2012 The Citizens Band)

Waterfall sung by Cris Williamson from the album The Essential of Cris Williamson
(2005 Wolf Moon Records)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Shekeyna Black on the Benefit Concert for André Russel this Thursday and Dr. Harriet Fraad on Understanding the Jeffrey Epstein Case, has been uploaded to the web archive.

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Benefit, capitalism, Male dominance, Sexual Abuse

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Shekeyna Black on the Benefit Concert for André Russel this Thursday and Dr. Harriet Fraad on Understanding the Jeffrey Epstein Case, has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 9/9/19 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 9/11/19 at 11 AM. 

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA190909.html

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Upcoming 9/12 Benefit Concert for André Russell

Understanding the Jeffrey Epstein Case

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Featuring Guests

1. Shekeyna Black, Coordinator, Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County

2. Dr. Harriet Fraad,  Hypnotherapist, Author,

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Announcements (Click for section below)

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 Our Featured Guests

1. Shekeyna Black talks about an upcoming benefit concert for André Russell, a local musician and founder of the local band Midnight Sun who is recovering from an accident involving a DUI driver crashing in to him on his motorcycle.  Since the band has been so generous in support of local fundraisers the community is being asked to respond wtih help for André’s recovey and to bring awareness to the dangers of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County at the request of André agreed  to be also a beneficiary of this concert. See the Announcements for the event poster below.

About our Guest: Shekeyna Black has been the Center Coordinator of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County for 4 years. She grew up in Los Angeles County and moved to Sonoma County in 1986 to attend Sonoma State University where she earned a degree in Theatre Arts. She went on later to earn another Bachelors in Organizational Management and a Masters in Entertainment Business. She is passionate about music as a way to connect people from diverse backgrounds. Additionally, she has her own business called A Miracle Production that produces bands, concerts, festivals and events. She does bookings and publicity for shows at Redwood Cafe in Cotati. She is the Director of Entertainment for the publication, Upbeat Times. She is a mother to four adult kids.

Guest Link: www.pjcsoco.org

Event Link: Benefit Concert for André Russell, Thursday, September 12, 2019, 8 PM, Redwood Cafe, Cotati, CA http://www.pjcsoco.org/9122019-benefit-concert.html

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2. Dr. Harriet Fraad discusses the implications of deeper systemic problems with male superiority and capitalism in the case of Jeffrey Epstein and his sex-trafficking of young girls to the rich and powerful including presidents and princes.Dr. Fraad looks at the middle class beginnings of Jeffrey Epstein and his ascent to a life of luxury with his ability to ingratiate himself to make ever higher and more lucrative connections. Dr. Fraad describes the raising of males in our strongly matriarchal led households and in our schools that tends to limit the emotional expression of boys to anger, sports and sex, while denying the boys needs for tenderness, comfort, emotional care and empathy that cannot be admitted for fear of shame of failure to live up to the learned identity of an American male.  Dr. Fraad believes paid paternity leaves and free daycare would help the families better address the nurturing of boys and allow the tender expressions of males as fathers.

About our Guest:   Dr. Harriet Fraad is a mental health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She speaks regularly and writes about the intersecting crises in US relationships personal life, politics and economics. She was a founding member of the Second Wave women’s movement and has remained an activist for her entire life. She appears regularly on the radio for Economic Update, The Julianna Forlano Morning show, MK Mendoza, and Women’s Spaces. Her very latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics :Marxism, Without Guarantees (Routledge, 2019).

Guest Link: www.harrietfraad.com

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Announcements

Thursday, September 12, 2019, 8:00 PM, Benefit Concert for André Russell and Peace and Justice Center, Redwood Cafe, Cotati, CA

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Friday – Saturday, Septermber 13 – 14, 2019, Festival of Belonging, Glaser Center, Santa Rosa. Free and open to the Public. RSVP for priority seating and updates, The annual festival is sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Rosa and others listed with the schedule of events on the RSVP page at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-festival-of-belonging-tickets-69121340791

Description of the 2019 Festival of Belonging on the RSVP page:  Today, there is no greater challenge for communities than the homeless crisis. It’s a many-headed hydra that will take many ordinary heroes to vanquish. The Festival of Belonging began in 2018 as a way to support our unsheltered neighbors before they were evicted from their long-time home behind a shopping mall. This year, we invite community members to get to know our unsheltered neighbors through art and stories. People who live on the streets are just as varied and unique as housed residents. Come and learn more about the life stories, hopes, and challenges of your unsheltered neighbors!

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Monday, September 16, 2019, Climate Action Special on Women’s Spaces Radio Show, with Kerry Fugett of Daily Acts as Co-Prducer, Radio KBBF 898.1 FM North Bay or streaming at https://kbbf.org/live/. Repeats on Wednesday, September 18 on Radio KPCA 101.2 FM or streaming at https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca/

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Friday, September 20, 2019, Planet and National Climate Strike,  three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. Millions of us will take the streets to demand a right to a future, and we’re inviting you to #strikewithus

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September 28 and 29, 2019, Campaign and Candidate Training https://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc/events/candidatecampaign-training

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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

Can’t Hold Me Down by Christina Aguilar from the album Stripped (Sony Music Entertainment)

Everybody Knows sung sung by Holly Figueroa from the album Gifts and Burdens (Holly Figueroa)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show