Women’s Space Radio Show with our guests Julie Combs on CASA – Committee to House the Bay Area, Leslie Graves recaps the Women’s March in Santa Rosa and Nancy Vogl reports on MLK Holiday A Day On Not a Day Off, recorded on 1/21/19, has been uploaded to the web archives. The show was recorded, broadcast and streamed over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM in the NorthBay on Monday 1/21/19 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Wednesday 1/23/19.

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Civil Rights, homelessness, service organization, women in politics

Women’s Space Radio Show with our guests Julie Combs on CASA – Committee to House the Bay Area, Leslie Graves recaps the Women’s March in Santa Rosa and Nancy Vogl reports on MLK Holiday A Day On Not a Day Off, recorded on 1/21/19, has been uploaded to the web archives. The show was recorded, broadcast and streamed over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM in the NorthBay on Monday 1/21/19 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Wednesday 1/23/19.

The Recording of the show is archived at   http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA190121.html

Santa Rosa Women’s March 2019 Recap  

Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., A Day On Not a Day Off.

CASA – Committee to House the Bay Area

 

Featuring Guests

1. Leslie Graves,  Chief Organizer, Santa Rosa Women’s March 2019

2. Nancy Vogl, Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration: Love in Action;

3. Julie Combs,  Commissioner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), former Chair of the Steering Committee of CASA – Committee to House the Bay Area; new Chair of the Regional Planning Committee for the 9 San Francisco Bay Counties; Santa Rosa City Councilperson

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Announcements (Click for links below)

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1. Leslie Graves gives us a recap of the Women’s Rally and March 2019 in Santa Rosa that drew 4,500 people with colorful costumes and thought-provoking and humorous opinions on posters and, of course, a many pussy hats adorning heads on Saturday morning. Elaine,B. Holtz, the host of Women’s Spaces, was honored to be one of the lead banner bearers, along with Dr. Jacqueline Lawrence of Legacy Showcase, her granddaughter Grace, Miss Sonoma County Tyler-Avery Lewis and Miss Sonoma County’s Outstanding Teen, Pinkeo Phongsa.  Many booths dotted the square with information from many organizations serving the community.  It was a good time to meet old friends and make new ones and enjoy the networking. Check out some photos further below on this page.

About our Guest: Leslie Graves  got her first taste of coordinating local events while with the Sonoma County Family YMCA when she took a role of planning the Harvest Fair 10K/3K Run in 1996 and then moved onto managing events at other non-profits and corporate retailers in the field of Marketing.  Mixing a background of Health/Fitness, Marketing and Community Development, Leslie is always up for helping to make a positive impact by bringing people together to celebrate community. In her spare time she adds her voice to a bevy of local events as the emcee around Sonoma County.

Guest Links:   Women’s March in Santa Rosa 2019, https://www.facebook.com/events/269734966995428/

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Elaine,B. Holtz, host of Women’s Spaces, was honored to be one of the lead banner bearers of the Santa Rosa Women’s March 2019 which drew 4,500 marchers along with Dr. Jacqueline Lawrence of Legacy Showcase, her granddaughter Grace, Miss Sonoma County Tyler-Avery Lewis and Miss Sonoma County’s Outstanding Teen, Pinkeo Phongsa.                                                                                                                                             Photo by Leslie Graves

Click here for more Photos of the Women’s March further below on this page.

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2. Nancy Vogl reports on Sunday’s annual Celebration of the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and talks of some of the Presentations of the Essays and Posters in the contest in the county schools on Dr. King’s legacy.  Nancy also describes some of the Day On Not a Day Off activities organized for the Monday holiday at the Community Baptist Church in Santa Rosa, including the sewing of cloth sanitary pads for school girls in Uganda who cannot afford the pads and are ashamed to go to school during their menstruation.

About our Guest Nancy Vogl was a founding member of the one of the first lesbian bands of 2nd wave feminism, the Berkeley Women’s Music Collective, that recorded and toured together from 1973-79. She continued playing with Robin Flower, Barbara Higbie and Holly Near until moving to Sonoma County in 1984. Nancy served as Youth Service Director at the Volunteer Center for 7 years, and Co-Directed Sonoma County’s LGBTQQI youth group, Positive Images. She now offers private coaching in addiction recovery, and returned to music with a new CD, opening for friends on March 8th at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. Her passion is healthy youth development, non-violence and community peace, studying with Dr. Ricky Shereover Marcuse, and James and Grace Boggs. She returned to the MLK committee this year.

Guest Link: MLK Celebration:  www.facebook.com/events/520703188421760/

The Community Baptist Church of Santa Rosa on the Monday Holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. hosts A Day On Not Day Off  and one service done was the sewing of cloth sanitary napkins for Uganda schoolgirls. Namirembe Phionah is from Uganda brough up the need to the Church and now realizes the action taken.         2019  Photo by Ken Norton

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3. Julie Combs talks about her role as one of the 21 Commissioners of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC),  The MTC Commissioners, per their website, “shape policies to guide transportation and development in the Bay Area, and fund projects and programs to turn those policies into reality.” The MTC serves the 9 counties of the San Franciso Bay Area.  The main project of MTC currently is called CASA – Committee to House the Bay Area, to address the regional homelessness crisis affecting all the communities.  Julie was Chair of the steering committee of CASA and she describes some of the functions of CASA and how it will affect local affordable housing policies.  Julie encourages Santa Rosa residents to show up and voice their opinions on housing or other needs the city should address with budget at the very important Budget Priorities meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, January 29th.

About our Guest: Julie Combs  has been a Councilperson for the City of Santa Rosa since 2012. She has a degree in engineering and over 15 years experience in housing construction and building code work, which has helped inform her work on our housing crisis. Locally she serves on the very new Home – the Joint Santa Rosa City and Sonoma County Agency to fund the coordinated response to homelessness.  More directly Julie has served on the CASA steering committee, and was chair of the Regional Housing Committee and was just elected to be the new Chair of the Regional Planning Committee for the 9 Bay Area Counties.

Guest Links: jcombs@srcity.org

CASA https://mtc.ca.gov/our-work/plans-projects/casa-committee-house-bay-area

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Photos of the Women’s March 2019 in Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa Women’s Rally and March 2019: Left Photo is of speaker Celeste Austin – Photo by Janeane Rose Sanborn.

Participants in the Women’s Rally and March 2019 .                   Photo by Leslie Graves.

Speakers at the Santa Rosa Women’s Rally and March 2019: Photo by Leslie Graves.

 

Santa Rosa 2019 Womens March and Rally booth with Eileen Bill of NOW, Elaine B. Holtz of Women’s Spaces and Dr. Jacqueline Lawrence of Legacy Showcase.                                                                                                                                                                    Photo by Ken Norton

 

Annnnouncements

January 29, Tuesday, Budget Priorities, Santa Rosa City Council Chambers, City Hall, City Hall, 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa. www.srcity.org/1322/City-Council

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February 14, 2019  Petaluma, One Billion Rising and The Vagina Monologues (English & Spanish) https://www.facebook.com/events/201532364128702/

 

March 30-31, 2019, Founding Convention of the California Progressive Alliance (CPA)  https://californiaprogressivealliance.org/2019-founding-convention/

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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

I Am Woman sung by Pink Martini from the album  I Am Woman Single (Wrasse Records)

Martin Luther King sung by Lori Nebo from the album I Am A Voice (Fandalism.com)

The House I Live In sung by Maxine Lineham from the album An American Journey (Honey Bun Records)

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

Women’s Space Radio Show with our guests’ review of 2018 and Hope for 2019: Adrienne Laube on Homeless Action, Laura Wells on her Green Party challenge and Caitlin Quinn on her Petaluma School Board election victory, recorded on 12/31/18, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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homelessness, Sexual Abuse, Green Party

Women’s Space Radio Show with our guests’ review of 2018 and Hope for 2019: Adrienne Laube on Homeless Action, Laura Wells on her Green Party challenge and Caitlin Quinn on her Petaluma School Board election victory, recorded on 12/31/18, has been uploaded to the web archives. The show was recorded, broadcast and streamed over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM in the NorthBay on Monday 12/31/18 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Wednesday 1/2/19.

The Recording of the show is archived at   http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA181231.html

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Featuring Guests

1. Adrienne Lauby,   Volunteer, Homeless Action; Producer, Pushing Limits, Radio KPFA 94.1 FM

2. Laura Wells, 2018 Green Party Candidate for US Representative for California, Opposed but lost to Barbara Lee

3. Caitlin Quinn, Newly elected Member to the Petaluma School Board; Communications, Verity Rape Crisis Center

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Announcements (Click for links below)

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1. Adrienne Lauby shares her insights on the highs and lows of 2018 regarding the Homeless in Sonoma County, of which there as still some 1800 folks sleeping outside these freezing and sometimes wet winter nights. She gives her wish list for 2109 for Homeless Action on the part of the County Supervisors and City Councils.

About our Guest: Adrienne Lauby is a founding member of the local grassroots group, Homeless Action! She is also a producer and host of Pushing Limits, 94.1 FM Radio KPFA’s disability program, and works with the Racial Justice Allies of Sonoma County. Adrienne has received two local awards for her work on homeless issues and is known for her passion as well as her research and fact-based information.

Guest Links:

Homeless Action! :  https://www.facebook.com/Homeless-Action-379217005553363/

Pushing Limits:   https://www.facebook.com/Pushing-Limits-Radio-KPFA-149449458429401/

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2.  Laura Wells shares why she as a Green Party candidate ran against the popular progressive Democrat Barbara Lee for the US House of Representative seat for the Oakland area. The League for Women Voters made it possible for her to debate Barbara Lee in a forum and present the Green Party’s Green Deal in contrast to corporate funded Democrats.  The Green Party does not accept any corporate funds for campaigning.

About our Guest:  Laura Wells has been a candidate for California Governor and recently for the US House of Representatives.  Laura is a proponent of Public Banks and the Green Party Green Deal.

Guest Links:

 Green Party:   http://www.gp.org/

                             http://www.gp.org/we_are_the_green_new_deal

California Progressive Alliance (CPA)  https://californiaprogressivealliance.org/
Founder Gayle McLaughlin

Notice:  Founding Convention March 30-31, 2019 https://californiaprogressivealliance.org/2019-founding-convention/

 DiEM25 – co-founder Yanis Varoufakis (Former Greek Minister, author, Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment)   https://diem25.org/

Progressive International  https://www.progressive-international.org/open-call/
– co-founders Yanis Varoufakis of DiEM25 and Bernie Sanders of Sanders Institute

Reform Prop 13 in a 2020 ballot initiative – https://www.evolve-ca.org/

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3. Caitlin Quinn talks about her successful campaign for the Petaluma School Board and what encouraged her to run. Caitlin also briefly recounts the work of Verity Rape Crisis Center.

About our Guest: Caitlin Quinn was raised in Sonoma County and attended UC Berkeley, where she became involved in anti-sexual violence work and was one of 31 students who filed a Title IX complaint against the university in 2013. Caitlin handles all of Verity’s communications work while supporting the administrative side of things. Caitlin successfully campaigned for the November 2018 election to the Petaluma City School Board.

Guest Link:  http://www.ourverity.org

www.ourverity.org/services/prevention  to arrange for workshop

Verity Rape Crisis Hotline 100% Confidential: (707) 545-7723

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Annnouncements

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January 2, 2019 Wenesday  6 to 8 PM,  Unshackled – monthly racial discussion group. Arlene Francis Center, Santa Rosa, CA https://www.facebook.com/IamUnshackled/

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January 19, 2019, Saturday, Women’s March in Santa Rosa, sponsored by the Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center and Leslie Graves.  http://www.pjcsoco.org/

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March 30-31, 2019, Founding Convention of the California Progressive Alliance (CPA)  https://californiaprogressivealliance.org/2019-founding-convention/

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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

Pale Moon by Becky Hobbs from the album Nanheyi – Beloved Woman of the Cherokee (2011 Becky Hobbs)

The House I Live In sung by Maxine Linehan from the Album An American Journey (Live)  (2014 Feminist Recording Studio)

Quiet  by MILCK from the album This is not the End (2018 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International for the world outside the USA)

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

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with guests Santa Rosa City Councilmember Julie Combs and Adrienned Laube of Homeless Action! in Sonoma County, recorded on 5/14/18, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

homeless shelter, homelessness, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with guests Santa Rosa City Councilmember Julie Combs and Adrienned Laube of Homeless Action! in Sonoma County, recorded on 5/14/18, has been uploaded to the web archives. The show was recorded, broadcast and streamed over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM in the NorthBay on Monday 5/14/18 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Tuesday 5/15/18.

The link to the show’s archive webpage is

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA180514.html

Announcements    (See Links below)

Featured

1. Julie Combs , Council Member, Santa Rosa City Council

2. Adrienne Lauby, Co-founder, Homeless Action!;  Host of Pushing Limits, Radio KPFA

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1. Santa Rosa City Councilmember Julie Combs and 2. Adrienne Lauby of Homeless Action! discuss the over 2,000 homeless people in Sonoma County and what the Santa Rosa City Council has accomplished and has still to do with its Homeless Encampment Assistance Pilot Program.  The recent disbandment of the homess tent village in Roseland on Sebastopol Road and the civil disobedience arrests in the City Council chambers last week are looked at from the city council member’s perspective and that of the homeless advocates.

About our Guest:  Julie Combs’ commitment to community service started at an early age in North Carolina when she formed her high school’s first ecology club and started recycling newspapers. Julie received her BS degree in mechanical engineering from Syracuse University in 1988.and received her BS degree from Syracuse University. Julie worked as an American’s with Disabilities Act Coordinator and a Rehabilitation Engineer and served as a Senior Plans Reviewer for the city of Asheville, North Carolina. In 2012 she was elected to the SR City Council was elected in 2016 for a second term. She worked on comprehensive Housing Agenda to address current housing crisis and provide both immediate and long term relief for Santa Rosa residents. She approved over $3 million on shovel-ready affordable housing projects and made Housing and Homeless issues one of the top council goals for 2015. She represents the city and the county she fought for equitable distribution of grant funds for our area while serving on the Association of Bay Area Governments Regional Planning committee.

Guest Links:

http://www.combsforcouncil.com/

https://www.facebook.com/combsforcouncil/

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About our Guest:  Adrienne Lauby is a founding member of the local grassroots group, Homeless Action! She is also a producer and host of Pushing Limits, 94.1 FM Radio KPFA’s disability program, and works with the Racial Justice Allies of Sonoma County. Adrienne has received two local awards for her work on homeless issues and is known for her passion as well as her research and fact-based information.

Guest Links:

Homeless Action! https://www.facebook.com/Homeless-Action-379217005553363/

Pushing Limits hhttps://www.facebook.com/Pushing-Limits-Radio-KPFA-149449458429401/

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Announcement Links

League of Women Voters Event Link: http://lwvsonoma.org/calendar.html

We also provide links on the 2018 Political Candidates page.

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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

For The Mothers by Betsey Rose and the Women’s Choir from the Album: Welcome to the Circle  (Paper Crane Music)

The House I Live In sung by Maxine Linehan from the ablum An American Journey (Honey Bun Records)

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

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests City Councilmember Julie Combs on Migrant Education Familiy Fund, Mary Moore and Karen Saari on Two Decades of Community Concerns about Law Enforcement in Sonoma County , broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 11/6/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Julie Combs, Law enforcement, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Wildfire, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests City Councilmember Julie Combs on Migrant Education Familiy Fund, Mary Moore and Karen Saari on Two Decades of Community Concerns about Law Enforcement in Sonoma County , broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 11/6/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA171106.html

Announcements  (See Links below)

Migrant Education Family Fund

Two Decades of Community Concerns about Law Enforcement in Sonoma County

Featured Guests

1. Julie Combs, Council Member, Santa Rosa City Council, Migrant Education Family Fund

2. Mary Moore Advocate, Oversight of Community Law Enforcement in Sonoma County

3. Karen Saari, Advocate, Oversight of Community Law Enforcement in Sonoma County

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1.  City Councilmember Julie Combs talks about the Migrant Education Family Fund that she helped set up to address the needs of migrant families after the recent Wildfire Disaster that destroyed residences and places of employment. Elaine shares the news of a surpise donation to the Migrant Education Family Fund of $500 raised on hearing of the Wild Fire Disaster in a bake sale by the Laytonville Elementary School pupils of her granddaughter-in-law Amber Jensen on her first year teaching assignment,

About our Guest: Julie Combs was elected to the City Council of Santa Rosa in 2012 and was re-elected in 2016.  Julie earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse Universtiy and a BA in Psychology  from UNC-G. Julie is married and lives in Bennet Valley with her husband.  Julie has been advocating Housing for All and has a 24-point plan addressing the issue on her website.

Guest Links: Migrant Education Family Fund Donation page

Facebook page of Migrant Education Family Fund

Santa Rosa City Councilmember site

www.combsforcouncil.com

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2. & 3. Mary Moore and Karen Saari talk about growing into their advocacy for review and oversight with supoena power of community law enforcement in Sonoma County. In the late 1990s, there was a spate of police in Sonoma County. Their advocating culminated in 2000 in a report by the California Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights on Community Concerns about Law Enforcement in Sonoma County that was submitted to the County Board of Supervisors and the city councils in the county. The report was basically shelved.  The report saw the light of day again, however, after the Sonoma County Sheriff deputy shooting and killing of a 13-year old Andy Lopez carrying a toy gun in Santa Rosa, and a citizens’ Justice Coalition for Andy Lopez (JCAL) raised their voices in protest of local policies concenrning the police and community interaction.  The report is discussed and links to the report will be posted below when available.

About our Guest: Mary Moore has been a social justice activist since 1962 focusing on issues or racism, sexism and classism. In the late ‘70s she organized a statewide network to stop Diablo Canyon and Rancho Secco nukes. She co founded the Bohemian Grove Action Network in 1980 to raise awareness of the elite and small network of men with outsized influence that gather annually at Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County. n the mid ‘90s she helped to start a local movement against police abuse, getting the US Civil Rights Commission to hold hearings in Sonoma County and documenting the unacceptable amount of killings by police.
She is currently working on an archives project for the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, CA, and writing a book. 

About our Guest: Karen Saari earned her BA in History from Russell Sage College.  Karen currently works as a paralegal for a California appellate attorney and also as a professional organizer for self-employed professionals. In the late 1990s she  made a presentation on the local deaths and attracted some national attention. Ultimately, Project Censored offered to sponsorKaren in a research project to identify all police-related deaths in the US for one calendar year. To her knowledge, this was the first such project on police-involved deaths of civilians ever conducted. The result was the Stolen Lives- Killed by Law Enforcement project and book. Since that time, 20 years ago, she has continued to keep track of law enforcement related deaths of civilians here in Sonoma County.

Guest Links:  Stolen Lives- Killed by Law Enforcement  book

Facebook page of Stolen Lives – killed by US Law Enforcement

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Announcement Links 

Migrant Education Family Fund Donation page

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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

Get Together sung by Indigo Girls from the Album: Strange Fire (Epic)

Democracy sung by Burns Sister Band from the Album: Wild Bouquet (Ithaca Records 2006)

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

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest River King on Tiny Houses, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/18/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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homeless shelter, homeless women assistance, homelessness, poem, women in business, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest River King on Tiny Houses, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/18/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170918.html

Announcements

Featured Guests

1. River King,  Project Partner, Tiny Houses for Humanity

Poems Read by Elaine B. Holtz

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1.  River King talks about her journey from college graduation with a music degree, and the struggles to earn enough as a music instructor as a single mom and keep her home.  She did not feel secure with her child in the San Rosa Safe Parking Program for the homeless, sleeping in her Volvo.  Together River and Jay Shafer are proposing a project to move the homeless into Tiny Houses.  Rfiver descrives some success stories using of this model and hopes that many villages can be raised providing permanent homes for our local displaced residents: single people, couples, families, students, veterans… She asks that you join her in raising the first village of Tiny Houses for Humanity in Sonoma County.

About our Guest:  River King  has experienced losing her home and the absurdity of trying to provide warmth, water and food for her two year old son within the cramped space of their Volvo while surviving Santa Rosa’s Safe Parking Lot program. This propelled her to action. Ever since, she has been working tirelessly as a Sonoma County Homeless Advocate. with Jay Shafer, world-renowned Tiny House Designer and Founder of Four Lights Tiny House Company. Together they are on the cusp of raising a village of Tiny Houses for those without a place to call home here in Sonoma County.

Jay Shafer and his Tiny House

 

Guest Link: www.hatchfund.org/project/tiny_houses_for_humanity

Email Contact: asariverking@gmail.com

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Reading of Poems by Elaine B. Holtz

1. Power

2. Why, What Does All This Mean?

1. Power

“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the mind.” Napoleon

The greatest power of all is not in ruling others or commanding great wealth, but in commanding the brain’s thinking process. That is where all power begins. The wonderful thing is that this power is available to each of us–if only we try. How can you harness your brainpower? Let’s look at what “power” is.
P – power is purpose. Ideas, dreams, goals, any product of the mind’s eye harnessed to a purpose will produce a storehouse of power.
o- power is open-mindedness. It is having a mind open to new ideas.
It is thinking unfettered by preconceived notions.
W- power is wisdom. It means strength, tempered by good judgment, combined with learning and knowledge.
E- power is energy. It is the engine of work, the force of human expression, the capacity for action.
R- power is responsibility. The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Power without responsibility leads to corruption and evil. Power united to responsibility is the source of good works and the increased well-being of all.
POWER is the ability, the vigor, the strength to influence others and to control one’s own destiny.

Elaine B. Holtz

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2. Why, What Does All This Mean?

A child sat by a lake one day, asking what does this all mean?
Who am I? Where am I going? How do I fit into the scheme?
I sat down beside him, looked into his eyes,
And saw the reflections of so many whys

I’ve, too, questioned, my child, there’s so much to say,
But in all my searching and knowing, I can’t show you the way.
I can only try to explain what I see.
Maybe you can show me, how it should be?

You see, life has many a game.
The hardest to play is the one for fame.
When we look for fame, we look for power.
In this quest, you might say, man has wasted many a life, many an hour;
Are we all so ant-like and insecure,
That for fame and power so much we endure?

The game of war, it’s not hard to understand –
It’s just fighting and killing, man to man.
What is hard to understand, are the men who are willing.
They fight In the name of pride and nation,.

PRIDE & NATION, my God!
I see no reason for this frustration.
The amazing, yet saddest part is
All wars are fought in the name of PEACE.
So you see my dear child – I too ask why.

Elaine B. Holtz

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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

The House I Live In performed by Maxine Linehan from the Album: An American Journey Live (Honey Bun Records)

Singing for Our Lives by Holly Near  from the Album: And Still We Sing – The Out Spoken Collection   (2002 Calico Tracks Music)

No More Wars sung by Becky Hobbs from the album The Road of Life (2004 Beckaroo Records)

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

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Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Annie Dobbs-Kramer on Measure C and Susan Lamont on Police Brutality Coalition and IOLERO, broadcast on 5/1/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Andy Lopez, Community organizing, homelessness, Human Rights, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Vote, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Annie Dobbs-Kramer on Measure C and Susan Lamont on Police Brutality Coalition and IOLERO, broadcast on 5/1/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170501.html

Featuring First Guest
1. Annie Dobbs-Kramer, Voter Engagement Community Organizer, North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP), City of Santa Rosa Rent Stablization Measure C

2.  Announcements and Commentary

Featuring Second Guest
3. Susan Lamont , Co-Founder, Police Brutality Coalition – Sonoma County

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1.  Guest Annie Dobbs-Kramer talks about Measure C submitted for the June Ballot by the City of Santa Rosa on Rent Stabilization. “No on Measure C” has been headlined by six large mailers to date, which indicates a lot of money behind stopping this Measure. Do renters often holding many jobs to make the rent and food each month have the time or money to support ads for Measure C?
NBOP states on their website About Us:  We are a power organization. works – in collaboration with working people, congregations, environmentalists, neighborhood organizations, young Latino professionals, youth who are eager to lead, but lack venues, progressive organizations, immigrant rights organizations and unions – we seek effective ways to address the divide. We know that no matter how hard poor people work without organizing for structural change the conditions that keep them poor will continue.”

Guest Links: http://northbayop.org

https://www.fairandaffordablesantarosa.com

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2. Announcements and Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz on the Science Marches and the Climate Marches the end of April.

I want to do a shout out to Amy Goodman and her crew at Democracy Now they had two five hour specials covering the marches in Washington DC – April 22, 2017 – Earth Day March for Science and on April 29, 2017 – the People’s Climate March – the website is https://www.democracynow.org/
I watched both specials and I was so inspired I want to share it with my listeners. I felt like I was part of a greater community and got to see how committed people are to making change. I was also so inspired that I saw so many young people involved and knew that as a Grandmother I must reach out in solidarity.
I had an epiphany at the Saturday Rally and March: El Pueblo Unido: People’s March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate. I attended in Santa Rosa. A shout out to all those who helped put it together, a lot of work and commitment. As Grandmothers we must speak out. As mothers we must speak out, as women we must speak out. No matter if you have children or not the great spirit endowed us with the ability to bring forth life and we are not protesting, we are not protesting. We are protecting. Protecting the future of the children of this planet, of the greatest mother of us all earth itself.

Commentary Link:
https://www.indivisiblesoco.com/events/2017/4/29/peoples-climate-march

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3.  Guest Susan Lamont Susan updates us on the petition she  co-authored to the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County and to the city councils in the county titled: It Won’t Happen Here – Sonoma County Resistance to the Trump Agenda. Susan talks about the forming Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO)out of the killing of 13-year old Andy Lopez by Sheriff Deputy Gelhof in October 2013 after 3 years of community voluntary engagement to press for oversight of the Sheriff’s Office.  Susan will discuss the firing of a local activist Attorney Alicia Ramon who was selected to serve as Chairperson of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) but  was “fired” by the IOLERO Director Jerry Threet last month.

Guest Link: Police Brutality Coalition fb page: https://www.facebook.com/PBCSonomaCounty/

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Music Selections:

We are the World sung by The Countdown Kids from Rock & Roll Kids-Vol.3 (Suite 102)

The Times They are a Changing performed by Brothers and Sisters (music and lyrics by Bob Dylan), from Dylan’s Gospel (Epic)

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

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Jan Schiller and Linda Hemenway on Veterans Homeless Crisis Summit, guest and Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio, broadcast on 8/29/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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homeless shelter, homelessness, Prisoners, Self esteem, Sonoma County, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Jan Schiller and Linda Hemenway on Veterans Homeless Crisis Summit, guest and Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio,  broadcast on 8/29/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160829.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Jan Schiller, Orgainizing for Action, Veterans Homeless Crisis

2. Linda Hemenway, Orgainizing for Action, Veterans Homeless Crisis

3. Noelle Hanrahan, Director, Prison Radio

Announcements

Guest 1. and  2. .  Jan Schiller, a retired teacher,  and Linda Hemenway discuss the work of Organizing for Action.  Organizing for Action is a group of community organizers that work on both national and local issues. On August 11th with the help of Veterans groups, government agencies, faith based communities, non-profits, and other community groups and elected officials OFA hosted the Veterans Housing Crisis Summit at the Palms Inn in Santa Rosa, whose landlord recently converted the Inn to a Homeless Shelter for Veterans.

Guest Link:  Email Organizing for Aciton,Linda Hemenway whatisworking@gmail.com

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Guest 3. Noelle Hanrahan talks about her journey in founding Prison Radio, an independent multimedia production studio that features journalists in prison, the most famous being Mumia Abul-Jamal.

From the Prison Radio website:  Prison Radio’s mission is to challenge unjust police and prosecutorial practices which result in mass incarceration, racism and gender discrimination. We do this by bringing the voices of men, women and kids into the public debate and dialogue on crime and punishment.

Guest Link:  www.prisonradio.org

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Music Selections: Somebody’s Child by Ellen Bukstell (CD) album: Daddy’s Little Girl
http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

The Lady Lifers: A moving song from women in prison for life.  Published on May 15, 2015
The ten women in this chorus have all been sentenced to life in prison. They share a moving song about their experiences — one that reveals their hopes, regrets and fears. “I’m not an angel,” sings one, “but I’m not the devil.” Filmed at an independent TEDx event inside Muncy State Prison, it’s a rare and poignant look inside the world of people imprisoned with no hope of parole. (on YouTube)

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lynette Shaw “Godmother” of Medical Cannabis and Kathy Lehman of Veterans Cannabis Group, broadcast on 8/15/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Self esteem, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lynette Shaw “Godmother” of Medical Cannabis and Kathy Lehman of Veterans Cannabis Group,  broadcast on 8/15/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160815.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Lynette Shaw, Godmother of Medical Cannabis

2. Kathy Lehman, Army Veteran, Member of the Veterans Cannabis Group, Marin

Announcements

Guest 1.   Lynette Shaw describes her journey and mentors like Jack Herer, Dennes Peron and Dr. Tod Mikuriya, MD, whom she met on the way to the passing of Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, and the further 18 years of perservering through federal DEA harrassment and economic deprivations until her Ninth Circuit Court victory in April 2016 for herself and all medical cannabis dispensaries. Lynette reminds us of the  HIV epidemic in this state and nation in the 1980s and 1990s and the arrests of HIV patients in hospital rooms just for possession of a couple of joints of marijuana to ease their pain and discomfort from the pharmaceuticals used to treat the auto-immune disease and its subsequent diseases from a compromised immune system. During all these years Lynette has helped military veterans handle their PTSD with cannabis and is co-founder with Veteran Army Sgt. Aaron Augustis of Veterans Cannabis Group in Marin County, California.

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Guest 2.  Kathy Lehman joins Lynette in the studio to discuss why she is a member of the Veterans Cannabis Group and how cannabis has helped her as a Vietnam War Army veteran cope with PTSD, in spite of the prohibition of cannabis in the Veterans Administration.  Kathy also sheds light on how so many veterans became addicted to heroin in Vietnam, contracted Hepatitis and were given dishonorable discharges from the army, many becoming homeless.

Guest Link:  http://veteranscannabisgroup.com/

Event Link: PTSD, Cannabis & the Fight for Safe Veteran Access, Presentation by  Veterans Cannabis Group Co-Founders Sgt. Aaron Augustis and Lynette Shaw, at the Sonoma County Chapter Women Grow Cannabis Industry Networking Event on Thursday, September 8th, 6pm – 9pm.

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Music Selections:

Who’s The Pusher Now? by Ellen Bukstel (CD) http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Song of the Soul by Chris Williamson (CD)

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Jackie Barr as delegate at the Democratic Convention, Julie Combs on homeless emergency in Santa Rosa, and Liz Uribe on ArtStart , broadcast on 8/1/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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City Council, homeless shelter, homelessness, Santa Rosa, Self esteem, Sonoma County, women in art, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Jackie Barr as delegate at the Democratic Convention, Julie Combs on homeless emergency in Santa Rosa, and Liz Uribe on ArtStart ,  broadcast on 8/1/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160801.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Jackie Barr, California Delegate for Bernie Sanders on the Democratic Convention

2. Julie Combs, Santa Rosa City Councilmember

3. Liz Uribe, Co-Founder, ArtStart

Announcements

Guest 1.  Jackie Barr, a Class of 2016 high school graduate from Sonoma County and a California Delegate for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic Convention, reports on her experience from her committment to Bernie’s campaign and to convening with the delegates for Hilary Clinton for eventual party unity under a Pary platform influenced by Bernie but to be led by Clinton.

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Guest 2.  Julie Combs reports on the recent homelessness emergency measures taken by the Santa Rosa City Council, including a letter to the Governor asking for funds to ease the situation.

Guest Link: jjcombs@srcity.org

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Guest 3. Liz Uribe and her husband Mario founded Art Start, an award winning 501c(3) non-profit organization supporting youth learning the professional skills of an artist with the media of public art. A Party for Art will be held on Friday August 5 from 6 to 10 pm to raise funds for ArtStart at the
ArtStart Studio,
716 Bennett Valley Road,
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Event Link: Party for Art

Guest Link: http://www.artstart.us/

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Music Selections:
Standing on the Shoulders
Sung by Earth Mama  (on Youtube)

We Are The World  -The Next Generation.  The Youth comes together in an effort to remake We are the World for UNITY. Produced and Directed by Pet Project Productions. (on Youtube)

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Stephanie Blair on the Incarnation 100 Bike Ride for the homeless and Mercedes Kirkel on channelling Mary Magdalene, broadcast on 5/16/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Santa Rosa, Self esteem, service organization, Sonoma County, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Stephanie Blair on the Incarnation 100 Bike Ride for the homeless and Mercedes Kirkel on channelling Mary Magdalene,  broadcast on 5/16/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160516.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Stephanie Blair  ,  Co-producer, Incarnation 100 Bike Ride Benefit for Homeless Services in Sonoma County

2. Mercedes Kirkel, Author, Mary Magdalene Beckons – Join the River of Love

Announcements

Guest 1.  Stephanie Blair talks about how the homeless services began at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa and the recent relocation of the Living Room for Homeless Women, that grew from church member’s response to a need to its own non-profit organization.  The Incarnation 100 will have its second annual Bike Ride on June 11, 2016, which offer three routes to take. See the information at the guest link to join in on the fun while benefitting these worthy services: The Living Room in Santa Rosa, Sunday Open Table in Santa Rosa, and St. Andrew’s Food Kitchen in Guerneville.

Guest Link: http://incarnation100.org/

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Guest 2. Mercedes Kirkel shares how she began channeling messages from Mary Magdalene and how she could tell the difference between her other thoughts and the felt voice of Mary Magdalene.  Mercedes recounts the guidance she received to proceed with this work.

Guest Link: http://mercedeskirkel.com/

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Music Selections:
 Bicycle Built for Two by Nat King Cole (on YouTube)

Tikkun Olam Repair the World by Ellen Bukstel

from Ellen Bukstel,’s CD album “Daddy’s Little Girl”,  available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/ellenbukstel2