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

—-

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

—-

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

—-

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/

—-

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.

Tags

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

—-

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

—-

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.

Tags

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.

—-

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.

—-

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.

Tags

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.

—-

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

—-

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/

—-

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.

Tags

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/

—-

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/

—-

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

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Carolyn Eppel of Camp Michela homeless collective and Kimberely Ellis on Emerge California for encouraging wometo enter politics, broadcast on 5/9/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

homeless shelter, homelessness, Santa Rosa, Self esteem, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Carolyn Eppel of Camp Michela homeless collective and Kimberely Ellis on Emerge California for encouraging wometo enter politics,  broadcast on 5/9/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160509.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Carolyn Eppel  ,  Administrator, Camp Michela – a homeless collective in Santa Rosa

2.  Kimberly Ellis, JD, Executive Director, Emerge California

Announcements

Guest 1.  Carolyn Eppel, shares her journey from once holding a professorship to homelessness to now volunteering to organize Camp Michela, a homeless collective in Santa Rosa living out of tents at present in Roseland on Sebastopol Road at the theparking lot by the Dollar Tree Store.

Guest Link: Camp Michela facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005163194957

—-

Guest 2. Dr. Kimberely Ellis talks of the importance of women entering politics and shares how she  discovered this and prepared herself and others for such careers and give voice to women and their issues. Kimberely is campaigning to become the President of the California Democratic Party and explains the delegate appointment system of the California Democratic Party.

Guest Link: www.emergeca.org

—-

Music Selections:
 Mothers Day Proclamation
Gloria Steinem, Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Fatma Saleh, Alfre Woodard, Ashraf Salimian, Christine Lahti and Mother’s Day for Peace talk about the origin of Mother’s Day by Julia Ward Howe as a protest against war. www.mothersdayforpeace.com (on YouTube)

Somebody’s Child by Ellen Bukstel

Hey Mr. Politician by Ellen Bukstel

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

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Karen Hudson on GMO-Free Sonoma County ballot measure and Cynthia Stebbins on Homeless Action at Santa Rosa City Council Chambers, broadcast on 5/2/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

homeless women assistance, homelessness, Human Rights, Santa Rosa, Self esteem, Sonoma County, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Karen Hudson on GMO-Free Sonoma County ballot measure and Cynthia Stebbins on Homeless Action at Santa Rosa City Council Chambers,  broadcast on 5/2/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160502.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Karen Hudson  ,  Campaign Coordinator, Citizens for Healthy Farms and Families, and GMO-Free Sonoma County ballot measure

2.  Cynthia Stebbins, Homeless Action Advocate

Announcements

Guest 1.  Karen Hudson and the volunteers of GMO-Free Sonoma County gathered 24,000 signatures to put the Sonoma County Transgenic Contamination Prevention Ordinance on the November ballot.  Howerver, Karen reports of a delay by the Board of Supervisors, which deemed a fiscal study was first in order and gives an update on how county residents can participate.

Guest Link:  www.gmofreesonomacounty.com

—-

Guest 2. Cynthia Stebbins, a former university -trained IT specialist, became homeless due to health issues and caring for her dying mother.  Cynthia shares her odyssey and also announces the march and rally before the Santa Rosa City Council on the plight of the homeless in the county that needs to be addressed with rent control, affordable housing and medical care, and living wages.

Guest Link:  Sonoma County Homeless Action facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Homeless-Action-379217005553363/

—-

Music Selections:
 This Land We Want GMO Free
by Sassafras (on YouTube)

A tribute to Michael Jackson. The Earth Song by Andre Rieu and Carmen Monarcha
Uploaded on Jun 25, 2010
Performed in Maastricht in July 2009 in front of 9000 people this is an amazing tribute to Michael Jackson by Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra. The brilliant soloist is the Brasilian singer Carmen Monarcha

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Adrienne Lauby and Charlene Love of Sonoma County Homeless Action, broadcast on 1/18/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

homeless shelter, homeless women assistance, Human Rights, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Adrienne Lauby and Charlene Love of Sonoma County Homeless Action,  broadcast on 1/18/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160118.html

Featuring Guests:

1.Adrienne Lauby ,  Sonoma County Homeless Action, Host of Pushing Limits show on Radio KPFA 94.1 FM.

2. Charlene Love, Sonoma County Homeless Action, formerly Homeless,Urban Farmer

Announcements

Homeless and Human in Sonoma County

Music Break:  By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel and Nick Annis

http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Guests 1.  and 2.  Adrienne Lauby and Charlene Love share their experiences working with the homeless in Sonoma County.  Charlene herself became homeless through a health crisis when disability payments were not able to meet her rent. They put a human face and humanity in the “problem” from which so many people look away  and recommend folks to challenge their sense of identity and look the person in the eye and converse a bit to get to know them.  Homeless are people like you but in dire straits due to mostly situations beyond their control like unsustainable wages and illness.

Tonight (Monday 1/18/15) is a special Homeless Action sleepover at the old Sutter Hospital Chanate Road Campus in Santa Rosa.

Tomorrow, Tuesday 1/19/15, Homeless Action workshops will be held.  This is a great way to get to know some of the 3,000 homeless in Sonoma County.

Guest Links:  Call Adrienne Lauby for info at (707) 332-1894
KPFA Pushing Limits – radio show link

Related Links: Sonoma County Taskforce for the Homeless
and also download the 2-page pdf of the Taskforce:
Executive Summary of Homeless Census and Survey 2015   of  a “snapshop” of homelessness in the county on January 23, 2015, one year ago