Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Misti Harris the new Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Community Engagement Liaison and Lilliana Gallelli on the new DACA rules, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/11/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Immigration, Law enforcement, Sonoma County, women in public service, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Misti Harris the new Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Community Engagement Liaison and Lilliana Gallelli on the new DACA rules, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/11/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170911.html

Announcements

Featured Guests

1. Misti Harris,  Community Engagement Liaison, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office

2. Lilliana Gallelli, Immigration Attorney with Kerosky, Purves and Bogue on
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

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1.  Misti Harris began her role as the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Community Engagement Liaison in March 2017. Her duties include building community relationships, expanding outreach, and providing education about the Sheriff’s Office policies. Misti shares how she builds bridges of understanding with the community through face-to-face interactions, traditional media, and social media. The office came through the work of the Community and Local Law EnforcementTask Force formed by the Board of Supervisors after the klling of 13-year old Andy Lopez by a Sheriff Deputy.in October 2013.

About our Guest:  Misti Harris  was born and raised in Truckee, California. She moved to Sonoma County in 2001 to attend Sonoma State University. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies and Planning with a minor in Spanish. She worked as a land use planner at the City of Cotati and Sonoma County for 13 years before working at the Sheriff’s Office. Her professional experience includes land use planning, public policy, and community outreach. She focuses her volunteer efforts at the Food For Thought food bank as a board member and serving clients in English and Spanish. Misti’s favorite activity is riding her motorcycle, especially when she’s on an adventure with her husband
Guest Link: www.sonomasheriff.org

Email Contact: sheriff-outreach@sonomacounty.org

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2. Lilliana Gallelli comes from immigrant parents and now serves immigrant clients as an immigrant attorney in meeting the legal challenges to their status to work or live in the USA. She updates on the latest executive order of  President Trump to rescind DACA, the  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, and offers a list of suggestions for the “Dreamers” .

About our Guest:  Lilliana Gallelli  has been practicing law since 2004. Her experience includes immigration law, estate planning, closely-held businesses and non-profit organizations. Before joining Kerosky Purves & Bogue, Ms. Gallelli practiced transactional law at Toews Law in San Luis Obispo, CA and later joined her brother at the Gallelli & Gallelli, Inc., law firm in Beverly Hills, CA. Gallelli earned a Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature from California State University Northridge and a Juris Doctor degree from University of La Verne Law School. Affiliations include membership in the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the advisory council of the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission, and for the Sonoma County Latino Service Providers, Board Member of My American Dreams Foundation, and past Board Member of Help A Life Foundation, Inc. Ms. Gallelli speaks fluent Spanish and French and speaks conversational Italian, Portuguese and Lithuanian.

Guest Link: www.kpbimmigrationlawfirm.com

Guest Email Contact: Lgallelli@kpblawyers.com

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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 performed by Indigo Girls from the Album: Strange Fire  (Epic)

Hold On – Keep Your Eye on the Prize by Barbara Daneu and Lightening Hopkins from the Album: Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me
(1966 @ 1996 Arhoolie Productions)

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

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield on Labor Day and Unions, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/4/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Community organizing, fair employment, living wage, service organization, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield on Labor Day and Unions, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/4/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

 

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170904.html

Announcements

Featured Guests

1. Lisa Maldonado,  Area Director, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)1021

1a. Maddy Hirschfield, Political Director, North Bay Labor Council

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1.  Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield join us in the studio, where outside the North Bay Labor Council was finishing its annual Labor Day breakfast at the Carpenter’s Union in Santa Rosa to talk about the origins of Labor Day and their personal journeys into the firght for labor rights. Lisa shares how her immigrant parents were able to get an opening to joining the Middle Class through her dad’s struggle to join and to keep his union job. The 8-hour day and 40-hour week are common today because of workers orgainizing to bargain as a collective unit with the employers leveraging power with their wealth profiting off the labor. Lisa and Maddy also discuss the lobbying efforts around the bill being debated in the State Assembly AB1250,  Project Labor Agreements,and the the trhreat of the “Right To Work” movement to destroy union solidarity in the workplace.

About our Guest:  Lisa Maldonado is the Area Director at SEIU1021 a public employee union representing working people in the North Bay. SEIU1021 represents over 4500 city, county, non-profit and municipal workers and is a strong force for social justice for all working people, leading on campaigns to fight for increased wages, pensions and paid sick leave for all. Lisa is an attorney and has previously worked as Field Director of the ACLU of Northern California where she coordinated field campaigns on issues such as racial profiling, the death penalty, marriage equality and immigrant’s rights. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at KBBF.
Guest Link: SEIU1021 www.seiu1021.org/category/where-we-work/counties/sonoma-county/

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About our Guest:  Maddy Hirschfield  has lived and been active in public life in Sonoma County for more than thirty years. Maddy has a long record of involvement in progressive politics at the local level, having served as manager and/or consultant to dozens of Sonoma County candidate and ballot measure campaigns to protect the environment, health care services, worker rights, transportation and equal rights for all. In 2002 she was voted Sonoma County Democrat of the Year and is Former Chair of the Sonoma County Democratic Party. Over 12 years she served two state legislators as primary speech writer and District Director. She is currently the Political Director for the North Bay Labor Council of the AFL-CIO, that reprepresents over 70 unions.

Guest Links:

North Bay Labor Council
https://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc

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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

We Were There performed by Bev Grant from the Album: We Were There: Songs of Women Labor History  (Human Condition Music)

Bread and Roses by Bobbie McGee from the Album: Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways  (2006 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Which Side are you On by Bev Grant  from the Album: We Were There: Songs of Women Labor History  (Human Condition Music)

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 Susan Lamont on Police Brutality Coalition, June Brashares and Laura Wells on the Green Party CA and Sonoma County, broadcast on 5/29/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Andy Lopez, Community organizing, Self esteem, Sonoma County, women in politics, Women's Spaces

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Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Susan Lamont on Police Brutality Coalition, June Brashares and Laura Wells on the Green Party CA and Sonoma County, broadcast on 5/29/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170529.html

Announcements and Commentary

Police Brutality Coalition – Sonoma County
&
Green Party – CA and Sonoma County

Featured Guests

1. Susan Lamont, Co-Founder, Police Brutality Coalition – Sonoma County;  Elected Green Party County Councilmember

2. June Brashares,  Elected Green Party County Councilmember

3. Laura Wells, California Green Party Member, former Green Party Nominee for State Controller and for Governor of California

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1.   Susan Lamont talks about the Poilice Brutality Coalition in Sonoma County and their support of an  investigation independent of the Sheriff Department in the recent taser killing by Rohnert Park Police of Branch Wroth at the Budget Inn. Branch’s parents, who  are seeking answers. recently settled a lawsuit over the police brutally tasering another son Esa Wroth 23 times while bookiung him on a DUI arrest in the Sonoma County Jail run by the Sheriff. Susan also is on the Green Party Council and will join our next guest on talking about the Green Party.

About our First Guest:  Susan Lamon is a regular guest and a political activist. She co-authored a petition 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. The Police Brutality Coalition was founded becauses of the increasing incidents in the county by those brought together by Sheriff deputy killing of 13-year old Andy Lopez four years ago.  Andy Lopez’s classmates are graduating this year from high school.

Guest Links: Police Brutality Coalition fb page

News Link on Branch Wroth: http://abc7news.com/news/family-demands-answers-after-man-tased-by-rohnert-park-police-dies/1998150/

News Link on Esa Wroth: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/01/13/1-25-million-settlement-for-man-tased-by-sonoma-county-sheriffs-deputies/

Petition: http://www.it-wont-happen-here.org

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2. June Brashares talks about the local emphasis of the Greens in Sonoma County. The Green Party of Sonoma County supports Yes on Mesaure C (Rent Control) ion the ballot for the City of Santa Rosa, and June talks about the spending disparity of 8 to 1 against the Measure by outside money forces. Will the many glossy Mailers urgin a No vote “by those that know” win over the volunteer efforts of knocking on neighbors’ doors?

About our Second Guest:  June Brashsares was the Green Energy Director of Global Exchange in San Francisco before moving to Sonoma County.  June has been acitive clean energy advocacy.

Guest Link: http://sonomagreenparty.org/

Guest LinkedIn Page

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3.  Laura Wells shares her insights on the future of the Greens in California and discusses with June Brasahares and Susan Lamont the local county Green efforts.

About our Second Guest: Laura Wells has run as the Green Party’s nominee for the State Controller and for the Governor of Califorina

Guest Link:  https://laurawells.org/

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Music Selections:

For What It’s Worth Miriam Makeba
from her Album: Keep Me In Mind (Rhino/Warner Bros)

We Are The Women by Betsy Rose
from the Album: Welcome to the Circle (Paper Crane Paper)

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz andguests Cami Courtright on Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock and Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs with Justice, broadcast on 5/22/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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ecology, living wage, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Water, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz andguests Cami Courtright on Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock and Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs with Justice, broadcast on 5/22/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170522.html

Announcements and Commentary

Featured Guests

1. Cami Courtright, Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock

2. Mariela (Mara) Ventura, Lead Organizer of North Bay Jobs with Justice

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1.   Cami Courtright shares her journey to active involvement with drawing attention to the Standing Rock movement to protect the water and Native American Tribal rights. She brings us up to date with the move to encourage banks and other investments tools to divest from the Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL) venture that is causing the environmental damage and potentially much more to major water sources.

About our First Guest:  Cami Courtright obtained her master’s degree in sociology with an emphasis in gender and cultural studies. In 2000 she volunteered at a Women’s Health Education Resource Center on a Native American reservation in South Dakota. She also has worked in a women’s shelter for abused women on a reservation and in the area of alcohol and drug addiction with various populations including working with Native American women. Cami currently works as a behaviorist for a progressive agency which serves the special needs population. Additionally she has written a humorous blog about her home town (Sebastopol) and recently was invited to be a columnist for Sonoma West Times

Guest Links: Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock: (to Facebook page)

The talk that Chase Iron Eyes gave at the SRJC last April 2017 (to YouTube page):

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2. Mara Ventura describes the mission of Jobs with Justice and how she rose to the leadership position in the local North Bay chapter. She updates us with recent achievements in the current Good Jobs and Zero Waste Campaign, including the signing of a Teamster Union Contract with the Ratto Group providing Recycle and Waste Services to Santa Rosa.

About our Second Guest: Mariela (Mara) Ventura hails equally from both coasts but has spent the last 10 years organizing on immigration, education, and worker’s rights in the Pacific Northwest. Born in Colombia and brought here as an infant, Mara is a proud queer immigrant and very actively involved in her community. Mara has her BA in Sociology and is deeply committed to social justice and grassroots direct-action organizing. As the lead organizer for North Bay Jobs with Justice, Mara spends the majority of her time helping build a bridge between issues the community is addressing and fights workers are having to win improvements in their workplaces/industries.

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Music Selections:

For Those Who Dream by Joanne Shandoah and Paul Orgega, from the album Songs of Native American Women  (Canyon Records)

We Were There by Bev Grant
from the album Songs of Women’s Labor History (Human Condition Music)

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 commenting on the use of “Mother” to refer to the MOAB bomb and guests Marjorie Helm on the upcoming Petaluma Community Engagement Fair on May 7 and Dr. Amanda Morrison on the upcoming We the Future Social Justice Conference on April 28, broadcast on 4/17/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Community organizing, Human Rights, Sonoma County, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz commenting on the use of “Mother” to refer to the MOAB bomb and guests Marjorie Helm on the upcoming Petaluma Community Engagement Fair on May 7 and Dr. Amanda Morrison on the upcoming We the Future Social Justice Conference on April 28, broadcast on 4/17/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170417.html

The show began today with
Announcements

followed by
Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz and then her featured Guests:

Commentary: The use of “Mother-of-all-bombs” to describe the 11-ton MOAB  (officially Massive Ordnance Air Blast) is an affront on all mothers.

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Featuring Guests:

1. Marjorie Helm, LCSW, Co-organizer, First annual Petaluma Community Engagement Fair

2.  Dr. Amanda Morrison ,Coordinator of SRJC Petaluma’s Intercultural Center and Chair of North Bay Organizing Project’s Education Justice Task Force

Guest  1.  Marjorie Helm talks about what led her to her involvement in planning the First annual Petaluma Community Engagement Fair to happen on May 7, 2017.  Margie is politically active in Petaluma and co-founded a cross-cultural celebration of El Dia de los Muertos now entering its 17th year. She was honored 2 years ago as Social Worker of the year for Sonoma County and 6 years ago as Petaluma Citizen of the Year. Ms. Helm came out of retirement after the election to work preserving and protecting human rights.
She is a founding member of the Petaluma Community Relations Council (PCRC) and Co-coordinator with her husband Chip Atkins of the Petaluma Community Engagement Fair to occur Sunday May 7, 12:00pm – 4:00pm. It is FREE.
PCRC and other co-sponsors are bringing together local community groups, faith based organizations and nonprofits, with volunteers and activists to encourage, celebrate and increase civic engagement in Petaluma.

Guest Event Link:   Petaluma Community Engagement Fair fb Event page May 7th

Guest Link: Petaluma Community Relations Council petalumacrc.org

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Guest 2.  Dr. Amanda Morrison went to high school at Santa Rosa High, college at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, which includes degree specializations in Mexican American Studies and popular culture studies. She has taught ethnic studies and anthropology classes at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Sonoma State University. In addition to her academic work, she has published articles on popular music and the arts in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Oakland Tribune, and other newspapers. She recently took a full-time position as Coordinator of SRJC Petaluma’s Intercultural Center which is known as “Our House.” Her passion is helping facilitate deep conversations about race and inequality. To this end, Dr. Amanda Morrison has begun advocating for more ethnic studies classes at SRJC and, in her work as Chair of North Bay Organizing Project’s Education Justice Task Force, she’s involved in the campaign to push for ethnic studies in local middle and high schools. Amanda announces the upcoming We the Future Social Justice Conference at the SRJC Petaluma campus on Friday April 28, 2017 from 8am to 6pm.

Guest Link: https://petaluma.santarosa.edu/our-house-intercultural-center

Guest Event:  Registration https://wethefuture.santarosa.edu
This day-long conference aims to raise consciousness and inspire action, reflected in its inaugural theme, “Get Woke Stay Woke.” For those feeling the call toward political action, the conference offers an opportunity to build solidarity among activists of color, working-class folks, interfaith allies, feminists, members of the LGBTQI community, immigrants and the undocumented, labor organizers, and environmentalists whose diverse work is united by a desire to build a more just, humane world.

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Music Selections:

Masters of War sung by Tatiana Moroz from the album Love and Liberty (Tatiana Moroz label).

Get Together sung by the Indio Girls, music and lyrics by Chet Powers, originally recorded by the Kingston Trio   from the album Strange Fire (CBS Records, Inc label)

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 Kimberly Kompel on the SF’s Women’s March of 1/21 and Alicia Ramon on the Sonoma County Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO), broadcast on 1/30/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Andy Lopez, Civil Rights, Community organizing, Self esteem, Sonoma County, unite women, women in politics, women's rights

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Kimberly Kompel on the SF’s Women’s March of 1/21 and Alicia Ramon on the Sonoma County Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach  (IOLERO), broadcast on 1/30/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170130.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Kimberly Kompel: particpant in the Million Women’s March in San Francisco on January 21, 2017

2. Alicia Ramon, Attorney, Chair, Sonoma County Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach

Announcements

Recap of the North Bay Community Engagement Fair at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds on Sunday January 29, 2017

Guest  1.  Kimberley Kompel describes what moved her to march and what she experienced besides a sea of Pink Pussy Hats in the San Francisco part of the national Million Women March on January 21, 2017, the day after the Inaguration of Donald Trump as President of the USA.

Guest Link:
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Guest 2.  Alicia Ramon is the Chair of the new Sonoma County Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO), Alicia is an attorney specializing in tenant rights, civil rights and personal injury claims, Alicia also currently represents clients suing the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, Santa Rosa Police Department, and Sebastopol Police Department concerning the seizure of vehicles. She was also active in seeking reconciliation for the killing of 12-year old Andy Lopez for carrying a toy rifle that appeared threatening to a Sheriff Deputy.  Alicia describes her path to being Chair of IOLERO and how IOLERO, as stated on its website, provides all members of the public with independent and effective review of complaints against the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, making policy recommendations to improve the responsiveness of the Sheriff’s Office to the community, and maintaining continual engagement with members of the public in Sonoma County.  Alicia reminds us that Sonoma County is not a “sanctuary county” and that the Sheriff’s Office will most likely cooperate with the Federal ICE regarding undocumented residents. IOLERO signed on to the petition It Won’t Happen Here – Sonoma County Resistance to the Trump Agenda, which our guest Susan Lamont on the show of 1/9/17 talked about.
Alicia Ramon is also a Board Member of Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (BBFI), the non-profit foundation which holds the licenses  for Radio KBBF.

Guest Link: http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/IOLERO/

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Related – Petition Link:
www.change.org/p/sonoma-county-board-of-supervisors-it-won-t-happen-here-sonoma-county-resistance-to-the-trump-agenda

Related Link: –  List of shows featuring the issue of the killing of Andy Lopez

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Music Selections:

Please Peace by Linda Ferro www.lindaferro.com

The Great Peace March by Holly Near (CD) from her album And Still We Sing
www.hollynear.com/and_still.html

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Cynthia Quinn, Bonny Petty, Dr. Loi Medvin, and Rev. Margaret Flick on Standing Rock Water Protectors, broadcast on 11/21/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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ecology, Human Rights, Indigenous People, living wage, Oil, Santa Rosa, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Cynthia Quinn, Bonny Petty, Dr. Loi Medvin, and Rev. Margaret Flick on Standing Rock Water Protectors, broadcast on 11/21/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA161121.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Cynthia Quinn, a member of the sovereign Yurok Reservation

2. Bonnie Petty, Leader iin North Bay Jobs with Justice/Living Wage Coalition, Communications Vice President of the Santa Rosa Democratic Club

3. Dr. Loi Medvin, Licensed Psychologist in trauma tranformation, Co-producer, For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit supporting the Water Protectors facing off the Dakota Access Pipeline on Nov.6th

4.  Rev. Margaret Flick, Unity Minister, Santa Rosa Unity

Announcements

Guest  1.  Cynthia Quinn describes how her grandmother kept the Yurok traditions alive, and she in turn for her daughter, and her daughter awoke her to the urgency of the situation in Standing Rock and their need to visit the scene of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).  Cynthia’s grandmother’s teachings came alive in that community of Water Protectors that greeted them at Standing Rock.

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2.  Bonnie Petty shares how those fighting for a living working wage felt the need to show solidarity and joined the demonstration supporting Standing Rock in downtown Santa Rosa on November 11, 2016.

Guest Linkz: northbayjobswithjustice.org

http://democlub.org/

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3.  Dr. Loi Medvin reports on the For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit supporting the Water Protectors facing off the Dakota Access Pipeline that occured o Nov.6th.  Over $30,000 was raised at the benefit at the Sebastopol Grange.

Guest Link: Past EventLinks: For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit on November 6th,

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4.  Rev. Margaret Flick leads us into centering ourselves as we deal with our national ordeal.

Guest Link: https://unityofsantarosa.com/

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Music Selections: 

By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel (CD) http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado of SEIU1021 and Shekeyna Black of the Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center, broadcast on 9/5/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

peace activist, service organization, Sonoma County, women in public service, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado of SEIU1021 and Shekeyna Black of the Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center,  broadcast on 9/5/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160905html

Featuring Guests:

1. Lisa Maldonado, Ffield Director, Service Employee International Union, local SEIU 1021, Sonoma County

2.Shekeyna Black, Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County

Announcements

Guest 1.  Lisa Maldonado talks about the influence of unions on the American workplace and in the world, as well as the recent wins for Sonoma County public employees to gain $15 minimum wage and in the state legislature for overtime pay for farmworkers in spite of opposition by Sonoma County local assemblyman Jim wood and state senator Mke McGuire.

Guest Link: http://www.seiu1021.org/category/where-we-work/counties/sonoma-county/

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Guest 2.  Shekeyna Black looks back on her first year as Center Coordinator of the Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa and announces a PJC Concert in the Hub on Saturday September 10 at the Plaza Park in Cotati from 11:30am to 5pm.

Guest Link:  www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org

www.facebook.com/PJCSonoma/

Concert in the Hub event link

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Music Selections:

Union Maid  New Harmony Sisterhood Band sing Woody Guthrie’s classic labor song

Which Side Are You On sung by Natalie Merchant – written in 1931 by Florence Reece, the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Vesta Copestakes and Sabrina Krauss on the Bernie Sanders Rally in Cloverdale and guest Susan Kinder on Restorative Justice, broadcast on 6/6/16, has been uploaded to the web archives

Tags

Self esteem, Vote, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Vesta Copestakes and Sabrina Krauss on the Bernie Sanders Rally in Cloverdale and guest Susan Kinder on Restorative Justice,  broadcast on 6/6/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160606.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Vesta Copestakes  ,  Publisher/Editor, Sonoma County Gazette, Witness to the Bernie Sanders Campaign Rally in Cloverdale, CA on Friday 6/3/16.

2. Sabrina Struss, Witness to the Bernie Sanders Campaign Rally in Cloverdale, CA

3. Susan Kinder, Executive Director, Restorative Resources

Announcements

Guest 1.  Vesta Copestakes visited the Bernie Sanders Democratic Presidential Campaign Rally in Cloverdale, CA with her daughter and granddaughter on Friday and gives us a report.

Guest Link: www.sonomacountygazette.com

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Guest 2.  Sabrina Struss also visited the Bernie Sanders Rally in Cloveredale and shares her impressions.

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Guest 3.  Susan Kinder discusses the services provided by Restorative Resources to bring more understanding and compassion to the justice process for both victims and perpetrators.

Guest link: www.restorativeresources.org

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Music Selections:

Get out the Vote by Frustrated Students (on Youtube)

Dance me to the end of Love, The Civil Wars perform Leonard Cohen’s song with singers John Paul White and Joy Williams (on Youtube)

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Jan Blalock, Sonoma County Commissioner on the Status of Women, and Leslie Christianer on TPP secret corporate tribunals, broadcast on 1/25/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Community organizing, Self esteem, Sonoma County, women in public service, women's rights, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Jan Blalock, Sonoma County Commissioner on the Status of Women, and Leslie Christianer on TPP secret corporate tribunals,  broadcast on 1/25/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160125.html

Featuring Guests:

1.AJan Blalock ,  Sonoma County Commissioner on the Status of Women

2. Leslie Christianer, retired teacher,concerned citizen

Announcements

  Music Break: Trees by the Platters

The Status of Women in Sonoma County

Guest 1.   Jan Blalock talks of her path to becoming a Sonoma County Commissioner  on the Status of Women it’s mission, its support for Planned Parenthood, and it’s sponsorship of the upcoming annual One Billion Rising event on February 14th.

http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Commission-on-the-Status-of-Women/

http://onebillionrisingnb.org/

www.facebook.com/OneBillionRisingNorthBay/

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Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty

Guest 2. Leslie Christianer discusses the Investors’ State Settlement of the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty (TPP) awaiting ratification by the US Congress.  Thisis a secret corporate tribunal that can override laws and regulations in the US.

TPP Informational Meeting 1/27/15 at 6pm at
Odd Fellows, 545 Pacific Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA

More info on the event: http://www.sierraclub.org/redwood/blog/2016/01/save-date-tpp-rally-santa-rosa-january-27

TPP Rally 2/4/15 at 3:30-5:30  in Downtown Santa Rosa at B St. and Santa Rosa Avenue