Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B Holtz with guests Laura Wells on Public Banking and Supervisor Susan Gorin, Chair, on Sonoma County’s Coronavirus Guidelines has been uploaded to the web archive.

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pandemic, Public Banking

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B Holtz  with guests Laura Wells on Public Banking and Supervisor Susan Gorin, Chair, on Sonoma County’s Coronavirus Guidelines has been uploaded to the web archive.  The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 4/27/2020 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 4/29/2020 at 11 AM.

Listen to the show at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200427.html

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Public Banking

Supervisor Susan Gorin on Coronavirus Guidelines in Sonoma County

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

Featuring

1. Laura Wells, Public Banking Advocate

2. Susan Gorin,  Chair, Board of Supervisors, Sonoma County

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 Our Featured Guests

 

1.  Laura Wells has been encouraging Public Banking for over 10 years when she campaigned for the Governor of California. In October 2019 Governor Newsom, as only the second state to do so, signed into law the ability for counties and cities to form Public Banks. Laura recounts the history of Public Banking beginning in North Dakota by farmers being foreclosed by banks lobbying successfully to form a Public Bank in that state in 1919, one hundred years before California legalized it.  Public Banking, according to Laura, can be helpful to localities in accessing the benefits of the CARES Act, just signed into  law as the Federal response to the Coronavirus pandemic.

About our Guest:  Laura Wells is a Green Party organizer residing in Oakland. She has run as a candidate for State Controller and Governor of California. Her platform has been to reform Prop 13 in order to tax the rich and to close corporate tax loopholes. When she ran for Governor in 2010 she introduced many Californians to the solution of Public Banks.

Guest Links: 

https://laurawells.org/

Friends of Public Banking Santa Rosa: http://www.publicbanksantarosa.org/
https://www.facebook.com/publicbanksantarosa/

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2.  Susan Gorin, Chair of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, gives us a report on the County’s efforts to slow the infection rate of the Coronavirus and what measures are in place and what will will be relaxed later this week. Supervisor Gorin encourages county residents to visit the county’s YouTube Channel with videos of public meetings and advice in English and Spanish, as well as to visit the  Emergency and Preparedness website  https://socoemergency.org/ for the current Health Orders and  links and telephone numbers that address the pandemic issues. A Dashboard on this website at the bottom of the home page gives one the number of new and total cases to date, recovered cases, deaths,  COVID-19 tests given, and graphs of new cases by date and Bay Area county cases.

About our Guest:  Susan Gorin represents the First District of Sonoma County and is the Chair.  Her biography on the county website states:

Ms. Gorin attended Santa Rosa Junior College and continued her education at Sonoma State University, graduating in 1991 cum laude with degree in Political Science and Economics. She became involved in local government and served as Chair of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, President of the Court Appointed Special Advocates Board, Vice-President of the Sonoma County Public Library Foundation, Advisory Board member of Safe Havens for Youth, and President of the League of Women Voters.

In 1996 Ms. Gorin was elected to the Santa Rosa School Board, subsequently served on the Santa Rosa Board of Public Utilities, and Santa Rosa Planning Commission. She then successfully ran for the Santa Rosa City Council where she served for six years. In addition to serving as a six-year city council member and two years as Mayor, Ms. Gorin was elected by the Sonoma County Mayors’ and Councilmembers’ Association to serve as their representative on the Executive Boards for the Association of Bay Area Governments and Bay Area Air Quality Management District. In 2012, Ms. Gorin was elected to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, representing the First District.

Guest Link: https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Board-of-Supervisors/District-1/

Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness website:  https://socoemergency.org/

Sonoma County YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/officialsonomacounty

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 Herstory

A larger Compilation is at the National Women’s History Alliance

April 26, 1777 – American Revolution heroine Sybil Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles on horseback in the middle of the night to warn the American militia that the British were invading

April 28, 1993 – First “Take Our Daughters to Work” Day, sponsored by the Ms. Foundation, in 2003 it became “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work” Day

Her Birthdays This Week

April 27, 1906 (1993) – Alice Dunnigan, first African-American journalist accredited to cover Congress (1947) and the White House, Supreme Court and State Department, documented Klan actions when no “white” newspaper covered them, first journalist of color to travel with President Truman on his train (1948) but had to pay her own way, appointed to the staff of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (1961)

April 27, 1927 (2006) – Coretta Scott King, civil rights, human rights, and peace activist and wife of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponements or cancellations due to pandemic precautions.

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January 25 through September 13, 2020,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 Times They Are a Changing sung by The Brothers and Sisters from the Album Dylans Gospels (1969 Ode Records)

We Shall Overcome sung by Mahalia Jackson from the album We Shall Overcome (2006 Charly Records)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Cynthia Leung and Sarah Shrader on Sonoma County Museum’s summer exhibit Grass Roots on the history of Cannabis, and Shelly Browning on Public Banking, has been uploaded to web archive.

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Cannabis, Drug War, Medical Cannabis, Public Banking

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Cynthia Leung and Sarah Shrader on Sonoma County Museum’s summer exhibit Grass Roots on the history of Cannabis, and Shelly Browning on Public Banking, has been uploaded to web archive. The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 6/24//19 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 6/26/19 at 11 AM.

Visit the show’s web archive page to listen to the audio recording:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA190624.html

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Grass Roots Cannabis Exhibition
at the Sonoma County Museum
Public Banking Needs in Santa Rosa

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Featuring Guests

1. Cynthia Leung, Director of Public Programs and Tours

2. Sarah Schrader, Chair, Americans for Safe Access

3. Shelly Browning, Co-founder, Friends of Public Banking Santa Rosa

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Announcements (Click for links below)

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 Our Featured Guests

1. Cynthia Leung describes the Sonoma County Museum exhibit on the history of the human use of Cannabis and traces its spread around the world to the different continents, with special note of its arrival in California and the eventual popularity of the Emerald Triangle of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity Counties for its cannabis strains favored by users for it medicinal and recreational use.  The exhibit features posters and drug store potions sold before the prohibition of cannabis in some states, including California and then the Federal Government in 1937. A couple of live plants under lights and AI controlled water and temperature are featured, so visitors know this is not an abstract but real subject. .Cynthia talks about the conception of the exhibit that is curated by Eric Stanley, Associate Director and History Curator, and Brian Applegarth. Cynthia discovered it was good environment to talk about cannabis and drug use in general to her children.

About our Guest:  Cynthia Leung has worked at the Museum of Sonoma County since 2013. She has worked as a Visitor Services and Volunteer Coordinator, and presently is now working as the Museum’s Director of Public Programs and Tours. Cynthia manages the educational arm of the Museum, which includes school and private adult tours, the Museum’s outreach programs, including Art4Kids program, and the Museum’s public programs.Cynthia also organizes the Museum’s annual Dia de los Muertos exhibit.

Guest Links: https://museumsc.org/

Guest Event Link:  Grass Roots Exhibition https://museumsc.org/grass-roots/

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2.  Sarah Schrader contributed to museum’s exhibit  on the history of the medical use of cannabis.  She share how she came to advocate for patient’s rights with American for Safe Access, a national lobbying organization founded in 2002 to ensure safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research.

About our Guest:  Sarah Schrader is the Chapter Chair of Americans for Safe Access. The Chapter holds meetings the first Thursday of the month at the Arlene Francis Center.

Guest Links:

Americans for Safe Access – Sonoma County Chapter www.safeaccessnow.org/sonoma_county_asa_chapter

Guest Event Link:  Grass Roots Exhibition https://museumsc.org/grass-roots/

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3.  Shelly Browning shares her journey in discovering the importance of public banking, drawing upon experiences as a Peace Corp Volunteer in Tunisia, the Occupy Movement arising as the Recession began in 2008 and later in business.  Shelliey talks of the public bank that was formed in North Dakota by farmers striving for economic parity with neighboring states. She encourages us to contact our California State Senator to support public banking coming forth as bill AB857, which the city of Santa Rosa supports through a resolution it just passed. Shelley talks about the benefits of public banking if Santa Rosa would bank with it rather than with its present banker Chase Bank, which is the largest lender to Big Oil.

About our Guest: Shelly Browning is the owner and operator of a local sign language interpreting agency. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in English as a Second Language. She has been actively involved in the Public Banking movement for the past 7 years. She helped to establish the Friends of Public Banking Santa Rosa and is actively involved with the statewide California Public Banking Alliance, which is a coalition of public banking activists in cities from San Diego to Eureka working collectively to create socially and environmentally responsible city and regional public banks.

Guest links:  Friends of Public Banking Santa Rosa http://www.publicbanksantarosa.org/

California Public Banking Alliance (CPBA) https://californiapublicbankingalliance.org/

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Announcements

June 16 – September 15, 2019, Grass Roots – Cannabis from Prohibition to Prescription, Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa  https://museumsc.org/grass-roots/

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Saturday, June 29, 6-8:00 PM, North Bay Jobs with Justice: Honoring the Work of Marty Bennett, Petaluma Veterans Building – 1094 Petaluma Blvd. S. – Petaluma  https://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc/events/honoring-work-marty-bennett?fbclid=IwAR23hW_STl9WSLKHoyci5bVmTZhHDXOlE_mwMwcHMoxumNH4gJlWwKcB-qc

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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

Anniversary Song sung by Dinah Shore from the album Best of the 40’s (2014 Soul Vibes)

Whose The Pusher Now sung by Ellen Buckstell from the album Legalize It: It’s Natural (2012 Ellen Bukstel)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

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

 

Women’s Space Radio Show with our guests Mary Watts on this Saturday’s Biennial Election of Assembly District Delegates to the CA Democratic State Central Committee and Leslie Graves on planning the January 19th Women’s March in Santa Rosa, recorded on 1/7/19, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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women in politics, women's march

Women’s Space Radio Show with our guests Mary Watts on this Saturday’s Biennial Election of Assembly District Delegates to the CA Democratic State Central Committee and Leslie Graves on planning the January 19th Women’s March in Santa Rosa, recorded on 1/7/19, 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 1/7/19 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Wednesday 1/9/19.

The Recording of the show is archived at   http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA190107.html

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Biennial Meeting to Elect Assembly District Delegates to the California Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC)

Planning the Santa Rosa 2019 Women’s Marc

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Featuring Guests

1. Mary Watts,  Candidate for Assembly District Delegate and Executive Board to the California Democratic State Central Committee; former candidate for Santa Rosa City Council; Deputy Director for the Community Action Partnership (CAP).

2. Leslie Graves, Chief Organizer, Women’s March in Santa Rosa this coming January 19th; Market & Event Manager at Santa Rosa Wednesday Night Market

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Announcements (Click for links below)

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1. Mary Watts talks about where she gets her passion for politics.  Mary describes for us a bit of the Democratic Party process to elect Assembly District (AD) Delegates to the Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) every two years, since the biennial meeting is scheduled this Saturday morning in Santa Rosa at the Odd Fellows Hall for registered Democrats to vote for the delegates, of which half of the 14 delegates are to be self-identified females. After a breakfast  the voting begins at 11 AM.  According tot the Party website, “AD Delegates to the Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) are responsible for planning and attending informational meetings throughout the region and working with other DSCC delegates throughout California to represent their community.”

About our Guest: Mary Watts recently ran  for Santa Rosa City Council in the first election by districts in the city history. Though she was unsuccessful in her bid for the Council seat, she continues her community work as Deputy Director for the Community Action Partnership (CAP) in the county of Sonoma.  She is a candidate to be a Democratic Party Assembly District Delegate and Executive Board to the Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) of California.

Guest Links:

www.facebook.com/VoteMaryWatts/

California Democratic Party site www.cadem.org/our-party/adem

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2.  Leslie Graves talks about the planning of the 2019 Women’s March on Saturday January 19 and the graciousness of the 3rd Street Cinema in Santa Rosa to give a special free viewing of the film Women’s March this Thursday, January 10, at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm.  In spite of upsets at the big march in New York, the Santa Rosa march is continuing with broad representation of our community in the line-up of speakers at the rally beginning at 10 AM in the Old Courthouse Square, followed by the march at noon..

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. Currently she has been the Market and Event Manager for the Wednesday Night Market in Downtown Santa Rosa since coming on board in 2016. 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. She is presently coordinator for the upcoming Women’s March on January 19th.

Guest Links: 

Women’s March film January 10th https://allevents.in/santa%20rosa/womens-march-a-documentary-film-about-democracy-and-human-rights/1000053185876388

 Women’s March in Santa Rosa, January 19th, https://www.facebook.com/events/269734966995428/

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Annnnouncements

January 10, 2919, Thursday, Film Viewing Women’s March, 3rd Street Cinema, Santa Rosa, 6 PM to 7:30 PM, Free viewing, RSVP srwm@gmail.com

https://allevents.in/santa%20rosa/womens-march-a-documentary-film-about-democracy-and-human-rights/1000053185876388

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January 12, 2019, Saturday, Democratic Party Assembly District 2 Election, Odd Fellows Hall, 545 Pacific Ave.,Santa Rosa, Voting starts at 11 AM. Voting open to all registered Democrats. Information on the selection process in the Democratic Party Assembly District Election Meetings (ADEM), which occur every 2 years in January is at hhttps://www.cadem.org/our-party/adem

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January 19, 2019, Saturday, 10 AM to 1:30 PM, Women’s March in Santa Rosa, sponsored by the Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center and Leslie Graves. https://www.facebook.com/events/269734966995428/

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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

A Change is Gonna Come sung by Leela Jamess from the album A Change is Gonna Come ( 2003 2004 2005 Warner Bros. Records Incorporated)

Break The Chain sung by 1 Billion Rising from the  Break The Chain – Single Record (2012 Tena Clark Productions)

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – whole song is played

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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Green Party, homelessness, Sexual Abuse

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 host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Noreen Evans on PGE Wildfire Litigation and Christine Pelosi on local Democratic Party strategies, recorded on 7/2/18, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Wildfire, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Noreen Evans on PGE Wildfire Litigation and Christine Pelosi on local Democratic Party strategies, recorded on 7/2/18, 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 7/2/18 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Tuesday 7/3/18.

The link to the show’s archive webpage is

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA180702.html

Wildfire Litigation Against PG&E

San Francisco Area Democratic Party Strategie

Announcements    (See Links below)

Featured Guests

1.  Noreen Evans, former California State Senator, Litigation Attorney on Tubbs Wildfire of October 2017.

2.  Christine Pelosi, Author, Campaign Bootcamp; Democratic Party strategist

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1. Noreen Evans shares what sparked her interest in law and in politics, and as a woman navigated her way through the halls of power. Since the wildfire disaster that struck Sonoma and surrounding North Bay counties in the Fall of 2017, Noreen has been in the forefront to represent victims of the fires in litigation against the utility power company PG&E. Noreen explains the issues before the court and the mounting evidence against PG&E for neglecting to maintain the power lines properly in wooded areas and keep them free from interfence from brush and trees as mandated by the Public Utilities Commission. Noreen announces the addition of Erin Brockovich to her team, as Erin led the charge against PGE in HInckley, California, of which a film as been made. Noreen gives this advice when facing injustice: “Bear witness – make a fuss!” Noreen did just that when as a state senator and leader of the State Commission on the Status of Women she led the fight to keep the funding when it was challenged.

About our Guest: Noreen Evans is a California native,and has been practicing law in Sonoma County since 1982. She served in the California State Legislature for a decade and is responsible for numerous pieces of legislation relating to the administration of justice and California’s wine industry. Noreen received her BA degree in Government (with honors) in 1978 from California State University, Sacramento. She graduated from University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 1981. In 1996, Noreen was elected to the Santa Rosa City Council, and re-elected in 2000. She served until 2004, when she was elected to represent the 7th Assembly District in the California State Assembly and served until 2010. She was elected to represent the 2nd Senate District of California in 2010 and served until 2014 when she decided to return to law practice. Noreen became the first (and only) woman to receive the Judicial Council’s Stanley Mosk “Defender of Justice Award.” She currently works at the law firm, O’Brien Watters & Davis LLP.; and on the wildfire litigation works at Mauro, Archer, and Associates LLC.

Guest Link: http://pgelawsuit.com/

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2. Christine Pelosi shares her insights on the Families Belong Together rallies, local Indivisible groups and other democratic groups for people to join to prepare for the November elections to win more seats for progessive Democrats.

About our Guest: Christine Paule Pelosi is an American Democratic Party political strategist from California and author of Campaign Boot Camp 2.0 (2012) and Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders’ (2007), books used in her leadership trainings for candidates and causes.
Since 2005 she has directed the AFSCME PEOPLE Congressional Candidates Boot Camp, which prepares Democrats for campaigns and has helped over 40 challengers get elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the nation’s largest and fastest growing public services employees union with more than 1.6 million working and retired members. She holds a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.[1] In addition, Pelosi has served as volunteer board member for the National AIDS Memorial Grove and the New Leaders Council. Pelosi has also served as a board member and the Interim Executive Director of the Young Democrats of America (2011). Christine is the daughter of San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives since 2011 and before that the first and only woman to serve as the House Speaker.

Guest LInk: www.christinepelosi.com

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Announcement Links

Last week’s guest Leslie Graves wrote on Facebook about the Families Belong Together Rally of Saturday June 30:

“Hung out with 3000+ friends, family and community yesterday ….
So many moments touched my heart – from the individual stories of each of our amazing speakers to those who came and told me their stories afterwards. Courthouse Square was made for events like this where the community comes together to affect change. We are all connected and now thanks to great front line community groups we have the resources to take action in that change. Thank you again to everyone for coming out and standing together! #familiesbelongtogether”

Families Belong Together Rally in Courthouse Square fb event 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

Prayer Of Saint Francis sung by Elira Hari  from the Album Open Hand  (2000 Elira Hari)

We Are The World sung by the Countdown Kids from the Album: You’ve Got a Friend ( 2002 Madacy Kid)

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

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Kathleen Furey of the California Guild on Glyphosate listed as CA Prop 65 Carcinogen , broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 7/3/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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ecology, GMO, Nutrition, Pesticides, women in politics, Women's Spaces

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Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Kathleen Furey of the California Guild on Glyphosate listed as CA Prop 65 Carcinogen , broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 7/3/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170703.html

California Prop 65 Carcinogen Listing of Glyphosate

Announcements and Commentary

Featured Guests

1. Kathleen Furey, Communications Director, California Guild/Sacramento Community Guild

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1.   Kathleen Furey describes her journey of discovery and advocacy for food safety in helping the California Guild support the listing on California Prop 65 Carcinogen LIst of Glyphosate, an active ingredient in over 700 products, including herbicides like Roundup, sold to large farms and home gardener, as well as to governments, national to local, for weed abatement.  The danger is very near for small children and pets, who play and forage on pavements and soil where the herbicide is sprayed and toxic residues remain.  All of the GMO (Genically Modified Organisms) “Roundup Ready” crops are grown with the heavy use of Roundup.

About our Guest:  Kathleen Furey is a member of the California Guild and the Sacramento Community Guild, where she serves as Communications Director. The California Guild advocates for legislation on Clean Food, Water and Soil Issues, Small Farmers Rights, Seed Freedom and Seed Sovereignty, at a time when the world’s largest seed companies are busy buying up and patenting Heritage Seeds around the world.
Kathleen Furey graduated magna cum laude from Stony Brook University, New York, Sustainability Studies Department and holds her B.A. degree in Environmental Humanities, where she specialized in food policy. She is a film maker, photographer, multi-media graphics designer and editor, musician, and consults for National Geographic online Book Talks. She can be seen and heard on TV, Radio and the web bi-coastally, speaking about GMOs, the dangers of Glyphosate, and advocating for healthy ecosystems, just about any place on Earth where people eat food. Clean Food Earth is her blog.

Guest Link: http://cleanfoodearth.blogspot.com/

Gyphosate is dangerous at very minute levels

And just what is ppt?

Event Link: July 7th CA EPA lists Gyphosate on Prop 65 Carcinogen List

http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/tags/glyphosate

Kathleen Furey will be at the The National Herloom Festival September 5-7, 2017 in Santa Rosa
http://theheirloomexpo.com/

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Music Selections:

Blood of the Ancestors by Betsy Rose from her Album: Welcome to the Circle (Paper Crane Music)

We Are Here by Sharon Bruch from her Album: Songs of Native American Women
(Canyon Records)

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 commenting on defunding of Planned Parenthood and rift at Sonoma County IOLERO CAC and guest Jerilyn Stapleton on NOW National Organization for Women in California, broadcast on 4/3/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Andy Lopez, Community organizing, Sonoma County, unite women, women in politics, women's rights, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz commenting on defunding of Planned Parenthood and rift at Sonoma County IOLERO CAC and guest Jerilyn Stapleton on NOW National Organization for Women in California, broadcast on 4/3/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170403.html

he show began today with
Announcements
followed by
Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz on two issues:

1.  Defunding of Planned Parenthood through Vice-President Pence’s vote to break the tie in the U.S. Senate.

2. The Sonoma County Independent Office of Law Enforcement and Outreach (IOLERO) is assisited by the Community Advisory Committee in the handling of complaints against the Sheriff’s Office.  A recent CAC disagreement with the Director met with the  dismissal of the Committee President Alicia Ramon by the Director of IOLERO, Jerry Threet, causing distrust to arise among those advocating for better community relations with the Sheriff.
Commentary Link:  http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Community-Advisory-Council/

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Featuring Guests:

1. Jerilyn Stapleton, President, CA State Region, NOW National Organzation of Women

Guest  1.  Jerilyn Stapleton was already a union activist working on wages, working conditions and the image of women and minorities in film and TV as Co-Chair of the AFTRA Women’s Committee when she joined the Los Angeles Chapter of NOW. She founded the Hollywood Chapter of NOW and is at present the President of the California NOW coordinating the chapters in the state.  Jerilyn talks about the history of NOW and the present issues facing women.

Guest Link:   http://canow.org

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Music Selections:

Hey Mr. Politician by Ellen Bukstel (CD) from her album Daddy’s Little Girl http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Everybody Knows by Concrete Blond (Lyrics and Music by Leonard Cohen)

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 guest Veronica Jacobi, candidate for the 10th Assembly District, broadcast on 9/26/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

Tags

Veronica Jacobi, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Veronica Jacobi, candidate for the 10th Assembly District, broadcast on 9/26/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160926html

Featuring Guest:

1. Veronica Jacobi, Candidate, California State Assembly, 10th District; former Santa Rosa City Council Member

Announcements

Guests 1. Veronica Jacobi shares her  plan for representing the 10th District in the State Assembly, with emphasis on water sustainability, wildfire preparedness, and good jobs for good climate.

Guest Link: http://ronijacobi.com/

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Elaine read two of her poems.

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Music Selections: Suffragists: The Fight to Vote  (on YouTube)

A Change is Gonna Come by Leela James singing Sam Cooke’s song (on YouTube)

Masters of War by Julie Felix singing  Bob Dylan’s song (on YouTube)

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

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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

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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