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

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Finding One's Voice, Peacemaker

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

Listen to the show at:

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

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Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center Peacemaker Awards 2019

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

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Featuring Guests

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

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

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Announcements (Click for section below)

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Our Featured Guests

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

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

Guest Links: www.pjcsoco.org

Guest Event:

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

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

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

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Women’s Herstory

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

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Announcements

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

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

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

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

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

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For music purchasing opportunity:

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

 

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

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migrants, refugees

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

Listen to the show at:

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

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Love Without Borders For Refugees in Need

Domestic Violence Month

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Featuring Guests

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

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

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Announcements (Click for section below)

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Our Featured Guests

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

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

Guest Links:  http://lovewithoutborders4refugees.com/

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

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

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

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

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

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Announcements

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

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

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

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

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

Gradina Balkan Choral and Instrumental Music

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

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

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

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

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

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

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

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For music purchasing opportunity:

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

 

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz reflects through songs and poetry with commentary on current events has been uploaded to the web archive.

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Children

Women’s Space Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz reflects through songs and poetry with commentary on current events has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 10/7/19 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 10/9/19 at 11 AM. 

Listen to the show at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA191007.html

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Reflections by Elaine B. Holtz, Co-Producer and Host, Women’s Spaces

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Announcements (Click for section below)

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Elaine B.Holtz first announces the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County Peacemaker Awards, to be awarded Saturday November 9, 2019 at the Redwood Cafe at a Benefit Concert for the Peace & Justice Center. She then reads a poem of hers called Why, What Does All This Mean? and a poem by Dr. Dorothy Law Nolte called Children Learn What They Live.

What Does All This Mean? by Elaine B. Holtz

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

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

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

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

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

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Children Learn What They Live
by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and
in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in
which to live.

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About our Host: Elaine B. Holtz is the host of Women’s Spaces. Elaine first produced the show in 1978 on KBBF FM in Santa Rosa, the nation’s first bilingual radio station, and it lasted unitl 1981. In 2007 Elaine her partner Kenneth Norton resurrected the show for TV with her first TV broadcast on Santa Rosa Community station through Comcast Cable Access. In December 2011 she produced her 200th TV show. In September 2012 Elaine began producing the Women’s Spaces Radio Show on Radio KBBF-89.1 FM out of their Santa Rosa, CA studio. Elaine as a single mom was a student in the first Women’s Studies Department of Sonoma State Universtiy where you graduated in 1975 with her B.A. in Sociology and gave the Graduation Speech. She then earned her M.A. in Education from San Francisco State University in 1978. She has always had a special interest in the needs and talents of women. In 2017 Elaine was appointed the current President of the Sonoma County Chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW).

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Announcements

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

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

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

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

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

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

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

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

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For music purchasing opportunity:

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

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

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Benefit, capitalism, Male dominance, Sexual Abuse

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

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

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Upcoming 9/12 Benefit Concert for André Russell

Understanding the Jeffrey Epstein Case

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Featuring Guests

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

2. Dr. Harriet Fraad,  Hypnotherapist, Author,

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Announcements (Click for section below)

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 Our Featured Guests

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

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

Guest Link: www.pjcsoco.org

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

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

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

Guest Link: www.harrietfraad.com

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Announcements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

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

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

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For music purchasing opportunity:

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

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Becky Hobbs and her musical tribute to Nancy Ward, Nanyehi of the Cherokees, recorded on 10/22/18, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Indigenous People, peace activist, Women in history, Women in music

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Becky Hobbs and her musical tribute to Nancy Ward, Nanyehi of the Cherokees,  recorded on 10/22/18, 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 10/22/18 and repeat broadcast and streamed over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM in Petaluma on Tuesday 10/23/18.

The link to the show’s archive webpage is

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA181022.html 

Featuring Guest:

1. Becky Hobbs, Singer, Songwriter, Performer on Nanyehi: Beloved Woman of the Cherokee

Announcements (See links below)

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1. Becky Hobbs talks of her journey in music and to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, which also led her to produce a musical in honor of her 5th Great Grandmother Nanyehi, also known as Nancy Ward, of the Cherokee Nation, who was honored as a great warrior woman but who spoke out for peace between her and the new European settlers in the 1700s. Listen to Becky help bring Nanyehi alive as a messenger of peace for today beginning with the women, as Elaine plays 5 of the songs from the album Nanyehi: Beloved Woman of the Cherokee. Perhaps a listener can help bring the musical produced by Becky Hobbs and Nick Sweet, Nanyehi – the Story of Nancy Ward, to stage in the North Bay?

About our Guest: Becky Hobbs, “The Beckaroo,” as she is called by her friends, was born and raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She started playing piano and writing songs when she was nine years old and in high school formed “The Four faces of Eve,” the first all-female rock band in the state of Oklahoma. Becky has performed in over 40 countries, including nine in Africa. Her songs have been recorded by Alabama, Conway Twitty (#1 hit I Want To Know You Before We Make Love), George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Glen Campbell, Wanda Jackson, John Anderson, Janie Fricke, Lacy J Dalton, Moe Bandy, Shelly West, Helen Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Jane Oliver, Ken Mellons, Demi Lovato, and others. She is the co-writer of Alabama’s hit, Angels Among Us, which has been used by many charities throughout the world, including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In 2011, Becky’s CD, “Nanyehi-Beloved Woman of the Cherokee” was released. It contains 17 songs written for a musical, based on the life of her 5th-great grandmother, Nancy Ward (1738-1822). She co-produced with Nick Sweet the musical Nanyehi – the Story of Nancy Ward. Becky was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on Oct. 16, 2015.

Guest Links:

http://nanyehi.com for album and musical stage production, biographical links for Nancy Ward

http://beckyhobbs.com/

https://www.facebook.com/nanyehithemusical/posts/1658949264128097

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Announcements:

Thursday, October 25, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm,, Film screeining premier of Power & Control : Domestic Violence in America at Summerfield Cinemas in Santa Rosa,  Dine & donate at Mary’s Pizza Shack just prior to the film. The YWCA dine & donate will be from 5-7pm.

Event Link: www.ywcasc.org/blog/event/power-control-domestic-violence-in-america

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Saturday Oct. 27, 2018:  The North Bay Discovery Day,  a free all-day event happening at the Sonoma County Fair Grounds. The annual event offers hands-on activities for kids and teenagers to learn about how Science, Mathematics, Technology and Engineering help us understand and succeed in our world. All volunteers,sponsors and fascnating exhibitors make this free event possible. Check www.northbayscience.org to see how you can get involved and the facebook page www.facebook.com/northbaysciencediscoveryday/

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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

White Wolf On The Horizon by Becky Hobbs from the Album Nanyehi – Beloved Woman of the Cherokee (2011 Beckaroo Records)

Nanyehi by Becky Hobbs from the Album Nanyehi – Beloved Woman of the Cherokee (2011 Beckaroo Records)

O Gret Spirit by Becky Hobbs from the Album Nanyehi – Beloved Woman of the Cherokee  (2011 Beckaroo Records)

Let There Be Peace by Becky Hobbs from the Album Nanyehi – Beloved Woman of the Cherokee (2011 Beckaroo Records)

Pale Moon by Becky Hobbs from the Album Nanyehi – Beloved Woman of the Cherokee  (2011 Beckaroo Records)

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

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with CoProducer and Host Elaine B. Holtz and Co-Producer Kenneth E. Norton on their motivation and collaboration to present the show Women’s Spaces, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 12/18/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Self esteem, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with CoProducer and Host Elaine B. Holtz and Co-Producer Kenneth E. Norton on their motivation and collaboration to present the show Women’s Spaces,  broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 12/18/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA171218.html

Featured

1. Elaine B. Holtz and Kenneth E. Norton, Co-Producers, Women’s Spaces

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1.   We, Elaine B. Holtz and Kenneth E. Norton, interview ourselves as the Producers of the Women’s Spaces Show to reveal a bit more about about what motivates us in putting the show together.  As an exception to featuring only women guests  on Women’s Spaces and starting a tradition on this last show of the year, Elaine interviews Ken and then Ken Elaine about our backgrounds, challenges and inspirations on our life journey apart and together. Like the Yin and Yang symbol, there is a mix of our lives in this show.  Since Elaine is the voice of Women’s Spaces we will provide a bit more time in the interview of Ken, whose voice on the show has been confined to “Good Morning,” until today.  Ken provides the technical expertise for the broadcast, the archiving of the shows on this website, and collaboration on producing the show with the “still small voice” of conscience in mind.  Ken was especially influenced by his mentor William Hermanns, and recounts his first meeting with him.  Ken also shares his mentor’s Ten Words to the Creative Spirit that for him act as his Soul’s operations panel, and Ken feels that no Soul should be without these Ten Words, and no Soulcraft without these ten functions.  Elaine recounts some experiences that gave her the courage to voice her concerns on women and peace issues that eventually led to her radio show.

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Links: Ken’s blog:  www.kennethenorton.com

Ken’s Mentor: Dr. William Hermanns – Life and Works –  www.williamhermanns.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

Brother Warrior sung by Sherry Austin from the Album: Love Still Remain (Barking Topiary)

By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel and Nick Adams from the Album: Daddy’s Little Girl (Ellen Bukstel & Nick Annis)

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

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Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests 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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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 guest Lynette Shaw, the Godmother of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, broadcast on 5/23/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Lynette Shaw, the Godmother of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries,  broadcast on 5/23/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160523.html

Featuring Guest:

1. Lynette Shaw  ,  Godmother of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries

Announcements

Guest 1.  Lynette Shaw shares how she earned her title as Godmother of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries with her dogged compassion and willingness to help patients in her 18 year long legal battle with the Federal Department of Justice and DEA.  Lynette with her attorneys were able to keep the doors open 11 years with appeals to President Clinton’s administration’s lawsuit, U.S. vs. Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana and Lynette Shaw, to close the first dispensary in California and the United States to receive a local permit.  Finally on April 12, 2016, after 5 years in seclusion for fear of reprisals by the DOJ against her colleagues and friends, Lynetter received word that the DOJ and DEA dropped their challenges after being berated by the 9th Circuit Judge for denying Lynette her Constitutional Rights as afforded by the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment that denied budgeting the DEA’s attack on Medical Cannabis Dispensaries in those states like California that have laws protecting its use.

Guest Link: lynnetteshaw@veteranscannabisgroup.com

The following article is about the Federal 9th Circuit decision by Judge Breyer that was appealed by the DOJ in December 2015.  The DOJ dropped its appeal on April 12, 2016.  Lynette did win for all medical cannabis patients!  Maybe President Obama again remembered his use of marijuana as a student in Hawaii, the number of states that passed laws at the behest of its citizens,  and the disconnect with the federal law prohibiting its use supposed by President Nixon to have no medical value and is harmful?
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2015/12/23/amid-federal-counter-attack-lynnette-shaw-says-im-going-to-win

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Music Selections:
Who’s the Pusher Now by Ellen Bukstel (on YouTube)

 By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel

Hey Mister Politician by Ellen Bukstel
2 selections from Ellen Bukstel,’s CD album “Daddy’s Little Girl”,  available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/ellenbukstel2

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Radio KBBF Fundraiser this week

This CD is available as a thank-you gift for a  donation of $50 to Community Radio KBBF this week of special fundraising.  Call Radio KBBF to donate at 1-707-545-8833 and mention Women’s Spaces, or click the Donate Button at
www.kbbf-fm.org

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Tamara Klamner of SEVA Foundation and Helen Caldicott MD on our “sleepwalking toward annihilation”, broadcast on 6/8/15, has been added to the Radio Archives.

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Self esteem, unite women, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Tamara Klamner of SEVA Foundation and Helen Caldicott MD on our “sleepwalking toward annihilation”, broadcast on 6/8/15, has been added to the Radio Archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA150608.html

To listen to the 59-minute recording click the link to the archive page above.

Featuring Guest:

1. Tamara Klamner ,  Event Producer, Tapistry Productions, and the SEVA Foundation
2.  Dr. Helen Caldicott , MD, Author and activist  on nuclear and environmental dangers.

Announcements

Women’s Spaces presents:  Iron Jawed Angels Film Showing in Santa Rosa at the KBBF Hall on Wednesday June 24, 2015 at 6:30 pm, 1700 Corby Ave, Suite B, Santa Rosa, CA 95407

Click here for the YouTube short clip of Hilary Swank, Jennifer O’Connor and Julia Ormond talk about the importance of the HBO film
Iron Jawed Angel.

Click here for the YouTube short clip of the Iron Jawed Angel scene when in a hunger strike the jailed women sing Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Music Break: Shooting Star, Chris Williamson (from the CD album The Changer and the Changed) © 2005.

Guest 1:Tamara Klamner talks of her production work with the Seva Foundation and her own companty Tapestry Productions.  Her last event celebrating Wavy Gravy’s 79th birthday in Rohnert Park raised over $160,000 for the SEVA Foundation, that restores sight to the blind in Nepal since 1979.  SEVA Foundation also raised over $800,000 for relief from the large earthquake that recently hit Nepal.

Guest Links: The SEVA Foundation www.seva.org

http://tapestryproductions.net/

Music Break: Sister, Chris Williamson (from the CD album The Changer and the Changed) © 2005.

2.  Helen Caldicott, MD, in a prerecorded interview on 6/.3/15, talks o f her research on the damage to human cells from ionizing radiation, made more prevalent by the nuclear energy and war industry. She discusses the ongoing pollution of the air and water and land by the Fukushima melt down of 3 reactors in March 2011. Dr. Caldicott decries the fact that 52% of the world’s population are women and they have failed to stop the suicidal course of the men, “sleepwalking toward annihilation.”

Guest Link:  http://helencaldicottfoundation.org/

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Lilith Rogers on Rachel Carson Returns and Elaine’s Commentary on the $93 Billion War budget, broadcast on 6/1/15, has been added to the Radio Archives.

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Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Lilith Rogers on Rachel Carson Returns and Elaine’s Commentary on the $93 Billion War budget, broadcast on 6/1/15, has been added to the Radio Archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA150601.html

To listen to the 59-minute recording click the link to the archive page above.

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1. Lilith Rogers,  Author, Actress, Rachel Carson Returns
2.  Commentary on the host’s Letter to the Editor of the Press Democrat

Announcements

Women’s Spaces presents:  Iron Jawed Angels Film Showing in Santa Rosa at the KBBF Hall on Wednesday June 24, 2015.

Click here for the YouTube short clip of Hilary Swank, Jennifer O’Connor and Julia Ormond talk about the importance of the HBO film
Iron Jawed Angel.

Music Break: Click here for the YouTube short clip of the Iron Jawed Angel scene when in a hunger strike the jailed women sing Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Guest 1: Lilith Rogers announces the next presentation of her one-woman play Rachel Carson Returns at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Petaluma from noon-3 on Saturday June 6, 2015 and how she was inspired to write the play.

Guest Links: Rachel Carson Returns event brochure pdf

Contact Lilith at : rachelcarsonreturns@gmail.com

Music Break: Masters of War a Bob Dylan song sung by Julie Felix

2.  Commentary on the host’s
Letter to the Editor of the Press Democrat, published  Friday May 22, 2015:

Misplaced priorities

EDITOR: What? Ninety-three billion dollars allocated for the military in the so-called balanced budget? Who are we as a nation? Are we a nation that values life or promotes death?

Recognize who is going to suffer — our children and their future. What will they inherit? Endless wars, disease epidemics due to lack of medical care for all, under-education due to the trashing of public education, hunger as food prices rise and food stamps are cut for those who need a boost and, sadly, the elderly sleeping on the streets because Social Security has been destroyed?

Wait a minute. We are fighting for the fetus and, at the same time, killing children already born in other countries and on the streets of U.S., and it is all justified and budgeted.

It is interesting listening to candidates who let us know how they support the military and agree with the cutting of social services. Oops, be careful. I forgot social services means socialism. A good slogan this election cycle: profits over humanity.

I ask again, are we a nation that values life or promotes death?

ELAINE B. HOLTZ

Santa Rosa

Music Break:  Universal Solider Buffy St. Marie

Take the Women’s Spaces Pledge!

Lyn Cessna, Women’s Spaces intern, speaks about the Pledge’s influence on her life.

Music Break:  Strong Woman Song – Lisa Muswagon and Raven Hart-Bellecourt

Women Spirit Performed by Karen Drucker