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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world. WINGS programs are used by non-commercial radio stations, women’s studies, and individuals. Programs can be heard on local radio stations, on shortwave, on the internet, and on cassettes. The WINGS Mailing List provides updates on stories and new information about women’s media. “Though I have been involved in women’s issues for years, I was still struck by the contrast of your broadcast to the news we are usually hearing — news reflecting male interests in a basically male world. Women’s affairs are a hidden current in the flow of world events.”– Kristin Reilly, listener, Buffalo, New YorkWINGS Mailing List:E-mail wings@wings.org to receive periodic e-mail updates about WINGS programs and women’s media issues.
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Forgiveness for Youth May 4, 2013 | 2:30 pm
This week's installment of WINGS features Mary Johnson, founder of From Death to Life.Read More
Pornifying Violence April 27, 2013 | 2:30 pm
On the latest edition of WINGS, we will hear from one of several panels of women from feminist organizations and media, held at the Vancouver Public Library on December 1, 2012, hosted by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter.Read More
Survivors Take Action April 13, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Women who turned their pain into national and international changeRead More
Taliban Revisited: How They Came to Power and What Women Did Against Them April 6, 2013 | 2:30 pm
As the prospect looms that the Taliban might re-take Afghanistan, WINGS reprises our fascinating documentary from the year 2000.Read More
VAW Zimbabwe March 30, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Zimbabwean Women debate the issues of Violence Against WomenRead More
Mother Bear March 23, 2013 | 2:30 pm
With mental health care increasingly mechanized, and families being responsible yet left out, Lisbeth Riis Cooper realized there had to be another way to help the mentally ill, and set about to create it. She runs both a live-in care facility and an international network for family supportRead More
Magdalene Laundries March 16, 2013 | 2:30 pm
From 1839 until 1996, young Irish women who didn't toe the line were remanded to Catholic-run slave-labor laundry facilities. On Feb. 20, 2013, the government apologized for its role.Read More
Women at Work March 9, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Too young? Too old? Too different? Female? You can deal with it.Read More
Crazy Food Economy: Export/import cycle kills local food production. March 2, 2013 | 2:30 pm
The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide. Its founder talks with Helen Lobato of Women on the Line.Read More
Aung San Suu Kyi February 23, 2013 | 2:30 pm
In the autumn of 2012, Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in San Francisco to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of San Francisco, and took the opportunity to address the large Burmese expatriate community there. Her talk and answers to questions stressed the importance of learning to accept dialogue and negotiation over differences, of maintaining one's own humility, and respecting the capabilities of others.Read More
Tunisian Blogger February 16, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Blogging against Ben Ali was fun but dangerous.Read More
Other Myths to Overcome: End patriarchal abuse of planet and persons! February 9, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Conclusion of interview with Lierre Keith, touching on liberalism vs. radicalism, and the devious system of patriarchy; followed by Sunsara Taylor describing a 10-day action called Take Patriarchy by Storm that took place in New York in August 2012.Read More
The Vegetarian Myth February 2, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Contrary to popular opinion, a vegetarian diet alone will not save the planet, because patriarchal agriculture is destroying the planet's topsoil at a terrific rate - in fact, we have almost no topsoil left now anywhere in the world. Only inputs from another deplete-able resource - oil- are standing between us and the collapse of our "civilized" food system. Lierre Keith says we have to re-create the space for the natural conditions in which we and other creatures co-evolved - where all creatures including the microbes have a role to play in sustaining each other's lives, and consuming each other as well.Read More
Let’s Cut Our Carbon January 26, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Mary Wood is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, and Faculty Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law. She is a co-author of a leading textbook on natural resources law (West, 2006)Read More
Social Security USA: Women’s movement says raise SS benefits, don’t cut them! January 19, 2013 | 2:30 pm
The original act establishing Social Security was shepherded by Frances Perkins, the first woman US cabinet member. Since then, women have taken great interest in the management of this form of retirement insurance. US women's groups have a new campaign for improvements. Dr. Heidi Hartmann, economist, founder and President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington DC, explains how the plan is funded and how it can remain solvent.Read More
50 Million Missing Women January 12, 2013 | 2:30 pm
Rita Banerji, founder of the "50 Million Missing Women" campaign, and author of the book Sex and Power: Defining History, Shaping Societies.Read More
Laboring Women: Where Feminism Meets Marx January 5, 2013 | 2:30 pm
A documentary by Elena McMaster of Australia's Women on the Line pairs up Marxist Feminist class analysis (with explanation of terms), and rousing words from women who lived and live class and race division of labour -from Sojourner Truth, to Lowell, Massachusetts mill worker Harriet Hanson Robinson, to British poet/MC Kate Tempest.Read More
Virgin Births December 29, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Miraculous births including conceptions by deities abound in records as early as 3000 BC, says scholar and author Marguerite Rigoglioso. She talks about ways these conceptions may have occurred, including yogic parthenogenesis.Read More
Breaking the Silence December 22, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Songs and stories of sexual violence survivors, including music from the Voices and Faces Project CD, and excerpts from the film The Invisible War, about military sexual assault.Read More
Remembrance and Action (Canada) December 15, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Canadian feminists struggle for accountability to protect women from violenceRead More
‘Naomi Wolf’s Vagina Aside, What Neuroscience Really Says About Female Desire’ December 8, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Neuroscience journalist, Maia Szalavitz, author of the article article, 'Naomi Wolf's Vagina Aside, What Neuroscience Really Says About Female Desire'Read More
UN Women News December 1, 2012 | 2:30 pm
8 stories: 1. ILO study: Women risk losing equality gains due to EU civil service job cuts. 2. Filmmakers document what it takes "To Educate a Girl" in Nepal. 3. Somalia: Efficient stoves save refugee women from assault. 4. Maternal mortality drops - more in Asia than in Africa. 5. Colombia: Combating culture of impunity for war crimes of sexual violence 6. Afghanistan: Women needed for supreme court, where Sharia Law is interpreted. 7. US: Avid advocate for World Mental Health Day. Haitian-American singer honours memory of victims of the Transatlantic Slave TradeRead More
Gender in the Andes: From childhood to nation-building, it’s a different world. November 24, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Dr. Cristina Herencia, social psychologist and Latin American Studies scholar from Peru.Read More
Death by Drones November 17, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Recently returned from Pakistan, Medea Benjamin tells what she learned on the ground there and where Obama's unmanned drones are coming from (in more ways than one).Read More
US Violence Against Women Act November 10, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Lynn Fairweather, MSW, a domestic abuse survivor, and now a risk assessment consultant on the further risks posed by perpetrators of domestic violence, examines the loss of the bi-partisan cooperation that enabled passage and previous re-authorizations of VAWA.Read More
Syria Part 2 November 3, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Two Syrian women living in North America keep close tabs on the revolution at home. They say women play a larger role in the Syrian revolution than in those of all the other MENA [Middle East North Africa] countries, and that creative nonviolent tactics are preparing Syrians for civil government.Read More
Women’s Ambition October 20, 2012 | 2:30 pm
In 1970, women at Newsweek suddenly discovered their ambition and sued the company to allow women to be writers. Today, things have changed a little, but women still have to find their real ambition and then figure out how to express it in a gendered world. This program includes advice.Read More
WINGS #23-12 Domestic Violence UK October 13, 2012 | 2:30 pm
The UK is running tests of a measure that would let police tell domestic violence victims if their spouse has a prior domestic violence record. Conservative women try to balance their party's cuts against victims' rights to legal aid, while Labour pushes against process changes and for fuller funding.Read More
Walmart October 6, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Opinions about Walmart are sharply divided in the US. This program uses resistance to (and support for) a Walmart in Los Angeles's Chinatown, to frame discussion of Dukes v. Walmart, the class action lawsuit by women employees. Rejected in 2011 by the Supreme court, as being too large and diverse a group to constitute a class, the suit is now broken up into smaller cases, at state level.Read More
Leading By Giving September 29, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Speaking at the International Conference on the Gift Economy, Jeanette Armstrong explained Nsilxcn words for concepts not easily expressed in English: For example, a duty towards the mutually sustaining balance of diversity on the land and in human communities; gift-giving as the essence of humanity; and a type of cultural communication in which leadership means listening, and its challenge is to find a solution that satisfies the most diverse views.Read More
Mother’s Little Helper September 22, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Martha Rosenberg and Kellia Ramares-Watson discuss how big pharmacy companies promote the massive number of prescriptions written in the US, including many that may be inappropriate or downright dangerous - and many of them paid with taxpayer dollars or heavily promoted by public institutions. Women and children, the poor and the incarcerated are especially vulnerable to being guinea pigs for patented drugs today.Read More
The Rachel Corrie Legacy September 15, 2012 | 2:30 pm
An Israeli court has thrown out the lawsuit by Rachel Corrie's parents, claiming wrongful death by an Israeli bulldozer. But her influence on the solidarity movement continues - and now Egypt has effectively ended the Gaza blockade.Read More
Forest Women September 8, 2012 | 2:30 pm
In Karnataka state, India, the government seized the forest and relocated the indigenous tribal peoples. They have been moved five times in 14 years. Adaptation has both good and bad effects.Read More
Raging Grannies September 1, 2012 | 2:30 pm
In 1987, the Raging Granny movement was born in Victoria BC. Two of the earliest members and many other Raging Grannies from newer groups describe their activism and sing their political songsRead More
Rural Radio Women August 25, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Interview with Lydia Ajono, whose personal history in community radio is thoroughly embedded in the story of her community in northeastern Ghana and the major issues of her country.Read More
NOW (National Organization for Women) August 18, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Excerpts from plenary speeches at the 46th annual convention of the largest feminist activist organization in the United States - detailing what women are up against from the right wing and how they are mobilizing to stop it.Read More
Transgender Warrior August 11, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Leslie Feinberg makes the case for trans people in the women's movement.Read More
Rosalie Bertell August 4, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Dr. Rosalie Bertell, biometrist, epidemiologist, and founder of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health is remembered on this week's WINGRead More
Modern Slavery July 28, 2012 | 2:30 pm
Trafficked persons, foreign & domestic, are enslaved in enterprises from nail salons to farms, homes, & prostitution. Some are traded along with drugs & guns.Read More
Breast Cancer Prevention July 21, 2012 | 2:30 pm
With the US re-starting nuclear power plant licensing, it's time to recall that living near a nuke is one of the big statistical risks to your mammaries - along with hormones in the food, and other things that still need to be changed.Read More
Casseroles Argentina July 14, 2012 | 2:30 pm
From the Archives: Argentines in the Streets. The economic collapse of 2001 brought formerly middle-class Argentines into the streets, banging pots and pans, alongside the long-term unemployed piqueteros.Read More
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