A Feminist Radio Show!

[oneangrygirl]

Ok, so this woman Jacquelyn (you may remember her letter to the New Haven Advocate?) has an actual feminist radio show on a college station. Apparently you can listen to it on the internet if you have windows media player.
She's going to interview me this weekend. And yes, I am recruiting her to join us here.
Here's the show for this week:

Listen to The F-Files this Wednesday, 3/15/2006 on 88.7FM, WNHU West Haven. Please pass on!
Internet Streaming at http://WWW.WNHU.NET/
Special Guest: Eman Ahmed Khamas


Eman, who will speak first-hand about the situation in Iraq, is a journalist,
translator and human rights activist who lives in Baghdad with her husband and two daughters. She is a member of the Women’s Will organization, which focuses on defining and defending women's rights outside of political party interests and opposing incarceration of women as hostages. Eman regularly publishes articles on women’s conditions in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, and has documented human rights violations committed by US and Iraqi forces. She is also involved in mobilizing emergency relief (medicines, food and clothing) for victims of the war, especially women and children living in refugee camps.

The Iraqi women’s delegation that Khamas is part of promoting a Women’s Call for Peace that’s been signed by 50,000 women around the globe. The call urges a shift in strategy in Iraq, from a military model to a conflict resolution model. It requests the withdrawal of all foreign troops and foreign fighters from Iraq, negotiations to reincorporate disenfranchised Iraqis, full representation of women in the peacemaking process, and a commitment to women's equality in the post-war Iraq. The full text is available at http://www.womensaynotowar.org. The Iraq war has cost the lives
of tens of thousands of Iraqis (estimates range from 28,535 to over 100,000) and some 2,300 US troops. As the three-year anniversary of the war approaches, the country is wracked by violence and threatened with the prospect of civil war, Iraqi civilians are suffering from a lack of basic services, including electricity and clean water, and women’s rights are being eroded.

[oneangrygirl]

mainly for delphyne, in case she wants to listen.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24TH: MARTHA ACKELSBERG


http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/freewomenofspain

Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, these women mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network during the Spanish Revolution, to strive for community, education, and equality for women and the emancipation of all. Militants in the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union, Mujeres Libres struggled against fascism, the State, and reaction; and the less than supportive attitudes and concerns of their male comrades. Martha Ackelsberg writes a comprehensive study of Mujeres Libres, intertwining interviews with the women themselves and analysis connecting them with modern feminist movements. This new edition includes additional research Ackelsberg carried out for the Spanish language edition, together with a brand new introduction written in the light of the new social movements, and resurgence of anarchism, post-Seattle.

Martha Ackelsberg is a Professor of Government and a member of the Women's Studies Program Committee at Smith College, where she teaches courses in political theory, urban politics, political activism, and feminist theory. She has contributed to a variety of anthologies on women's political activism in the United States.

[Starburst]

That's so awesome! I love feminist radio!

[oneangrygirl]

she's finally joined us. i'll let her announce herself.
but here's a LTE she recently wrote:

The Article titled “Vicious Assault” by William Kaempffer (Friday, June 2) follows a media trend that minimizes the life of prostitutes (miscreants according to Kaempffer) and perpetuates a blame the victim mentality. The article informs us that the Fair Haven cemetery has become a destination for prostitutes and drug addicts who come to party and turn tricks. In regards to the Hamden woman who was brutally beaten, repeatedly stabbed in the neck and possibly sexually assaulted, Edward Miller, superintendent of the cemetery claimed “I find prophylactics on the front porch (of the chapel) and in the street. They’re mostly druggies... I feel sorry for the girl. But what was she doing here at night?”

It must be difficult for someone who has actually survived our economic system to understand what it might be like to have so little options that one has to sell their body in order to make a living as a single mother perhaps. Women represent the majority of those living in poverty; an environment where prostitution flourishes. Many of these women have a history of sexual abuse and prostitution continues their victimization. Turning to drugs is often their way of dealing with the trauma of being used and abused both physically and mentally often by both their john’s and pimps. Those who work with women trying to escape prostitution report that many experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution found that the death rate of women in Canadian prostitution is 40 times higher than that of the general population.

Emma Goldman once said “Thus society creates the victims that it afterwards vainly attempts to get rid of.” Prostitution, which is illegal in the United States, is a result of poverty, inequity, male privilege, racism and the hyper-sexualization of women and children’s bodies (and increasingly gay men). Kaempffer’s article concludes with a brief overview of at least 3 similar incidents where women were either disappeared, feared dead, beaten, sexually assaulted, and/or dumped from a van. “Police said Thursday that the incidents do not appear to be linked”. I beg to differ. Over 90% of all violent crimes including male, female and child sexual assaults and abuse are committed by men. It’s about time we start asking the right questions and realize how and why these incidents are linked.
Instead of “What was she doing here at night?” one should be asking: Why are men using, raping and murdering women and children? How are our men in this society conditioned to think they are entitled to women and children’s bodies? Why are men shunned for adhering to traditionally “feminine” characteristics that are in reality human characteristics? Why can’t they relate to women as human beings? What are the institutions and systems that perpetuate this problem? How many more mothers, sisters, daughters, and
granddaughters and friends do we have to bury before we acknowledge the real societal causes of violence against women, racism and classism? Or do you choose not to?

[oneangrygirl]

RADICAL RADIO!!!!!!!!

THE F-FILES: DIALOGUES IN FEMINISM
~WEDNESDAYS: 11AM-12PM~
7/26/06
GUEST: CATHARINE MACKINNON!


88.7 FM, WNHU
West Haven, CT

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THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: Women and Sexuality

[oneangrygirl]

the website is up: http://WWW.FFILES.NET

[Pony]

I tried to download the Catherine McKinnon and Robert Jensen interviews. After 20 minutes and still only at 30 percent I stopped it.

Too bad.