Sonoma County Gazette February 2022 article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio. Download pdf:
---- Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
on
February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
Click here for
the show's page. ---- Marianne Williamson has returned to Women's Spaces for
our show in 9/18/2023
Conversation. Previously she was on our 1/14/2013
and
2/25/2013 shows on Law of DivineCompensation.
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Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
Click the dates above for show's webpage.
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Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
---- , Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen returned
on
Monday June
29, 2020 as a guest on Women's Spaces to discuss the Millionth
Circle of women coming together.
Visit
the show's page by clicking here.
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When our representatives are making important
decisions that impact all of our lives I believe it is important to ask
one basic question before making
those decisions, Is this good for
the children? Just imagine what our world would be
like if that question was asked prior to making decisions about going to
war, the environment, education or healthcare.
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2/1/2022: Sonoma County Gazette February 2022
article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio.
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1.
Susan Lamont
shares
reasons why the Evelyn
Cheatham Ordinance to Support An Effective IOLERO (The Independent
Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach), is necessary in our
county for more accountability of the Sheriff's Office.
An
online petition on Change.org has been started last Tuesday to encourage the County
Board of Supervisors to pass the amendment to the ordinance for
IOLERO or place it on the ballot in November, By the time of this
show already 5,000 have signed the petition. Passage of this new
ordinance for the County will give subpoena power to IOLERO to force
the Sheriff to comply with requests for information and records.
This is the time to act as protests against police brutality and
racism continue for the 10th day in our county and around the nation
and world. Listeners are urged to sign the online petition and also
call their county supervisor to voice their support at (707)
565-2241. The history of IOLERO, the changes to make it more
effective, and the link to the online petition can be found on the
Committee's website at
https://socoeffectiveoversight.org/
About our Guest: Susan Lamont is a longtime peace
and social justice activist, who is currently affiliated with Sonoma
County's Green Party, Police Brutality Coalition and Veterans for
Peace. She is also a writer, poet and photographer.
Guest Links:
Evelyn Cheatham Committee To Support An Effective
IOLERO link, information on the proposesd ordinance
amendment and link to the online petition: https://socoeffectiveoversight.org/
Making IOLERO Stronger Petition Linkto Save Direct Democracy:
Place Stronger Community Oversight of Law Enforcement on the Ballot
Petition to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors at this link: Change.org Petition .
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2. Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returns
for Part 2 of Feminism and Blaick Lives Matter to share how
the the 9 -minute strangulation of George Floyd by a police
officer as 3 police officers assisting him affected her as a Black
woman, mother and educator. She draws our attention to the
fact that the officer who kept applying his knee to George Floyd's
neck kept his hands in his pockets, as if this just another casual
killing of a Black person, encouraged by historical racism in the
USA and even the Supreme Court.. She reminds us of the Dred Scott
decison in 1857, which in the majority opinion of the Supreme Court,
Chief Justice Taney stated:
"They [people of African ancestry] had
for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an
inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white
race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior,
that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;
and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery."
Given the 400 year history of this White Supremacy attitude, and
the laws to support it, Dr. Williams wonders if
ten years from now we are not still addressing this divide among the
people of this nation. She calls for a united front of black, white
and all colors of skin together, against racism, and is
hopeful at the response of white people in showing up and supporting
the protests these last 10 days. She recommends some books about
women of color feminism which we list below to further our education
in this regard.
About our Guest: Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams is a Professor of English and
American Multicultural Studies (AMCS) at Sonoma State University.
She currently serves as Chair of American Multicultural Studies in
addition to teaching nineteenth-century American literature, African
American literature and culture. And is an affiliate faculty in Film
Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. She
is co-editor, with LeiLani Nishime, of Racial Ecologies, a book
collection of interdisciplinary essays on race and environment,
published by the University of Washington Press in 2018. Her poetry
is grounded in the long tradition of African American Womanist
poetics. She is also currently an active member of the American
Canyon Soroptimist Association, an organization that supports the
economic empowerment and vitality of all women through education,
training, and solidarity. Dr. Hester Williams takes great pride in
merging her teaching, scholarship, and research about racial and
gender equality with her commitment to community service, social
justice, and enacting an equitable, sustainable society—in both
personal and communal practice.
This Bridge Called my Back; But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the
Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies,
an anthology of feminist studies. Co-edited by Akasha Gloria Hull,
Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith, 1982, Feminist Press.
Wikipedia link
Check links in case of postponement, cancellations,
or restrictions due to pandemic precautions.
August 26 - November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s
Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma
Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s
suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. This postponement has
provided the opportunity to coordinate the exhibit’s opening
reception with the national celebration of “Women’s Equality Day”.
Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 26th, 5 to 8 pm! The
exhibit will be dedicated to our former Congresswoman, Lynn Woolsey,
and our former Mayor, Helen Putnam, and we are delighted to report
that Mayor Barrett will be attending the opening to bestow the
honors.
https://www.petalumamuseum.com/2020/04/18/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/
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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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Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
on
February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
Click here for
the show's page.
Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen 
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