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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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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Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of
Women's Spaces
1. Shekeyna Black
Executive Director, Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma
County
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Producer's Note:
The recording of the live
show failed to record the interview with Shekeyna Black
after her biography was read. It did not affect the live
broadcast, but it does affect the recording uploaded to
this site, as well as the repeat broadcasts, in that the
last 20 minutes of the show is an added recording of
Elaine presenting the main points of the interview with
Shekeyna Black and the playing of more Becky Hobbs
music in honor of International Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Commentary
by our host Elaine B. Holtz: Elaine
announces the Braver Angels of the Bay Area Debate on
the Recall of Governor Newsom on August 11th. Braver
Angels is a nationwide movement to encourage folks with
differing viewpoints to come together and air those
viewpoints while trying to understand opposing
viewpoints of the participants. The debate is a
structured conversation in which a group of people think
together, listen to one another, and allow themselves to
be touched and perhaps changed by each other's ideas.
https://braverangels.org/ See the
Announcements below for this event.
Elaine announces that the NOW
Sonoma County Chapter monthly meeting is meeting this
month on the 4th Thursday (instead of the normal 3rd
Thursday) on Equality Day August 26, 2021 6 to 8 PM by
zoom. There will be special guests. See the
Announcements below for this event.
We celebrate on August 9th each
year the
International Indigenous Peoples Day
to raise awareness and protect their rights. There are an
estimated 476 million indigenous peoples in the world
living across 90 countries. They make up less than 5% of
the world's population, but account for 15% of the
poorest. They speak an overwhelming majority of the
world's
estimated 7,000 languages and represent 5,000 different
cultures. To honor this day Elaine reads the Native
American Ten Commandments (source unknown
from this website).
1. Treat the Earth and all the
dwells therein with respect.
2. Remain close to the Great Spirit.
3. Show great respect to your fellow beings.
4. Work together for the benefit of all mankind.
5. Give assistance and kindness wherever needed.
6. Do what you know to be right.
7. Look after the well-being of mind and body.
8. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good.
9. Be truthful and honest at all times.
10. Take full responsibility for your actions.
She also reads a poem of Chief Seattle (1786-1866),
who was Chief of the
Suquamish and Duwamish Nations, after whom the City of
Seattle in Washington State is named.
Humankind has not woven the web
of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
-Chief Seattle, 1854
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1. Our
guest,Shekeyna Black,
returns to give us an update on the Peace and Justice
Center of Sonoma County. The Center sees as top issue
the houseless persons of our county and has a long
running Donation Drive for the Houseless, with
collections of items at their office on Tuesdays from 3
to 5 PM. Shekeyna announces that nominations are due by
August 31, 2021 for their annual Peace and Justice
Awards in November. There are 5 categories:
• Peace & Justice Activist of the Year Award - An
individual with a passion for working for peace and
social justice, who makes a significant contribution
that makes a difference to the Sonoma County community
and beyond.
• Russ & Mary Jorgensen Courage of Commitment Award - A
person from Sonoma County with a passion for working for
peace and social justice, who performs acts of courage
to make a difference, often at their own personal risk.
• Unsung Hero Award - A person from Sonoma County who
works diligently for peace and social justice, but stays
in the background, out of the limelight.
• Community Organization Award - A local group whose
activities have a significant beneficial effect on the
well-being of the people of Sonoma County.
• Youth Peace & Justice Activist Award - This award is
granted to someone from Sonoma County, 13 – 22 years old
who has a passion for working locally for peace and
social justice and has made a significant contribution
to making our community more just and peaceful.
Nominations can be submitted on the
Center's website.
-report by Ken Norton,
Co-Producer
About our Guest:Shekeyna Black has been the Executive
Director of the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County
for 2 years, and before that its Community Coordinator.
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 a mother to four adult kids.
August 8, 1969 – Executive order
11478 issued by President Nixon requires each federal
department and agency to establish and maintain an
affirmative action program of equal employment
opportunity for civilian employees and applicants.
August 9, 1995 – Roberta Cooper
Ramo becomes the first woman to hold the office of
president of the American Bar Association.
August 10, 1993 – Ruth Bader
Ginsburg is sworn in as the second woman and 107th
Justice to serve on the US Supreme Court
Herstory Birthdays:
August 12, 1889 (1981) – Zerna
Sharp, author, called the “Mother of Dick and Jane,”
helped create the popular reading series with bright
action picture stories and one new word on each page.
August 13, 1818 (1893) – Lucy
Stone, suffragist, and supporter of rights for women and
African Americans, boldly kept her own name when she
married.
August 13, 1893 (1986) – Eva
Dykes, first African American woman to earn a doctoral
degree (in English from Radcliffe College in 1921),
professor at Howard University, and Chair of the English
Dept. at Oakwood College.
Sonoma County Chapter of the
National Organization for Women (NOW) Members and Guests
Special Meeting Event on Women's Equality Day, Thursday, August 26, 2021 6:00-8:00 pm
PDT. On this Women's Equality Day and 101st Anniversary
of the 19th Amendment, the Sonoma County Supervisors are
making a Gold Resolution that our chapter's Centennial
2020 Woman Suffrage Calendar for being an historical
document that played a key role in our county's
remembrance of women's suffrage. Special Guests will
speak on their vision of what NOW can do and they
include Molly Murphy MacGregor - Founder of the National
Women's History Alliance, Elaine B. Holtz - former
President of NOW Sonoma, Jill Ravitch - Sonoma County
District Attorney, Gaye LeBaron - Historian and
journalist with the Press Democrat, and Lynn Woolsey -
Former U.S. Representative (1993-2013). Join us by Zoom
or on our new Facebook group:
The Opening and Closing Theme song
The Woman in Your Life is You is done with
permission of the Composer and Singer
Alix Dobkin
((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just
announced - Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized
and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview
with Alix Dobkin on
12/1/2014 at
and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 11/24/2021
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The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album
Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women's Wax Works) -
www.alixdobkin.com Played on Live show on Monday 11 AM only:
Pale Moon sung by Becky Hobbs
from the album Nanheyi – Beloved Woman of the
Cherokee (2011 Becky Hobbs)
The Times They Are a Changing sung by Carlile from
the album Serve 2 (Fighting Hunger and Poverty) –
Various Artists (2007 Hard Rock International and
the Orchard)
Played on Repeat Shows on Monday 11 PM and
Wednesday 11 AM: Pale Moon sung by Becky Hobbs
from the album Nanheyi – Beloved Woman of the
Cherokee (2011 Becky Hobbs)
Let There Be Love sung by Becky Hobbs
from the album Nanheyi – Beloved Woman of the
Cherokee (2011 Becky Hobbs)
Nanheyi, sung by Becky Hobbs
from the album Nanheyi – Beloved Woman of the
Cherokee (2011 Becky Hobbs)
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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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Sonoma County Chapter of the
National Organization for Women (NOW) Members and Guests
Special Meeting Event on Women's Equality Day, Thursday, August 26, 2021 6:00-8:00 pm
PDT. On this Women's Equality Day and 101st Anniversary
of the 19th Amendment, the Sonoma County Supervisors are
making a Gold Resolution that our chapter's Centennial
2020 Woman Suffrage Calendar for being an historical
document that played a key role in our county's
remembrance of women's suffrage. Special Guests will
speak on their vision of what NOW can do and they
include Molly Murphy MacGregor - Founder of the National
Women's History Alliance, Elaine B. Holtz - former
President of NOW Sonoma, Jill Ravitch - Sonoma County
District Attorney, Gaye LeBaron - Historian and
journalist with the Press Democrat, and Lynn Woolsey -
Former U.S. Representative (1993-2013). Join us by Zoom
or on our new Facebook group: 
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