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Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA200413

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Featuring

1. Dr. Hariet Fraad,  Author, Podcaster, Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist

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Our Featured Presentations

After the Announcements and Song the presentation begins at 18:30 minutes:

1.  Dr. Hariet Fraad  discusses some of the mental health problems that are appearing during this pandemic due to the orders to isolate and keep social distancing when doing essential activities.  Women in abusive relationships are especially vulnerable. Single moms are now required to educate their kids at home and try to make the online connections work. On top are the antics of our President waking up memories of an irrational authoritarian parent screaming that kids have no rights but to listen to their parent. Dr. Fraad highlights some women leaders like Rep. Katie Porter of Southern California, who is speaking out to keep the President accountable to his ignoring the calls for mitigation action in the pandemic enveloping our nation with the most cases and deaths due to the virus in the world, and like New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in taking decisive action to stop the corona virus in her nation early when it counts. 

About our Guest:   Dr. Hariet 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. Dr. Fraad has a podcast called Capitalism Hits Home. Her very latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics :Marxism, Without Guarantees (Routledge, 2019).

Guest Links: 

www.harrietfraad.com

Dr. Fraad's talk on the Corona Virus and Mental Health
https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_corona_and_mental_health

Podcast: Capitalism Hits Home: COVID-19: A Psychological, Political and Economic Plague https://www.democracyatwork.info/chh_covid_19

Subscribe to Dr. Harriet Fraad's Capitalism Hits Home podcast on iTunes at:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/capitalism-hits-home/id1435939485 

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 Herstory

A larger Compilation is at the National Women's History Alliance

April 13, 1933 – Ruth Bryan Owen is the first woman to represent the U.S. as a foreign minister when she is appointed as envoy to Denmark

April 16, 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel

April 19, 1977 – Fifteen women in the House of Representatives form the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues

April 22 – Earth Day, honor Rachel Carson today, a woman who changed America and greatly influenced the environmental movement with her revolutionary book, Silent Spring

Her Birthdays This Week

April 13, 1892 (1990) – Clara Beyer, labor lawyer, worked with Frances Perkins and Molly Dewson on the Social Security Act of 1935, campaigned to abolish child labor and to secure minimum wage and maximum hour scales

April 13, 1919 (1995) – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, outspoken atheist behind the 1962 Supreme Court’s 8-1 ruling that organized Bible reading in public schools was unconstitutional, in 1995 kidnapped and later murdered by a former employee

April 14, 1866 (1936) – Anne Sullivan Macy, famous teacher of Helen Keller who was blind, deaf, and mute, the two worked and traveled together

April 15, 1894 (1937) – Bessie Smith, began career about 1902, learned country blues from Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, made 160 recordings, billed as the “Empress of the Blues,” career declined by 1931 amidst economic depression and the advent of radio

April 15, 1896 (1980) – May Edward Chinn, first black woman doctor in Harlem (1936-80), worked with George Papanicolaon on the Pap smear to identify cervical cancer, Kuwana Haulsey wrote Angel of Harlem, a novel based on her life (2004)

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponements or cancellations due to pandemic precautions.

 CANCELLED with hope to reschedule:   April 19, 2020, 7 to 9 PM, Rachel Carson Returns, starring Lilith Rogers. Presented by Sonoma County NOW and the Arlene Francis Center.
While you are Sheltering -in-Place, check out a website devoted to Rachel Carson: https://rachelcarson.org/

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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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Sonoma County Women's Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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Music Selections:

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