Archived Radio Show

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA210222

Mp3 Player

Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

---

Featuring Guest

Click the Name to access the Segment below

1.Celeste Austin, is a local activist and inpiration in Sonoma County

----

----

1. Celeste Austin discusses why Black Lives Matter is important in celebrating Black History Month. She shares how her own family of African heritage was affected by grief and economic challenges upon the killing of her grandfather at the kitchen table as her father was still in the womb of her shocked mother. Her grandfather's life mattered so much and reverberated down time through the family. 14-year-old Emmett Till, lynched in 1955 for allegedly offending a woman in her store in Mississippi, his life mattered to his mother and family who chose to open the casket for the world to see. George Floyd, whose 8 minute and 46 second slow and deliberate asphyxiation by a police officer, which was broadcast over social media last year, his life mattered so much that it led to massive Black Lives Matter protests, non-violent except for the brutal enforcement by the police of various cities, in stark contrast to the police presence at the white supremacist insurrection in our Capitol January 6, 2021. Celeste encourages the conversation as it affects all of us. She reminds us that 13-year old Andy Lopez of Mexican heritage was shot and killed by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy in 2013. Andy's life mattered to his grieving family and to our county as activists pushed for oversight of the Sheriff's Office. Last week Celeste gave a talk at the Center for Spiritual Living Lunchtime series by zoom on Black Lives Matter.

 About our Guest:  Celeste Austin is a local activist in Sonoma County.

----

Herstory

Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Events:

February 24, 1912 – Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Jewish organization in American history, focusing on healthcare and education in the Israel and the U.S.

February 24, 1967 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star.

February 27, 1922 – U.S. Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees women the right to vote.

Herstory Birthdays:

February 19, 1952 – Amy Tan, novelist, mother-daughter relationships are subject of The Joy Luck Club, now in 35 languages, The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991), and The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001).

February 20, 1805 (1879) – Angelina Grimké, abolitionist, joined the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1835 and addressed “mixed” audiences in 1837, wrote An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South criticizing slavery in 1836, after which a price was placed on her head should she return to South Carolina.

---- 

Announcements

----

Celebrating Familiy Portraits Project in downtown Petaluma from January 29 – March 15, 2021.  https://pbcd4us.com/celebrating-family/

----

----

----

Music Selections

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

----

For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show