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Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces

1. Dr. Harriet Fraad, Author, Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist, Feminist 

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Commentary by our host Elaine B. Holtz: On July 15th our local PBS station KRCB aired the film 3 Seconds in October about the killing of 13-year old Andy Lopez by County Sheriff Deputy Eric Gelhaus. The film reveals some of the SRPD investigation into the incident. Andy was carrying a plastic rifle, noticeably lighter to carry than a real rifle, and yet Deputy Gelhaus was quick to fire off 8 bullets. Missing in the film was the important role that the high school peers of Andy that protested and known as Andy's Youth, as well as the adults in the community that met as the Community and Local Law Enforcement Task Force in meeting after meeting to finally recommend that the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County to implement the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach as oversight of the Sheriff's Office, which the Board did.

Related Link:

Documentary Chronicling Andy Lopez Shooting set to Debut on July 15, by Will Carruthers, The Bohemian, July 5, 2021: https://bohemian.com/documentary-chronicling-andy-lopez-shooting-set-to-debut-on-july-15/?fbclid=IwAR3PGt_5-O9afbJB0WMcnSJGvCXertTdNlU2vdmDyjCqfMmFxsru0num8Ys

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1. Our guest, Dr. Harriet Fraad, discusses the Case of Brittany Spears, the pop star, who is appealing the Conservatorship control over every aspect of her life, from its demand she wear an IUD to prevent her the choice of having babies, to having to live on an allowance that was a small percentage of her income. The case according to Dr. Fraad concerns women's rights, and when Brittany reached out to her fanbase on TikTok to finally reveal the oppression she lived under, the fans rallied, since so many could relate to her suffering. Two white judges in previous attempts to appeal the conservatorship ruled she had no right of appeal, but finally a female judge ruled she had a right to choose her own lawyer in her appeal attempt, a  lawyer not beholden to the Conservatorship.

 About our Guest: Dr. Harriet Fraad is a Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been in practice for 46 years. She writes and speaks on the intersection of politics, economics, and personal life in the USA. Her work can be found on her website, harrietfraad.com. Her podcast, Capitalism Hits Home, now with Julianna Forlano can be found at her website, harrietfraad.com, and at Democracy@Work.info as well as on YouTube. Her newest podcast with Max Golding is directed to the psycho-therapy community. It is called “it’s Not Just in Your Head.”
Harriet Fraad appears as a regular guest on Economic Update’s 100 radio stations as well as on The David Feldman Show at 8:00 PM, EST Mondays on WBAI and on the internet. She appears regularly on Women’s Spaces on KBBF, Sonoma County and North San Francisco Bay, Her latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics. NY: Routledge 2019. Dr. Fraad was a founding mother of the Women’s Liberation Movement in New Haven CT and has been an activist for her entire life.

Guest Links: 

www.harrietfraad.com

Capitalism Hits Home podcast:  https://www.democracyatwork.info/capitalismhitshome

Podcast Link: It’s Not Just in Your Head

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Herstory

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

Herstory Events:

July 19-20, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women’s rights convention in American History. Over 300 women and men came to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, political, and religious life. This marked the first public meeting calling for women’s right to vote.

Herstory Birthdays:

July 18, 1908 (1981) – Mildred Ryder, adopted the name “Peace Pilgrim” in 1953, a peace activist who was the first woman to walk the Appalachian Trail in one season, walked more than 25,000 miles promoting peace for 28 years.

 July 22, 1849 (1887) – Emma Lazarus, poet, wrote “The New Colossus,” (1883), which was later inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

[Click image above for audio reading by Poetry Therapy Inc. on YouTube]

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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Announcements

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Music Selections

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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