Archived Radio Show

August 15, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220815

Listen to the Show on the Mp3 Player below

Duration 57 minutes

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Featuring

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

2. Nancy Pemberton, Attorney, Member of the Committee for Law Enforcement Accountability Now (CLEAN) and the Community Advisory Council of Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO)

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz:  Ken and I enjoyed dancing on Saturday to Raise the Roof at the festival to help raise funds for the Peace and Justice Center's new roof. I am sure they still need more funds to complete the project, so please consider a donation https://www.pjcsoco.org/donate.html .

Ken & Elaine at the Raise the Roof Festival, August 13, 2022. 
Photo by Alicia Sanchez

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2. Our guest Nancy Pemberton returns to Women's Spaces to address two issues. The first is her first hand report on her pathway as a women to become an attorney and the challenges and rewards she experienced. Her advice for young women is to follow their passion and find allies to listen, coach and comfort. The second is for her to continue the discussion on the Board of Supervisors Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Deputy Sheriff Association to make substantial changes in weakening the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO) power to review the Sheriff's encounters with the public that in 2020 65% of Sonoma County voters voted YES to in Measure P to enhance. Normally such changes are forbidden by the California Constitution. The recent killing of a farmworker near Healdsburg by a Sheriff deputy was not reviewed by IOLERO, as Measure P would have it, but first underwent an investigation by the Santa Rosa Police Department and then the state Attorney General. The deputy videos were not released to the public until after being edited by a PR firm. On August 13th Nancy Pemberton wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Press Democrat with her appraisal as a member of the Citizens Advisory Board of IOLERO and a member of the PAC set up to defend Measure P called Committee for Law Enforcement Accountability Now (CLEAN). Nancy is pleased on the appointment of John Alden as the New Director of IOLERO, who has over 13 years in oversight. For more in depth information, check out the Guest Links, Reference Links and Guest Article below.

About our Guest: Nancy Pemberton is a member of the Committee for Law Enforcement Accountability Now (CLEAN) and the Community Advisory Council of Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO). She is committed to ensuring vigorous civilian oversight of law enforcement in Sonoma County. An attorney, mitigation specialist, and investigator, Pemberton conducted capital and non-capital investigations at the trial and post-trial stages of litigation throughout the United States and
internationally until her retirement in 2014.
Pemberton co-founded and serves on the board of the Institute for International Criminal Investigations, an international NGO that trains professionals in the art and science of investigating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide. She also volunteers with the Sonoma Chapter of ACLU-NorCal, the Center for Justice & Accountability and the Akonadi Foundation.

Guest Links:  

Nancy Pemberton's Letter of July 13, 2022 to Supervisor Linda Hopkins:
Click here to download the pdf.

CLEAN email: cleancommittee@gmail.com

CLEAN fb page: www.facebook.com/CLEANcommittee/  

Reference LInks:

Press Democrat article of 8/15/2022 with no mention of IOLERO being involved in the review of videos before edited by a privately contracted PR firm by the Sheriff: Click Her for PD article

2020 Measure P Text on the Ballot passed by 65% of the voters: Click here for gov site

IOLERO on Measure P MOU with DSA webpage: Click here for gov site    

Guest Article:

Nancy Pembeton's Letter to the Editor ,Press Democrat, 8/13/2022:

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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 Birthdays:

August 15, 1913 (1998) – Aurora Castillo, community activist, co-founded Mothers of East Los Angeles (1984)which worked against a proposed prison and hazardous waste dump in East Los Angeles.

August 17, 1927 (1997) – Elaine Hedges, educator, helped create the field of Women’s Studies, founding member of the National Women’s Studies Association, founded the Women’s Studies Program at Towson University, one of the oldest programs in the country, writer and editor for The Feminist Press.

August 18, 1911 (2015) – Amelia Boynton Robinson, activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.

August 18, 1927 – Rosalynn Carter, U.S. First Lady from 1977 to 1981, politically active while in the White House, focused on mental health, senior citizens, and community voluntarism, co-founded the Carter Center with her husband in 1982.

August 19, 1895 (1987) – Vera Weisbord, radical activist, labor organizer, and feminist, organized women textile worker strikes in the 1920s, active in the Civil Rights Movement, wrote her autobiography, A Radical Life, in 1977, also a painter.

August 19, 1920 (1999) – Donna Allen, founder of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press in 1972 to publicize and research women’s issues which she thought were ignored by the main stream media.

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Announcements  

August 2022: This month's Sonoma County Gazette is on the streets. Make sure you read the Radioland section, Women’s Spaces is featured: Focus of Women in Leadership. Download the pdf of the article --> 

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Monday August 15, 2022, 7 to 8:30 PM, via Zoom, Monthly meeting of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Sonoma County Chapter.  For details and zoom info see http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html .
To celebrate the 102nd Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, NOW will have a special guest presentation by Molly Murphy McGregor, one of the co-founders of the National Women’s History Alliance which happened right here in Sonoma County. The Alliance aka the National Women’s History Project founded In 1980, in Santa Rosa, California by Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett, and Bette Morgan to broadcast women’s historical achievements. Prior to this event there was a limited amount of Women’s History. Molly MacGregor will be a guest on Women's Spaces on the 22nd of August,

The 19th amendment, which was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

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Monday, August 22, 11am # repeats 11pm, the show will be featuring guest Molly Murphy MacGregor, co-founder of the National Women's History Alliance (in Sonoma County!), on Women's Equality Day.  Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live

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  Wednesday August 24, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will will be featuring guest Molly Murphy MacGregor, co-founder of the National Women's History Alliance (in Sonoma County!), on Women's Equality Day. Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca 

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Through End of September 2022,  Sue Kearney: Fluid Art — Flow and Fascination, Cafe Frida Gallery, 300 S A St, Santa Rosa. About Sue: https://suekearney.com/ Sue's show continues through end of September. Meet the Artist, each Wednesday 10:30–noon. Feel free to tell your friends, and to come by again for a sit and a cuppa.

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 and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 5/24/2021

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

Ella’s Song sung by Emily Elbert from the album We Believe in Freedom (Released 2008 @2018 Emily Elbert).

Everybody Knows sung by Holly Figueroa from the album  Gifts and Burdens (Released 2007 @ 2007 Holly O’Reilly)

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