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June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
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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 Divine Compensation. ----  Attorney
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The Need for Piqui's Law to Reform Family Court on Child Custody and Domestic Violence |
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October 3, 2022 Original Radio Show ID:
Duration 57 minutes
--- Featuring Click the Name to access the Segment below 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces 2. Guest Sarah Kerlow, Domestic Violence Survivor and Advocate for Family Court Reform ---- ---- 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I have a special guest joining me in the studio. Sarah Kerlow an advocate for Domestic Violence Prevention who is also a survivor of Domestic Violence. We will be talking about Domestic Violence and The Family Court Awareness Month which will be happening in November. I plan to feature the co-founders of the Family Court Awareness Month on the show of November 7th to talk more about this topic. Family Court Awareness Month was created in 2020 by Tina
Swithin, founder of
One Mom’s Battle. The goal of Family Court Awareness Month is to shine a spotlight on systemic issues that are placing children in harm’s way. In collaboration with Sandra Ross of
California Protective Parents Association, the inaugural year was memorialized with a cross-country tour that started in California and ended in North Carolina. Along the way, Swithin stopped in seven major cities to meet with media, domestic violence advocates, family court professionals, and with survivors of post separation abuse.
Click here for our history. We declared November as Family Court Awareness Month!
Source: https://familycourtawarenessmonth.org/ ---- 2. Our Guest Sarah Kerlow shares her personal experience with the Family Court process, which appears to operate on the assumption that 50% child custody for each parent must occur, even if a spouse is accused of domestic violence and there is a history of restraining orders. Piqui's Law, Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence, is named for a 5-year-old murdered by his father. The boy’s mother, Ana Estevez, fought in family court to protect her son against her ex-husband before Piqui’s death. The bill was introduced by CA State Senator Susan Rubio as SB616, was passed by the CA Assembly in August 2022, but apparently needs work to pass as a final bill. Listeners are urged to contact their state senator and assemblyperson to urge them to pass Piqui's Law. Sarah cites the Center for Judicial Excellence, whose "mission is to protect vulnerable children in the family court system and to strengthen the integrity of all courts by creating judicial accountability," that women and children are still viewed as inferior to men. Sarah talks of the high cost to the divorced mother to protect her children imposed by the Family Court industry of consultants and advisors. She believes there should be a Children's Bill of Rights to protect children from the domestic violence of a divorced spouse. About our Guest: Sarah Kerlow describes herself as a single mother-Domestic Violence survivor-activist-scholar. She holds a master’s degree in human Rights Education and is currently finishing a Doctorate in Education at University of San Francisco She has been, and continues to be, inspired, and humbled by those ordinarily extraordinary women in her life; namely survivor warrior mamas who work tirelessly to protect, honor, and nurture their children. As a survivor herself of domestic violence she is still is subjected to her abuser through the court ordered and court sanctioned violence against her children, as her abuser still retains 50-50 custody. Her deep belief is that to address the myriad human rights violations taking place against women and children in the family court, we must create, support, and embrace survivor-led initiatives, organizations, and legislation. Her greatest joy and accomplishment are mothering her five incredible children. Guest Link: Family Court Awareness Month website: https://familycourtawarenessmonth.org/ Center for Judicial Excellence website: https://centerforjudicialexcellence.org/ California Protective Parents Association website: https://www.caprotectiveparents.org/ One Mom’s Battle website: www.onemomsbattle.com Sarah Kerlow's email: SarahEKerlow (at) gmail.com Reference Link:
Piqui's Law: Keeping Children
Safe from Family Violence,
SB616: 10 Myths about Custody and Domestic Violence and How to Counter Them, American Bar Association Commssion on Domestic Violence, Click Here to download pdf. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris, MD. - available at bookstores. Review of the book by the Permanent Journal: www.thepermanentejournal.org/doi/10.7812/TPP/18-075 ---- Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance
Herstory Event: October 3, 1904 – Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. October 4, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman Justice. October 8, 1993 – Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Herstory Birthdays: October 3, 1897 (1982) – Ruth Bronson, Bureau of Indian Affairs official who got loans for Indian students, National Congress of American Indians forced authorities to honor treaties (1944), wrote Indians are People, Too. October 6, 1917 (1977) – Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights leader and voting rights crusader, helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964). Fannie Lou Hamer's tombstone in her hometown of Ruleville, Mississippi is inscribed with her famous quote, "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
was a civil rights activist
whose passionate depiction
of her own suffering in a
racist society helped focus
attention on the plight of
African Americans throughout
the South. In 1964, working
with the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee
(SNCC), Hamer helped
organize the 1964 Freedom
Summer African American
voter registration drive in
her native Mississippi. At
the Democratic National
Convention later that year,
she was part of the
Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party, an
integrated group of
activists who openly
challenged the legality of
Mississippi’s all-white,
segregated delegation.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fannie-lou-hamer ----
Announcements Thursday, October 6, 6:30 PM, Healdsburg City Candidate Forum and Townhall, Healdsburg Performing Arts Theater (dba Raven Theater), 115 North Street, Healdsburg, CA. Hosted by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and the Raven Theater. Free/gratis. https://healdsburg-ca.aauw.net/ ---- Saturday,
October 8, 2022, 11 AM - 3 PM,
Rincon Valley Community Park.
Together We Saved Athena House,
Join us for a BBQ Potluck
Celebration, RSVP with Jasmine
Palmer at 707-596-1701 ---- Saturday, October 8, 2022, 6 PM to 7 PM, Women's Wave Rally and March, Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA,
Women's Wave
Organizer: Marina Jurema
mmjurema@yahoo.com announces:
I will be hosting a rally in solidarity with the Women's March happening in DC on 10/8. (womensmarch.com) Cities are marching and protesting nationwide! Our rally will be at the Old Courthouse Square at 6pm until roughly 7pm on Saturday, October 8th. The rally will be in solidarity with women worldwide with a focus on the women and people who can get pregnant across our country losing their rights,with the strictest bans mostly happening in the South. Bring signs encouraging people to vote, support women's right to choose, and worldwide solidarity with the rights of women and the freedom to choose our own paths. Wear green and pink (if you can) for reproductive and women's rights! There will also be a booth registering people to vote AND we will be raising money for The National Abortion Funds Network (abortionfunds.org/) and Fair Fight Action (fairfight.com)!! 2 great organizations fighting the good fights! You can check out the event and RSVP here: https://action.womensmarch.com/events/women-s-wave-173 As a side note, if anyone has a loud blue tooth speaker system they could bring that would be awesome and please email me. ---- Note: Marina Jurema will be our guest on next Monday's Women's Spaces show, 10/10/2022, to report on the March and her experience as a first-time organizer. ---- Thursday, October 6, 6:30 PM, Healdsburg City Candidate Forum and Townhall, Healdsburg Performing Arts Theater (dba Raven Theater), 115 North Street, Healdsburg, CA. Hosted by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and the Raven Theater. Free/gratis. https://healdsburg-ca.aauw.net/ ----
---- Wednesday, October 12, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will feature guest our first guest Jasmine Palmer on the saving of Athena House and our second guest Marina Jurema on the Women's March, called Women's Wave, that she organized on the previous Saturday, October 8th in Santa Rosa at Old Courthouse Square.. Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca ----
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 4:00
PM, Andy's Unity Park, at
Moorland and West Robles, Santa
Rosa, Memorial Meet-up. Andy
Lopez's family invites you to
celebrate the lives of
Andy Lopez and Kathleen Finigan.
This will be the 9th anniversary
of the killing of Andy by Deputy
Erick Gelhaus. Kathleen, who
died a few weeks ago and who
like so many of you, fought
courageously for justice for
Andy. October 22nd is also the
National Day of Protest to Stop
Police Brutality, Repression and
the Criminalization of a
Generation. ---- November 3, 2022,8:30-10:00 AM, 2022 Wetzel Awards – Celebratory Breakfast, Dry Creek Kitchen, 317 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, CA 95448, Phone: (707) 431-0330. RSVP as Limited Tickets are available at https://hfnsc.ejoinme.org/wetzel22-tickets .
A little History: Each year,
the Healthcare Foundation
presents the Wetzel Awards
to highlight individuals who
demonstrate a commitment to
improving health and health
equity in our community. The Wetzel Community Leadership Award and Spirit of Wetzel Award are named for the late Maggie and Harry Wetzel, longtime friends of the Healthcare Foundation and generous members of our community. This years awards: The Leadership Award recipient Herman J. Hernandez and the Spirit of Wetzel Award recipient Bernice Espinoza. These individuals demonstrate a commitment to equitable physical and mental health and are shining examples of how we can all make a difference in our community. Source: https://healthcarefoundation.net/events/wetzel-awards-2022/ ----
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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 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
Warrior, sung by Demi Lovato from the album Demi (2013 Hollywood Records, Inc ). We Are The Women, sung by Betsy Rose and the Women’s Chorus from the album Welcome to the Circle (Paper Crane Music).
---- For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: Link: Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show
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Monday
October 17, 2022, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
PST (note, time is earlier than
normal), Sonoma County NOW
Monthly Board and Membership
Meeting via Zoom. For
details see Events page of NOW
Sonoma:
