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April 8, 2024 Original Radio Show ID:
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--- Featuring Click the Name to access the Segment below 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces ---- ---- 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz: With so much going on in this world I thought I would do a commentary for this show. I am going to play some special music and will be sharing some thoughts on what is going on in today’s world from my perspective. We usually do the Women’s Spaces Pledge the last show of the Month. Well, last month the schedule was so tight I could not do it, so I thought for today’s show we would do a bit of catch up and even go a little in depth about the Pledge and its meaning and purpose as I see it. Today we celebrate Step Into The Spot Light Day, which is what the pledge is all about, to support women to start shining their lights and having the courage to speak out against injustice and war. To me that means looking at our fears around speaking out and stepping up and speaking out.
The song I will be playing at the musical break is For We Are Singing for our Lives, sung by Holly Near. As I mentioned at the beginning of the show for this program, I am taking time to share some of the thoughts and feelings I have been having over the past several weeks. This song is so appropriate for these times as many of us are standing up and in countries far and near women are singing for their lives. We women in the USA are fighting for our lives, and we learned a big lesson, we must keep our eye on the prize even when we won it. I never believed it would happen but slowly but surely it did. I have a special save the date for all my listeners: The National Organization for Women is having their California conference on August 10th. The theme is "Moving Forward and Igniting Change." I am so excited and yes, I have a little to do with this. The NOW California Conference will be right here in Sonoma County at the Presbyterian Church of the Roses. We need Volunteers to help in the days leading up to and including the conference. Contact NOW Sonoma County at info@nowsonoma.org . It is so important currently that women gather and stand together for Justice and Peace. I will be at the conference and will have some special cards with the Women’s Spaces Pledge. So, mark your calendars, August 10th. More information will be provided as we get closer to the event. You know I talk about the importance of self esteem and speaking out and I wanted to share a song that continues to remind me of how important it is to pay attention and when you see a wrong, speak out. Often, it’s the first ones that do and others follow. You can do that in many ways, educate yourself and share information with friends and family, write a letter to the editor, support programs that support your values via volunteering or cash donations. Do an act of kindness when the opportunity presents itself. These are ways that make a community strong in my mind. Well, the next song I will play is sung by Ellen Bukstel and it is called, By My Silence. The song is based on the poem written by Pastor Martin Niemoeller. First they came for the
socialists, and I did not speak
out—because I was not a
socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller The quotation expresses Niemöller’s belief that Germans had been complicit through their silence in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people. He felt this was especially true of the leaders of the Protestant churches, which were made up of Lutheran, Reformed, and United traditions. Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists We are going to take another break and end the show with this reading: Still I Rise, read and written by Maya Angelou, one of my favorite human beings that landed on this planet. She was so wise, and I love listening to her. I wish I knew her and interviewed her. Well, this is my way of keeping her alive.
Still I Rise
BY MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard ’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. Maya Angelou, Source: "Still I Rise" from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. A reminder, tell your friends Women’s Spaces will be aired again at 11pm on Monday Evenings. I am so excited; I get to listen .to my own program. Also, I am available for speaking engagements and if you have any announcements you like to have on the air do not hesitate to email me at elainebholtz@gmail.com
Remember our children are our
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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, where the date descriptions were sourced unless otherwise indicated.
Special thank you to the National Women’s History Alliance for making women’s history alive. Shout out to Co-Founder and Retiring Executive Director, Molly McGregor who will be on the show when we celebrate Women’s History Month in March for making the fabulous list of Women in History where I get most of the info I present in this Herstory segment. -- Herstory Events: April 7, 1805 – Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter. April 7, 1987 – Opening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the first museum devoted to women artists. April 9, 1939 – Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial. Herstory Birthdays: April 10, 1880 (1965) – Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member, Secretary of Labor (1933), key contributor to the Social Security Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. 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.
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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 Singing for Our Lives, sung by Holly Near from the album And Still We Sing – The Out Spoken Collection (2002 Calico Tracks Music). By My Silence, sung by Ellen Buckstel, from the album Daddy’s Little Girl(2008 Ellen Bukstel) I Rise, a poem written and performed by Maya Angelou from Soldering Press YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqQkceF72o// ---- For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: Link: Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show
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Wednesday,
April 10, 2024 Peace
and Justice Center
issues new weekly list of events
and links to community
non-profit organizations:
PJC
website
Saturday,
August 10, 2024,
National Organization for Women
(NOW) - California Conference,
at the Presbyterian Church of
the Roses in Santa Rosa.
To volunteer, have a booth, to
sponsor - please contact NOW
Sonoma County at