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Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA191202

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Featuring Guests

1. Megan Kaun,  Member, Board of Directors, and Team Leader of the Toxic Free Future Campaign, Conservation Action

2. Dr. Harriet Fraad, Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist, Author,

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Announcements (Click for section below)

Herstory (Click for section below)

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Our Featured Guests

1.  Megan Kaun talks about a new action of Graton residents called Graton Against Synthetic Pesticides (GASP), who have rallied together to address the dangers of synthetic pesticides used on local farms, both to us humans and to other species like the bees and other pollinators.  The concern is also for the Oak Grove Elementary School in Graton. Over 9000 pounds of pesticides are used near Graton, and over 35 tons of glyphosate is used in the county.  GASP seeks better relations with the farmers and has a petition online. GASP will hold a meeting open to county residents, especially those in Graton, on December 4 at the Graton Community Club, Main St & N Edison..6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.

About our Guest:  Megan Kaun has a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology, Stanford University, and B.S. Environmental Engineering Northwestern University. She serves on the Board of Directors for Sonoma County Conservation Action and Leads the Toxic Free Future Campaign. She is a Consulting Engineer and Previously vice Chair of the Santa Rosa Board of Public Utilities and worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers for nearly 10 years. She is the Mother of two children who became involved in toxic free advocacy and policy change in an effort to protect her children from toxic pesticides in public.

Guest Link: www.gratongasps.com

www.conservationaction.org

Guest Event Link:  GASP Meeting Dec. 4, 2019 www.gratongasps.com/events-1/gasp-community-event

GASP Meeting Dec. 4, 2019 https://www.facebook.com/events/3140991725917503/

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2.  Dr. Harriet Fraad shares with us the definitions of Communism, Socialism and Captialism and the historical movements usng these as their banners. Dr. Fraad discusses the concept of class as is to who is producing the goods or services, who profits from the sale, and who distributes the product.  In Communism the workers producing the goods decide how to share the profit, like in Co-Operative companies in this country  owned by the employees like Alvarado Bakery.  In Capitalism the employer decides how to share the profit but often sees the employees as burdens to the profit rather than generators of profit.  In Socialism the employer must abide by regulations in sharing the profit with the employees as a form of regulated Capitalism. The government form taking on the banner of these economic systems can be democratic or dictatorial, and that is where vigilance of citizens is needed as changes are made. Dr. Fraad discusses the anti-regulation movement coming to a head under President Reagan leading to our present inequitable society.

About our Guest:   Dr. Harriet Fraad is a mental health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She speaks regularly and writes about the intersecting crises in US relationships personal life, politics and economics. She was a founding member of the Second Wave women’s movement and has remained an activist for her entire life. She appears regularly on the radio for Economic Update, The Julianna Forlano Morning show, MK Mendoza, and Women’s Spaces. Her very latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics: Marxism, Without Guarantees (Routledge, 2019).

Guest Link:  www.harrietfraad.com

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This Week in Herstory

Compilation from the National Women's History Alliance

December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; her arrest sparks the modern civil rights movement in the US.

 December 5, 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Women.

 December 7, 1941 – Capt. Annie Fox receives the first Purple Heart awarded to a woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor.

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Announcements

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 6:00 - 7:30 PM, GASP - Graton Against Synthetic Pesticides Meeting, Graton Community Club, Main St & N Edison, Graton https://www.gratongasps.com/events-1/gasp-community-event

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019, An Open Conversation Aroung the Fire, 7 - 9 PM, Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa, CA, sharing experiences with the Kincaid Fire, PG&E Power shut-offs and Evacuations.

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Friday, December 6, 2019, Climate Strike for Our Future, Noon County-wide Die-Ins for Life at schools, and 5 PM Candlelight March and Vigil at Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA

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The NOW 2020 Woman Suffrage Centennial Calendar will be available for donation at the Sonoma County Women's Suffrage Centennial Kick-off on December 8.

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Sunday, December 8, 2019, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, Sonoma County Women's Suffrage Centennial Kick-off, Saturday Afternoon Club, 430 10th St, Santa Rosa. Seating is limited to 70 people so please RSVP at fb Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/395937627766549/

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Saturday, January 25, 2020, Building Neighborhood Power, presented by Santa Rosa Together, Santa Rosa Housing for All, The Sonoma Intersections Coaltion and the City of Santa Rosa. Join neighbors as we begin defining the types of services, structures and support we want in our neighborhood. With well-defined neighborhood visions, we can better help policymakers and developers deliver the neighborhoods of our dreams! We will be led by world-renown community builder, Jim Diers, the former Dir. of the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and Professor at the University of Washington's Asset-Based Community Development Institute. Eventbrite link.

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Music Selections:

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

Singing for our Lives sung by Holly Near from the album  And Still we Sing Outspoken Collection (Holly Near)

With God on Our Side sung by Judy Collins  from the album Judy Sings Dylan – Just Like a Woman (1993 Geffen Records)