Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy
From Making Contact | Part of the Making Contact series | 29:00
Election protection is increasingly seen as a critical issue in the US. From gerrymandering and voter purges, to precinct closures and problems with voting machine technology, Women Rising Radio explores threats to the US electoral process with two election protection activists.
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Election protection is increasingly seen as a critical issue in the US. Since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court, there have been problems with voter purging, voter ID laws, what some call modern-day poll taxes, precinct closures, and difficulties with voting machines. Congress has noted serious attempts to hack into voting systems in the US based in partisan politics. In this episode, Women Rising Radio joins two election protection activists to talk about threats to the US electoral process.
Featuring:
Jennifer Cohn, attorney, journalist and election integrity advocate, associated with National Voting Rights Task Force; Andrea Miller, IT specialist and founder of Center for Common Ground/Reclaim Our Vote and People Demanding Action.
Program #11-20 Begin date: 03/11/20. End date: 09/11/20.
Promo available from https://www.radioproject.org/sound/2020/MakingCon_200311_promo.mp3
88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From KALW | Part of the Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller series | 54:00
For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park. But the triumphant story of the now ubiquitous feminist icon, Rosie the Riveter, is not Betty’s story. While Rosie was breaking barriers for twentieth century white women in the workforce, Black women like Betty and her slave ancestors had been serving as laborers for centuries. In our 2018 live talk at INFORUM at the Commonwealth Club, Betty offers a clear-eyed perspective on the untold stories of the American narrative and the ever-rising spiral our country is making toward equality.
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For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park. But the triumphant story of the now ubiquitous feminist icon, Rosie the Riveter, is not Betty’s story. While Rosie was breaking barriers for twentieth century white women in the workforce, Black women like Betty and her slave ancestors had been serving as laborers for centuries. In our 2018 live talk at INFORUM at the Commonwealth Club, Betty offers a clear-eyed perspective on the untold stories of the American narrative and the ever-rising spiral our country is making toward equality.
David Buckley - Film and Television Composer - The Town, The Good Wife, Papillon, Greenland, The Good Fight, and Trees of Peace
From MergingArts Productions | Part of the Spoiler Alert Radio series | 29:00
David Buckley - Film and Television Composer - The Town, The Good Wife, Papillon, Greenland, The Good Fight, and Trees of Peace
David's film include: The Town, The Nice Guys, Papillon, Angel Has Fallen, Greenland, Unhinged, Nobody, and Trees Of Peace.
David's television work includes: The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Mercy Street, Evil, and Stay Close.
David's upcoming projects include: the wildlife documentary In The Womb/Growing Up Animal and the narrative feature Kandahar again for director and writer Ric Roman Waugh.
The Children's Bookshelf: The Dream Catcher - July 7, 2024
From WCMU Michigan | Part of the The Children's Bookshelf series | 02:00
The Dream Catcher is a beautiful story about a boy and his grandfather written and illustrated for children 4-8 years of age by Marcelo Verdad.
The Dream Catcher written and illustrated by Marcelo Verdad tells a beautiful story about a little boy named Miguel who lives with his Abuelito.
Each day he and his grandfather go out together: the grandfather sells cold coconuts so that they will have money for food and Miguel sells beautiful cloth dream catchers that he has designed himself so that he will be able to one day buy an airplane for him and his grandfather!
The illustration of Miguel, his Abuelito and others changing the world by filling it with color is full of life and beauty. Some people are selling their gorgeous handmade rugs, others are selling fruit such as bananas, pineapples and tomatoes and yet others are selling colorful clothes and pottery.
As the day ends grandpa and grandson go home. Miguel wonders if they have enough money to buy that airplane he has been saving for. “You can’t rush dreams, Mijo! Everything happens at the right time.”
This book puts forth sweet thoughts, interesting situations and gorgeous illustrations by the very talented Marcelo Verdad.
The Dream Catcher is perfect for children 4-8 years of age (Little, Brown and Company) 2024.
The Children’s Bookshelf is a production of WCMU. Links to the podcast and the Activity Questions can be found at Children’s Bookshelf dot org.
Activity Questions for The Dream Catcher
Study the illustration in this book of an open-air market that goes with the thought that changing the world is possible by filling the world with color. Then find these colorful things in this illustration: red tomatoes, yellow lemons, a brown pitcher with white flowers, a small white and black dog, a large light brown hat, a green rug, a black rug with yellow and pink flowers, a fancy red and white sweater, a black coat hanger and a pink broom.
Have you ever gone to a lively open-air market to buy and sell items? What did you and your family buy?
20240809: Nancy Pelosi: ‘It Didn’t Sound Like Joe Biden to Me’, 8/9/2024
From The Ezra Klein Show | Part of the The Ezra Klein Show series | 59:01
The former Speaker of the House discusses the election and the art of power.
It’s been remarkable watching the Democratic Party act like a political party this past month — a party that makes decisions collectively, that does hard things because it wants to win, that is more than the vehicle for a single person’s ambitions.
But parties are made of people. And in the weeks leading up to President Biden’s decision to drop out of the race, it felt like the Democratic Party was made of one particular person: Nancy Pelosi. Two days after Biden released a forceful letter to congressional Democrats insisting he was staying in the race, the former speaker went on “Morning Joe” and cracked that door back open. And Pelosi has pulled maneuvers like this over and over again in her political career. When an opportunity seems almost lost, she simply asserts that it isn’t and then somehow makes that true. Sometimes it seems like Pelosi is one of the last people left in American politics who knows how to wield power.
Pelosi has a new book, “The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House,” and I wanted to talk to her about her role in Biden’s decision to drop out and what she’s learned about power in her decades in Congress.