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Lagusta Yearwood: Feminism and Veganism
Aired 7/23/2008.
Lagusta Yearwood is an American-born vegan chef and activist. She runs Lagusta's Luscious Vegeterian Home Meal Delivery Service, which delivers fresh healthy food from New Paltz to NYC, and makes vegan chocolate truffles which she ships directly to consumers and sells in select stores. In addition, she works on a wide variety of volunteer projects including her local Green Party and a member-owned food co-op she is helping to create. She also worked on the newest Bloodroot Cookbook set, "The Best of Bloodroot," put out by Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian restaurant in Bridgeport, CT. She lives with her three cats and her sweetheart, Jacob, in New Paltz, NY.

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Florence Ali: Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation Aired 7/9/2008.
Florence Ali is President of The Ghanaian Association for Women's Welfare , an NGO working towards eliminating harmful traditional practices against women and children with female genital mutilation as a global concern being high on their list of priorities. Florence was previously a midwife and acted as the principle nursing officer for the public health administration in charge of the Accra region in Ghana.

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China Martens: The Future Generation: A Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others Aired 4/23/2008.
China Martens is a long time Zinester, activist and single mama writer onto her next stage of life with an empty nest. A pioneer of the genre, especially when it comes to mamazines, China Martens started The Future Generation in 1990. She was a young anarchist punk rock mother who didn't feel that the mamas in her community had enough support, so she began delivering articles on radical parenting to her compaņeras in an age before the Internet made such a thing easy.

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Cheryl Lyndsey Seelhoff: A Chilling Effect: The Oppression and Silencing of Women Journalists and Bloggers Worldwide plus, On What Radical Feminism Is and Isn't and much more! Aired 10/31/2007.
Cheryl Lyndsey Seelhoff is the creator of the Women's Space Websites and is a writer, speaker and News Editor for Off Our Backs feminist news journal. She is a veteran of the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960's and has devoted her time and energy to feminism for the last ten years. She is currently running for President on the Free Soil Party Ticket.
She is a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

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Sam Berg: A Radical Feminist Perspective on Prostitution Aired 9/19/2007
Sam Berg, founder of Genderberg was born and grew up in New York but found home in Portland, Oregon. An activist, bicyclist, vegetarian, and a whole lot of other goody-two-shoes progressive type things, she currently shares living space with a beloved partner and three cats. In 2002 she co-founded S.H.A.G., Sexual Health Activist Group, to organize actions with young people for sexual education and reproductive rights, and in March 2004 she co-founded A.P.A.N., Antiporn Activist Network.
Lately Sam has focused her feminist energies towards sexual autonomy, bodily integrity and equal human rights for all women. Towards these ends she has dedicated herself to educating people about the inherent harms of sexual capitalism.

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Dolores Huerta: How US Immigration Policies Affect Women and Children-Let Alone the Nations They Come From Aired 8/22/2007
Dolores Huerta is currently the President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation dedicated to Community Organizing. She co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar E. Chavez and holds the emeritus positions of the UFW as Secretary Treasurer and First Vice President Emeritus. She is also an active member of the Fund for the Feminist Majority.

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Jennifer Abod: The Role of Film and Radio in Social Justice Movements (Plus a discussion about "The Old Women's Project" and More) Aired 6/27/2007
Jennifer Abod, with a Ph.D. in Intercultural Media Education and Women's Studies, is an award winning feminist media producer and professor who was part of the dawning of the second wave of feminism in the U.S. Co-founder and singer of the New Haven (CT) Women's Liberation Rock Band and co-writer of "The Liberation of Lydia" the first feminist radio soap opera, she hosted and produced programs on community, public, and commercial radio in New Haven, Philadelphia and Boston for nearly twenty years.

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Joanne Sheehan: Battered by the Pentagon: The reality of military service for women and strategies for resisting violence against women by the U.S. military Aired 5/16/2007
Joanne Sheehan is regional coordinator for New England War Resisters League. She recently completed two terms as Chair of War Resisters International, only the 2nd woman to serve in that position. An organizer and nonviolence trainer, she has been active in many nonviolent campaigns. She has written about feminism and nonviolence, and was a co-author of "Battered By the Pentagon." Joanne speaks about how she became a feminist through her work with the anti-militarism movement, the connections between the two and much much more!

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Audrey Kerr: The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism and Rumor and the Case of Black Washington, D.C. (2007)
Audrey Kerr is associate professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University. Her articles have appeared in Quodilibet: The Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, the Journal of American Folklore, and the Rhetorical Society Quarterly. The Paper Bag Principle is Kerr's first book and she is currently completing her second, This Life: HIV/AIDS, Chaplaincy, and an Inner City.

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Gretchen Raffa: Emergency Contraception and Compassionate Care for Rape Victims (2007)
Gretchen Raffa is Community Organizer for Planned Parenthood of Connecticut. For more information on what you can do to ensure rape victims receive the care they need, please contact her at gretchen.raffa@ppct.org or find out more information regarding EC by visiting www.ppct.org. Please also visit www.womensenews.org for more detailed information and articles regarding the various controversies surrounding the issue of EC.

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Diana Washington Valdez & Maria Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba: Juarez Femicides (2007)
Diana Washington Valdez is an award-winning journalist and investigative reporter for the El Paso Times and has gone further than any other to investigate and uncover the Juarez femicides. "She has gone on the record about the killers' identities and in doing so, she knows she is putting her life on the line. In her book, Harvest of Women Washington exposes the seedy underworld of Juarez's narco-traffickers. 'The girls are carefully screened,' she says. 'They're always a safe bet. Disposable women. They are watched in advance for suitability - young and poor.' Washington's accusations are based on her research and on leaks from the FBI and Mexican investigators. (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-1-2003-47157.asp)
Maria Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba is a researcher for the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Ciudad Juarez, for which she has also served as Director since 1995 and Northwest Dean since 1999. She sits on the editorial board for Revista Di�logo Cultural entre las Fronteras de M�xico, an academic publication and is a fellow for the Smithsonian Institute's Rio Program. She has published articles in national and international journals mainly on border Mexican women writers and borders' theory and lately she has devoted her studies on the cinematic and journalistic discourses on the murdered women in Juarez.

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Noam Chomsky: Misogynistic Language/Libertarian Socialism/Bree Johnson's experiences as an anarchist activist, feminist and radical artist. (2006) (Also featuring Deric Shannon, anarchist activist, Sociology PhD student and owner of Wooden Man Records .
Noam is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. He is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammer, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960's, Chomsky has become more widely known-especially internationally-for his media criticism and radical politics than for his linguistic theories. He is generally considered to be a key intellectual figure within the left wing of United States politics. According to the Arts and Humanities Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar, and the eighth most cited scholar overall. Chomsky is widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. He describes himself as a libertarian socialist and a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism (he is a member of the (IWW).His latest book is called Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance.

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Ghada Ageel, Rela MazalI, Shireen Khamis & Compliments of The Struggle, Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan: Women of Jerusalem Speak! (2006)
Ghada Ageel: A Muslim Palestinian, Rela Mazali, a Jewish Israeli and Shireen Khamis, a Christian Palestinian speak out as part of the Women of Jerusalem Speak tour.
Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997.

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Robert Jensen: Pornography is a Left Issue (2006) (Also featuring Deric Shannon, anarchist activist, Sociology PhD student and owner of Wooden Man Records

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Sheila Jeffreys: Beauty and Misogyny (2006)
Sheila writes and teaches in the areas of sexual politics, international gender politics and lesbian and gay politics. She has written 5 books on the history and politics of sexuality. Originally from the UK Sheila came to University of Melbourne in 1991. She's been actively involved in feminist and lesbian feminist politics, particularly around the issue of sexual violence, since 1973 and is involved through the international non-government organization Coalition Against Trafficking in Women in international organizing. In this episode, Sheila talks with me (another radical feminist!) about her most recent book (Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (Routledge, 2005) which addresses why Western beauty practices are not (but should be) included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices.

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Loretta Ross: A Feminist Perspective on Hurricane Katrina/Women of Color and Reproductive Justice (2006)

Loretta J. Ross is the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network founded in 1997 of 76 women of color and allied organizations that work on reproductive justice issues. In 2004, Ms. Ross was Na?ional Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women�s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants. From 1996-2004, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Read A Feminist Perspective On Hurricane Katrina

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Kathleen Skoczen: Abortion as a Human Right (2006)****Sound quality is areas is poor. Please realize I'm learning as I go with all this equipment..so you may have to play with the volume bar here and there. Trust me, it's worth it!****
Kathleen is an associate professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Southern Connecticut State University (and one of my favorite professors!) Kathleen Skoczen received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology with a certificate in Women's Studies from the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University. Her research focus is women, health, tourism, development, identity and religion in the Dominican Republic. She has spent more than 5 years living in the Dominican Republic since 1985. She has published in several places including The Women's Health Journal and the American Anthropology News, and presents at regional, national, and international conferences regularly. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship, National Science Foundation Award, Rockefeller Foundation Grant and other grants for her continued research on Dominican women, health, tourism, development, identity and religion. She teaches Global Women's Issues and the Anthropology of Women and Health, as well as several courses through the Anthropology program.

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Judith Lorber: Feminism and DeGendering (2006)
Judith is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women�s Studies at Brooklyn College and The Graduate School, City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1971 and began developing and teaching courses in women�s studies in 1972. She was the first Coordinator of the CUNY Graduate School Women's Studies Certificate Program and was Founding Editor of Gender & Society, official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society. She is the author of Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change, Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Paradoxes of Gender, and Women Physicians: Careers, Status and Power, as well as numerous articles on gender and on women as health care workers and patients. She is co-author of Gender and the Social Construction of Illness and Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives, and co-editor of Handbook of Gender Studies and Women's Studies, Revisioning Gender, and The Social Construction of Gender.

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Catharine A.MacKinnon: Women and Sexuality (2006) (Also featuring Deric Shannon, anarchist activist, Sociology PhD student and owner of Wooden Man Records
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, specializes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation. The Supreme Court of Canada largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech. Her scholarly books include Sex Equality (2001), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), and Are Women Human? (2006).She is published in journals, the popular press, and many languages. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, she won with co-counsel a damage award of $745 million in August 2000 in Kadic v. Karadzic, which first recognized rape as an act of genocide. She works with Equality Now, an NGO promoting international sex equality rights for women. Professor MacKinnon holds a B.A. from Smith College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale. She is one of the most widely-cited scholars in the English language.
Talking to her reminded me that we, as women and men, should not be afraid to speak our mind and call it like it is. No more sugar coating!

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Cynthia Enloe: The Militarization of Women's Lives (2006)
Cynthia Enloe, who grew up on Long Island and received a Ph.D. from the University of California/Berkeley, has served as chair of Clark's Government Department and Director of Women's Studies. Professor Enloe is currently a Research Professor in the IDCE Department and teaches the intensive seven-week seminar, Gender, Militarization, and Development. She has been awarded Clark's Outstanding Teacher of the Year three times (it's obvious why when you hear the show) and has been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.Enloe's feminist teaching and research has focused on the interplay of women's politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how women's labor is made cheap in globalized factories (especially sneaker factories) and how women's emotional and physical labor has been used to support governments' war-waging policies and how many women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic, and national identities and pressures shaping ideas about feminini?ies and masculinities have been common threads throughout her studies.
In recent years, Enloe has been invited to lecture and give special seminars on feminism, militarization, and globalization in Japan, Korea, Turkey, Canada, Britain and numerous colleges across the U.S. She has written for Ms. Magazine and Village Voice and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC.
She serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Among her nine books are: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2000), Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (2000), and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, (2004). All of these are published by the University of California Press <>(www.ucpress.edu).

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Martha Ackelsberg: Mujeres Libres/ The Free Women of Spain (2006) (Also featuring Deric Shannon, anarchist activist, Sociology PhD student and owner of Wooden Man Records
Martha has a B.A. from Radcliffe College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has been involved in women's studies both at Smith and in the Valley for almost 30 years. Her teaching, research and writing have all centered ON the nature and structure of political communities, and, in particular, patterns of power and participation within them. Her research has focused on the anarchist movement in Spain, and, particularly, the place of the subordination and emancipation of women within the anarchist project; and on women's place in the political arena in the U.S.

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N'Zinga Shani: Domestic Violence (2006)
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N'Zinga is creator, producer and host of 21st Century Conversations since 1996. The Show addresses community activism & youth development diversity Issues , education at every level, reliable and up-to-date Health Education and information, disparities in Health Care access and treatment, politics (local, state, national) and the Impact of political decisions on communities, race, religion, moral & ethical concerns, social, psychological & family-related Issues, workplace-related issues & concerns and much more! Visit her website to find out more about 21st Conversations and when and where it is broadcasted at www.oneworldpi.org

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Yasmeen Persad from the 519 and Bran Fenner from FIERCE!: Trans Shelters/TLGBTSQ Youth of Color Fight the System (2007)
Yasmeen Persad is Project Coordinator for The Trans Inclusion Project which is a partnership between The 519 Community Centre and Education Wife Assault to provide training and support for anti-violence and assaulted women's agencies to make their services accessible to trans survivors of violence. This project operates through a feminist and anti-racist/anti-oppression approach, locating access work in connection to larger struggles for equality. Staffed by members of the trans community, this project offers training and facilitation opportunities for trans people to build the skills necessary to work in partnership and create change within community services. The trans programme in general is a multi-service programme that is primarily for lower income and/or street active transsexuals and transgendered people (TS/TG). Here we do all sorts of things as a service for the TS/TG community.

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Angelita Manzano: On her interview with Nepali activist Sharmila Karki and more about Off Our Backs: a radical feminist collective (2007). Also featuring Deric Shannon, anarchist activist, Sociology PhD student and owner of Wooden Man Records
Angie Manzano is a member of the off our backs magazine editorial collective. She has travelled to Cuba, Mexico, Cambodia, and Nepal to interview feminist activists and learn about international feminism. Her most recent interview, conducted with democracy activists in Nepal, appears in Off Our Backs

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Eman Ahmed Kamas: "W" Does Not Stand for Women! Women in Iraq (2006)
Eman is a journalist, translator and human rights activist who lives in Baghdad. She is a member of women's will organization which focuses on defining and defending women's rights outside of political party interests and opposing incarceration of women as hostages. Eman regularly publishes articles on women's conditions in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion and has documented human rights violations committed by US and Iraqi forces. She is also involved in mobilizing emergency relief for victims of the war, especially women and children living in refugee camps. In March 2006 Eman was one of six Iraqi women who toured the United States at the invitation of Code Pink - Women Say No To War and I was lucky enough to interview her as she traveled through Connecticut. The women participated in several joint appearances in New York and Washinton, D.C. and then went individually to many parts of the country, speaking to high school students, community groups, church groups, on college campuses, met with active duty GIs and veterans and with parents whose soldier sons and daughters were killed in Iraq. Their purpose: to explain to the American p?ople the reality of the war, the horrendous consequences it is taking on the people of Iraq, to plead for Americans to demand their government stop the war, stop the killing, and end the occupation. To see a video clip of this amazing woman, visit http://terry.portinga.googlepages.com/

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Ariane Alzahar Kirtley: The People of the Azawak & The Amman Imman Project (Water is Life) (2006)
Kirtley received an anthropology degree from Yale College in 2001 and a master's degree from the Yale School of Public Health in 2004. Then she landed a Fulbright Scholarship to return to Niger and do public health research.Kirtley spent her childhood in Niger, so she has a natural affinity for its people. It was the Africans she met as an infant who gave her the middle name Alzhara, meaning "the flower who blossoms in the desert." After recently living among these people for three months a?d seeing some of them needlessly die, Kirtley has put on hold her photography career and is working full time to raise money for a well-building project.The Azawak population numbers about 500,000 and many of them are nomadic. In rural areas, which comprise 99 percent of the Azawak, there are no roads, no schools and no health centers.Last year, in the district where Kirtley was living and working, 25 percent of the children under age 5 died because they had no water to drink, she said."Every day, children as young as 7 or 8 walk up to 35 miles round trip to find water," she said. "The parents have to take care of the animals (livestock)."Kirtley is working through the Friendship Caravan, based in Washington, D.C., to raise funds for two wells.

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Cynthia Chandler: Women in Prison-An Argument for the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex (2006)(Also featuring Deric Shannon, anarchist activist, Sociology PhD student and owner of Wooden Man Records
Cynthia Chandler is a co-founder and Co-Director of Justice Now<> (JNOW.ORG) a California-based human rights organization challenging human rights abuses in women's prison and imprisonment more broadly. Before co-founding Justice Now, Cynthia founded and directed Women's Positive Legal Action Network, one of the first organizations in the United States dedicated to advocating on behalf of HIV+ women in prison. In recognition of her work on behalf of people in prison and her support of their activism, Cynthia with her Justice Now co-director were selected from over 10,000 nominees to receive a 2000 Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award. In 2005 she was selected by the Women's Health Activist Network as one of the top 30 Activists for Women's Health.
Cynthia is a regular speaker at national conferences on prisoner health concerns, prison abolition, the intersection of race, reproductive justice and criminalization. Over the years Cynthia has been active with numerous prisoner rights organizations, including being a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national campaign against the prison industrial complex. Her community education efforts include producing the internationally acclaimed documentary, Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California.
Cynthia also is one of the only lawyers in the country who regularly provides compassionate release services to dying people prison. In acknowledgment of her compassionate release efforts, Cynthia was designated the 1997 Attorney To Whom California Can Be Most Grateful by California Law Business.
Cynthia received a JD from Harvard Law School and an M.Phil. in Criminology from University of Cambridge. Her publications include: Cynthia Chandler, Judy Greenspan, & Jennifer Rotman, Illness Among Women In Prison And Compassionate Release, in Health Issues Among Incarcerated Women (Ronald Braithwaite , Kimberly Jacob-Arriola & Cassandra Newkirk eds., forthcoming 2005). Cassandra Shaylor and Cynthia Chandler, Reform Vs. Abolition: Points of Tension and Connection, in Defending Justice: An Activist Resource Kit 241 (Palak Shah ed., 2005 by Political Research Associates). Cynthia Chandler, Death and Dying in America: The Prison Industrial Complex?s Impact on Women's Health, in Women and the Law 10-1 (Carol H. Lefcourt ed., 2004). Cynthia Chandler and Carol Kingery, Speaking Out Against State Violence: Activist HIV-Positive Women Prisoners Redefine Social Justice, in Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization 81 (Jael Sillman & Annanya Bhattacharjee eds., 2002). Cynthia Chandler, Marjorie Rifkin, Jennifer Rotman, and Jackie Walker, Prisons and Jails, in AIDS and the Law 403 (David W. Weber ed., 2001 & 2002) + more articles but I couldn't fit them all!

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Lacey Midkiff: Got Milk? The Replacement of the Breast with the Bottle in Pursuit of Capital Accumulation (2004)

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Marela Zacarias: Immigrant Rights, Women in the Zapatista Movement and Art as a Tool for Social Change (2006)
(Show will be ready for download very soon... like by this weekend.) Marela is one of the founders of Latinos Contra la Guerra and an Immigrant Rights Activist in CT. Latinos Contra la Guerra (Latinos Against the War) was founded in the Spring of 2004 to create a space where the Latino/Hispanic community could express its discontent and organize against the war in Iraq and in our communities (through marches, counter recruiting and informational forums). They have also been very involved in the pro-immigrant movement in CT. LCLG is one of the founding organizations of the Regional Coalition for Immigrant Rights. Currently LCLG has about 70 members from many different countries: Puerto Rico, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Chile and El Salvador.Marela is also part of CTUP (Connecticut United for Peace). A recognized artist, having painted more than two dozen murals in the United States and Mexico, her murals are those sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Corcoran School of Art, the New Britain Museum of Art, American University, the Latin American Youth Center, the Charter Oak Cultural Center, the Greater Hartford Arts Council, Mexican Autonomous University and the Mexican Electrical Workers Union. .She has taught mural art in Washington, DC, and Mexico City and is currently teaching in New Britain and Hartford, CT. Her work and bio can and MUST be found at www.marela.org.

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Dina Giovanelli: Minority Text: Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Saturday Evening Post from 1934-1950 (2004)
Dina received her M.A. in Sociology with a concentration in race, ethnicity and gender from Southern Connecticut State University in 2004 and is currently working towards a PhD in Sociology at UCONN. Her recent publications include Feederism: A New Sexual Pleasure and Subculture and Controlling the Body: Media Representations, Body Size and Discipline. In addition she has presented on various topics such as Sexual Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis, Fat Women and the Contemporary Television Media: Depictions, Ramifications and Influences and Gender and Embodiment: Influences and Consequences of Acceptable Femininity.

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Mary Greenberg: Iranian Women (2006)(I'm working on editing the sound quality on this one...turn it up as high as you can)
Since the 1960s Mary Lou Greenberg has been an uncompromising and dynamic presence in the women's movement and in the struggles against war and injustice. Mary Lou has been a leader for over three decades in the pro-choice and women's movement. She was an organizer in the women's liberation movement in the 1960's. She worked to develop support and assistance for women's clinics and abortion providers in many cities, including Buffalo, Birmingham and Atlanta in the aftermath of anti-abortion bombings and murders.
Her articles on the abortion battle have appeared in On the Issues magazine, New Directions for Women and the Revolutionary Worker newspaper.
In recognition of her work for women's rights, she was awarded the 2001 Susan B. Anthony Award for grassroots activism by the National Organization for Women-NYC. Mary Lou is a leader in the movements against war, repression and the religious right.
She was an initiator, with Kate Millet and Gloria Steinem, of the "Stop the Inquisition" statement opposing the offensive of the Christian fundamentalists and their allies concentrated in the Kenneth Starr investigation and impeachment hearings of President Clinton in 1996-97. She spoke on Rage, Righteousness and Redemption: Countering the Religious Right, at the Feminist Expo in Washington, D.C. In March 2002, she was an initiator of the Not in Our Name Project, a national network of individuals and organizations formed to help strengthen and expand resistance against the U.S. government?s juggernaut of war and repression in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Not in Our Name organized mass actions on October 6, 2002, including 30,000 people in Central Park, NYC, to oppose the war on the world, the detentions and roundups of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants, and attacks on civil liberties. These actions initiated the wave of protests that swept across the U.S. against the war on Iraq. Mary Lou has spoken internationally on women's rights and the need for radical social change.
In March 2006, she was invited to participate in the European Great March of Women to Oppose Anti-Women Laws in the Islamic Republic of Iran, initiated by Iranian and Afghanistani women living in exile. She was a featured speaker at rallies in four German cities from March 4-7 and The Hague, Netherlands, on March 8, International Women?s Day. (I wonder if Mary sleeps)

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