Women's Spaces Radio Show

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 12/28/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Maya Khosla on Sonoma County Climate Activists' Community Summit Invitation -  Show ID: WSA201228. This week's show is the last of the year, and the Women's Suffrage Centennial year has ended. Elaine gives a tribute to Helen Reddy who passed during the year but so influenced the Women's Liberation Movement with her son...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 12/7/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Vesta Copestakes on Retiring from Sonoma County Gazette -  Show ID: WSA201207 This week's show features Vesta Copestakes, the founder and now retired publisher of the Sonoma County Gazette, talking about her start with a little elementary school newsletter that caught the eye of the Forestville Chamber of Commerce newsl...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 11/23/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and co-producer Ken Norton presenting Commentary and Inspirational Readings -  Show ID: WSA201123.  Elaine Holtz and her partner Ken Norton, share some of what they are grateful for as we approach Thanksgiving in the midst of the pandemic and after a contested election this month. Amidst the traditional day of family gather...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 11/16/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests retired nurse Gail Simons on Masking Up as Covid Surges and Amie Windsor, the New Publisher of the Sonoma County Gazette, introduces herself and bids Elaine farewell as Elaine passes on the authorship of the Santa Rosa Snippets column in the Gazette beginning with its November 2020 issue. -  Show ID: WSA201116. Visit...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 11/9/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Pat Sabo on the Election and Susan Lamont on the Long Persistent Democratic Process to Pass Meausre P on Sheriff Oversight - Show ID: WSA201109. This week's show reviews the election, especially local races. Recognition of those activist groups that have clamored for 7 years since Andy Lopez's killing by a Sheriff Deputy to...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 11/2/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Astrid Harper on her just published memoir "From Hitler to Trump - an Immigrant's Story"-  Show ID: WSA201102.   Astrid was born to German parents during Kristallnacht of November 9 to 10, 1938, when pogroms were executed by SA paramilitary and civilians that burned over 200 synagogues and many Jewish stores a...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 10/26/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Ret. Police Chief Susan Jones on Sonoma County Measure P and Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs With Justice Advocating for Workers During the Pandemic and Wildfires -  Show ID: WSA201026. Visit the show's web archive page for the synopsis of each section of the show, bios of the guests, this week in Herstory, Announcemen...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 10/19/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Caroline Bañuelos on the Sonoma County Latino Democratic Club and Colleen O'Neal on Measure P for Civil Review of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office  -  Show ID: WSA201019. See the bios of the guests, announced links, this week in Herstory, and the playlist at the show's web archive page at http://www.womens...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 10/12/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Joyce Johnson Rouse on Earth Mama's Mission -  Show ID: WSA201012.   Joyce Johnson Rouse, known as Earth Mama, a name given her by children for her children's songs on being good stewards of the Earth.  Women's Spaces has played many of Earth Mama's songs over the years and is proud to present this inter...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 10/5/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Jessica Litwak, RDT, PhD, on Creating the Play: 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story for the Petalulma Museum, available for viewing October 8th  -  Show ID: WSA201005.  Jessica Litwak wrote the one-woman play and reads a scene for us.  Dr. Litwak specializes is socially engaged theater.  See the...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 9/28/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz presenting her 1975 graduation speech on Single Mothers Returning to School and guest Janeen Murray on GoLocal -  Show ID: WSA200928.   Visit the show's web archive page at  http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200928.html  

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 9/21/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Leslie Graves on the Vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Santa Rosa and Deva Marie Proto, our Sonoma County Voter Registrar on Security and Ease of Voting -  Show ID: WSA200921 See the web archive page for the show for the bio of the guests, links mentioned  and announcements, playlist, and Herstory for this week at&...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 9/14/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Debbie McKay on the upcoming League of Women Voters' Candidate Forum for Santa Rosa City Council District One -  Show ID: WSA200914. Elaine reads her poem: I Am From the Old School and plays songs relevant for today.  See the web archive page for this show to read the poem and see the links for the announcements. h...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 9/7/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Debbie McKay on Voting and the League of Women Voters' Candidate Forums and Delayshay Carmona Benson as a College Student To Be Part of the Change I Want in Society -  Show ID: WSA200907.  Visit the show's web archive page for bios of the guests, announcements, links and playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 8/31/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Resisting Male Supremacy -  Show ID: WSA200831. This week's show features a look at the RNC Convention and the Women's Suffrage Centennial, as well as the speech of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) countering the abusive encounter with Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), in which she says, "Having a daughter does...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 8/24/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Laurie Gallian on Serving the Community and Running for a Local Political Office   -  Show ID: WSA200824.   Laurie Gallian recounts her path to running for a local political office and it started volunteering and finding what activity she liked. Visit the show's web archive page to read the bio of th...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 8/10/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Susan Lamont on the Board of Supervisors Opting to Place the More Effective IOLERO on the Ballot for greater accountability of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office and Molly Murphy MacGregor of the National Women's History Alliance on this month's Celebrations of Womens Suffrage Centennial -  Show ID: WSA200810.  &n...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 8/3/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Dmitra Smith, Chair of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights' Report: Human Right Violations in Santa Rosa California—Policing the Black Lives Matter Protests - Show ID: WSA200803. Visit the show's archive web page for the guest's bio, links referenced, announcements and playlists at  http://www.womensspaces.com/A...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 7/27/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Ariel Kelley on Corazón Nurturing the Heart of Healdsburg - Show ID: WSA200727. Ariel Kelley is the Acting CEO of  Corazón Healdsburg and she shares the achievements of the non-profit organization in mentoring young Latinos in life skills and in preparing for leadership, especially in the city commissions so the Latino...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 7/20/2020 with Commentary, Music and Poetry on Santa Rosa Police Response to Protesters for Black Lives Matter by host Elaine B Holtz  - Show ID: WSA200720   Elaine B. Holtz originally planned for Dmitra Smith, Chair of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sonoma County, to speak on the Commission's recently released report on the county's website, Human...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 7/13/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Debbie McKay on the League of Women Voters webinar "How to Run for City or Town Council and Mary Moore on 20 Years of Advocating for a Citizen's Review Board of County Law Enforcement - Show ID: WSA200713 Visit the web archive page for the show for descriptions of the interviews, biographies of the guests, links referenced,...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 7/6/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Sydni Davenport on her song Black Lives Matter and Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returns for Feminism and Black Lives Matter, Part 3: Early Feminists Were Abolitionists. Black Live Matter is a movement of insisting "no more messing around!", to put it politely by Dr. Williams. The Me-Too movement was a similar cry of "enou...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 6/29/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., on the Millionth Circle in the Midst of Crisis - Show ID: WSA200629 Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen shares how she was mentored by Jungian supervisors as she earned her degrees in medicine and psychiatry. She comments on this "in between time" the world has been cast into through the COVID-19 pandemic an...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 6/22/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guests Nancy Rogers and Eshawn Zuniga with Juneteenth Reflections - Show ID: WSA200622. Sonoma County juneteenth Festival, usually celebrated at the Martin Luther King jr Park in Southwest Santa Rosa by the fairgrounds was celebrated this year, its 50th annual event in Santa Rosa, CA,  by Zoom online video meeting. How the ev...

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 6/15/2020 with guest Gloria Allred on aka Jane Roe and Women's Rights - Show ID: WSA200615  Gloria Allred shares her passion for justice for women with as she calls it "45 years of fighting for #MeToo justice."  Ms. Allred has taken on very powerful and rich men who have abused women. She talks of her friend and client Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" whose unw...