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June 26, 2009
- 51%
51% 6/26/09 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topic: Solutions to today’s problems
FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown
In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next 50 years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all. Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a radio program dedicated to that viewpoint.
Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional ‘women’s issues’ category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.
Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).
Here is this week's information on 51% # 1041
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BILLBOARD ? Susan Barnett (:46) (Music Out)
There are so many problems today. It's hard to know where to start. Even the Obama administration is taking the kitchen sink approach - throw it all in there and see how far we can get. But the President has also called on Americans to get involved...a renewed call to roll up our sleeves and help clean this up. A group of award winning photojournalists are doing just that - picking one issue - the growing number of homeless teenagers - and doing what they can. Do1Thing founder Najlah Feanny Hicks says it's working.
5:41 Do1Thing
Want to do one thing for the growing population of homeless teenagers? Go to Do1Thing.org...that’s do, the number one, thing.org.
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Coming up, a gathering place for people who believe there are solutions to today's problems.
If you missed part of our show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD, you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1041.
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There are a lot of sources for bad news. In fact, it's hard to avoid. But Jurriaan Kamp and Helene duPuy, journalists from the Netherlands, decided that what they wanted to do was feature the news that no one was covering...the stories of hope and innovation around the world. That led to the creation of Ode Magazine. I met with Jurriaan when he was visiting Manhattan.
6:46 Ode Barnett
Want to find out more? Go to odemagazine.com.
Next, a double shot of Artspace. First, as it is International Women's Month, it is particularly appropriate to introduce you to Paola Gianturco, a California writer and photographer whose book, Celebrating Women, is the basis of an exhibit at UNESCO International Headquarters in Paris all month.
3:17 Gianturco
Want to take a look at Paola Gianturco's work? Go to her website ...you're going to need me to spell this one. It's PaolaGianturco.com - p-a-o-l-a-g-i-a-t-u-r-c-o.com
Finally, let's go to the movies. Hollywood's glory days began during the Depression of the 1930s. So how is it responding to this economy? Reporter Linda Blake has a report.
4:58 Hollywood in a Recession
Linda Blake is an independent producer in Los Angeles.
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That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please email me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett
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Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.
Susan Barnett, producer and host of 51%, is an award winning veteran journalist whose career has included anchoring and producing television news, radio news, writing for magazines and authoring a weekly column for an online newspaper. She’s a published fiction writer and an aspiring hobo. She lives in Woodstock, NY.
51%- The Women’s Perspective. It’s not just for women.
- We''ve Moved
The Women's Center has relocated from Seal Hall to the Multicultural Center!
We're happy to be in our new digs, but we'll be working in organized chaos for a couple of months, until our new furniture is delivered and installed and we get everything unpacked and settled in.
The Center will not be open to the public until sometime in August; however, we're in the process of shelving our Resource Library books and a/v materials, and they're available to be checked-out if you have the call number, so give us a call at 298-2242 or e-mail ck-english@wiu.edu if you need assistance.
- 51%
51% 6/19/09 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topic: Fair Pay for Women
FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown
In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next 50 years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all. Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a radio program dedicated to that viewpoint.
Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional ‘women’s issues’ category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.
Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).
Here is this week's information on 51% #1040
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BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett (:450) (Music Out)
According to the National Women's Law Center, women are going to feel the effects of the recession more than their male co-workers. That's because they make less - 77 cents to every dollar paid to a man doing the same job. It's against the law, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. A landmark case brought the issue back into the spotlight...and many fair pay advocates are hoping the new administration puts some muscle behind reform. Laura Iiyama reports for 51% from Washington.
5:32 Fair pay - Laura Iiyama
Music Bridge
Coming up on 51%, an in-depth discussion of the fair pay issue...and how it relates to class in America.
If you missed part of our show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD ? you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1016.
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Fair pay isn't just a women's issue...it's a class issue. There are new statistics that indicate that America's becoming stagnant...that not only do very few people live the rags to riches story...but few ever move far beyond whatever economic level they grew up in. I spoke with Kim Bobo, who is director of Interfaith Worker Justice and the author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid - And What We Can Do About It. She was joined by Betsey Leondar-Wright, an advisor to Let Justice Roll...a national coalition to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2010.
9:35 Kim Bobo and Betsey Leondar Wright Barnett
Kim Bobo is director of Interfaith Worker Justice and the author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid - And What We Can Do About It, published by The New Press.
Betsey Leondar-Wright is an advisor to Let Justice Roll...a national coalition to raise the minimum wage and she's the author of Class Matters : Cross Class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activists. It's published by New Society Publishers.
As part of our National Science Foundation “The Sounds of Progress” series, narrator Kate Mulgrew, profiles a modern day miracle inventor. Stephanie Kwolek wanted to be a fashion designer...and her interest in medicine combined with her love of designing to create a lifesaving material.
2:00 NSF #23 Kwolek
If you'd like to find out more or hear more in this series, visit www.womeninscience.org.
Finally today, it's Artspace. Joy Askew has been performing in bands and on her own since she was 14. She's played with Joe Jackson, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, the Rolling Stones and the Who. But you can't pigeonhole her style...she's studied jazz, folk, country and blues. And she combines her music with her passion...animal rights. I spoke with Askew when she was preparing to perform at a benefit for a farm animal sanctuary.
2:27 Askew Barnett
Askew wrote a song for the soon to be released documentary called “Peaceable Kingdom.” You can hear more of her music at joyaskew.com.
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That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please email me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.
That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please e-mail me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.
(:24 pads out to 25:00)
Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.
Susan Barnett, producer and host of 51%, is an award winning veteran journalist whose career has included anchoring and producing television news, radio news, writing for magazines and authoring a weekly column for an online newspaper. She’s a published fiction writer and an aspiring hobo. She lives in Woodstock, NY.
51%- The Women’s Perspective. It’s not just for women.
- Women''s Center Resource Library Temporary Closure
The Women’s Center Resource Library books and a/v materials will be unavailable for check-out beginning June 15 during our move to the new Multicultural Center. We hope to have our collection re-shelved and available by June 22, but give us a call if you need assistance.
- 51%
51% 6/12/09 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topic: Supreme Court nomination, Dads, and more…
FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown
In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next 50 years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all. Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a radio program dedicated to that viewpoint.
Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional ‘women’s issues’ category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.
Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).
Here is this week's information on 51% #1039
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BILLBOARD – Susan Barnett (:42) (Music Out)
Sonia Sotomayor became a household name in a matter of hours. Her nomination to the Supreme Court revved up the right wing to near-hysteria. There was even a right wing blogger who said she should stop trying to get us to pronounce her name correctly - she was just being ethnic. Really. I read it.
In search of a rational reaction to the nomination, I spoke with legendary workers' rights advocate Dolores Huerta, founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
5:54 Huerta
Dolores Huerta is co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association and head of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
But what about the Sotomayor's legal qualifications? For answers on that, we turn to Professor Susan Low Bloch, who teaches constitutional law and a seminar on the Supreme Court at Georgetown University.
5:05 Bloch
Susan Low Bloch is professor of law at Georgetown University and the author of “Supreme Court Politics: The Institution and Its Procedures” from West Publishing Company.
Coming up, we can't let June go by without thinking of our dads. We'll speak with the author of a powerful book about growing up with a man haunted by genocide...and share the sadness of watching your father grow old.
If you missed part of our show, you can find us online at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1039. (12:17)
Most of us learn about men from our dads. We're either Daddy's girl, the apple of his eye, or we're constantly trying to get there. Just as no mothers are perfect, neither are the men who become our fathers. But once we grow up, it's possible that they've given us strengths we never imagined. Carol Ascher is a Connecticut author and anthropologist who finally wrote about her own father as a way to come to terms with their troubled relationship. He was a refugee of the Holocaust...and he was never really free. But Ascher says it's not really a Holocaust story.
6:44 Ascher
The book is called “Afterimages: A Family Memoir” by Carol Ascher. It is published by Holmes and Meier.
And finally, Rachel Stein with a commentary on the moments that break your heart.
3:44 Eggs Stein
Rachel Stein is a professor at Siena College. She's working on a memoir on love and loss.
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That's it for this week.
If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
Thanks to Katie Britton and Glenn Busby for production assistance.
Our theme music is by Kevin Bartlett.
And thank you for listening. Join us again next week for 51% The Women's Perspective.
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That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please e-mail me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.
(:24 pads out to 25:00)
Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.
Susan Barnett, producer and host of 51%, is an award winning veteran journalist whose career has included anchoring and producing television news, radio news, writing for magazines and authoring a weekly column for an online newspaper. She’s a published fiction writer and an aspiring hobo. She lives in Woodstock, NY.
51%- The Women’s Perspective. It’s not just for women.
- 51%
51% 5/29/09 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topic: Women in Leadership; women in law enforcement; newspapers
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BILLBOARD – Susan Barnett (:51) (Music Out)
Leaders may be elected, they may be hired, or they may be thrust into the position by circumstance. Today we'll look at leadership and the women who assume it. The Goldman awards began twenty years ago to honor environmental activists from around the globe. Correspondent Laura Iiyama spoke with this year's winners in Washington:
7:33 Goldman Iiyama
Coming up, Lithuania has elected its first woman president. Plus a discussion of the importance of mentoring for women taking charge in law enforcement...and some thoughts on the future of newspapers.
If you missed part of our show, you can find us online at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD – you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1038. (9:19)
Lithuania has elected its first female president...a political outsider who's got a reputation for toughness on financial issues. She won 69 percent of the vote. Network Europe's Cindy Taylor has more on the election of Dalha Gree-baus Kaite.
2:59 Lithuania
That report comes to us courtesy of Network Europe.
The Closer, Saving Grace, Southland – there are women top cops on television. But real life women in law enforcement are still in the minority. Marion Gold was fascinated by their stories...and wrote a book she called “Top Cops.” It's ten years old now...but the world it describes hasn't changed much.
7:48 Cops - Gold
Marion Gold is the author of Top Cops: Profiles of Women in Command. It is published by Brittany Publications.
And finally, a consideration of the future of America's struggling newspapers. Jackie O'Neal is head of the O'Neal Media Group.
2:05 Newspaper O'Neal
Jackie O'Neal leads the O'Neal Media Group in New Jersey.
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That's it for this week.
If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
Thanks to Katie Britton and Glenn Busby for production assistance.
Our theme music is by Kevin Bartlett.
And thank you for listening. Join us again next week for 51% The Women's Perspective.
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