Women's Center - Western Illinois University

September 25, 2009

51%
51% 9/25/09 @ 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. Topics: Homeless; Polio 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% #1054

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BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett :48 (Music Out)
There's been a national surge in the number of homeless thanks to foreclosures, job cuts and all the related problems they create. A recent New York Times article on one part of that population - America's schoolchildren, led political blog queen Arianna Huffington to rip up a speech she'd prepared and instead talk to some of the country's leading philanthropists and policy makers about the urgent need to do something to help. Many school districts across the country report the number of homeless children attending their schools is up by one-hundred percent. The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, an advocacy group, reports that there were more than one-million homeless students last spring...and that number is believed to be growing fast. There are legal protections ensuring those students get an education, but little federal money to fund those programs. Huffington argues Washington has to get serious about stopping foreclosures - especially for families with school age children. Who are the new homeless? They are us, ordinary people caught between the recession and a mortgage. Kathleen Krauss is one of them. She's been living in a California shelter with her children since April.

2:13 Krauss

The interview was part of KVCR’s “Facing the Mortgage Crisis” series. It aired originally in July.
What can you do? Volunteer to help at your schools. Contact your legislators and tell them this has to be a priority. Contact a shelter and see if you can help.

What can you do about your own financial future? Personal finance expert Manisha Thakor says there is a strategy that's tried and true...and she's got the details.

3:50 Wisdom Thakor

For more from author and personal finance advisor Manisha Thakor, visit her website at manishathakor.com.

Coming up, polio isn't gone, despite an effective vaccination that has wiped it out in most of the world. We'll tell you about the campaign to finally eliminate polio...and take you to Nepal for some ghee and sympathy.

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 #1054. (9:03)

In most of the world, polio is a distant memory - fading photographs of President Franklin Roosevelt, of children on crutches, of people lying inside of iron lungs and a few older people who survived what was once a scourge are all that remains. The largest international public health campaign eliminated polio from most of the world in just twenty years. But the polio eradication campaign has hit a plateau. Every year about two thousand children become paralyzed and most live in four countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nigeria. Washington correspondent Laura Iiyama (ee-yah-mah) has more from polio experts including one woman playing a key role in vaccinations.

8:33 Polio Iiyama

A little village in Nepal looks out over the Himalayan Mountains. People there get by on subsistence farming, and milk provides a critical source of nutrients. But not the way you're used to drinking it. Laura Spero tells us how to turn milk to ghee.

4:42 Buffalo Spiro

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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.

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.

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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.

September 18, 2009

51%
51% 9/18/09 @ 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. Topics: Health Care Reform, Film Heroine & 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% #1053

(SHOW THEME)

BILLBOARD – Susan Barnett (1:08) (Music Out)

The battle over health care reform has dominated the summer's news - except for long spells where we heard about the economy or Michael Jackson. But how much of what we hear is fact and how much is hyperbole? Judith Stein knows how government handles a health care program and she sees it from the inside. She's the founder of The Center for Medicare Advocacy, a national legal aid society to help seniors fight to get the services they need from the government health care system. And you may be surprised to learn she thinks the government does a great job.

9:06 Stein

Judith Stein is the founder of The Center for Medicare Advocacy. For more information, visit their website at medicareadvocacy.org.

Coming up, a movement to get factory farms to take simple steps that could eliminate much of the antibiotics from our meat supply...and a fresh look at one of the screen's most memorable heroines.

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 #1053. (10:46)

If you have children, you know that antibiotics aren't handed out as regularly as they once were. There's a reason. Years of prescribing antibiotics as the first line of defense have helped create mutated bugs that scoff at medication that once killed them dead. And those bacteria are also proliferating in our food supply as factory farms use antibiotics as a substitute for health living conditions for the animals raised for slaughter. Laura Rogers is project director for the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming.

5:30 Laura Rogers

Laura Rogers is project director for the Pew Campaign for Human Health and Industrial Farming. For more information, go to saveantibiotics.org

Finally, a classic film about an iconic literary heroine is seventy years old this year. Scarlett O'Hara may have been a man eater, but she was a survivor, too. Katie Britton looks at how Scarlett, and the woman who created her, fit in the modern view of women.

5:52 Frankly my dear Britton

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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.

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.

September 4, 2009

51%
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% # 1051

(SHOW THEME)

BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett (1:02) (Music Out)

New York's governor had a bill on his desk from May until August that would make New York only the fifth state in the country to ban the routine shackling of female prisoners who are in labor. He finally promised to sign that bill in mid-August, but when the story made the New York Times, many people were shocked to learn that the practice is not uncommon.

4:31 Shackled birth

To find out more about the Women In Prison Project, visit online at correctionalassociation.org.

Up next, a new book that connects the dots between human rights violations and women's health around the world. Plus some thoughts on why women still don't feel safe. And another edition of Artspace.

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 #1051. (6:14)

We've discussed rape as a weapon of war in the Congo, the problem of access to health care for women because of cultural taboos, efforts to stem the rising numbers of maternal mortalities. Now Doctor Padmini Murthy of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has created a book that covers all those issues, and makes a clear correlation between women's health and human rights violations. The book is called Women's Global Health and Human Rights.

5:56 Murthy

That's Padmini Murthy and her book is called Women's Global Health and Human Rights. It's available on Amazon.com and all proceeds are being donated to charity.

Let's talk about a more mundane threat to our sense of well-being and safety - but one that every single woman everywhere has experienced. The horrible sensation of knowing you're alone - and maybe you shouldn't be. Writer Sari Botton experienced it firsthand.

5:47 Stalker Botton

Sari Botton is a writer who lives in Rosendale, NY. You can find out more about her at saribotton.com

And finally, it's Artspace. Alu is an LA-based musician who sounds a little bit like Rasputina, and a little like a visitor from another planet. John Diliberto, host of NPR's Echoes program has an interview.

3:29 Alu Diliberto

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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.

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.