For this week's show, Elaine announces a special zoom meeting on Monday June 13th to stop the closing of Athena House, a 33-year-old agency that helped women with addictions avoid prison. Nancy Rogers announces that the 52nd annual MLK-Juneteenth Community Celebration will happen live and in person this year at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Park in Santa Rosa on Saturday June 18th. Shekeyna Black and Annie Warren Clark talk about the current musical 9 to 5 at the Sixth Street Playhouse, Shekeyna also announces upcoming benefits for the Peace & Justice Center, the first also on June 18th though later in the day, and the second further out in August. Check out this show's webpage for more details on these events and other announcements, Elaine's comments, the bios of the guests, the show segment descriptions, this week in herstory, and the playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220606.html

We feature comments by our host Elaine B. Holtz on Memorial Day's lessons learned from the battlefield and another mass shooting by an 18-year-old enraged with legally purchased military style guns in Texas but this time 19 children and two teachers were killed with many wounded. Elaine asks, "When will the children come first?" Our featured guest is Grace Cheung-Schulman who talks about the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition she co-founded in responses to the increase of hate incidents after the politization of the covid virus blaming Asians. Check out this show's web archive page for bios of the guests, descriptions of the show segments, this week in Herstory, announcements and links referenced, and the playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220530.html

This week's show features the author and ritualist Carol Kilby on her new book "Evolutionary Dancer - Out, In, and On the Fringe of the Church." Carol shares her Odyssey as a Protestant minister seeking to reconcile the environmental and feminist crisis of our times with the Christian Church. It is a tale of meeting remarkable men and women and learning of the mystic traditions of religions and the Universe Story by some leading scientists like Thomas Berry and Brian Swimm. Carol incorporates her new understanding in rituals to help ground others in their evolutionary dance. Check out this show's web archive page for more background information, bio of the guest, segment descriptions, this week in Herstory, announcements, links referenced, and the playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220523.html

We played a repeat of a previous show last week, but we were live again in the studio on Monday broadcasting Women's Spaces. The Director of the stage play "Real Women Have Curves", Marie Ramirez Downing, and one of the actors making her debut, Reilly Milton, talk about preparing for the play, now at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa. Check out the show's web archive page for segment descriptions, bios of the guests, links referenced, announcements of some good rallies on Friday, this week in Herstory, and the playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220516.html

This week's show is a May Day special. Dr. Harriet Fraad talks about the history of women in labor union movements and in today's labor struggles. Check out this show's web archive page for the bio of the guest, description of the show's segments, links referenced, announcements (including some local events protesting the SCOTUS plan to revoke Roe v. Wade), this week in Herstory, and the playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220502.html

Our co-producer Ken Norton shares his participation as an undergraduate at San Jose State in the Survival Faire that preceded the first Earth Day by two months, where students buried a car to draw attention to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb and the automobile's contribution to environmental damage. He is followed by guests Amy and Rachel Cohen, high school students and hub coordinators of the youth-led Sunrise Movement. After 50 years the environmental concern has dropped from college age to high school age students. Be sure to check out this show's web archive page for bios on the speakers, descriptions of the show segments, links referenced, this week in Herstory, comments by our host Elaine B. Holtz, and the playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220425.html

Our featured guest is Arleen Arnink-Pate of Sonoma Media Investment who produces the Women in Conversation Series and on Wednesday 4/20 presents Winona LaDuke, Native American Elder and Environmental Activist, and Jamie Margolin, student leader of Youth Climate Marches, as a generational comparison of the Environmental Movement. Check out this show's web archive page for the bio on the guest, descriptions of the show's segments, this week in Herstory, Announcements, links referenced, and the playlist http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220418.html

This week's show features Elaine commenting on the confirmation of the first black woman to SCOTUS as Associate Justice and our guest Vesta Copestakes on her community involvement activity as Chair of the Vacation Rental Committee of the Lower Russian River Municipal Advisory Council and its proposal for a revised Vacation Rental Ordinance to the Sonoma County Supervisors. Check out our web archive page for this show to read the bio of the guest, segment descriptions, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220411.html

We featured guest Laura Wells discussing the new California Left Unity Slate, a merger of the Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party to support seven candidates in 2022. Laura is included in that slate in her run for State Controller. She describes this Office. She also talks about Public Banking to fund services needed by state residents with low interest that is paid to the state treasury rather than to banks outside of the state. Check out the show's web archive page for bio of the guest, description of the show segments, this week in Herstory, Announcements, links referenced, and the playlist at https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220404.html

We took a break on 3/21/2022 but are back this week with a show featuring Dr. Dianna Grayer discussing her new stage play "Release: Unearthing the Silent Rumblings". The first showing is on April 2 at Congregation Ner Shalom in Cotati. This Black production consists of 4 short plays sure to stir the hearts and minds of the audience. It is an invitation to talk about race in a safe place. Included will be a facilitated conversation and discussion after the show. Listen to the interview with Dianna Grayer and discover how she works with her creative spirit. Check out the show's web archive page to listen to the show at your convenience, for bio of the guest, more details and presentation dates of the play, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory and the music playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220328.html