Wednesday, May 15, 9-11 pm, Joy of Resistance presents singer-songwriter Judy Gorman, LIVE, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra and a report-back from the front in the Morning After Pill battle–plus an historic documentary of the disruption of the Miss America Pageant protest of 1969.

Renowned Singer/songwriter Judy Gorman* (who sings our theme song) will make a live appearance and sing for us in the early part of the show. Members of the Rude Mechanical Orchestra will drop by and we’ll hear a live report from activists about the feminist actions that will take place in 12 cities across the country on Tues., May 14, to protest the Obama Administration’s attempt to continue to restrict women’s access to the Morning After Pill.

We’ll thank listeners who pledge to support WBAI during our show with great music CD’s by Judy Gorman and The Rude Mechanical Orchestra.

And–as a special offering, listeners will be able to receive a DVD of an historic short film of the 1968 Miss America Pageant Protest that put the feminist movement on the map (this is where we are supposed to have “burned our bras”). It’s an historical treasure, that includes footage of the disruption of the Miss America Pageant inside the hall where women hung a banner declaring “Women’s Liberation”–as well as actions on the boardwalk of Atlantic City. We have exclusive rights from musician and documentation-artist Bev Grant, who shot and produced the film (which cannot be gotten anywhere else).

The pledge amounts to get the above gifts will be extremely reasonable.

* Pete Seeger sums up Judy Gorman like this: “She came, she sang, she conquered. No two programs that she gives are the same. She is always thinking how to find the right phrase, the right song to hit the nail right on the head, to shoot the arrow straight to the heart of the matter.”

Audio for show on Wednesday, May 1st, 9-10 pm: Stephanie Coontz, author of “A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960′s”

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Joy of Resistance is heard on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month @WBAI, 99.5 fm in NYC (& the tri-state area) & streams at wbai.org. Follow JOR @ twitter.com/joyofresistance

An encore presentation of a 2011 conversation between Fran Luck (Joy of Resistance Producer) and Stephanie Coontz, author of “A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960′s” (this program was supposed to air on April 3, but for technical reasons, was not able to be heard at that time).

The discussion will center not only on the ways in which Betty Friedan‘s watershed book “The Feminine Mystique” (1963) changed the conceptual landscape for American women–but also on the nature of the conditions that prevailed for women in the 1940′s ’50′s & early 60′s), when “Help Wanted: Female” ads, “Head and Master” laws (which gave men all legal control in marriage) and  a Freudianism that diagnosed neurosis in women who possessed ambition–proscribed women’s lives.

We’ll examine how the feminist history of the 1920′s was erased and images of earlier feminists were distorted so that women of the 1950′s were denied their feminist history–just as the backlash against the feminists of the 1960′s that is going on today is denying today’s generation their real history. We’ll look at how women were pushed out of the good jobs they held in the 1940′s (when men were fighting World War ll), sold a bill of goods that the only path to “true womanhood” was through being stay-at-home wives and mothers–and how these images of American womanhood were then used as part of the “Cold War.”

We’ll look at the evidence for feminist periods running in cycles, with each feminist upsurge, followed by a period in which a “crisis in masculinity,” caused by “women going too far” is declared–followed by attempts to take away women’s gains.

The show will be accompanied by period music from the 1950′s, including “Sincerely,” sung by The McGuire Sisters; “How Much is That Doggie in the Window?” sung by Patti Paige; “Mr. Sandman,” sung by The Chordettes and the “I Love Lucy” themesong, sung by Desi Arnaz.

Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI airs on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, at 9-10 PM. We cover the “ongoing worldwide struggle of women for full liberation, equality and human rights.” You can tweet us at twitter.com/joyofresistance and follow/read our blog at joyofresistance.wordpress.com and also communicate with us through the “comments” section on our blog. Programs stream live @ wbai.org where they are archived there for 90 days.

WBAI @ 99.5 FM broadcasts to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and is part of the Pacifica Radio Network, one of the few alternatives to the corporate-controlled media that dominate the airwaves–and it needs your financial support to continue broadcasting!

Please consider going to www.wbai.org and contributing whatever amount you can to help keep alternative radio alive. If you join as a “WBAI Buddy” you can help sustain the station permanently for as little as $10. a month (automatically taken out of your bank account/credit card) and be entitled to a range of gifts. Go to Give2WBAI.org to become a WBAI Buddy or find out other ways you can support the station. If you join as a “Buddy” in the name of Joy of Resistance your contribution will be counted as a “listener vote” for continued and expanded feminist programming at WBAI.

Thank you for your support!

Wednesday, April 17, 9-10 pm Joy of Resistance presents: Anatomy of a Campaign–How the 10-year fight to get the Morning After Pill over-the-counter and without restrictions, was won!

On Wednesday April 17, between 9 and 10 pm, Joy of Resistance will feature an examination of the recent victory for women that has been called the greatest pro-active advance in reproductive justice since Roe v Wade. We will  examine in depth, the 10 year campaign that resulted in the landmark April 6 decision by a Federal Judge to make the Morning After Pill available without any restrictions to women of all ages–thereby accomplishing the long-term goal of making it truly over-the-counter and eliminating the need for every woman to show an ID and go through a pharmacist in order to get it.

Our guests will be National Women’s Liberation organizers: Annie Tummino, lead plaintiff in the suit Tummino vs Hamburg; Allison Guttu, arrested in 2005, (along with 8 other women) for blocking entrances to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Brooke Eliazar-Macke, and Alex Leader, one of the campaign’s originators.

Our program will fill in the parts of the story that have been consistently left out of mainstream–and even feminist–media coverage, which focused only on the legal aspects of the victory. Consistently left out was a 10-year grassroots campaign that put pressure on the legal system and “created the space” for the Judge to hand down a positive verdict. This campaign included civil disobedience actions: the 2005 sit-in to block the entrance to the FDA in Washington DC, in which 9 women were arrested; over 5,000 women publicly defying the prescription requirement (which existed prior to 2006) by taking a pledge to “give the Morning After Pill to a friend if she needs it”–and then faxing their names to the FDA in a public challenge to the restrictions; a “flash mob” at a pharmacy, where, in a’direct action’ women placed the Morning After Pill directly on shelves in the Family Planning section.

The entire campaign was built on a grassroots strategy of holding consciousness raising sessions to find out how lack of access to the Morning After Pill actually affected women’s lives–and public speak-outs in which women told these stories.

The Morning After Pill is safe (according to the FDA’s own scientists), and if taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex is an effective tool for preventing pregnancy. It works best within 24 hours, which is why the prescription requirement was a grave obstacle for women–especially since unprotected sex–i.e., a condom breaking–was more likely to happen on a weekend, making it is harder to find a doctor to write a prescription in time for the drug to be effective. As a result of the Tummino vs Hamburg suit, in 2006. the prescription requirement was lifted– in itself, an incredible win during the Bush Administration, when the fight for reproductive rights was being pushed seriously backward and there was an active anti-birth control movement.

But there was a compromise within this victory. MAP would be available only to women 18 and over (later changed to 17 and over) and it would be kept behind the counter, subject to approval by pharmacists, and all women would have to show ID to get it. NWL activists decided they could not live with this compromise and persisted in organizing and continuing the lawsuit to overturn it. The results they fought for were finally achieved on April 6.

Civil disobedience actions are historically linked to the fight for birth control–from Margaret Sanger being arrested for giving out information on birth control (then illegal) in the early 20th century, to Pat McGinness, arrested in the 1960′s for dispersing information on where to get an abortion (when that was illegal). The fight for the vote was also peppered with arrests. With so many laws restricting women over the centuries, defying unjust laws was and is a necessary part of feminists winning more freedom. NWL activists drew on, and were inspired by, this tradition, in their fight for the Morning After Pill.

The show will also include our regular “Feminist News Roundup.”

 

Joy of Resistance to offer package of rare historical material for 40th Anniversary year of Roe v Wade

Joy of Resistance is very proud to be able to offer as a premium for the WBAI Radio Winter Fund Drive, a 3-part “40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade Package.” It is a hand-picked multi-media collection of historical materials on the Abortion Rights movement in the U.S., from its beginnings to the present! You are going to want to have this for your history library and use it for its activist lessons–and to understand the origins of the rights we’ve won and also how we can defend and expand them. This collection is entertaining as well as serious. It includes theater, music of the reproductive rights movement (some of it quite funny), a DVD, a book  and recordings of the best of Joy of Resistance’ coverage of reproductive rights..The parts can be ordered separately or as one package.

THIS JUST IN: Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner,* Exectutive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation and one of the first women to recieve a Doctorate in Women’s Studies (1978) has sent me the following message in response to my letting her know about this package: “This is just an historic treasure; should be in every library! Thank you for doing it!”

We will be offering this collection as a thank-you for supporting WBAI (listener supported radio) on Wednesday, February 20, between 9 & 11 PM on WBAI at 99.5 FM (in the New York Area) and on wbai.org (streaming live on the web). And…your pledge for this material will count as a vote for the continuation of feminist programming at our station!

If there were no other reason to get this package, owning recordings and/or visuals of Ellen Willis, Kathy Sarachild, Rhonda Copelon, Flo Kennedy, Cindy Cisler, and other not-well-enough known pioneers of our movement–would be enough, as this rare footage is hard to come by–but…there is a lot more in this package. Here’s a summary of the 3 parts and what’s in it:

1)  A DVD of Lori Hiris’ feminist classic film, “With a Vengeance: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom” (used by National Women’s Liberation in its annual class on radical feminism). This DVD includes:

* Rare footage & interviews with early movement pioneers such as Cindy Cisler, Pat Maginness, Flo Kennedy, Kathie Sarachild, Carol Downer, Dr. Ben Munson, “Jane,” Lawrence Lader and more…

* Rare footage from the Redstockings 1969 first Abortion Speakout, where women risked arrest to speak about their then-illegal abortions with testimony by Irene Peslikis & others. Contains footage of the 1969 Miss America Pageant Protest (one of the earliest Women’s Liberation actions).

* Footage from a 1989 gathering of Black feminists in Washington, DC–and their speak-out–with Loretta Ross, Billye Avery and others–that contributed to laying the conceptual framework for what would later become the Black woman-led Reproductive Justice Movement

* Footage of the huge 1989 Washington, DC, abortion rights march/rally w/shots of everyone from Betty Friedan to Margarita Lopez; interviews with Randall Terry,  street clashes between Operation Rescue and abortion rights activists, as well as footage of the “official speakers” including Whoopi Goldberg, Estella Vasquez–and singing by Holly Near.

* The film is in an exciting “avant garde” style of 60′s cinema (although made in the late 80′s) and film maker Lori Hiris has said she was influenced by documentary film-maker Emile D’Antonio (“Point of Order”).

2)  A long playing MP3 CD of “The Best of” Joy of Resistance’ Coverage of the Reproductive Rights Movement.” I’ve gone all out to pack it with some of the best programming we’ve done on this subject, during almost 11 years of programming. It Includes:

* Substantial speeches by Ellen Willis (1977), Rhonda Copelon (1977 & 2008), Dr. Jocelyn Elders (at the 2007 SisterSong: A Woman of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Conference).

* An interview with Loretta Ross on the history of attitudes toward abortion and birth control in the Black community–from slavery through the Garvey-ite period, more recent nationalist trends, the Black Panthers–and more

* An ENTIRE PERFORMANCE of the play “Words of Choice” which has toured the U.S. for a number of years (created/produced by Cindy Cooper), as recorded at the studios of WBAI in 2008.  It includes interviews with the cast on the reactions they got to the play in anti-abortion parts of the country. Introductory  material includes additional recordings from the 1969 Redstockings abortion speakout, Roz Baxandall‘s 1989 testimony about her 1960′s abortion–and her recent observation on the attitudes toward abortion that she sees in the college students she teaches today.

* Music of the Reproductive Rights Movement–at least 10 songs (!) include: The New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band’s 1972 “Abortion Song”, a song by Kurt Weill/Hanns Eisler, Sandy Rapp’s “Remember Rose” (about the first woman to die of an illegal abortion after the Hyde Amendment), Loretta Lynne’s “The Pill”, Pete Seeger’s “The Pill” (different song from Loretta’s) as well as some extremely funny songs: “Hands off my Clams” by Lisa Koch, “Every Sperm Does Not Deserve a Name” by Stone Soup and “This Womb is My Womb” by The Church Ladies for Choice– and more!!!!

* The first-ever Joy of Resistance show (June, 2002) with interviews of Faye Wattleton (First  Black woman President of Planned Parenthood) and Frances Kissling (President of Catholics for a Free Choice). Hosted by Byllye Avery, Manijeh Saba, Fran Luck. Byllye talks about her early days after opening one of the first clinics to do abortions after the Roe decision, in Gainesville, FLA; Manijeh talks about what abortion meant to her growing up in Iran. Fran talks about how she went from being averse to abortion to seeing it as an essential right for women.

* Speeches from the Rutgers University rally leading up to the huge March for Women’s Lives (2004): includes fierce speeches by student leaders and Maretta Short on “Slavery and Abortion.” Also a speech from the “Unite to Fight the Right” rally of 2012, by Martha Plimpton.

* An original radio production entitled: “Abortion as a Human Right”: includes interviews with lawyers working in the field of International Human Rights, an abbreviated history of women’s rights and reproductive rights, 3-way conversation with Loretta Ross, Christina Page and Sunsara Taylor focusing on President Obama & reproductive rights and the current interplay of right wing terrorism and restrictive abortion laws.

* And even more–I am still finding and including more materials as I go through my files…

3) The book: “Intimate Wars” a Memoir by Merle Hoffman, in which Hoffman  tells the story of how she evolved from a young woman with great ambition but only a vague sense of what to do with her life, into the Founder and President of Choices Women’s Medical Center (Queens, NY) and a leading activist and theorist in the struggle for reproductive rights–as well as becoming a targeted (by the Right) abortion provider who has been on the front lines since 1971. Through her eyes you’ll experience the beginnings of the rise of the right wing anti-abortion movement, the too-slow recognition by feminists of the seriousness of the threat–as well as many of the critical debates within the movement. You’ll also read about the evolution of Hoffman’s philosophical beliefs on what the abortion issue is really about and how feminists can–and must–create a counter-narrative to that of the Right–if we are to win. A MUST-READ...

I hope you’ll consider owning this collection–or some part(s) of it–and adding it to your own collection of history of our movement. I don’t know of any one place where so much material has been gathered together in different media forms and made so accessible. WBAI will be aksing listeners to make a pledge of $40 for each individual part—and $100 for the entire 3-part package.

On the night of the show, you will be able to pledge by simply calling (516) 620-3602, between 9 & 11 pm (New York time) on Wednesday, February 20. If you’re not available to do it at that time, we can help you to find another way–I’ll get back to you if you leave a twitter or email address in the comment section below.

WBAI is at 99.5 FM in the middle of the FM dial, broadcasting to the tri-state area of the North East U.S.–and worldwide on the web. It can be live-streamed at http://www.wbai.org.

Thank you so much for supporting Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI, broadcasting cutting edge feminism since 2002.

Solidarity and warmest regards,

Fran

Fran Luck,
Executive Producer,
Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI,
99.5 FM, NYC, 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 9-10 pm
(broadcasting to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut
& worldwide on the web)

* On Sally Roesch Wagner: One of the first women to receive a doctorate for work in women’s studies in the United States (UC Santa Cruz, 1978), Dr. Wagner is also a founder of one of the country’s first women’s studies programs at California State University, Sacramento (1970). A women’s studies professor for 37 years and now Executive Director of the Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, Wagner is the nation’s foremost authority on Matilda Joslyn Gage. Wagner’s recent titles include: She Who Holds the Sky: Matilda Joslyn Gage (Sky Carrier Press, 2003); Introduction to the reprint of Matilda Joslyn Gage’s 1893 classic Woman, Church and State (Humanity Books, 2002); and Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists (Native Voices, 2001). Dr. Wagner also appeared in the Ken Burns documentary, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

 

Joy of Resistance on WBAI’s Talkback 4-5 pm Tues. Jan. 22 to mark Roe v Wade Anniversary. Guest: Merle Hoffman

To mark the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States, Joy of Resistance host Fran Luck will guest-host the 2nd hour of Hugh Hamilton’s Talkback radio program this Tuesday between 4 and 5 pm at WBAI, 99.5 FM (streaming at wbai.org ). Her guest will be Merle Hoffman, CEO and founder of Choices Women’s Medical Center in NYC–and Publisher of On The Issues Magazine, a magazine of feminist and progressive thought. Merle Hoffman has been on the front lines in the ongoing battle for safe, legal, accessible and non-stigmatized abortion since 1970, when abortion was first legalized in New York State (three years prior to Roe v Wade).

Fran will lead off the segment with some of the history of the activism that led up to Roe, and will play a few soundbites from that period, including one from the first abortion speak-out held in 1969 where women risked arrest to speak of their then-illegal abortions. Merle will then share her experiences as one of the first abortion providers in NYS and will recount the rise of the right wing attacks on the newly won right to abortion. She will also share some of her experiences with patients and why she believes a woman must have the right to terminate her pregnancy. The discussion will also focus on the current political landscape in which literally hundreds of laws prevent women from exercising the rights won under Roe, and 90% or more of U.S. counties do not have an abortion provider. The latter part of the segment will include listener phone calls at (917) 580-6020.

Wed, January 16, 9-10 pm Joy of Resistance. “From New Delhi to Steubenville”–Soraya Chemaly on her article: “Rape Has A Purpose” plus: women talk about how the prevalence of rape affects the decisions they make every day

Follow JOR @ twitter.com/joyofresistance & follow/read our blog @  joyofresistance.wordpress.com WBAI can be heard at 99.5 FM and streams live @ wbai.org

From New Delhi, India to Steubenville, Ohio, horrifying rapes have been dominating the news recently, sparking international outrage–including marches and demonstrations throughout India and calls for justice from around the world. But we know that such much-publicized  rapes are only the tip of the iceberg: that the vast majority of rapes will go unreported; that U.S. statistics vary from one in four, to one in six women raped in their lifetimes.

On Wednesday, January 16, 9-10 PM, join the Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI, as we speak with Soraya Chemaly, author of the recent Huffington Post article “Rape Has A Purpose” (tinyurl.com/bkzy5fd). Chemaly says in her article: “Women are not free to live without the constant threat of assault and violence or without being treated like objects and property.  When I last checked there were at least four “Rape Capitals” of the world. You know what that makes the rest of us? “Rape Suburbs.”

We’ll be looking at why rape is tolerated cross-culturally–and we’ll be asking women in our studio–and, in our listening audience–to tell us how the prevalence of rape affects the everyday decisions they make as they move around in the world. We will be taking listener phone calls in the latter part of the show at (917) 580-6020.

The show will also feature the Joy of Resistance Worldwide Feminist News segment, including an array of current stories, from a just-released January 15 Guttmacher Institute study on how “personhood amendments” are being used to destroy the constitutional rights of pregnant women (tinyurl.com/cdkk387), to a call by Mormon women for women to wear pants to church (currently forbidden) to call attention to their unequal roles–and which has generated death threats (tinyurl.com/c63vsxj ).

Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI airs on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, at 9-10 PM. We cover the ongoing worldwide struggle of women for full equality and human rights. You can leave a phone message at (212) 209-2987, “tweet” us at twitter.com/joyofresistance and follow/read our blog at joyofresistance.wordpress.com . Programs stream live @ wbai.org where they are also archived for 90 days.

WBAI @ 99.5 FM broadcasts to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and is part of the Pacifica Radio Network, one of the few alternatives to the corporate-controlled media that dominate the airwaves–and it needs your financial support to continue broadcasting! Please consider going to wbai.org and contributing whatever amount you can to help keep alternative radio alive. If you join as a “WBAI Buddy” at $10. or more a month, you can help sustain the station permanently and be entitled to a range of gifts. When you support WBAI during Joy of Resistance fund-drive programs or join the “Buddy” program in the name of Joy of Resistance–you are also supporting the continuation of feminist programming at WBAI. Thank you for your support.

Our December 19 show: A conversation with Rita Banerji on gendercide

Wednesday, December19, 9-10 pm Joy of Resistance presents a conversation with Rita Banerji, founder of the 50 Million Missing Women campaign

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On Wednesday, December 19, between 9 and 10 pm, Joy of Resistance, Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI proudly presents an interview with Indian Feminist Rita Banerji*: activist, researcher, testifier at the United Nations Symposium on Femicide and initiator of the “50 Million Missing Women” campaign.

Banerji documents and explains the systemic murders of women and girls in India, in numbers amounting to GENDERCIDE. She traces the killings to an active, ongoing and spreading patriarchal wealth-building system that features Dowry as the prize sought by husbands and their families. The name of the game is to raise sons who will collect dowries–and avoid raising daughters on whom the family must spend dowry money; this is accomplished by forcing the abortion of female fetuses (on daughters in law) and often the actual murders of young girls from birth to six years!

It is also accompanied by the ongoing practice of Sati (the burning of widows) and the growing phenomenon of “witch lynchings” in India–which are reminiscent of the witch burnings that took place in Europe and America–and like those, are a way of acquiring the property of women.

This interview is shocking and frightening–but terribly important, as it helps us to understand that the oppression of women (and other oppressed groups) is not “an accident” or a vestige from another era, but is an active process from which someone/someones are benefitting now!

The show will also feature our international feminist newscast, with stories on: the Violence Against Women Act; the Michigan anti-abortion “superbill”; the attempt of the “council” of an Indian village to ban women from using cell phones; Egyptian and Yemeni women losing rights after last year’s uprisings; Italian women fighting back against male violence; an important advance for reproductive rights in the Philippines and a commemoration of the Montreal Massacre.

*Find out more about Rita Banerji’s work at 50millionmissing.info and 50millionmissing.wordpress.com

Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI airs on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, at 9-10 PM. We cover the ongoing worldwide struggle of women for full equality and human rights. You can “tweet” us at http://www.twitter.com/joyofresistnace and follow read our blog at http://www.joyofresistance.wordpress.com Programs stream live at http://www.wbai.org where they are also archived for 90 days.

WBAI broadcasts to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and is part of the Pacifica Radio Network, one of the few alternatives to the corporate-controlled media that dominate the airwaves–but it needs your financial support to continue broadcasting. Please consider going to http://www.wbai.org and contributing whatever amount you can to help keep alternative radio alive. AND PLEASE SUPPORT US DURING FUND DRIVES. When you support WBAI during Joy of Resistance fund-drive programs you are also supporting the continuation of feminist programming at the station.Thank you for your support.

Wednesday, September 19, 9-10pm, 99.5fm Joy of Resistance Feminist Radio: Terry O’Neill and elections; Kathie Sarachild and Erin Mahoney on Shulamith Firestone; Amanda Marcotte on the Chris Brown Tatoo; Everyday Sexism (the blog) founder Laura Bates

On Wednesday, September 19, 9-10 pm, join Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio @ WBAI (WBAI_radio –livestreaming @ http://www.wbai.org) for a many dimensional feminist program, as we speak with Terry O’Neill, President of the National Organization for Women (www.now.org), about the Republican and Democratic conventions, Republican rhetoric on women and what’s at stake for women in the November election.

We’ll also look at what goes on daily in womens’ lives that doesn’t make the headlines with Laura Bates, founder of the popular blog “Everyday Sexism” (www.everydaysexism.com) in which women from all over the world simply report sexism they experience on a daily basis.

Amanda Marcotte will talk about her recent www.rawstrory.com article on her take on what the new Chris Rock tattoo has in common with the advice televangelist Pat Robertson recently gave to a man whose wife wouldn’t “behave.”

And we’ll examine the roots of our movement by exploring the ongoing legacy of feminist pioneer Shulamith Firestone who passed away in late August. We’ll speak about her with another feminist pioneer, Redstockings (www.redstockings.org) member Kathie Sarachild, who worked with Firestone in the early days of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM)  and Erin Mahoney of National Women’s Liberation (www.womensliberation.org), will read NWL’s statement-in- progress, which includes a description of how Firestone’s work inspired a younger generation. Firestone’s was a co-founder of pivotal groups The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, New York Radical Women and Redstockings, Her major written work, Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution was published in 1970 and quickly became a best-seller at a time when the rebirth of feminism was gaining great popularity..

The show will also include Worldwide Feminist News headlines and music. 

Joy of Resistance airs on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, between 9 & 10 pm. The Executive Producer and host is Fran Luck. You can follow us on twitter @
http://www.twitter.com/joyofresistance

Preliminary Announcement: next JOR show: 6-6-12

I’m in the thick of planning the next Joy of Resistance show (after a break for WBAI fund-drive this May). It’s this coming Wed., 9-10 pm (WBAI, 99.5 FM, streams at http://www.wbai.org). Show will have sounds from the 1st-ever NYC Feminist General Assembly of OWS (May 17 in Wash. Sq. Pk.) as well as live group interview w/some of organizers. Also, sound from some other feminist recent events–the “Unite to Fight the War on Women” rally at Foley Sq. (Apr. 24) and possibly the Forum that took place other night (May 29) @ the Ethical Culture Society: “The Resurgence of Misogyny”, w/Katha Pollitt & others. Plus the Feminist News Roundup (oy vey–more republican abortion restrictions!). Help me spread the word. If yr tweeting, follow us at twitter.com/joyofresistance. And tune in.

Wednesday, April 4, 9-10 pm, Joy of Resistance: Feminism in High School. Guests: Ileana Jimenez & her students

WBAI can be heard at 99.5 FM and streams live at www.wbai.org

Ileana Jimenez (feministteacher.com), who teaches feminism at Elizabeth Irwin High School and some of her students--along with Joy of Reisistance (JOR) members, April 4th, WBAI lobby, after show appearance. Left to right: Ileana Jimenez; Feminist Teacher; Grace Tobin, H.S. Senior; Jasmine Burnett, JOR host; Dinayuri Rodriguez, H.S. Junior, Emma Stydahar, H.S. Junior; Carina Cruz, H.S. Junior; Fran Luck, JOR Executive Producer; Dora Friedman, JOR Intern.

Feminism is being taught in High School in New York City! Ileana Jimenez (www.feministteacher.com), recipient of a Distinguished Fullbright Award inTeaching–and her students–will be guests on the next Joy of Resistance show. Ms. Jimenez will discuss the importance of feminism for High School students and her campaign to initiate teaching feminism in classes K-12. Her female students will talk about how discovering feminism has changed their lives, and male students will talk about how listening to girls’ experiences of street harassment & sexism has turned them into allies of girls. Students will talk about how multiple oppressions including sexism, racism and homophobia intersect in their lives. We’ll play a PSA the class produced about street harassment & sound from the International Anti-Street Harassment Week Rally on March 24 @ Judson Memorial Church.

Show will include the Worldwide Feminist News segment, Amanda Marcotte‘s repro rights podcast and your phone calls at (212) 209-2900. We’ll also send live twitter pictures as the show progresses and take your comments at www.twitter.com/joyofresistance.

Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio at WBAI airs on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of the month, between 9 and 10 PM. We cover the ongoing worldwide struggle of women for full equality and human rights. You can phone us at (212) 209-2987. You can “tweet” us at twitter.com/joyofresistnace . Programs stream live at www.wbai.org where they are also archived for 90 days. WBAI broadcasts to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and is part of the Pacifica Radio Network, one of the few alternatives to the corporate-controlled media that dominate the airwaves–but it needs your financial support to continue broadcasting. Please consider going to http://www.wbai.org and contributing whatever amount you can to help keep alternative radio alive. AND PLEASE SUPPORT US DURING FUND DRIVES. When you support WBAI during Joy of Resistance fund-drive programs you are also supporting the continuation of feminist programming at the station.Thank you for your support!