“No hate! No fear! Refugees are welcome here!” Shouts are rising into the night sky in Brooklyn as I write this. I just left the Brooklyn federal courthouse, where hundreds of people are chanting that and more, some slogans more angry and profane than others.
Robin on Trump's proposed Cabinet, and on art and artists vs. authoritarians. Guests: Leah Greenberg, co-creator of the IndivisibleGuide.com phenomenon; Saru Jayaraman of ROC United on DT's Labor Dept. pick. Plus resistance info and sources.
One of the few bright spots in the recent election was a series of victories on increasing minimum wage. The author, a leading advocate, explains how the fight for a fair economy will be won by women.
A slideshow of images from the Women's March on Washington by WMC photojournalist Jenny Warburg.
Once known as a refugee-friendly nation, Kenya is becoming more resistant to taking in people who have been forced to flee their homes. That means added challenges for the nonprofit Heshima and the refugee girls it supports, says executive director Alisa Roadcup.
Robin on demonstrating, organizing, and the white women who voted for Trump. Guests: Physics for everyday life author Helen Czerski; Nigerian feminist leader Saudatu Mahdi on the Chibok girls. Plus, Surrealism Corner.
In September 2016, when I arrived at a gloomy, two-star Econo Lodge hotel in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Daey*—which means “mother” in Kurdish—was sleeping.
Mainstream news media coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline has often been selective, one-sided, and inaccurate. And it has all but ignored the impact on women and girls.
“Online misogyny is a global gender rights tragedy and it is imperative that it ends. Girls and women’s voices are constrained in ways that are personally, professionally and economically damaging.”
Rape threats and other sexualized vitriol online feel extremely personal. These are messages that often go into explicit detail about which parts of our bodies will be violated with which instruments. They give the impression that the senders know us, that they are aware of our particular weak spots and of what to say to […]
2017 Premiere! Robin's Open Letter to Pres. Obama, plus the Senate hearings and Putin scandals. Guests: songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, Music Hall of Fame/Grammy/Oscar awardee; 25-year-old Hong Kong legislator who defied China, Regine Yau Wai-Ching.
One of the national co-chairs of the Women's March on Washington explains why "intersectional organizing is the agenda moving forward."
Efforts to push for the first woman head of the U.N. failed last year, but the new secretary-general, António Guterres, has pledged gender parity during his five-year term. How can he make it happen?
Throughout the conflict in DRC, children have been abducted and made to serve as soldiers. While most are male, it is estimated over a third are female, used mainly as domestic and sexual servants, but sometimes as fighters. Now an NGO has released a report showing that many of the girls weren’t enlisted by force.
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