Her Turn at Wort-FM in Madison Wisconsin Talks Feminist Economic News

Lucky Wisconsinites! WORT-FM’s broadcast, called Her Turn, highlights feminist news every Sunday morning, 11:30 AM Central. On May 3, Her Turn’s newscaster, Lisa Goodman, talked with Rickey Gard Diamond about her latest book Screwnomics: How the Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change. Rickey explains how writing this book led to her work with the US Chapter of Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF-US), a new column at Ms. Magazine, “Women Unscrewing Screwnomics,” and a new organizational alliance to amplify women’s economic leadership and prompt more women to learn the subject together. An Economy of Our Own is an educational nonprofit. Check out its website to learn more about its purpose and goals and its great advisory board and resources.

AEOO has begun posting @economyofourown on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and invites you to join the conversation and share it.

WILPF-US is sponsoring a Zoom series to discuss Screwnomics on Monday nights with a glass of wine and some nibbles, beginning May 18. Write to Rickey at Screwnomics.org if you’d like to register and join us for six sessions to learn more!

Thank you, WORT-FM Her Turn producers!!

Source:http://archive.wortfm.org/

Undesigning Old Redlining is a Women's Issue

PCHTF invites you to tour Undesign the Redline, an interactive exhibit that explores the history of redlining and segregation in Des Moines. Book a tour toda...

March 13, 2020

Thanks to WILPF’s Mary Hanson Harrison in Des Moine, Iowa, for sharing this event at the city’s Franklin Jr High School, supported by the Chrysalis Foundation for Women and Girls. Next, do City Hall and CitiBank!

In the "COLOR OF LAW: A Forgotten History of how our government segregated America", Richard Rothstein sends the reader on a BIG city tours of prejudice and disenfranchisement from Boston to San Francisco. In contrast, the Redline tour illustrates the essence of why understanding small town, rural communities needs to be highlighted in any history lesson of discrimination and the ravishing of often-overlooked cities and towns. It's just too easy to look at the BIG cities and not identify with them, but here, we see once thriving black communities torn apart by highways and racial zoning. It's a small story with a powerful exclamation point!

It’s a story recognizable across the country. You’ll see Benton Harbor, Michigan, transformed in Screwnomics. We can also recommend Linda Gartz’s recent book, Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago, for a more personal woman’s point of view on this economic issue so ready for big change.