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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: ACTION: Publ. Radio: Please Air "National Women's Agenda '92"
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.192405.5740@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- wings
- [Womens International News Gathering Service, wings@igc.org --Harel]
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- Contact your local public and community radio stations for
- dates and times they plan to air this program:
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- "NATIONAL WOMEN'S AGENDA 1992:
- WHAT WOMEN WANT & HOW THEY PLAN TO WIN IT"
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- This pre-election special is offered free to stations via
- public radio satellite on Thursday, September 10, at 2 p.m.
- eastern time (Channel 7).
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- Cassettes will also be available from WINGS, PO Box 5307,
- Kansas City MO 64131.
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- The two half-hour segments can be aired on separate dates.
- Segment 1 should air by October 2, Segment 2 by November 5.
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- This is a multi-city discussion - with studios in New York
- and Washington. In future, we hope to interconnect other
- cities for more dialogues on specific issues.
-
- Moderator: Marlene Sanders, NYU Journalism Professor,
- and one of the legendary early women of TV network news.
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- SEGMENT 1: THE WOMEN'S LEGISLATIVE AGENDA - 102nd CONGRESS
- Fates of bills women have lobbied for this session of
- Congress - BEYOND the abortion issue, in areas like
- violence against women, health, family leave, equal
- remedies before the law, equal rights, and taxes.
-
- Washington Studio:
- * Beverly Stripling, Political Director, National YWCA
- * Rep. Connie Morella (R-MD)
- * Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-OH)
- * Joan Kuriansky, Executive Director, Older Women's League
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- New York Studio:
- + Marlene Sanders, Moderator
- * Jo Etta Wickliffe, President, Business & Professional Women
- * Helen Neuborne, President, NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund
-
- SEGMENT 2: APPROACHES TO CHANGING DECISONS & DECISION-MAKERS
- How women are working to change political decisions - and
- as may be necessary, the decision-makers - affecting women
- now and for the future. Each organization or activist has a
- unique approach.
-
- Washington Studio:
- * Maxine Waters (D-CA)
- * Becky Cain, President, League of Women Voters
- * Martha Burk, columnist for USA Today - follows 3rd party movement
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- New York Studio:
- + Marlene Sanders, Moderator
- * Anne Mollegen Smith, co-Editor "Getting it Gazette"
- * Debra Dodson, co-Author, "The Impact of Women in Public Office"
- Center for the American Woman in Politics, Rutgers University
- * Sayre Sheldon, President Emerita and co-founder, Women's Action
- for New Directions (formerly Women's Action for Nuclear
- Disarmament)
- * Jan Peterson, Founder, National Congress of Neighborhood Women
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- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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- "National Women's Agenda 1992: What Women Want and How
- They Plan to Win It" is being funded by the following:
- * American Association of University Women,
- * American Medical Women's Association,
- * Black Women's Agenda,
- * B'nai B'rith Women,
- * Coalition of Labor Union Women,
- * Commission for Women's Equality of American Jewish Congress,
- * Delta Research and Education Foundation,
- * General Federation of Women's Clubs
- * League of Women Voters,
- * National Women's Conference Committee,
- * NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund,
- * Soroptimist International of the Americas,
- * Women for Meaningful Summits,
- * YWCA of the USA National Board, also
- Business & Professional Women, Clearinghouse on Women's
- Issues, National Woman's Party, National Women's Studies
- Association, Sarah Harder, Sally Fletcher Luther, Isabel
- Samfield, Mary Sanger, Sherry Smith, Ruthe Winegarten,
- plus Churchwomen United, and The Woman Activist, Inc.
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- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- Producer: Frieda Werden; Associate Producers: Mal Johnson and
- Martha Burk; Director: Karen Pearlman; Development: Sandy
- Suffian; Advisors include Sarah Harder, Frances Farenthold,
- Chris Evers, and others; Press release: Becky Trump.
-