Podcast appearances and mentions of eleanor smeal

Trailblazer Eleanor (Ellie) Smeal, co-founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, joins Madam Policy to talk about her lifelong dedication to achieving social, political, and economic equality for women worldwide. Mentor and friend, Ellie joins Madam Policy host Dee Martin, former Feminist Majority intern and now Board member. The two discuss the importance of the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, reproductive choice, and the what's at stake in the 2024 elections. Want to know more about gender apartheid in Afghanistan? What the U.N. calls “crimes against humanity”? What could happen with mifepristone? The potential for young people to decide the elections? Then this is the episode for you!

From the "official" organization of NOW - starting where the WW picked up...and dropped the ball, again.

Guest Host: Chris Hinkley, RBN host of Road Warrior Radio| Violent protests at the the D.C. Stop The Steal rally as The People rail against government corruption and incompetence. DC Rally / #FalseFlag #FlashMob #LARPing Event “House & Senate in recess as U.S. Capitol is locked down” Reporters “at a location they will not disclose” – when do they ever…??? Talk about melodramatic BS… (‘the pastor didn’t show up drunk to church today…’) Eddie Bernays said it best: “Newsworthy events involving people do not happen by accident…” DC evacuated – except for TV crews, photographers, and so-called “protesters” So, “protesters” broke in – and walked between the velvet ropes…?? So, you’re telling me, these people did the very thing that would provoke the very reaction they would least want, and least beneficial to their efforts, and that was ‘coincidentally’ ‘scenario planned’ and telegraphed for over a year by ostensibly oppositional forces like prof. Edward B. Foley, the Transition Integrity Project, Van Jones et al…? Does that sound absurd to you, because it sure does to me! ‘Meandering’ and ‘milling about’ – including the Capitol police on-scene – is how I would describe the C-SPAN event footage… House and Senate sessions in recess after protests lead to Capitol lockdown / Twitter Pro-Trump protesters force US Capitol into lockdown as Congress meets to certify 2020 election results / Twitter Jim Newell on Twitter: “Holy shit https://t.co/dofEG2SmqP” / Twitter Aaron C. Davis [Investigative Reporter for The Washington Post] on Twitter: “BREAKING: A source tells me The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol.” / Twitter Governor Larry Hogan on Twitter: “At my direction, the @MDSP is sending in troopers to assist the Metropolitan Police Department and the United States Capitol Police. I have instructed the Adjutant General of the @MDNG to call up a rapid response force to support law enforcement and restore order.” / Twitter C-SPAN: Niels Lesniewski, CQ Roll Call Senior Reporter C-SPAN: Scott Wong, The Hill Reporter C-SPAN: Katherine Tully-McManus, CQ Roll Call Reporter Where is Andrew Breitbart (and citizen journalists in DC) when we need him? Andrew Breitbart at The Heritage Foundation - YouTubeAllen West, Andre Carson, Andrew Breitbart, Anita Hill, Antonio Gramsci, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, CAP - Center for American Progress, Clarence Thomas, Contessa Brewer, cudgel, cultural Marxism, Dan Rather, David Horowitz, David Mamet, deconstruction, definition, Dennis Miller, DMC - Democrat media complex, economic Marxism, Eleanor Smeal, Frankfurt School, Gradualism, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Cain, Identity politics, John Podesta, Joy Behar, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann, Lee Fang, liberal bias, liberalism, long march, Marxism–Leninism, Max Horkheimer, multiculturalism, neutrality, objectivity, oppression, oppressor - oppressed paradigm, Patricia Schroeder, Peter Jennings, political correctness, post-structuralism, Rachel Maddow, radical left, reading list, Reflexive Theory, repressive tolerance, Sarah Palin, Stephanie Miller, Tea Party, Ted Kennedy, Theodor W. Adorno, Think Progress, Tina Fey, Trigg Palin, Whittaker Chambers COVID-19 Related Road Warrior Radio on Twitter: “I cannot recommend too strongly that everyone download, read, and share far & wide the #AFLDS white paper (pdf) on experimental vaccines at https://t.co/HlQKmhWpZM. Thank you @drsimonegold et al for your indefatigable courage and unfaltering efforts.” / Twitter STOP MEDICAL DISCRIMINATION: The Petition To Stop Forced Experimental Vaccines - America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) America’s Frontline Doctors White Paper On Experimental Vaccines For COVID-19 - SMDwhitepaper.pdf Dr. Fauci on Mandatory COVID Vaccines: ‘Everything Will Be on the Table’ - Newsweek Dr. Fauci on Mandatory COVID Vaccines: ‘Everything Will Be on the Table’ - Newsweek (via MSN) Dr.

Guest Host: Chris Hinkley, RBN host of Road Warrior Radio| Violent protests at the the D.C. Stop The Steal rally as The People rail against government corruption and incompetence. DC Rally / #FalseFlag #FlashMob #LARPing Event “House & Senate in recess as U.S. Capitol is locked down” Reporters “at a location they will not disclose” – when do they ever…??? Talk about melodramatic BS… (‘the pastor didn't show up drunk to church today…') Eddie Bernays said it best: “Newsworthy events involving people do not happen by accident…” DC evacuated – except for TV crews, photographers, and so-called “protesters” So, “protesters” broke in – and walked between the velvet ropes…?? So, you're telling me, these people did the very thing that would provoke the very reaction they would least want, and least beneficial to their efforts, and that was ‘coincidentally' ‘scenario planned' and telegraphed for over a year by ostensibly oppositional forces like prof. Edward B. Foley, the Transition Integrity Project, Van Jones et al…? Does that sound absurd to you, because it sure does to me! ‘Meandering' and ‘milling about' – including the Capitol police on-scene – is how I would describe the C-SPAN event footage… House and Senate sessions in recess after protests lead to Capitol lockdown / Twitter Pro-Trump protesters force US Capitol into lockdown as Congress meets to certify 2020 election results / Twitter Jim Newell on Twitter: “Holy shit https://t.co/dofEG2SmqP” / Twitter Aaron C. Davis [Investigative Reporter for The Washington Post] on Twitter: “BREAKING: A source tells me The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol.” / Twitter Governor Larry Hogan on Twitter: “At my direction, the @MDSP is sending in troopers to assist the Metropolitan Police Department and the United States Capitol Police. I have instructed the Adjutant General of the @MDNG to call up a rapid response force to support law enforcement and restore order.” / Twitter C-SPAN: Niels Lesniewski, CQ Roll Call Senior Reporter C-SPAN: Scott Wong, The Hill Reporter C-SPAN: Katherine Tully-McManus, CQ Roll Call Reporter Where is Andrew Breitbart (and citizen journalists in DC) when we need him? Andrew Breitbart at The Heritage Foundation - YouTubeAllen West, Andre Carson, Andrew Breitbart, Anita Hill, Antonio Gramsci, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, CAP - Center for American Progress, Clarence Thomas, Contessa Brewer, cudgel, cultural Marxism, Dan Rather, David Horowitz, David Mamet, deconstruction, definition, Dennis Miller, DMC - Democrat media complex, economic Marxism, Eleanor Smeal, Frankfurt School, Gradualism, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Cain, Identity politics, John Podesta, Joy Behar, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann, Lee Fang, liberal bias, liberalism, long march, Marxism–Leninism, Max Horkheimer, multiculturalism, neutrality, objectivity, oppression, oppressor - oppressed paradigm, Patricia Schroeder, Peter Jennings, political correctness, post-structuralism, Rachel Maddow, radical left, reading list, Reflexive Theory, repressive tolerance, Sarah Palin, Stephanie Miller, Tea Party, Ted Kennedy, Theodor W. Adorno, Think Progress, Tina Fey, Trigg Palin, Whittaker Chambers COVID-19 Related Road Warrior Radio on Twitter: “I cannot recommend too strongly that everyone download, read, and share far & wide the #AFLDS white paper (pdf) on experimental vaccines at https://t.co/HlQKmhWpZM. Thank you @drsimonegold et al for your indefatigable courage and unfaltering efforts.” / Twitter STOP MEDICAL DISCRIMINATION: The Petition To Stop Forced Experimental Vaccines - America's Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) America's Frontline Doctors White Paper On Experimental Vaccines For COVID-19 - SMDwhitepaper.pdf Dr. Fauci on Mandatory COVID Vaccines: ‘Everything Will Be on the Table' - Newsweek Dr. Fauci on Mandatory COVID Vaccines: ‘Everything Will Be on the Table' - Newsweek (via MSN) Dr.

ERA zealots claim that in 1992 when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify James Madison’s 1789 Congressional Pay Amendment, a precedent was set for the ERA to be resurrected.  The National Organization for Women president, Eleanor Smeal, currently contradicts and rejects her 1978 Congressional testimony and now claims that Congress cannot set a ratification deadline.  This position also contradicting the US Supreme Court.

Robin on dread, resilience, where we are now, and where we're going. Guests: Special Election 2016 Analysis Roundtable, with Gloria Steinem, Maria Teresa Kumar, Eleanor Smeal, Salamishah Tillet—on what happened, and strategies for what's next. Maria Teresa Kumar: Eleanor Smeal: Gloria Steinem: Salamishah Tillet:

Betty Nixon started her work career as a high school teacher in Anniston, Ala. and eventually became a Metro Councilwoman and two-time mayoral candidate in Nashville/Davidson County; Videos during the time of her campaign: http://youtu.be/aFzqJG7sU6c, http://youtu.be/Egn2zgckYLU, http://youtu.be/ZojONV4X7dw.  She was Deputy press secretary to Tenn. Gov. Ray Blanton; Managed a few campaigns: including the state campaign for Mondale/Ferraro presidential campaign, state campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser for his successful 1988 re-election campaign and served as as a professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations.  She chaired the board for the Metro Election Commission.  She worked at Vanderbilt University as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations. Betty also attends West End UMC and was willing to host my Modern Day Flapper release and 30th birthday party – all my friends were inspired by her! · She is the fourth generation to be college educated (and for someone born in the late 1930s that is incredible to me)!· She went to college to find a husband and had to figure out something else… how much of my non-traditional script is because life didn’t work out like I thought it would?·  Mary Catherine Bateson author of Composing a Life.·  Is the idea of balance a privilege afforded to me because of women like Betty?·  Betty’s daughter Mignon Nixon teaches at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, UK.  She studies sexuality and aggression in art since 1945, focusing in particular on questions of feminism and gender politics. She is the author of Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art (MIT Press/October Books, 2005) and the editor of the Eva Hesse October File (MIT Press/October Files, 2002). She is a co-editor of October magazine (New York).· She explains the privilege to be involved at the tipping point of feminism and civil rights in 1960s.· Rural Women experience power – The 50s model verses pre-50s model· Powerhouse meeting for the 1984 election talking about Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.   o Betty Friedan – women’s rights activist and author of Feminine Mystique (1963):    o Carol Bellamy   o Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority and the Feminist Majority Foundation.   o Mary Landrieu -- United States Senator from the State of Louisiana    o Sharon Percy Rockefeller – wife of West Virginia Senator John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV. ·  Amendment One in Tennessee ·  Hume Fogg in Nashville:   My school was Rochelle School of the Arts in Lakeland, FL·  We need to learn to live out diversity in our lives!·  A discussion of fear and scarcity: economic disparity in the US.  Video I referenced: http://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM·  Gloria Steinem – a leader of the women’s movement in the 1960s and 70s ·   Bella Abzug -- New Yorker, feminist, antiwar activist, politician and lawyer:

Is it time for a woman president? Feminist author Marianne Schnall thinks so. How permanent is the House GOP majority? Not very, says Democratic strategist Elaine Kamarck. And Ellie Smeal talks about women’s issues at the state level. It is three years until the next presidential election, but not too early to start handicapping it. Could it be the year for a woman president? Author Marianne Schnall thinks so. Democratic analyst Elaine Kamarck has some advice for Republicans – start speaking to a majority of the American people! And Bill Press interviews Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for a Feminist Majority. Marianne Schnall A feminist author, Marianne Schnall, interviewed hundreds of women to find out what obstacles stand in the way of a female becoming president. The answer? Nothing! http://womanpresidentbook.com Elaine Kamarck A year from the midterm congressional elections, Democratic analyst Elaine Kamarck notes that there is nothing permanent about a majority in the House in the face of large demographic trends. http://www.democracyjournal.org/30/the-new-politics-of-evasion.php?page=all Eleanor Smeal Bill Press and his guest, Eleanor Smeal  president of the Fund for a Feminist Majority. http://www.feminist.org Jim Hightower Cruzing the White House?

Robin discusses brain image scans, Martian microbes, and Mother Theresa (heh heh), and speaks with Feminist Majority's Ellie Smeal as she explodes at Vatican pedophilia and corruption; scholar Jeanne Theoharis on the real, radical Rosa Parks; Cappella Clausura on singing medieval women composers; director Amelia LeClair; and Monica Rodriguez of SIECUS about STD awareness.

Robin spotlights the courage of international teen girl activists, the failed promise of the once-novel idea of 24-hour cable news, and the history and impact of the word "ms." Guests are Maysoun Odeh, founder of the first women's FM radio station in Palestine; Aishah Shahidah Simmons on her "NO! The Rape Documentary," and on the life and legacy of Audre Lorde; Ellie Smeal on the 40th anniversary of Ms. Magazine; and Kathleen Turner on playing the late wit, Molly Ivins, in Red Hot Patriots.

Honoring "June-teenth" this week, we talk about FFRF's recent Nativity Scene victory in Santa Monica, California, and we listen to the new TV-Web ad that former Catholic Julia Sweeney made for FFRF fighting the Catholic Bishops' assault on birth control. Our guest for the 2nd half of the show is Eleanor Smeal, former director of NOW, and current director of the Feminist Majority.

Maria Teresa Kumar Voter ID laws, foreclosures in poorer neighborhoods and increasing immigration enforcement are among the factors that could make it hard for President Obama to match his electoral strength among Hispanics. But Maria Teresa Kumar, head of VotoLatino,  says the Republicans don’t have it so easy, either. http://votolatino.org/ Peter Galbraith Former Ambassador Peter Galbraith says the Administration’s “reset” of relations with Russia has been successful because Moscow is now less hostile to the United States. Website Eleanor Smeal An interview by Bill Press with Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, who calls family planning “a life and death issue” and criticizes the Susan G. Komen Foundation for politicizing women’s health. The interview was recorded before the Foundation apologized and changed its mind. http://www.billpressshow.com/ http://feminist.org/

We remember our friend and colleague Andrea Lewis, including a never-before heard interview with her on how she came to feminism and her identity as a lesbian feminist of color.  We'll also hear comments from friends and colleagues and clips from her interviews over the years, including voices such as Eleanor Smeal, Olga Vives, Ruth Rosen and Shirley Chisholm. Monday at 1:00 p.m. on KPFA 94.1 FM or online at KPFA.org.  After broadcast the show will be available on our blog, kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com.   The post Wome's Magazine – Andrea Lewis: Feminist Extraordinaire. appeared first on KPFA.

Feminist movement icon Eleanor Smeal speaks with Nicole Sandler about the Stupak amendment that sets women's reproductive rights back, and the status of women

This week's broadcast will look at the assassination of Kansas physician George Tiller by a religious fanatic and domestic terrorist. The hosts will speak with Dr. Tiller's colleague, Eleanor Smeal, executive director of the Feminist Majority Foundation, which has played a vital role in organizing defense of abortion clinics.

Freethought Radio's featured guest is Feminist Majority president and 3-decade feminist activist Eleanor Smeal, previously named a "Freethought Heroine" by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Ellie discusses religion's role in fighting the ERA, abortion rights and global human rights for women. The show features a brief "Theocracy Alert," and will honor Thomas Paine, whose birthdate is January 29. Song: "The World is My Country." The weekly show, which airs locally in Madison, Wis. (see link above to listen live via your computer), is co-hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Foundation co-presidents. (MP3, 51 min, 23.1 MB)