Podcast appearances and mentions of ellen woodsworth

On Mother's Day, May 12, a caravan of anti-war activists will leave Vancouver for Ottawa, with the message Demilitarize, decarbonize, decolonize. They will be met by a sister caravan leaving from Halifax and arriving in Ottawa May 28. We speak with Ellen Woodsworth, co-chair of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, who, together with Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, are organizing the caravan.

Why do so many women still feel unsafe walking the streets of our cities? We take a look at the idea of a feminist city. What is it and what could it look like? And where in the world are they getting it right? Since the murder of Sarah Everard in South London in March, women all over the UK took to social media to discuss their experiences of walking the streets. And the lengths they go to stay safe. The 33 year old was walking home from a friend’s house in the evening she was murdered. The killing touched women all over the country - and even further afield. But what if women didn’t fear being out on the streets? Tamasin Ford speaks to Leslie Kern, the author of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World and to Sara Ortiz Escalante, a member of Col·lectiu Punt 6 (Collective Point 6), a cooperative of architects, sociologists in Barcelona in Spain who have worked in more than 120 towns and cities around the world with just one aim in mind - to put a feminist perspective on everything they do. Plus she speaks to Ellen Woodsworth, the co-chair and founder of Women Transforming Cities International in Canada, an organisation aimed at making cities better places to live for women and girls. Plus she speaks to entrepreneur Dr Kalpana Viswanath, co-founder & CEO of Safetipin, an app that uses data mapping tools to make public spaces safer for women. (Picture credit: Ruben Earth, Getty Creative)

“We don’t have time not to have women at the table.” Ellen Woodsworth is our guest this week. Ellen is a former Vancouver city councillor and founder of Women Transforming Cities. She is interviewed by Jamie-Leigh Gonzales. They talk about the invisible labour of women, how women experience different social and environmental issues, the inclusion of women’s voices in governance, and how to make our cities women-friendly. Read more about Ellen’s work on the Women Transforming Cities website: http://www.womentransformingcities.org/ellen-woodsworth

Announcement: We’re launching a Patreon! You can now support the show at patreon.com/cambiereport. In our first segment, Squamish Nation Councillor Khelsilem (@khelsilem) joins us to talk about Squamish nation politics, […] The post E-131 Cambie Report Live! ft Khelsilem, Andrea Reimer & Ellen Woodsworth appeared first on Cambie Report.

Andrew Seal, Sharon Nadeem and Holly Mackenzie-Sutter's report on the Don Cherry Night, Seher Asaf’s interview with Ellen Woodsworth, former Vancouver Councillor and Co-Chair of the Women Transforming Cities Society, and Alex Norman's weekly financial news report.

This week on News 101, News Co-director Seher interviewed Ellen Woodsworth from the women transforming cities initiative. Holly, Andrew and Sharon's report on how the Vancouver Giants helped bring awareness to organ donation, and Alex's weekly financial news report on the big finance stories of the week.

In episode #18 of Talking Radical Radio (June 26, 2013), long-time activist and former Vancouver city councillor Ellen Woodsworth talks about the work of the organization she co-founded, Women Transforming Cities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/07/03/tr-women-transforming-cities/

Sunday December 6th is Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. This day of remembrance was started following the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre that happened in 1989 in Montreal, where 14 female engineering students were murdered by a man who hated feminists, and targeted them because of their gender. In Vancouver on December 6th 2015, Women Transforming Cities hosted their 30th Cafe, with the topic: Does Remembering Lead to Action. I interview Ellen Woodsworth about how conversations about violence against women have changed since 1989, and where activism needs to focus moving forward.

The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry.  But with that growth comes concerns about the negative affects of the event on the people and places where the Games take place. On this edition, we ask who wins, and who loses, when the Olympics come to town? Vancouver 2010.  London 2012.  And Denver, the only city to ever turn down the Olympics. Featuring: *Tom Wingate,  *London Metropolitan Police Olympic Community Relations Team*, Estelle du Boulay, *director of Newham Monitoring Project,*  Dominic Taylor, *author of ‘Stop Search',* Rebekah Delsol*,* *Open Society Justice Initiative,* Helen Jefferson Lenskyj*, former Professor of Sociology at Toronto University and author, *Dick Lamm*, activist in the campaign against the Denver Olympics and former Governor, *Ellen Woodsworth*, former Vancouver city councilor, *Jean Swanson*, founder of End Legislated Poverty   For More Information: Newham Monitoring Project http://www.nmp.org.uk/ Open Society Justice Initiative http://www.soros.org/about/programs/open-society-justice-initiative ‘Stop Search' by Dominic Taylor http://www.stopsearch.co.uk/ Poverty Olympics http://povertyolympics.ca/ Games Monitor http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/ Counter Olympics Network http://counterolympicsnetwork.wordpress.com/ Articles   Anti-Olympic Archive (Vancouver Media Co Op) http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/olympics/ The London Olympics is a corporate lockdown – why not a Games for all? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/10/london-olympics-lockdown-2012-games London 2012: army reinforcements called in for the Olympics http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/11/army-reinforcements-olympics The post Making Contact – The Olympic Games: Who Wins? appeared first on KPFA.