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“There was a sense of discovery about what this series was going to be about. It was going to be about young people -- with all of their shenanigans, and the maneuvering, and all the silliness that takes place with that. But it was also going to be about growing up. These five people, and the fabric that holds them together.”  -- Asaad Kelada - producer/director, The Facts of LifeSusan and Sharon welcome legendary Director Asaad Kelada. In a career spanning four decades, Asaad Kelada has directed over 340 episodes of television, including Rhoda, Phyllis, The Tony Randall Show, Benson, WKRP in Cincinnati, One Day at a Time, Night Court, Valerie, Who's the Boss and The Office -- as well as four seasons of The Facts of Life. In Part 1 of this wide-ranging interview, we touch on Asaad's relationship to the young actors on Facts of Life; learning to trust them -- and himself; and his beginnings as the lead singer in Egypt's first ever Rock ‘n' Roll Boy Band!  THE CONVERSATIONWHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO IS DIRECT! - How getting accepted to the Yale School of Drama taught Asaad which side of the stage he really wanted to be on.THE 5-YEAR DIRECTING SCHOOL: Observing all the MTM shows from the bleachers, for five years, got Asaad ready for his first TV job: Directing Valerie Harper in Rhoda!DAY ONE: On his first day directing The Facts of Life, the only person he recognized that he had worked with before was… Tootie (Kim Fields)!DOUBLE STANDARD: In this early episode of The Facts of Life, Asaad realized the potential of the show: “It was just like being in the theater, like working on a play --  with substance, with humor, with intelligence -- and yet they were young girls. This was television in a new form.RUNAWAY TRAIN: Asaad describes the increasing tension and hi-stakes artistry of a show as it speeds thru its season -- and how he learned to not fall off!ON CHARLOTTE RAE: “She and I were the grownups in the room. She was the centerpiece in a show about four girls.”STORY CONFERENCE -- WITH THE CAST: “After the table read, we'd just talk -- talk about what the episode is dealing with, what it's about, how it all ties together.”FACTS OF LIFE GOES TO PARIS: “It was a trial by fire. Every single shot, every single frame was filmed on location. We were at Notre Dame, the Champs Elysee… How can this be called a job?”So join Susan and Sharon -- and Asaad -- as they talk George Clooney, The Bob Newhart Show, Grant Tinker, Geri Jewel, speaking French, Bill Haley & the Comets, Nancy McKeon -- and being ready when your opportunity finally comes!GET READY FOR PART 2 -- NEXT EPISODE! Don't miss more Facts of Life stories, plus Family Ties and Who's The Boss!!AUDIO-OGRAPHYFind out more about Asaad Kelada at IMDB.STILL IN FLUX: Watch Season 2 and 3 of The Facts of Life for free on Tubi.Season 1 and 3 are available for sale on Amazon Prime.Buy the complete season on DVD at Ebay. Check YouTube for other episodes.VITAL READINGGet Handbook for A Post-Roe America by Robin Marty at Bookshop.org.Check out Men In Dark Times by Hannah Ahrendt at Bookshop.org.Read Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson at Bookshop.org.CONNECTVisit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON. This year is the 45th anniversary of President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech. Get Susan's new play about it: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing.

Susan and Sharon continue their conversation with legendary 80s TV Lady -- and The Facts of Life writer/producer -- Margie Peters! In Part 2, the conversation turns to the challenges of making comedy out of date rape and toxic masculinity; “comedy sparring” in the Different World writer's room with Debbie Allen, Thad Mumford and Susan Fales-Hill; the creative opportunities for “women of a certain age”; and the lasting impact of the cruel moniker “The FATS of Life”. Margie Peters has written and produced over 140 hours of television, including The Love Boat, Valerie, One Day at a Time and A Different World. But her longest and best-known gig was the six years she spent on The Facts of Life.THE CONVERSATION “YOU'VE GOT SPUNK!” -- How watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show gave Margie the chutzpah to try her hand at TV writing!Margie shows off her 1989 IMAGE Award from Planned Parenthood for the “No Means No” episode of A Different World (S2; EP20): “It's in the living room next to my television.”The time Debbie Allen explained to Margie that Duane calling a girl “Big Butt Brenda” is a compliment -- not an insult!The joys of working with Valerie Harper on Valerie. And the charm of Jason Bateman.The Facts of Life Go To Paris -- everyone got to spend three heavenly weeks filming in France!Dinner on the Seine River Boat with Tootie, Natalie, Blair and Jo!  (Blair faces down a plateful of fried sardines -- and wins!)When two busloads of French high school girls chased The Facts of Life cast down the streets of Paris! The respect and adoration Margie has for all the girls: Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields and Nancy McKeon.WHAT DO YOU MISS THE MOST? “Sitting down with a team and coming up with something that is way bigger than the sum of its parts.”LEAVING LOS ANGELES: What do you do when you leave behind a life of writing in Hollywood? A lot! Reinvent your life and make it count.So, join Susan and Sharon -- and Margie -- as they talk Bonnie Franklin, A Man on the Inside, Sally Struthers, Fame, Gladys Knight, 13 Queens Blvd, Eileen Brennan, Jerry Van Dyke -- and dressing up as The Flying Nun!  AUDIO-OGRAPHYFind out more about Margie Peters at IMDB.Watch Season 4 of The Facts of Life for free on Roku.Watch A Different World on Netflix.Check out Shawn Peters book: The Unforgettable Logan Foster at Harper Collins. STAY ACTIVEVisit DontGetPurged.org to make sure you are still registered to vote!Check out Americans of Conscience take action checklist.VITAL READINGGet Handbook for A Post-Roe America by Robin Marty at Bookshop.org.Check out Men In Dark Times by Hannah Ahrendt at Bookshop.org.Read Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson at Bookshop.org.CONNECTVisit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.Join the conversation at Facebook.com/80sTVLadies.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON. This year is the 45th anniversary of President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech. Get Susan's new play about it: CONFIDENCE (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing.

Melissa Murray is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Editor-in-Chief of Investopedia Caleb Silver, Contributing Editor of The Atlantic Norman Ornstein, Deputy Director of Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union Lee Gelernt, Business Investigations Editor for The New York Times David Enrich, Co-Host, MSNBC's “The Weekend: Primetime” Catherine Rampell, fmr. Advisor to the National Economic Council Diane Swonk, Attorney for Mahmoud Khalil Baher Azmy, Executive Director of The Yellowhammer Fund Jenice Fountain, Executive Director of the West Alabama Women's Center Robin Marty.

"We're thinking of doing this show with all women. Becasue women are becoming this big thing, ya know. And the leads of the show would all be women!"Susan and Sharon are excited to talk with legendary 80s TV Lady -- and writer/producer of 80 episodes of The Facts of Life -- Margie Peters! Margie Peters has written and produced over 140 hours of television, including The Love Boat, Valerie, One Day at a Time and A Different World. But her best-known gig was the six years she spent on The Facts of Life. From her first meeting to the final day, Margie relates how writing The Facts of Life taught her everything about “the facts” of making Hollywood television in the 80s!THE CONVERSATIONSECRET SITCOM WRITER: How Margie wrote a sitcom pilot "Under One Roof" based on her life at night -- while spending her days being a mother, a housewife, AND a journalist! Hollywood writer/producer Bernie Orenstien (That Girl!, Sanford & Son) reads it and calls her with these magical words: “I think you could have a career out here.”  Two weeks later she's on a plane to Hollywood!INSTANT CHEMISTRY: Actress Linda Marsh teams with Margie and a writing partnership begins…SPEAK YOUR TRUTH: Their first meeting at Facts of Life: “Why are the girls wearing hot pants and cut-off tops -- in New England? In winter?!? It's kiddie porn!”  Margie & Linda stay on Facts of Life from Season 2 through Season 6 -- working their way up from Staff Writers to Show Runners!THE ONE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING:  Margie & Linda write S2:EP3 “Double Standard” -- showrunners Jerry Mayer and Jack Elinson tell them: “You have found the soul of the show”.THE ONE WHERE NATALIE'S FATHER HAS AN AFFAIR: “We loved the actor but we hated the character. So we killed him.”WORKING WITH THE GIRLS: Working with Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon and Geri Jewell.Lisa Whelchel balked when the writers pitched Blair losing her virginity. So Mindy Cohn said: “I'll do it!”WHAT'S NEXT? The day came when Linda Marsh said, “I'm done.”  But Margie kept going…Then Marcy Carsey called: “We'd like to bring you on ‘A Different World'”!THINKING IN THE CAR: How the award-winning “No Means No” episode came to be -- and almost didn't happen at all!"MAKE DWAYNE THE HERO" - How to solve the producer notes when tackling a story on campus rape in "No Means No" So join Susan and Sharon -- and Margie -- as they talk Mary Tyler Moore, Terri Hatcher, Jason Bateman, Asaad Kelada, Susan Fales Hill, Neema Barnette, HBCs, Cagney & Lacey, working for diversity…  and saying “No” to Norman Lear! STAY TUNED IN TWO WEEKS FOR THE FACTS OF LIFE WITH MARGIE PETERS - PART 2!  AUDIO-OGRAPHYWatch The Facts of Life: IN FLUX! Currently watch Seasons 4, 5, and 6 of The Facts of Life for free on ROKU channel. Season 3 is available on Amazon Prime and for sale on Apple TV. Check YouTube for other episdoes.THE AMBIES AWARDS ARE MARCH 31FINGERS CROSSED! 80s TV Ladies is nominited! We're up for an Ambies Award by The Podcast Academy for Best Indie Podcast Hosts. Visit Ambies.com and watch the Awards show LIVE on Twitch March 31st at 6pm CT.VITAL READINGGet Handbook for A Post-Roe America by Robin Marty at Bookshop.org.Check out Men In Dark Times by Hannah Ahrendt at Bookshop.org.Read Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson at Bookshop.org.You can also follow Richardson's substack.CONNECTGet transcripts and more at 80sTVLadies.comRate and review us at Apple Podcast.Join the conversation at Facebook.com/80sTVLadies.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON. 

What's your favorite childhood show? If you grew up in Canada or watched Nickelodeon in the 80s, you know and loved The Elephant Show & Skinnamarink TV -- and if you didn't, you're about to find out all about it! Susan and Sharon welcome Sharon Hampson, one of the creators of The Elephant Show and Skinnmarink TV.  As part of the musical trio “Sharon, Lois & Bram” -- featuring Sharon Hampson, Lois Lilienstein, and Bram Morrison -- Sharon rose to fame on these two ground-breaking, award -winning children's shows. Also joining us is Sharon's daughter Randi -- who is now her mom's manager and singing partner! THE CONVERSATIONWATCHING KIDS TV:  Susan LOVED Schoolhouse Rock -- but HATED Mr. Snuffleupagus! Kevin loved the Big Comfy Couch!  Sharon loved Fraggle Rock, but Kids Inc? Not so much…In the 80s, kids TV animation became all about selling toys because THE TOYS WERE THE STARS OF THE SHOWS! Like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.Once the Skinnamarink song gets in your head -- it will never leave!! For Sharon, Lois & Bram, music has always been a part of their lives -- each one of them learning to sing and play musical instruments from childhood.Sharon Hampson quit high school to sing folk music in coffee houses -- much to her parent's horror!After 50 years of performing, Sharon says: “Children are just the same. They get up, they sing, they dance…They're 100% ready to go!”MEMORY UNLOCKED! When Sharon meets grown up fans: “They start to cry, and I tell them, ‘Don't be embarrassed. You're having tears because you're having happy childhood memories! It's a good thing!'”After the show's Candian production ended, The Elephant Show got picked up in the US by Nickelodeon in1987, and their popularity exploded! “It really changed our career. We played incredible places, huge audiences. We went from playing high school gyms to playing stadiums.” “Sharon, Lois & Bram” have shared the stage with everyone from The Beach Boys, Randy Travis and James Taylor!So, join Susan and Sharon -- and Sharon and Randi -- as they talk Toronto, vinyl love, Andrea Martin, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Raffi, The Nylons, Chuck Mangione -- and genderless elephants!AUDIO-OGRAPHYCatch up on all-things “Sharon, Lois & Bram” at SharonLoisandBram.comFollow them on Instagram at Instagram.com/sharonloisbramWatch them on TikTok.Catch The Elephant Show on YouTube.Watch and sing-a-long to the loving and joyful "Talk About Peace" on YouTube. VITAL READINGGet Handbook for A Post-Roe America by Robin Marty at Bookshop.org.Check out Men In Dark Times by Hannah Ahrendt at Bookshop.org.Read Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson at Bookshop.org.You can also follow Richardson's substack.SEE SUSAN AND DONATE TO GOOD CAUSESJoin Susan at Jim and Huck, the reading of her new play! It's a fundraiser for Arts A La Carte and Union Station Homeless Services Fire Relief Fund.ARC PASADENA: March 1, 2025 at 7:30pmMore info and Tix: Tinyurl.com/JimandHuckCONNECTVisit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.Join the conversation at Facebook.com/80sTVLadies.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON. In Honor of President Carter and to learn more about his presidency: Get Susan's new play about him and his Crisis of Confidence speech: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing. PLUS -- “80's TV LADIES” MERCH is available at Fourthwall. 

They're BAAAACK!It's 2025 and the world-renowned 90s TV Babies have reconvened around the TV screen to gaze upon 80s classic sitcom, Mama's Family, starring Vicki Lawrence, Dorothy Lyman, Betty White, Rue Mclanahan and Carol Burnett. Do they see what Mama's fuss is all about!?Serita Fontanesi, Megan Ruble -- and A BRAND NEW 90s TV Baby, Sailor Franklin -- drop in on “Mama” Harper, take a seat on the floral print couch, and weigh in with their thoughts. What did they watch?  What did they think?THE HOMEWORK:S1: EP1 -- “Vint and the Kids Move In”S1: EP4 -- “The Wedding, Part 2”S1: EP6 -- “Cellmates”S2: EP3 -- “The Country Club”S2: EP21 --“Ask Aunt Fran” EXTRA CREDIT: S1: EP2 -- “Rashomama”S3: EP1 -- “Farewell, Frannie”S3: EP11 -- “Where There's Smoke” And… the very first “Family” sketch from The Carol Burnett Show! THE CONVERSATIONROOKIE MOVE: Sailor did ALL the homework -- AND the Extra Credit!EVERYBODY'S AWFUL:  How Mama's Family is just like… It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia???Serita likes how the cast is filled with a variety of female characters who aren't perfect people: “Women deserve to be bad, too!”BIG HIGH SCHOOL WIG: Vicki Lawrence's “Mama” looks vastly younger than her own children!Serita likes that the MEN were most often the butt of the joke.SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Megan says: “We really don't have classic sitcoms anymore where people DON'T grow and change. Mama's Family is comforting!”Serita says “these people act a fool” -- and she's here for it!ON CELLMATES - Sailor: “If I had a nickel for every time sitcom characters get locked up together in a jail cell, along with a sex worker, and then get mistaken for being a sex worker… I would have... several nickels.”Did Mama's Family portray sex workers with more equity than most?The shockingly honest way Mama's Family addresses marriage -- and how it's not always a romantic dream come true.Sailor was blown away by “Rashomama”: “'Mama's Family' is doing a riff on an Akira Kurosawa movie?? Yes!!” IS IT FEMINIST? PROGRESSIVE?Megan: “‘Mama's Family' is feminist -- but not progressive.”Serita: “'Mama's Family is feminist -- AND progressive.”Sailor: “'Mama's Family is semi-progressive -- and semi-feminist.”AND… The Babies challenge Susan and Sharon to watch It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia! So, join Susan and Sharon -- and Serita and Megan and Sailor -- as they talk Abbott Elementary, Alan Alda, August babies!, Golden Girls, Coors Light, Die Hard, test boobs, Whoopi Goldberg -- and the “Sailor Franklin SitCom Spectrum”! AUDIO-OGRAPHYUPDATE: Find all SIX seasons of Mama's Family free -- on Pluto TV.Buy the streaming series at Amazon.Buy the DVD set at Amazon.Check DontGetPurged.org to make sure your name has not been purged from voter rolls!Find out more about CREW at CitizensForEthics.orgVITAL READINGGet Handbook for A Post-Roe America by Robin Marty at Bookshop.org.Check out Men In Dark Times by Hannah Ahrendt at Bookshop.org.Read Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson at Bookshop.org.You can also follow Richardson's substack.SUPPORT FOR THE LA FIRESOnline at DisasterAssistance.gov On the FEMA App for mobile devices.More resources at Eaton Canyon Community Relief.Google List of LA County Resources. PLACES TO VOLUNTEERGoogle Doc for Wednesday and ongoing.Volunteer with the Red Cross.TALK TO SOMEONEReach out to friends and family. Take care of yourself:Pro Bono Therapy for LA Wildfires - Google Doc. More mental health resources at LARevive.DONATINGMaster GoFundMe List for LA Fire Victims Google Doc.Displaced Black families in Altadena Google Doc. Gofundme pages for EATON CANYON COMMUNITY RELIEFCONNECTVisit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.Join the conversation at Facebook.com/80sTVLadies.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON. In Honor of President Carter and to learn more about his presidency: Get Susan's new play about him and his Crisis of Confidence speech: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing. PLUS -- “80's TV LADIES” MERCH is available at Fourthwall.  

“You're in acting class and you're studying Chekov or ‘Waiting for Godot' -- and then you end up doing 80s tits-and-a**… You caught on pretty quick what it was about and where the power lay.” -- Actress Heather ThomasWhat was it like to be an 80s poster icon and sex symbol? Susan and Sharon welcome The Fall Guy star and “80s Poster Lady” Heather Thomas. She's an actor, writer and activist -- but may be best known for her “Pink Bikini” poster, one of the best-selling pin-up posters of all time. Heather Thomas had leading roles in television shows like BJ and the Bear, The Love Boat and TJ Hooker -- as well as the movie Zapped! with Scott Baio, Willie Aames and Felice Schachter. But her most famous role was playing stuntwoman Jody Banks on the hit 80s television series The Fall Guy. Running for five seasons on ABC, The Fall Guy spawned board games, posters, a video game -- and just last year, a major feature film starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt -- and Heather Thomas! Since her days as a TV star and pin-up queen, Heather Thomas has gone on to an extraordinary career as a novelist, political activist, organizer and fund-raiser.  NOTE: This episode was recorded Dec. 2024, before the LA Fires. Our thoughts are with Heather and her family, and all those impacted by the fires. Stay safe. Be well. THE CONVERSATIONWORKING WITH MONKEYS: Clyde, the orangutan from Every Which Way But Loose, was her co-star once: “He thought it was funny to keep grabbing my boob. I thought he was gonna rip it off!” And a stint on BJ and the Bear led to producer Glen Larsen tapping her for the co-starring role in The Fall Guy. WORKING WITH TV PRODUCERS: “All of them are crazy. You're not gonna find any normal ones, not in those days. Everyone was nuts. And they still are.”"Smile more": Early on, the ABC network executives were afraid that Heather Thomas wasn't likable. So they put her in a bikini. “I guess that made up for me not smiling enough.” STUNT WORK: “Lee Majors almost broke my nose once.” "I was good on rollerskates!"In preparation for a Fall Guy episode, Heather trained with the Los Angeles Thunderbirds roller-derby team: “They showed me how to ‘break my back' on the rail -- it was really fun!”Ted Lange -- Isaac, the bartender on The Love Boat -- was one of Heather's favorite directors on the Fall Guy.A GOOD DIRECTOR: For Heather, it was someone who brought her into the filmmaking process. For Lee Majors -- it was anyone who got him home by 5:00pm! THE POSTER: Once the show was a hit, a poster was the next big step: “It outsold Farrah Fawcett. I bought a house. I was thrilled.”DIS-LIKENESS: Heather's image has been hi-jacked and used for everything from lighters, to puzzles, to notebook covers -- to a pillow!ON HAVING A FAMOUS BODY: “My body was my living. That's how I saw it.  So I had to feed it, exercise it -- I couldn't have an ounce of cellulite. It was part of the gig. But I didn't care, I was grateful. I was making more money than I ever had in my life. I was a kid.”ZAPPED! -- Teen sex comedy -- or sexual harassment?  “They tried to get me topless, but my contract said uh-uh!  So, they used a body double. There's a big disclaimer at the end of the movie saying that it's not my tits.”Activism: “Ever since they said, ‘You can't climb the tree, the boys can' -- I was a feminist.”So join Susan and Sharon -- and Heather -- as they talk fly-fishing, Star Wars, David Letterman,Teen Beat, Shaun Cassidy & Parker Stevenson, “Gabor-lore”, Cliff Robertson's toupeé, organizing your phone by decade, not complying in advance -- and canoeing with Henry Winkler!AUDIO-OGRAPHYFind Heather Thomas on Twitter at Twitter.com/HeatherThomasAF And find Heather Thomas on BlueSky at HeatherThomasAF.bsky.social Watch Heather Thomas in The Fall Guy on Peacock, Amazon Prime or Flixfling!Check DontGetPurged.org to make sure your name has not been purged from voter rolls!Find out more about CREW at CitizensForEthics.orgVITAL READINGGet Handbook for A Post-Roe America by Robin Marty at Bookshop.org.Check out Men In Dark Times by Hannah Ahrendt at Bookshop.org.Read Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson at Bookshop.org.You can also follow Richardson's substack.SUPPORT FOR THE LA FIRESOnline at DisasterAssistance.gov On the FEMA App for mobile devices or Call the FEMA Helpline at 1-800-621-3362Calls are accepted every day from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. PST.More resources at Eaton Canyon Community Relief.Google List of LA County Resources. AIRBNB is offering temporary free housing for those displaced by the fires. Start here. PLACES TO VOLUNTEERGoogle Doc for Wednesday and ongoing.Volunteer with the Red Cross.TALK TO SOMEONEReach out to friends and family. Take care of yourself:Pro Bono Therapy for LA Wildfires - Google Doc. More mental health resources at LARevive.DONATINGMaster GoFundMe List for LA Fire Victims Google Doc.Displaced Black families in Altadena Google Doc. Gofundme pages for EATON CANYON COMMUNITY RELIEFCONNECTVisit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.Join the conversation at Facebook.com/80sTVLadies.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON. In Honor of President Carter and to learn more about his presidency: Get Susan's new play about him and his Crisis of Confidence speech: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing.

On March 16, 1974, a sketch appeared on The Carol Burnett Show featuring Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence and Harvey Korman portraying a “normal” American family -- warts and all. This sketch, known as “The Family”, led by a then 25 year-old Vicki Lawrence playing a gray-haired 63 year-old ‘Mama', spawned 30 more sketches, a TV Movie (Eunice) and finally a spin-off series of its own (Mama's Family) which ran for 130 episodes over six seasons both on CBS and in syndication (1983-1990).In “The Family”, Carol Burnett played the melodramatic, ambitious, brow-beaten daughter of ‘Mama'. Mama, played by Vicki Lawrence, is an exaggeratedly mean-spirited and insult-spitting widow and mother of five children: three sons played by guest stars Roddy McDowell, Alan Alda and Tom Smothers -- and two daughters: Eunice & Ellen (played by Betty White). Eunice's husband Ed Higgins was played by Harvey Korman.How did one simple sketch take on such a huge life of its own, creating a sprawling TV empire that some are calling “The Mama-Verse”? Susan and Sharon put on their housecoats and curly gray wigs to find out!THE CONVERSATIONCarol Burnett's career started with a Broadway role starring as the lead in Once Upon a Mattress and then as a rising star on The Garry Moore Show.The Carol Burnett Show was hugely successful, running eleven seasons, garnering 70 Emmy nominations and winning 25.Carol Burnett was encouraged to “speak up for herself” by another TV comedy legend -- Lucille Ball.A fan letter from then 18 year-old Vicki Lawrence to Carol Burnett led to her actually being cast as a regular on the show!“HARVARD SCHOOL OF COMEDY”: Lawrence cites Harvey Korman and Carol Burnett as her show business mentors during the 11 years she spent on the show.ONE-HIT WONDER: Five years into her run on The Carol Burnett Show, Lawrence had a hit song, recording “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”!In the TV movie Eunice, Mama suddenly only has three children instead of five -- what happened to the others? And why is one of them suddenly Ken Berry?Vicki Lawrence was nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of ‘Mama' in Eunice.The TV series Mama's Family was aired first as a prime-time network comedy and later as a nationally syndicated series. It originally ran for two years on CBS, was cancelled in 1984 -- and then revived TWO YEARS LATER in 1986 by Lorimar Syndication to run for additional 100 episodes!NAME SWITCH: The character Ken Berry played started out as “Phillip” in the TV-movie but then became “Vinton” in the TV series.The TV show introduced “Fran” played by future Golden Girl, Rue McClanahan -- playing Betty White's aunt!The TV show also introduced Vinton's children Buzz and Sonya played by “80's TV Ladies” alum, Eric Brown and actress Karin Argoud.Mama's neighbor, Naomi Oates, was played by “Another World” “The Nanny” and now “80s TV Ladies” alum, Dorothy Lyman!So join Susan and Sharon as they talk Lou Grant, social justice, Julie Andrews and the first Live Televised Cinderella musical, “Raytown, Missouri”, Kamala Harris, Matlock, driving your own story -- and “Miss Fireball of Inglewood”!AUDIO-OGRAPHYWatch The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family across many platforms. Not all of them feature all seasons. The Carol Burnett Show can be seen for free on Pluto TV. Mama's Family can be seen for free on Pluto TV.The Carol Burnett Show “The Family” select episodes:S7, EP23 - Aired 3/16/1974 - Jackson Five and Roddy McDowall.The first of “The Family” sketches. “The Reunion  - Eunice's brother Phil (Roddy McDowall), a Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author, returns home for a visit. On YouTube.S8, EP13 - Aired 12/21/1974 - Alan Alda“Home for the Holidays”Christmas sketch with Alan Alda on YouTube. VITAL READINGGet Handbook for A Post-Roe America by Robin Marty at Bookshop.org.Check out Men In Dark Times by Hannah Ahrendt at Bookshop.org.Read Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson at Bookshop.org.You can also follow Heather's substack.SHOPLAST WEEK FOR THE “80's TV LADIES” HOLIDAY SALE!15% off on all merch at the 8TL Shop. Make sure to use promo code “Festive80s”!CONNECTVisit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts and more.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON. In Honor of President Carter and to learn more about his presidency: Get Susan's new play about him and his Crisis of Confidence speech: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing.

What Kash Patel as FBI Director could mean for Trump's retribution agenda and the rule of law, lessons on outlasting Trump's strategic chaos, what's behind corporate rollbacks of DEI initiatives and more.

What Donald Trump's tariff threat would mean for American consumers, an alarming new salvo in the abortion wars,  the story of a Louisiana librarian who was relentlessly targeted for speaking out against censorship, and more

Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall joins us to talk about the state of the presidential race. Executive Director of the West Alabama Women's Center Robin Marty discusses the horrors she is seeing in post-Roe America.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman detail their new book, 'How to Steal a Presidential Election.' Robin Marty, author of 'New Handbook for a Post-Roe America' and Executive Director of West Alabama Women's Center, gives us an on-the-ground look at women's health care in the South.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ali is joined by Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Andrew Kirtzman, President of Kirtzman Strategies, Amb. William B. Taylor, Fmr. U.S Ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East & Africa Studies at Council on Foreign Affairs, Michelle Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist at The New York Times, Robin Marty, Operations Director at West Alabama Women's Center, Tara Palmeri, Senior Political Correspondent at Puck News, Melissa Redmon, Fmr. Fulton County Deputy District Attorney, Amb. Michael McFaul, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow at Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy & International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Dara Lind, Senior Fellow at American Immigration Council

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

TW: Pregnancy Loss/StillbirthFull episode transcript HERE.It's Lizz's birthday week!!! Celebrate with us by filling your earholes with the angelic voices of our Feminist Buzzkills. The anti-abortion tactics have gone TOO far, so we're raging about it. We're also spilling the pipin' hot tea on everything that's gone down this week in Abobolandia, including WTF is up with the latest wack abortion laws Indiana & Idaho, some Illinois drama, and so much more.PLUS, we've got all the right guests to help us muck through the muckity muck. Operations director at West Alabama Women's Center, Robin Marty joins to give us the lowdown on the Alabama lawsuit her clinic and another provider filed this week that would ban the use of an Alabama criminal conspiracy statute to prosecute folks helping patients get abortion care out of state. Iconic comedian and actor Liz Glazer drops by to get real with us on how abortion conversations need to be louder about stillbirths and miscarriages, healing through humor, her new album, and more. AND sociologist and author of “The Propagandists Playbook, Francesca Tripodi is in the house to show us exactly how anti-abortion ghouls bring their crackpot ideas from conspiracy to consensus. Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y'all. We gotchu. Update since recording: A US judge has blocked the new Illinois law allowing the state to penalize anti-abortion pregnancy centersOPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our five-part OpSave pod series and Mifepristone Panel by clicking HERE for episodes, your toolkit, marching orders, and more. HOSTS:Lizz Winstead @LizzWinsteadMoji Alawode-El @MojiLocksNEWS DUMPER:Alyssa Al-Dookhi @TheDookness SPECIAL GUESTS: Robin Marty IG: @RobinEMarty / TW: @RobinMartyFrancesca Tripodi TW/Mastodon: @ftripodiLiz Glazer IG: @LizGlazer / TW: @ElizabethGlazer NEWS DUMP: Indiana's Abortion Ban Has Been Halted by Another LawsuitIdaho Health Care Providers Can Refer Patients for Abortions Out of State, Judge RulesStudy Cited by Texas Judge in Abortion-Pill Case Under InvestigationTurns Out Rep. Tricia Cotham, North Carolina Abortion Traitor, Was a GOP Plant All AlongAlabama Health Care Providers Sue Over Threat of Prosecution for Abortion HelpIllinois Cracks Down on ‘Deceptive' Anti-abortion Pregnancy CentersVA Outlines Rules for Staff to Opt Out of Abortion-Related Work ​GUEST LINKS:West Alabama Women's Center Website IG: @West_Alabama_Womens_Center / TW: @Alabama_West / FB: @WestAlabamaWomensCenter DONATE: West Alabama Women's CenterRobin Marty's Book - The New Handbook for a Post-Roe AmericaFrancesca Tripodi's Book - The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy  Liz Glazer's WebsiteLiz Glazer's Album: A Very Particular Experience  EPISODE LINKS:6 DEGREES: Cindy Crawford Recreates Her Iconic Pepsi Ad in ‘One Margarita' Music Video8/14 VIRTUAL ACTION: Expose Fake Clinics SIGN OUR PETITION TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE ON THE MARKETEmail your abobo questions to The Feminist BuzzkillsAAF's Abortion-Themed Rage Playlist FOLLOW US:Listen to us ~ FBK PodcastInstagram ~ @AbortionFrontTwitter ~ @AbortionFrontTikTok ~ @AbortionFrontFacebook ~ @AbortionFrontYouTube ~ @AbortionAccessFrontPATREON HERE! Support our work, get exclusive merch and more! DONATE TO AAF HERE!ACTIVIST CALENDAR HERE!VOLUNTEER WITH US HERE!ADOPT-A-CLINIC HERE!EXPOSE FAKE CLINICS HERE!FIND AN ABORTION PROVIDER NEAR YOU HERE!GET ABOBO PILLS FROM PLAN C PILLS HERE!When BS is poppin', we pop off!

"On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court officially issued a ruling in Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, refusing to strike down a Mississippi state law banning abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy." We discuss the Dobbs decision and its impact 1 year later. Kimi Chernoby is Counsel for Reproductive Rights and Health at the National Women's Law Center. She is a Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Kimi was the first graduate of the University of Florida's MD/JD program and previously served as a Health Policy Fellow for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. As a resident physician in Indiana, she helped pregnant minors obtain the right to consent to their own medical care including post-partum contraception. Her work focuses on increasing access to contraception at the state and federal level, specifically using clinical experience to advance policies that center the needs of patients. Robin Marty is the Director of Operations for the West Alabama Women's Center and a freelance reporter and the author of the book "Handbook for a Post-Roe America," a guide for what to do if and when Roe is overturned and states make abortion illegal, and the co-author of "The End of Roe v. Wade" Robin's work is frequently published in Time Magazine, Cosmopolitan, NBC, The Guardian, Politico and other news outlets, and she is a regular guest on MSNBC.

Ways to support the show:Buy merch on TeePublic or BonfireMake a one-time or monthly giftShare the show with a friend!Past episodes referenced:Episode 15: How Anti-Abortion Doctors and Hospitals Put Pregnant People in DangerEpisode 1: What Actually Happens During an Abortion?Episode 2: COVID-19 and the Divided States of AbortionEpisode 3: The At-Home Abortion RevolutionResources:I Need an APlan CMiscarriage and Abortion HotlineIf/When/How Repro Legal HelplineLogo by Kate Ryan, theme music by Lily Sloane. Photo by Robin Marty.Have an abortion story you want to share? Send a voice memo or email to accesspodcast(at)protonmail(dot)com. This is a secure email; however, your message will only be fully encrypted from end to end if you also create a free Protonmail account. If you prefer to communicate via Signal, email or DM us on social media for our number.You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram, and don't forget to subscribe!

This is the first episode in the "Reproductive Freedom in the Deep South" Series where we talk with representatives from reproductive justice organizations with boots on the ground in Alabama. Our special guests are Tish Gotell Faulks, Legal Director at the ACLU of Alabama; Robin Marty, the Director of Operations for the West Alabama Women's Center; and Kelsea McLain, Deputy Director of the Yellowhammer Fund. Each one of our guests talks about the impact of the overturn of Roe on their organizations, the services they provide in a post-Roe landscape, along with the health and safety concerns they are dealing with on a daily basis. Our conversation expands into the full spectrum of reproductive justice to include access to maternal health care, self-managed abortions and safe after-care centers, access to contraception, sex education, and the myriad ways abortion bans impact pregnant people—— "Reproductive justice is not just about will you or will you not remain pregnant? It is about whether or not we as a society, we as communities are nurturing the people who are critical to birthing and healthy family development." (Tish Gotell Faulks, ACLU of Alabama) WHERE YOU CAN DONATE TODAY: West Alabama Women's Center ACLU of Alabama Yellowhammer Fund The POWER House of Montgomery Access show notes, transcript, & links to resources and more donation opportunities——https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r404OP-4ZoarEb15BA25Y71MmRyZFuDKGSwrt2q0bwg/edit?usp=sharing

Anti-abortion Texas judge holds oral arguments on bid to ban key abortion medication Warnings that big tech is trying an international end run against privacy and civil rights rules California dries out before a 12th atmospheric river is set to strike by early next week Cycle Freddy kills 100s in Malawai and Mozambique Reparations advisory committee briefs San Francisco Supervisors on its draft report and recommendations Bay Area school district sues social media companies for adverse impacts on youth and schools     Image by Robin Marty:https://www.flickr.com/photos/92599314@N00/         The post Conservative Texas judge holds hearing on abortion pill; Cyclone Freddy kills hundreds in southern Africa; S.F. Supervisors hear reparations recommendations: Pacifica Evening News March 15 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Anti-abortion Texas judge holds oral arguments on bid to ban key abortion medication Warnings that big tech is trying an international end run against privacy and civil rights rules California dries out before a 12th atmospheric river is set to strike by early next week Cycle Freddy kills 100s in Malawai and Mozambique Reparations advisory committee briefs San Francisco Supervisors on its draft report and recommendations Bay Area school district sues social media companies for adverse impacts on youth and schools     Image by Robin Marty:https://www.flickr.com/photos/92599314@N00/         The post Conservative Texas judge holds hearing on abortion pill; Cyclone Freddy kills hundreds in southern Africa; S.F. Supervisors hear reparations recommendations: Pacifica Evening News March 15 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Ali Velshi is joined by Fmr. Rep. Fred Upton (R- Michigan), Charlie Savage, MSNBC Contributor, Robin Marty, Operations Director at West Alabama Women's, Jenice Fountain, Executive Director at Yellowhammer Fund Center, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President & Senior Lecturer at Repairers of the Breach, Rep. Don Bacon (R- Nebraska), Andrei Kozyrev, Fmr. Foreign Minister of Russia, and Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

Robin Marty, author of New Handbook For A Post-Roe America, tells us about what she's seeing on the front lines of women's reproductive care. Dana Ballout talks to us about The Last Resort, a podcast on California's secessionist movement. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this summer, the nation has been left with an uneven patchwork of abortion laws across the states. In some states like […] The post Robin Marty on Being an Abortion Advocate in Post-Roe America appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, overturning a constitutional right to abortion, has led to abortion services ending at West Alabama Women's Center, Inc., in Tuscaloosa. The clinic's director, Robin Marty, explains that the states making abortion illegal are also the ones blocking Medicaid expansion. She says their idea appears to be that “It's too expensive to give people health care but you can force them to give birth against their will.” Amanda Allen is senior counsel and director of The Lawyering Project, which is a nonprofit that uses the law to “improve abortion access and uphold the rights and dignity of people seeking and providing abortion care.” She reports that her team is devastated by the Supreme Court decision but they're “doubling down on our efforts to help providers, to help the patients they serve…there are people out there who need our help.” To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, overturning a constitutional right to abortion, has led to abortion services ending at West Alabama Women's Center, Inc., in Tuscaloosa. The clinic's director, Robin Marty, explains that the states making abortion illegal are also the ones blocking Medicaid expansion. She says their idea appears to be that “It's too expensive to give people health care but you can force them to give birth against their will.” Amanda Allen is senior counsel and... Read More Read More The post West Alabama Women's Center Director Talks About the Impact of Roe appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.

The House passes the Respect for Marriage Act (take that Clarence Thomas), and we discuss The Duck of Justice! Robin Marty, author of 'Handbook for a Post-Roe America', talks to us about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, why she hates abortion boats, and the continuing fight for women's rights. Call or text ‪(202) 656-6271‬ any time to participate in the show!

Abortion Access Front's Operation Save Abortion weekend has arrived! What better way to pregame than with a whole new “Feminist Buzzkills Live!” pod drop. Moj and Marie are out getting their summer wedding fix, but don't worry, Lizz won't be blabbing solo this week. We called in some serious Roe-or-Die reinforcement to deliver the scoop on all the latest anti-abortion BS from the invasive misogynistic species trying to get all up in your junk. Assisting in our weekly ritual of popping off are FOUR legendary, game changing, ass-kicking, pro-abortion renegades. Drumroll please… Kicking us off to talk the latest repro news is the author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America and operations director of the West Alabama Women's Center, Robin Marty! She's also poppin' off about the (lack of) accessible healthcare options in Alabama, and rave about ELLA, the “souped-up emergency contraception” YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT. PLUS! Think Beyoncé is the best thing the South gave us? Think again. Powerhouse interim executive director of ARC Southeast, Jalessah Jackson, and new executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, Oriaku Njoku, are dropping knowledge on us about abortion care in the South and why using a Reproductive Justice framework for your abortion activism is the way you build sustaining power. AND! If that ain't enough for you, we've got comedian, leader of the band Tigers and Monkeys, and co-host of the We Don't Even Know podcast, Shonali Bhowmik in the house! She's getting real with us about grief, finding the joy in the chaos, and more! The world is heavy, but we got you! FINAL ROLL CALL: Operation Save Abortion weekend has arrived! Registration closes tonight, Friday 7/15, at 11:59 PM ET. It's not a march, it's your training day. Can't make it? Have no fear! AAF will be posting ALL the toolkits and sessions online so you can get your activism on, anytime, anywhere.  HOST: Lizz Winstead @LizzWinstead SPECIAL GUESTS: Robin Marty @RobinEMarty @West_Alabama_Womens_Center (IG) / @RobinMarty @Alabama_West (TW) Shonali Bhowmik @ShonaliBhowmik (IG) @Shonali_ (TW) Oriaku Njoku @AbortionFunds Jalessah Jackson @ARC_Southeast THE BULLSHIT: Ohio Introduces Bill That Could Ban IVF by Recognizing ‘Personhood' From Conception As Louisiana's Abortion Ban is Reinstated, Doctors Describe ‘Chilling Effect' on Women's Care THE GOOD SHIT: Abortion Services Will Continue in Utah! Michigan Activists Submit Signatures to Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot in November Minnesota's Abortion Restrictions Declared Unconstitutional by Judge Louisiana Judge Preserves Abortion Access  Arizona Federal District Court Blocks “Personhood” Law Ohio Update: A Columbus Man Is Arrested and Charged With Rape GUEST LINKS: Robin Marty's New Handbook for a Post-Roe America  DONATE to West Alabama Women's Center @West_Alabama_Womens_Center (IG) @Alabama_West (TW) Shonali Bhowmik Website We Don't Even Know Podcast @WDEKpodcast ARC-Southeast @ARC_Southeast  National Network of Abortion Funds @AbortionFunds EPISODE LINKS: Buy Amy Hagstrom Miller's new book HERE! TICKETS: Lizz Winstead live at The West Theater in Duluth, MN on 9/15 Midwest Access Coalition / @midwest_access_coalition (IG) @MidwestAccess (TW) AAF's Abortion-Themed Rage Playlist FOLLOW US: Listen to us ~ FBK Podcast Instagram ~ @AbortionFront Twitter ~ @AbortionFront TikTok ~ AbortionAF Facebook ~ @AbortionFront YouTube ~ @AbortionAccessFront PATREON HERE! Support our work, get exclusive merch and more!  DONATE TO AAF HERE! VOLUNTEER WITH US HERE! ADOPT-A-CLINIC HERE! EXPOSE FAKE CLINICS HERE! FIND AN ABORTION PROVIDER NEAR YOU HERE! FRIDAYS AT 6PM ET - When BS is poppin', we pop off!

Note: This episode states that abortion is banned in Louisiana. However, as of about 6pm on July 12, a court has blocked the state's trigger ban, allowing abortion services to resume for now.Where are clinics open?Guttmacher: State abortion policies post-RoeI Need an AAbortion FinderInformation about abortion pillsPlan CSupport independent clinicsKeep Our ClinicsWest Alabama Women's Center (staying open in AL)Desert Star Family Planning (staying open in AZ)Partners in Abortion Care (new clinic in MD)Whole Woman's Health (moving from TX to NM)Red River Women's Clinic (moving from ND to MN)Jackson Women's Health Organization (moving from MS to NM)Abortion FundsNational Network of Abortion FundsList of abortion funds by statePractical support networksHaven CoalitionApiary for Practical SupportCriminalizationIf/When/HowRepro Legal Defense FundDigital securityDigital Defense Fund Guide to Abortion PrivacySupport the show! Buy merch or donate.Have an abortion story you want to share? Send a voice memo or email to accesspodcast(at)protonmail(dot)com. This is a secure email; however, your message will only be fully encrypted from end to end if you also create a free Protonmail account. If you prefer to communicate via Signal, email or DM us on social media for our number.Logo by Kate Ryan. Theme music by Lily Sloane. Additional music in this episode from Blue Dot Sessions. Photo by Robin Marty.You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram, and don't forget to subscribe!

Unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in a devastating rollback of rights. So for the 91st episode of Private Parts Unknown, we are countering a common misconception that people who are already moms don't get abortions or aren't pro-abortion. But that's not true: According to 2019 CDC statistics, 60% of people who get abortions are already mothers. So today, host Courtney Kocak speaks with reporter, abortion activist, AND mom Robin Marty, in addition to writer, speaker, and mom activist Christine Michel Carter about why abortion access is necessary, even for people who WANT to be pregnant, how to talk to your kids about abortion, and more. Robin Marty is the author of Handbook for a Post-Racial America and the updated New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, in addition to several other books, and she's currently the director of operations for the West Alabama Women's Center. Christine Michel Carter is the author of MOM AF and Can Mommy Go To Work? For more from today's guests: Follow Robin Marty on Twitter @robinmarty Follow Christine Michel Carter on Instagram @cmichelcarter Follow Christine Michel Carter on Twitter @cmichelcarter Check out Christine Michel Carter's website christinemichelcarter.com Here's a playlist of our previous abortion-related episodes, including the "Men Have Abortions Too" series: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BFDkcQYzdfq5YEV5buzzO?si=19a1d68b109845dd Private Parts Unknown is a proud member of the Pleasure Podcast network. This episode is brought to you by: Go to RexMD.com/private today to get started with a sample pack prescription of generic Viagra. All orders come with FREE 2-day shipping. Rex MD – the authority in men's telehealth. https://linktr.ee/PrivatePartsUnknownAds If you love this episode, please leave us a 5-star rating and sexy review! —> ratethispodcast.com/private  Psst... sign up for our Private Parts Unknown newsletter for bonus content related to our episodes! privatepartsunknown.substack.com Let's be friends on social media! Follow the show on Instagram @privatepartsunknown and Twitter @privatepartsun. Connect with hosts Courtney Kocak @courtneykocak and Sofiya @thesofiya on Instagram and Twitter.

From The Rick Smith Show, Robin Marty of the West Alabama Women's Center clarifies the reality of the post-Roe v Wade aftermath and what can happen next...Then, what unions should be doing to protect their workers: on The Valley Labor Report, Jacob and Adam discuss the loss of Roe v Wade and the implications other recent Supreme Court rulings have on our rights...The Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation's Linda Morales talks with the Lone Star Labor Pod about the intersection of the LGBTQIA+ and labor movements, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and what union members can do about it. Then, Pride Month is in June, so why is Vancouver USA Pride held in July? Find out on the Working To Live In Southwest Washington podcast. In our final report, Belarus union leaders are under attack; Rudy Porter, Solidarity Center Regional Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, briefed members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network at our weekly meeting. Click here for the LabourStart petition. This is your Network, and we're building it like a union organizing campaign, one show and one listener at a time; please help us build sonic solidarity by sharing this show; just click on the share button below. Thanks so much! Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @radiolabour @RickSmithShow @LaborReporters @TexasAFLCIO @SWWACLC Edited by Mel Smith and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

“It is about 5:30 in Alabama on the first morning of there being no legal abortion when our clinic should be open. And it's probably not an exaggeration to say that this is the point where I broke,” said Robin Marty, Director of Operations at the West Alabama Women's Center. In this episode, Kelly talks with Marty, as well as Rafa Kidvai, the director the Repro Legal Defense Fund, and Ash Williams, who is an organizer and abortion doula in Asheville, North Carolina, about what happens next and what we can do about it. You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: bit.ly/movementmemos If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter

Director of operations at the West Alabama Women's Center and author of The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, Robin Marty joins Zerlina on the show to discuss what's happening on the ground in states like Alabama where trigger laws have taken effect following last week's Dobbs decision.

Now that the right to an abortion has been overturned, America enters a new phase. Some states, like Minnesota, will continue to offer abortion care. Many others will prevent all access. Some will even criminalize anyone who helps a pregnant person get an abortion in a state that makes it legal. Writer and activist Robin Marty saw this day coming — but she admits she didn't think it would happen so quickly. In 2019, she wrote “Handbook for a Post-Roe America,” as she watched laws severely restricting abortion sweep many regions of the country. This spring, she released an updated version. And now, with the Supreme Court overturning Roe, it's become a handbook for women reeling from the decision and wondering what to do next. Wednesday, on a special edition of Big Books and Bold Ideas, host Kerri Miller spoke with Marty, who recently moved from Minnesota to Alabama to become the operations director for the West Alabama's Women's Center. They discussed her book, what she thinks will happen next, and how the hopscotched nature of abortion rights going forward will impact pregnant people, especially women of color. Guest: Robin Marty is the operations director for the West Alabama Women's Center, and the author of “A Handbook for a Post-Roe America.” Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations. 

Now that the right to an abortion has been overturned, America enters a new phase. Some states, like Minnesota, will continue to offer abortion care. Many others will prevent all access. Some will even criminalize anyone who helps a pregnant person get an abortion in a state that makes it legal. Writer and activist Robin Marty saw this day coming — but she admits she didn't think it would happen so quickly. In 2019, she wrote “Handbook for a Post-Roe America,” as she watched laws severely restricting abortion sweep many regions of the country. This spring, she released an updated version. And now, with the Supreme Court overturning Roe, it's become a handbook for women reeling from the decision and wondering what to do next. Wednesday, on a special edition of Big Books and Bold Ideas, host Kerri Miller spoke with Marty, who recently moved from Minnesota to Alabama to become the operations director for the West Alabama's Women's Center. They discussed her book, what she thinks will happen next, and how the hopscotched nature of abortion rights going forward will impact pregnant people, especially women of color. Guest: Robin Marty is the operations director for the West Alabama Women's Center, and the author of “A Handbook for a Post-Roe America.” Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations. 

In this episode of The New Abnormal, Leah Litman, an assistant professor at Michigan law school, breaks down one of AOC post-Roe ideas and co-host Andy Levy tears into Nancy Pelosi and her poem. Plus, Robin Marty, director of operations for West Alabama Women's Center, tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast what she's already seeing in her state, including reports that hospitals are already refusing to treat women whose lives are in danger, and are bleeding out, because they admitted they had an abortion.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, opening the door for individual states to ban abortion. Guest host Nahlah Ayed speaks with Anna Visser, communications and education director for Right to Life Michigan; Robin Marty, operations director for the West Alabama Women's Center; and law professor Carolyn Shapiro, founder and co-director of Chicago-Kent's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. We also talk with Carolyn Egan, a spokesperson with the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, about concerns over access in this country.

It's about to become much harder to find safe abortion care in America, in a country where some states already make it almost impossible. This week, we make sense of what's happening and how we got here. Lilah speaks with Rhiannon Hamam, a Texas public defender and host of the popular show 5-4 (“a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks”) to make sense of Roe vs Wade, the seminal law that is expected to be overturned. Then, we pass the mic to three people providing abortion services in three states that will face some of the biggest changes: Wisconsin, Alabama and Illinois. They tell us what they're seeing, and how they're preparing for a post-Roe world.--------------Links and mentions from the episode: – You heard this week from Rhiannon Hammam, co-host of the podcast 5-4. Listen everywhere, or here: https://www.fivefourpod.com. Rhiannon is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AywaRhiannon – Dr. Kristen Lyerly is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She's on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kristinlyerly?lang=en– Robin Marty is author of ‘The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America' and operation director of the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa. She recently wrote an op-ed for the FT: https://on.ft.com/3wr0HZK. You can find her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/robinmarty – Marie Khan is director of programs for the Midwest Access Coalition, a practical abortion fund. You can learn more about them at https://midwestaccesscoalition.org/ – Key coverage of the war in Ukraine is free to read: https://www.ft.com/freetoread--------------Want to say hi? We love hearing from you. Email us at ftweekendpodcast@ft.com. We're on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap. --------------Special offers for Weekend listeners, from 50% off a digital subscription to a $1/£1/€1 trial are here: http://ft.com/weekendpodcast. If you have an iPhone and want to try FT Edit, search ‘FT Edit' in the app store.--------------Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner.Archival clip courtesy of CBS. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's about to become much harder to find safe abortion care in America, in a country where some states already make it almost impossible. This week, we make sense of what's happening and how we got here. Lilah speaks with Rhiannon Hamam, a Texas public defender and host of the popular show 5-4 (“a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks”) to make sense of Roe vs Wade, the seminal law that is expected to be overturned. Then, we pass the mic to three people providing abortion services in three states that will face some of the biggest changes: Wisconsin, Alabama and Illinois. They tell us what they're seeing, and how they're preparing for a post-Roe world.--------------Links and mentions from the episode: – You heard this week from Rhiannon Hammam, co-host of the podcast 5-4. Listen everywhere, or here: https://www.fivefourpod.com. Rhiannon is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AywaRhiannon – Dr. Kristen Lyerly is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She's on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kristinlyerly?lang=en– Robin Marty is author of ‘The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America' and operation director of the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa. She recently wrote an op-ed for the FT: https://on.ft.com/3wr0HZK. You can find her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/robinmarty – Marie Khan is director of programs for the Midwest Access Coalition, a practical abortion fund. You can learn more about them at https://midwestaccesscoalition.org/ – Key coverage of the war in Ukraine is free to read: https://www.ft.com/freetoread--------------Want to say hi? We love hearing from you. Email us at ftweekendpodcast@ft.com. We're on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap. --------------Special offers for Weekend listeners, from 50% off a digital subscription to a $1/£1/€1 trial are here: http://ft.com/weekendpodcast. If you have an iPhone and want to try FT Edit, search ‘FT Edit' in the app store.--------------Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner.Archival clip courtesy of CBS. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jess is joined by Robin Marty, operations director at Alabama West Women's Center, for a deeper look into the landscape of abortion in the South and how the clinic is preparing for a post-Roe world.Resources mentioned in the episode:If You Want to Protect Pregnant People From Arrest, Fund Red-State ClinicsThe New Handbook for a Post-Roe AmericaPregnant Workers Fairness ActRewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered is only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that's exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

Jess is joined by Robin Marty, operations director at Alabama West Women's Center, for a deeper look into the landscape of abortion in the South and how the clinic is preparing for a post-Roe world.Resources mentioned in the episode:If You Want to Protect Pregnant People From Arrest, Fund Red-State ClinicsThe New Handbook for a Post-Roe AmericaPregnant Workers Fairness ActRewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered is only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that's exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

“We are in truly dire straits right now. We are overwhelmed. We are overrun,” says Robin Marty, Communications Director for the West Alabama Women's Center and author of The New Handbook For a Post-Roe America. In this episode of Movement Memos, Robin and Kelly talk about how people can prepare, personally and politically, for the realities of a post-Roe world. If you need a transcript, you can find that on our website: bit.ly/movementmemos If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter

This week on The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay: • Activist and writer Robin Marty on what abortion access could look like in a post-Roe v. Wade U.S. • Retired U.S. lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman discusses NATO's obligations to Ukraine • The battle to keep Mother's Day free of politics and profits • From medieval monks internet search engines, we dig into the history of book indexes Plus: Listeners share their answers to A.J. Jacobs' movie themed riddle Discover more at https://www.cbc.ca/sunday

Ali Velshi is joined by Robin Marty, Operations Director at West Alabama Women's Center, Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive RightsPresident & CEO, Maksym Borodin, Mariupol City Council member, Petro Poroshenko, Former President of Ukraine, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) Wisconsin, Fatima Goss Graves, National Women's Law Center President & CEO, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D) Massachusetts, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at NYU, and Mary Ziegler, Professor at UC Davis Law School

A post-Roe America could become a reality soon, if Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's draft ruling becomes the court's final decision. From the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Robin Marty tells Andy how the decision would impact her patients from day one, and urges Americans with privilege to consider how far they'll go to protect the rights of others. Andy asks Columbia Law School professor Carol Sanger which of Alito's arguments stuck out to her and what people can do today to help bring the right to choose back to states that may lose it. Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt on Twitter. Follow Robin @robinmarty and Carol @carolsangernyc on Twitter. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    Support the show by checking out our sponsors! Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/  Throughout the pandemic, CVS Health has been there, bringing quality, affordable health care closer to home—so it's never out of reach for anyone. Because at CVS Health, healthier happens together. Learn more at cvshealth.com.   Check out these resources from today's episode:  Order Carol Sanger's book, “About Abortion – Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America”: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737723 Order Robin Marty's book, “The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America”: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4280-the-new-handbook-for-a-post-roe-america Learn about Aid Access, an organization that helps people access abortion pills if healthy and under 10 weeks pregnant: https://aidaccess.org/en/ Find vaccines, masks, testing, treatments, and other resources in your community here: https://www.covid.gov/ Order Andy's book,“Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response”: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165  Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.  For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com/show/inthebubble. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As an author, activist and operations director at a women's health clinic in the deep South, Robin Marty knows more about the abortion wars than anyone. She joins us this week to talk about how a maximalist Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade would have far-reaching impacts on people in blue states as well as those living under Republican rule. Then we speak with Michael Tomasky, the editor of The New Republic, about Democrats' hesitancy to describe the American right's assaults on democracy in plain terms and the legacy media's powerful bias toward reporting on our politics as if these are normal times--a tendency that helps enable the authoritarian far-right. PlaylistThe Goo Goo Dolls: "Give A Little Bit"Gnarls Barkley: "Gone Daddy Gone"Pitbull: "Fireball ft. John Ryan" 

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“I found there was this very rich tradition of Italian American anti-fascism, not just Italian anti-fascism, across the pond, but anti-fascism here. ” - Christine Grimaldi Today I interviewed Christine Grimaldi who reports on reproductive policy and politics for outlets like VICE, Vogue, SELF Magazine, GEN Magazine, among other outlets. In this episode we speak about how: The history of Italian-American anti-fascism in the United States How the Knights of Columbus is not just a hall where you had your sweet 16, but a rabidly anti-choice organization How she predicted Amy Coney Barrett would be the Supreme Court Nominee Then Carmella comes in to talk about an update on abortion rights since we first recorded the podcast To catch up with our guest: www.christinegrimaldi.com/ Twitter: @chgrimaldi - "The Paesano of Shame: Trump's Italian American Consiglieres" by Christine Grimaldi - "Two friends talk about Black, White, and The Grey: On cooking and collaboration across the color line" by Christine Grimaldi - "Amy Coney Barrett Would Destroy Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legacy" by Christine Grimaldi FYI, the Ohio-based Abortion Knights of Columbus fundraising team is not currently active, you can donate to Ohio's statewide abortion fund, Women Have Options. - "The Texas Abortion Ban Might Be the First, But It Won't Be the Last" by Christine Grimaldi - Texas Abortion Funds - Buckle Bunnies Fund, a Texas abortion mutual aid collective - National Network of Abortion Funds' state-by-state abortion fund finder - The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty - "Stop It With The Fucking Coat Hangers" by Andrea Grimes - If/When/How's Repro Legal Helpline - "The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained" by Katelyn Burns - "Attacks on Transgender Athletes Are Threatening Women's Sports" by Britni de la Cretaz