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Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders

Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders with Jean Feraca - A Wisconsin Public Radio program and podcast. The program is very informative and offers indepth interviews in the following categories: Arts & Music, Culture & Society, Environment, Films, Food, Initiatives, Literature & Poetry, Politics & Religion, Science & Technology, and World Citizens. Please go to their webpage to find a complete listing of many high quality audio programs: http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/ Also subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed: http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/podcast/rss.xml

A few of their Audio Shows related to Women working for Peace:

====>Click to hear "Women Waging Peace"

November 20, 2006

This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca's guest, former ambassador to Austria during the Clinton administration, discusses women's rights around the world, and her role in creating "Women Waging Peace."

Guest

Swanee Hunt, former ambassador, originator of the Women Waging Peace Policy Commission, author of "Half-Life of a Zealot"


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====>Click to hear "The Woman Who Planted Peace"

February 1, 2007

This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with Kenya's Nobel Peace Prize laureate who found the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977.

Guest

Wangari Maathai, Kenya's Nobel Peace Prize laureate


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====>Click to hear "Jean Feraca Goes to Liberia"

December 18, 2006

Jean Feraca has just come back from her first trip to Liberia with a group of women. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, she and her group members share their experience.

Guest

Swanee Hunt, former ambassador, originator of the Women Waging Peace Policy Commission, author of "Half-Life of a Zealot"


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====>Click to hear "Hope for Burma"

January 4, 2007

There's hope for Burma on this Independence Day where the democratically elected president remains under house arrest, but a growing international movement is helping to end one of the earth's most brutal military dictatorships. Join Jean Feraca and guests this hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders.

Guests

Stephanie Guyer-Stevens, executive producer of Outer Voices
Alan Clements, first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma
Jeremy Woodrum, co-Counder of US Campaign for Burma


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====>Click to hear "All-Female Peacekeepers in Liberia"

May 24, 2007

This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests talk about the first all-female peacekeeping force in Liberia, the first African country to elect a female president.

Guests

Gloria Scott, a senator in the Liberian Senate, former member of the Supreme Court of Liberia
Lwopu Kandakai, Deputy Minister for Regional Development, Research and Extension in Liberia


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====>Click to hear "Is Peace a Dirty Word?"

April 23, 2007

NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling did a report for Weekend Edition on the backlash caused by the Fairmont, Minnesota, City Council's decision to support the creation of a Department of Peace. Why do we fear peace? Is what happened in Fairmont typical of the country as a whole? Join Jean Feraca and her guests for a discussion this hour on Here on Earth, Radio Without Borders.

Guests

Daniel Zwerdling, NPR Weekend Edition commentator
Judi Poulson, Chair of the Women's Peace Club in Fairmont, Minnesota
Neal Breitbarth, Republican leader in Fairmont, Minnesota
Morton Perlmutter, professor emeritus in the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


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====>Click to hear "Peace by Peace"

May 21, 2006

Do women make better peacemakers? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, join Jean Feraca to learn what happens when women working to promote peace come together in a global community.

Guests

Patricia Smith Melton, founding director of Peace by Peace
Rula Salemah, Peace by Peace member from Palestine, Acting Director of Middle East Non-Violence and Democracy (MEND)
Mary Cordes, retired clinical psychologist and Peace by Peace member from Rochester, Michigan


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====>Click to hear "The Other Side of War: Women's Stories"

February 8, 2007

This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with an exordinary woman who grew up in Iraq and has been helping women in wars around the world.

Guest

Zainab Salbi, activist and social entrepreneur, author of "Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope" and found of Women for Women International


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====>Click to hear "Three Women From Jerusalem"

April 16, 2007

Three women from Jerusalem, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew, this hour on Here on Earth, Radio Without Borders, join Jean Feraca and her guests to share their experiences coping with war, and their hopes for a just peace.

Guests

Huda Abu Arqoub, a Muslim Palestinian from Hebron, Palestine
Tal Dor, a Jewish Israeli from Haifa, Israel
Amal Nassar, a Christian Palestinian from Bethlehem, Palestine


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====>Click to hear "Women Building Peace"

February 06, 2005

Would the world suffer less war if women were sharing power? After two, on Here on Earth, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss ways in which global power structures can change if women gain more political power.

Guest

Swanee Hunt, former ambassador to Austria (1993-97), founder of Women Waging Peace, a global policy oriented initiative working to integrate women into peace processes.



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====>Click to hear "Women and Peace in Uganda"

November 6, 2005

In war-torn areas throughout the world, women's bodies often become sites of violence at the hands of enemies and government soldiers. This hour on Here on Earth, join Jean Feraca and her guests for a conversation about women's efforts to make peace in regions ravaged by war.

Guests

Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, director of Isis Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange
Aili (AY-lee) Tripp, associate dean of International Studies and director of the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin


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