51 % The Women's Perspective
(2008-09-25)
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Dolores Huerta is a legend. She's a consummate organizer. She co-founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962 with Cesar Chavez. She's on the board of the Feminist Majority and People for the American Way. Her talent is seeing a problem and persuading others to work together to solve it. The Dolores Huerta Foundation sponsors programs aimed at working at the grassroots level to deal with a huge range of societal issues. She spoke with 51%'s Glenn Busby.
7:52 Huerta Busby
If you want to know more about The Dolores Huerta Foundation, visit their website at www.doloreshuerta.org.
Coming up on 51%..another woman on a mission. It started as an effort to help her daughter...and it grew into a facility that helps children all over the US.
If you missed part of our show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1002.
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Marcia Mitchell won a contest recently. She didn't enter it - her daughter entered her. Marcia's daughter nominated her mom in Tyson Food's gold medal mom contest(olympic gold medals...not a baking) for her work creating the Little Lighthouse...a free residential facility for young children with physical and developmental disabilities. Her prize, a trip to the Beijing Olympics with her daughter.
Mitchell 7:35 - Barnett
To find out more about the Little Lighthouse, visit their website at www.littlelighthouse.org.
As part of the National Science Foundation The Sounds of Progress series, Kate Mulgrew profiles Emmy Noether. She made sense of theories that many of us still don't understand...but she never got the recognition she was due.
2:00 NSF #9 Noether
If you'd like to find out more or hear more in this series, visit www.womeninscience.org.
And finally today, a talk with actress Laila Robins. You may know her from appearances on the Sopranos and other television shows, but stage is where you'll often find her. As we talked, the topic turned to new trends in the theatre...and that led to talk of what she sees as a disturbing trend...violence in entertainment.
5:00 Robins - Barnett
Laila Robins has movie projects coming up and she's at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey playing Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire until October.
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