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Length: 0:28:40
Uploaded: 4 Sep, 2014

Recording Date: 24 Sep, 2001
Recording Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #20-14 911 Peacecast by Women's Learning Partnership, FIRE, WINGS, and Feminists for the Gift Economy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at www.learningpartnership.org.
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Program Title: WINGS #20-14 911 Peacecast
Description: Shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, women leaders from around the world held a series of discussions online about the esperience, its de-stabilizing ramifications, and how to promote peace.

Host(s): Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Huguette Labelle, former head of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); Aza Karam of Egypt, director of women’s programs at Religions for Peace, based in New York; Mahnaz Afkhami, an Iranian exile, head of Women’s Learning Parnership; Suheir Azuni, Palestinian and former director of the Women’s Technical Affairs Committee – a coalition lobbying for women’s rights in Palestine and the Middle East; Charlotte Bunch, director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University; Aruna Rao, from New Delhi, India, director of the Gender at Work Collaborative, and a scholar studying institutional change; Ayo Obe, Nigeria, president of the Civil Liberties organization; Jacqueline Pitanguy, a leader in re-building women’s rights in Brazil, and head of the group Citizenship, Scholarship, Research, Information, and Action; Asma Khadr, a lawyer working against honour killings in Jordan, and an executive committee member of the International Commission of Jurists.; Devaki Jain, Bangalore, India, a founder of DAWN – Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.

Credits: Netcast conference calls convened by Women’s Learning Partnership, FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour); Feminists for the Gift Economy; and WINGS. Sept. 24-27, 2001. Audio edited by Women’s Learning Partnership and WINGS. WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden.

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