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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Education : Gender and Sexuality : Media |
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Women's History on WILL in March |
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04 Mar 2005
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Here is a series of announcements of Women's History Month programming on WILL Ch12 and AM580 |
Please note the following Women's History Month Specials on WILL-TV and WILL
radio.
Sisters of '77, Friday, March 4 at 10:20pm on WILL-TV, repeated 3am Sunday,
March 6
Takes a look at the first federally funded National Women's Conference,
which was held in Houston, Texas, in November 1977. More than 20,000 women
and men caucused, argued and finally hammered out resolutions that
revolutionaries the women's movement.
Sisters in Pain, 5pm Saturday, March 12 on AM-580
The issue of domestic violence is examined through a unique lens -- the
clemency granted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky to 13 battered women.
Features intimate and compelling interviews with three of the "sisters in
pain," a name given to the women during the flurry of media attention
surrounding their clemencies. That all of these women had been severely
abused was well documented before their arrest. Nonetheless, each was
convicted of murder, manslaughter, conspiracy or assault, and given a long
prison term. After intense lobbying by activists and the public display of
an evocative quilt the women made while in prison, the then-governor of
Kentucky granted them clemency in 1995, asserting they had, in fact, acted
in self defense and were not criminals.
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo, 8pm Wednesday, March 23 on WILL-TV
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo gracefully balanced a private life, illness and
pain, against a public persona that was flamboyant, irreverent and
world-renowned.
Sunset Story, 10:02pm, Friday March 25 on WILL-TV, repeated 3am Sunday,
March 27.
Eighty-one-year-old Irja and her 95-year-old-friend Lucille are the only
lucid residents at a senior citizens' home for political progressives.
Emma Goldman, 8pm Monday March 28 on WILL-TV, repeated midnight Tuesday,
March 29 and 3am Wednesday, March 30.
For nearly half a century, Russian emigrant Emma Goldman was the most
controversial woman in America, taunting the mainstream with her fervent
attacks on government, big business and war.
Phenomenal Voyage: Women Engineering the Future on WILL-TV, 9:30pm Monday,
March 28
Examines the role women play in technological development and explores the
barriers preventing young women from entering math and science fields, and
what is needed to overcome these obstacles. |
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