FIRE II Webcast Marathon: 
FULL SPECTRUM AGAINST VIOLENCE
International Day Against Violence Against Women
 
 

FIRE dedicated the 12-hour webcast marathon to the women of Afghanistan and Palestine, and all the women around the world who have stood up for peace in the aftermath of September 11th, so that women may have a voice, may have choice, and participate in decisionmaking with their own perspectives.

English Programming 

8:30-9:00 am   Phone call from Marion Paisa of the Phillipines:

9:00-9:40 am    Domestic violence in Kenya
FIRE Interview by Margaret Thompson with Anne Gatobu who is from Nairobi. She talks about her doctoral research on victims of domestic violence in Kenya, and strategies for combating this widespread problem.

9:40-10:00       “Bridges Not Walls: Afghan Women for Peace” National Radio Project. Members of the Afghan Women’s Association International speak out together with North American activists against the bombing of Afghanistan. 
 

10:30-10:40     Clombian Women´s PEACEBOAT by  Gen Vaughan, Angela Cuevas, Sissy Farenhols and Freida Werden

10:40-11:10      Losing What Little We Have: Threats to Civil Liberties 
of Marginalized Groups Since Sept. 11th. Marge Taniwaki, Asian-Pacific Activist. A Japanese-American woman who lives in Denver, Colorado, talks to FIRE about her concerns about recent threats to civil liberties in the aftermath of Sept. 11th for groups whose civil rights are already on shaky ground, including people of color and the poor. 

11:10-11:40      Looking Back at Terrorist Attacks on US Embassy in Kenya. Lilian Ringera, Kenya. Lilian talks to FIRE about the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, and the parallels with the Sept. 11th attack in New York, including media coverage and the aftermath. 

11:40-12:10       Disability Rights in the Aftermath of Sept. 11th. Laura Hershey, disabilities activist. Laura talks to FIRE about the implications of Sept. 11th and the aftermath for disabilities rights, including access issues as well as the enormous shift in U.S. budgetary priorities toward military spending.

12:10-12:40       Unleashing the CIA:  Implications for Human Rights Abuse. Jennifer Harbury, U.S. activist and lawyer. Jennifer, whose Guatemalan Mayan husband was disappeared and murdered by the Guatemalan military and the CIA, spoke about her case against the Guatemalan military and the US government, and her concerns about the recent “security” legislation which increases the power of the CIA and potential for human rights abuses worldwide.  Jennifer, who recently received a peace award from the Denver Justice & Peace Committee, spoke at Awards Night in Denver, Colorado. 

12:40-1:10  Mary King, peace activist from the US. Mary spoke about the relationship between the situation in the Middle East and in Afghanistan at the University for Peace in Costa Rica on November 1st.   It was recorded by FIRE.

1:10-10:40    Frieda Werden of WINGS interviews lesbian video producer Trella Laughlin about gender based violence in the USA and elsewhere.

 
1:40-2:00      Radio Falla Mulher of Brasil with a production in Portuguese for International Women´s Day.