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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service

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Weekly half-hour radio program by and about women around the world. Series producer, Frieda Werden Listen to recent shows here: https://wingsradio.org/wordpress/ This Bluesky profile collects links from a wide range of sources

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1h

The confusing ritual of #DaylightSavings Time:

October 26, 2025, Central Europe turns the clock back one hour, at 3:00 it will be 2:00 Daylight Saving Time Ends.

November 2, 2025, USA 2:00:00 am clocks are turned backward 1 hour Daylight Saving Time Ends.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 7h

Unlearning the Hush
Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era
Author: Marlee S. Bunch
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

Unlearning the Hush

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 7h

Before 2017, Chile's abortion laws were among the most draconian and restrictive in the world. Michele Eggers-Barison's interviews from that time reveal links among criminalization of abortion, construction of women as criminals, and violence against women.
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Criminalization of Women

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 7h

New book from University of Illinois Press: "Breaking down recent films about the dark side of motherhood" - author: Olivia Landry. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

Cinema of Crushing Motherhood

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 11h

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 11h

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 14h

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Austerity's Influence on Gender Equality

This article provides an in-depth examination of how austerity policies affect gender equality, power distribution, and political landscapes.

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

All the OB/GYN physicians at this hospital in Kamloops, BC, Canada have resigned at once, complaining about the conditions. Opinion piece from local paper: cfjctoday.com/2025/10/19/c...

COLLINS: Women’s health is a major issue

I DON'T ENVY WOMEN these days. Aside from the debate over women's rights, transgender issues which affect both...

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

On 14 October 2025, the UN General Assembly elected the following 14 members for a three-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2026:
Angola, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, India, Iraq, Italy, Mauritius, Pakistan, Slovenia, South Africa, United Kingdom and Viet Nam www.un.org/en/ga/80/mee...

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

Maternity rights in Europe:

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, has her own page: the-president.europarl.europa.eu/en

Home | The President | European Parliament

Press releases, speeches and news from the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola.

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

Page for reading about the European Parliament with link to watch it live. www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

European Parliament

The official website of the European Parliament, the directly elected legislative body of the European Union

www.europarl.europa.eu

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

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Are non-stick pans safe? This chef says it’s time to switch to cast iron | The Current

YouTube video by CBC News

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

Bernie Sanders gets to the podium at 2 hours 15 minutes. In 25 minutes, indicts DT's crimes against democracy, the cowardice of GOP in Congress and the excessive greed of billionaires. Say Dems had to refuse to accept many many millions of Americans losing healthcare. Calls on GOP to negotiate now.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

Next, Leah Greenberg, Indivisible (a national movement). Starts 2 hours, :03 minutes

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

Followed by Keya Chatterjee of Free DC. [The District of Columbia does not have even one voting member of Congress representing their interests! They have a non-voting representative in the House - for more than 702,00 people. More than Vermont or Wyoming]

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

A little farther along, Nee Nee Taylor, activist with Harriet's Wildest Dreams, an organization demanding DC statehood. She starts at 1 hour 47 minutes. Very cogent on the discrimination against DC in voting rights being based on its black population.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

Who is followed by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

He is followed by Ai-Jen Poo, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

She is followed by Bill Nye, giving one of the best and most coherent speeches of the rally.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings Day rally in Washington DC. A highlight. Scroll ahead to 1 hour 12 minutes to hear Afeni Evans, community organizer with the Fair Budget Coalition in DC: www.facebook.com/reel/7992999...

64K views | Reel by The David Pakman Show

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

Gender bias in Artificial Intelligence - 2 screenshots of what turned up from something called Copilot Search.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

She had to suffer being honoured afterwards by Mussolini!

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

1926 winner of the Nobel prize for literature.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Nobel Prize in Literature 1926

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 was awarded to Grazia Deledda "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy ...

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 2d

Liat spent 54 days in captivity, and her husband was killed. She came out and immediately said, ‘I don’t want a single person in Gaza to be harmed or killed in retribution for what happened to my family.’ variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Israeli Hostage Survivor and Subject of Doc ‘Holding Liat’ on Recent Hostage Release: ‘After a War of This Scale We Can’t Have Things Go Back to What They Were’

Israeli hostage survivor Liat Beinin Atzili, subject of the documentary 'Holding Liat,' talks about the recent hostage releases.

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