FM July 16, 2025: Mutual Aid / Operation Healthy Hearts

THIS WEEK on FemMag with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: Last month, a few days after the ICE kidnappings began in Los Angeles, rightwing media including Fox News and the NY Post reported that “ Leftwing nonprofit groups are openly helping to fuel anti-ICE riots in LA”.  Among the groups they attacked for sharing PPE kits was Operation Healthy Hearts (OHH) – which is in fact a grassroots mutual aid organization based in Hacienda Heights. We talk to Operation Healthy Hearts founder Jackie Villalta...

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FM Oct 20 : ‘Moth...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … The new documentary film Mothers of the Revolution takes us back to the Reagan / Thatcher era, and tells the story of how thousands of women from around the world came together at Greenham Common in...

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FM Oct 13: Indigenous ...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: This week began with Indigenous People’s Day… (and let’s not forget that Monday was also National Coming Out Day for folks in the LGBTQ communities.) But, on this show we’re bringing you Indigenous Feminist stories...

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FM Sept 29 : A Black Wo...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen : FIRST … Don’t you want to know a more complete—and more truthful—story about the ways Black Women have helped build this country? In their new book, ‘A Black Women’s History of the United States’, historians...

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FM Sept 22: ReproJustic...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen : The first weekend in October is going to be an important weekend of action and marches for Reproductive Justice! Two groups of Feminist organizers are organizing actions around the country – The Women’s March...

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• FM July 16, 2025: Mutual Aid / Operation Healthy Hearts
• FM July 2, 2025: Where Women Made History
• FM Sept 25, 2024: Bridges Across Homelands / She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
• FM Aug 11, 2024 : Gender Liberation March / Election Security
• FM July 17, 2024 : MeToo & Christine Blasey Ford / Revolutionary Mothering
• FM June 5, 2024:: Conscious Style Guide / Self Care for Activists
• FM May 28. 2024 :: Frida in America / Healing from Military Trauma
• FM April 3, 2024:: Land Liberation & Homefulness / “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”

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