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 Nov 3: Fight Voter ...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … It’s election day. Finally! And this has already become one of the most contested elections in US history. Salima Hamirani from Making Contact takes a look at how race and voter suppression are playing...

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FM Sept 29: Domestic Vi...

 THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. How is the COVID-19 lockdown making it worse? Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches — intimate partners, children, and elders.  Monica Lopez of Making...

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FM Sept 22: Spread The...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen – we’re all about Voting: FIRST … we talk to Kat Calvin, founder of Spread The Vote about their voter education programs that aim to close the gap between registered voters and voter turnout. About 5 in...

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FM Sept 15: Self Care ...

 THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST – How do activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles take care of their mental health?  People who work in the service of others are particularly at risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. ...

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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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