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 June 1, 2022 : Toget...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST …  More children die in the US from gun violence than any other reason. We talk to Patti Giggans, the Executive Director of Peace Over Violence, about Actions Over Gun Violence – what she calls the...

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FM May 24, 2022: CHOICE...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen : – Kate Jessica Raphael talks about Choice After Roe.  With guests Vylma V, activist, attorney, radio producer;  Laura Weide Vyda, long-time pleasure and repro-justice activist, early and long-time member of Bay...

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FM May 11, 2022 : After...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen FIRST…  ACCESS Reproductive Justice is California’s only statewide abortion fund, removing barriers that exist – even in a state with strong reproductive rights. We talk to Executive Director Jessica...

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FM April 27, 2022: Sima...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … Sehba Sarwar talks to Sima Samar, the former Minister for Women’s Affair of Afghanistan, about the current situation for Afghan women in education, health, and the global landscape. We hear how Samar’s...

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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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