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 Aug 21: Aretha / Una...

  THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with co-hosts Lynn Harris Ballen & Kiyana Williams :: FIRST … The world lost one of the greatest singers of all time last week, when musical genius Aretha Franklin passed away at the age of 76.   But Aretha also used song –...

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FM July 31: Elle Stange...

This week on Feminist Magazine with host Karina Elias — FIRST… Karina Elias spoke with sex worker, writer, mother and host of Strange Bedfellows Elle Stanger about the dangers and ramifications of FOSTA-SESTA.   FOSTA-SESTA are two pieces of legislation aimed at curbing...

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FM July 24: Grannies Re...

  THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with co-hosts Lynn Harris Ballen & Ande Richards :: FIRST… Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden is a movement of grandmothers and allies taking action in response to the humanitarian crisis on our southern border. What began as a small...

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FM July 17: City Women ...

  THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with co-hosts Lynn Harris Ballen & Karina Elias :: FIRST … Next month the LA City Commission on the Status of Women (LACSW) & the Mayor’s office will be co-hosting the 48th Annual Conference of the National Association of Commissions...

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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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