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 20: Cosby Injus...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine – with hosts Lynn Harris Ballen and Karina Elias : FIRST … Rape culture is alive and well, and the recent news of a hung jury mistrial for Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault of Andrea Constand has been called an ‘injustice for all women”....

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FM June 13: Black Women...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine – with hosts Lynn Harris Ballen and Karina Elias : FIRST … Black girls and women are magic, and through their work, entrepreneurship, caregiving, political participation, and more, Black women are creating opportunities and improving the our...

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FM June 6: Science Wome...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine-with host Karina Elias : FIRST… Cherise Charleswell talks with the Director of Research and Analysis at The Association for Women in Science, Heather Metcalf, about advancing women in technology and science. How do women enter into leadership roles...

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FM May 23: Freedom Drea...

This week on Feminist Magazine with hosts Lynn Harris Ballen & Karina Elias : “Progressive social movements … enable us to imagine a new society.” FREEDOM DREAMS: A Transnational Musical Dialogue is coming to LA, with performances by Ana Tijoux + Shadia Mansour +...

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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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