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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Aug 6 on FM: Justice 4 ...

Hosted by Sammy Lyon and Danielle Roderick: Yes there was grieving, and there was also organizing! We’ll hear from organizers, scholars, and feminists Analena Hope and Kai M Green on the Justice 4 Trayvon Martin (#J4TMLA) and Black Lives Matter (#blacklivesmatter) campaigns, and...

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July 30 on FM: Justice ...

Hosted by Sammy Lyon, Ariana Manov & Danielle Roderick:   Justice for My Sister, a compelling documentary on the search for justice in Guatemala, is the centerpiece of a three-prong holistic campaign to educate and support immigrant women to stop domestic violence. The film...

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July 23 on FM: Know You...

Hosted by Lynn Harris Ballen, Ariana Manov & Danielle Roderick:    First, University of Southern California student Tucker Reed and other members of SCAR – the Student Coalition Against Rape – join us in studio to talk about their recent Title IX filing success....

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July 16 on FM: Prison S...

Hosted by Lynn Harris Ballen, Ariana Manov & Danielle Roderick  : An investigative report just broke the story that at least 150 women were illegally sterilized in two California prisons between 2006 and 2010. We’ll be interviewing Cynthia Chandler the founder of Justice Now...

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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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