The Jeff Farias Show

Wednesday, March 4 2009

At 4:30 Mark Bromley, Chair of Council for Global Equality, helped launch the Council to encourage a clearer and stronger American voice on international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights concerns. Mr. Bromley previously worked for more than eleven years at Global Rights, where he served in various program management positions. During his tenure at Global Rights, he coordinated donor relations and helped open field offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Morocco, Nigeria and India. In 2005, he launched an organization-wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Initiative. http://www.globalequality.org/

At 5:30 Jaclyn Friedman -Center for New Words - Where Women’s Words Matter The Center for New Words is dedicated to a simple mission: To use the power and creativity of words and ideas to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society. CNW programs support diverse communities of women as we engage with the written and spoken word in all of its expressions, from reading to blogging to creative writing to theater and performance to opinion-making in the media. We welcome everyone who believes in the power of women’s words to come to our events and participate in our programs. Everyone is welcome, regardless of age, gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion or sexuality. We especially welcome those of us whose voices are often silenced or ignored, including women of color, poor and working class women, women with disabilities, lesbians, bisexual women, genderqueers, and transpeople (both MTF and FTM). Built on 28 years of experience running New Words Bookstore, the Center for New Words nurtures women’s culture, confidence, and public voice. Together with you, our friends and supporters, CNW is working to make the spaces and places where women’s words matter a much larger part of everyone’s world. http://www.centerfornewwords.org find her book here http://www.yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com

At 6:30 Alanna Mitchell International Institute for Sustainable Development. Alanna is a strategic communications expert who specializes in translating science into narrative. Her latest book, “Sea Sick” is the first book to examine the current state of the world’s oceans — the great unexamined ecological crisis of the planet — and the fact that we are altering everything about them; temperature, salinity, acidity, ice cover, volume, circulation, and, of course, the life within them. All life — whether on land or in the sea — depends on the oceans for two things: • Oxygen. Most of Earth’s oxygen is produced by phytoplankton in the sea. These humble, one-celled organisms, rather than the spectacular rain forests, are the true lungs of the planet. • Climate control. Our climate is regulated by the ocean’s currents, winds, and water-cycle activity. http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/displ … 0771061165 http://www.alannamitchell.com/ http://www.walrusmagazine.com/author/alanna-mitchell/ http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532003.html

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