Women Rising Radio
For 18 years Women Rising Radio aired on 150 NPR, college, community and Pacifica radio stations in the USA, and also abroad. We profile visionary women in leadership across the world, for all the critical issues: Democracy and civil society, ecology and sustainability, human, women’s and children’s rights, freedoms of speech and religion… we are giving powerful women and girls the platform to shape the world the way we wish to see it. We are embarking on our new adventure in internet radio – and are happy to play on Progressive Radio Network!
For 18 years Women Rising Radio aired on 150 NPR, college, community and Pacifica radio stations in the USA, and also abroad. We profile visionary women in leadership across the world, for all the critical issues: Democracy and civil society, ecology and sustainability, human, women’s and children’s rights, freedoms of speech and religion… we are giving powerful women and girls the platform to shape the world the way we wish to see it. We are embarking on our new adventure in internet radio – and are happy to play on Progressive Radio Network!
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Episodes

Jan 13, 2026

Jan 6, 2026
Jan 6, 2026
59 min
Women Rising Radio looks at the proliferation of U.S. military bases worldwide, and talks with anti-war activists from the U.S., Brazil, and South Korea.

Dec 16, 2025
Dec 16, 2025
56 min
Women Rising Radio examines both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy plants, with experts from around the world.

Dec 3, 2025
Dec 3, 2025
59 min
Women Rising Radio looks at the dangers of AI technology. Then we revisit the catastrophe unfolding because of Trump regime policy on immigration.

Jun 15, 2025
Jun 15, 2025
29 min
Profiling powerful women leaders whose work is grounded in empathy.
They weigh in on the contempt for empathy in politics and policy worldwide.

Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
29 min
We meet Andra Watkins, who grew up in Televangelist Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority movement, and managed to escape. Andra has taken a deep dive into the Project 2025 manifesto and says it’s a Christo-fascist plan for ruining the US, and women in particular.

Jun 17, 2024
Jun 17, 2024
30 min
Women Rising Radio #47 is Part Two of a two-part series on the trouble in Israel-Palestine. We profile two physicians who have worked in Gaza. Alice Rothchild is an American MD who helped to build a new state-of-the-art facility for the Gaza Community Mental Programme. Ola Ziaro is a Gazan MD who has worked as a pediatrician and neonatal specialist.

Jun 4, 2024
Jun 4, 2024
31 min
This is Part One of a two-part program featuring women leaders grappling with the horrible conflict in Israel-Palestine. In this program we visit with two leaders of the world-renowned peace community in Israel, Wahat al Salaam-Neve Shalom, Oasis of Peace in English. We learn how the community is dealing with the brutal violence that began October 7 2023 and has continued for months.

Jun 4, 2024
Jun 4, 2024
32 min
Across the world, the United States has over 800 military bases, lily pads, installations, whatever you want to call them. And resistance to US military presence is growing. We speak with leaders spearheading movements to rein in and stop US military expansion.

Jan 3, 2023
Jan 3, 2023
29 min
Three indigenous North American leaders present the idea of Rematriation, at a time when mass graves of Native children are being unearthed on the grounds of what were hundreds of “residential schools” that were designed to destroy the identity, beliefs and morale of those children. Louise Mama Bear Herne, Michelle Schenandoah and Katsitsionni Fox report on their encounter with the Vatican and its patriarchal rule, and describe a worldwide movement toward reinstating women’s political, social and spiritual power.

