November 2009

Women's Radio Group is a training and networking charity for women interested in radio.

Current activities include:
# 'PEARLS' training course for women in West London
- the current course runs from September - December 2009
- the next course will be recruiting shortly, to start in the Spring 2010. Please watch this space for details.
- to listen to the work of trainees on earlier PEARLS courses (2007-2009) please click here, http://www.desiradio-panjabicentre.org.uk/PEARLS/index.htm

# WRG monthly broadcasts:

Trouble and Strife was an independent radical feminist magazine published in Britain from 1983 to 2002 (as an English language sister-publication to the French journal Nouvelles questions féministes).

This new book, edited and with an introduction by former editorial
collective members Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon, collects together 30 of the best articles that appeared in the magazine, and also reproduces some of the cartoons which were one of its distinctive features. It contains sections on 'Controversies', 'Sexuality',
'Theory', 'History', and 'Culture'. Contributors include Dena Attar, Deborah Cameron, Christine Delphy, Stevi Jackson, Liz Kelly, Sigrid Rausing and Purna Sen.

"Scranton's first Ladyfest celebration on Friday, July 24, is much more than it seems. The festival has grown from a celebration of women to a festival to celebrate the entire region, according to event organizer Jessica Meoni." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOX53bxB8tw)

Anne Bitsch, born in 1978, currently lives in Oslo, Norway, where she is currently working as a programme adviser for Forum for Women and Development (FOKUS), is engaged as the theme coordinator in the Norwegian Amnesty International Campaign ‘Stopp vold mot kvinner’ (‘Stop violence towards women’) as well as writing on a free lance basis for various media such as Aftenposten, the weekly news magazine Ny Tid, the Norwegian feminist magazine Fett, Aftenposten. Since recently, she is also writing column for Dagsavisen.