Podcast feedCamden Councillor Angela Mason talks to CCRadio about Universal Credit
Angela Mason, Camden Councillor and lead on matters concerning children and families, talked with Camden Community Radio about her concerns re the roll out of the Government’s policy of Universal Credit to Camden.
All new claims for Child Tax Credit, Housing Benefit, Income Support, Income-based JobSeekers Allowance, Income-related Employment & Support Allowance and working tax credit will be replaced by Universal Credit and claims will have to be made online rather than in person.
In 2019, all Housing benefit claims, excluding those of pensioners are to be replaced by Universal credit. Early rollout of the scheme suggests that it will drive people into deeper poverty and great hardship.
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Interview with Sharon Sexton, star of 'A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary'
April 24th is the official one hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Commemorations are already underway to mark the week hundreds of people, mostly in Dublin, rose up to fight against British rule. After six days the struggle ended in an unconditional surrender. The seven men who planned the revolt were executed. But knowing that might be their fate they’d already chosen someone to carry on their work: Kathleen Clarke was the wife of one of their number, Thomas Clarke.
She was under strict instructions to stay home, guard the secrets, look out for the welfare of the fighters’ families and keep the flame burning.
What Kathleen endured during those days has been dramatised by Irish actress Sharon Sexton. She’s performing her one woman play “A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary” at the London Irish Centre in Camden Square from the 29th of March until the 2nd of April.
Sharon has appeared in London in The Commitments and is currently in Billy Elliott. She’s hoping to take her play around Britain and to Ireland later in the year. Sharon was keen to look at the role taken by women in the Rising, which has often been overlooked. She originally planned to follow a number of stories but as her research progressed she found there was just so much to say about Kathleen Clarke’s life that she had to focus on her. Catherine Carroll asked Sharon to describe the subject of her play.
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Women Media Professionals from around the world
Nine podcasts were made as part of the International Media Training Day for women, held in London on 25th & 26th April 2012 – organised by Frauen Solidaritaet and Central American Women’s Network, with Camden Community Radio.
Here 3 women media professionals talk about their work. Hazel Dewan from Puntos De Encuentro, in Nicaragua tells of a TV soap that marries comedy and love themes with tackling underlying social problems among young people. Spanish with English interpretation.
Beatrice from Spain explains the work of Young Women Rights (FMJ) to challenge gender based violence among teenage couples and a film they have made to raise issues
Pria from Jeeran talks about a film project to raise awareness on the taboo subject in the Asian community of preference for boys over girls, which leads, among other things to elective abortion of female pregnancies.
There are links to each of the other podcasts, links related to this podcast and links related to the training programme organisers.
- Rani on Jeena International
- Nbecco & Joanna
- Helga and Ishrat
- Yula Burin on the Feminist Library
- Rani Bilkhu, founder of Jeena International talks with Lisa Giessauf
- Betti interviews Thabisa Bobo, a Public Educator in South Africa
- Violence Against Women in Latin America
- Against criminalisation of emergency contraception in Honduras
- Puntos De Encuentro
- Jeena International
- Central American Womens Network
- Frauen Solidaritaet
- Back to Camden Community Radio
- Follow Camden Community Radio
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Working to Stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kenya, Somalia & London
The World Health Organisation and the United Nations agree that the practice of FGM infringes the human rights of over 100 million girls and women, endangers their health and risks damage to babies during childbirth. Maasai Woman, Agnes Pareiyo, who was in London recently, is working to eradicate the practice of FGM in Kenya through the Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative. Asha-Kin Duale, came to London as a refugee from Somalia in the 1990s, is a long term campaigner to end the practice among Somalis and works as a Community Partnership Adviser. Talking to ccradio’s Marian Larragy, they trace the way the practice fits into local belief systems in each country and discuss legal and social strategies to combat it. Editing by Christina Moore. Click on links for more information.
- Camden Community Partnership Advisor
- London Child Protection Project
- World Health Organisation
- on FGM
- FORWARD
- The Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development
- Work in the UK
- Community groups working to combat FGM
- Tasaru Ntomonok initiative
- Gets funding from 'V' Day
- Tasaru Ntomonok initiative
- Without The Cut
- Tasaru girls in Narok District about FGM on U-Tube
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Advice on FGM
- Camden Community Radio
- back to homepage
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