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Live from Salem Mass for Halloween with Gloria Steinem - Scholars, WITCHES, and other Freedom Fighters - MPFree Monday

Free Download to celebrate Halloween! An altogether vibrant, intellectual and passionate talk originally given by ms. Steinem in 1993 to celebrate 300th anniversary of the Salem Witch trials. Free today through Wednesday Evening.

Gloria Steinem - Free Download Friday - Scholars, Witches and Other Freedom Fighters

A classic talk by the iconic Gloria Steinem who will be featured in the upcoming special on HBO, "In Her Own Words." This informative and inspirational talk is free thoughout the weekend. Enjoy

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Excerpt from "Witches, Scholars, and Other Freedom Fighters" with Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem offers us this excerpt from her recording “Witches, Scholars and Other Freedom Fighters.”

 

What was true in my day is still far too true now, and so we need scholars who are revolutionaries and who dare to think what we might study if we looked at the world as if everyone mattered, and if we studied each continent in the reality of their existence instead of the political fact of their power, in our view of the world.  In fact by not doing that we are missing a very great deal. Think about what we did not learn about the Native-American cultures.  There are hundreds of sophisticated peoples, yet we are only just discovering how useful to us Native American cultures are that were already in this country before it was “discovered”.  And think about the true source of much of our democratic tradition in this country.  

I doubt very much the immigrants -- the European immigrants who came here -- knew a great deal about ancient Greece.  And in any case, in ancient Greece, only about five people voted.  It was a very limited privilege -- very limited privilege -- and in fact the source of our knowledge about democracy really came from the Native American cultures that were already here. We learned the structure of our government from the Iroquois confederacy. And those wise people advised us and were present in Philadelphia explaining that it was of course possible to allow a high degree of autonomy as they did to various nations.  The Cherokees and others still cede overall umbrella powers in a confederacy. Benjamin Franklin admitted that this is a major source of our democracy in this country, but with condescension: “Well if those savages can do it so can we.”

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Witches, Scholars and Other Freedom Fighters by Gloria Steinem

We are pleased to offer this never before released recording made in Salem, Mass in 1993 in concurrence with the 300th anniversary of The Salem Witch Trials. In this talk, Gloria Steinem puts into social and historical context the role of society in the treatment and mistreatment of women.

In this incredibly enlightening and motivational audio program, Ms. Steinem shines a special and rare focus onto the subject. Timely, timeless and recommended for all genders. “So, I really am looking forward to our discussion together and as you can tell from the title I had given to my speech, "Scholars, Witches and Other Freedom Fighters," … I couldn't resist reflecting on the reasons that both are freedom fighters even though scholars are serene, non-activist, honorable, and respectable and witches are emotional, activist and all-together dishonorable. In other words, the first are masculine in their imagery and the second are feminine in their imagery. But both have a role to play as revolutionaries and freedom fighters for us all.”

Running Time:78 minutes. [Hear Sample on iTunes]

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