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This Spoken Word Recording

from It Isn't All That We Do by No Strings

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Intro by Harriette Wagner
Music by tulkinghorn + George Frideric Handel

(image by Valentina Harper + Harriette Wagner)

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This spoken word recording is a collection of personal musings and letters to the editor of The Fresno Bee, most of which ran in the paper. They were written under my then-name, Harriette Susan Ramos. The issue was primarily women's rights but included other progressive concerns. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s I was heavily committed to political activism and for some of that period I served on Fresno's Commission On The Status of Women, was president of Fresno NOW (the National Organization for Women), served on California's NOW's Executive Board and volunteered as a counselor at the Marjorie Mason Shelter for victims of domestic violence. I participated in protest marches, spoke to women's groups and classrooms, did media interviews, lobbied politicians, spoke against anti-woman legislation, wrote and performed political songs at rallies and conferences, traveled to and lobbied in states that had not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and generally worked for gender equality along with other progressive causes. Learning to rise above patriarchal oppression was more difficult than I anticipated.and the struggle continues. Believing in a vision of a world in which women are valued as fully as are men keeps me going.

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from It Isn't All That We Do, released December 13, 2019

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No Strings is a Mother/Son duo recording a wide variety of original songs, jazz standards, rock/pop/country/folk songs + spoken word presentations.

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