Episodes

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June 17, 2018

Grandmothers Rocking Solidarity Not Charity!

Welcome to Grandmothers on the Move! I’m your host, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, and today's topic is particularly close to my heart. I am thrilled to introduce you to the remarkable Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign. In this episode we hear from 3 grandmothers in Canada who are part of a growing global movement of Grandmothers - over 10,000 of them - working to support strong, determined African grandmothers who are raising millions of grandchildren orphaned by AIDS. My involvement in this Grandm...
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May 27, 2018

GRANDMOTHERS' ACTIVISM: STRENGTH BEYOND MEASURE

Hi, I’m Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, your host of "Grandmothers On The Move", the podcast that kicks old stereotypes to the curb! Come meet these creative, outrageous, authentic, adventurous, irreverent and powerful Disrupters and Influencers. In this Episode, I have the great pleasure of speaking to a lifelong activist and champion of women's human rights, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Indai Sajor shares the story of her work with and respect for the courage and fortitude of the 'Com...
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May 20, 2018

Fracking Turned Me Into An Activist

Welcome to Grandmothers on the Move! I’m your host, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, and in this Episode, I speak to a grandmother who became an activist, surprising even herself! Gillian Kelly is a psychotherapist, and a warm, insightful grandmother who decided to take action to protest fracking…and got arrested for it! Grandmothers are grounded, says Gillian – it takes all of us to make the planet safe. Grandmothers – from the living room to the courtroom – making powerful contributions in every walk of...
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May 12, 2018

Turning Pain into Power-for-Change One Chessboard at a Time

Welcome to Grandmothers on the Move! I'm your host, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, and today I was touched and inspired by my conversation with Ms Raydell Lacey, a grandmother - and great-grandmother! - in Chicago, who started a remarkable initiative - Not Before My Parents. She expanded it to include Chess Moves against Violence... I call this Turning Pain into Power-for-Change One Chessboard at a Time. This is a Super-Grandmother on a mission to make her community safer for its children. Grandmothers ...
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May 6, 2018

There Is An Optimism In Survival

Welcome to Wisdom at Work: Older Women, Elderwomen and Grandmothers on the Move! I'm your host, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, and today - the inaugural episode of this podcast, I am interviewing a special guest - My Mother - feminist journalist and activist, Michele Landsberg. My mother, my mentor, the epitome of courage, the grandmother who inspired my deep desire to explore grandmotherhood and the power of older women-in-action, and the Mama who taught me that the personal is political! Grandmothers ...
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March 5, 2018

What No One's Talking About

Hi, I’m Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, your host of "Wisdom at Work" (formerly titled "Grandmothers On The Move"), the podcast that kicks old stereotypes to the curb! Come meet these creative, outrageous, authentic, adventurous, irreverent and powerful Disrupters and Influencers. Grandmothers – from the living room to the courtroom – making powerful contributions in every walk of life. We know them most intimately as loving caregivers, the older women in our lives with a thousand stories about their gra...