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Show Notes:
In this episode, Asha Dahya and Monica Morales Garcia share an exciting update about the Green Tide Rising podcast series, illuminating the Green Wave movement in Latin America. Asha and Monica explore their roles in this groundbreaking series that sheds light on the fight for reproductive rights and progressive abortion policies across Latin America. The conversation shares powerful stories that motivated this widespread feminist activism against oppressive regimes. Green Tide Rising amplifies the Green Wave message and serves as both a warning and a blueprint for protecting women’s lives and advancing reproductive freedoms in the U.S. and globally, emphasizing the critical importance of storytelling in advocating for change.
About Asha Dahya:
Asha is an Emmy-nominated Producer, writer, TEDx speaker and storyteller. She has spent the last 18 years creating, producing and hosting content for networks and organizations such as MTV, MSN.com, Disney, ABC, CW Network, PBS, Nickelodeon, FOX, the ACLU, Snapchat, and more. Asha is the founder of a daily feminist blog site called GirlTalkHQ.com, and the author of Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing The World, featuring inspirational stories of 50 women and girls. She received an Emmy Nomination for her work on “My Name is Siri,” a short documentary about Autism awareness that premiered on PBS in 2023. Asha is passionate about reproductive freedom and gender equality, reflected in her recent projects. She directed and produced a short documentary about later abortion called SOMEONE YOU KNOW, which is currently on the film festival circuit and is the Board Chair of the national non-profit Religious Community for Reproductive Choice (RCRC.org).
About Monica Morales-Garcia:
Monica is an audio journalist, fact-checker, and fashion scholar from Santa Ana, California. She began her audio career as a Fellow at Latino USA, producing stories on underrepresented Latina romance writers and the working-class history of the Little Black Dress. She then went on to work at WNYC’s national daily news show, The Takeaway. Covering everything from El Salvador’s politics to the U.S.’s maternal mortality rate and even the global history of the color pink. You can also catch their work on the public radio show Our Body Politic, and Futuro Media’s political podcast, In The Thick. Monica has a Master of Arts in American Studies from California State University, Fullerton, and received her bachelor’s from Long Beach State.
About Green Tide Rising:
Asha and Monica are behind GREEN TIDE RISING (GTR), an eight-episode audio and video series that spotlights Latin America’s Green Wave movement and how it’s shaping some of the most progressive abortion policies in the world.
Through the eyes of feminist lawyer and reproductive rights advocate Ximena Casas Isaza, we meet the people who have turned the fight for reproductive justice in Latin America and the Caribbean into a powerful, modern feminist movement – from the tip of Argentina all the way to Mexico and beyond.
The series speaks directly to two of the fastest growing demographics of new voters in America – Latines and Gen Z – meeting them where they are: audio platforms (Apple, Spotify), and short form video platforms (TikTok, YouTube and Instagram). Their strategic outreach focuses especially on audiences living in states with restrictive laws and upcoming abortion ballot measures. Polling experts predict that Latine voters are going to have a big impact on the outcome of the election in 2024, especially in these areas.
Green Tide Rising positions the Global South as a beacon of hope and a reminder of what’s at stake for the Global North if we don’t act now.
Episode Timestamp:
[00:01:05] – Introduction of Asha Dahya and Monica Morales Garcia, their backgrounds, and their work on “Green Tide Rising.”
[00:02:42] – Asha talks about her journey, her work in media, and her role in storytelling.
[00:04:39] – Monica introduces herself and discusses her focus on marginalized communities.
[00:05:41] – Explanation of the Green Tide Rising series and its connection to the Green Wave Movement.
[00:07:02] – Discussion on how the movement has influenced abortion rights in Latin America.
[00:09:56] – Dr. Nancy O’Reilly expresses concern about the recent restrictions on reproductive rights in the U.S. and what we can learn from the Green Wave Movement.
[00:13:14] – Monica shares a powerful story about Tiago Ravazquez and her experiences in El Salvador where she was unfairly imprisoned for the loss of her child while in labor alone at her workplace.
[00:24:34] – Discussion on how reproductive rights restrictions affect the economy and impact people’s decisions of where they choose to live and work.
[00:26:30] – Information on how to support the Green Tide Rising series and get involved.