On the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s day, Tara Dorabji and Adrienne Lauby interview Grandmother and living legend, Carrie Dann about her life-long work for the sovereignty of the Shoshone Nation, Dolores Huerta co-founder of the United Farm Workers and Diana Buttu, Palestinian lawyer and analyst on the role of women in the uprisings across Arab lands, March 8, 2011.
On the Morning Mix, Tara Dorabji and Nora Barrows-Friedman interview Professor Ghada Talhami author of books including “The Mobilization of Muslim Women in Egypt”; Nawal El Saadawi Egyptian novelist, physician, feminist and writer whose books were banned in Egypt; Anjali Kamat, producer with Democracy Now!, reporting on the ground in Cairo; and Zeina Zaatari the Global Fund for Women’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, February 9, 2011
In Group files longshot bid for control of lab, Tara Dorabji is interviewed by Keay Davidson about Tri-Valley CAREs bid to mangage the Livermore nuclear weapons lab. Published in the San Francisco Chronicle on October 8, 2006.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/BAGS3LL5A21.DTL
Telling Your Story a workshop for the After School Leadership Track learning circles for site coordinators – Storytelling is a crucial skill set that helps an audience understand what you do and why you do it. Facilitated this training about refining public speaking techniques and organizational messaging, May 20, 2010.
Integrating Cultural Competency: Strengthening diversity in Your organization & Programs at the 27th annual Statewide After School Conference in Torrance, Ca. Facilitated this dynamic workshop on practical ways to foster cultural competency, celebrate diversity and increase inclusion through hiring, professional development, curriculum, and partnerships, October 17, 2009.
The University of Nuclear Bombs is a documentary by Joshua Ortiz and Mohamed Elsawi that examines the key role of the University of California in designing every weapon in the US nuclear arsenal. Featuring Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Jacqueline Cabasso, Daniel Ellsberg, and Tara Dorabji.
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/university-of-nuclear-bombs/trailer
Tara Dorabji is quoted in opposition to a proposal that would increase nuclear materials at Livermore Lab in Plan to Change Lab Draws Skepticism written by David Perlman for the San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, 2008.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/19/BAD1VMRF5.DTL
Tara Dorabji and Maria Iorillo write about the natural home birth of Tara’s twin daughters in Midwifery Today, 2007
Tara Dorabji writes about her natural home birth of twins on Wise Woman Child Birth Blog.
http://wisewomanchildbirth.blogspot.com/2007/06/ixchel-and-kali.html
On the 61st anniversary of the first atomic bombing, Terra Verde interviews Keiji Tsuchiya, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, who served as a rescue worker in the week immediately following the bombing. Now at age 78 he is Vice President of Okayama A-bomb Sufferers Association. We will also be joined by Tara Dorabji of Tri-Valley CAREs who will talk about nuclear development in the Bay area and the role of companies like Bechtel, which has built more than half of the nuclear facilities in the United States.
Bechtel is partnered with the University of California to manage the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico. The company is also now poised to announce its intent to bid for the management contract of the Livermore nuclear weapons lab. The contract for the Livermore Lab is up for competitive bid for the first time in its 53-year history.