Monday, November 27, 2017: Alicia Garza

photo by Kristen Little Photography

Alicia Garza along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, have helped to transform what was once a viral hashtag and social media force into a national and international grassroots  organization. Born out of the mass demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri and around the U.S. Black Lives Matter has become an essential ray of hope in this new wave of resistance to police terrorism, and in the fight against white supremacy becoming an important beacon for change in the global human rights movement.  Today we will hear a talk by Alicia Garza given at U.C. Berkeley recently about the importance of feminism,  especially black feminism the need for all politics to be intersectional, and about BLM today and the urgent need to fight threats ranging from fascism and extra-judicial racial terror to white supremacy. This event was sponsored by the Gender and Women’s Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

The talk is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCxFABGkPw

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Monday, December 8, 2014: We pay tribute to the Power of African American Women of the Civil Rights era.

It's Pledge Drive time again. If you haven't already, please donate to KPFA and Women's Magazine. Thanks!

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We pay  tribute to the Power of African American Women of the Civil Rights era.  While we mourn the death of black bodies killed by police we remember how our foremothers also experienced police violence and stood up against the horror of racism.  For fund drive we offer a historical audio package of the voices of powerful women activists of the 60s like  Rosa Parks, speaking out about her arrest,  Fannie Lou Hammer talking about her surviving police brutality and her pursuit for justice against her assailants, and  Corretta Scott King speaking out three weeks after Dr. King's assassination; just three of the amazing voices of our foremothers available to you on a 3 CD or 9 CD MP3 collection.

Free Marissa Alexander

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Click here to listen to entire show that also features an interview with Nell Myhand and Zanne Joi who talk about Marissa Alexander's unjust conviction for defending herself against her batterer. She is serving a 60 year sentence for an indictment for which she has not been convicted. Come to an teach in and direct action planning to free Marissa on Sunday December 14 from 1-4 at the Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kitteridge in the meeting room on the 3rd floor. For more info phone 510-543-5280 or email freemarissaeastbay@gmail.org. 59:50 min.

Monday, November 24, 2014: TELL NO LIES

"Fiction is the truest truth."

Women's Magazine talks with author Barbara Rhine about her new novel, TELL NO LIES.  It's the story of a Black militant on the run, a Berkeley feminist and a UFW organizer in the midst of planning the largest farm worker march in the country's history.

TELL NO LIES is available at local bookstores, on-line, and at Amazon.com on paper and for electronic readers.





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Also on today's show:

Women In Black

Leslie Feinberg