Monday, July 29, 2019: Women's Magazine Fund Drive, Month of Momentum to Close the Camps starts Thursday Aug 1

Dear all,

It's that time again - seems like a constant refrain, I know. KPFA's on-air summer fund drive is in full swing, and the theme is 1969. There has been some great programming looking back at that fateful year - the occupation of Alcatraz, the Battle for People's Park, Stonewall - featuring archival audio that has not been heard for many years.

Unfortunately, the fundraising has been sluggish, and that means we may have to extend this drive beyond this week. We don't want that and I know you don't either. So if you yesterday's show, you can still call 1-800-439-5732 or donate securely online at www.kpfa.org and don't forget to mention how much you appreciate KPFA Women's Magazine.

We replay an interview some of you may have heard previously with Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest US park ranger and the face of the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond, CA. Betty is now 97 and still going strong; she's just released an album featuring songs she wrote in the 1960s. One of those songs is on the show. Even if you heard the interview before, I recommend tuning in and listening again. As I listened to it today, I found it just as inspiring and informative as I did the first time I heard it. She has such a unique voice.

Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min

We are offering Betty's book, Sign My Name to Freedom, as a thank you gift for your donation of $150 or more, but there are also tons of other thank you gifts available on our website kpfa.org. If you've admired my cool hoodie, those are also available.  But even if you can only give $10 or $25, it is worth it! $25 or more makes you a member and gives you the right to vote in board elections and help to determine the future direction of the station. And second, it helps keep us on the air and lets station management know that you value our show.

So if you can and haven't donated in a while, become a KPFA member. Call 1-800-439-5732 or go to kpfa.org/donate.

Thanks so much for all your support.

Kate

P.S. I'm also involved in organizing the Month of Momentum: 31 days of action to Close the Camps which kicks off on Thursday. In just over a week, we have pulled together a month of actions at the ICE Building in San Francisco (630 Sansome), every day from noon to 1 pm, each day organized by a different organization or community. Climate justice activists, drummers, public health workers, librarians, tenants and housing activists, comedians, lawyers & legal workers, restaurant & bar workers, even journalists!  Come out, come out - check out the calendar to see what's happening each day and come whenever you can!

Monday, June 3, 2019: Women and The Blues

Memphis Minnie

KPFA Women's Magazine presents an hour of Black women's music and history featuring Minnie Memphis, Josephine Baker and more. Today's show is hosted by Safi wa Nairobi. Listen now (59:50 min) and stay tuned for a special guest interview with Jenny Scheinman who will be appearing tonight, June 4th at the Freight and Salvage.

Monday, July 24, 2017: Amazing women’s rights activist, Heather Booth

Extraordinary Women Changing the World

On Monday July 24th on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to two amazing and influential women’s rights activist who unfortunately you probably have never heard of.

First Kate Raphael talks to Lilly Rivlin and Heather Booth about the new documentary called “Heather Booth: Changing the World” which tells the story of one of the most influential women involved in social movements in the U.S in the last half Century. This film will be showing this coming week at the SF Jewish Film Festival.

"People should ask for Jane." -Heather Booth





Listen now or Get MP3 for an extended interview with Heather. 34:56 min

"Heather Booth: Changing the World" screenings:
Thursday, July 27
SF Jewish Film Festival 37
at CineArts Theater, Palo Alto  
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance
12.00 pm
Cinearts
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA

Saturday, July 29
​SF Jewish Film Festival 37
​Albany Twin theater, Albany
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance      
11.30 am​
Albany Twin
1115 Solano Ave.
Albany, CA

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Neesa Medina

Monday, January 18, 2016: Black women at the forefront of feminism

How Black Women Led Birth of N.O.W.

Daisy Bates speaks during the Aug. 23, 1963, March on Washington. Bates, mentor to the Little Rock Nine, was the only woman to speak at the event 50 years ago in which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Source Times Record: Online Edition

In the first part of our show today we’ll listen to a fascinating history put together by Fran Luck of WBAI’s Joy of Resistance for Sprouts, a national weekly program.  Luck tells the story of how black women activists, frustrated by being shut out of the 1963 March on Washington, led the charge to form the National Organization for Women.

Then Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender.  She also talks about Black Lives Matter, why it’s rewriting 2016 and why it’s important that so many of its leaders are women.

Listen now. 59:50 min.

Monday, November 23, 2015: Eliminating Violence Against Women; New Book About Rosa Parks

Oranging the World to Eliminate Violence Against Women

Today we talk to Nanette Braun from the UN Women about the plans for the 2015 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Violence against Women continues to be a global pandemic. 35% of women and girls globally experience some form of physical and or sexual violence in their lifetime. An estimated 133 million girls and women have experienced some form of genital mutilation or cutting and in the U.S one in five  women are victims of violence. Yet violence against women is not inevitable and that is why prevention is the theme of the 2015 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th. And running through December 10th the UNITE to End Violence Against Women Campaign calls for 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence to raise public awareness and mobilize people to bring about change.

Who is the real Rosa Parks?

And on the 60th year anniversary of the Montgomery Boycotts, we talk to Professor Jeanne Theoharis, who discusses her book "The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks" which provides a much need corrective to the common misrepresentation of the civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, who is often portrayed as a quiet church woman who single-handedly created a movement, a narrative which leaves out Parks life long commitment to activism, how changes happens through collective struggle and not by the actions of one singular person and  reinforces the idea that we live in a post racial society.

The book is available at your local bookstore and online at Penguin-Random House and Amazon.









Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min.

Monday, January 19, 2015: Women's Magazine Honors MLK. Vylma V and Lisa Detmer host a live call in show.

What it means to be feminist:

Today Jan 19th 2015, on Women's Magazine we honor Martin Luther King Jr Day by hearing from a couple of women who are participating in the Oakland march Reclaiming King's Legacy: A Jobs & Economy March for the People. Thousands marched from the Fruitvale BART station to Coliseum BART station. We got an update from Needa, a member of the Anti-Police Terrorism Project, one of the main groups organizing the 96 hours of marches and actions across the U.S and the Bay Area dedicated  to Reclaim MLK Day. And from Kate Raphael of Women's Magazine. And in the second half of the show we heard from Angela Wellman,Vylma Ortiz and lisa Dettmer as well as other members of Women's Magazine on their thoughts on feminism and why a show like women's magazine is important.

Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.