Monday, June 10, 2019: Marie Harrison Fought for Her People

Marie Harrison at SF City Hall

We pay tribute to Marie Harrison, who held down the fight to demand cleanup of the toxic Hunter's Point shipyards and shut down the PG&E plant in Bayview/Hunter's Point for 40 years. Ms.Harrison was a community organizer for Green Action, a candidate for District 10 Supervisor, and a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Bay View.

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Also on today's show:
Preparing for Post-Roe America
Previewing This Year's Queer Film Fest

Monday, October 8, 2018: Family Stories of Resistance and Resilience - Berkeley High School Women's Student Union

Listen to a chat with Simone Ewell-Szabò, one of the co-presidents of Berkeley High School's Women's Student Union.  A video the group produced last week in response to the Kavanaugh hearings has gotten over 20,000 views on YouTube.

The students are holding a festival for International Day of the Girl on Oct 11 at lunch hour across the street from Berkeley High School. There will be big sweeps of paper for people to paint, food and things for sale to raise money for women's shelters in Berkeley, and  tables with women's literature, poems and a place to express your feelings.

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Also on today's show:
Novelist Barbara Artson
Artist Lucia Ippolito

Monday, October 2, 2017: Reem Assil's journey from community organizer to community-based entrepreneur

Craft is the topic on this week's Women's Magazine - "Pushing on when life seems too grim to bear." -Kate Raphael

In the first half hour, Kate Raphael speaks with Reem Assil, who was a community organizer for ten years before deciding that her true passion is food.  Reem started Reem's California, an Arab street corner bakery in Oakland's Fruitvale district, with the help of several community initiatives including the Women's Initiative for Self-Employment, La Cocina and ICA Fund Good Jobs.

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Join us for an hour of warmth and humor with women who are making a difference through culture.

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Also on today's show:
Michelle Cox, J.L. Doucette and Kate Raphael on place-based mysteries

Monday, July 24, 2017: Amazing women’s rights activist, Neesa Medina

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.

Corrine Smith brings us the voice of Neesa Medina, a Honduran women’s rights activist with the women’s rights group Centro de Derechos de Mujeres. They are fighting for women’s basic rights to health, labor and political participation in the face of overwhelming violence. More information also at Witness for Peace.

"We deserve a life without violence." - Neesa Medina

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Also on today's show:
Heather Booth

Monday, June 5, 2017: Black Lives Matter Cofounder Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza from her website https://aliciagarza.com"

"Be mindful that elections are the battlefield on which most people in this country know how to engage." Alicia Garza

For a longer version of Monday's interview with Alicia Garza Get MP3. 40:16 min

In this broadcast on Women's Magazine, we kick off LGBT Pride month with Alicia Garza, Black queer organizer and writer and cofounder of the Black Lives Matter Network and Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Garza offers a nuanced and concrete analysis of the current situation and what we can do to change it.

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Also on today's show:
Giovanna Capone, editor of Dispatches from Lesbian America

Event:

Emily Hobson will talk about and read from her book Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in Gay and Lesbian Left on Thursday, June 22 at 7PM Alley Cat Books on 24th Street in San Francisco.

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