Monday, February 15, 2021: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us

 Women's Magazine host of The Space Between Us

Jovelyn Richards interviews internationally known and acclaimed writer/activist/cultural theorist Judy Grahn.

Judy Grahn takes us into her latest work: Descent to The Roses Of A Family; A Poet's Journey into Anti-Racism and Personal Social Healing. Find the book online, in hardcover,  as an ebook or at your local book store.

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

Knowledge is Power - KPFA Winter Fund Drive

KPFA celebrates Black History featuring the work of Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes in a special gift to everyone who donates to KPFA in our Winter Fund Drive.

Thank you!

Monday, December 23, 2019 - Restoring Maori Land and Cultural Autonomy

As part of her Indigenous Women and the Land series, Women's Magazine host Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu talks to Dr. Ella Henry, a Maori scholar and community leader from New Zealand, about her work with her tribe to get the New Zealand government to return their ancestral homelands. Dr. Henry also discusses the grief and losses that colonial violence created for the Maori and how women are working to promote Maori cultural revitalization and self determination in New Zealand. 
Listen or download (segment ends @41:00)
In the second part of today's show: Peggy McIntosh on the Invisible Knapsack of Privilege

Monday, October 21, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

Today's show in the first half is hosted by Jovelyn and Theresa Adams. Candis Watts Smith co-author with Tehama Lopez Bunyasi of Stay Woke talks with Jovelyn in a pre-recorded interview about Black Lives Matter, staying woke, her writings and her work in developing a more equitable society. Follow Candis on Twitter @ProfCandis.

Get your very own copy of Stay Woke at NYU Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or request it at your local library!

In the second half of the show Kin Folkz and Jovelyn talk with Margo Okasawa-Rey about the book Gendered Lives, Intersectional Perspective, 7th ed. co-edited with Gwyn Kirk.  Who we are in the world or our identities and the structure of power is examined. Also they discuss womanists and feminists and why some Black women have trouble identifying as feminists. This segment was pre-recorded.

The book is available through Oxford Press and as an ebook through Red Shelf.






The Space Between Us is a live call-in show every third Monday of each month on KPFA Women's Magazine.

Click here to listen now. 59:59 min

Monday, March 4, 2019: The Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Available for your pledge of $150

March 4 is the last Women's Magazine show during this fund drive.  Lisa Dettmer speaks with author and scholar Imani Perry about her brand new book, Looking for Lorraine: the
Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which makes use of recently released papers that fill in much of what's been hidden about Hansberry's life, including her Communist party and lesbian writings.

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

If you missed the show on Monday you can still pledge on-line and choose from any of the gifts on our website, or you can donate whatever you can at +1-800-439-5732 (HEY-KPFA).

Thanks so much to all of you who have already supported us this year.  We love you!

Events:

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
7:00 pm-9:00 pm, Friday, March 8
Mills Hall Living Room
Professor Imani Perry will be joining the Mills College and wider Oakland and Bay Area communities to discuss the life of the late Lorraine Hansberry from her book, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Professor Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. She is currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

KPFA Women will also be bringing you 18 hours of International Women's Day programming on Saturday, March 9, from 6:00 am to 12:00 midnight.  Live music, interviews, features, speeches by Angela Davis and others, sound from the Women's Climate Summit.  The full schedule is available now on Facebook.  From 2:00-3:15 pm, Kate Raphael will be curating a show on Socialist Feminism, including a lookback at the first National Socialist Feminist Conference held in 1975 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Don't miss it!

And finally, on Tuesday, March 5, at 6:45 pm we'll present She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Mary Dore's documentary about the Second Wave women's movement, at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland.  Details.

Thanks so much for all your support, and Happy International Women's Day.

Monday, June 4, 2018: Chrystos: Poet in Action

This week on Women's Magazine:

courtesy Poetry Foundation

Chrystos is a Native American of the Menominee nation, born in 1946 and raised in San Francisco. A political activist and speaker as well as an artist and writer, she is self educated. Her tireless momentum is directed at better understanding how issues of colonialism, genocide, class and gender affect the lives of women and Native people.

Her books include Fugitive Colors, Not Vanishing, Dream On, Fire Power and In Her I Am.

In 1995, Queer in Your Ear (Emily Charles & Mary Salome) interviewed Chrystos about her activism and poetry, and recorded her reading at two venues in San Francisco, Luna Sea and Old Wives' Tales. The monthly program Queer in Your Ear was cancelled before the program could air. Chrystos' words continue to inspire us, and we are very happy to bring excerpts from the readings and interview to you for the first time now, decades later.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

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.

Click here to listen to the entire broadcast. 59:50

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.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO DONATED DURING THE RECENT FUND DRIVE. WE LOVE YOU!

Monday, May 15, 2017: L.A. Kauffman about Direct Action

Hi, everyone, if you missed Kate's interview with L.A. Kauffman, author of Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism, on May Day, this is your chance to hear this lively conversation about the nearly forgotten movements of the last forty years.

And even if you heard it, you'll want to tune in because this is a much fuller version of the interview, which went on for over an hour.  We're both deeply steeped in this history and also use it to reflect on the current situation and where to go from here.

"The government won't stop the war. The people will stop the government."

-May Day Action slogan, 1971

This is a fundraising show for Women's Magazine - the first of two this drive, so if you haven't donated in a while, please consider making a donation of any size.  We will be offering L.A. Kauffman's book, Direct Action, for a donation of $90, the interview for $75 and the book and interview combo for $150.  And most importantly, you'll be helping us keep doing programming like this, which is desperately needed in these times (and all times).

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

Click this button for secure donation forms online. Don't forget to mention Women's Magazine in the comment box. Thanks!

Events:

LA KAUFFMAN and CAT BROOKS will be speaking at the 

OAKLAND BOOK FESTIVAL

SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017

Chamber of Commerce at 3:30 PM

SUSAN GRIFFIN IN CONVERSATION WITH KATE RAPHAEL

HOW WAR ERODES AND DESTROYS DEMOCRACIES

Susan Griffin is the author of the feminist classics Woman and Nature and A Chorus of Stones

Sunday, May 21st, 3-5pm

at the Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St., Berkeley (@ Ashby BART Station)

All are welcome, wheelchair accessible, refreshments.

for info: http://wilpfeastbay.org/blog/

Monday, April 13, 2015: Visionary Politics

The Catalyst Project Presents Another World is Possible--Visionary Politics

Lisa Dettmer talks to Issac Lev Szmonko from the Catalyst Project and Patty Berne from Sins Invalid about their talk on April 19th on Visionary politics to imagine and create a world organized and operated by values of cooperation, equity, interdependence, and liberation featuring three amazing women activists, PATTY BERNE, of Sins Invalid, CARLA MARIA PÉREZ, from Movement Generation and INGRID CHAPMAN, from Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice.

Click here to listen to today's show. 59:50 min.

Another World is Possible: Visionary Politics

Sunday April 19th, 1-3pm

Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland

Sliding Scale Donation: $0-$15

**Please read information on accessibility below.** 

If you are interested in volunteering for this event, please email Rachel at bradenintern@collectiveliberation.org.

Visionary politics invite us to imagine and create a world organized and operated by values of cooperation, equity, interdependence, and liberation. This panel will explore how different social movement organizers are experimenting with putting these visions into practice, and also visioning what we can't yet practice.

Please join us for a panel and Q & A with:

PATTY BERNE, Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid

CARLA MARIA PÉREZ, Movement Generation Collective Member & Healing Clinic Collective Lead Coordinator

INGRID CHAPMAN, Executive Director, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ)

ACCESSIBILTY INFO

Sliding scale donation of $0-$15 suggested.

Childcare requests should be made ASAP to Rachel bradenintern@collectiveliberation.org.

Requests for ASL or Spanish interpretation during the event must be made by April 9th to isaac@collectiveliberation.org.

This event's main room is wheelchair accessible. Please note that due to construction, the permanent wheelchair-accessible restroom is out of order. We are providing a portable toilet that is wheelchair-accessible. We know that scents and chemicals can be an issue with porta-potties, so please plan accordingly if needed. We’re so sorry for the inconvenience.

This will be a reduced-scent space and there will be fragrance-free seating area. Please join us in ensuring accessibility for beloved community members with chemical injuries and chronic illness by not bringing fragrances or scents on your clothes, hair, or skin from colognes and perfumes, scented laundry detergent, hair and body products, “natural” products, and essential oils. You can prepare in advance by not using products with fragrance, or by using fragrance-free, non-toxic products. For more info on what this means, visit here.

Panelist Biographies:

PATTY BERNE, Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid

Berne's background includes advocacy for immigrants who seek asylum due to war and torture; community organizing within the Haitian diaspora; international support work for the Guatemalan democratic movement; work with incarcerated youth toward alternatives to the criminal legal system; advocating for LGBTQI community and disability rights perspectives within the field of reproductive and genetic technologies; offering mental health support to survivors of violence; and cultural activism to centralize marginalized voices, particularly those of people with disabilities.

CARLA MARIA PÉREZ, Movement Generation Collective Member & Healing Clinic Collective Lead Coordinator

CARLA M. PÉREZ is a dedicated mother and community organizer of Native Mezo American and Spanish heritage residing in Oakland, California. She has worked on issues of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture & resilience-based organizing with community groups from Yucatán, Mexico to Bay Area communities such as Richmond, East Oakland, Southeast San Francisco and more. Today, as a member of the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project (MG), Carla leads MG’s Resiliency and Permaculture work, including the Earth Skills Training Program. She is also the founder of the Healing Clinic Collective, an autonomous project housed within MG which offers free traditional, non-industrial healing to some of the most traumatized populations in the Bay Area. Carla’s hard work is done in dedication to her daughters, her ancestors and to the Spirit of Creation.

INGRID CHAPMAN, Executive Director, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ)

INGRID CHAPMAN came to Alabama in response to a call for organizing support in the wake of the worst anti-immigrant law in the country, Alabama’s HB 56. Prior to being the Director she worked as ACIJ’s Organizing Director for 2 years building up a strong statewide network of emerging immigrant leaders, grassroots community groups along with civil rights and advocacy organizations. Prior to moving to Alabama, Ingrid served as a dedicated organizer for 16 years in communities across the country. She is a former staff member of the Catalyst Project and co-founder of the Anne Braden Program. Ingrid has spent significant time working with people and building movements in areas hit by crises of institutional racism -- post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, SB 1070 Arizona and now, for the last 3.5 years, building up a movement for immigrant and human rights in Alabama. Ingrid is a carpenter by trade, lover of dancing, rock climbing and life’s beauty. Her commitment to struggle against injustice is driven by her working class roots, deep love and a vision of all people being able to live safe, fulfilling and dignified lives.

Also on today's show:

SF WAR

Women of Impact

Monday, February 9, 2015: Last Chance to Support KPFA Women's Magazine this Pledge Drive

It's not too late to donate to KPFA

Thanks so much! to all of you who stepped up last Monday to support Women's Magazine.  We did very well (maybe not compared to the $38,000 raised by the Grateful Dead marathon, but hey ...).

If you didn't get a chance to pledge but want to, you can do it tomorrow at 1:00 pm and let station management - who really look at these numbers - see that listeners value feminist programming and are willing to pay for it.

Remember that only 1 in 8 people who listen to the station ever contribute.  If we could get that up to just 1 in 5, we could cancel the next two pledge drives.  So tell your friends - #KPFAPassItOn.

Thanks again for all your support.  It means the world to us, because you are why we do this!  Oh, and as far as I know, none of us has ever claimed to be under fire in a helicopter that we were not in.  #NotBrianWilliams #SupportFeministRadio

Kate

This week's show hosted by Vylma V and Vika features an update on Marissa Alexander's case and a speech by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow.

If you missed Monday's show you can click here to listen now.

Thanks for listening and for your support.

Monday, February 2, 2015: New film - She's Beautiful When She's Angry

SHE'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE'S ANGRY

Lisa Dettmer talks to director Mary Dore about her new film, SHE'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE'S ANGRY, a resurrection of the buried history of the women's movement from 1966 to 1971.  An honest and inspiring look at an electric moment in our history, the film does not shy away from controversies over race, sexual preference and leadership.

Film Screenings in the San Francisco / Bay Area listed below:

From February 6th 2015

Opera Plaza Cinema, San Francisco, CA - ONE WEEK ONLY

• Film subjects Alice Wolfson, Roxanne Dunbar-Oritiz, Chude Pamela Allen and Trina Robbins will appear Friday, February 6 for a Q&A following the 7:20pm show.
• Director Mary Dore will appear for a Q&A on Sunday, February 8 following the 2:15pm show, moderated by Dr. Ellen R. Shaffer, Director, Trust Women/Silver Ribbon Campaign.
• Dore will also appear for a Q&A on Sunday, February 8 following the 7:20pm show, moderated by Jamia Wilson, Executive Director of WAM!

Join the Facebook event and invite your friends!

From February 6th 2015

Landmark Shattuck Cinema, Berkeley, CA - ONE WEEK ONLY

• Film subjects Linda Burnham, Fran Beal, Ruth Rosen, Alta and Susan Griffin will appear Friday, February 6 for a Q&A following the 7:05pm show.
• Director Mary Dore will appear Saturday, February 7 for Q&As following the 1:10pm and 7:05pm shows.

Join the Facebook event and invite your friends!

From February 6th 2015

Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA - ONE WEEK ONLY

Join the Facebook event and invite your friends!


Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50 min.
Also on today's show:
Book: Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and Politics of Violence

You can help us continue to bring you unique programming like this by doing three things, or any one of them:

PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT DURING WOMEN'S MAGAZINE

We'll be offering Christina's book as a thank you gift for your donation of $130 to KPFA during this hour.  (If that sounds like a lot, keep in mind that it's just around 35 cents a day!.)  If you can't give that, no worries.  Give what you can.  Remember you can donate completely securely at www.kpfa.org, if that's more convenient than calling 1-800-439-5732 and making your pledge by phone.  If you can't donate during the broadcast, you can do it later (or earlier) online and if you request our premium, it will be credited to us, and you can also mention Women's Magazine in your comments.

And even if you can't give anything, there are two more ways you can help --

PLEASE PASS ON OUR REQUEST TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT LISTEN TO KPFA TO DONATE THIS TIME AROUND. 

Only about one in eight people who listen to KPFA ever make a donation.  If we could get that up to one in five, we could do fund drives a lot less often.  Do us a favor and share our donation page https://secure.kpfa.org/support/ to your Facebook or Twitter accounts and other social media. Help us grow and eliminate a future fund drive, so please #PassItOn!

It's simple and will make a tremendous impact. So how about it, will you support us and #KPFAPassItOn?

That is so simple, people don't even realize it matters.  After all, it's so much easier to just catch it later in the archive. Which is great. I listen to most of my favorite shows as podcasts, and I definitely encourage you all to podcast our show.  But the station also pays attention to Arbitron ratings, which measure how many people are tuned in at the time of the broadcast, and also to numbers of people listening on the website.  So just keeping your radio tuned to 94.1 FM or listening live at www.kpfa.org tomorrow, Monday, from 1-2 pm, will help to keep feminist programming on air in the Bay Area.

We can do it!!!  Thanks so much for all your support.  #KPFAPassItOn!

Kate

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.

Monday, January 5, 2015: Continuing the Discussion of Police Violence against Black Women and Men

#BlackLivesMatter; #BlackWomenLivesMatter

"We need to fight like hell for Black lives right now."

Photo/Antonio Giaquinto

Today on Women's Magazine as  we continue to look at state violence against black bodies we look at how black women's are uniquely  targeted by  state violence, a violence that is too often invisible and behind closed doors.  To look at this issue  Lisa Marie Rollins talks to Alicia Garza one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and special project director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance  and to Alisa Bierria associate director of the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley who has been working with the national  campaign to Free Marissa Alexander Now and with INCITE.

More about conference at COLOROFVIOLENCE.ORG

The  East Bay Free Marissa  Now Campaign is traveling in a caravan across country to educate people about her case and upcoming hearing so if your interested in being a part of that struggle you can contact them thru their Free Marrisa Now Facebook page.

Other links mentioned in today's show:
#BlackFriday14
#NotOneDime
info@BlackoutCollective.org

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

More about Marissa's case at December 8th Women's Magazine

Monday, December 29, 2014: Black Lives Matter! Young Black Women Organize!

#BlackLivesMatter

Queers Come Out for Black Lives Matter

December 13th Demo photo by Waidye Palmer

Listen to recordings from the December 13th Demo or Get MP3 16:31 min.







This week on Women's Magazine, we hear from the young Black women who are making themselves heard, from the streets of San Francisco and Oakland to the halls of power.  Thea Matthews, one of the organizers of Queers Come Out for Black Lives Matter, and also of the Millions March in San Francisco, joins Kate Raphael, along with Etecia Brown, lead organizer of the Millions March events in Oakland and San Francisco. Thea is president of the Black Student Union at City College of San Francisco and has been active in the Save City College Coalition.  Etecia is a fourth-generation Bayview-Hunters' Point resident and a graduate student in public policy at NYU. Also in today's show are recordings from the Oakland Millions March rally December 13 by Lisa Detmer and Nell Myhand.

"It's not a movement, it's a lifestyle."

Listen now or Get MP3 24:53 min.

It's a War

Next we feature part of an interview with Arlene Eisen, author of the 2013 report Operation Ghetto Storm, which generated the hashtag #Every28Hours. Listen now or Get MP3 11:38 min.





This interview originally aired in April 2013 at http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com/2013/04/april15th-operation-ghetto-storm-report.html


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

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!

www.kpfa.org

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

www.freemarissa.org

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, December 1, 2014: Thoughts on Ferguson

Remembering Mary Berg

Click here to listen to a tribute to Mary Berg who every Sunday morning at 5 AM gave us A Musical Offering. Also on today's show:

Wal-Mart Workers on Strike 

Lesbian Avenger
Tru Bloo

"There are no winners here, just consequences." Reflections on Ferguson

Eryn Ashleigh, journalism student at Columbia University and former co-host on Women's Magazine reflects on Ferguson and keeping Black men safe. "...I can only imagine how many verdicts our elders have had to sit through and be disappointed by...I was afraid of losing my belief in the inherent good of people." Listen to Eryn's thoughts:

Listen or click to Get MP3

Monday, November 10, 2014: Black Women Surviving Social Trauma

Today's program begins a new format for Women's Magazine. Once a month new hosts Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins will bring us voices from global women of color and multiple diasporas. At the end our live show the phone lines will open for callers to share their knowledge, work and stories.

Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins

Surviving Global Social Trauma

In the last 25 years we have begun recognize that the experiences of war can cause PTSD.  But feminists and activists have long recognized that there is another kind of war occurring in the U.S upon women, people of color, activists and poor people by our unhealthy society, which causes social trauma for all but especially for those in targeted groups.  This Monday on KPFA's Women's Magazine we talk to two African American women about how they have been affected in their lives and bodies by the racism, sexism, homophobia and imperialism of our society and how they have found ways to heal.  

Nell Myhand is a Berkeley based organizer, author and speaker whose work brings people together across age, race, class and other differences forming alliances to create powerful, effective solutions to common problems that leave no one out and no one behind. She is writing children’s books that highlight solidarity and collective action for social justice towards creating the other world we know is possible.

Cara Page is a Black queer feminist from a long ancestral legacy of organizers and cultural workers. Cara works on Queer and trans liberation, reproductive justice and racial and economic justice and is currently the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in NYC.

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

Monday, October 6, 2014 Show: Challenging Anti-Semitism and Internalized Oppression

This Monday we look  at an issue that affects us all;  how internalize oppression prevents us from healing and  keeps us from being the best activists we can be.  In her new book "Hope Into Practice : Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears," activist, author and teacher Penny Rosenwasser  shows how working through internalized oppression, we can link personal healing with social justice—enabling us to fight more effectively to change systems that are immoral and unfair. 

Penny Rosenwasser takes on the most explosive issues today—racism and anti-Semitism, victimization and privilege, and Jewish politics around Israel and Palestine and  makes the crucial point that Jewish liberation is interconnected with the liberation of all oppressed people, whether they are African-American, undocumented immigrants, queer or transgender, homeless, or Palestinian.   Join us on KPFA's women's Magazine on Monday October 6th from  1-2pm as we  talk with Penny Rosenwasser and find hope thru practice. 

We'll be offering Hope into Practice as a thank you gift for your pledge to KPFA during this hour. I hope many of you will donate to show your support for feminist programming and progressive, community-controlled radio.  But whether you can give or not, please don't miss this hour of great conversation and stirring footage.

Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Monday, September 29, 2014: The UC Anti-Apartheid Movement And The Legacy of Free Speech Movement

Graduate students and other demonstrators picketing outside Sproul 1964

Twenty years after the Free Speech Movement rocked Berkeley, the University of California, and eventually the culture, UC Berkeley exploded in passionate activism. Students and faculty joined the wave of campus anti-apartheid movements calling for divestment of university pension funds and endowments from South Africa. In 1986, the UC regents' vote to divest $13 billion from companies doing business in South Africa represented the largest single divestiture and may have helped to speed the end of the apartheid regime. This accomplishment was recognized by Nelson Mandela, during his 1990 speech in Oakland.

How did that student movement emerge, mobilize and achieve this historic victory? How was the Berkeley anti-apartheid movement influenced by the Free Speech Movement two decades earlier, and the women's movement which came between?

On a special Women's Magazine on the first day of our Refresh KPFA pledge drive, I explore those questions with then-student leaders Andrea Pritchett and Rita Himes and faculty activist Ruth Rosen, who was also involved in the Berkeley movements in the 1960s, especially the anti-war and feminist movements. We'll also listen to excerpts of the film, SOWETO TO BERKELEY, which tells the story of this extraordinary time on the Berkeley campus.

Donate to KPFA

We'll be offering SOWETO TO BERKELEY as a thank you gift for your pledge to KPFA during this hour. I hope many of you will donate to show your support for feminist programming and progressive, community-controlled radio.  But whether you can give or not, please don't miss this hour of great conversation and stirring footage.

Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

September 1, 2014: Domestic Workers Organize in the US

Author Sheila Bapat on domestic worker organizing in the U.S.

When U.S. labor protections were being created in the 1930s, domestic workers, who were overwhelmingly African American, were specifically excluded as a concession to southern Democrats. Today, the women who do domestic worker are largely immigrants, and while they have won some rights, still face harsh conditions with little recourse.  But in recent years, domestic worker organizing has been one of the most successful labor movements in the country. Sheila Bapat, author of Part of the Family? Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers, and the Battle for Domestic Workers’ Rights, talks with Preeti Shekar.

Sheila Bapat is an attorney and writer covering economic and gender justice. Her work has appeared in Jacobin, Salon, Reuters, Slate, Alternet, Truthout, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, PolicyMatters, and the Center for Women Policy Studies' series, "Reproductive Laws for the 21st Century." Sheila holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Listen now or Get MP3. 20:48 min.

Sunday September 7, 2014, 3-5p
Claiming our Voice: South Asian Domestic Worker Organizing
Held at Oakstop Coworking, 1721 Broadway, Suite 201, Oakland, CA 94612

Hosted by ASATA (Alliance of South Asians Taking Action) and Re-imagine RPE
Special Guest: Sheila Bapat, author of "Part of the Family?," a book about domestic workers' rights, Panel moderated by Preeti Mangala Shekar. For tickets and more info go to Claiming Our Voice.

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

Also on today's show:
Drop the Charges on Rasmea Odeh

August 25, 2014: Black Feminists Examine Police Violence, Gender and Racism then and now.

As the nation has been shocked by the images of overwhelming police violence in Ferguson, Missouri and the epidemic of murders by police of Black men around the country we have also been inspired by the organic uprisings in response. This Monday August 25th KPFA radio's Women's Magazine looks at how police violence is not only racialized but is also gendered. Lisa Dettmer talks to journalist and author Thandisizwe Chimurenga about the racial and patriarchal aspects of police violence, and to UCLA Law Professor Kimberle Crenshaw about how an intersectional feminist perspective is missing from the mainstream and left analysis in these post racial times.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant. Kimberle Crenshaw is co-founder of the African American Policy Forum and author of New York Times op-ed The Girls Obama Forgot, why My Brother’s Keeper ignores young Black women.

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