Monday, September 9, 2019: Story, Art, Action! Muralismo

Julieta Kusnir talks with muralist Juana Alicia, one of the seven visionary creators of the iconic Maestrapeace mural project on San Francisco's Women's Building.  The murals are 35 years old this year and a spectacular new book from Heyday Press commemorates both the original production and the restoration, along with profiles of the artists (Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Edythe Boone, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Meera Desai, Yvonne Littleton, and Irene Pérez), and work by seven Bay Area poets including Alice Walker, Genny Lim and Sandra Cisneros and Dvora Major with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis. The artists and writers will celebrate the book with two upcoming events in San Francisco.

Maestrapeace at the San Francisco Public Library

• Sep 14 2019, 1pm
  San Francisco Public Library - Koret Auditorium
  San Francisco, CA.
  
• Maestrapeace: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural
  Oct 08 2019
  California Historical Society
  San Francisco, CA.

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Also on today's show:

Youth Climate Warriors 

The Life of a Web Series

Monday, September 26, 2016: Understanding privilege and practicing solidarity--part 1

"Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock." from South African sisters' freedom struggle

Today's show begins with two important and empowering women-led events happening in Spain and Gaza, the Truth & Reclamation Pilgrimage and the Women's Boat to Gaza.

Actress LisaGay Hamilton says about her participation on the boat to Gaza: “It is an honor to be here and join this extraordinary group of women. This issue is bigger than me, than any of us. As a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, I cannot help thinking of Palestinian women in Gaza, who live in an open-air prison because of the occupation. It is so painful to think of them, we have to take action to end the blockade of Gaza.” Read LisaGay Hamilton's Counterpunch op ed  Why I am on the women's boat to Gaza.

Chivvis Moore discusses her memoir

Chivvis Moore discusses her memoir, First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God: An American Feminist in the Arab World. Moore spent 17 years living in Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and taught for nine years in the Institute of Women's Studies at Bir Zeit University in Palestine.

CHIVVIS MOORE reads from First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God: An American Feminist in the Arab World

Tuesday, September 27, 7 pm

360 42nd Street, Oakland

Book sales benefit Middle East Children’s Alliance

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Also on today's show:

Sharon Sobotta interviews Shakti Butler and Peggy McIntosh

Monday, February 16, 2015: Joan Little and the Right to Self-Defense

Who Was Joan Little? What Happened to the Right to Self-Defense?

On Black History Month, we discuss the groundbreaking 1970s trial of Joan Little in North Carolina - called "The Trial of the Decade" by the Chicago Tribune.  Feminist and civil rights organizations came together to fight for Little's freedom after she killed a white jailer who sexually assaulted her. We also look at the cases of Inez Garcia and Dessie Woods, with journalist, author and activist Victoria Law.

Joan Little (left) on the day of her acquittal.

The tale of Joan (pronounced “Jo-Ann”) Little is one replete with the hardships of a young African-American woman struggling to survive in a world that has been unkind to her gender. Coupled with the harsh realities of her upbringing, crime became a refuge for Little. Despite this, Little would become the first woman to be acquitted of murder by way of justifying killing in the name of self-defense against sexual assault on August 15, 1975.

Victoria Law is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) award. She frequently writes and speaks about the intersections between mass incarceration, gender and resistance.

Kate Raphael of Women's Magazine asks Victoria why don't we see the support of women who act in self-defense today as we saw in these earlier cases, specifically Marissa Alexander, Kelly Savage and the New Jersey Four. To find out more about Kelly Savage go to www.womenprisoners.org. Click here to sign a petition in support of Kelly.

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Also on today's show:

Elmaz Abinader on Body, Home and Memory

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This week's Calendar of Events:
Dance: ODC Presents Dance and Diaspora
Featuring Jill Parker & The Foxglove Sweethearts and Danica Sena
Feb 20-21, 2015 8pm 3153 17th Street in San Francisco
TICKETS $25 General, $35 Arts Patron

Film: They Were Promised the Sea
Thursday, Feb 18, 7 PM
South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis Street in Berkeley
Presented by Jewish Voice for Peace