International Women's Day Special Broadcast - Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

 Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

Host Jeannine Etter interviews author Rebecca Traister about her book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.

The author asserts that women’s fury at injustice has been one of the most powerful forces in U.S. politics and culture, coalescing in numerous protests and movements that brought about lasting change. Traister explores the characteristics and themes of anger as well as the ways in which it took shape within social movements.

Host: Jeannine Etter

Guest: Rebecca Traister

Click here to listen to the show. 29:00 min. 

International Women's Day Special Broadcast - This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Cherrié Moraga

Writers read from the poems, essays and personal narratives they contributed to this remarkable anthology. This Bridge Called My Back launched new perspectives on identity, its complications and contradictions – especially for feminist women of color.  The book and the cultural conversation it opened helped establish third wave feminism and intersectionality.

This program features Cherrié Moraga, one of the book’s editors, and eight writers: Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, Aurora Levins Morales, Barbara Cameron, Judit Moscowitz, Andrea Canaan, and Barbara & Beverly Smith.

Hosted by Julia Randall

Click here to listen to the show. 58:00 min 

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, January 11, 2021: Fuifuilupe Nieumeitolu and Indigenous Women and the Land, and Lisa Fithian and strategies for activism

  Today we talk to  Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu to celebrate the inauguration of her new podcast that will be featured on women’s magazine starting next month and will also be available online. It is called  "From Moana Nui to California Indigenous stories of the Land" which will explore the importance of the land to all indigenous people to resist and over come colonization and to find healing.

Fui is a Tongan/ Pacific Islander scholar and community organizer. She has a PHD from UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies and her dissertation work was on  “The Mana of the Tongan Everyday.’ 

 Fui is on the founding committee of the Moana Nui Pacific Islander Climate Justice Project and (OCNC) Oceania Coalition of Northern California, a community organization working for Pacific Islander self determination through facilitating groups and Ceremony with Indigenous  prisoners here in California as well as organizing teach-ins and protests to protect Indigenous Sacred spaces in the Pacific and here in California. Fui is currently working with the Sogorea Te Land Trust an Urban Indigenous women’s land trust located in Oakland, California.

A 2000 article in Mother Jones called her “Professor Occupy” and recently a radio host suggested that if you looked up protester in the dictionary, you would likely find her picture.Then Kate Raphael speaks to Lisa Fithian author of the new book "Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance”. Lisa Fithian who has been an organizer, trainer and strategist for dozens of creative action campaign, she of the people responsible for the  continuity of resistance methods that  were passed down from the anti-militarist movements of the 1980s through the global justice movements of the early 2000s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. 

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

Monday, November 9, 2020: The fight to Dump Trump and lesbian feminism of the 70's.

This Monday on Women’s Magazine for our first post trump show we will talk to Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about the election and the new multiracial black and brown lead movements that helped win this election for the Democrats especially in the south.

"I would encourage people not to get confused by red and blue maps but to pay attention to population density...actually look and see how many people were disenfranchised from voting in the very first place." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 35 year old Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), woman from the working class, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. As a member of multiple leadership teams in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), Ash-Lee has thrown down on the Vision for Black Lives and the BREATHE Act. Ash-Lee has served on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly, the advisory committee of the National Bailout Collective, and is an active leader of The Frontline a united front working to prevent voter suppression among other issues. She is a long-time activist who has done work in movements fighting for workers, for reproductive justice, for LGBTQUIA+ folks, for environmental justice, and more.

"I am hopeful for the future [because] I am informed by literally centuries of successful organizing work particularly led by Black women...we have already saved this country multiple times and we saved it on November 3rd..." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

And we talk to Ginny Berson about the radical  lesbian and feminist movements of the '70s and '80s which created an impetus to form more independent and equitable social and cultural institutions—bookstores, publishers, health clinics, and more—to support the unprecedented surge in women's arts of all kinds. Olivia Records was at the forefront of these models, not only recording and distributing women's music but also creating important new social spaces for previously isolated women and lesbians through concerts and festivals.

Ginny Z. Berson, one of Olivia's founding members and visionaries, kept copious records during those heady days—days also fraught with contradictions, conflicts, and economic pitfalls. With great honesty, Berson offers her personal take on what those times were like in her new book “Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women’s Music” where she revisits the excitement and the hardships of creating a fair and equitable lesbian-feminist business model—one that had no precedent.

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

Monday, November 2, 2020: Host Vylma V & Author/Activist Erica Etelson

Our national and local elections are happening TOMORROW and we want to hear from you! Who/what are you voting for and why? Call in with your questions and comments. Also, we will start the hour with an illuminating conversation with author/activist Erica Etelson. Her book “Beyond Contempt: How liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide” offers a blueprint on how to talk productively with those on the other side of you politically.  You can find Erica's book at your local bookstore or order on her website.  

Let’s begin the post election conversation (and hopefully healing) by skillfully communicating with those who may be very unhappy with tomorrow’s election results. Tune in with 1st Monday host Vylma V (Call in 1 800 958 9008)

Today's program was broadcast live. This is a recording of that show.

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

Monday, July 13, 2020: Violence against Black Women and Girls

Today at 1-2 pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we discuss violence against black women and girls and in addition violence against black women by police with Janelle White, Executive Director of San Francisco Women Against Rape and author and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie.  And we will also talk to Regina Y. Evans who is creating art installations on Oakland’s International Blvd in response to the enormous amount of sex trafficking that proliferates there.

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J.Ritchie is a Black lesbian, immigrant/police misconduct attorney, and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she recently launched the Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color  

Janelle White

Janelle White has been the executive director for San Francisco Women Against Rape for over a decade.  SFWAR  is a community-based, anti-sexual assault, social justice, women of color-led organization. Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, SFWAR has been serving the residents of San Francisco City & County for over 46 years. SFWAR provides support to sexual assault survivors, their families, and communities, and uses education and community mobilization as tools of rape prevention. And at SFWAR, they believe that ending all forms of oppression is integral to ending sexual assault.

Regina Y Evans

Regina Y Evans who is  a native of Oakland, California, is a Poet, Playwright, Actor, Entrepreneur, Modern Day Abolitionist and a Survivor Leader in the fight against sex trafficking. She is the Owner of Regina's Door, a vintage boutique located in Oakland, Ca. Regina's Door is an artistic safe haven and healing sanctuary for at-risk youth, homeless youth, young Oakland Creatives and survivors of human trafficking. As a Modern Day Abolitionist, Ms. Evans volunteers with Love Never Fails, a Bay Area Anti-Trafficking organization founded by Vanessa Marie Johnson Russell.  She is also a member of the S.H.A.D.E. Movement (Survivors Healing, Advising and Dedicated to Empowerment), a survivor run consulting/advocacy organization. For more info and to be involved contact Regina at Evans.Regina@gmail.com.


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

Monday, June 8, 2020: Racism and Black Women Athletes; The Rise in Domestic Violence amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

This Monday from 1-2pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine at 94.1FM and streaming and archived online at kpfa.org:

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As we demonstrate against the wide spread racism in this country we can not forget about the racism in sports where Black women athletes often experience the worst of misogyny mixed with racism. In our first segment, Kate Raphael talks with Dr. Joan Steidinger, author of Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports, about struggles for equality of women and equality among women in sports.  For more information about Black Women in Sport Foundation, click here.

And next we look at the up to 20% rise in domestic violence during the Covid Pandemic. While the situation is horrific for all domestic violence survivors, accessing help can be particularly challenging for immigrants, including the large South Asian population in the south bay, specifically in Silicon Valley, where many women, many whom are privileged and economically independent, have no support system, are far from their families, and are not accustomed to calling the police to complain of their husbands, or accessing legal systems.  Preeti Mangala Shekar talks to two women from local domestic violence groups that serve the South Asian community; Zakia Afrin who manages the Helpline, Peer Counseling, Immigration Assistance and Legal Advocacy programs at Maitri in San Jose and Bindu OOmmen Fernandes from Narika which also continues to offer counseling, safety planning legal and shelter referrals and support groups via phone during the crisis.

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

Monday, June 1, 2020: Vylma V hosts a live call-in show today at 1 PM

Demonstrators turn out all over the world to demand justice for
George Floyd and an end to police violence. #BlackLivesMatter.

1st Monday of the month host, Vylma V, speaks with Marjorie Cohn, legal expert and past president of the National Lawyers Guild about pending Supreme Court decisions (on abortion and reproductive rights) and how Trump may use recent protests to further limit our civil rights and perhaps even use the military to suppress peaceful protests and demonstrations.

Vylma starts this episode with a timely interview between Kate Rafael and author Carol Anderson (White Rage and One Person No Vote) about black voter suppression in the US. Carol Anderson will participate on a virtual panel for young adult voters on June 17 at 7pm with the Bay Area Book Panel. Find out more at Bay Book Fest.

As usual for Vylma, she welcomes your call in questions and comments regarding recent protests and civil unrest 1(800)958-9008, this is a live show on Monday, June 1, 2020 at 1pm. 

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

Monday, November 25, 2019: Holistic Approach to Women's Health Care

Tarita Thomas

Tanya Leake

Health care in the U.S.is unfortunately both sexist and racist. As a result Women have struggled and suffered with health issues,  often unnecessarily,  because of the bias in health care that understudies women’s health issues, especially sexual and reproductive health issues  and then  ignores, dismisses  and shames women when they need help.  Today we talk to Wellness experts Tanya Leake and Tarita Thomas who have been offering a holistic alternative to women’s health for over a decade, that they created after struggling with their own health issues, and now are co creating a revolutionary peer-centered information platform to address the misinformation and dismissal of  women’s health issue by providing a space called WeKnow (Women embracing the Knowledge Necessary for Our Wellness) where women can share their own stories with Cramps, Fibroids & Endometriosis.  This is revolutionary because we know sharing our stories and supporting each other is the way we take control of our own bodies and create a new notion of health based in our own intuitive and shared knowledge as women.

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Tarita Thomas was diagnosed with Endometriosis at the age of 12. None of the options her doctors offered helped, so she spent the next 30 years suffering, researching answers and seeking relief.  Her passion for Women’s Wellness is rooted in the impact that journey has had on her schooling, career and financial life.  She is the author of First Blood: Women’s Stories of their First Period, Founder of The pms Telethon designed to eradicate cramps, fibroids & endometriosis, and Founder of Pussy the Seminar: Creating Safe Space Dialogue About Our Most Sacred and Controversial Body Part.  A credentialed coach, facilitator, participatory researcher, data scientist and 20-year veteran of Human Resources and Diversity Consulting, Tarita is invested in driving authentic, vulnerable, critical conversations. Tarita is co-facilitator of #coochieconversations and co-founder and Chief Evangelist of WeKNOW.

A Black girl transplanted from Harlem, NY and now living in Atlanta, GA, Tanya Leake is a holistic wellness coach, consultant and educator who specializes in holistic nutrition, self-care, dance and fitness. Founder of her own brand of holistic wellness under EmBODY WELL, Tanya is a certified ACE (American Council on Exercise) health coach and group fitness instructor. She holds specialty certifications in behavior change, women’s health, natural health, sports and exercise nutrition and nutrition therapy. Tanya is a former senior consultant with Accenture’s Information Management Services group, with a background in computer programming, systems and data architecture. Tanya is co-facilitator of #coochieconversations and co-founder and CEO of WeKNOW.

WeKNOWus is also on Facebook and Twitter.

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

Monday, November 11, 2019: Excavating Uruguayan Lesbian Herstory

courtesy Carolina de Robertis

Kate Raphael speaks with novelist Carolina de Robertis about her stunning new book, Cantoras, a story based on the real experiences of Uruguyan lesbians making a place for themselves and each other amidst the secrets and terror of the military dictatorship. The New York Times calls the book "brazenly hopeful ... a revolutionary fable, ideal for this moment." Carolina and I met over empanadas at Oakland's Cafe Santana; so you'll also learn the difference between Platense empanadas (those from the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay) and those from Chile, Peru and the Philippines.

Event: Meet the Authors, 20th Anniversary of NANOWRIMO at the SF Main Library, Wed, Nov 13 at 6 PM. Carolina will participate with a panel of writers to talk about their writing process and what it is like to write 50,000 words in a month.

Note from Kate Raphael:
This will likely be the last time I will host Women's Magazine. Tune in to find out about what I'll be doing instead! Thanks to all of you for all your support over these many years, and I hope you will continue to be avid listeners and supporters of Women's Magazine. (Keep in touch with Kate at www.kateraphael.com. Click on contact and sign up for Kate's newsletter.)

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

Also on today's show:
Solo Moms Building Community

Monday, November 11, 2019: Solo Moms Building Community

In this segment Kate sits down with Marika Lindholm, founder of the online community Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere (ESME), and one of the editors of We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart and Humor. We'll also hear from contributors to the anthology Lennlee Keep (Dad Day: When Death Is a Holiday) and Sharisse Kimbro (For My Sisters).

Message from Kate:
This will likely be the last time I will host Women's Magazine. Tune in to find out about what I'll be doing instead! Thanks to all of you for all your support over these many years, and I hope you will continue to be avid listeners and supporters of Women's Magazine. (Keep in touch with Kate at www.kateraphael.com. Click on contact and sign up for Kate's newsletter.)

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

Also on today's show:
Excavating Uruguayan Lesbian Herstory

Event:

NOURA ERAKAT, celebrating her new book, “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine”
Tuesday, November 12, 7pm, Berkeley
In Conversation with Lara Kiswani

Berkeley City College Auditorium
Tuesday, November 12, 7pm
2050 Center Street
(near downtown Berkeley BART)

Tickets on sale now via Eventbrite

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, October 14, 2019: Celebrating Toni Morrison

This episode of KPFA’s Women’s Magazine celebrates the life and work of Toni Morrison the first African American to win  the Noble Prize for literature and who also won a Pulitzer Prize for her ground changing seminal book “Beloved.”  Toni Morrison whose writings changed the literary landscape to include those of black people especially black women is described by the New York Times as “writing luminous, incantatory prose resembling no other writer in English.”   

Jovelyn Richards and Lisa Dettmer discuss the importance of Morrison's work and life and we listen to clips of the new documentary about her life called “Toni Morrison: The Piece I am.” The film and her newest book “The Source of Self-Regard”  are offered as gifts for the KPFA fund drive and you can donate securely on-line.  Thank you for your support of feminist and radical women’s voices. Any amount shows that KPFA Women’s Magazine is important to you.

Thank you!
Lisa Dettmer

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

Monday, September 23, 2019: Akemi Johnson, Rebecca Sonnenshine, Somali American Women in Minn. and Betty Reid Soskin

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Sharon Sobotta interviews TV & Screenwriter and Producer Rebecca Sonnenshine as she tells us how having a seat at the writing table for network series and films, as a woman, is changing the way stories are told.

Next Sharon talks to Akemi Johnson who gives us a close up view of what is happening in the border towns of military bases in places like Okinawa, Japan with book released in June 2019

Betty Reid Soskin

Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U. S. Military Bases in Okinawa

Somali American women in Minnesota offer support for Representative Ilhan Omar, as she is continually bullied and mischaracterized by the president. Sharon interviews writer Jojo about her experience as a Somalian woman in America.

Betty Reid Soskin, America’s oldest park ranger turns 98 this week, just in time for the launch of the documentary featuring her life called, No Time To Waste. Look for screenings on October 5 in Mill Valley and other places in the near future.

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

Monday, September 16, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

A Route to Ourselves lessening the space between women's bodies.

Today's show on The Space Between Us we are introduced to Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, known as Tia, Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman. The topics are Intimacy & Sexuality with Celeste and Danielle and how to listen to the stories our bodies tell us everyday with Tia. The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show every third Monday of the month.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min 

If you have any topics you'd like to hear email your ideas to Jovelyn at sugars982@gmail.com.

BIO's

Tia

Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, know as Tia is a former Yoga Instructor. Tia is a doctor of physical therapy and in the completion stages of becoming a Women's Health Coach and is the host of a podcast, The Masterful Art of Self-care. You can find Tia's podcast on any podcast app and linked on her website.

Danielle

Danielle Harel, Ph.D. is a co-host of the series Somatica Sessions and the co-founder of the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching. A new intro to core training starts September 28th. She brings a tenacious dedication to self-realization in all of her teaching and coaching.

Celeste

Celeste Hirschman, M.A. is a co-host of the series Somatica Sessions and the co-founder of the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching.

Celeste and Danielle are the co-authors of two books Cockfidence and Making love Real

Monday, September 2, 2019: Brooke Warner on Writing with Courage

Courage takes many forms. For some it's telling our truths and denying those who tell us to shut up. For others, it's organizing to resist the densest military occupation in the world.

Next Kate Raphael speaks with publisher, author and podcaster Brooke Warner about how women are finding new ways to make ourselves heard. Brooke's new book is Write On, Sisters! Voice, Courage and Claiming Your Place at the Table.

Brooke talks about the publishing world via hybrid press, NaNoWriMo, self-subsidized publishing and how to survive the world of publishing as a woman and a woman of color. She is also producing a weekly podcast, Write-minded that just celebrated its one year anniversary.  She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) hold an annual writing contest for women of color.

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

Also on today's show:
Athar Zia and Maneja Jehan on Women's Resistance in Kashmir

Monday, August 12, 2019: Toni Morrison Remembered

Toni Morrison   (2/18/1931 – 8/5/2019)

We remember the great Toni Morrison through archival interviews with her, clips from the film, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (still showing in Albany and Marin and Tuesday night August 13th at the Roxie in SF), and reflections by writers Aya de Leon, Carolina de Robertis and Nayomi Munaweera, as well as a discussion between Women's Magazine's Jovelyn Richards and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield Sanders.





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


Also on today's show:
Sara Paretsky

Monday, August 12, 2019: Groundbreaking Author - Sara Paretsky

Today's show continues with another iconic writer in a very different genre. Sara Paretsky, author of the best-selling V.I. Warshawski detective novels, joins me for a discussion about sexism in publishing, crime fiction in the service of social justice, and the founding of the organization Sisters in Crime. One of my favorite interviews ever, so don't miss it.

Here's a link to the extended interview. 1:00:06

Ed’s note: On learning that she would be included in a show featuring Toni Morrison, Sara Paretsky said she was overwhelmed. We asked for a comment on Morrison’s influence, and she replied: “Morrison’s extraordinary genius as a writer of fiction and user of language is something I admire but can’t hope to emulate. What I do hope to emulate is her courage, her forthrightness, in speech and writing. One thing that has stuck with me all week is a comment by Rachel Ghansah on Morrison’s legacy in her life: ‘We need to speak with clarity and not let anyone sanitize our voices and our thoughts, but also have the freedom to say this space right here is mine. And this writing is where I’m free, and no one can tell me what to be.'”

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

Also on today's show:
Toni Morrison

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!