Monday, October 26, 2020: State Violence in Nigeria

 “#EndSARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) isn’t just about police brutality. It’s about the future of Nigeria.”

Our show today is about this movement and its relationship to the Nigerian future and its past. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, the federal, semi-autonomous tactical police team, was formed in 1984 to thwart the national rise in kidnappings, car-jackings, robberies, and more. Since then, the unit has been abusing its power and Nigerian people in various ways, from coaxing bus drivers to pay money before allowing them to pass to the recent extrajudicial killing of people they are sworn to protect. It’s the perpetual, decades-long abuse of authority that has thousands of young Nigerians demanding that their government #EndSARS. The campaign is also about the ever-widening inequalities in Africa’s most populous state with enough wealth to improve all lives, and much more.

KPFA Women's Magazine producer Margo Okazawa-Rey and Osai Ojigho, Amnesty International Nigeria Country Director discuss the current armed violence perpetrated by state actors.

Ms. Osai Ojigho is a lawyer, gender equality advocate and human rights expert with a special interest in the African Human Rights system. Currently, the Country Director of Amnesty International Nigeria. Prior to joining Amnesty International, she served in various roles with Oxfam including as interim Pan Africa Director of Oxfam GB’s Pan African Programme. She was the Coalition Coordinator for the SOTU (State of the Union) Coalition, a human rights observer to the African Union Mission to Mali and the Sahel and Deputy Executive Director of Alliances for Africa. She is well travelled and widely published, contributing to various publications including the Commonwealth Law Journal, The AU ECHO (Newsletter of the African Union Commission), ThisDay Newspapers, The East African and Agenda. She is a member of the Association of Women in Development (AWID), the West African Women Elections Observation (WAWEO) team, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and a life member of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU). She is also a consulting editor with Open Global Rights and a mentor to Mandela Washington Fellows. She sits on the Global Advisory Council of Institute For African Women In Law (IAWL). She holds a Law degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and a Masters’ in Law degree from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Twitter: @livingtruely 

Sign the petition to End impunity for police violence in Nigeria. 

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, July 6, 2020: Defund? Defund. Defund!

Calls to defund the police have moved from the margins to the mainstream. NYC reportedly just cut one BILLION dollars from its police department. Can this happen in the Bay Area, specifically in Berkeley? What does it mean to defund the police? How can this happen in Berkeley and how would it affect women?

Join 1st Monday host Vylma V and her guest, educator and activist Andrea Pritchett  co-founder of Berkeley Copwatch for an elucidating conversation about this timely issue. Typical for Vylma V, your questions and comments are welcome during the last half of the show.

If you missed this show on Monday click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Resources for all sorts of info and free downloads:
Anti Police Terror Project
Reclaim the Block
Black Visions Collective
Berkeley Copwatch

Ask yourself these questions before calling the police

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, May 4, 2020 - Vylma V presents May Day 2020 and Mental Health in the Era of the Pandemic, COVID-19

How’s your mental health holding up as we continue to shelter in place? Did you get a chance to recognize MayDay 2020? Join 1st Monday of the month host, Vylma V, as she takes a look at what happened during Friday’s May Day 2020 recognitions across the Bay and also takes calls with her guest, Dr. Linda Berry  as they discuss trauma and healing in the age of Corona. Call in with your thoughts (1-800-958-9008), this is a live show on 5-4-20 at 1pm.

Dr. Berry's book is available on her website.

For more info on health and wellness go to Dr. Berry's website and Soluna Health Inc.  Dr. Berry offers a free audio to help with distress: Smile into Distress. This is our gift to you to honor the working women in May, particularly all our essential workers.  

Click here to listen to the show. 59:58 min

Check out The East Bay Meditation Center for on-line Zoom classes and resources.

Monday, March 25, 2019: Jennifer Eberhardt Racial Bias; Anasuya Sengupta, Inequality on the Web

In the first part of our show produced by Safi wa Nairobi, we listen to excerpts of a talk by Jennifer Eberhardt about the dangers and effect of implicit racial bias in policing, which is inherently unintentional yet more pervasive than explicit bias but equally deadly.  Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias and the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See,Think, and Do will also be speaking at the JCC of SF on April 1st at 7pm. 

And in the second half of the show we look at sexual and racial bias in the internet. Today, nearly half the world is online. Nearly 75% of this half comprises the people of the global south. Women are 45% of online users. Yet, the digital footprint of women and girls, reflecting real world iniquities, is tiny.  More than 80 percent of the content produced on Wikipedia is written by 20% of people based in the global north. 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors is a woman.

Anasuya Sengupta

Recently a small fierce group of feminist geeks at "Whose Knowledge" came along and have been working hard to change these stark statistical realities Wikipedia entry by Wikipedia entry, one digital step at a time. "Whose Knowledge" is a global campaign to center the knowledge of the marginalized communities to create a truly inclusive internet. Preeti Shakar and Lisa Dettmer talk to co-director of "Whose Knowledge", Anasuya Sengupta, to discuss the work they are doing to decolonize the web.

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

Event:

For more info go to SFWAR.org

Monday, February 26, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us; KPFA Pledge Drive

KPFA Women's Magazine presents The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards. 

Today Vylma V joins Jovelyn for the KPFA fund drive. The Space Between Us examines the relationships between girls and women all over the world by telling each other's stories. In this way we will attempt to shift and raise consciousness by listening and sharing our journeys. Find The Space Between Us every 3rd Monday at 1 PM.

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

Today's show presents clips from an interview with Patrisse Cullors co-founder of Black Lives Matter and co-author of  “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir”. Patrisse is interviewed by Cat Brooks. A CD of the interview is available as a gift for your pledge of $75. Get the book for a pledge of $125. Get the audio book for $150. Get the DVD of the interview for $100. Black history flash cards Volume 2: Women for $100. Many other gifts are online at KPFA.org.

If you missed Monday's show you can always donate and choose a gift online at KPFA.org. Thanks for your support of KPFA Women's Magazine. No donation is too small. No donation is too big.

Monday, August 8, 2016: SHOUT THEIR NAMES Town Hall

This week, Women’s Magazine features excerpts from SHOUT THEIR NAMES, a Town Hall held at the Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland on July 31st 2016. In response to preventable and tragic deaths, advocates at the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) held this Town Hall to call attention to the ongoing crisis occurring at California Institution for Women (CIW). The program features an overview of the situation at CIW and comments from the families of several women who have born the brutal impact of the crisis.

Dear Community,
In response to another preventable and tragic death, advocates at the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) are reaching out to ally organizations in the Bay to call further attention to the ongoing crisis occurring at California Institution for Women (CIW). CIW is at 130 percent capacity and has a suicide rate that is 8 times the national average for people in women’s prisons, and 5 times the rate for all California prisons.  We will be holding a Town Hall on Sunday, July 31st at the Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland and want to invite your organization to endorse and be part of it.

The injustice and conditions of abuse and violence at CIW are happening inside and outside of prison walls across the country. Too often, lives are being lost to state violence and the majority of lives stolen are Black and Brown, queer and transgender. At CIW, people are dying as a result of direct neglect by cops, and from medical and mental health neglect. Outside, women are being killed by police. In 2013, Kayla Moore, a Black trans woman was killed by the Berkeley police in her home. On May 19, 2016, a Black woman named Jessica Nelson Williams was killed by San Francisco police in the Bayview neighborhood. There are no shortage of examples of punishing people and communities who have survived generations of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia with policing, incarceration and neglect.

Just a few weeks ago Shaylene Graves, a 27 year old Black woman, died from this state violence. She was six weeks away from her release. Before Shaylene, Erika Rocha committed suicide. Erika was 35 years old and had been incarcerated for 21 years. She was one day away from her Youth Parole Hearing. Last November, five people at the CCWF women’s prison were physically abused, sexually harassed and placed in solitary confinement by prison guards. They are planning to bring a suit against the CDCR.

Legal advocates with CCWP are working with and supporting survivors inside and family members outside to get much needed attention and support to those suffering behind these walls. We are reaching out to you because more needs to be done.

We hope that the Town Hall Meeting on Sunday, July 31st, 2016 from 3-5pm at the East Side Arts Alliance can help us connect these struggles and bring more attention to the ongoing crisis at CIW. We hope that you will endorse the event, share the information with your networks and come to Eastside Arts Alliance on July 31st. To endorse the town hall, please email info@womenprisoners.org.

Join us in demanding justice for Shaylene, Erika and all lives stolen by the CDCR and the police. BRING OUR LOVED ONES HOME ALIVE!

In Solidarity,

California Coalition for Women Prisoners

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

This program was recorded by Mary Salome and Emily Charles of Queer in Your Ear Productions. For the full recording of the Town Hall go to: https://soundcloud.com/queer-in-your-ear

Also on today's show:
Women's Community Calendar

Monday, October 26, 2015: Racism and Islamophobia in France

Over the last year uprisings against police violence have erupted around the U.S. spearheaded by victims of violence and their families and the newly organized Black Lives Matter, an organization lead almost entirely by Black women. Internationally women of color are also organizing against state violence. And this October 31st women of color in France are organizing a massive March for Dignity and Against Racism, in Paris, to demonstrate against police brutality and structural racism (in racial segregation, unemployment, the outlawing of the Islamic veil in schools, and daily humiliation). This March is being called on the 10th year anniversary of the 2005 uprisings in France’s racialized, working class suburbs sparked by the deaths of two adolescent boys of color escaping a stop and frisk.

"There is collective urgency to talk about racism and police violence in France...We have to organize because we are in danger..."

This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine UC Berkeley Professor Paola Bacchetta talks about racism in France and also talks with Amal Bentounsi, the woman who brought together the collective of women of color organizing the March. They discuss the March, conditions of people of color in France and Amal Bentounsi’s personal experiences with police violence, racism and Islamophobia.

Click here to go to SoundCloud today's show. 53:38 min

To learn more and contribute to this March in France on October 31st click on March for Dignity.

Events:
The Middle East Children’s Alliance is thrilled to invite you to the

BAY AREA BOOK LAUNCH for
Activist/Journalist/Author KATE RAPHAEL’s brand new book
MURDER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A Palestine Mystery

Thursday, November 19, 2015 – 7:30pm
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(near Ashby Bart)
Tickets $5, no one turned away

Bay Area activist extraordinaire Kate Raphael’s first novel, Murder Under the Bridge, is a fast-paced and intricately-plotted mystery offering an intimate look at the lives of women in the Middle East. Hear Kate read from and discuss her book – and buy your own copy for her to sign!

**Featuring Special Guest: Political comedian KARINDA DOBBINS

For info: www.mecaforpeace.org, 510-548-0542. Benefit for Palestinian women and children, wheelchair accessible.

Cosponsored by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, Jewish Voice for Peace/Bay Area, Art Forces and more!

Monday, June 29, 2015: LGBT History and the Creation of Gay Identities

The threat of violence is the single most common issue that unites most LGBT people across lines of difference.

Order this book at your local bookstore

Gentrification, policing and the creation of gay place-based communities: a conversation with Christina Hanhardt. Hanhardt is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence.

Listen now or Get MP3. 40:08 min.






Safe Space. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Now available as an ebook.

Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought solutions in policing and privatization and have had devastating effects along race and class lines.

Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research in New York City and San Francisco, Hanhardt traces the entwined histories of LGBT activism, urban development, and U.S. policy in relation to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the formation of a mainstream LGBT movement, as well as the very different trajectories followed by radical LGBT and queer grassroots organizations. Placing LGBT activism in the context of shifting liberal and neoliberal policies, Safe Space is a groundbreaking exploration of the contradictory legacies of the LGBT struggle for safety in the city.

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

Also on today's show:
Women's Empowerment Day at Hip Hop for Change

Monday, June 1, 2015: Kathy Kelly, Peace Activist

Tune in Monday to KPFA 94.1 FM at 1 PM:

Renowned peace activist Kathy Kelly, just out of federal prison and on her way to Afghanistan, stops in to talk about her activist journey and the connections between mass incarceration, drone warfare, police killings, climate justice and smoking.  Kathy is the co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

Listen now to the full, uncut discussion or Get MP3. 39:47 min

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Also on today's show:
On Her Own

Monday, May 25, 2015: Live Call-in with Vylma V and LisaMarie Rollins

Celebrating and Remembering Black Women

MUST READ: Powerful new ‪#‎SayHerName‬ report by the The African American Policy Forum on Black women and Black Queer folks harmed and killed by police.

Listen in on Monday's LIVE CALL IN show as Vymla V and LisaMarie Rollins discuss the ‪#‎SayMyName‬ actions in the Bay Area and across the nation. Call in and share your perspective on this powerful campaign. Click here to listen to this broadcast of KPFA Women's Magazine. 59:50 min

ColorofChange.org

Kimberle Crenshaw talks about the large numbers of Black women and girls who are victimized by police brutality, how the facts are misreported. Women fall out of the frame she says. It is important to talk about how women experience racism.

Lisa Detmer, Women's Magazine Senior Producer reports on Monday's Emeryville action at Home Depot and the action in Oakland later that night. Click link above to listen to live audio from the rally and march.

Black Women standing in their power at May 21st SF Rally
#sayhername

Vylma V and LisaMarie host live call-in show about the May 21st action and the community reactions to the powerful and healing campaign.

Events and info:
Queer Rebels Festival, May 29-30, 7 PM, 762 Fulton St. San Francisco

Campaign to Release Oscar Lopez, Puerto Rican political prisoner held for 34 years: Rally and march Friday, May 29, 5 PM, Market and Powell. Saturday, May 30, 11 AM, Gather at Oakland library to march around the lake. For infor call Ricardo at 510-290-2312.

www.byp100.org/justice-for-rekia

Call in again next month on June 22 at 1 PM

Monday, May 18, 2015: Who Bombed Judi Bari?

25 years ago this week, a bomb blew up in the car of two of the most prominent Earth First! redwood activists: Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney – while they were driving through Oakland, CA. Judi and Darryl were on an organizing tour for Redwood Summer, the most ambitious campaign ever to save the old growth forest in Northern California. Judi was well known in labor, peace and feminist circles, as well as the originator of Redwood Summer. The FBI and Oakland Police immediately accused the pair of carrying the bomb and of being environmental terrorists.  The story played out for weeks in the press – the victims were the suspects.

Twelve years later, after Judi had died of breast cancer, the landmark court case to which she had dedicated the last years of her life went to trial – AND THEY WON!  The FBI and the Oakland Police were ordered to pay $4.1 million for violating the constitution, falsifying evidence and trying to frame the activists.

Monday on Women’s Magazine, we air part of the acclaimed documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari, by Mary Liz Thomson and Darryl Cherney.  We speak with Karen Pickett, long-time Earth First activist and close friend of Judi Bari, about the legacy of the bombing and the case and what is being done to commemorate it.

If you missed Monday's broadcast you can listen here. And you can still pledge to support the Spring fund raising. Just go to KPFA.org and click on the Keep KPFA Rising link. Don't forget to mention KPFA Women's Magazine. We fell short of our goal on Monday so please remember to make your donation. Every dollar counts. Thanks.

Upcoming events:
-Next Monday KPFA Women's Magazine features our monthly live call-in show with Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins. Tune in at 1 PM on May 25th.

-Judi Bari Day: 25th anniversary of bomb attack on Earth First!
Sunday May 24, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Unitarian Fellowship Hall in Berkeley
For info contact bach@headwaterspreserve.org or call 510-548-3113

May 24, 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the attack on Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney by car bomb in Oakland in 1990 as Redwood Summer dawned. 

The Judi Bari Day event at Berkeley's U-U Hall will feature special guest performer LAURIE LEWIS, legendary songwriter, fiddler and vocalist. 

After comments and updates by musician and film-maker DARRYL CHERNEY and others, the documentary film “WHO BOMBED JUDI BARI?” will be screened. 

Karen Pickett will host the program, and facilitate a Q and A session after the film. 
Doors open at 7 PM; the program begins at 7:30 


**Earlier in the day on May 24, people will gather to mark the moment and place where the bomb blew up. The location is across from the intersection of E. 33rd and Park Blvd, in front of Oakland High. Gather 11:30 am—12:30 (the explosion was close to 12 noon). Bring signs, songs, drums for a speak out and commemoration.** 

-Thursday, May 21st, 4:30 to 6:30 PM, Invisible Victims: Black Women's Lives Matter at Home Depot, 3838 Hollis Ave. Emeryville, CA hosted by Anti Police-Terror Project

-Sunday, May 31st, 2 to 5 PM, Celebrate the Life of Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Transgender Warrior, Humanist Hall, 390 27th St, Oakland, cA

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.

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.

Monday, August 18th, 2014: Paula Giddings on the life and work of Ida B. Wells

The Life and Work of Ida B. Wells

As we reflect on the last week's horrific events in Ferguson, Missouri, it's hard to imagine that anyone in this country cannot be moved by images of Black people with their hands up shouting, "Hands up. Don't shoot" as police with long guns stare down at them from armoured trucks. USA Today notes that local police killed an average of 2 Black people every week from 2005 to 2012. Even more upsetting are the accounts of Black women and girls who have been killed by police as recounted by Khadijah Costley White in her excellent piece entitled Black and Unarmed: Women and Girls Without Weapons Killed by Law Enforcement. We need to stop talking about these killings as police misconduct and begin recognizing them as state sponsored lynchings, not a justice system gone awry but disturbed deep inner workings. Until we do there will be no justice, no democracy and no peace.

Black feminist Ida B. Wells started the nation's most prominent anti-lynching campaign in 1893. Ida B. Wells knew and worked with white feminist Susan B. Anthony but was unsucessful in getting her to work on anti-lynching. Wells advocated a panoply of direct and indirect action strategies including boycott, moral suasion, advocacy journalism, immigration, and armed self-defense. She talked about gender and sexuality.

Today we listen to part of a talk by Professor Paula Giddings. Historian Paula Giddings is author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions. This talk was first aired on Against the Grain on KPFA in 2006. To hear the entire talk by Professor Giddings click here.

Listen now or Get MP3. 34:01 min.

Listen to the entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
New film about photograher Dorothea Lange

Free the Abolition 3 - Bring Our Friends Home

Please call the San Francisco DA's office now and demand they drop all charges against Rebecca, Prisca and Sarai.  Read more about the protest. 

Find out what you can do to help and stay up on the latest.

April15th: Operation Ghetto Storm, a report on the killing of Black people in the US. The War on Obesity: is it a war on women's bodies?.

Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People in the US

In this segment, we discuss Operation Ghetto Storm: The Extrajudicial Killing of 313 Black People by U.S. Police, Security or Vigilantes in 2012, with Arlene Eisen of the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee.The corporate media have given very little attention to these extrajudicial killings. We call them “extrajudicial” because they happen without trial or any due process, against all international law and human rights conventions. Click here to download entire report.

Listen now or Get MP3 21:54 min.

Fabulous to be Fat and the Fairy Tale of Weight Loss. Fat Activists Speak Out.

Virgie Tovar, author of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion and Jen Larsen, author of Stranger Here (how weight loss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head), talk about how the War On Obesity is really an undeclared war on Women's Bodies and how we can resist.

Listen now or Get MP3 30:08 min.

TONIGHT-Berkeley, CA: Angela Davis

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April 17, 2013

An Evening with

ANGELA DAVIS

In Commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day
Wednesday, April 17, 7pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way, at Dana
Just a 15 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley Bart

Introduced by Palestinian journalist from Dheisheh Refugee Camp,
Ziad Abbas, who will speak about Palestinian children prisoners 

Join and share the Facebook event!

Get your tickets now! This event could sell out!
$15 general, $10 low income

OR order directly from MECA:
Mail a check for however many tickets you would like to: Attn: Sue, MECA, 1101 8th Street, Berkeley CA 94710, along with a SASE and your phone number -- or come into our offices to buy tickets directly from Sue, 9am-noon weekdays.
You can also email her for info

$15 tickets also available (no service charge!) at these bookstores:
(East Bay) Books, Inc./Berkeley, Marcus Books, Pegasus/Solano, Pegasus/Shattuck, Walden Pond, Moe's, Diesel; (SF) Modern Times. 

Angela Davis co-founded Critical Resistance, taught the History of Consciousness, directed Feminist Studies, ran for Vice-President twice, and wrote many excellent books -- including Women, Race and Class and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire.

Now she is celebrating the release of her new book, The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues. Angela will sign books after the event. 

This event benefits MECA's work with Palestinian children.

In 2011, she traveled on a women of color delegation to Palestine, which later issued a call for divestment from Israel. In 2012 she particpated in the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in New York City.

"Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic, an activist, a scholar, and a revolutionary." --Angela Davis

"Davis' arguments for justice are formidable...The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied." -- New York Times

Cosponsored by: KPFA, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies/SF State University, Critical Resistance/Oakland, Arab Film Festival, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Al-Awda, Justice Now, US Palestinian Community Network, Palestinian Youth Movement, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, All of Us or None, Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area Women in Black, San Francisco Women in Black, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, National Lawyers Guild.

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