Safi wa Nairobi commemorates the life of revolutionary journalist and activist Kiilu Nyasha, former Black Panther, radio and television host, artist and internationalist dedicated to freedom for political prisoners and all people around the world.
We remember dyke and political prisoner activist Mo (nee Marilyn) Kalman including a short clip from a Women's Magazine interview with Mo, Happy Hyder and Marcie Delgadillo about the Dyke March from 2011. There's a lot of great stuff from Mo as well as from the others.
Also on today's show: How Did We Get Here? Ursula LeGuin Gymnastics Abuse Scandal Events: Free Ahed Tamimi Wednesday, January 31, 2018 4:30 PM -6:00 PM Rally at Oakland Federal Building (1301 Clay St) Stand with Ahed Tamimi & all Palestinian Political Prisoners 6:15-9pm Celebrate Ahed Tamimi's resistance on her birthday at Reem's pop up in West Oakland (1700 Center Street)
This week on KPFA Women's Magazine, we talk with Bo (Rita D.) Brown, who spent eight years in prison for her work as part of the revolutionary George Jackson Brigade. A white working-class butch from rural Oregon, Brown was known as the "Gentleman Bank Robber," for a number of years in Seattle. In this interview with Kate Raphael, she talks about coming out, becoming politicized and her relationship with Black Panther Assata Shakur. Bo Brown is now dealing with Lewy-Body dementia; a benefit for her expenses will be held on May 13 in Oakland. (If you can't make it but want to contribute, you can do so here.)
Sparks Fly for BO! May 13th, 2017 First Unitarian Church 685 14th Street Oakland Ca. 94612 Doors Open at 6pm
Event will include: - First screening from documentary "The Gentleman Bank Robber" - Live Music: -Public Cry -Blackberri - Mama's Boyz - Rashida - Speakers - Food. - Live screen printing of Vintage queer T-shirts! - Prints, Posters & Art for Sale: -Just Seeds - Doug Minkler - Terry Forman - Miranda Bergman & more
Rachel Herzing, co-founder of the prison abolition group Critical Resistance, and former US-held political prisoner Laura Whitehorn, talk about the findings of a unique delegation to Palestine comprising U.S. labor and academic solidarity activists as well as former political prisoners and anti-incarceration activists. This was the first delegation to focus on solidarity between US and Palestinian prisoners.
Recently returned from a ten-day trip to the Israeli-colonized Palestine
At a moment of growing resistance to state violence and injustice the world over, a delegation of nineteen anti-prison, labor and scholar-activists from the United States traveled to Palestine in March 2016. Our delegation included former U.S.-held political prisoners and social prisoners, former Black Panther Party members, prison abolitionists, trade unionists and university professors. We are the first U.S. delegation to Palestine to focus specifically on political imprisonment and solidarity between Palestinian and U.S. prisoners. Our delegation also focused on recent labor struggles in Palestine for bread and dignity, and on the struggles of Palestinian intellectuals to assert the rightful claims of Indigenous Palestinians to their land, culture and history.
On this April 17, the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners, we demand freedom for the 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners currently held in Israeli jails and all those fighting for justice everywhere, including political prisoners in U.S. prisons.
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we speak with Sr. Megan Rice, who along with two fellow activists was recently freed from federal prison, after a court set aside their convictions for sabotage at the Y12 nuclear facility in Missouri. The three are members of Transform Now Plowshares, which engages in symbolic destruction of nuclear armaments. The 83-year-old Rice talks about how she came to the decision to take an action which could have resulted in spending the rest of her life in prison. Our conversation also touches on feminism and the Catholic Church.
We pay tribute to revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama, who died last week. This segment has quotes from speeches, interviews, and movies from Yuri's life. Yuri is emblematic of the principle that it's our obligation to be as revolutionary as we possibly can by opening our hearts to everyone around us and refusing to sacrifice our demands for what's right on the altar of what's expedient, popular or possible. Listen and you will feel her contagious spirit.
On today's show Kate Rafael discusses the complexities of the Zimmerman case. Click here for Kate's view of Trayvon Martin's support actions and the other interviews as they aired on KPFA. Thank you for listening and supporting Women's Magazine and KPFA. 59:50 min.
Prisoner Hunger Strikes:
In the first half hour, we discuss the uses and usefulness of prisoner hunger strikes, from Palestine to California, with Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, Palestinian Human Rights Association. Addamer was founded in 1992 to support Palestinian Political Prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. Addamer shares in all the networks working on Palestinian Human Rights and advocates for the release of all Palestinian prisoners, among many other human rights activities. 21:12 min.
In the second half, Erica Bridgeman talks with Ian Waynsler and Stella Lawson, organizers of the first ever queer astrology conference, which happened on July 20 & 21 in San Francisco. Ian and Stella talk about astrology and what queer astrology means to them. The Conference also included a memorial to Jack Fertig who died in 2012. 27:40 min.
Pamela Olson discusses her new memoir Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland. An East Oklahoma girl, Olson stumbled into Palestine and ended up staying for two years and becoming the press coordinator for a presidential candidate.
Carolina de Robertis talks with Nina Serrano and reads from her novel, Perla, which explores the legacy of Argentina's "dirty war" through one of the "stolen children" of the disappeared.
De Robertis grew up in a Uruguayan family that immigrated to England, Switzerland, and California. Prior to completing her first book, she worked in women’s rights organizations for ten years, on issues ranging from rape to immigration. She makes her permanent home in Oakland, California, though she is spending 2013 in Montevideo, where she’s working on her third novel, about migration, sexual frontiers, and the tango’s Old Guard in early twentieth century South America.
Carolina asked you to buy her book at your local independent bookstore.
Women's Magazine's Kate Rafael discusses the new Syrian opposition coalition with Afraa Jalabi of the Syrian National Council and Mohja Kahf, Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Arkansas.
courtesy: Mohja Kahf
"This is not your father's revolution," says Mohja Kahf. There is an active and escalating non-violent, grass roots movement in Syria. Mohja and Afraa give a personal and political account of the Syrian revolution. There are over 33,000 prisoners of conscience in Syria prisons. 472 are women. They have been there for over a year without due process. Stay in tune with the grassroots movements in Syria through links on Stop the Killing Campaign Facebook page.
"Brides of Peace": In the Middle of Madness, Four Women March for Nonviolence in Syria
By Mohja Kahf
Four young Syrian women staged a women’s march for nonviolence through the middle of Medhat Basha market in Damascus, Syria, on November 21, 2012. In the finest tradition of subversive street theater, all four dressed in bridal gowns and veils, carrying red banners... Read more
Television for the Discerning Feminist Palate
Is television shaping ideas about women, simply reflecting, or are the lives of television women completely divorced from the lives of real women? Next we dissect gender roles on some of the hottest shows on television (Nashville, Revenge, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Girls) with bloggers Camille Morgenstern of TurnUpTheSass and Anna Sterling of feministing.com. 27:02 min.
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To listen to the entire show click here. 59:49 min.
Marti Kheel was a passionate advocate for both women's liberation and defense of the earth and animals. Lisa Dettmer of Women's Magazine presents a moving tribute to Marti and an interview from 2005 in which Marti makes the connection between feminism and defense of the earth and animals. Audio 28:47
or Get MP3 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/12/18709171.php
The Bay Area Arab Women's Conference is an annual event held in San Francisco. Kate Raphael talks with Loubna Qatami, director of the Arab Cultural and Community Center, about the great lineup for this year's conference, the history and accomplishments of this groundbreaking women's event. Audio 14:07
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Taeva Scheffler of Prison Activist Resource Center talks about how women are organizing to support the California prisoners' hunger strike, now in its third week. 25 mins.
We also speak with author and performer Conscious about her groundbreaking one-woman show based on her book Getting Unstuck: Homeless to Hollywood. Conscous will talk about her extraordinary career and the invisibility of male to female to female HIV transmission. Contact Conscious on Facebook
Women's Magazine presents a special hour-long documentary of the extraordinary life of the late political prisoner and freedom fighter Marilyn Buck.
Using interviews with Marilyn's friends, chosen family, fellow prisoners and lawyers, as well as clips from her own films, poetry and interviews with her, the piece asks the question, "What is the meaning of a life dedicated to resistance?"
A Bay Area memorial will be held November 7 from 4-7:30 at the First Unitarian Church at 685 14th Street in Oakland.
In New York City a memorial will be held Saturday November 13, 4:30-10:30 at the Shabazz Center, 3940 Broadway, Manhattan, followed by dinner and the Freedom Dance for political prisoners.
See Marilyn Buck's website for more information about these events and her life.
Special thanks to all who participated in this documentary especially Marilyn's co-defendents and former political prisoners Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans, and her lawyer Soffiyah Elijah. Also to those who provided the footage of Assata Shakur and the old San Francisco Newsreel films.
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