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

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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/

May Day 2017 on Women's Magazine: Dissent, Love, Hope Through Writing and Action

L.A. Kauffman Discusses Direct Action

As protests shut down ICE offices, corporations and federal buildings around the country, L.A. Kauffman talks about the history of radical action in the U.S. beginning May Day 1971, when an audacious collection of radical announced that "If the government won't stop the war, we'll stop the government."  The extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten action in Washington, D.C. leads into a discussion of movements from the anti-nuclear power protests of the 1970s and 80s to the AIDS action movement and the 1999 Battle of Seattle, all woven together through a set of organizing structures and tactics heavily influenced by the feminist and radical queer movements.

Kauffman, the author of the new book, DIRECT ACTION: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism, challenges the idea that the effectiveness of protests should be judged either by their size or their ability to directly accomplish their stated objectives.

A longer version of this interview will air in two weeks at the next KPFA fund drive. Tune in to Women's Magazine on May 15th.

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

Also on today's show:
Carolina de Robertis

Monday, April 10, 2017: Author Emily Hobson

Emily Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left.

The book is a sprawling history of rarely acknowledged parts of the LGBT movement of the seventies, eighties and nineties. Through the work and words of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism, the book chronicles gay opposition to the Vietnam War, lesbian support for grand jury resisters and women who fought back against sexual violence, queer organizing against gentrification, the New Right, and U.S. intervention in Central America which helped birth the AIDS direct action movement.

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

Also on today's show:

Director Mina Morita