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).

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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, January 23, 2017: Linda Burnham speaks at "People Get Ready"

"This is not such a hot time for you or for me..." -June Jordan

Linda Burnham

Speaking at the Center for Political Education's one-day conference, "People Get Ready: Building Resistance in the Trump Era," Linda Burnham, research director of Domestic  Workers United and cofounder of the Women of Color Resource Center speaks about dialectics: how we resolve apparent conflicts between dealing with immediate realities and urgencies and the longer arc and deeper dynamics of history; how to build the ranks of the left at the same time that we try to build the broadest possible alignment against authoritarianism, and the relationship between revolutionary imagination and the world as it actually is. Burnham's speech is aired in its entirety.

"There's no way to understand what just happened by following the news."-Burnham


Coming off the tremendous outpouring of energy on Saturday all over the country, this thrilling talk will leave you invigorated and motivated to get on to the next organizing challenge!

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Angela Davis at the Women's March on Washington
KPFA apprenticeship

Monday, January 2, 2017: Cultures of Resistance: The Canadian Jewish Left

Ester Reiter, Senior Scholar in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, talks about her new book, A Future Without Hate or Need: the Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada. It's a fascinating history of an immigrant community where culture and politics were intricately linked.

Listen now or Get MP3. 35:53 min

About A Future Without Hate or Need:

Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity—their identity as Jews—with their internationalist class politics.

purchase at your local bookstore, find at your library or
order online at https://btlbooks.com/book/future-without-hate-or-need

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

Also on today's show:
The Dance Brigade

Monday, December 19, 2016: Feminist culture producers make sense of the moment

What lessons should and shouldn’t we take from the election debacle, and how do we seize on the strengths we have right now to turn in a new direction? 

Kate Raphael sits down with Uruguayan born novelist Carolina de Robertis,  filmmaker Pamela Harris and acclaimed poet, performer and novelist Aya de Leon.

Carolina De Robertis is author of The Invisible Mountain, Perla and The Gods of Tango and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is also a former staff member at Bay Area Women Against Rape and co-founder of Exhale, a nonjudgmental after-abortion talkline which calls itself Pro-Voice.

Pamela Harris’s extensive credits include the award-winning documentary Land of Promise: The Story of Allensworth, about a historically black town in California that faces the threat of encroachment by agribusiness; Waging a Living, a PBS documentary about low-wage working families and the Oscar-nominated Long Night’s Journey into Day, about South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A former Fulbright Fellow, she holds a masters degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.

Aya de Leon’s is Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, teaching poetry and spoken word at UC Berkeley. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice, Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine, and has been featured on Def Poetry, in Essence Magazine, and various anthologies and journals. She was named best discovery in theater for 2004 by the SF Chronicle for “Thieves in the Temple : The Reclaiming of Hip Hop.” Her first novel, UPTOWN THIEF, a Latina Robin Hood heist story, was published earlier this year.

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

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