Monday, February 8, 2021: Allie Lahey and Raha Mirabdal talk about East Bay DSA, plus Abby Ginzberg's a new film, "Waging Change"

On KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we talk to 3 feminist located in the Bay Area doing some exciting work.  First we talk to Allie Lahey and Raha Mirabdal about the Democratic Socialist of America and the Work they are doing with DSA. DSA has been one of the fastest growing leftist groups in the U.S. with membership now over 85 thousand and with members being elected to public office all across the country.  They are also doing exciting work locally on getting Universal Health Care in California. 

Allie Lahey is Co-Chair of East Bay DSA and Chair of the Socialist Feminist Working Group. She works in reproductive rights and is transitioning into nursing. Raha Mirabdal (She/Her) is a Registered Nurse from the Bay Area.  She is a DSA member and organizer in the DSA's Medicare for All Committee. 

And then we talk to film director Abby Ginzberg - a true Bay Area hero, whose films highlight struggles of race, gender and social justice. Her new film “Waging Change” is having its SF premiere on KQED on Fri. Feb. 19, 2021 at 8:00 pm. It features Saru Jayaraman, Lily Tomlin, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Jane Fonda, who have been working tirelessly for One Fair Wage, a campaign to end the sub-minimum wage for tip workers who in a majority of states earn just $2.13 per hour. 

Abby Ginzberg is A Peabody award winner, and her recent work includes “And Then They Came for Us”, about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WW II and the current Muslim travel ban; and “Agents of Change”, which examines the untold story of racial conditions on college campuses that led to a successful struggle for black studies.

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Labor Day 2016 on KPFA Women's Magazine: Black Women Leading the Labor Movement

Black Women Leading the Labor Movement

"And Still I Rise is a part of The Black Worker Initiative, a bold and exciting new effort launched by the Institute for Policy Studies, which is deeply committed to helping achieve both the historic and contemporary aims of the labor and civil rights movements."

This Labor Day on Women's Magazine, we speak with Robin Williams, Director of Civil Rights and Community Action for the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.  Williams joined UFCW as an 18-year-old Safeway worker with a new baby, and has become one of its key organizers.  She is one of 27 Black women labor leaders profiled in And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders, a report from the Black Worker Initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies.

"If I'm not making a difference then I don't want to be there." Robin Williams

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Also on today's show:
Dancing to End Violence Against Women

Monday, May 2, 2016: Trade Policy Demystified

Professors Maria Floro and Stephanie Seguino, two of the premiere voices on gender equity and globalization, demystify trade policy. Did NAFTA cost US jobs or not? Is free trade good or bad for developing economies and is it possible to have a policy that works for workers in both rich and poor countries? How does trade policy affect women and gender inequality in developing and developed countries? Find out on this week’s show.

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Also on today's show:
Solidarity between US and Palestinian prisoners
Remembering Eileen Hansen