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, August 31, 2020: US Military and COVID in Okinawa and Guahan: What Do Colonization and Militarism Have to Do with It?

US Sailors infected with Covid docked at Guam

News about the US military spreading COVID in Okinawa and Guahan has been reported on NPR, the UK Guardian, and other news sites. On today's show you have the chance to listen to long-time Okinawan feminist activist Suzuyo Takazato. She served as Naha City Council member, is a founder of Okinawa Women Act against Military Violence, and has devoted her, life working for demilitarized, genuine security for women and girls and for people of Okinawa and beyond. Also, in conversation is Lisa Natividad, professor of Social Work at the University of Guam and long-time activist working for decolonization of Guahan, the island’s original name.  Finally, Ayano Ginoza, professor at University of the Ryukyus will add to the conversation by analyzing the current conditions from Island Studies perspective.

We have a chance, in this moment of calling for the defunding and dismantling of the police to make the connection between here and there. Think about the police as a local segment of the national military apparatus, the military actors we face directly. What would it take to dismantle the institutions altogether? Imagine all what the nearly $2.5 billions per day the US spends on national military could pay for!!!! This amount does not include billions spent by all the cities in the US. And the bigger question is: What values must we embrace to be able to imagine genuine, life-affirming security?

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

For more information see following reports:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/16/902977035/japanese-residents-concerned-about-covid-19-at-okinawa-u-s-military-base

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/okinawa-demands-answers-from-us-after-61-marines-contract-coronovirus 

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/army-surges-past-7-000-coronavirus-cases-as-military-tops-21-000-positive-tests-1.638215 

Monday, May 18, 2020: Jovelyn Richards Hosts The Space Between Us - Women and Rage, the Space Between Rage and Healing

Jovelyn Richards host of KPFA Women's Magazine: The Space Between Us interviews singer and fashion designer Hawaii's Dion'e born inter-sexed. Dion'e story of mothering and marriage was interrupted when she was convicted of a crime she had not committed and what happened when she was forced into a men's facility despite her cry of gender reality.

To sample music by Dion'e Tamurè go to YouTube. To find out more about Dion'e's fashion design and her amazing work with people who are homeless go to Paradise Island Fashion Week. This year the show will be presented virtually.

"Allow no one to dim your leading light." -Dion'e

The Space Between Us, looks at women, trauma, and rage, the space between rage and healing.

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

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Monday, September 9, 2019: Story, Art, Action! Muralismo

Julieta Kusnir talks with muralist Juana Alicia, one of the seven visionary creators of the iconic Maestrapeace mural project on San Francisco's Women's Building.  The murals are 35 years old this year and a spectacular new book from Heyday Press commemorates both the original production and the restoration, along with profiles of the artists (Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Edythe Boone, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Meera Desai, Yvonne Littleton, and Irene Pérez), and work by seven Bay Area poets including Alice Walker, Genny Lim and Sandra Cisneros and Dvora Major with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis. The artists and writers will celebrate the book with two upcoming events in San Francisco.

Maestrapeace at the San Francisco Public Library

• Sep 14 2019, 1pm
  San Francisco Public Library - Koret Auditorium
  San Francisco, CA.
  
• Maestrapeace: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural
  Oct 08 2019
  California Historical Society
  San Francisco, CA.

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

Also on today's show:

Youth Climate Warriors 

The Life of a Web Series

Monday, July 22, 2019: Police and Corps out of Pride, Women Led Resistance in Western Sahara

Today on Women’s Magazine we look at the resistance to the mainstreaming of Pride events in San Francisco and nationally.  We talk to Mary Sue from Gay Shame and artist and activist Alex U. Inn about the demonstration at SF Pride this year against the presence of police and large corporations and the resistance nationally. Click on Alex's name to see how to elect her to the SF Pride Board of Directors. July 22nd is the deadline to become a member so you can vote for Alex. Also check SFPride.org for more information about the Board of Directors and more.

And Sharon Sobotta talks to the film team of the new documentary Western Sahara: Africa's Last Colony which they produced in collaboration with the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley about the women who are resisting the last colony in Africa. Watch the movie on DemocracyNow.org

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

Monday, January 21, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

The Space Between Us, starts the new year with Women & Comedy. Host Jovelyn Richards interviews Nina G. author of Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn't Make It.

Nina G., Chey Bell and Jeanette Marin share more than a funny bone they are women living with disabilities in the world of comedy.  KPFA host Jovelyn Richards explores the spaces between the industry and women and the politics of what makes us laugh. Follow the links above to find the artists on FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter, Vimeo and/or YouTube.

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

Invisible Disabilities Comedy Show

Sunday, January 27 

7:00PM   Price: $16.00

Sacramento Punchline

2100 Arden Way 

Sacramento, CA 95825

All shows are 18 & over with valid photo ID.
There is a two drink minimum per person.
Cameras and video/audio recording devices are not permitted.

Ticket sales shut off online before doors open; there may be tickets available at the show.
All non-headliner shows' lineups are subject to change.

General Admission: $16.00

Drew Kimzey and Aliada Present: Invisible Disabilities! Comedians from all over Northern California tell jokes about their secret struggles. Not all disabilities can be seen!

Host: Amber Whitford
Headliner: Nina G
Featuring: Coral Best

Kelley Nicole
Sureni Weerasekera
Nicole Tran
Anica Cihla
Jeanette Marin
Emily Pedersen
Chey Bell

Monday, July 2, 2018: L.A. Kauffman, author of DIRECT ACTION

Immigrants Are Welcome Here! Stories of Struggle, Triumph and Resistance

This week on Women's Magazine, after a week of historic protests around the country protesting the government's inhumane treatment of refugees from Latin America, we hear three stories about immigration:

First up, L.A. Kauffman, author of the book DIRECT ACTION and the forthcoming HOW TO READ A PROTEST, and a tactical coordinator at Thursday's women's mass civil disobedience at the Senate Office Building, takes us inside the largest women's direct action in history. How did it come about, what happened, and what comes next?

photo by L.A. Kauffman

Get MP3 and listen now. 15:36 min

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

Also on today's show:
Filmmaker, Valerie Lapin
Novelist, Yang Huang

Monday, April 30, 2018: Embrace Your Voice

Sharon Sobota produces and hosts today's show. Women of different generations and backgrounds share their stories and what inspires them.

Tarana Burke, founder of #metoo talks about her decade long work against sexual violence and healing.

Kathy D'Arcy is a poet and youth organizer living in Ireland, writing political poetry, women's rights and reproductive health care. Find her books through her website.

Shanthi Sekaran author of Lucky Boy talks about her non-linear path to writing and her now novel about immigrants from Mexico living in Berkeley, CA.

Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park ranger and blogger, reads from her memoir Sign My Name to Freedom and talks with Sharon about her amazing life.  Betty says, "I am now living in the future that I helped to create."


Click here to listen now. 59:59 min

Monday, March 12, 2018: Best-Selling Author Kristin Hannah

Then Kristin Hannah, author of the #1 bestsellers The Nightingale and The Great Alone, joins Kate Raphael to talk about creating compelling stories of women's resistance and resilience.

Get MP3 of this segment. 19:52 min

Kristin will be in town on Monday, March 19 for a talk at Books, Inc. Opera Plaza. (This event is ticketed.) Kristin will be in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel, award-winning journalist, co-founder of the news site Berkeleyside, and author of Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Women Against Imperialism Oral History Project

Monday, February 12, 2018: Rabi’a Keeble - Black Women Making History Right Now

Rabi’a Keeble is founder of Qalbu Maryam, the nation’s second “women’s mosque.” Qalbu Maryam (Mary’s Heart) is an inclusive mosque, open to people of all genders and faiths.  Rabi’a is also a nurse, an activist, poet, writer and speaker. A convert to Islam after living for ten years as an Orthodox Jew, she founded Qalbu Maryam in order to promote women’s leadership.


Please donate generously so that we may continue this very important outreach and work.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 1:03:47 

Also on today's show:
Yolanda Holder

Monday, January 29, 2018: How Did We Get Here? Ursula LeGuin

Ursula K. Le Guin
21 October 1929–22 January 2018

Acclaimed novelist Karen Joy Fowler talks about her beloved friend, Ursula K. LeGuin.  We also hear clips from a few of LeGuin’s interviews and speeches. LeGuin, who has been recognized as one of the most important writers of the last century, frequently talked about fantasy and science fiction as ways of imagining deeper realities than what exists.

"...we'll need writers who can remember freedom..."
-Ursula K. Le Guin



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

Also on today's show:
Gymnastics Abuse Scandal
Remembering Mo Kalman

Monday, November 6, 2017: Averting US War in Korea

Saturday is Veterans' Day, but once it was Armistice Day. The Korean War ended with an armistice 64 years ago; a peace treaty was supposed to be negotiated but never was. As 45 heads to South Korea, we speak with Gwyn Kirk of Women Cross DMZ and Suze Duggan of Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans (HOBAK) about what ordinary Koreans want and the impact of the US military bases in South Korea.

Listen now or Get MP3. 35:41 min

Women Cross DMZ

Women Cross DMZ are women peacemakers from around the world walking for peace in Korea. We are Nobel Peace Laureates, feminist authors, peace activists, human rights lawyers, professors, former parliamentarians, faith leaders, humanitarian aid workers, filmmakers, artists, a retired Army Colonel and a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Click here for an archive of Women Cross DMZ webinars on Youtube.

Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans

Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans are a collective of Koreans in the Bay Area, including queer and trans Koreans, mixed race Koreans and Korean adoptees, who are committed to building solidarity towards peace and demilitarization in Korea. Find them on FaceBook.

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

For accurate information, news and analysis on Korea visit:
Korea Policy Institute
Zoom in Korea
Social Justice Journal article - US Standoff with North Korea: Why Talk Is the Only Realistic Option

Veterans for Peace: sign the Peoples Peace Treaty 

Local Events this week:
Thursday, November 09, 2017
International Sanctions and the Sino-North Korean Border Economy Colloquium
5-7 pm
145 Dwinelle Hall - UC Berkeley
Featured Speaker: Kevin Gray, University of Sussex
Sponsor: Center for Korean Studies

Friday, November 10, 2017
Averting U.S. War on North Korea
7-9 pm
First Congregational Church of Oakland (United Church of Christ)
2501 Harrison St, Oakland, California 94612
Hosted by The Center for Political Education

Saturday, November 11, 2017
Korea Peace Walk: No War on Korea!
Saturday at 1-4 pm

Meet at 1pm at 23rd and Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA
Hosted by HOBAK - Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans and Korea Policy Institute

Also on today's show:
Defending Academic Freedom at SF State

Monday, October 2, 2017: Michelle Cox, J.L. Doucette and Kate Raphael on place-based mysteries

Craft is the topic on this week's Women's Magazine

In the second half of the show, Kate discusses writing mysteries that emphasize the sense of a place, with fellow mystery authors Michelle Cox and J.L. Doucette. 

Cox's wildly successful Henrietta & Inspector Howard series is set in Chicago during the 1930s.

Doucette's acclaimed debut novel Last Seen utilizes the harsh landscape of rural Wyoming to create a taut psychological thriller.

Listen now or Get MP3. 26:40 min

Join us for an hour of warmth and humor with women who are making a difference through culture.


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


Also on today's show:
Reem Assil, activist and baker

Events:

Tuesday, October 3, 7pm
518 Valencia, San Francisco
(near 16th & Mission BART)
hosted by Middle East Children’s Alliance
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away

Discussion, food and cake!
All book sales will benefit Middle East Children’s Alliance


cosponsored by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!), Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Jewish Voice for Peace, Art Forces, KPFA Women’s Magazine and San Francisco Women In Black

https://www.richmondrainbowpride.org/

http://www.thefreight.org/event/1569104-juntos-por-puerto-rico-berkeley/

Monday, August 7, 2017: Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga’s play THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE takes off from the story of La Malinche, a Native woman who in myth became the collaborator of the colonizers of Mexico.

Playwright and poet Cherrie Moraga, co-editor of the class feminist of color book, This Bridge Called My Back, discusses her new play, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, with Lisa Dettmer.  In a time-traveling re-encounter with a 16th century female slave-turned-slaveholder, a Mexican woman in the early stages of Alzheimers is forced to concede a radically revised ledger on her life; its loves and losses, in this play which opens at San Francisco's Brava Theater on August 10.  The Stanford Daily says the play has "the power to render its audience speechless – to wrench us from our academic stupor, remind us of the importance of good art, and make us feel a little more awake because of it."

The Mathematics of Love

Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:00 PM PT  
Sunday, August 27, 2017 3:00 PM PT
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA, 94110

Purchase tickets

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

Also on today's show:
Diana Paul and Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED LAST WEEK DURING PLEDGE DRIVE.  IF YOU DIDN'T GET A CHANCE, CHECK OUT THE SHOW IN THE ARCHIVE AND YOU CAN STILL GIVE AND REQUEST A THANK YOU GIFT FROM KPFA.

Monday, July17, 2017: The Space Between Women and Financial Literacy

What is the Space Between Women and Money?

Jovelyn Richards hosts her live call-in show, The Space Between Us. Today the theme is the space between women and financial literacy with guest Veronica Dangerfield, award winning Financial Educator and Alison Mata, program manager of Oakland Women's Center. Listen to women's personal stories, memories, consciousness and the impact of money in our lives.

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

Oakland Women's Center is excited to announce the first annual Smart Women, Smart Money Conference on Saturday, July 29, 2017!  

For more info go to https://sites.google.com/view/smartwomen-smartmoney/home

This conference is designed to improve the financial trajectory of the participant's life! The event will be held at California State University East Bay, Downtown Oakland and will run from 9AM-3:30PM. The full day of activities includes workshops, lunch, and raffle prizes! Workshops include: Salary Negotiation, Budgeting is Sexy, Investing in Your Business, and more!

Tickets can be purchased HERE
Pricing is as follows: $25 for 18-30, $35 for 30+.  They are offering limited number of $10 discounted tickets for low-income participants.  Call them today at (510) 823-2120 to get the code!

Monday, July 10, 2017: Occupation: Palestine

Colonialism - Past, Present and Future

Find this book at your local bookstore or online.

Fida Jiryis, a Palestinian born and raised outside of Palestine now living in Ramallah, discusses the experience of returning from exile to live inside Israel's borders, the differences between writing in English and Arabic, and why she chose to write a women's fiction book with a Canadian non-Palestinian protagonist.

Fida is one of the contributors to the best-selling new book, Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation, a partnership between the Israeli project Breaking the Silence and U.S.-based authors Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon.

Listen now or Get MP3. 22:29 min

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

Find more articles by Fida Jiryis below:

Diary: London Review of Books

One Border, Two Worlds

Amidst Fragmentation and Dispossession: Which Palestine?

It is only 20 minutes from my village to the ruins of Iqrit — but 63 years of dispossession

A Taste of Freedom: Palestinians who Have Returned from Abroad and Their Desire to Leave Again

Why Land Day still matters

Palestinians in Israel: The Struggle for Rights

Also on today's show:
Occupation: America

Monday, May 22, 2017: Radical Hope: Letters of Love & Dissent in Dangerous Times

Jewelle Gomez reads from her letter as editor Carolina de Robertis listens.

Thanks so much to all of you who gave last week during our show.  You rock!

This week on Women's Magazine we will hear from six of the contributors to the new anthology RADICAL HOPE: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times.

At the book launch at Laurel Bookstore on May 3, editor Carolina de Robertis (The Invisible Mountain) was joined by contributors Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Aya de Leon (Uptown Thief), Faith Adiele (The Nigerian-Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems), Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) and Kate Schatz (Rad Women Worldwide) for an evening of inspiring and challenging words and heart-healing community.

Thanks to our friends from Making Contact for this audio. We are offering the book as a thank you gift for your donation of $80 or more to KPFA . If you missed the show on Monday you can still donate securely at KPFA.org and request a copy of Radical Hope. Thanks for your support.

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


-Reel Resistance presents Trapped
Wednesday, May 24
6:30 PM-Reception and Hearty Food, graciously provided by our hosts, TD and Barbara Daniell
7:00 PM -Program
A benefit for the Dr. Willie Parker Fund for Abortion Access in the South.

Free admission; donations will be requested

Contact DaniellsDin@gmail.com or 510-277-6669 for a reservation, and location information.

-La Colectiva de Mujeres
Celebrating Quinceañera/15th Anniversary
Wednesday, May 24th, 6 - 9:30 PM
at San Francisco War Memorial Building

Ageing with Dignity Campaign Fund Benefit

Monday, March 27, 2017: Michfest

Today we talk to Lee Evans and Tara Shannon contributors to the new Lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom’s Issue Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.  And we also talk to Sinister Wisdom editor Julie R. Enszer about the newest issue which  honors the forty-year legacy of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (1976–2015).  Michfest was the embodiment of radical Feminist separatist collaboration, transformational self-defined autonomous spaces, a commitment to sisterhood and matriarchal culture, and a musical city sprung from the earth for one week in the woods each year.

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


Also on today's show:
Lesbian Culture

Monday, March 20, 2017: The Space Between Us with Jovelyn Richards

KPFA Women's Magazine presents a new format that will air every third Monday. Each program of The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards will examine 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.

Today we discuss the space between Black women and white women by answering the question, when did you first realize who you are and how you knew the space between you and others? Judy Grahn, author of A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet joins us.

This is a live, call-in show.

The next Space Between Us will air on April 17, 2017.






Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Monday, February 6, 2017: When Abortion Was Illegal

Then, a week after Mike Pence promised the DC "March for Life" a Supreme Court justice who would Make Abortion Illegal Again, we listen to part of a radio documentary adapted from the film WHEN ABORTION WAS ILLEGAL by the Women's International News Gathering Service. This program was adapted for radio by Dorothy Fadiman and Frieda Werden.




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

Also on today's show:
Hidden Figures
Pauli Murray