Monday, October 28, 2019: Climate Justice Activist Mishka Banuri; Gaum Senator Sabina Flores Perez Fights Colonialism

Today we talk focus on climate justice.  We talk  to 18 year old Climate Justice activist Mishka Banuri from Utah who helped craft and pass the Utah Climate Resolution, the first of its kind in a traditionally conservative state.

Mishka is the co-founder of the Utah Youth Environmental Solutions, a youth-led group that engages with their community on environmental issues. She has also been an organizer for the Utah People’s Climate March in 2016. The focus of her work is to empower youth to hold statewide organizations and institutions accountable to climate change and build the youth climate movement in Utah. As a Pakistani Muslim American, Mishka seeks to build bridges and empower Muslim youth and students of color in Utah.

 And Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu talks to Guam Senator Sabina Flores Perez who is creating policies that promote sustainability, indigenous rights, and peace. As an indigenous CHamoru of Guåhan, Perez is informed by her cultures over 3500 years of close connection with nature, which was disrupted by colonialism. She struggles against  the U.S. military and works on issues of  the contamination and privatization of their drinking water and lands, deforestation of native forest that is home to their endangered species, and cultural historic sites and ancestral burials and ultimately the cultural connection and their identity as a people.

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

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

Today's show in the first half is hosted by Jovelyn and Theresa Adams. Candis Watts Smith co-author with Tehama Lopez Bunyasi of Stay Woke talks with Jovelyn in a pre-recorded interview about Black Lives Matter, staying woke, her writings and her work in developing a more equitable society. Follow Candis on Twitter @ProfCandis.

Get your very own copy of Stay Woke at NYU Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or request it at your local library!

In the second half of the show Kin Folkz and Jovelyn talk with Margo Okasawa-Rey about the book Gendered Lives, Intersectional Perspective, 7th ed. co-edited with Gwyn Kirk.  Who we are in the world or our identities and the structure of power is examined. Also they discuss womanists and feminists and why some Black women have trouble identifying as feminists. This segment was pre-recorded.

The book is available through Oxford Press and as an ebook through Red Shelf.






The Space Between Us is a live call-in show every third Monday of each month on KPFA Women's Magazine.

Click here to listen now. 59:59 min

Monday, September 9, 2019: Youth Climate Warriors

A major theme of the SF Women's Building mural is water - one of the central images is the ocean Orisha/Goddess Yemaya - and the connections between women's activism and care for the Earth. Youth climate strike organizer Xiye Bastida speaks with Tiokasin Ghosthorse of First Voices Radio about indigenous traditions of stewardship for the earth and waterways as she waits for Swedish activist Greta Thunberg's boat to arrive in New York. And we'll hear part of Greta Thunberg's address to the French Parliament about why youth have had to step up to demand that adults take the climate crisis seriously (courtesy of WINGS - the Women's International News Gathering Service). Bay Area youth and adult allies will join the worldwide Youth Climate Strike September 20-27.

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

Also on today's show:
Story, Art, Action! Muralismo
The Life of a Web Series

Bay Area Youth Climate Strike Actions:

SEPTEMBER 20th: Youth & Allies Strike, SF

This youth-led climate march will kick off Global Climate Strike Week.

10 AM. - Nancy Pelosi's office
90  7th St. in San Francisco


​The March will proceed to a series of targets contributing to climate breakdown.

SEPTEMBER 23 & 25: Direct Action in the Streets

​9/23 - Union Square San Francisco - Use swarms, banners, theater, dance & music to disrupt traffic & communicate with drivers.

9/25 - Montgomery BART San Francisco - Confront the corporations and governments that threaten our climate. Paint street murals to represent a sustainable world.


Both days are opportunities to participate in non violent direct action to disrupt business. Take a training to learn how participate safely. 

SEPTEMBER 27th: Strike Against Chevron   

9 AM- 12 PM 
6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon

​Join youth and allies to protest Chevron, one of the world’s biggest polluters headquartered here in the Bay Area.

​We will be demanding that Chevron gets off of fossil fuels by 2025 and that they stop using their influence to harm frontline communities and our future. We also demand that Governor Newsom hold Chevron accountable.

Monday, October 8, 2018: Family Stories of Resistance and Resilience - Berkeley High School Women's Student Union

Listen to a chat with Simone Ewell-Szabò, one of the co-presidents of Berkeley High School's Women's Student Union.  A video the group produced last week in response to the Kavanaugh hearings has gotten over 20,000 views on YouTube.

The students are holding a festival for International Day of the Girl on Oct 11 at lunch hour across the street from Berkeley High School. There will be big sweeps of paper for people to paint, food and things for sale to raise money for women's shelters in Berkeley, and  tables with women's literature, poems and a place to express your feelings.

Listen now or Get MP3 11:35 min

Click here for the entire show. 59:50 min


Also on today's show:
Novelist Barbara Artson
Artist Lucia Ippolito

Women's History Month Special

Vylma V of KPFA Talkies and Ritmo hosts this special Women's History Month program with a Latinx Focus.

Joining Vylma V in the first half hour are Teresa Mejía, director of the San Francisco Women's Building and Juana Alicia, educator, activist, artist and one of the creators of the SF Women's Building mural.

To help with the publication of a book in honor of the mural go to Maestra Peace Works. Contribute to the kickstarter fund on the site.






In the second half of the show Vylma V features San Francisco poet laureate, Kim Shuck. Kim holds an poetry event at Adobe Books on Sunday, April 8th at 4 PM.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Monday, March 19, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us

On today's show Linda Gartz speaks with KPFA Women's Magazine host Jovelyn Richards of a fractured Chicago community in the 1960's in her new book, Redlined. This is a personal, political, social book.

Redlined exposes the racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of its neighborhood’s racial change. Based on long-hidden letters and diaries, this vivid memoir cracks open and lays bare complicated truths of marriage, sexual freedom, and race relations in a devastated landscape.

The book will be available at your local bookstore next month.


In the second part of today's show Jovelyn interviews Selena Hernandez, 4th generation Mexican American about her journey to discover her identity through studying Spanish and dance. She credits her grandfather for inspiring her to learn about her culture and history at a young age.

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

Happy 1 Year Birthday to the Space Between Us. If you have any ideas that you would like to share with Jovelyn about future topics for The Space Between Us email her at JovelynRichards@aol.com.

Monday, February 13, 2017: Meet the East Oakland Collective

http://www.eastoaklandcollective.com/

Millennials Igniting Change in East Oakland

Aqueila Lewis talks with Candice Elder, Laksmi Lagares and Maliha James of the East Oakland Collective.  The East Oakland Collective is a cohort of millennials (and other generations) invested in the state of deep East Oakland. Find them on the web (link above), Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Calendar of events.

The East Oakland Collective is a cohort of millennials invested in the state of East Oakland through actionable community work and civic engagement.  Members are influencers that consist of natives, homeowners, residents and allies of the city of Oakland. Members are invested in working towards a better future for the underserved populations and communities of East Oakland.

Candice Elder, Founder/Executive Director

Candice Elder is a native of Oakland and long time resident of East Oakland. She currently resides in District 7 of East Oakland. It was the looming possibility of gentrification and the daily drives through underserved neighborhoods of East Oakland that ignited Candice to form The East Oakland Collective in January 2016.

After being a legal professional for nine years, Candice made a career change to work full time in the non-profit sector as the Executive Coordinator for the Women's Funding Network---the largest philanthropy network of women's funds and foundations in the country. In addition to working full time to make a better world for women and girls, Candice served on the advisory committee for Breaking the Silence Town Hall on Women and Girls of Color in Oakland. The Breaking the Silence dynamic model and initiative is spearheaded by the African American Policy Forum under the great leadership of renowned feminist Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw.

Candice holds a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Masters of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. Candice currently serves on the Board of Directors for the UC Berkeley Black Alumni Club. Candice enjoys hiking with her rambunctious dog, reading, exploring and engaging with the community.

Laksmi Lagares, Chief Strategy Officer

Laksmi Lagares’ purpose is to help people realize they are more than their environment or conditions predispose them to be.

Laksmi is a Civic Leader, C Level Strategist, owner and Principal Consultant at Lagares Consulting. Her firm supports impact and partnership needs of private and public sector companies, schools/ universities, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. Her career includes; 15yrs experience in all aspects of Business Development and Public Relations within: Civic Engagement, Tech, Education, Social Justice, Finance, Advertising and Marketing. She is the curator of Application versus Theory workshops, which have been featured at college campuses across the U.S. including Mills College, UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University. She is a subject matter expert in Diversity and Inclusion with an emphasis on race and equity and her communications styling, crosses cultural and socio economic divides; translating needs to create strategy supporting mutual wins. Laksmi is a Hive Global Leader, Co-Director of New Leaders Council Oakland, a key planner of Oakland’s Breaking the Silence Town Hall; an initiative of Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum, acknowledged by the Obama Administration; and Host Committee member of a three part workshop series facilitated by Dr. Monique Morris, author of Pushout.

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

Also on today's show:
Juana Alicia on the Artist's Role

Monday, January 2, 2016: Cultures of Resistance: The Dance Brigade

Krissy Keefer
Photo by Beatriz Escobar

In part 2 of today's show we talk to Krissy Keefer, Artistic Director of the Dance Brigade, the Bay Area's dynamic multi-racial troupe of women proving that socially relevant dance can be technically brilliant, as well as exuberant with down-home hilarious fun. The Dance Brigade celebrates its 40th anniversary January 13th and 14th with shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Listen now or Get MP3. 19:46 min.

photo by Robbie Sweeny

Joining Dance Brigade to celebrate their historic past on this 40th anniversary will be many artists and musicians who broke the ground on cultural diversity and community engagement in the 70's and 80's. They include international peace activist and vocalist Holly Near and musical director Christelle Durandy, among others. GRACIAS A LA VIDA will celebrate the fusion of art, politics, dance, and music that form the rich and unique foundation of our Bay Area arts community, giving thanks to the collective legacy of Dance Brigade and its local and international collaborators!

January 13-14, 2017
Friday 7:30pm
Saturday 3pm & 7:30pm

Dance Brigade presents 
Gracias a la Vida - Love in a Bitter Time
40th Anniversary Celebration

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
700 Howard Street, SF
Phone: 415-978-2787

TICKETS: $10-$40; $5 Saturday Matinee
CLICK HERE

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

Also on today's show:
The Canadian Jewish Left

Monday, October 3, 2016: Pakistani Film maker, Maheen Zia

Next up Sharon Sobotta interviews Pakistani film maker Maheen Zia about her newest film, Lyari Notes. Through the lives of Hamza Jafri and his students, Lyari Notes provides an insight into just what it takes to have a voice in a country where self expression and music is often drowned out by cycles of violence…

A unique film project where two filmmakers Maheen (Pakistan) and Miriam Chandy Menacherry (India) collaborate to string a new political discourse through music. Lyari Notes is a project about melting boundaries…in spirit as well as how the film is being made.

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

Also on today's show:
Oldest Park Ranger, Betty Reid Soskin

Monday, March 14, 2016: Violence and Youth

We talk to Lina Buffington, the Executive Director of MISSSEY, about their work Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting & Serving Sexually Exploited Youth and  Professor Teiahsha Bankhead,   Associate Director of Restorative Justice For Oakland Youth, who provide alternatives to punitive school discipline and juvenile justice policies. We look at how black girls and women are uniquely affected by state and personal violence and the solutions they are offering to interrupt those cycles of violence.

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

Also on today's show:
Celebrating Grace Lee Boggs

Monday, October 19, 2015:Adrienne Lauby on Fighting Homelessness in Sonoma County (and everywhere)

Women's Magazine talks with Adrienne Lauby, host and producer of Pushing Limits on KPFA, about her work with Homeless Action in Sonoma County.  Adrienne was recently honored for her activism by the Sonoma County Task Force for the Homeless.  We talk about gender dynamics in homeless communities and about creative solutions to the exploding housing crisis in our area.

"Rent control is the first line of defense."

Listen now or Get MP3. 31:13 min

Adrienne with tenant organizer Christine Webster at a rally in Healdsburg

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

Also on today's show:

Pacifica Archives "American Women" project

Monday, April 20, 2015: Chinese feminist Feng Yuan on the Feminist Five

We speak with Chinese feminist Feng Yuan about the arrest and release of the Feminist Five – five young feminists held for over a month for planning International Women’s Day actions around the country.They are Li Tingting, age 25; Zheng Churan, age 25; Wei Tingting, age 26; Wu Rongrong, age 30; and Wang Man, age 33.The activists had begun their advocacy work on Valentine’s Day in 2012, when Li and Wei walked along a busy Beijing commercial area in wedding gowns stained with fake blood to attract attention. They chanted slogans like “Hitting is not intimacy; verbal abuse is not love.” They also distributed anti-domestic ­violence pamphlets and cards to passers­by. Many of the bystanders were sympathetic to their message and complimented them on their bravery.

Listen now or Get MP3. 9:02 min






Soon after the “wounded brides” stunt, young feminist activists organized another attention-grabbing event, called “occupy the men’s room.” The Occupy Wall Street movement had inspired Li to design an activist project in Guangzhou together with Wang, Zheng, and others. They encouraged women waiting in long lines outside restrooms to “occupy” the less-used men’s rooms for 10 minutes, then return the stalls to men after the number of women waiting had been reduced. They called for an increase in the size of women’s public restrooms that would equalize wait times for men and women.

The monthlong ordeal of the Feminist Five began around 11 p.m. on March 6, when police in Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou knocked on the respective doors of Zheng and Li, almost at the exact same moment. In Guangzhou, they held Zheng in a hotel room. In Beijing, police searched Li’s apartment. According to Li’s live-in girlfriend Xiaola (who asked to use a pseudonym), the police felt they had a “gotcha” moment when they found stickers that Li had prepared to use at an anti-sexual harassment rally on March 7, just ahead of International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8 of every year. They subsequently took Li and Xiaola to the police station for interrogation.

The “March 7 Stick-In” was a project Zheng and Li had worked on together; they had planned to distribute the stickers on buses to combat sexual harassment. They had recruited volunteers from different cities through social media platforms.

The Five Feminist were released on bail on April 13 and are still under watch by various authorities.

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

Also on today's show:
COMPAÑERAS: Zapatista Women
SF International Film Festival

Monday February 23, 2015: 4th Monday Live Call-in Show with Lisa Marie and Vylma V

Lisa Marie Rollins and Vylma V

LisaMarie Rollins and Vylma V TALK TO OAKLAND RAPPER MADLINES ABOUT HER NEW EP "WORdPLAY". DRAWING ON HER JAMACIAN ROOTS AND BLENDING OLD AND NEW SCHOOL STYLES MADLINES EMPOWERS WOMEN WITH HER COMMITMENT TO HER ARTISTRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. 

MADlines music draws from an arsenal of influences, her Jamaican roots, Seattle upbringing and experiences teaching at-risk youth in the Bay Area. MADlines effortlessly blends old and new school lyrical styles and sounds. With her commitment to both artistry and social justice MADlines can be found facilitating creative writing classes for incarcerated teens in San Francisco at the Juvenile Justice Center. MADlines new EP WORD PLAY weaves together a unique blend of instrumentals from old favorites like BeanOne (who produced MADlines’ last project, Love Child) as well as Bay Area locals: DJ Pharoahgahmoe, Big Tunes and Phillip Drummond. The result is a diverse musical journey—from Old School Hip Hop, to Reggae Roots and even Trap.

MADlines with Vylma V

"Women conquer with the heart." Concha Buika

Angela Wellman talks with 2 TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNING Afro-Spanish MUSICIAN CONCHA BUIKA . CALLED Fierce and incomparable, BUIKA TALKS ABOUT HER NEW BOOK OF POETRY AND HER UPCOMING PERFORMANCE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

"I'm gonna get married with my ownself." Buika says.

Concha Buika - Born and raised on the Spanish island of Mallorca, the 2-time grammy nominated Buika’s music is deeply rooted in the African Diaspora. Her music is deeply rooted in musical traditions of the Roma Flamenco of Mallorca, Afro-Cuban, blues, jazz, r&b and other African-based pop and traditional genres. Just three years after her 2007 American debut, NPR included her in their list of 50 Great Voices from around the world.

Buika will be performing in San Francisco February 28, 2015, 8 PM at the Nourse Theater as part of the California Institute of Integral Studies Public Performances Concert Series. Click here for tickets and information.

Remember it’s the 4th Monday of the month where hosts LisaMarie Rollins and Vylma V ask listeners to call in for live discussion.

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

Other Events:
Film- Reel Bad Arabs at La Pena, Thursday Feb. 26. For more info: www.mecaforpeace.org

Conference- 30th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference, March 7th at UC Berkeley

March 8th in International Women's Day and KPFA will be broadcasting 24 hours of women's programming so don't forget to tune in.

https://ewocc.wordpress.com/

Monday, January 26, 2015: Speak For Yourself! Reproductive Justice

How Black Women are Reclaiming the Conversation About Abortion.

"No mother should have to give birth, raise a child, and then worry about whether or not a police force which is designed to protect and serve is going to instead harass and murder their child." Marcela Howell

We are proud to announce our collective partnership in forming In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, an organizational initiative designed to amplify and lift up the voices of Black women at national and regional levels in our ongoing fight to secure reproductive justice for all women and girls. (Shutterstock)

Kate interviews Marcela Howell, strategic director of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda.  The new collaborative by five Black women's organizations seeks to reframe the discussion about abortion and reproductive choice to foreground the experience and voices of Black women.

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is a partnership between Black Women for Wellness, Black Women’s Health Imperative, New Voices Pittsburgh, SisterLove, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now and Communications Consortium Media Center. The initiative will focus on abortion rights and access, contraceptive equity, and comprehensive sex education as our key policy issues. As a Reproductive Justice initiative, we will approach these issues from a human rights perspective, incorporating the intersections of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and gender identity with the situational impacts of economics, politics, and culture that make up the lived experiences of Black women in this country.

Reproductive justice has always meant for Black women not only the right to not have a child but also the right to have a child in a safe and healthy environment because there were so many other issues preventing Black women from having children such as forced sterilization, government sanctions and other things. Reproductive justice embodies criminal justice issues, environmental issues, economic issues, and workplace issues.

Howell discusses HR7 which prohibits funding for abortion care for poor women. This blocks access to a legal medical procedure for poor women most of whom are Black women. Listen now or Get MP3. 12:38 min.





You can reach Marcela Howell at mhowell@ccmc.org, www.blackrj.org or tweet her at #blackwomensrj.

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


Also on today's show:
The Vagina Monologues
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Monday, December 29, 2014: Black Lives Matter! Young Black Women Organize!

#BlackLivesMatter

Queers Come Out for Black Lives Matter

December 13th Demo photo by Waidye Palmer

Listen to recordings from the December 13th Demo or Get MP3 16:31 min.







This week on Women's Magazine, we hear from the young Black women who are making themselves heard, from the streets of San Francisco and Oakland to the halls of power.  Thea Matthews, one of the organizers of Queers Come Out for Black Lives Matter, and also of the Millions March in San Francisco, joins Kate Raphael, along with Etecia Brown, lead organizer of the Millions March events in Oakland and San Francisco. Thea is president of the Black Student Union at City College of San Francisco and has been active in the Save City College Coalition.  Etecia is a fourth-generation Bayview-Hunters' Point resident and a graduate student in public policy at NYU. Also in today's show are recordings from the Oakland Millions March rally December 13 by Lisa Detmer and Nell Myhand.

"It's not a movement, it's a lifestyle."

Listen now or Get MP3 24:53 min.

It's a War

Next we feature part of an interview with Arlene Eisen, author of the 2013 report Operation Ghetto Storm, which generated the hashtag #Every28Hours. Listen now or Get MP3 11:38 min.





This interview originally aired in April 2013 at http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com/2013/04/april15th-operation-ghetto-storm-report.html


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

Monday, June 2, 2014: Great Films at SF DocFest

 

 

SF DocFest gets underway on Thursday, June 5th-19th and has a wide range of female-produced and gender-centered documentaries. This week we preview two multi-faceted locally produced stories:

FIRST FRIDAY, produced by N'jeri Eaton, directed by Mario Furloni, chronicles Oakland's "First Friday" the month after a tragic murder at what Eaton calls the crown jewel of Oakland's cultural scene.

In GOODBYE GAULEY MOUNTAIN: An Ecosexual Love Story, queer activists Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle do their bit to stop mountaintop removal in Beth's home community of West Virginia by marrying the Mountain. They bring a mix of humor, art and sexuality to help "green the queer movement."

Listen now:



or Get MP3.







Also on the show this week:

PHENOMENAL WOMEN: Remembering Maya Angelou, Stephanie Camp, and Sandra Bem

LIFE AS ACTIVISM: June Jordan's essays in the Progressive.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:49 min.

February 27th: Women's Magazine interviews Lateefah Simon, Zainab al Khawaja, and Saria Idana about their work, interests and impact on today's women and the world

Zainab al Khawaja (@AngryArabiya) talks about the Arab Spring, the goals of the democracy movement in Bahrain, and her father's hunger strike for freedom. She also talks about how she became one of Bahrain's leading tweeps. 15:11 min.



or Get MP3

Lateefah Simon is former director of the Center for Young Women's Development and the San Francisco Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights. Now living in Oakland, she won the MacArthur Genius Fellowship at only 26 years old and used the money to fund a college education. She is now studying public policy at Mills College and working at the Rosenburg Foundation's California's Future Initiative. Eryn Matthewson of Women's Magazine began her wide-ranging conversation by asking Simon how she decided to focus her work on the juvenile justice system. 27:33 min.



or Get MP3

Saria in "Homeless in Homeland"

Saria Idana's one-woman show, "Homeless in Homeland," explores her identity as a Jewish American through her experiences of Israel and Palestine. Opens this Thursday, March 1, for a three-performance run at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley. 9:57 min.



or Get MP3

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June 20th: Women's Magazine honors Juneteenth and Pride Month with two very important broadcasts.

This broadcast features two panel discussions held this year.


The first segment is a discussion on the criminalization of African American girls that took place at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice in March with Rev. Dr. Toni Dunbar and Barry Krisberg.


The next segment's focus is how art and activism are tied to the Queer Women of Color Film Festival. It includes a panel with African-American writer Jewel Gomez and Chicana activist Olga Talamante. Get MP3. 1hr 32min.

We close with updates from the Women's Community Calendar. Click here to listen. 59:51 min.

April 4th: Gay suicide and DJing and gender dynamics.

Today we discuss suicide among gay teenagers and ways to address it with a Hayward High School student.

For more information check out gsanetwork and GLSEN.

Then we talk to the Sol Sistas - aka DJ Sol and Michelle - about the art of DJing and gender dynamics that accompany it.

We conclude with event updates on the Women's Community Calendar. 59:48 min

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