June 3, 2013: Women's Poetry Showcase

Global Val Ibarra of Mutiny Radio hosts a showcase of women poets who share how they came to be poets and how they have been manifesting community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meet the poets and the poetry of mothers, teachers, feminists, healers, revolutionary poets for change and a library entrepreneur.

Meet the Poets from this showcase NOW at www.globalval.blogspot.com. EK Keith, Mama Coatl, Jennifer Barone, Ava Bird & Kimberly Escamilla

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May 27, 2013: The Body Feminist

This Memorial Day, we consider whose "sacrifices for freedom" are acknowledged and valued in our culture.

First up, Kate Raphael speaks with Cynthia Enloe, research professor at Clark University and one of the foremost feminist scholars on militarism, masculinity and sexual violence.  Enloe discusses the recent revelations about who's running the sexual assault prevention programs in our military, and what "feminist questions" that should lead to.  Enloe is the author of thirteen books including Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics; Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives and Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War. Her newest book (co-authored with feminist geographer Joni Seager) is: The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and Truths about the United States.

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Arab women are frequently claimed as the beneficiaries of our current military enterprises, but this lens applies colonial definitions of Arab womanhood, says Rabab Abdulhadi, Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University.  Abdulhadi was one of the keynote speakers at the recent San Francisco Arab Women's Conference, an annual event hosted by the Arab Cultural and Community Center.  In this challenging and informative talk, she confronts the Islamophobia and Orientalism of some well-respected Western feminist icons, and cites stories of how Arab women are resisting both colonial and nationalistic efforts to control their image.  (unedited, 34:37)

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Kearny Street Workshop presents KSW Runway: Celebrate Your Body
Coming up this Friday night, May 31, at SomArts, KSW Runway: Celebrate Your Body is an alternative fashion and music show that pays tribute to the creativity and plurality of the Bay Area. For one night only, SOMArts’ Bay Gallery will be transformed into a street fair, replete with battling models, live performances, a DJ, pop-up food stalls, vendors, prizes, and surprise guests. Featured designers and stylists include 31 Rax, Bambie, Zuriel Bautista, Chartreuse, Kalakari, and Prince x Rose, while Dirty Boots, Little Sister, Cynthia Lin, and Micropixie rock out on the music stage. The Rice Rockettes, an all-Asian drag troupe, performs at intermission.
TJ Basa tells us about the origins of KSW Runway and the mission of Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest Asian Pacific American multimedia arts organization in the country.

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Women's Magazine April 29, 2013: Daily Sexism

When Deborah Copaken Kogan learned she was long-listed for Britain's Women's Prize for Fiction, she looked it up and found that it was nearly always preceded with the words "prestigious" and "controversial."  What's the controversy?  Some people think the time for separate literary prizes for men and women is past; women are equal in fiction, right?  Not so, says the author of The Red Book and Shutterbabe.  She speaks with Kate Raphael about the "little paper cuts" of sexism from the literary establishment and her article "My So-Called Feminist Life in Arts and Letters" published in the April 13 issue of The Nation.  Listen now:


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And as May Day approaches, we hear from Aileen Clarke Hernandez, second president of the National Organization for Women, labor organizer and the first woman appointed to the EEOC.  Hernandez talks about the role of radical economic justice activists in creating what we think of as liberal middle-class feminism.  Listen below:



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April 22, 2013: Earth Day on Women's Magazine: Ecofeminism, Animal Rights and Factory Farming

Katie Cantral of Factory Farming Awareness Coalition

Did you know that factory farming has polluted over 35,000 miles of rivers in the US?

In this segment, Sharon Sobotta interviews Katie Cantral, Executive Director of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. 99% of animal products come from factory farms. Ten billion animals are raised every year in the US on factory farms. This method of raising animals is cruel to the animals, bad for the environment and a huge source of labor injustices. Katie says it takes 2000 gallons of water to raise a pound of beef and 35 gallons of water to raise a pound of vegetables. Chemicals used in the production of milk have been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer in women. Katie gives us an enlightened and empowering way to make a difference on all aspects of this important cause.

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Interviews with Ecofeminist Foremothers Marti Kheel and Wangari Maathai

In the next segment, we hear past interviews with two ecofeminist foremothers who have since died: Lisa Dettmer speaks with Marti Kheel, founder of Feminists for Animal Rights and author of Nature's Ethics.

Marti Kheel

Preeti Shekar sits down with Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate, founder of Green Belt Movement and author of Unbowed and Replenishing the Earth.

Wangari Maathai

Plus poetry by Kathryn Kirkpatrick. Click here to listen to poem by Kathryn Kirkpatrick or Get MP3. 1:23 min.

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The Marti Kheel interview can be heard here. Audio 28:48 min.

To listen to entire show click here. 59:38 min.

April15th: Operation Ghetto Storm, a report on the killing of Black people in the US. The War on Obesity: is it a war on women's bodies?.

Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People in the US

In this segment, we discuss Operation Ghetto Storm: The Extrajudicial Killing of 313 Black People by U.S. Police, Security or Vigilantes in 2012, with Arlene Eisen of the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee.The corporate media have given very little attention to these extrajudicial killings. We call them “extrajudicial” because they happen without trial or any due process, against all international law and human rights conventions. Click here to download entire report.

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Fabulous to be Fat and the Fairy Tale of Weight Loss. Fat Activists Speak Out.

Virgie Tovar, author of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion and Jen Larsen, author of Stranger Here (how weight loss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head), talk about how the War On Obesity is really an undeclared war on Women's Bodies and how we can resist.

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TONIGHT-Berkeley, CA: Angela Davis

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April 17, 2013

An Evening with

ANGELA DAVIS

In Commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day
Wednesday, April 17, 7pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way, at Dana
Just a 15 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley Bart

Introduced by Palestinian journalist from Dheisheh Refugee Camp,
Ziad Abbas, who will speak about Palestinian children prisoners 

Join and share the Facebook event!

Get your tickets now! This event could sell out!
$15 general, $10 low income

OR order directly from MECA:
Mail a check for however many tickets you would like to: Attn: Sue, MECA, 1101 8th Street, Berkeley CA 94710, along with a SASE and your phone number -- or come into our offices to buy tickets directly from Sue, 9am-noon weekdays.
You can also email her for info

$15 tickets also available (no service charge!) at these bookstores:
(East Bay) Books, Inc./Berkeley, Marcus Books, Pegasus/Solano, Pegasus/Shattuck, Walden Pond, Moe's, Diesel; (SF) Modern Times. 

Angela Davis co-founded Critical Resistance, taught the History of Consciousness, directed Feminist Studies, ran for Vice-President twice, and wrote many excellent books -- including Women, Race and Class and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire.

Now she is celebrating the release of her new book, The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues. Angela will sign books after the event. 

This event benefits MECA's work with Palestinian children.

In 2011, she traveled on a women of color delegation to Palestine, which later issued a call for divestment from Israel. In 2012 she particpated in the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in New York City.

"Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic, an activist, a scholar, and a revolutionary." --Angela Davis

"Davis' arguments for justice are formidable...The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied." -- New York Times

Cosponsored by: KPFA, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies/SF State University, Critical Resistance/Oakland, Arab Film Festival, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Al-Awda, Justice Now, US Palestinian Community Network, Palestinian Youth Movement, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, All of Us or None, Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area Women in Black, San Francisco Women in Black, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, National Lawyers Guild.

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April 1st: Focus on Emerging Writers

FAST TIMES IN PALESTINE 

• Pamela Olson discusses her new memoir Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland. An East Oklahoma girl, Olson stumbled into Palestine and ended up staying for two years and becoming the press coordinator for a presidential candidate.

• Click here for official schedule for Pamela's spring 2013 book tour. She’d love to see you along the way! Please feel free to let others know about events they might like to attend. Get in touch if you have questions: pamolson@gmail.com. 
• www.pamelaolson.org

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PERLA

• Carolina de Robertis talks with Nina Serrano and reads from her novel, Perla, which explores the legacy of Argentina's "dirty war" through one of the "stolen children" of the disappeared.
• De Robertis grew up in a Uruguayan family that immigrated to England, Switzerland, and California. Prior to completing her first book, she worked in women’s rights organizations for ten years, on issues ranging from rape to immigration. She makes her permanent home in Oakland, California, though she is spending 2013 in Montevideo, where she’s working on her third novel, about migration, sexual frontiers, and the tango’s Old Guard in early twentieth century South America.
• Carolina asked you to buy her book at your local independent bookstore.
• www.carolinaderobertis.com

 This piece was produced by Nina Serrano from La Raza Chronicles/Cronica de la Raza

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March 25, 2013: Focus on Film

"Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years"

Dagmar Schultz and Ika Hügel-Marshall discuss their film "Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years" with Paola Bacchetta.  This unique film documents the time that Black feminist icon Audre Lorde spent in Berlin between 1984 and 1992.  Her presence there helped to build a community of Afro-German women.  She also challenged white feminists to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways.  The film will screen at Oakland's Parkway Theater on March 31.

Ika Hügel-Marshall discusses her experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II in Germany. Dagmar Schultz reads from Hügel-Marshall’s book, Invisible Woman-Growing up Black in Germany.  Get MP3. 32:30 min.

"Pink Smoke Over the Vatican"

Jules Hart

Jules Hart directed and produced the award-winning film "Pink Smoke Over the Vatican," which chronicles the struggle of women for ordination in the Catholic church.  During the recent conclave in Rome, the Women's Ordination Conference released pink smoke as they had done in 2005, to dramatize their demands for inclusion. Get MP3. 20:07 min.


Ordain a Lady music video from YouTube

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