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.

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