Monday, June 22, 2020: Paradise Militarized hosted by Margo Okazawa-Rey

We begin with special tribute to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, and Eleanor Bumpurs dating back to the 1980s, all killed by the police. ABSOLUTELY Black Lives Matter! I hope y’all are taking part in the massive organizing and activism that we are seeing. Special shout-out to my friends Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Carissa Lewis, Charlene Carruthers, Alicia Garza, and all the other Black women leading the struggle on the ground.

The International Women's Network against Militarism

Today’s show is titled “Paradise Militarized.” In my show on Memorial Day, my guests discussed the importance of remembering all the unrecognized and unknown casualties of US wars and militarism. We talked about the lands that the US military is currently occupying and devastation to both human and natural life as a direct result. Today we deepen that discussion by sharing more details about three sets of islands in the Pacific Ocean. Okinawa was first colonized by Japan in the 19th Century and now is home to 75% of US military presence in Japan. Guahan, known by most people outside as Guam, is a current colony of the US, and Hawai’i was colonized by US also in the 19th century and was annexed as the 50th state in 1959. 

As you are listening, please ask yourselves these questions: What do Guahan, Hawai'i, and Okinawa have to do with colonization and imperialism, with anti-Blackness and liberation of  Black and other people and communities of color in the US?  We’ll be asking you to rethink the various aspects of the military apparatus in the US, from the war-based economy and military spending, to environmental impacts of wars and military operations, and the systems, tactics, and cities’ budgets for policing. Most important, we’ll  be urging you make the connections between “here” and “there”, the relationships between domestic policy and foreign policy, and ultimately to imagine what real security, all the way from in your lives and communities to the entire country and the world, would look and feel like. Especially for women.

I am in conversation today with long-time feminist activists and professors Lisa Natividad speaking to us from Guahan, and Kim Compoc who is in Honolulu. We will also listen to a recorded interview with professor Kozue Akibayashi in Japan. They are all members of the International Women’s Network against Militarism along with their respective organizations.

Dr. Kozue Akibayashi is a feminist researcher/activist and has worked on issues of gender and peace. She is a professor at Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and a member of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Dr. Kim Compoc is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Hawaiʻi at West Oahu. Her research focuses on U.S. empire in the Philippines, Hawaiʻi and Oceania; Asian/American Studies /literatures, as well as diasporic Filipinx Studies with an emphasis on Indigenous, Feminist, and Queer critique.

Dr. Lisa Linda Natividad is Professor in the Division of Social Work at the University of Guam. She is also the President of the Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice. She has delivered interventions to the United Nations on issues of militarization, colonization, and indigenous peoples’ rights.

All three guests are members of the International Women’s Network against Militarism.

Resources:
Watch as Thousands Protest in Downtown Honolulu in Support of Black Lives Matter

Nihi! KIDS TALK about Self-Determination| KIDS TALK | Nihi! on YouTube 

Where will you be? Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom by Joy Enomoto

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Monday, June 15, 2020: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

The Space Between Us looks at:  Who Do We Want to Be?

Jovelyn Richards discusses the protest in Hawaii for Black Lives Matter with Hawaii native Di'one Di and Jovelyn reads excerpts of her own writings on the rebuilding relationships post-civil war.

"The one thing that is breaking our humanity is racism." -Jovelyn Richards

"...we're not standing for the inequality that's happening and we are here for change..." -Desiree Burton, youth organizer in Hawaii speaking at the Ala Moana Beach protest for Black Lives Matter. Find them on Instagram at @hawaiiforblacklives.

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

Monday, February 11, 2018: Black Feminism In Action

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KPFA Women's Magazine speaks with historian Barbara Ransby about her new book, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century, an insider's account of how Black feminism has anchored the movement that has transformed U.S. political culture over the last five years.

Ransby discusses racial and social justice issues past and present. She has a longtime activist and historian's perspective with an open mind to all generations.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Turning Pain Into Power

Monday, November 27, 2017: Alicia Garza

photo by Kristen Little Photography

Alicia Garza along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, have helped to transform what was once a viral hashtag and social media force into a national and international grassroots  organization. Born out of the mass demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri and around the U.S. Black Lives Matter has become an essential ray of hope in this new wave of resistance to police terrorism, and in the fight against white supremacy becoming an important beacon for change in the global human rights movement.  Today we will hear a talk by Alicia Garza given at U.C. Berkeley recently about the importance of feminism,  especially black feminism the need for all politics to be intersectional, and about BLM today and the urgent need to fight threats ranging from fascism and extra-judicial racial terror to white supremacy. This event was sponsored by the Gender and Women’s Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

The talk is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCxFABGkPw

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Monday, January 23, 2017: Angela Davis at the Women's March on Washington

Davis at the Women's March in DC (credit: Elle)

On today's program we listen to Angela Davis's speech at the Women's March in Washington.


Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Linda Burnham speaks at "People Get Ready"
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Monday, December 12, 2016: Brilliant radical Black feminist Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor

On today's Women's Magazine, Kate Raphael invites us to listen to a fabulous talk by one of the most sophisticated and clear-thinking analysts of the current situation we've heard yet. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book.

Michael C. Dawson, author of Blacks In and Out of the Left, says, "Deeply rooted in Black radical, feminist and socialist traditions, Taylor’s book is an outstanding example of the type of analysis that is needed to build movements for freedom and self-determination in a far more complicated terrain than that confronted by the activists of the 20th century."

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Taylor spoke on Monday, December 5, at Impact Hub in Oakland. She challenged the assertion that the election represents a "whitelash" by blue collar white voters, presents a persuasive counter-narrative that points to possible ways forward for a multiracial working class-oriented social justice movement.

We are raising money (hopefully) to support Women's Magazine and KPFA by offering Taylor's book and/or a CD or DVD of her talk as a thank you gift for your pledge to KPFA.  Please donate by calling 1-800-439-5732 or going to www.kpfa.org to give securely online.  Whatever you can spare is really appreciated and important.  We're hanging on by a thread and funding is likely to get tighter in the coming months.

Thanks so much to those of you who have donated over the last twelve years to keep our show on air. Hopefully we can do it for another twelve!

Monday, November 14, 2016: Revolutionary Lesbian Poet Pat Parker

"Where will you be when they come?" From the voice and wisdom of Pat Parker.

Pat Parker was one of the pathbreakers of revolutionary lesbian culture in the 1970s and 1980s. She died in 1989 at age 45. Sinister Wisdom and Midsummer Nights Press have released anew collection of all of Parker's published works as well as some never before published. They will celebrate the book's launch with many of Parker's friends and contemporaries, as well as younger artists and activists influenced by her work, on Saturday, November 19 at 1:00 pm at the San Francisco Main Library.

Lisa Dettmer talks with editor Julie Enszer. 

About the event.

About the book.

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



Also on today's show:
Palestine and the US Elections
Oakland Public Conservatory

Monday, February 15, 2016: Reproductive Justice Meets Black Lives Matter

On this week’s edition of Women’s Magazine, we talk with two groups who are working to address inequities in pregnancy and childbirth. Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min.

Discounted books available at the book launch

First, Lisa Marie Rollins talks with Dr. Julia Chinyere Oparah, one of the editors of the new anthology, Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth. Oparah and co-editor Dr. Alicia D. Bonaparte are part of Black Women Birthing Justice, a collective committed to transforming the birthing experience for Black women. “If Reproductive Justice and Black Lives Matter had a baby,” Oparah says, “The result would be Black Women Birthing Justice.”  Black Women Birthing Justice will host a launch party for the book at 7 PM on February 24 at Mills College.  More info




Also on today's show:
Homeless Prenatal Program

 

Monday, January 18, 2016: Black women at the forefront of feminism

How Black Women Led Birth of N.O.W.

Daisy Bates speaks during the Aug. 23, 1963, March on Washington. Bates, mentor to the Little Rock Nine, was the only woman to speak at the event 50 years ago in which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Source Times Record: Online Edition

In the first part of our show today we’ll listen to a fascinating history put together by Fran Luck of WBAI’s Joy of Resistance for Sprouts, a national weekly program.  Luck tells the story of how black women activists, frustrated by being shut out of the 1963 March on Washington, led the charge to form the National Organization for Women.

Then Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender.  She also talks about Black Lives Matter, why it’s rewriting 2016 and why it’s important that so many of its leaders are women.

Listen now. 59:50 min.

Monday September 28, 2015: Please support KPFA's Fall Pledge Drive

Vylma V and Laura hosts today's show of excerpts from the fabulous Say Her Name Leadership Pack with clips from a very special speech by Alicia Garza, in which she explains why she and Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi started #BlackLivesMatter, a hashtag that changed the country.

Alicia Garza

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Monday August 3, 2015 - Marcia Chatelain: History Through the Eyes of Black Girls

How important is Gender, Place and Race to who we become?

Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender.  In August 2014, Chatelain encouraged educators to talk about the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri via the Twitter hashtag #FERGUSONSYLLABUS. She also talks about how Black Lives Matter is rewriting 2016 and why it’s important that so many of its leaders are women.

Listen now or Get MP3. 30:45 min.

"This is a moment of great pain and of great mourning but boy is this a moment of deep optimism and hope because we are seeing things that we have never seen before."

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"In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists formulated a vulnerable image of urban black girlhood that needed protecting. She argues that the construction and meaning of black girlhood shifted in response to major economic, social, and cultural changes and crises, and that it reflected parents' and community leaders' anxieties about urbanization and its meaning for racial progress. Girls shouldered much of the burden of black aspiration, as adults often scrutinized their choices and behavior, and their well-being symbolized the community's moral health. Yet these adults were not alone in thinking about the Great Migration, as girls expressed their views as well. Referencing girls' letters and interviews, Chatelain uses their powerful stories of hope, anticipation and disappointment to highlight their feelings and thoughts, and in so doing, she helps restore the experiences of an understudied population to the Great Migration's complex narrative."

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

Also on today's show:

Interview with Allison Green 

Monday, June 8, 2015: Fighting Gentrification in Oakland

Prioritzing Affordable Housing in Oakland

In this segment we look at the fight against gentrification in Oakland after activists successfully fought back the sale of public land to developers in the Lake Merritt area of downtown Oakland.
Lisa Dettmer of KPFA Women's Magazine records and interviews live on the scene at the Oakland Council meeting and rally last month. The successful delay of the sale was led by Eastlake United for Justice and several allied groups. More info at Save the E 12th Street Parcel for the People.

Click here to sign the Petition to stop the sale!

Listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Feminists Discuss Ireland's Same Sex Marriage Vote

Monday, January 5, 2015: Continuing the Discussion of Police Violence against Black Women and Men

#BlackLivesMatter; #BlackWomenLivesMatter

"We need to fight like hell for Black lives right now."

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Today on Women's Magazine as  we continue to look at state violence against black bodies we look at how black women's are uniquely  targeted by  state violence, a violence that is too often invisible and behind closed doors.  To look at this issue  Lisa Marie Rollins talks to Alicia Garza one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and special project director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance  and to Alisa Bierria associate director of the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley who has been working with the national  campaign to Free Marissa Alexander Now and with INCITE.

More about conference at COLOROFVIOLENCE.ORG

The  East Bay Free Marissa  Now Campaign is traveling in a caravan across country to educate people about her case and upcoming hearing so if your interested in being a part of that struggle you can contact them thru their Free Marrisa Now Facebook page.

Other links mentioned in today's show:
#BlackFriday14
#NotOneDime
info@BlackoutCollective.org

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More about Marissa's case at December 8th Women's Magazine

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


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