Monday, September 26, 2016: Understanding privilege and practicing solidarity--part 1

"Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock." from South African sisters' freedom struggle

Today's show begins with two important and empowering women-led events happening in Spain and Gaza, the Truth & Reclamation Pilgrimage and the Women's Boat to Gaza.

Actress LisaGay Hamilton says about her participation on the boat to Gaza: “It is an honor to be here and join this extraordinary group of women. This issue is bigger than me, than any of us. As a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, I cannot help thinking of Palestinian women in Gaza, who live in an open-air prison because of the occupation. It is so painful to think of them, we have to take action to end the blockade of Gaza.” Read LisaGay Hamilton's Counterpunch op ed  Why I am on the women's boat to Gaza.

Chivvis Moore discusses her memoir

Chivvis Moore discusses her memoir, First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God: An American Feminist in the Arab World. Moore spent 17 years living in Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and taught for nine years in the Institute of Women's Studies at Bir Zeit University in Palestine.

CHIVVIS MOORE reads from First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God: An American Feminist in the Arab World

Tuesday, September 27, 7 pm

360 42nd Street, Oakland

Book sales benefit Middle East Children’s Alliance

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Also on today's show:

Sharon Sobotta interviews Shakti Butler and Peggy McIntosh

Monday, July 4, 2016: Chivvis Moore discusses her new memoir

Militarism, Feminism and Nationalism

First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust In God: An American Feminist in the Arab World

Chivvis Moore discusses her new memoir, First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust In God: An American Feminist in the Arab World.  Moore lived in the Middle East for 17 years, including three in Egypt, three in Syria, and 11 in Palestine.  She talks about what attracted her and what she learned about Muslim and Arab culture, volunteering as a medic in Jenin Refugee Camp immediately after the brutal siege of 2002, the impact of Western funding on the Palestinian women's movement, and how community helps people make it through intolerable situations.

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from Moore's website:
Since living in Brazil three years as a child, I have been drawn to live among people of other cultures, whether on a Native American reservation in Arizona, among African Americans in the Fillmore District in San Francisco before ”gentrification,” or in Arab communities in Egypt, Syria and Palestine. As an adult, I lived and worked 17 years in the Middle East —  3 years in Egypt, 2 in Syria, a year in Israel, where I taught Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel, and 11 years teaching at Birzeit University in the West Bank, returning to the US in 2008. I have earned my living as a journalist, a carpenter and general building contractor, an editor and researcher, and a teacher of English for Academic Purposes. I have worked with adults and youth establishing community newspapers in Native American, Latino and African American communities.  I now work with Zawaya, a non-profit organization that teaches and promotes the Arab arts, especially music, in the San Francisco Bay Area. I live in Oakland with my partner and my cat Nahar, born in Nazareth.

Chivvis Moore will be reading and discussing her book on Friday, July 8th at 6PM, Laurel Book Store, 1423 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 510-452-9232.

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Also on today's show:
Tribute to Pat Summitt
Cynthia Enloe on gender and militarism