Monday, January 4, 2021: What are your deepest yearnings for 2021?

Margo Okazawa-Rey aka DJ MOR Love and Joy (HAHA) broadcasts a LIVE CALL-IN show on Women's Magazine, substituting for Vylma V. Friends CALL the KPFA Call-in Number: +1800-958-9008 

Margo says: "What are you hoping for in 2021? More deeply, what are your yearnings—“things” that flow from the deepest parts of your being and existence. Today's your chance to share some of what’s in your heart. I want us to speak together about our dreams, hopes, and visions. Join me in my first call-in broadcast 1:00-2:00PM KPFA Radio 94.1FM.  +1800-958-9008.  Don't leave me hangin'. "

Hear great music and what KPFA listeners had to say about their hopes for the coming year.

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

Monday, October 26, 2020: State Violence in Nigeria

 “#EndSARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) isn’t just about police brutality. It’s about the future of Nigeria.”

Our show today is about this movement and its relationship to the Nigerian future and its past. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, the federal, semi-autonomous tactical police team, was formed in 1984 to thwart the national rise in kidnappings, car-jackings, robberies, and more. Since then, the unit has been abusing its power and Nigerian people in various ways, from coaxing bus drivers to pay money before allowing them to pass to the recent extrajudicial killing of people they are sworn to protect. It’s the perpetual, decades-long abuse of authority that has thousands of young Nigerians demanding that their government #EndSARS. The campaign is also about the ever-widening inequalities in Africa’s most populous state with enough wealth to improve all lives, and much more.

KPFA Women's Magazine producer Margo Okazawa-Rey and Osai Ojigho, Amnesty International Nigeria Country Director discuss the current armed violence perpetrated by state actors.

Ms. Osai Ojigho is a lawyer, gender equality advocate and human rights expert with a special interest in the African Human Rights system. Currently, the Country Director of Amnesty International Nigeria. Prior to joining Amnesty International, she served in various roles with Oxfam including as interim Pan Africa Director of Oxfam GB’s Pan African Programme. She was the Coalition Coordinator for the SOTU (State of the Union) Coalition, a human rights observer to the African Union Mission to Mali and the Sahel and Deputy Executive Director of Alliances for Africa. She is well travelled and widely published, contributing to various publications including the Commonwealth Law Journal, The AU ECHO (Newsletter of the African Union Commission), ThisDay Newspapers, The East African and Agenda. She is a member of the Association of Women in Development (AWID), the West African Women Elections Observation (WAWEO) team, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and a life member of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU). She is also a consulting editor with Open Global Rights and a mentor to Mandela Washington Fellows. She sits on the Global Advisory Council of Institute For African Women In Law (IAWL). She holds a Law degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and a Masters’ in Law degree from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Twitter: @livingtruely 

Sign the petition to End impunity for police violence in Nigeria. 

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

April 13, 2020: Indigenous Women & the Land; Laulani Teale and Corrina Gould

Join host, Dr Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu on April 13th on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine in her conversation with two distinguished and respected Indigenous women leaders, Laulani Teale from Hawai’i, and Corrina Gould from Huichin, or what is now known as the East Area, California. Both leaders share in the common struggle for Indigenous self-determination centered on protecting the Sacred such as the West Berkeley Shellmound. In addition, both of these leaders are at the frontlines of movements that have inspired and grown into large global movements for Indigenous self determination.

Corrina Gould is the spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, Indigenous peoples of the East Bay, California.

Laulani Teale is a Native Hawaiian musician, and a front-line ki’ai (protector) of Hawaiian sacred sites such as, Mauna Kea.







Click here to listen to the show. Music included in today's show is the song The Power of Thunder by Laulani Teale. 59:50 min.

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, 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, January 14, 2019: Keeping Collective Memory Alive - Remembering those who died in 2018

From Making Contact: a look back at a few of the gender and human liberation warriors we lost last year, including Japanese American researcher Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Brazilian LGBT and feminist activist politician Marielle Franco, LGBTQ and prison activist Ray Hill; Burmese indigenous environmental activist;Saw O Moo, Kiilu Nyasha, Black Panther, feminist activist and radio host; and acclaimed radical novelist Ursula Le Guin. Click link to listen to Making Contact - Fallen Heroes of 2018.

Click here to listen to entire Women's Magazine show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Ready to Strike
Ancient Puberty Rites

Monday, July 24, 2017: Amazing women’s rights activist, Heather Booth

Extraordinary Women Changing the World

On Monday July 24th on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to two amazing and influential women’s rights activist who unfortunately you probably have never heard of.

First Kate Raphael talks to Lilly Rivlin and Heather Booth about the new documentary called “Heather Booth: Changing the World” which tells the story of one of the most influential women involved in social movements in the U.S in the last half Century. This film will be showing this coming week at the SF Jewish Film Festival.

"People should ask for Jane." -Heather Booth





Listen now or Get MP3 for an extended interview with Heather. 34:56 min

"Heather Booth: Changing the World" screenings:
Thursday, July 27
SF Jewish Film Festival 37
at CineArts Theater, Palo Alto  
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance
12.00 pm
Cinearts
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA

Saturday, July 29
​SF Jewish Film Festival 37
​Albany Twin theater, Albany
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance      
11.30 am​
Albany Twin
1115 Solano Ave.
Albany, CA

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

Also on today's show:
Neesa Medina

Monday, May 8, 2017: Author Ellen Meeropol

Joining us here is Ellen Meeropol, author of House Arrest and On Hurricane Island, whose newest book, Kinship of Clover weaves mental illness and climate activism.

Kate Raphael talks with Ellen about writing and fighting for social change.

"Activism and resistance can be a way for people to connect with each other in a more human way as well as a more earth friendly manner."

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50


Also on today's show:
Activist and former political prisoner Bo Brown
Author Susan Griffin

Monday, Jan. 30, 2017: Defending Academic Freedom at SF State University

We talk with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi about how San Francisco State University students and faculty are organizing to defend academic freedom and challenge Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian Racism and Imperialism towards Kashmir. If you missed this event, there will be more. Keep in touch on Facebook.

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

Also on today's show:

Sounds of Resistance from SFO to the Women's March to S.F. State

Speed Sisters: Palestinian All-Women Car Racing Team

Monday, May 2, 2016: Solidarity between US and Palestinian prisoners

Rachel Herzing, co-founder of the prison abolition group Critical Resistance, and former US-held political prisoner Laura Whitehorn, talk about the findings of a unique delegation to Palestine comprising U.S. labor and academic solidarity activists as well as former political prisoners and anti-incarceration activists.  This was the first delegation to focus on solidarity between US and Palestinian prisoners.

Recently returned from a ten-day trip to the Israeli-colonized Palestine

We Stand with Palestine in the Spirit of "Sumud"
The U.S. Prisoner, Labor and Academic Solidarity Delegation to Palestine
March 24 to April 2, 2016

At a moment of growing resistance to state violence and injustice the world over, a delegation of nineteen anti-prison, labor and scholar-activists from the United States traveled to Palestine in March 2016.  Our delegation included former U.S.-held political prisoners and social prisoners, former Black Panther Party members, prison abolitionists, trade unionists and university professors.  We are the first U.S. delegation to Palestine to focus specifically on political imprisonment and solidarity between Palestinian and U.S. prisoners.  Our delegation also focused on recent labor struggles in Palestine for bread and dignity, and on the struggles of Palestinian intellectuals to assert the rightful claims of Indigenous Palestinians to their land, culture and history.

On this April 17, the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners, we demand freedom for the 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners currently held in Israeli jails and all those fighting for justice everywhere, including political prisoners in U.S. prisons.

Listen now or Get MP3. 21:33 min






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

Also on today's show:
Trade Policy Demystified
Remembering Eileen Hansen

Women's Calendar:

May 7
In Bloom: A Symposium for Bay Area Feminist Unity
13:00–20:00 PM
Diablo Valley College
321 Golf Club Rd, Pleasant Hill, California 94523
Tickets Available

San Francisco WORD Film Showing: "No Más Bebés"
May 07, 2016 at 5pm - 8pm
ANSWER Coalition Bay Area
2969 Mission St
San Francisco, CA

May 8
Tune in to KPFA from 9 to 11 AM for a special Mother's Day 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.