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."

Photo/Antonio Giaquinto

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

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

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

Monday, December 1, 2014: Lesbian Avengers

Lesbian Avengers, a memoir

Kate Raphael speaks with Kelly Cogswell, author of Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger.

Spanning the twenty years from the Culture Wars through the War on Terror, EATING FIRE begins in 1992 with the author's transformation from ex-Southern Baptist hickster poet into fire-eating Lesbian Avenger. She haunts the streets of New York, battles cops on Fifth Avenue, eats fire in front of the White House, and mobilizes 20,000 lesbians for the International Dyke March. She also squirms through excruciating meetings and finds true love. Several times.

Her avenging doesn't end when the group implodes. She morphs instead into a pioneering citizen journalist, coding the pages of her own online magazine, The Gully, and looking everywhere for truth and justice, from Havana cafes to the Laundromats of Paris and New York. She mostly doesn't find any, and the book deepens into a meditation on citizenship and social change in the post-9/11 world.

Kelly will be reading from her book Thursday, Dec 11 at Modern Times Bookstore at 7 PM. It is located at 2919 24th Street in San Francisco. For more Modern Times Events go to www.moderntimesbookstore.com.

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We remember Mary Berg, longtime host of A Musical Offering on KPFA. Click here for Mary's tribute and the rest of the show. 59:50 min.
Also on today's show:
Thoughts on Ferguson
Wal-Mart Workers on Strike
Tru Bloo