Monday, November 6, 2017: Averting US War in Korea

Saturday is Veterans' Day, but once it was Armistice Day. The Korean War ended with an armistice 64 years ago; a peace treaty was supposed to be negotiated but never was. As 45 heads to South Korea, we speak with Gwyn Kirk of Women Cross DMZ and Suze Duggan of Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans (HOBAK) about what ordinary Koreans want and the impact of the US military bases in South Korea.

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Women Cross DMZ

Women Cross DMZ are women peacemakers from around the world walking for peace in Korea. We are Nobel Peace Laureates, feminist authors, peace activists, human rights lawyers, professors, former parliamentarians, faith leaders, humanitarian aid workers, filmmakers, artists, a retired Army Colonel and a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Click here for an archive of Women Cross DMZ webinars on Youtube.

Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans

Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans are a collective of Koreans in the Bay Area, including queer and trans Koreans, mixed race Koreans and Korean adoptees, who are committed to building solidarity towards peace and demilitarization in Korea. Find them on FaceBook.

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For accurate information, news and analysis on Korea visit:
Korea Policy Institute
Zoom in Korea
Social Justice Journal article - US Standoff with North Korea: Why Talk Is the Only Realistic Option

Veterans for Peace: sign the Peoples Peace Treaty 

Local Events this week:
Thursday, November 09, 2017
International Sanctions and the Sino-North Korean Border Economy Colloquium
5-7 pm
145 Dwinelle Hall - UC Berkeley
Featured Speaker: Kevin Gray, University of Sussex
Sponsor: Center for Korean Studies

Friday, November 10, 2017
Averting U.S. War on North Korea
7-9 pm
First Congregational Church of Oakland (United Church of Christ)
2501 Harrison St, Oakland, California 94612
Hosted by The Center for Political Education

Saturday, November 11, 2017
Korea Peace Walk: No War on Korea!
Saturday at 1-4 pm

Meet at 1pm at 23rd and Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA
Hosted by HOBAK - Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans and Korea Policy Institute

Also on today's show:
Defending Academic Freedom at SF State

Monday, April 10, 2017: Author Emily Hobson

Emily Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left.

The book is a sprawling history of rarely acknowledged parts of the LGBT movement of the seventies, eighties and nineties. Through the work and words of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism, the book chronicles gay opposition to the Vietnam War, lesbian support for grand jury resisters and women who fought back against sexual violence, queer organizing against gentrification, the New Right, and U.S. intervention in Central America which helped birth the AIDS direct action movement.

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Also on today's show:

Director Mina Morita 

Monday, June 1, 2015: Kathy Kelly, Peace Activist

Tune in Monday to KPFA 94.1 FM at 1 PM:

Renowned peace activist Kathy Kelly, just out of federal prison and on her way to Afghanistan, stops in to talk about her activist journey and the connections between mass incarceration, drone warfare, police killings, climate justice and smoking.  Kathy is the co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

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Also on today's show:
On Her Own

Monday, February 16, 2015: Elmaz Abinader on Body, Home and Memory

Elmaz Abinader is a Bay Area poet, writer, and teacher.  In her most recent collection, THIS HOUSE MY BONES, she says, "the body and the earth exchange their positions and perspectives. The memories of war are on the skin as well as on the mesa, the exile is written in dust and cells."

Safi wa Nairobi speaks with Elmaz Abinader about her writing, her inspirations and creating space for writers of color in the white-dominated world of publishing and MFA programs. This program was recorded in studio at KPOO.

Elmaz will be reading from her book on Feb 20 at 7 PM at Laurel Books, Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland and on March 5, 7 PM at UC Monterey Bay in the Living Room.

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


Also on today's show:
Joan Little and the Right to Self-Defense

Monday, November 24, 2014: Women In Black

Silent or not, Women in Black is a Powerful Voice!

International Women's Day, March 8, 2002 [Photo by Donna A. Korones]

Next we meet members of the 25-year-old international peace movement, Women In Black. Every month women in 150 cities around the world stand on various street corners in a worldwide network for peace and justice. Founded in 1988 by Jewish Israeli women to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Women in Black has gelled, migrated, and mutated into an international voice. Listen to women from the Bay Area tell their stories about standing together every month for 25 years.

Join the vigils:
Berkeley Women in Black every Friday from noon to 1 at Bancroft and Telegraph
San Francisco Women in Black - 2nd Fridays from 5:15 to 6:15 PM at Market and Montgomery
Bay Area Women in Black every Saturday from noon to 1 in front of the Grand Lake Theater

Come march with Bay Area Women in Black on Black Friday!

We hope to see many of you on Black Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, in San Francisco! Meet at 11:45 at the Powell St. BART station for a march to Union Square. Silent vigil there. Theme will be "Who Profits from our Holiday Purchases" and will focus on BDS. Signs will be provided + bring your own as well. Let us know if you can wear a puppet. Wear black!

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Also on today's show:
TELL NO LIES
Leslie Feinberg

Monday, September 29, 2014: The UC Anti-Apartheid Movement And The Legacy of Free Speech Movement

Graduate students and other demonstrators picketing outside Sproul 1964

Twenty years after the Free Speech Movement rocked Berkeley, the University of California, and eventually the culture, UC Berkeley exploded in passionate activism. Students and faculty joined the wave of campus anti-apartheid movements calling for divestment of university pension funds and endowments from South Africa. In 1986, the UC regents' vote to divest $13 billion from companies doing business in South Africa represented the largest single divestiture and may have helped to speed the end of the apartheid regime. This accomplishment was recognized by Nelson Mandela, during his 1990 speech in Oakland.

How did that student movement emerge, mobilize and achieve this historic victory? How was the Berkeley anti-apartheid movement influenced by the Free Speech Movement two decades earlier, and the women's movement which came between?

On a special Women's Magazine on the first day of our Refresh KPFA pledge drive, I explore those questions with then-student leaders Andrea Pritchett and Rita Himes and faculty activist Ruth Rosen, who was also involved in the Berkeley movements in the 1960s, especially the anti-war and feminist movements. We'll also listen to excerpts of the film, SOWETO TO BERKELEY, which tells the story of this extraordinary time on the Berkeley campus.

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We'll be offering SOWETO TO BERKELEY as a thank you gift for your pledge to KPFA during this hour. I hope many of you will donate to show your support for feminist programming and progressive, community-controlled radio.  But whether you can give or not, please don't miss this hour of great conversation and stirring footage.

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Monday September 1, 2014: Drop the Charges on Rasmea Odeh

Rasmea Odeh, Chicago feminist community leader and torture survivor, faces prison.

Rasmea Odeh was arrested and sexually tortured by the Israeli military in 1969, eventually confessing to a crime she didn't commit.  After ten years in Israeli prison, Rasmea created a new life in the U.S., helping to found the Arab Women's Committee, a 600-member organization that helps immigrant Arab women learn English, find their voices, and support one another.  Now the U.S. government is threatening to strip her of her citizenship and send her to prison for another ten years because of her past as a political prisoner.  We talk about the case with Professor Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics and Activism.

Call Tuesday, September 2nd to stop the deportation of Rasmea. Go to www.stopfbi.net for phone numbers. Click here to sign petition to drop the charges against Rasmea.

Rally for Rasmea on September 8th.

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Also on today's show:
Domestic Workers Organize in the US

June 9, 2014: Tribute to Revolutionary Activist Yuri Kochiyama

Yuri Kochiyama

We pay tribute to revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama, who died last week. This segment has quotes from speeches, interviews, and movies from Yuri's life. Yuri is emblematic of the principle that it's our obligation to be as revolutionary as we possibly can by opening our hearts to everyone around us and refusing to sacrifice our demands for what's right on the altar of what's expedient, popular or possible. Listen and you will feel her contagious spirit.

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Also on the June 9th program:
Radical queer writer and activist Yasmin Nair
Preview the film KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER
Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL

Monday, June 2, 2014: The Life and Activism of June Jordan

Kate Raphael talks with Stacy Russo, editor of the new anthology, LIFE AS ACTIVISM: June Jordan's essays in the Progressive.

From Angela Davis's Foreword:

“What is remarkable about these articles is their resonance on our contem­porary political landscape.”

“Published during the last decade of the twentieth century, these columns remind me just how much June Jordan’s formidable voice is missed today. She was a poet, but also equally a journalist, and no ordinary journalist, for her illu­minating accounts of ongoing events were always infused with her unique poetic vision.”

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Also on today's show:
PHENOMENAL WOMEN: Remembering Maya Angelou, Stephanie Camp, and Sandra Bem.
SF DocFest films previewed: First Friday and GOODBYE GAULEY MOUNTAIN: An Ecosexual Love Story.

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May 26, 2014: Memorial Day Tribute to Daughters

On KPFA radio's Women's Magazine this Memorial day we will be presenting a special Memorial Day's tribute by daughters to the Mothers in their lives and around the world, from Argentina, to Palestine to Iran and in the U.S., to mothers who have survived the hidden war on women both damaged and whole, and been survivors, the peace makers, care takers in the family and in society.  An alternative to the Hallmark Card version of Mother's Day and the Memorial Day celebration of soldiers this special recognizes our Mothers as the hidden soldiers.

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April 21st: Women's Magazine Earth Day Show

It's Earth Day! We honor the legacy of Wangari Matthai, founder of the Green Belt movement and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. And we hear a stirring speech by ecofeminist Vandana Shiva.

Plus a celebration of National Poetry Month with some fiery feminist words.

Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)

To hear the Wangari Maathai interview that aired on Nov. 20, 2006 go to: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/23805

For more info on Maathai:
www.globalfundforwomen.org/who-we-are/where-we-stand/1922-celebrating-the-life-of-wangari-maathai

Vandana Shiva says GMO means God Move Over

You can find the Vandana Shiva talk at: http://www.synbiowatch.org/2013/09/watch-video-vandana-shiva-and-gopal-dayaneni-discuss-corporate-biotech-green-vs-ecological-green/








And we hear voices from the first Latino Poetry Festival and young radical women poets. Donde Esta Mi Gente website is dondeestamigente.com.

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February 10th, 2014: One Billion Rising & Tribute to Gwen Avery

KPFA Women's Magazine honors the life and powerful music of blues singer Gwen Avery, who died suddenly a couple weeks ago at the age of 71.











We also talk about this year's One Billion Rising events with local activist and priestess Afia Walking Tree.

Bay Area Rising, in conjunction with V-Day's One Billion Rising movement, announces:
   'Stand for Real Love'
First Presbyterian Church
2619 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
Doors open at 6:30 PM, Performance starts at 7:00 PM

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And we showcase the film "Radical Harmonies," a documentary of the women's music movement, from the 1970s forward.  Women's music is more eclectic than we often think.  We are offering the film as a thank you gift for donations to KPFA during this fund drive show.

Please click here to listen to the entire show and if you can make a pledge to support the station and keep women's programming in the Bay Area, we are most appreciative.

January 6, 2014 - Tahrir Square; Home Birth in CA; and Pink Ribbon Culture

The Square documentary about Tahrir Square

Jehane Noujaim discusses her film, THE SQUARE, which documents the Egyptian revolution from its earliest days through the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi.  Jehane also talks about the role of violence against women in suppressing the protests, who was behind it and why.  Is it worse now in Egypt in general and for women in particular? Noujaim has a refreshing veiwpoint. THE SQUARE, on the short list for an Oscar, opens at the Roxie on January 17, and becomes available on Netflix at the same time.
30:00 min.

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New CA law AB1308 and Home Birth

photo from www.cafamiliesformidwives.org

Tara Dorabji talks with midwife Treesa McLean about a new California law which will greatly expand access to midwifery and home birth, but also restricts the ability of women with "high risk" pregnancies to choose home birth and midwifery care.Tara and Treesa discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the new law AB1308. The new law opens the door for midwives and licensed birth centers to bill MediCal. However, the self-determination clause has been removed, which makes it illegal for a midwife to attend a high-risk home birth. California Families for Midwives advocates for more choices including where, how, and who attends women during their children's birth. 17:00 min

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The Pink Ribbon Culture; Narratives on Breast Cancer

And we hear part of Caity Goerke’s interview with Emilia Nielsen, whose research on breast cancer narratives reveals that women feel pressured to "perform" breast cancer in a way that emphasizes optimism. This approach, fueled by the pink ribbon industry, delegitimizes anger and activism, says Nielsen. It robs women of the productive power of anger and focuses only on cure and not causes. This program is excerpted from a syndicated feminist radio show, the F Word, station CFRO out of Vancouver, BC. Click on the link to find archives of previous shows from The F Word. 13:09 min.

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September 2: Labor Day on Women's Magazine - Fast Food Workers, Syria and Helen Thomas

Syria

Rafif Jouejati, among many other activities is spokesperson for the Local Coordination Committees in Syria. LCC is the largest non-violent activists organization on the ground in Syria. The Committees focus on reporting crimes against humanity, humanitarian relief and finding funds for many other projects. She also is the director of Free Syria that works primarily with Syrian women to restore equality and education to empower women in Syria. Rafif Jouejati talks with Kate Raphael about the prospect of US military intervention and her vision of life after Assad.

Check out the Facebook group Stop the killing, we want to build a country for all Syrians to read diverse statements from the Liberation Struggle.

Thank you Helen Thomas

"Thank you Mr. President!"

Women's Magazine remembers the groundbreaking journalist Helen Thomas, with friend, author and civil rights leader Daphne Muse, Arab American journalist Gale Courey-Toensing, plus interviews and clips from Thomas's 5-decade career. Helen Thomas was an out-spoken, very intelligent and progressive reporter. She was not afraid to express her opinions on the tough subjects and explain later when required.

Fast Food Workers Strike

WWW.FASTFOODFORWARD.ORG

Plus food service and concessions workers at Oakland airport, along with other low-wage workers around the country, strike for fair wages and benefits. Fast food workers strike for one day for doubling the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15. Two-thirds of fast food workers are women and the average age is 32 years.


Listen to the entire show from KPFA archives. 59 min.

August 12: Art & Politics Do Mix

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima

Cecile Pineda, author of Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step-by-Step and Love Queen of the Amazon, talks about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, and what we must do to combat the nuclear threat and restore democracy.

"United We Stand Up"

Then comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Shazia Mirza put a hilarious spin on Indian and Pakistani Independence Day, doing comedy for their home crowds and what their Indian and Pakistani families have in common (aren't you married yet?).  We'll have tickets to give away for their upcoming shows, "United We Stand Up."

Abortion Rights Freedom Riders

And sounds from the abortion rights struggle in Fargo, North Dakota, courtesy of the Abortion Rights Freedom Riders.

Click here to listen to the August 12th KPFA Women's Magazine. 59:47 min.

April 1st: Focus on Emerging Writers

FAST TIMES IN PALESTINE 

• Pamela Olson discusses her new memoir Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland. An East Oklahoma girl, Olson stumbled into Palestine and ended up staying for two years and becoming the press coordinator for a presidential candidate.

• Click here for official schedule for Pamela's spring 2013 book tour. She’d love to see you along the way! Please feel free to let others know about events they might like to attend. Get in touch if you have questions: pamolson@gmail.com. 
• www.pamelaolson.org

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PERLA

• Carolina de Robertis talks with Nina Serrano and reads from her novel, Perla, which explores the legacy of Argentina's "dirty war" through one of the "stolen children" of the disappeared.
• De Robertis grew up in a Uruguayan family that immigrated to England, Switzerland, and California. Prior to completing her first book, she worked in women’s rights organizations for ten years, on issues ranging from rape to immigration. She makes her permanent home in Oakland, California, though she is spending 2013 in Montevideo, where she’s working on her third novel, about migration, sexual frontiers, and the tango’s Old Guard in early twentieth century South America.
• Carolina asked you to buy her book at your local independent bookstore.
• www.carolinaderobertis.com

 This piece was produced by Nina Serrano from La Raza Chronicles/Cronica de la Raza

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Drone Warfare

Val Ibarra of Mutiny Radio presents

Code Pink Delegates Report: CIA's Drone War in Pakistan

Interviews with delegates from the Code Pink trip to Pakistan in October 2012. Guests include Medea Benjamin (co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange, and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control), as well as Dr. Dianne Budd and Toby Blome who went to protest U.S. drone strikes in the tribal regions of Pakistan. Hear the stories of the people and of the international movement to STOP drone strikes and alert the world to this 21st century arms and surveillance race. Want to know more? Go to droneswatch.org

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December 24th: Feminist Responses to Violence; What to Do on New Year's

Male Violence, Militarism and Mass Killings 

What role does gender play and why is it so ignored by the media? How is empathy bred out of men, and how can we restore it? How can we make people feel the deaths of thousands of children in Afghanistan and Palestine, or in our own inner cities, as acutely as those in Newtown, Connecticut? Is this a "tipping point" moment for action on gun control? These and other questions are explored in this engaging half hour discussion.

A discussion with authors and activists Elana Dykewomon, Kathleen Barry and Judith Mirkinson about unexplored dimensions of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Audio: 31:26

 

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Interview with Meditation & Spirituality Teacher Spring Washam

Spring Washam is hosting two Great Turning events New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. She writes:

"The great turning is happening NOW as we turn towards a life sustaining model of community, generosity and interconnectedness. We have enormous power and our hearts songs are weaving a new tapestry in the collective consciousness of our human family. Gaia is our home. It’s time we reclaim the earth as our sacred altar."

In this interview with Syra Smith, she talks about her philosophy, her work in mediatation and spirituality, the purpose of the events and how they came together. The Great Turning is a benefit for The Sujata Project, which will provide accessible retreats for low-income Bay Area women.

Spring Washam, cofounder of East Bay Meditation Center and teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, talks about her work making mediatation accessible to women of color, LBT and low-income women. Audio: 15:29



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Phenomenon 2013

Phenomenon 2013 is the second New Year's extravaganza organized by Roke Noir and Siren Theatre. The first, Blue Moon Phenomenon 2010, was named "coolest spiritual New Year's Eve for women" by the San Francisco Examiner. Food, dancing, drumming, fire play, comedy -- Phenomenon 2013 has it all. Find out more.

Roke Noir of Siren Theater explains Phenomenon 2013, a spiritual New Year's feast, ritual and celebration for women. Audio: 7:06



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November 26th: Women in the Syrian opposition coalition; and gender on TV

Women's Magazine's Kate Rafael discusses the new Syrian opposition coalition with Afraa Jalabi of the Syrian National Council and Mohja Kahf, Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Arkansas.

courtesy:  Mohja Kahf

"This is not your father's revolution," says Mohja Kahf. There is an active and escalating non-violent, grass roots movement in Syria. Mohja and Afraa give a personal and political account of the Syrian revolution. There are over 33,000 prisoners of conscience in Syria prisons. 472 are women. They have been there for over a year without due process. Stay in tune with the grassroots movements in Syria through links on Stop the Killing Campaign Facebook page.

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"Brides of Peace": In the Middle of Madness, Four Women March for Nonviolence in Syria

By Mohja Kahf

Four young Syrian women staged a women’s march for nonviolence through the middle of Medhat Basha market in Damascus, Syria, on November 21, 2012. In the finest tradition of subversive street theater, all four dressed in bridal gowns and veils, carrying red banners... Read more

Television for the Discerning Feminist Palate

Is television shaping ideas about women, simply reflecting, or are the lives of television women completely divorced from the lives of real women? Next we dissect gender roles on some of the hottest shows on television (Nashville, Revenge, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Girls) with bloggers Camille Morgenstern of TurnUpTheSass and Anna Sterling of feministing.com. 27:02 min.

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Special note to KPFA members: Don't forget to vote for the KPFA board members. Your ballot is due in New York on December 11, so get it out early. And if you're not a member, please donate to KPFA and mention Women's Magazine. Thanks.

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From Mutiny Radio: Peacebuilding at Home and Abroad

Val Ibarrra of Mutiny Radio's Common Thread Collective, talks with Nancy Kivette and Nancy Merritt from the Peace Alliance, who are lobbying for creation of a Department of Peace and for the Youth Promise Initiative. She also speaks with Monique Graves about Lauren's House 4 Positive Change, which works with low-income and homeless youth in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park.

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