Monday, May 14, 2018: KPFA Fund Drive

If you missed your chance to donate during KPFA Women's Magazine this week you can call in next Monday May 21 between 1 and 2 PM to pledge your support to KPFA and Women's Magazine. Thanks for listening.

Click here to listen to yesterday's show. 59:50 min

A message from Kate Raphael:

This week, KPFA is fundraising again - I know, it seems like we just had a drive, but that's the game in listener-supported noncommercial radio. We don't get corporate grants and very little government money, so we depend on you to keep us on air and able to bring you the information and culture you need in these difficult times.  If you have heard something on Women's Magazine in the last six months that you didn't know, if you have found out about a book you enjoyed or an event you wanted to attend, if you got inspired or energized, if you're an author or promoter or filmmaker who was given the opportunity to share your work on our show, think about how much that was worth to you and donate that amount to KPFA tomorrow during Women's Magazine.

We'll be featuring Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest living park ranger at 96 (she started the job in her eighties).  I know some of you missed this interview last time around, so this is your chance to hear it.   Betty works at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Park in Richmond, California, and has taken responsibility for making sure that the unique contributions and struggles of Black women during that period is included in the history.

We will be offering Betty's book as a thank you gift for your donation of $125 or more during that hour.  But anything you can give to help keep KPFA on air will be greatly appreciated. We are trying to raise at least $1,500 during the hour and that means we probably need at least 30 people to call in, so if possible, please be one of them!

To pledge by phone: 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732 (1-800-HEY-KPFA)
Or pledge securely online at www.kpfa.org and choose among all the thank you gifts at various levels on offer during this fund drive, including any or all of the KPFA-sponsored talks you might have missed this year (Patrisse Cullors, Sunaina Maira, and lots more),   But we hope many of you will want to get a copy of Betty's book to savor and share.

Thank you so much for all your past support.

You've kept Women's Magazine on air for thirteen years.  This is a difficult time for us but I believe we're going to make it and we can only do that if we increase our membership and fundraising, so if you live in the Bay Area and have never been a member, this is a great time to take that step.  And if you are not in the Bay, you can still get all of KPFA's great content online wherever you are, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and your donations also help to make sure that Pacifica's 200+ affiliates continue to get progressive perspectives and news that is not available anywhere else.

Keep hope alive - keep KPFA alive.

Monday, December 8, 2014: We pay tribute to the Power of African American Women of the Civil Rights era.

It's Pledge Drive time again. If you haven't already, please donate to KPFA and Women's Magazine. Thanks!

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We pay  tribute to the Power of African American Women of the Civil Rights era.  While we mourn the death of black bodies killed by police we remember how our foremothers also experienced police violence and stood up against the horror of racism.  For fund drive we offer a historical audio package of the voices of powerful women activists of the 60s like  Rosa Parks, speaking out about her arrest,  Fannie Lou Hammer talking about her surviving police brutality and her pursuit for justice against her assailants, and  Corretta Scott King speaking out three weeks after Dr. King's assassination; just three of the amazing voices of our foremothers available to you on a 3 CD or 9 CD MP3 collection.

Free Marissa Alexander

www.freemarissa.org

Click here to listen to entire show that also features an interview with Nell Myhand and Zanne Joi who talk about Marissa Alexander's unjust conviction for defending herself against her batterer. She is serving a 60 year sentence for an indictment for which she has not been convicted. Come to an teach in and direct action planning to free Marissa on Sunday December 14 from 1-4 at the Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kitteridge in the meeting room on the 3rd floor. For more info phone 510-543-5280 or email freemarissaeastbay@gmail.org. 59:50 min.

Monday, November 10, 2014: Black Women Surviving Social Trauma

Today's program begins a new format for Women's Magazine. Once a month new hosts Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins will bring us voices from global women of color and multiple diasporas. At the end our live show the phone lines will open for callers to share their knowledge, work and stories.

Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins

Surviving Global Social Trauma

In the last 25 years we have begun recognize that the experiences of war can cause PTSD.  But feminists and activists have long recognized that there is another kind of war occurring in the U.S upon women, people of color, activists and poor people by our unhealthy society, which causes social trauma for all but especially for those in targeted groups.  This Monday on KPFA's Women's Magazine we talk to two African American women about how they have been affected in their lives and bodies by the racism, sexism, homophobia and imperialism of our society and how they have found ways to heal.  

Nell Myhand is a Berkeley based organizer, author and speaker whose work brings people together across age, race, class and other differences forming alliances to create powerful, effective solutions to common problems that leave no one out and no one behind. She is writing children’s books that highlight solidarity and collective action for social justice towards creating the other world we know is possible.

Cara Page is a Black queer feminist from a long ancestral legacy of organizers and cultural workers. Cara works on Queer and trans liberation, reproductive justice and racial and economic justice and is currently the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in NYC.

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

January 27, 2014: Nuclear Free Middle East? and a Brief History of Rape in the US

Groundbreaking Conference in Haifa for Nuclear Free Zone in Israel:

"Enough is enough!" It's time to examine Israel's policy of not admitting they have nuclear weapons; that the existence of nuclear weapons is not an asset but a danger to the area and to Israelis.

Daniel Ellsberg, WSLF Executive Director Jacqueline Cabasso, Rose Aguilar, Dennis Kucinich.Photo by James Lerager

Kate Raphael speaks with Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation, about the groundbreaking conference held in Haifa, Israel last month breaking the taboo on discussing Israel's nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. The Haifa conference was organized by a preparatory committee including former members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and dedicated Israeli anti-nuclear and human rights activists from around the world.

Jackie talks about the history of efforts to make the Middle East a zone free of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, as over 137 countries around the world are. "You certainly don't have to be an expert to know that nuclear weapons are a really bad thing," says Jackie Cabasso. 21:27 min.

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Rape in the US:

Sexual violence from a historical, economic, cultural, and political perspective.

President Obama has convened a task force to address the epidemic of rape on campus. In this segment Lisa Dettmer talks with Estelle Freedman, professor of history and feminist studies at Stanford, about the history of U.S. definitions and understandings of rape and sexual violence.  Freedman is the author of REDEFINING RAPE: Sexual Violence in the Age of Suffrage and Segregation.

Harvard University Press says about Estelle Freedman's book: Rape has never had a universally accepted definition, and the uproar over “legitimate rape” during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that it remains a word in flux. Redefining Rape tells the story of the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the United States, through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change. In this ambitious new history, Estelle Freedman demonstrates that our definition of rape has depended heavily on dynamics of political power and social privilege. 29:28 min.

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Click here to listen to the entire show. Includes music by boogie-woogie pianist Caroline Dahl and singer-songwriter Holly Near. 58:06 min.

January 20, 2014: The Untold Story of Black Women and the Birth of Feminism

Today's show falls on the holiday celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Kate Raphael opens the program with a thought provoking commentary about the Civil Rights movement today and other freedom struggles. Click here to listen to Women's Magazine. 59:50 min

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. Link for Sprouts is http://pacificanetwork.org/?page_id=289 Look for Black Women Led Birth of N.O.W. to hear this segment.

Freedom Rider Jean Denton Thompson

Mugshot of Jean Denton Thompson on May 24, 1961 in Jackson, MS. Photo from Mississippi State Department of Archives and History's Sovereignty Commission

And then, we'll listen to a first-hand account by Freedom Rider Jean Denton Thompson, about what it was like to be inside that world-changing moment. Our original interview with Jean Denton-Thompson is at:

http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-7th-today-on-womens-magazine.html

September 30: Anne Braden and White Anti-Racist Activism

In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Anne Braden as a white southerner whose rejection of her segregationist upbringing was “eloquent and prophetic.” When charged with sedition for attempting to desegregate a Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood in 1954, Braden used the attack to embark upon a lifetime of racial justice organizing matched by few whites in American history. Ostracized as a “red,” she fought for an inclusive movement community and demonstrated that civil liberties were essential for civil rights. After decades of being shunned by even the most progressive organizations, in 1989 Anne Braden was awarded the first Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty from the American Civil Liberties Union as a “lifelong leader of the movements for racial justice, labor rights, and peace in the South.”

Now an extraordinary film by Mimi Pickering and Anne Lewis of Appalshop brings Braden's work and voice to life.  Braden's own words are mixed with powerful images from the civil rights era and beyond, and those whose lives entwined with hers talk about her influence on them and their struggles for justice.

In this fund drive special, hosted  by Margo Okazawa-Rey and Kate Raphael, we listen to excerpts from the film.  We also speak with Molly McClure of the Catalyst Project and its Anne Braden Political Education Program, about how Braden's work has inspired a new generation of white anti-racist activists.

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It's still fund drive so please pledge your support to KPFA! For $100 or more, you can get a copy of this wonderful DVD to enjoy and share.