Monday, January 18th, 2021: Support opposition to desecration of Mauna Kea

This Monday, January 18 at 1 pm PST! Learn how you can help stop the UC’s proposed colonial project of building the TMT (Thirty Meter Telescope) on the sacred site of Mauna Kea.

Support Native Hawaiian community opposition and pressure the UC Board of Regents to DivestTMT on January 19-21, 2021.

For information on how to make written or spoken public comments, templates and talking points, see: bit.ly/ucdivesttmt

Click here to listen to the show. 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.

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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, September 10, 2018: Gayle McLaughlin

This week on KPFA Women's Magazine, we look at elections - are they a good way to get what we want?

Next up Kate sits down with Gayle McLaughlin, two-term mayor and three-term city council member in Richmond, California, and cofounder of the Richmond Progressive Alliance.  Under her leadership, Richmond raised the minimum wage to $15, passed the first new rent control ordinance in California in decades, and reduced the homicide rate by 75%. "When RPA members get elected to office, they don't join the club of elected officials," says Gayle.  "No, the club you're part of is still the movement."  Gayle and others are now building the California Progressive Alliance, to spread the Richmond model to other cities around the state.

Listen now or Get MP3. 23:53 min.

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

Also on today's show:

Aimee Allison and She The People Summit

Events:

6th Annual Musical Extravaganza

Monday, December 4, 2017: Storytelling as Activism Part 1

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Last Thursday, three Oakland women were surprised with billboards celebrating their leadership in the movement to bring 100% renewable energy to 100% of people. The honorees are Jing Jing He, community organizer with Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), Jodi Pincus, Executive Director of Rising Sun Energy Center, and Emily Kirsch, Founder and CEO of Powerhouse. On this week's show, I speak with Jing Jing, Jodi and Sarah Shanley Hope of the Solutions Project, which organized the surprise.

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

Also on today's show:
Stacy Russo

Monday, November 28, 2016: Protecting Health Justice, the Environment and Ourselves in a Time of Crisis and Fear

Buddhist teacher Arinna Weisman joins us to talk about how to keep our faith and remain active in increasingly scary times.  Arinna Weisman has been a Vipassana Buddhism teacher since 1989 and infuses her dharma with political and environmental activism. She has led insight meditation retreats for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Queer community and is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Center of the Pioneer Valley.  She is also co-author of the book, A Beginner’s Guide to Insight Meditation.

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

Also on today's show:
Protecting Health Justice with Layidua Salazar

Wed/Nov 30th Join us as San Francisco kicks off the National Days of Action to Divest from the Funders of DAPL: 8am Justin Herman Plaza for prayers for the water, a divest teach-in and prayer walk to the financial institutions finding DAPL. Join us, share widely & watch the powerful video below. Details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1834348963450855/?ti=cl

#NoDAPL #Divest #waterislife #westandtogether #IndigenousRising

For more information email INMsolidaritysf@gmail.com or call 925-435-7934

Monday, October 31, 2016: Toxic Isn't Tasty

Toxic Isn't Tasty.  Oil in their water is what the Standing Rock protectors are hoping to prevent, but we don't have to wait for the Dakota Access Pipeline to break to know what that might mean. California citrus growers are irrigating their crops with oil wastewater.

Alyssa Figueroa of Breast Cancer Action says "everyone including state regulators is asleep at the wheel," as 43% of the chemicals used in oil and gas operations have been shown to pose health and environmental risks.

This "Breast Cancer Awareness Month," Breast Cancer Action's annual "Think Before You Pink Campaign" has been bringing attention to two large citrus growers, Bee Sweet and Wonderful Citrus, who bedeck their products with pink ribbons while using oil wastewater for irrigation.  One day left to take action to stop this practice.

Listen now. 10:52 min

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

Also on today's show:
Rose Aguilar Reports from Standing Rock
Cancer Fighter Corliss Watkins

Monday, October 31, 2016: Rose Aguilar Reports from Standing Rock

Oil & Water: The Missouri River provides water to 18 million people.

"The level of military violence is shameful."

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Report from Standing Rock - Bay Area Native American journalist Rose Aguilar joins us by phone from near the Standing Rock encampment.  Rose arrived in North Dakota on Friday, one day after water protectors were violently evicted from the Highway 1806 camp, where they were attempting to block construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Rose reports that many of those in the Standing Rock encampment were traumatized by the attack, but they are determined to remain through the winter.  Find out how you can support the Standing Rock protectors.

Listen now. 18:17 min

Rose Aguilar broadcasts live on Your Call Monday thru Friday at 10 AM on KALW.

Want to learn about the genocide against Native Americans?  

American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World Revised ed. by David E. Stannard

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning American History), by Roxann Dunbar-Ortiz

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History), Benjamin Madley

Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873, Brendan C. Lindsay

Also on today's show:

Toxic Isn't Tasty

Cancer Fighter Corliss Watkins

Monday, April 25, 2016: Environmental Gender Justice

Exploring the intersections of the environment and gender justice.

Memorial rally for Berta Caceres

Dipti Bhatnagar

Across the world, women are at the forefront of grassroots environmental movements, resisting land grabs and displacement from the state/extractive industries to fighting the wrath of environmental toxins impacting the health and well being of their communities. We talk to two inspiring women activists from the global south.

First, Preeti Mangala Shekar talked to Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader, the late Berta Caceres, when she was in the bay area to accept the Goldman Prize in 2015 for her incredible activism fighting her community’s displacement from the world’s largest dam builder. The Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, Berta Caceres was murdered by the right wing Honduran government , barely a week after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Since Honduras’s right wing coupe it has become one of the most violent places in the world. In an interview two years ago, Cáceres singled out Clinton for her role supporting the coup.

Later in the show, we talk to Dipti Bhatnagar an Indian organizer with Friends of the Earth International based in Mozambique, who discusses how both grassroots mobilizing and strategically using international spaces like the UN Climate Forum / Conference of Parties (COP) are strategic feminist approaches in the fight for environmental justice.

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

Due to a power outage in Berkeley on April 25th only part of the interview with Dipti Bhatnagar was broadcast.

Monday, March 21, 2016: Murder in Honduras

Central America is not in the mainstream news as much as it was in the 1980s, but U.S. support for repressive regimes and destabilization of populist governments continues. In 2009, after a military coup ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, Hillary Clinton campaigned actively among U.S. allies in Latin America to prevent Zelaya's return.  In the years since the coup, assassinations and arrests of indigenous, environmentalist, feminist and LGBT activists, repression of journalists, and murders in general, have skyrocketed.  In the last two weeks, two important Honduran environmental and indigenous leaders, Berta Caceres and Nelson Garcia, have been murdered, in what the government describes as random and unrelated acts.  Suyapa Portillo, professor of Chicano/a and Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College, discusses the life and work of Berta Caceres, who she says never failed to connect the struggle against patriarchy to the fight for land rights.


Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Zika in El Salvador
A sit-down with radio host Kris Welch

Monday, November 16, 2015 – Singing to Stop Climate Change

"Most of the farming around the world is done by women...taking care of each other in a just and compassionate way."

Listen now or Get MP3. 18:12 min.

Singer/songwriter Bonnie Lockhart, founder of the activist singing troupe Occupella and climate justice organizer, sings original songs to promote the Northern California Climate Mobilization, which will be held Saturday, November 21 at Lake Merritt Amphitheater in Oakland.

Bonnie also talks about Climate mobilization happening around the world. For information, schedule of participants, maps, etc: http://www.norcalclimatemob.net/

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

Also on today's show:

Transgender Native Hawaiians

A Murder (Mystery) in Palestine

Monday, October 5, 2015: Cecile Pineda's Apology to a Whale

"Human Beings have fouled our nest." Cecile Pineda

Kate Raphael speaks in depth with Cecile Pineda, whose new book, Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World, takes on linguistics, anthropology and the question of why some humans try to destroy the world we live in, when no other animal does.  Cecile will be reading in Berkeley next Saturday at a benefit for Western States Legal Foundation.

Listen now or Get MP3. 36:02 min

Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World, Book Launch Benefit

ORDER NOW from WingsPress.com or from your local book store

Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World, by Cecile Pineda, is now available from WingsPress.com. Western States Legal Foundation is sponsoring a benefit book launch, reading and signing on Saturday, October 10 at the Berkeley Town House, 2550 Dana Street at the corner of Parker Street, with a wine and cheese reception at 3:30 pm and author presentation at 4 pm. Cecile Pineda will talk about how the work developed, and answer questions from the public. Admission is free. Book sales will benefit Western States Legal Foundation, which has been working for the abolition of nuclear weapons throughout the world for more than three decades.

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

Also on today's show:
Selling Breast Cancer
Star Trek Live

Monday, October 5, 2015: Selling Breast Cancer

"Hijacking the Breast Cancer Movemnent"

Breast Cancer Action website has a wealth of  information

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is here again - and corporate-sponsored pink ribbons still don't provide women's health care. Listen to a portion of Kate Raphael's interview with Karuna Jagger of Breast Cancer Action about what's wrong with the whole concept of a breast cancer awareness. Click here for complete interview.

"Pink ribbons from their very inception have been a corporate marketing tool...Companies are actually doing harm through these pink ribbons promotions...Pink ribbon culture is not contributing to women's health." Jagger explains how.

Breast Cancer Action has helpful information on mammograms, screening, prevention, treatment, and resources for women of all ages, race and income levels. Breast Cancer Action does not accept money from corporate sponsors who benefit from or contribute to breast cancer.

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

Poison Isn't Pretty

The Personal Care Products Council and the American Cancer Society are giving women in cancer treatment cosmetics that contain chemicals linked to increased cancer risk and some of the chemicals may actually interfere with breast cancer treatment.

Demand these multi-million dollar industry giants stop pinkwashing and start protecting women’s health. Click here to sign Breast Cancer Action letter today.

Also on today's show:
Cecile Pineda's Apology to a Whale
Star Trek Live

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.

Listen now to the full, uncut discussion or Get MP3. 39:47 min

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

Also on today's show:
On Her Own

Monday, May 18, 2015: Who Bombed Judi Bari?

25 years ago this week, a bomb blew up in the car of two of the most prominent Earth First! redwood activists: Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney – while they were driving through Oakland, CA. Judi and Darryl were on an organizing tour for Redwood Summer, the most ambitious campaign ever to save the old growth forest in Northern California. Judi was well known in labor, peace and feminist circles, as well as the originator of Redwood Summer. The FBI and Oakland Police immediately accused the pair of carrying the bomb and of being environmental terrorists.  The story played out for weeks in the press – the victims were the suspects.

Twelve years later, after Judi had died of breast cancer, the landmark court case to which she had dedicated the last years of her life went to trial – AND THEY WON!  The FBI and the Oakland Police were ordered to pay $4.1 million for violating the constitution, falsifying evidence and trying to frame the activists.

Monday on Women’s Magazine, we air part of the acclaimed documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari, by Mary Liz Thomson and Darryl Cherney.  We speak with Karen Pickett, long-time Earth First activist and close friend of Judi Bari, about the legacy of the bombing and the case and what is being done to commemorate it.

If you missed Monday's broadcast you can listen here. And you can still pledge to support the Spring fund raising. Just go to KPFA.org and click on the Keep KPFA Rising link. Don't forget to mention KPFA Women's Magazine. We fell short of our goal on Monday so please remember to make your donation. Every dollar counts. Thanks.

Upcoming events:
-Next Monday KPFA Women's Magazine features our monthly live call-in show with Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins. Tune in at 1 PM on May 25th.

-Judi Bari Day: 25th anniversary of bomb attack on Earth First!
Sunday May 24, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Unitarian Fellowship Hall in Berkeley
For info contact bach@headwaterspreserve.org or call 510-548-3113

May 24, 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the attack on Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney by car bomb in Oakland in 1990 as Redwood Summer dawned. 

The Judi Bari Day event at Berkeley's U-U Hall will feature special guest performer LAURIE LEWIS, legendary songwriter, fiddler and vocalist. 

After comments and updates by musician and film-maker DARRYL CHERNEY and others, the documentary film “WHO BOMBED JUDI BARI?” will be screened. 

Karen Pickett will host the program, and facilitate a Q and A session after the film. 
Doors open at 7 PM; the program begins at 7:30 


**Earlier in the day on May 24, people will gather to mark the moment and place where the bomb blew up. The location is across from the intersection of E. 33rd and Park Blvd, in front of Oakland High. Gather 11:30 am—12:30 (the explosion was close to 12 noon). Bring signs, songs, drums for a speak out and commemoration.** 

-Thursday, May 21st, 4:30 to 6:30 PM, Invisible Victims: Black Women's Lives Matter at Home Depot, 3838 Hollis Ave. Emeryville, CA hosted by Anti Police-Terror Project

-Sunday, May 31st, 2 to 5 PM, Celebrate the Life of Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Transgender Warrior, Humanist Hall, 390 27th St, Oakland, cA

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, January 12, 2014: Community Rights

Starting at the Local Level; Civil Disobedience at its Core

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Is corporate takeover of our political system a done deal? Not according to the women in today's interview. Kate Raphael of KPFA Women's Magazine asks the hard questions.

We discuss the Community Rights framework for local citizens taking back control over their food supply, their environments and their values with Michelle Holman from Lane County, Oregon Community Rights Network and Linda of the Community Rights Network of Mendocino County.  In November, Mendocino passed California's first community rights ordinance, banning fracking.

Empowering the People:
"Point to a harm in your community whether it be fracking, GMO foods, pesticides, prisons... and follow it back. It's a corporate decision made somewhere else. All of the state's constitution give the people the right to design their lives. The system is not broken, it's rigged." says Michelle Holman.

There are over 200 communities that have passed rights-based ordinances. Community Environment Legal Defense Fund helps people work on ordinances.

In November Mendocino County passed the first anti-fracking law in California to prevent any entity from using fracking in the county. The Community Bill of Rights Fracking and Water Rights Ordinance is really a Community Rights ordinance not an anti-fracking law. Fracking is a symptom of the problem of corporations taking control over our communities. With this ordinance we have begun a process to take away control of our communities from the corporations. Community Rights Network of Mendocino worked with Community Environment Legal Defense Fund and Global Exchange and hundreds of volunteers to pass Measure S. Also check out Paul Cienfuegos.

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

Also on today's show:
Islamophobia
Remembering Maha Abu Dayyeh

communityrightslanecounty.org

November 17, 2014: Radical Feminism and Sustainability

Earth at Risk 2014 Conference November 22nd and 23rd

This week on Women's Magazine, we hear from radical feminist Saba Malik of the Fertile Ground Institute, an organizer of Earth At Risk, a conference on sustainability and social justice, along with aboriginal women's rights activist Cherry Smiley and anti-trafficking and economic justice organizer Yuly Chan.  Yuly and Cherry will both be speaking on the Confronting Misogyny panel at Earth At Risk next Sunday. They talk about the interrelationship of rape culture, prostitution, environmental destruction, capitalism, land rights and patriarchy.

Earth at Risk Conference is in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts.

For tickets go to: http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/tickets---earth-at-risk-2014.html
For event schedule go to: http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/earth-at-risk-2014-schedule-and-details.html

or Get MP3. 24:38 min.

Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
Whole Foods Workers in For the Fight
Dhaya and Karinda Take on the World

Monday, October 27, 2014: Fracking for the Cure?

Stop Empty Awareness

Then we talk with Karuna Jaggar, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Action, about the Susan B. Komen Foundation's latest deal with the devil: its partnership with the company Baker-Hughes, which makes tools for fracking oil and gas. The company painted 1000 of its drill bits Komen's signature pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and donated $100,000 to Komen.

Komen is accepting money from the very source that causes breast cancer creating an insidious profit cycle. At least 25% of the chemicals used in fracking cause cancer. Breast Cancer Action takes a stand against the Komen Foundation's commercialization of breast cancer and outlines the ways in which the pink ribbon culture distracts from meaningful progress on breast cancer.

Who isn't aware of breast cancer? What is needed is funding for research into root causes, primary prevention and protection. What is needed is funding for treatments that focus on metastasis, treatments that are affordable and less toxic. What is needed is funding for low income cancer patients so that they may continue treatment and have other necessary services. Honor the diversity of women's experience with breast cancer. Care about women's full lives.







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

Also on today's show:
Gone Girl and Rape Myths
BAD FEMINIST Roxane Gay