Monday, November 20, 2017: The Space Between Us, Hosted by: Jovelyn D. Richards

As the stories of sexual exploitation, power, under the umbrella of patriarchal rein continues in the media Joyce Bulifant known for television roles as: Marie, wife of Gavin MacLeod on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", the Disney musical "Airplane" and "The Happiest Millionaire" as well the "The Match Game" shares her personal story.  In her Memoir titled: My Four Hollywood Husbands, give us a up and close personal examination of her journey in the most influential industry in American.

In the second half of The Space Between Us, Jovelyn speaks with Oakland boxer Rae Black. Rae shared her beliefs and journey as a female boxer and her thoughts regarding how women live in their bodies trained by society to live "As If" its TKO.





Jovelyn closes the show with an interview with Bianca sharing the story of her family in Puerto Rico and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Help the Sandra Torres family at https://www.youcaring.com/sandratorresfamily-977288. Check out Sandra's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/babyandchildrenart. Contact Bianca at Bianca@lapena.org

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

March 17, 2014: Mammogram News, Anita Hill Documentary, Empowering Workshop for Women by Rose Aguilar

New Study Suggests Mammograms Do Not Save Lives!

Big news about mammograms -- or is it? What to make of the newly released long-term study from Canada suggesting that screening mammography, contrary to everything we've heard from pink ribbon-funded public education campaigns, does not save lives?

We talk with Karuna Jaggar of Breast Cancer Action and Lochlann Jain, author of MALIGNANT: How Cancer Becomes Us.

For further information go to the following websites:  Breast Cancer Action: www.bcaction.org. Lochlann Jain: www.malignant.us

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Documentary: ANITA: Speaking Truth to Power

ANITA: Speaking Truth to Power, is a new documentary about Anita Hill, the woman at the center of the hearings over Justice Clarence Thomas and sexual harassment. We preview the film with director Freida Lee Mock, whose previous film, MAYA LIN: A Clear Strong Vision, won the Academy Award for best documentary.

The film opens this Friday, March 21st at the Shattuck in Berkeley and the Embarcadero in San Francisco.

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Rose Aguilar and Women (or the lack of) in Major Media

In 2013, only 20% of op ed writers, 18% of news sources in major media and 9% of Hollywood film directors were women (slightly down from 1998!). Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call Radio and facilitator of Use Your Voice workshops for women talks about why women have so much trouble breaking in and staying in media, and why it matters.

The Women's Media Center report is at www.womensmediacenter.org.

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Use Your Voice: An Empowering Workshop for Women

Rose Aguilar

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)

San Francisco, CA

General admission tickets are $75.

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:49 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

Monday, October 21: Honduran Elections; History of American Scrapbooks

Interview with Suyapa Portillo Villeda

Xiomara Castro de Zelaya

With the Honduran elections less than six weeks away, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the candidate of the leftist LIBRE party, is leading in the polls.  Pitzer College professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda discusses the history of US involvement in Honduras, the coup of 2009 and the emergence of LIBRE as a broad popular coalition.  She also discusses the case against indigenous leader Berta Caceres. For more information about check out Free Berta Carceres.  30:12 min.


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History of Scrapbooks with Ellen Gruber Garvey

http://scrapbookhistory.wordpress.com/book/

Then Ellen Gruber Garvey, author of Writing With Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, talks about how people, especially women and African Americans, used scrapbooks to create their own narratives using the tools of mainstream media, just as news aggregators and bloggers do today. 23:08 min.



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Click here to listen to KPFA Women's Magazine. 59 min

February 11, 2013: Raising Women's Voices

Today we look at four women-led media projects

First up, we hear from three recipients of the 2012 Media Equity Collaborative awards, and from the founder of the collaborative, Ariel Dougherty.

• Susana Morris, member of Crunk Feminist Collective, which "aims to articulate a crunk feminist consciousness for women and men of color, who came of age in the Hip Hop Generation."
• Angela Tucker, producer of the hugely popular web TV series, Black Folks Don't.
• Kellia Ramares-Watson, investigative journalist, working on a project on how Big Pharma and government institutions are combining to push psychiatric drugs.

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Sauda Burch and Xochipala Maes Valdez are the coeditors of Road to Ife, a multimedia journal of spirituality and activism.  Ifa is an ancient spiritual tradition from West Africa, that traveled to the Americas with the slaves.  It evolved differently in every community, and has practitioners all over the world.  With this new venture, initiates, writers and artists Burch and Valdez strive to address the needs of Ifa practitioners and connect with practitioners of other earth-centered traditions.

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Two weeks ago, over 400 people from all over California marched and rallied at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.  Family members and friends of incarcerated women along with social justice activists from every community came together to protest the overcrowding and mistreatment of women being squeezed into even more crowded conditions as Valley State Women's Prison is being converted to a men's prison.  Governor Jerry Brown says the crisis over overcrowding and inadequate health care in California's prison system is over, but those with first-hand knowledge of the conditions for women disagree.

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