Monday, September 7, 2015: Historical Memory

"Comfort Women" Memorial

Taking the podium, Kathy Masaoka, a Japanese-American, speaks in support of the installation of the statue of a “comfort woman” at a ceremony to unveil the monument in Glendale, California, on July 30. (Erika Toh)

We look at the controversy over plans to build a memorial to Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military in World War II. Monuments to the "comfort women" have been approved in Glendale, California, Long Island, New York, and a number of other cities around the world.  But some feminists say the memorials unfairly single out Japan and promote racism against an already traumatized community: Japanese Americans. Japanese American activist Kathy Masaoka talks with Preeti Shekar about why her group, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, supports the memorials.

Read Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress statement about the monument to Comfort Women at http://www.ncrr-la.org/news/comfortwomenmonument/comfortwomenmonument.html.


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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

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Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

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