Monday, June 10, 2019: Preparing for Post-Roe America

Find the book at your local book store, on-line
or ask your library to order it.

Kate Raphael of KPFA Women's Magazine speaks with Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America about what we should be doing to prepare for the end of Roe. Robin says we should look at it as an opportunity to build a stronger movement and improve access to all health care options for all women, and suggests concrete ways we can do that.

Support and protect abortion access and funding groups if you can't get pregnant, make an abortion plan if you can. Here's how:

ACCESS: Women's Health Justice -provides a range of abortion services including housing for those recovering from later abortion (after 15 weeks).
National Network of Abortion Funds -reproductive justice group run by women of color and queer women.
  Find a fund
  Need an abortion
Aid Access -medication abortion

Click here to listen the full interview (38:56) or here to listen to this week's entire show, including
Marie Harrison Fought for Her People
Previewing This Year's Queer Film Fest

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

Remembering Jean Pauline

We remember feminist, anarchist and labor activist and organizer, Jean Pauline who died last week at age 95. A memorial is being planned for January to celebrate Jean's life.

Next up we interview Layidua Salazar on abortion and protecting reproductive rights.

Reproductive and women's health rights are certain to be under attack under a Trump/Pence White House and Republican controlled Congress. As Republicans have come to dominate state houses across the country, California remains a relative bright spot, but many women still are unable to access the wide range of services that exist. ACCESS Women's Health Justice and the National Network of Abortion Funds are among the organizations working to ensure that women can exercise their rights to have or not have children and receive the health care they choose. We speak with Layidua Salazar, board member of ACCESS Women's Health Justice. Check out their website for information and to sign up for ACCESS newsletter. For health questions call 1-800-376-4636 for English and 1-888-442-2237 for Spanish.

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

Also on today's show:

Meditation and Activism with Arinna Weisman

Monday, February 15, 2016: Homeless Prenatal Program

On this week’s edition of Women’s Magazine, we talk with two groups who are working to address inequities in pregnancy and childbirth. Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min.

Then Angela Wellman talks with jazz great Regina Carter, who will be performing at a benefit for the Homeless Prenatal Program on February 27 at San Francisco’s Nourse Theater. HPP provides services to over 4000 low income and homeless families each year. Two staff members from HPP also join the conversation.

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Also on today's show:
Reproductive Justice Meets Black Lives Matter

Monday, February 15, 2016: Reproductive Justice Meets Black Lives Matter

On this week’s edition of Women’s Magazine, we talk with two groups who are working to address inequities in pregnancy and childbirth. Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min.

Discounted books available at the book launch

First, Lisa Marie Rollins talks with Dr. Julia Chinyere Oparah, one of the editors of the new anthology, Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth. Oparah and co-editor Dr. Alicia D. Bonaparte are part of Black Women Birthing Justice, a collective committed to transforming the birthing experience for Black women. “If Reproductive Justice and Black Lives Matter had a baby,” Oparah says, “The result would be Black Women Birthing Justice.”  Black Women Birthing Justice will host a launch party for the book at 7 PM on February 24 at Mills College.  More info




Also on today's show:
Homeless Prenatal Program

 

Monday, June 8, 2015: Ireland--Feminist Rights and LGBT

Why is gay marriage winning and abortion rights losing? Today June 8th on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we talk to feminists Katha Pollitt and Meghan Murphy about the recent vote in Ireland to legalize same sex marriage and we ask how is it that Ireland is now touted as in the vanguard of progressive politics after legalizing same sex marriage while abortion is still illegal in Ireland except when a women's life is in danger. Are the rights of LGBT people and feminists in conflict?

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

Also on today's show:

Fight Against Gentrification in Oakland

Monday, April 6, 2015: Purvi Patel

Targeting Asian Women--Exploiting Asian women to criminalize all women.

Reproductive justice is a movement that envisions the complete
 physical and mental well-being of women and girls. Banner from www.napawf.org

Preeti Shekar talks with Shivana Jorawar, Reproductive Justice Program Director at the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, about the strange case of Purvi Patel.  The 33-year-old Patel was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for "feticide" and "neglect of a dependent" after seeking medical care for a miscarriage.

Listen now or Get MP3: 13:17 min.






Four Things You Can Do Now:

1. Sign the petition at RhReality Check: Send a message to Indiana leaders about Purvi’s case and the feticide law. You can also sign a petition here (at whitehouse.gov) which asks for a full pardon for Purvi Patel.

2. Support Purvi Patel’s Family: Patel was the breadwinner and caregiver in her family. Donate to support her family.

3. Raise awareness:  Share articles and resources about the verdict with your own networks; write blogposts and opeds; and tweet using #Justice4Purvi to raise awareness about the implications of this case on the rights of all women.

4. Send a note of support to Purvi Patel: You can send cards to Purvi Patel c/o The Indiana Religious Coalition for Reproductive Justice (IRCRC), PO Box 723, Lafayette, IN 47902. They will deliver them to Patel on their visits to her in prison.

More information about this case and others can be found at www.deepaiyer.me.

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

Also on today's show:
Understanding Israel
Blackademics

Monday, January 26, 2015: Speak For Yourself! Reproductive Justice

How Black Women are Reclaiming the Conversation About Abortion.

"No mother should have to give birth, raise a child, and then worry about whether or not a police force which is designed to protect and serve is going to instead harass and murder their child." Marcela Howell

We are proud to announce our collective partnership in forming In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, an organizational initiative designed to amplify and lift up the voices of Black women at national and regional levels in our ongoing fight to secure reproductive justice for all women and girls. (Shutterstock)

Kate interviews Marcela Howell, strategic director of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda.  The new collaborative by five Black women's organizations seeks to reframe the discussion about abortion and reproductive choice to foreground the experience and voices of Black women.

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is a partnership between Black Women for Wellness, Black Women’s Health Imperative, New Voices Pittsburgh, SisterLove, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now and Communications Consortium Media Center. The initiative will focus on abortion rights and access, contraceptive equity, and comprehensive sex education as our key policy issues. As a Reproductive Justice initiative, we will approach these issues from a human rights perspective, incorporating the intersections of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and gender identity with the situational impacts of economics, politics, and culture that make up the lived experiences of Black women in this country.

Reproductive justice has always meant for Black women not only the right to not have a child but also the right to have a child in a safe and healthy environment because there were so many other issues preventing Black women from having children such as forced sterilization, government sanctions and other things. Reproductive justice embodies criminal justice issues, environmental issues, economic issues, and workplace issues.

Howell discusses HR7 which prohibits funding for abortion care for poor women. This blocks access to a legal medical procedure for poor women most of whom are Black women. Listen now or Get MP3. 12:38 min.





You can reach Marcela Howell at mhowell@ccmc.org, www.blackrj.org or tweet her at #blackwomensrj.

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


Also on today's show:
The Vagina Monologues
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Monday, September 15, 2014: Is Miscarriage Becoming a Crime?

The side effect of paranoia over abortion.

Amanda Marcotte on Twitter

Why did Texas police search a school with helicopters after a girl miscarried in the bathroom? In the national panic over abortion, women seeking routine medical care can be treated as suspects.  We talk with blogger and women's health reporter Amanda Marcotte. Amanda is author of It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments and contributor to Rh Reality Check. Her article, The Aftermath of ‘Hobby Lobby': Multiple Attacks on Contraception Access appears there.

Listen now or Get MP3. 15:27 min






Other links:
National Advocates for Pregnant Women.
Rh Reality Check
Slate
Amanda on Twitter

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

Also on today's show:
Remembering Martina Davis-Correia and Troy Davis
Fabulosa Festival Preview

June 9, 2014: Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL

VESSEL

Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL, which chronicles the voyages of Women On Waves, a bold women's health movement bringing women-controlled medical abortion to ports of call around the world. This film follows Dutch physician, Rebecca Gomperts, who in 2001 began a sailing voyage to provide women with safe abortions.

A fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

VESSEL airs at the Roxie on Saturday, June 14th at 4:45 PM and Wednesday, June 18th at 7:01 PM. Tickets are available at sfindie.com.

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

Also on today's show:
Radical queer writer & activist Yasmin Nair
Preview of the film KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER
Tribute to revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama

Break the Chains: Forty Years After Roe v. Wade

Global Val speaks with Mona Lisa Wallace, a civil rights and environmental justice attorney and president of San Francisco NOW, and Rose Aguilar, host of the daily call-in show Your Call on KALW 91.7. We discuss the state of women's rights in our country 40 years after the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. We'll also be reporting on Eve Ensler's V-DAY (Feb. 14th) campaign this year called "One Billion Rising" which encourages people to Strike!Dance!Rise! and demand an end to violence against women around the world. The number is based on a United Nations study showing that 1 in 3 women on our planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

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Join us for the East Bay celebration of One Billion Rising. Night for the One Billion is a performance ritual featuring Bay Area artists and healers. 7:00 to 9:00pm at the First Presbyterian Church, 2619 Broadway Street Oakland. Thank you all for those who have signed up to volunteer. We no longer need volunteers for the event.

Bay Area Rising--performers, ritualists, and advocates for women and girls--are offering a community-based performance ritual as an accumulation of energy and joy after a day of actions with One Billion Rising. Join Holly Near, Jennifer Berezan, Destiny Arts, Fat Chance Belly Dance, Dance Brigade, Grrl Brigade, Gina Breedlove, Afia Walking Tree, Mona de Vestel, Shelley Doty, Arisika Razak, Richelle Donigan, Eve Decker, Youth Speaks, Luisah Teish, Hand to Hand, and Chhoti Maa for an evening of beauty, community, and holding the collective consciousness for a violence-free planet.

Tickets purchased via Brown Paper Tickets are sliding scale $20-50. 100% of proceeds go to IDEX women’s projects around the world http://www.idex.org/ and local organizations serving women and girls. First Presbyterian Church, 2619 Broadway Street Oakland. A social justice community.

For more information and/or Volunteer: www.bayarearising.org
To purchase tickets to the event, please visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/312857
To donate, please go to: http://www.razoo.com/story/Bay-Area-Rising?referral_code=share

The United Nations has declared that one billion women on the planet have suffered gender violence. Join 1 billion rising activities on February 14th. Be part of the change!

Get involved -- find a One Billion Rising event in your community

January 23rd: The Current State of Reproductive Justice

"The Choice is Yours!" from www.accesswhj.org

Reproductive freedom is not only about abortion but about women's health and access to a full reproductive life. States' legislatures continue attacks on women's reproductive rights. We mark the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade with reproductive justice activists Ana Rodriguez of Access Women’s Health Justice and Belle Taylor-McGhee of Trust Black Women.

We also talk about Gov. Brown’s proposal to eliminate the California Commission on the Status of Women with Executive Director Beth McGovern.

Next we hear a panel on Fifty Years of the Pill in Australia – an Incomplete Revolution, tracing the history and impact of the contraceptive pill. This segment is brought to us by Women's International News Gathering Service/WINGS.

For Women's Calendar Events and to listen to the entire show click here.

December 19th: Textile Arts, Reproductive Technology, and Occupy Oakland

Rocks and Rills, by Mary Walker Phillips
courtesy of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Join Kate Raphael in the streets to hear feminist voices from Occupy Oakland's West Coast Port Shutdown.

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Next listen to a fascinating conversation with textile artist and Howard University Prof. Karen Hampton about her work, the history of African American women's textiles, and the show Invisible Lineage at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.



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We also hear a talk by Sujatha Jesudason, Executive Director of Generations Ahead, on sex selection, genetic technology and a more nuanced meaning of reproductive choice.

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To hear the entire show as aired on KPFA, click here.

February 1 Show: Human Rights Are Gender Rights from Haiti to the Super Bowl

Today on our show, we look at how human and gender rights workers are supporting grassroots earthquake relief in Haiti; and we talk about the controversy surrounding the Focus on the Family commercial to be aired during the Super Bowl. Plus a moving tribute to feminist theologian Mary Daly.

Listen to entire show, including music by Toshi Reagon and Mamina and poetry by Suheir Hammad and Janet Stickmon, on the KPFA archive.

(Photo: copyright Zanmi Lasante, Partners in Health)

Haiti: Human Rights, Gender Rights and Humanitarian Aid

Rivian Berlin of Women's Magazine speaks with Yfat Susskind, Director of MADRE, about the crisis in Haiti. MADRE began its work in Central America during the 1980s, working with local women's groups to counter U.S. policy of intervention in the region. It has been active in Haiti for many years and was one of the first organizations to mobilize effective aid after the devastating earthquake. 20:58
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CBS: Pull the Ad

Destiny Lopez of ACCESS Women's Health Rights Coalition talks with KPFA Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael about the Focus on the Family ad to run during the Super Bowl. Women's groups have organized to pressure CBS to pull the ad. (Join the campaign) 16:25
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Radical feminist theologian Mary Daly, who died last month at age 81, transformed the language in which we critique patriarchy. In this short clip (copyright, Pacifica Archives, permission required for rebroadcast), she reads from her Wickedary, a reimagining of the English language based on feminist principles.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Women's Magazine 2010

Photo: "We Came to America" (1997) by Faith Ringgold ©

Listen to today's show, including music by Mahalia Jackson and the Neville Brothers, the Women's Calendar, on KPFA's archive.

Earthquake in Haiti: Not a Natural Disaster

Laura Flynn, editor of Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, speaks with Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael about the aftermath of the earthquake and the political challenges for Haiti. Laura is also former international policy director of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy. 14:29
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What you can do to help Haiti:
Haiti Action Committee/Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
MADRE: Women Hardest Hit in Disasters

License to Kill?
Last week the judge in the trial of Scott Roeder, who killed Dr. George Tiller in Kansas, ruled that Roeder can introduce a justifiable homicide defense to argue for a conviction for voluntary manslaughter. Kathy Spillar of the Feminist Majority says this decision may lead to more murders of doctors who provide abortion services. Audio 5:58
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The Long Tradition of Black Feminism
Did Black feminism arise from the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Which women got to speak at the 1963 March on Washington? How new is the controversy over the movie "Precious"? What's the value of women's studies? Feminist scholar and professor Michele Wallace discusses these issues and more with KPFA Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael. 14:53
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Where Is the Affordable Housing
One year after the hope-filled inauguration of President Obama, what has changed for Bay Area homeless? Is affordable housing more available? What can we do to stop the threatened cuts to General Assistance? Janney Castillo of BOSS, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, speaks with two women who are trying to navigate the process of moving from shelter to housing. Audio 15:45
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Homelessness Ends with a Home: Housing Not Handcuffs, Take Action January 20

Feminist Roundtable on Health Care Reform and Abortion Rights

Kate Raphael sits down with Lupe Rodriguez, Policy Director of ACCESS Women's Rights Coalition, Serena Garcia, Communications Coordinator of Sistersong: Women of Color Health Collective, and Marit Knutson, member of Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, to analyze the process and outcome of the health reform discussions in Congress.
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Then we hear an excerpt of a talk given by Professor Andrea (Andie) Smith, author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, and Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances. Andie is a cofounder of INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence. This talk was given at Critical Resistance 10, a conference on opposing the prison industrial complex, held last fall in Oakland. In this excerpt, Andie explains how heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism are entwined, how the nonprofit industrial complex keeps us from making revolution, and why the Christian right attracts so many more people than the U.S. left. Download clip or listen here


We also remember Hilda Roberts, the last surviving nurse from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which supported the Democratic forces in Spain in the 1930s, and a stalwart of Berkeley Women In Black against Israeli occupation. download or listen:


This show also showcases music by Blame Sally and Metropolitan Klezmer. Hear all that, plus Jovelyn's World and the Women's Community Calendar, by downloading the entire show here (available after 2:00 p.m. on December 21, 2009).