Monday, July 1, 2019: Women Confront the Crisis in Haiti

In this episode of KPFA Women's Magazine we talk about how women are coping with an escalation of government-sponsored violence in Haiti, and a political crisis we hear little about but which has been going on for over a year. Judith Mirkinson, president of the SF Bay Chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild and the Comfort Women Justice Coalition and Leslie Mullin, long-time member of the Haiti Action Committee, talk about what they learned on recent trips to Haiti. Haitians have been in the streets for almost a year protesting government theft of millions of dollars. In November, paramilitaries associated with the Haitian army and police massacred dozens of civilians in the neighborhood of LaSaline, as UN troops did nothing to protect the people.

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

Also on today's show:
Toni Morrison Comes to Film

Monday, October 8, 2018: Family Stories of Resistance and Resilience - Berkeley High School Women's Student Union

Listen to a chat with Simone Ewell-Szabò, one of the co-presidents of Berkeley High School's Women's Student Union.  A video the group produced last week in response to the Kavanaugh hearings has gotten over 20,000 views on YouTube.

The students are holding a festival for International Day of the Girl on Oct 11 at lunch hour across the street from Berkeley High School. There will be big sweeps of paper for people to paint, food and things for sale to raise money for women's shelters in Berkeley, and  tables with women's literature, poems and a place to express your feelings.

Listen now or Get MP3 11:35 min

Click here for the entire show. 59:50 min


Also on today's show:
Novelist Barbara Artson
Artist Lucia Ippolito

Monday, October 8, 2018: Family Stories of Resistance and Resilience - artist Lucia Ippolito

photo of unfinished Balmy Alley mural Women in Resistance

Lucia Ippolito is the daughter of well-known San Francisco artist Tirzo Araiza, and her stepmother is Juana Alicia, one of the creators of the famed Maestrapeace mural on the San Francisco Women's Building and other iconic works. Lucia worked with her father on Mission Makeover, a mural about gentrification in San Francisco's Balmy Alley, in the heart of the Mission District.  On Saturday, October 13, Lucia and a group of women artists will unveil Women of the Resistance, Balmy's newest mural, with a block party including tables, a DJ, a shamanic invocation, Aztec dancing and live music.  Women of the Resistance also tells a multigenerational story.  Join us to hear Lucia talk about her inspirations, how the mural came together, and the impact of murals on a neighborhood fighting for its survival.

Balmy Alley Mural Unveiling & Block Party | SF

Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE

Balmy Alley | Mission and 24th St, San Francisco, CA

Listen now or Get MP3. 17:33 min

Click here for the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Berkeley High School's Women's Union
novelist Barbara Artson

Monday, November 13, 2017: Women Resist Disappearances in Kashmir

http://www.filmsouthasia.org/film/blood-leaves-its-trail-khoon-diy-baarav/

Filmmaker Iffat Fatima and scholar and human rights activist Huma Dar discuss forced disappearances in Indian-occupied Kashmir and the women-led resistance movement. This movement bears striking similarities to the Mothers of the Plaza in Argentina and Mothers of the Disappeared in Chile.

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

Also on today's show:
Cynthia Enloe on Militarism and Sexual Harassment

Monday, July 31, 2017: She Writes Mystery Tour

This Monday, July 31, on Women's Magazine Kate Raphael will be speaking with JL Newton, author of Oink! A Food For Thought Mystery, Jennifer Dwight, author of the literary suspense novel The Tolling of Mercedes Bell, and Amy S. Peele, author of Cut! a Medical Mystery.  We talk about what's so appealing about murder and mayhem, and how crime fiction lends itself to exploration of social justice. These are some smart, funny and articulate women, so don't miss it.

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

All four of us are donating copies of our books to KPFA for this special fund drive show so you can get all four of our novels - including advance copies of my not-yet-released Murder Under the Fig Tree - as thank you gifts for your pledge to KPFA of $120 or more during the 1-2 pm hour on Monday. The books retail for $16.95 so it's a great deal, and helps to keep KPFA and Women's Magazine on the air. The premium will be available throughout the drive, which ends August 4.

Tune in at 94.1 FM in Northern California or online anywhere at www.kpfa.org. To pledge any amount call 1-800-439-5732 or donate securely at www.kpfa.org/donate.

Today's conversation is a preview of the She Writes Mystery Tour that kicks off this Friday evening, August 4, at Barnes & Noble in Emeryville, where we'll be joined by Michelle Cox, author of the popular historical mysteries A Girl Like You and A Ring of Truth, and JL Doucette, author of the Wyoming-inspired suspense novel, Last Seen. If you're in the Bay Area or Orange County/San Diego, hope you can make it to one of these events:

Fri, August 4, 7:00 pm
Barnes and Noble, 5604 Bay St, Emeryville, CA 94608

Sat, August 5, 7:00 pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925

Mon, August 7, 7:00 pm
Dog Eared Books, 489 Castro St, San Francisco, CA 94114

Tues, August 8, 7:00 pm
Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real, Suite 74, Palo Alto, CA 94301

Friday, Aug 11, 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble, 26751 Aliso Creek Rd., Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

Sat, August 12, 2:00 pm (note different time)
Barnes & Noble, 1040 North El Camino Real, Encinitas, CA 92024

Monday, January 23, 2017: Angela Davis at the Women's March on Washington

Davis at the Women's March in DC (credit: Elle)

On today's program we listen to Angela Davis's speech at the Women's March in Washington.


Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Linda Burnham speaks at "People Get Ready"
KPFA apprenticeship

Monday, January 23, 2017: Linda Burnham speaks at "People Get Ready"

"This is not such a hot time for you or for me..." -June Jordan

Linda Burnham

Speaking at the Center for Political Education's one-day conference, "People Get Ready: Building Resistance in the Trump Era," Linda Burnham, research director of Domestic  Workers United and cofounder of the Women of Color Resource Center speaks about dialectics: how we resolve apparent conflicts between dealing with immediate realities and urgencies and the longer arc and deeper dynamics of history; how to build the ranks of the left at the same time that we try to build the broadest possible alignment against authoritarianism, and the relationship between revolutionary imagination and the world as it actually is. Burnham's speech is aired in its entirety.

"There's no way to understand what just happened by following the news."-Burnham


Coming off the tremendous outpouring of energy on Saturday all over the country, this thrilling talk will leave you invigorated and motivated to get on to the next organizing challenge!

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Angela Davis at the Women's March on Washington
KPFA apprenticeship

Monday, January 16, 2017: Women led marches, protests and actions for everyone

This week on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we look at some of the marches, protests and actions happening this week around the issue of patriarchy and gender violence.

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

• We talk to Jadelynn Stahl, cofounder of Disclose, about the intervention they are planning for January 19th at 6:30 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza

to protest the election of an accused rapist and a government that supports gender violence and affirm the possibility of a world without gender-based violence. Join us for a solidarity rally and creative action. For more information and accessibililty questions contact support@disclosesilence.org. More information about the rally and action can be found on Facebook.

• And we talk to Renee McKenna, Alison Mata and Jenny Bradanini some of the organizers of the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Women's Marches happening on January 21st in concert with Women's March in Washington DC and around the country to protest the election of Trump and to proclaim that women's rights are human rights. Find the Facebook listing here.

• And lastly we talk to artist Epil about the "Women Who Made Us" project, which is a call to the strength of the generations of women who came before us. They will be carrying photos of our female ancestors and offering to print posters of others ancestors. WomenWhoMadeUs@gmail.com for information on this action.

Information and links for marches:

EVENT DETAILS FOR OAKLAND
We will meet at Madison Park in Oakland at 10AM.  At 11AM we will begin our march up Oak Street to Grand Avenue along Lake Merritt.  We will then march down Broadway to end at Frank Ogawa Plaza.  At 12:30PM we will begin our rally with speakers, art and music concluding at 3PM.

Time of March: 10AM - 3PM
Starting Location: Madison Park
Ending Location: Frank Ogawa Plaza
No tickets required. Please register on our Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS FOR SAN FRANCISCO
We will rally with speakers, arts and music from 3 - 5PM at Civic Center in San Francisco. At 5PM we will begin our candlelight march down Market St. to Justin Herman Plaza.

Time of Rally: 3 - 5PM
Time of March: 5 - 8PM
Starting Location: Civic Center
Ending Location: Justin Herman Plaza
No tickets required. Please register on our Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS FOR SAN JOSE

Time: 10AM -3PM
Starting Location: City Hall
Ending Location: Cesar Chavez Plaza
No tickets required. Please register for the event on Eventbrite.

SISTER MARCHES IN VARIOUS OTHER CITIES IN CALIFORNIA

Today's show also has information about the KPFA apprentice program. Applications are due January 27 for this excellent 18 month program. More information at www.kpfaapprentice.org. Email at Apprentice@kpfa.org. Phone 510-848-6767 ext 235.

Monday, December 26, 2016: Strategies in the worst times

Why have things gotten so bad and where do we go from here?

Rachel Herzing

Rebecca Gordon

Rinku Sen

Rinku Sen of Race Forward and Colorlines, Rachel Herzing, cofounder of Critical Resistance and co-director of Center for Political Education, and Rebecca Gordon, author and professor at University of San Francisco join Kate Raphael to discuss strategies and lessons for the current crisis.

"Thinking in decades is crucial."
"Build cultural, social and political movements."
"Love and solidarity will be more important than ever."

Kate says: "These women blew me away with their ability to articulate both critique and vision. I came away more hopeful as well as more determined to be deliberate and strategic in responding to the crisis of democracy in our country."

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

June 16, 2014: Today on Women's Magazine-Film about the New Jersey Four. Musician and Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo

Today Lisa Dettmer talks NJ4, Renata Hill and Patreese, two of the young African American lesbians who were incarcerated for fighting back after a homophobic attack, and the filmmaker Blair Dorosh-Walther who made the riveting documentary about their struggle "Out in the Night", featured at the Frameline Film  Festival next week.  And Angela Wellman talks to grammy award winning musician Angelique Kidjo  about her new CD "Eve", her new autobiography "Spirit Rising" and her foundation for girls.  Kidjo is performing in SF at the Norse theater on June 21st.

In 2006 seven young African American lesbian identified friends where walking in the gay area of NYC, the West Village,  and were were physically and verbally assailed by man because they were Queer. They fought back to protect themselves and instead of the man being arrested the women were. The NYC police and media vilified the women as a pack of lesbian wolves and FOX TV called this a hate crime against all straight men.  Over charged with over a half dozen felonies by a racist and homophobic DA, in 2007 an all white jury convicted Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24), the 4 women that refused to plea bargain but fought to prove their innocence,  for up to 11 years despite their being no serious injuries. This is yet another case of women being punished for fighting back against male violence not unlike the case being brought against domestic violence survivor Melissa Alexander and others around the U.S.  

A campaign of resistance was organized by FIERCE and others progressive Queers helped to get the NJ4 out early but only after they had all served a minimum of 2 and up to 7 years.  Now the new film Out in the Night explores the racism, homophobia and sexism of  this case and the lives of these women and the campaign to free them.  In this next interview  Lisa Dettmer  talks  to NJ4, Renata Hill and  Patreese Johnson  two of the young African American lesbians who were incarcerated for fighting back after a homophobic attack, and the filmmaker Blair Dorosh-Walther who made the riveting documentary about their struggle "Out in the Night," which is playing at the Frameline Film Festival next week.


In our second interview Angela Wellman interviews Grammy award winning Beninoise singer and songwriter and activist  Angelique Kidjo about her new CD "Eve," her new autobiography "Spirit Rising" and her foundation for girls, Batonga. Kidjo is described as undisputed queen of African Music. Her new CD called EVE is number one on the world charts.  Kidjo works on fighting poverty against women in Africa and talks about her work with the  foundation she co-founded, Batonga, which supports secondary and higher education for girls in Africa and micro loans to African women.  Kidjo played at the Norse Theater in SF on June 21st  and in this interview she talks about growing up a woman in Africa,  being a woman in the male dominated music business,  the importance of speaking out about violence against women, and her new book and music.

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