Monday, March 30, 2020: Escalating Interpersonal and State Violence in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

This Monday March 30th at 1pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine, Margo Okazawa-Rey  talks to four young feminist leaders in the anti-violence and anti-sexual assault movement who are present or former Brown University students,  to look at the less visible and less talked about aspects of the Coronavirus.  They look at what is happening interpersonally and in the home, and how the Shelter in Place Policy affects women and other folks in precarious and already-vulnerable positions, especially people with disabilities and incarcerated persons.   And they look at what happens when you consider race and class as critical aspects of their experiences.  They discuss the emerging data and observations regarding the increasing violence in various forms that are resulting from or exacerbated by the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Camila Pelsinger, senior at Brown University, is a leader sexual violence prevention on campus, including as a coordinator for the Brown University Sexual Assault Peer Education program.  As Vice President of Brown’s student government, she developed a transformative justice program to support community-based approaches to addressing harm that prioritizes the needs of victims and survivors.

Rose Houglet, sophomore at Brown, covers gender issues and campus activism for campus publications and volunteers as a Sexual Assault Peer Educator. She also conducts gender-based violence research that examines community intervention methods at Rhode Island middle and high schools.

Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu (pronounced: tim-koo-loo), a graduate of Brown, is the Founder and Executive Director of Project LETS, a national grassroots organization led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, and neurodivergence. Their work and community-organizing specialize in building radical peer support collectives and community mental health care structures outside of state-sanctioned systems of “care,” grounded in principles of anti-racism and Disability, Transformative, and Healing Justice.

Xochi Cartland is a junior at Brown University. With a background in Disability Justice, she  is a staff member at Project LETS and is Student Coordinator, alongside Camila, of the Transformative Justice Program. Her primary interest resides in building grassroot infrastructures for responding to harm and violence that operate outside of institutions.

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

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Monday, May 29, 2017: Restorative Justice

KPFA’s Women’s Magazine looks at the practice of Restorative Justice and how that practice of justice based on healing provides an alternative to the punitive systems we have in our society today. Unlike the punitive system of justice we have, Restorative Justice focuses on healing and transforming the wounds of victims, offenders and communities caused by the wrongdoing through truth telling, apology, making amends, and reconciliation.

We talk to three leaders in Restorative Justice in the Bay Area. Jodie Geddes, Community Organizer Coordinator at Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), Rose Elizondo, co-founder of the San Quentin Prison RJ interfaith group and of the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, and Malachi Scott, the Re-entry and Community Restorative Justice Coordinator at RJOY and co-founder of the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Events:
National Association of Community and Restorative Justice: Sixth National Conference – June 16-18, 2017

Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, California 94607
United States
1-510-451-4000
Phone: 2102187159

Please join practitioners and scholars from around the world at the 2017 Sixth National Conference of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice in Oakland, CA at the Oakland Marriott. Hosted by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), this year’s theme is Moving Restorative Justice from Margins to Center — elevating historically marginalized voices, promoting radical inclusivity and healing, and exploring the intersections of RJ with other contemporary social justice movements. With healing spaces, circles, youth-led activities, field trips as well as plenaries and panels, we are planning a provocative, participatory, and creative conference in Oakland, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, and an international cultural and culinary mecca. We look forward to your participation.

Monday, September 26, 2016: Understanding privilege and practicing solidarity--part 2

Sharon Sobotta interviews Shakti Butler and Peggy McIntosh

Sharon Sobotta catches up with two feminist scholars whose groundbreaking work changed our understanding of racial oppression and privilege.  Shakti Butler is a filmmaker and educator, whose latest film is Cracking the Code: The System of Racial Inequity. This film is an ideal introduction to the dynamics of systemic racial inequity. It is appropriate for use in education, heathcare, philanthropy, government, and nonprofit.

Peggy McIntosh is founder of The National SEED Project and author of the classic 1989 article, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." She is making her article available publicly online for the first time in an authorized version at http://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack.

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


Also on today's show:
Chivvis Moore discusses her memoir

SEPTEMBER 30TH INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAITI

Join Haiti Action Committee to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a coup that continues to inform the present struggle of the Haitian people for democracy and justice. SEPTEMBER 30th - 4:30 PM DEMONSTRATION meets at 14th & Broadway in Oakland OCTOBER 2nd - 3PM EVENT at Eastside Arts, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland

Monday, March 14, 2016: Violence and Youth

We talk to Lina Buffington, the Executive Director of MISSSEY, about their work Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting & Serving Sexually Exploited Youth and  Professor Teiahsha Bankhead,   Associate Director of Restorative Justice For Oakland Youth, who provide alternatives to punitive school discipline and juvenile justice policies. We look at how black girls and women are uniquely affected by state and personal violence and the solutions they are offering to interrupt those cycles of violence.

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

Also on today's show:
Celebrating Grace Lee Boggs

Monday August 10, 2015: Countering Dehumanization

Challenging Dehumanization

Interview with Margo Perin

We talk with Margo Perin, founder and director of Write & Rise, about how she uses narrative to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, at risk youth, as well as police and their families, heal from trauma.  Perin is the author of the autobiographical novel The Opposite of Hollywood, and contributing editor of the anthologies Only the Dead Can Kill:  Stories From Jail, and How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships.

"I don't think the system can change unless work is done on both sides." Margo Perin



Listen now or Get MP3. 25:29 min.

Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence

And from Making Contact: Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence.  We learn how one community is undoing the silence around the violence women of color face. We also hear about how serial killers were able to hunt down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles. Then to the Yucatan where pregnant indigenous women struggle under a health care system failing to provide proper medical care.

"If you are a woman of color and you're impoverished, you're at the very bottom and your life is seen as not worth anything."

"We may never know just how many women have died."

Click here to listen to this segment from Making Contact.  There are 4 audio files so be sure to scroll down. 34:21 min.

Host: Laura Flynn and Jasmin Lopez
Contributing Producers: Rochelle Robinson and Karen Stefan Tenorio

Featuring:
Rochelle Robinson, Making Contact Fellow
Kimberly Smith, community member attending Her Resilience mural project
Gabrielle Rae Travis,  Her Resilience Community Outreach Coordinator
Margaret Prescod founder of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and host of KPFK’s Sojourner Truth
Mirna Aracely Tuz Acosta, Safe Maternity for the Indigenous Population in East Yucatan
Neyi Amparo Cime Arceo, resident of Xanlah.
Thanks to the Mary Wohlford Foundation for funding towards this program.

For more programs from Making Contact go to: http://www.radioproject.org/.  Making Contact airs every Friday at 3:30 on KPFA 94.1 FM or www.kpfa.org.


Click here to listen to entire KPFA Women's Magazine show. 59:50 min.

January 28th: "The Rhythm of Change"

Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin from her Blog

Sharon Sobotta hosted and produced today's show with a journalism class from St. Mary's College. This is a broad spectrum hour that talks about violence against women, restorative justice, Black History Month, and wholistic changes in the world today. Many amazing women participate in this Women's Magazine, including Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park Ranger; Latoya Peterson from Racialicious; Julia Barboza and Leticia Brea from Bayview Hunters Point Foundation; Erin Baker, director of Heartbeat of a Planet; an interview with New Delhi native Roos Pal, Sujatha Baliga, Director of the Restorative Justice Project in Oakland, and Justa Gutierrez, the founder of an up and coming social justice website called 'likeyoumeanit.com. 1 hour.


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