Monday, March 23, 2020: Intersectional and Transnational Feminism

This Monday March 23rd at 1pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer speaks with three pre-eminent Feminist activist scholars: Margo Okazawa-Rey, Paola Bacchetta, and Gwyn Kirk who provide an overview of contemporary intersectional and transnational feminism with a special attention to issues of race, class, sexuality and coloniality. They discuss feminism’s importance in their lives and work, the importance of having an analysis of power, and they also address some of the myths and stereotypes prevalent among many about what feminism looks like.

Paola Bacchetta is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of California at Berkeley, and a globally renowned feminist, lesbian and Queer of Color scholar and activist. She has published six books and over 60 professional articles in English and many different languages. She has been active in decolonial, anti-capitalist, pro-immigration, anti-racism feminist and Queer of color movements in the U.S., India, France and Italy.

Margo Okazawa-Rey is an activist and educator working on issues of militarism, armed conflict, and violence against Women examined intersectionally. She has long-standing activist commitments in South Korea and has been associated with the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling in Palestine.

Gwyn Kirk is a scholar-activist concerned with genuine security and creating a sustainable world. She has taught Women’s and gender studies at U.S. colleges and universities for 30 years. She publishes a textbook/anthology, Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives co-edited with Margo Okazawa-Rey and has written widely on eco-feminism, militarism, and women’s peace organizing.

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

Monday, December 23, 2019 - Restoring Maori Land and Cultural Autonomy

As part of her Indigenous Women and the Land series, Women's Magazine host Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu talks to Dr. Ella Henry, a Maori scholar and community leader from New Zealand, about her work with her tribe to get the New Zealand government to return their ancestral homelands. Dr. Henry also discusses the grief and losses that colonial violence created for the Maori and how women are working to promote Maori cultural revitalization and self determination in New Zealand. 
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In the second part of today's show: Peggy McIntosh on the Invisible Knapsack of Privilege

Monday, September 10, 2018: She The People with Aimee Allison

This week on KPFA Women's Magazine, we look at elections - are they a good way to get what we want?

She the People Summit

"...women of color...have the ability to inspire and lead us to victory..." -Aimee Allison

Election season is officially here, and women of color are shattering previous numbers as candidates at all levels.  There have been some notable and unexpected victories by progressive women of color, taking out establishment candidates, from Stacey Abrams in the Georgia Governor's race to Congressional candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, Rashida Tlaib in Michigan and Ayanna Presley in Massachusetts.  Democracy In Color's Aimee Allison says women of color, the most consistent - and consistently progressive - voters in the Democratic base are poised to take their rightful place as leaders of the party and the progressive movement.  I'll talk with Aimee about the She The People Summit, a one-day national gathering of women of color to be held in San Francisco on September 20th (registration is open to the public).

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She The People Summit Schedule:
Thursday, September 20, 2018
JuliA Morgan Ballroom
465 California St, San Francisco

8 - 9 AM Breakfast and Registration
9 - 9:30 AM Welcome and Introduction to the She the People Initiative
9:30 - 12:15 PM Morning Talks and Panel

Panel: The Women Building a Politics for All of Us
With speakers Alicia Garza, Deb Haaland, Dolores Huerta, Rashida Tlaib, Arizona House Minority Leader Rebecca Rios, Linda Sarsour, and more!

12 - 12:45 PM Lunch
1 - 3 PM Afternoon Talks and Panel

Panel: Leading the New American Majority
With speakers Colorado Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran, Congressmember Pramila Jayapal, Congressmember Barbara Lee, and more!

3 - 5 PM Facilitated Strategy Sessions
5 - 7 PM Happy Hour hosted by Emerge


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

Also on today's show:
Gayle McLaughlin

Monday, October 31, 2016: Cancer Fighter Corliss Watkins

Cancer Fighter Corliss Watkins.  We also talk to a woman who has survived cancer by refusing to take no for an answer.  Corliss Watkins was given a death sentence by her doctors when they discovered that her pancreatic cancer had metastasized to her liver. Everyone told her she was not a candidate for a transplant, but Corliss refused to give up or give in.  She found a donor, got her transplant, and is currently cancer free, although she knows she is not out of the woods.

Listen now. 21:03 min.

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


Also on today's show:
Rose Aguilar Reports from Standing Rock
Toxic Isn't Tasty

Monday, October 17, 2016 - Poetics of Fragility

"While in bed, in the depths of the pain I began to experience an extraordinary loving force. I recognised that force as Kali. It kept asking me to die out of what I believed myself to be and be born into something other....I was seduced by the love. The process required me to let go of what I knew and step into unknowing without any cognitive assurance as to what I would discover or have to unlearn."--Mata Lani, codirector of The Poetics of Fragility

In this modern capitalist society we often go thru life taking our bodies for granted, too often disconnected from embodied knowledge. Feminist cultural critic and filmmaker Mata Lani describes the physical and spiritual journey that began when in 1993 with a car accident and head injury. "Until then, my body had been fit and I had taken shelter in my mental attic. Now, I was literally thrown into my body. Even though like other feminists I had theorised the importance of experience, and the centrality of the body to discourses on women and to the social control of women, I had not fully inhabited my own body."

Lani explores these revelations in her new film, THE POETICS OF FRAGILITY, a 63-minute “videocontemplation” about the power and aesthetics of fragility. Shot in the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2015 by co-directors Lata Mani and Nicolás Grandi, the film features internationally renowned scholar-activist Angela Davis, the acclaimed playwright and critic Cherrie Moraga, Nora Cortiñas, the inspiring founding member of Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora, actor-dancer Greg Manalo, feminist performance artists Thao P. Nguyen and Martha Rynberg, theater scholar Jisha Menon, healer Christopher Miles, creative writer Xochitl M. Perales and the young trombone talent, Jasim Perales

On today's Women's Magazine, we broadcast the discussion at an October 2, 2016 screening of the Poetics of Fragility at the Impact Hub Oakland.  Lata Mani, Nicolas Grandi, Angela Davis and Cherrie Morga discussed the film, growing old, fragility and strength and the power of spirituality and the importance of the body for social movements.  

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Monday, October 10, 2016 - Good Girls Marry Doctors

Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, edited by Piyali Bhattacharya, is the first anthology to examine the multiple facets of daughterhood in South Asian American families.

Kate Raphael talks with contributor Tara Dorabji about her essay, "Subterfuge," directed to the paternal grandmother she never knew, but from whom she inherited a rebellious spirit. Tara reflects on the ways in which obedience and rebellion are mirror images of one another, and the manifestations of that complex relationship in her own life.

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Also on this show:  Rad Women Worldwide, an interview with author Kate Schatz 
Hurricane in Haiti and How to Help

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Monday, October 10, 2016: Rad Women Worldwide

Kate Schatz joins us to talk about Rad Women Worldwide, sequel to the bestselling Rad American Women. The new books profiles 40 women from 30 countries on all 7 continents (including Antarctica). Short one-page bios of well-known leaders like Malala and Wangari Maathai and lesser-known heroes like Chinese feminist Qiu Jin, Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei, and Nazi resistor Sophie Scholl are beautifully illustrated with bold papercut drawings by Miriam Klein Stahl.

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Also on this show:  Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion

Hurricane in Haiti and How to Help


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Monday, October 26, 2015: Racism and Islamophobia in France

Over the last year uprisings against police violence have erupted around the U.S. spearheaded by victims of violence and their families and the newly organized Black Lives Matter, an organization lead almost entirely by Black women. Internationally women of color are also organizing against state violence. And this October 31st women of color in France are organizing a massive March for Dignity and Against Racism, in Paris, to demonstrate against police brutality and structural racism (in racial segregation, unemployment, the outlawing of the Islamic veil in schools, and daily humiliation). This March is being called on the 10th year anniversary of the 2005 uprisings in France’s racialized, working class suburbs sparked by the deaths of two adolescent boys of color escaping a stop and frisk.

"There is collective urgency to talk about racism and police violence in France...We have to organize because we are in danger..."

This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine UC Berkeley Professor Paola Bacchetta talks about racism in France and also talks with Amal Bentounsi, the woman who brought together the collective of women of color organizing the March. They discuss the March, conditions of people of color in France and Amal Bentounsi’s personal experiences with police violence, racism and Islamophobia.

Click here to go to SoundCloud today's show. 53:38 min

To learn more and contribute to this March in France on October 31st click on March for Dignity.

Events:
The Middle East Children’s Alliance is thrilled to invite you to the

BAY AREA BOOK LAUNCH for
Activist/Journalist/Author KATE RAPHAEL’s brand new book
MURDER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A Palestine Mystery

Thursday, November 19, 2015 – 7:30pm
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(near Ashby Bart)
Tickets $5, no one turned away

Bay Area activist extraordinaire Kate Raphael’s first novel, Murder Under the Bridge, is a fast-paced and intricately-plotted mystery offering an intimate look at the lives of women in the Middle East. Hear Kate read from and discuss her book – and buy your own copy for her to sign!

**Featuring Special Guest: Political comedian KARINDA DOBBINS

For info: www.mecaforpeace.org, 510-548-0542. Benefit for Palestinian women and children, wheelchair accessible.

Cosponsored by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, Jewish Voice for Peace/Bay Area, Art Forces and more!

Monday August 3, 2015 - Marcia Chatelain: History Through the Eyes of Black Girls

How important is Gender, Place and Race to who we become?

Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender.  In August 2014, Chatelain encouraged educators to talk about the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri via the Twitter hashtag #FERGUSONSYLLABUS. She also talks about how Black Lives Matter is rewriting 2016 and why it’s important that so many of its leaders are women.

Listen now or Get MP3. 30:45 min.

"This is a moment of great pain and of great mourning but boy is this a moment of deep optimism and hope because we are seeing things that we have never seen before."

Order at your local bookstore. Also available on Kindle.

"In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists formulated a vulnerable image of urban black girlhood that needed protecting. She argues that the construction and meaning of black girlhood shifted in response to major economic, social, and cultural changes and crises, and that it reflected parents' and community leaders' anxieties about urbanization and its meaning for racial progress. Girls shouldered much of the burden of black aspiration, as adults often scrutinized their choices and behavior, and their well-being symbolized the community's moral health. Yet these adults were not alone in thinking about the Great Migration, as girls expressed their views as well. Referencing girls' letters and interviews, Chatelain uses their powerful stories of hope, anticipation and disappointment to highlight their feelings and thoughts, and in so doing, she helps restore the experiences of an understudied population to the Great Migration's complex narrative."

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

Also on today's show:

Interview with Allison Green 

Monday, April 6, 2015: Understanding Israel

Understanding the Role of Race, Class, and Gender in Israeli Jewish Society

Smadar Lavie works at The Beatrice Bain Research Group, Berkeley's feminist of color heaven. She is the author of WRAPPED IN THE FLAG OF ISRAEL: MIZRAHI SINGLE MOTHERS AND BUREAUCRATIC TORTURE, and cofounder of the Mizrahi Israeli feminist group Ahoti. Lavie explains the Israeli elections by looking at how race, class and gender function within Israeli society.

Listen now or Get MP3. 28:45 min.






Smadar Lavie received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel, and Palestine, with emphasis on issues of race, gender, and religion. She published her book The Poetics of Military Occupation (UC Press, 1990) on resistance theatre of the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai, Egypt.  The book won the 1990 Honorable Mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing. She co-edited Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity (Duke Univ. Press, 1996), and Creativity/Anthropology (Cornell Univ. Press, 1993). Lavie was awarded the 2009 Gloria Anzaldua Prize from the American Studies Association for her paper titled, Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa. Lavie's recent book is Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Berghahn 2014). She has served in several feminist and anti-racist social movements and NGOs in Israel-Palestine and the San Francisco Bay area. In 2013, Lavie won the “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine.

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

Also on today's show:
Purvi Patel
Blackademics

Upcoming Events:

KPFA Radio 94.1FM, co-sponsored by Middle East Children’s Alliance & Jewish Voice for Peace/East Bay, presents:

PENNY ROSENWASSER, Ph.D
“HOPE INTO PRACTICE, JEWISH WOMEN CHOOSING JUSTICE DESPITE OUR FEARS”

Hosted by Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace

$12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com : 800-838-3006 or at your local bookstore.

In Berkeley: Pegasus Books (3 locations), Moe’s, Walden Pond, Diesel a Bookstore 

In S.F: Modern Times. $15 /door
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3rd Annual Restorative Justice Conference | Justice That Heals: Confronting Gender Violence on Campus & in Communities
Sat, April 11, 10:00am – 4:30pm
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With campus and criminal justice policies under fire for ignoring the needs of survivors of gender-based violence, people are looking for alternatives. This conference brings together academics and activists to explore the possibilities and limitations of Restorative / Transformative Justice in response to sexual violence and misconduct on campus and in communities that experience structural oppression.


Keynote speaker Dr. Mary Koss is the co-founder and principal investigator of the RESTORE program in Arizona, which has designed Restorative processes that emphasize the needs of survivors and responsible parties. She is now applying her expertise to the question of sexual misconduct on college campuses. Workshops and panels will explain RJ / TJ processes and present critical analysis of their capacity to repair flawed or broken systems.

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A Conference on the Work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua

Monday, March 23, 2015: Women of Color in Academia

"Prove it Again and Prove it Again." Surviving and Thriving in the Academy

Vylma V and LisaMarie Rollins host today's live, call-in show.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min.

TODAY at 1pm PDT on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine is our live call in show!! LisaMarie Rollins and Vylma V talk with two women professors about their experiences in higher education. We discuss the book, “Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia”. Our guests are Dr. Yolanda Neiman, Professor of Psychology & Senior Vice Provost at University of North Texas and one of the editors of “Presumed Incompetent” and Dr. Andreana Clay Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at SFSU and author of The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism, and Post–Civil Rights Politics. Listen in at 94.1fm or stream online at kpfa.org - and call us with your questions and comments!

Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.

Dr. Clay's book:

From youth violence, to the impact of high stakes educational testing, to editorial hand wringing over the moral failures of hip-hop culture, young people of color are often portrayed as gang affiliated, “troubled,” and ultimately, dangerous. The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back examines how youth activism has emerged to address the persistent inequalities that affect urban youth of color. Andreana Clay provides a detailed account of the strategies that youth activists use to frame their social justice agendas and organize in their local communities.

Also on today's show:

Community Shuts Down Valencia St. in Front of SFPD Mission Station; Puts Police on Trial to mark one year anniversary of the SF police murder of Alex Nieto. For more information go to http://justice4alexnieto.org/

Calendar of Events:

Blackademics by Idris Goodwin will open April 9-May 2 at The Thick House in San Francisco. Produced by Crowded Fire Theatre. For tickets and info click http://www.crowdedfire.org/2015-blackademics/.

LUNADA Literary Lounge ~ Quinceañera Celebration 

Saturday, April 4, 2015 | 7:00 pm

Celebrating 15 years of lunar literary ritual: Spoken Word, Música and Open Mic.  BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/events/index.php?op=view&id=5790

The Apprenticeship Program sign up deadline has been extended to April 3rd. Check it out at http://kpfa.org/about/apprenticeship-program/

International Women's Day Special: Women Who Built Free Speech Radio

On International Women's Day, March 8, 2015, the women of KPFA produced 25 hours of special programming including talk, music, culture, and spirituality.

Photo by Paul Richards

As part of this day of programming, we took time to hear from and appreciate three women who have all been at KPFA for over three decades, through thick and thin, bringing their unique voices and multitude of talents and helping to keep it true to its mission, to be the voice of the voiceless.

Nina Serrano is the long-time host of La Raza Chronicles/Cronicas de la Raza and Book Waves.  She is an internationally acclaimed poet, director, filmmaker and cultural worker.  For the last seven years she has been working to eliminate violence against women in the US and internationally.

Avotcja is currently host of Bebop,  Cubop and The Musical Truth.  She is a Bay Area icon, multiinstrumentalist, DeeJay, teacher and performer.  Her poetry has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe, and in more Anthologies than she remembers. She is founder and director of The Clean Scene Theater Project (AKA) Proyecto Teatral De La Escena Sobria". She teaches Creative Writing, Storytelling & Drama in public schools.

Jennifer Stone is a novelist, poet, essayist as well as a radio programmer. Stone's Throw, her witty, fast-talking program of social commentary and literary analysis "Stone’s Throw," has long been a fixture at KPFA.

Over 70 people gathered on Sunday in the Performance Room at the station to honor these three remarkable women.

Listen to the interviews with Nina, Avotcja and Jennifer

Monday, January 5, 2015: Continuing the Discussion of Police Violence against Black Women and Men

#BlackLivesMatter; #BlackWomenLivesMatter

"We need to fight like hell for Black lives right now."

Photo/Antonio Giaquinto

Today on Women's Magazine as  we continue to look at state violence against black bodies we look at how black women's are uniquely  targeted by  state violence, a violence that is too often invisible and behind closed doors.  To look at this issue  Lisa Marie Rollins talks to Alicia Garza one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and special project director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance  and to Alisa Bierria associate director of the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley who has been working with the national  campaign to Free Marissa Alexander Now and with INCITE.

More about conference at COLOROFVIOLENCE.ORG

The  East Bay Free Marissa  Now Campaign is traveling in a caravan across country to educate people about her case and upcoming hearing so if your interested in being a part of that struggle you can contact them thru their Free Marrisa Now Facebook page.

Other links mentioned in today's show:
#BlackFriday14
#NotOneDime
info@BlackoutCollective.org

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

More about Marissa's case at December 8th Women's Magazine

November 17, 2014: Dhaya and Karinda Take on the World

Stand Up Sit Down

Preeti Shekar sits down with comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Karinda Dobbins to talk about their upcoming show, Stand Up Sit Down.

Socio-political comedians Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan present the third “Stand Up Sit Down,” a daring new show with innovative comedians and special guest Chinaka Hodge on November 21^st at 8PM at La Peña Cultural Center. Also featured is standup comic Matt Lieb.

For more info about the show go to http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=23223

or Get MP3. 10:50 min.

Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
Radical Feminism and Sustainability
Whole Foods Workers in For the Fight

Monday, November 10, 2014: Black Women Surviving Social Trauma

Today's program begins a new format for Women's Magazine. Once a month new hosts Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins will bring us voices from global women of color and multiple diasporas. At the end our live show the phone lines will open for callers to share their knowledge, work and stories.

Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins

Surviving Global Social Trauma

In the last 25 years we have begun recognize that the experiences of war can cause PTSD.  But feminists and activists have long recognized that there is another kind of war occurring in the U.S upon women, people of color, activists and poor people by our unhealthy society, which causes social trauma for all but especially for those in targeted groups.  This Monday on KPFA's Women's Magazine we talk to two African American women about how they have been affected in their lives and bodies by the racism, sexism, homophobia and imperialism of our society and how they have found ways to heal.  

Nell Myhand is a Berkeley based organizer, author and speaker whose work brings people together across age, race, class and other differences forming alliances to create powerful, effective solutions to common problems that leave no one out and no one behind. She is writing children’s books that highlight solidarity and collective action for social justice towards creating the other world we know is possible.

Cara Page is a Black queer feminist from a long ancestral legacy of organizers and cultural workers. Cara works on Queer and trans liberation, reproductive justice and racial and economic justice and is currently the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in NYC.

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

Monday, September 8, 2014: Daisy Hernandez talks about her new memoir

Lisa Detmer talks with Daisy Hernandez about her life and her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed. She reads excerpts from her book.

Daisy grew up in a Latina women centric family with her parents and aunties. She writes about her childhood and spiritual background in a mixed Latino family and community. Daisy says about her new book:

I grew up in New Jersey. That’s where I heard the best stories about Cuba and Colombia and this lady who knows how to eat an avocado so you won’t get pregnant. It’s also where I first learned about feminism, queer identity, and race in the Americas. You can read these stories in my new book, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir. It’s in bookstores September 9.

Daisy will be reading from her new memoir tonight at Booksmith in San Francisco at 7:30 PM and at Book Passage at Corte Madera on Wednesday, September 10th at 7 PM.

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

Also on today's show:
Exploring the experience of older homeless women

Monday September 1, 2014: Drop the Charges on Rasmea Odeh

Rasmea Odeh, Chicago feminist community leader and torture survivor, faces prison.

Rasmea Odeh was arrested and sexually tortured by the Israeli military in 1969, eventually confessing to a crime she didn't commit.  After ten years in Israeli prison, Rasmea created a new life in the U.S., helping to found the Arab Women's Committee, a 600-member organization that helps immigrant Arab women learn English, find their voices, and support one another.  Now the U.S. government is threatening to strip her of her citizenship and send her to prison for another ten years because of her past as a political prisoner.  We talk about the case with Professor Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics and Activism.

Call Tuesday, September 2nd to stop the deportation of Rasmea. Go to www.stopfbi.net for phone numbers. Click here to sign petition to drop the charges against Rasmea.

Rally for Rasmea on September 8th.

Listen now or Get MP3: 32:21 min.

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

Also on today's show:
Domestic Workers Organize in the US

September 1, 2014: Domestic Workers Organize in the US

Author Sheila Bapat on domestic worker organizing in the U.S.

When U.S. labor protections were being created in the 1930s, domestic workers, who were overwhelmingly African American, were specifically excluded as a concession to southern Democrats. Today, the women who do domestic worker are largely immigrants, and while they have won some rights, still face harsh conditions with little recourse.  But in recent years, domestic worker organizing has been one of the most successful labor movements in the country. Sheila Bapat, author of Part of the Family? Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers, and the Battle for Domestic Workers’ Rights, talks with Preeti Shekar.

Sheila Bapat is an attorney and writer covering economic and gender justice. Her work has appeared in Jacobin, Salon, Reuters, Slate, Alternet, Truthout, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, PolicyMatters, and the Center for Women Policy Studies' series, "Reproductive Laws for the 21st Century." Sheila holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Listen now or Get MP3. 20:48 min.

Sunday September 7, 2014, 3-5p
Claiming our Voice: South Asian Domestic Worker Organizing
Held at Oakstop Coworking, 1721 Broadway, Suite 201, Oakland, CA 94612

Hosted by ASATA (Alliance of South Asians Taking Action) and Re-imagine RPE
Special Guest: Sheila Bapat, author of "Part of the Family?," a book about domestic workers' rights, Panel moderated by Preeti Mangala Shekar. For tickets and more info go to Claiming Our Voice.

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

Also on today's show:
Drop the Charges on Rasmea Odeh

Monday, August 11, 2014: August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month

West Coast Blockade of the Israeli Zim Ship

Port of Oakland

Saturday, August 16th

5am

Meet at West Oakland Bart and march to Berth 57

Those planning to participate: subscribe to text-alerts and receive live updates about the 8/16 Block the Boat, text “join” to (510) 346-5951.

For more information go to ArabOrganizing.org and Block the Boat on Facebook.

STOP THE SIEGE ON GAZA!

END THE COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE!

RIGHT OF RETURN FOR ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

BOYCOTT, DIVEST, SANCTION!

Breastfeeding Awareness Month

https://www.facebook.com/UrbanLactationProject

We talk with Jazmin Morelos, coordinator of the Urban Lactation Project, about public breastfeeding and some upcoming events in San Francisco.  August is Breast Feeding Awareness month. In celebration Two Nights of Art, Music and Poetry, a two day event will be held on August 16th and August 23rd from 6-9 PM at the Eric Quezada Center on 518 Valencia St in San Francisco, CA. Speakers on both nights will discuss the benefits of breastfeeding, myths about breastfeeding, and local resourses.

The goal of Urban Lactation Project is to promote nursing in public through art & creating comfortable and welcoming public environments.

Jazmin Morelos' favorite nursing mom and kid friendly restaurant is Espetus at 1686 Market St. at Gough in San Francisco.

Listen now or Get MP3. 8:37 min.





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Also on today's program:
Interview with Karen Joy Fowler

June 30, 2014: Lesbians Changing the World

Our Lesbian She-roes, Our Fore Mothers

Lorraine Hansberry

On this week's show, we'll listen to part of a herstory event organized by Old Lesbians Organizing for Change honoring lesbian she-roes of the past. Everyone knows about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, but how many of us knew social welfare activist Jane Addams and playwright Lorraine Hansberry were members of the club? And many people may not even know the name Frances Perkins at all, even though we have her to thank for Medicare and Social Security.

Get MP3 or listen below. 24:59 min.




Also on this show: Clinic Buffer zones Are Not the Answer and Susan Chacin and Elana Dykewomon discuss the upcoming OLOC national gathering, "Lesbian Activism Changing the World."


Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:49 min.