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This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
On the anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street, Kate Raphael asks if the movement is helping us build a new world or just a dressed up form of patriarchy? Cyn, Kaitlyn and Frank of Occupy Oakland’s Feminist and Queers Against Capitalism and Shaista Husain of Occupy Wall Street’s Safer Spaces and Immigrant Justice … Continued
Kate Raphael speaks with Vicki Abeles about her documentary, Race to Nowhere. Abeles’ film suggests that the American school system’s emphasis on achievement is doing more harm than good. Then Eryn Mathewson speaks with former Georgia Congresswoman, Cynthia McKiney, about the Peace and Freedom party and why she supports marijuana use legalization.
Eryn Mathewson speaks with Janelle White, Talia Taylor, Isa Nakazawa, and Richard Wright about Congressman Todd Aiken’s controversial comments about “legitimate rape,” and a women’s ability to “shut down” a pregnancy caused by such. Then Kate Raphael covers Chevron’s involvement in the environmental degradation of the Nigeria, Ecuador and Angola. Activists, Emom Okon, Luz Trinidad … Continued
Kate Raphael talks with Louise Turcotte, leader of one of the community college unions involved in the massive student-led protests in Quebec; and Preeti Shekar interviews Ayesha Mattu and Ify Okoye about their new book, Love, Inshalla: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women.
Kate Raphael talks to journalist with Sydney Brownstone about the case against feminist Punk Band, Pussy Riot. Then Eryn Mathewson speaks with author and Media Advisor, Joan Ryan about her book, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnastics and the current state of elite women’s athletics.
Naima Shalhoub, Oakland based singer and artist, shares her vocals and her journey as a musician with Eryn Mathewson. Then we rebroadcast a segment from the Women’s International News Service – about Argentina’s economic meltdown in 2001. Isabel Zanutigh, from the Housewives Trade Union and Inter-neighborhood Network of Women, offers analysis and solutions for the … Continued
Roke Noir, director of The Siren Theatre Project, speaks with Kate Raphael about her upcoming multimedia work “Playing with Fear,” which weaves together the personal stories of 30 Bay Area artists. And we look at the contributions of groundbreaking feminist director, writer and humorist Nora Ephron, through film clips, interviews and others’ words about her.
Eryn Mathewson has a conversation with Catherine Tactaquin from the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Californians for Population Stabilization Spokesperson, Ric Oberlink, about their opposing analyses of the SCOTUS’ recent ruling on Arizona’s immigration law . Then several women – including Rose Aguilar from Your Call on KALW and Kavita Ramdas from … Continued
