Womens Magazine

Healing and Community

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we look at healing and community. First we talk to Amber Sue Field about their workshops that provide healing through voice and music. And then we talk to Claire Ryan about how healing it is to live on Women’s Land.


Twenty years ago, the inaugural World Social Forum was convened in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Jackie Smith describes some of the networking processes and movement-building dynamics fostered by that gathering and its successors. She also discusses three strands of organizing directly influenced by the Forum: the Right to the City movement, Via Campesina, and indigenous people’s movements. … Continued


Guest: William Bauer, professor of history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he is the Director of American Indian & Indigenous Studies. He is also a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He is the co-author of the book We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Previously he … Continued