Womens Magazine

Women’s Magazine: From FSM to Anti-Apartheid (by way of feminism) – September 29, 2014

Twenty years after the Free Speech Movement rocked Berkeley, the University of California, and eventually the culture, UC Berkeley exploded in passionate activism. Students and faculty joined the wave of campus anti-apartheid movements calling for divestment of university pension funds and endowments from South Africa. We explore the origins and lessons of one of the … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – September 22, 2014

Val Ibarra speaks with some of the inspiring organizers of the Global March for Elephants & Rhinos happening on October 4th, World Animal Day. Co-founder of the local group March for Elephants, Rosemary Alles, and Tamara Birdsall share the story of the Elephant, and why we need to & how we can save this keystone species and magnificent matriarchy. Then Kate … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – September 15, 2014

The lives and legacies of death penalty and breast cancer activist Martina Davis-Correia and her brother, Troy Anthony Davis, whose execution in Georgia in 2011 helped to reinvigorate the movement to end the death penalty.  We speak with Kimberly Davis, Troy and Martina’s sister, and with Jen Marlowe, author of the book I AM TROY … Continued


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Womens Magazine – August 25, 2014

As the nation has been shocked  by the images of overwhelming police violence in Ferguson, Missouri and the epidemic of murders by police of Black men around the country we have also been inspired by the organic uprisings in response. KPFA radio’s Women’s Magazine will look at how police violence is not only racialized but … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – August 18, 2014

Author and historian Paula Giddings talks about the life and work of Ida B. Wells. Wells, a feminist and journalist, started the nation’s largest anti-lynching campaign in 1893. Filmmaker Dyanna Taylor discusses her new film about her grandmother, photographer Dorothea Lange. Grab a Hunk of Lightning documents Lange’s preparation for a one-woman show at the … Continued