Womens Magazine
1:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Women’s Magazine: Fund Drive Special – History of ACT UP
We listen to part of the extraordinary documentary United in Anger, which tells the story of of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Producer and author Sarah Schulman calls ACT UP the last successful social movement in U.S. history. The filmmakers, both AIDS activists themselves, conducted hundreds of interviews with AIDS activists and … Continued
Women’s Magazine: Break the Chain: 40 Years after Roe v. Wade – February 4, 2013
Global Val speaks with Mona Lisa Wallace, a civil rights and environmental justice attorney, and Rose Aguilar, host of the daily call-in show Your Call on KALW 91.7. We discuss the state of women’s rights in our country 40 years after the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. We’ll also … Continued
Women’s Magazine: Solidarity and Survival – January 14, 2013
We talk about the rise of hate violence and Islamophobia with two members of the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, and we’ll hear a discussion of the recent highly publicized gang rape in India and the protest movement around that, provided by Asia Pacific Express. And we remember two of our fierce cultural warriors: … Continued
Women’s Magazine: Affirming Life – December 24, 2012
Monday on Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael is joined by feminist authors and activists Elana Dykewomon, Judith Mirkinson and Kathleen Barry for a discussion on the role that masculinity and militarism play in mass shootings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Spiritual healers and teachers Spring Washam and Roke Noir fill us in on … Continued