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.
Director Dagmar Schultz and co-author Ika Hügel-Marshall speak with Paola Bacchetta about their film “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years.” This unique film documents the time that Black feminist icon Audre Lorde spent in Berlin between 1984 and 1992. Her presence there helped to build a community of Afro-German women. She also challenged white feminists to … Continued
Aging Women, Housing Rights & Domestic Violence in San Francisco The connections between domestic abuse and homelessness, issues that are increasingly affecting an aging population of women in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, and leaving some women sleeping in plastic chairs. Do we have a real quest to invest in affordable housing in … Continued
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
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
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
