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Women’s Magazine – May 5, 2008
On today’s show, Safi Wa Nairobi discusses Cinco De Mayo and immigration issues with Latina activist Marisol Conde Hernandez. Later in the show Preeti Shekar talks to Sumayya Waheed from the Ella Baker Center about an important legislation that pushes for the rights of incacerated mothers in California and Lisa Dettmer pays a non-hallmark tribute … Continued
Women’s Magazine – April 21, 2008
What happens when women’s organizations become professionalized? Do career organizers drive out volunteers or help them participate more fully? How does corporate or government funding limit the political positions they can take? Kate Raphael talks about the Nonprofit Industrial Complex with current and former leaders of San Francisco Women Against Rape. Plus, Sara Jaka explores … Continued
Women’s Magazine – April 7, 2008
We talk to the organizer of the upcoming San Francisco Women’s Film festival and some of the women involved in the new documentary film about camera women around the world "Women Behind the Camera." And for poetry month we hear some poems from well known women poets like Audre Lorde and Nikki Giovanni and some … Continued
Women’s Magazine – March 24, 2008
Global Fund for Women’s Africa Program Officer Muadi Mukenge talk to Preeti Shekar and Masum Momaya about the enormous violence against women in the Congo. Also, Lisa Dettmer highlights the alarming rise of HIV/AIDS among African American women; and Kate Raphael talks with organizers of Free Tibet protests in the Bay Area.
Women’s Magazine – March 17, 2008
We look at the new asexuality movement that is coming out of the closet and making radical challenges to the compulsory sexuality of hypersexual culture. Malihe Razazan talks with Professor Nadje Al Ali about the History of Women’s Movement in Iraq, and the conditions of women under sanctions and US occupation. Dr. Nadje Al-Ali is … Continued
Women’s Magazine – March 10, 2008
The Beat Is Tight But the Words Ain’t Right: Reflections on Hip-Hop by African American Women. Plus, Barbara Ehrenreich and Sabina Virgo speaking in 1998, with words that could have been written today.The Case of the New Jersey 4.And Faslane 365: a year of women-led blockades helps propel an anti-nuclear government to power in ScotlandAfter … Continued