Today on Women’s Magazine, Margo Okazawa-Rey talks to four young feminist leaders in the anti-violence and anti-sexual assault movement who are present or former Brown University students, to look at the less visible and less talked about aspects of the coronavirus. They look at what is happening interpersonally and in the home, and how the … Continued
This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to Radical feminist activist Hilla Kerner of the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter about organizing on the frontlines to end violence against women. And We discuss how to build on the recent viral MeToo campaign in response the revelations of sexual assaults by Hollywood … Continued
On Labor Day, we speak with Robin Williams, Director of Civil RIghts and Community Action for the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union. Williams is one of 27 Black women labor leaders profiled in And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders, a report from the Black Worker Initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies. … Continued
Recently widespread outrage has erupted over the bias and leniency in court decisions involving rape and the general acceptance and prevalence of violence against women. In California, a judge’s decision to give a white former Stanford University swimmer an unusually lenient six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious Stanford student sparked a campaign to … Continued
