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Want to know what feminist and women centered films to watch this June at SF Frameline and Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project film festivals ?       This Monday June 9th at 1-2pm pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine I will be talking about the two most important Queer film festivals in the U.S., the San Francisco Frameline LGBTQI + film festival and QWOCMAP. SF Frameline runs from June 18th to June 28th at venues in San Francisco and here in the east bay as well. Frameline will also have films available online to stream from June 23rd to July 1st. I will talk to SF Frameline's executive director Allegra Madsen about some of the films that feature queer women. All that info is at Frameline.org. Then we will talk to the directors and producers of two deeply moving standout feature length documentaries showing at Frameline that are both about Queer poets and activists.       I talk to Jessica Hargrave, who is a producer on the must see new feature length documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light” which is about spoken word artist and poet Andrea Gibson and their partner, poet Megan Falley, as they find meaning and love while dealing with Gibson's terminal cancer diagnosis.       And then we will look at another must see film, the new powerful and touching documentary “A Mother Apart,”about Black lesbian feminist poet and activist Staceyann Chin. That film explores Staceyann Chin's relationship with her mother and daughter and her search to find her mother who left her scarred when her mom abandoned her at the age of 9 and left Staceyann vulnerable to the violence women so often encounter within patriarchy. “A Mother Apart” follows Staceyann as she explores how her mother was herself impacted by the deeply misogynist and racist world we live in. The film also explores how Staceyann Chin found her own healing and self love and was able to pass on that love to her daughter Zuri, interrupting the cycle of violence that radicalized patriarchy and colonialism inflicts on so many women.      In the second half of the show I talk to Madeline Lim, founder and executive director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project or QWOCMAP. QWOCMAP presents their 21st annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival this year and it is offered for free, and runs from June 13th-15th at San Francisco's historic Presidio Theatre in the Presidio National Park. And we talk to Kirthi Nath who is an award winning South Asian lesbian filmmaker, whose lushly beautiful and touching film PARAMITA is being featured at QWOCMAP. For more info check out the website at QWOCMAP.org/festival.   The post Celebrate Queer Pride with SF Frameline and QWOCMAP film festivals appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode, we listen to a short story from Alexandrea Henry, reflecting on how carcerality is integrated not only in schools broadly, but even within the 1st grade classroom that she taught. Law & Disorder reached out to Alexandrea to request her contribution after seeing it first published in the recent pilot issue of the renewed Abolition Journal, produced by Philadelphia's W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction, which is a political education organization for aspiring revolutionaries and movement leaders from those communities most impacted by poverty, policing, and mass incarceration. Alexandrea Henry's generously offered to share her Abolition Journal contribution, titled Relearning the Language of Care: Reflections on Disappearing a First Grader, with us at KPFA Radio. Alexandrea Henry is a current Stanford PhD student researching how our youngest learners make sense of power and belonging in the context of school discipline. She is also a former School District of Philadelphia elementary school teacher. You can check out the full piece in written form, along with other contributions to the journal, at: abolitionjournal.com — Jesse Strauss 510 – 541 – 7361 Producer – Law & Disorder 8am Weekdays KPFA.org | 94.1FM The post Abolition in the Classroom: Reflections on Disappearing a First Grader w/ Alexandrea Henry appeared first on KPFA.

Today on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer  talks to three Queer farmers of color, Oriana Bolden, Loa Niumeitolu and Kellee Matsushita-Tseng about how we can create alternative spaces to sustain us during this newest round of fascism.  While  Trump is orchestrating a neoliberal collapse  and we weather  the constant barrage of attacks on our lives we need to create alternative communities rooted in the land.   But our capitalist  industrial model of growing and consuming food is contributing to both climate change and social inequity and unfortunately large agro industrial farming is not that  different than plantation farming. industrial capitalism is undermining our ability to build sustainable food systems for all.  98% of Farm Land is controlled by white people and  many  argue that alternative economies—including alternative food networks—continue to benefit middle class white folks, while further marginalizing communities of color and low-income folks.  So today I am going to talk to 3 Queer farmers who are  creating  farms and gardens farming for BIPOC and low income and Queer people which is so important to  creating a truly just movement for food sovereignty and  is so important right now to help create alternative communities that can sustain us when we can not count on government grants or financial support reminding us that  we will need to create   independent grassroots movements rooted in the land  where we can be sustained with food and well being and   where we can create our  own systems for  mutual aid and an alternative non extractive non exploitive economic and eco system.  Today we talk  to 3 farmers who are doing that.   Oriana Bolden  is a Black, queer, filmmaking farmer located in Grass Valley, CA, where Oriana  stewards medicinal herbs, edible flowers and long-celebrated, but “forgotten” herbs, spices and indigenous foods that are local and ecologically and culturally important.  And we talk to Loa Niumeitolu, who  is a Tongan poet, community organizer, educator and urban farmer. She is the director of Planting Oceania, a Pacific Islander collective that plants their ancestral foods and medicine for self determination and to heal from the destructions of colonization.. planting Oceania plants on the unceded territories of Lisjan and Raymatush tribes.”    And lastly we talk to Kellee Matsushita-Tseng who  is a yonsei, 4th generation queer japanese-chinese american, living and farming on unceded territory of the  Uypi-tribe   in Santa Cruz. Kellee joined the Food, What?! team in 2023 with over a decade of both farming and education experience, with special love for connecting people to seed stewardship. In addition to their work with youth at Food What?!, Kellee works to build seed sovereignty movements as a means of cultivating community power and organizes with a collective of AAPI farmers and organizers across the country, called Second Generation Seeds, which preserves, improves, and breeds crops significant to communities of the Asian diaspora.  Kellee is also a founding member of Bitter Cotyledons, a collective of queer and trans asian Americans that cultivates creative resilience through ancestral foodways and community. The post Queers of Color Farmers appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday December 9th at 1pm  on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to scholar Dr. Katie Gaddini who is an expert on young conservative evangelical women in the U.S. and the UK in order to try and find out why so many young conservative christian women supported Trump,  what gender politics have to do with their conservative beliefs and politics and what the  Democrats and the left may have gotten wrong  about the Christian Right.   Dr Gaddini is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the  University College London and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Her debut book, “The Struggle to Stay”, was based on over four years of in-depth ethnographic research with single evangelical women in the US and the UK. She is currently writing a book on Christian women and conservative politics from 1970 to present. And we talk to Deborah Craig the director of the new documentary called “Sally” about charismatic and important local  lesbian feminist  activist Sally Gerhardt which is going to be showing at the Rialto  Elmwood theater on December 18th at 6:30 PM for one night only.  This showing is sponsored by the Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA)  and after the showing there will be a Q&A with Deborah Craig about her documentary and info about BALA available. The post Katie Gaddini on Christian Rt Women and Deborah Craig on Sally w/ Kerby Lynch on BALA appeared first on KPFA.

  Intergenerational Approaches to Social Justice Work: Learning from the Past to Advance Future Conversations Across Values Divides  Talk It Out Radio: Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:00 pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (Berkeley and beyond) or livestream at kpfa.org: Host Nancy Kahn welcomes guests Aparna Rajagopal and Raju Rajagopal to a timely conversation about intergenerational approaches to social justice work across values divides. Both guests have worked at the intersection of human rights, and bring their voices of resistance to caste, racism, and all forms of bigotry and oppression. As father and daughter, they dedicate time to sharing their work with one another and engaging in conversations about their perspectives and approaches across a generational divide.  At a time when this country needs champions with both the experience, wisdom, and deep sensitivity around ways to engage people in generative and respectful dialogue. Aparna and Raju share their generational approaches to holding difficult conversations (differences/similarities), particularly in the wake of the even more deeply divided America that we are facing with the Trump re-presidency. This conversation brings the best of humanity to the table to expand and reimagine new possibilities for how we advance civil and human rights advocacy and environmental justice work.   Listen live or, after the show airs, visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes! APARNA RAJAGOPAL Aparna Rajagopal (she/her) is an agitator, artist, and advisor at the confluence of social justice and the environmental movement. She is cofounder of DEI consulting firm the Avarna Group, and serves on the Oregon Advocacy Commission for Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs and the Oregon Environmental Justice Council. In her many roles, she provides coaching, training, facilitation, presentations, strategic consulting, and thought leadership around DEI and the environmental movement. She is also writing a book that explores her story as a daughter of immigrants and nature lover to demonstrate how those of us who are not Indigenous to North America can nevertheless find belonging in this landscape.     RAJU RAJAGOPAL Raju Rajagopal, Co-Founder, Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR). Raju has spent over three decades working with Civil Society groups in India and has been active on a range of issues such as rural development, disaster management, governance and transparency, inter-faith harmony, and human rights. He shares his time between Berkeley, CA and Chennai, India and writes on social causes. Prior to engaging with the non-profit sector, he spent over three decades in the corporate world, retiring as the Chief Operating Officer of a publicly traded healthcare company in the U.S. Raju co-founded HfHR in 2019, whose mission is to “advocate for pluralism, civil and human rights in South Asian and North America, rooted in the values of our faith: shanti (peace), nyaya ( justice) and satya (truth). We provide a Hindu voice resistance to caste, Hindutva (Hindu nationalism), racism, and all forms of biogtry and oppression.”     The post Intergenerational Approaches to Social Justice Work: Learning from the Past to Advance Future Conversations Across Values Divides appeared first on KPFA.

Doug Henwood is an author, commentator, contributing editor at The Nation, and host of Behind the News on KPFA Radio, part of the Pacifica Radio Network. As we finally reach the end of what has seemed like the longest campaign in modern political history, he joined Alex Whisson to discuss the perils, pitfalls and possibilities of the American Presidential election.

Today on  KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine  Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah  who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer  author, scholar  and activist  Judith Butler about two topics she has become famous for reshaping and making part of everyday discourse, that is  gender and anti-zionism .  If  somehow you are one of the few people who  haven't heard of  American philosopher,  gender studies scholar and anti zionist and Queer feminist activist Judith Butler  they have written over a dozen books including their seminal book “Gender Trouble” which came out in 1990 and which shook up the academic and political world with her redefinition of gender.  And they have been have been a major  influence on  political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory ,and literary theory, and if that wasn't impactful enough  they  are also are  a huge force in support of Palestinian rights.  For Butler's  concept of gender as having  been constructed they have been seen as a threat throughout the modern world — to national security in Russia; to civilization, according to the Vatican; to the American traditional family; to protecting children from pedophilia and grooming, according to some conservatives and by Zionist they are excoriated as a defender of Hamas terrorism and banned from Israel. So we thought it would be important to talk to UC Berkeley Professor Judith Butler about her views on gender and zionism for fund drive and offer her newest book on gender as a thank you gift for your contribution to our fund drive.  And to interview Judith  Butler we are very lucky to have two experienced Queer activists,  novelist, journalist, anarcha/feminist and queer activist and a long-time producer with  KPFA's  Women's Magazine Kate Raphael is  co housing with social change strategist and ordained  Jewish faith leader Rae Abileah  and they will be leading  our  conversation with Judith Butler today .  In the first half of the interview  Kate Raphael will talk to  Butler about their  newest book on gender  and in the second half of the show Rae will talk  with  Butler about her  book “Parting Ways Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism” that came out in 2013  as well as  her thoughts about anti-zionism today. The post Judith Butler on Anti-Zionism and Gender appeared first on KPFA.

To honor Labor Day, KPFA Radio presents a special interview with Philip Maldari, a KPFA Radio host and programmer with over 50 years experience at the station. Join us to hear him share his knowledge and memories of the history of the KPFA Labor Union. The Pacifica Evening News will return on Tuesday, September 3, 2024.     The post Special Holiday Programming: KPFA History with Philip Maldari appeared first on KPFA.

 This Monday on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine, Kim Anno and Lisa Dettmer talk to queer ecology activists who are courageously  fighting the climate crisis in Florida These inspiring and creative Queer activists  are represented in the new film “Cant Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontline”, that is now available to see online at Kinema for the month of July.   “Can't Stop Change” weaves together interviews with fourteen trans, queer, and Two-Spirit collaborators across Florida, bravely fighting for change in one of the most anti Queer states and a state  that has been battered by natural and political storms: climate gentrification and displacement. These activists target the  disproportionate affect natural disasters have  oppressed communities based on race, class, and gender and link the environmental disasters with the  political disasters of  anti-abortion and ani-trans bills,  permitless concealed carry laws; and white patriarchal corporate power that militarizes the police.  Unlike many mainstream environmental groups these Queer ecology activists recognizes that we need deep structural change that challenges Cis Heterosexual white Capitalist patriarchy and doesn't just treat symptoms.  In the face of all of this devastation, these queer and trans ecology activists in Florida are courageously imagining a better future and tackling the issues head-on through mutual aid, building queer communities, and standing up to corporations and bad politics. In this stirring  documentary they  follow  these inspirational activists as they tour the state, meet with mutual aid providers to uncover the challenges of each area, and learn about the passionate work being done to combat them.  We talk to Vanessa Raditz, the Co-Director of Can't Stop Change who is also a queer climate justice/queer ecology  activist in the Southeast and Bay Area  And we talk to Florida Native, Barbara Perez , who is PhD student at Florida Atlantic University where she  is doing her dissertation on climate gentrification    And lastly we talk to Rebecca Wood who is an  Environmental Educator and Miami resident who is currently involved in local climate activism/community disaster preparedness The post Queer Ecology in Florida- “Can't Stop Change” appeared first on KPFA.

In 1949, a group of pacifists launched America's first listener-supported radio station. Despite government repression, infighting, and countless financial crises, KPFA has managed to survive 75 years. This episode explores the stories of some of the people who helped the station achieve this remarkable milestone. Featuring interviews with former and current staff members and volunteers: Larry Bensky*, Emiliano Echeveria, Adi Gevins, Bari Scott, Robynn Takayama, and Kris Welch. Don't forget to follow the East Bay Yesterday Substack for updates on events, tours, exhibits, and other local history news: https://substack.com/@eastbayyesterday *This was the last recorded interview with longtime KPFA broadcaster Larry Bensky, who passed away on May 19, 2024. To learn more about Benksy's legendary career, visit: https://kpfa.org/featured-episode/larry-bensky-may-1st-1937-may-19th-2024/ Special thanks to the sponsor of this episode: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals Oakland. I encourage you to read the story of how UCSF research and UCSF Benioff Oakland clinicians transformed treatment for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and became a model for other hospitals: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/05/427576/race-save-one-infants-chance-hear-cochlear-implant

Today on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we will talk to the directors of two of the films premiering  this month at local  Queer film festivals.  The new documentary by Deborah Craig “Sally” is premiering at the  the SF Frameline film festival, and this just finished feature length documentary about lesbian feminist activist, scholar,theologian, and  local leader Sally Gerhardt is not to be missed.  Sally Gearhart was a lesbian-feminist firebrand, professor, and fantasy author who spearheaded the 1970s and 80s US lesbian feminist movement. The new documentary about her life directed by Deborah Craig called SALLY! peels back proverbial (and patriarchal) layers to reveal the collectivist reality behind our heroine's story while exploring the complex relationship between spokeswoman-like Sally and movements for social change. While the showings at the  Frameline  SF LGBTQIA film festival on June 26th at 6 and 8pm are already sold out,  there may be rush tickets at the door. So go to frameline.org for more info.  And you should keep an eye out for this inspiring film, “Sally” at other film festivals and to find out  when it is hopefully picked up and distributed online for all of us to see go sallygearhartfilm.com to get info on future showings. And I talk to Loa Niumeitolu and Laura AnnCoelho, who are  the directors and creators of the  brand new film “A Fish Does Not Drown): Pasifika Communities During Prop 8.” In this documentary Pasifika LGBTQ+ people share poignant stories of how their own Pasifika families and community criminalized and betrayed them during Prop 8 to defend and uphold the Mormon and CatholicChurches attempt to prevent same sex marriage in California  and how Queer Pasifika communities fought against that. This film will be showing for free  Friday night at the International Queer Women of Color Film Festival  at the beautifully renovated Presidio Theatre in San Francisco's Presidio NationalPark. You can get tickets for this historic film “A Fish does not Drown” at qwocff.org and that film  and all the films at the Queer Women of color film festival in SF are free.  so don't miss this film at part of the opening nite at the QWOCMAP festival starting June 14th and running thru Sunday June 16th with 44 original new films you won't be able to find anywhere else   xr:d:DAF78QmOJMc:36,j:4680786865201297579,t:24030718 The post Queer women's films – “Sally” and “A Fish Does Not Drown” appeared first on KPFA.

Radio is a medium with extraordinary propagandistic power — seductively transmitting ideas into the quotidian intimacy of one's home and life. That power and potential was recognized early on by the state following the First World World. It was also appreciated by opponents of war, including the anarchist pacifists who founded KPFA Radio and the Pacifica network. As KPFA Radio celebrates its 75th anniversary, historians Matthew Lasar and Iain Boal reflect upon the origins of the legendary station, the mother of listener-sponsored radio. The post Fund Drive Special: War, Peace, and KPFA Radio appeared first on KPFA.

A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Living Legacies: LARRY THE MUSICAL x MISTER REY TRIBUTE Host Aisa Villarosa covers “Larry the Musical” a new theatrical production based on the book “Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong” written by Gayle Romasanta and the late Dr. Dawn Mabalon. Nomi aka Power Struggle and Aisa also honor an anchor and leader of the Bay Area Filipinx and civil rights community –  Mister REY. Links to Episode Features: Larry The Musical website: https://www.larrythemusical.com/   Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: https://www.instagram.com/pinayism/?hl=en Billy Bustamante: https://www.billybustamante.com/ Mister REY Memorial GoFundMe https://misterrey.bandcamp.com/album/wonders-mysticisms-beat-tape Power Struggle https://soundcloud.com/mario-de-mira Show Transcripts Living Legacies: Larry the Musical x Mister REY tribute Opening: [00:00:00] Apex Express Asian Pacific expression. Community And cultural coverage, music and calendar, new visions and voices, coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view. It's time to get on board The Apex Express Aisa Villarosa: [00:00:28] You're listening to Apex Express on 94.1 KPFA Berkeley, 89.3 KPFB Berkeley, 88.1 KFC at Fresno and online at KPFA. org. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I am your host, Aisa Villarosa. I'm an artist, attorney, ethnic studies advocate, general rabble rouser, and lifetime fan of the Apex Express crew. Shout out to my homie Miko. Get comfy, get cozy. We have a wonderful show for you tonight. It's a show about a show, that is Larry The Musical, which is based on the book Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong, written by Gayle Romasanta, and the wondrous late great Dr. Dawn Mabolon. The story and songs are influenced by and honor our ancestors, and the musical debuts at San Francisco's very own Brava Theater running March 16th through April 14th, 2024. That means, seats are limited. So, in addition to checking out the show we have for you tonight, visit www.larrythemusical.com to get your tickets today, learn about this cast and crew. Now for our show. First up we'll hear about Larry Itliong's legacy of organizing, resistance, and community power building from Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. Next, Larry The Musical director Billy Bustamante, previews the heart, soul, and talent behind this production. And, because we're pretty big of a deal here [laughs] we'll also hear a sneak peek of two songs from Larry The Musical. Finally, the artist Power Struggle will help me wrap up this episode by honoring an anchor and leader of the Bay Area Filipinx and civil rights community and our friend, Mister REY. Rest in power. All right, that's the show. Let's dig in. I'm here with Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, one of the country's leading Ethnic Studies and Filipinx studies scholars and professors, co-founder and director of Community Responsive Education, and the educational consultant for Larry The Musical. Allyson, it's so wonderful to have you here. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:02:34] My gosh, thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate this show and all the work that you've been doing for many years. Thank you so much. Aisa Villarosa: [00:02:41] For our dedicated Apex Express listeners who may not be familiar with the wonderful Larry Itliong. Can you talk a little bit about who he is and who he is to this particular Civil Rights Movement? Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:02:57] Larry Itliong. He was born in the Philippines, in San Nicolas Pangasinan. He came here at 15 years old. Imagine coming here at 15 years old. He only had a sixth grade education. And he came here, actually in order to pursue his studies and he moved to the United States in 1929. As you probably know, because of the Great Depression, it was difficult to find jobs. He was forced to work in the railroads and then eventually became a migrant farm worker. And he traveled all the way from like Montana, South Dakota, Washington, and finally landed here in California. So during that time, Larry Itliong learned of the plight suffered by Filipinos and other immigrants working in the fields. Larry Itliong was a prominent leader in one of the most important social justice movements in the US, and we call that the Farm Worker Movement. A lot of Filipinos involved along with Mexicanos. He organized a group of 1500 Filipinos to strike against the grape growers in Delano, California. Some people call that the great Delano Grape strike of 1965. Basically they were trying to fight for workers' rights. They had this strike for eight days. And there was tons of violence by the growers, hired hands, and even the sheriff department, and they were thrown out of the labor camp. Larry Itliong. He was strong and he remained tenacious and resilient. And he called upon someone very famous that many of us know Cesar Chavez, and Cesar Chavez' community, to join forces with the Filipinos and they striked again. Because of Larry Itliong, the two groups combined and they ended up becoming the United Farm Workers. And a lot of us know the United Farm Workers and a lot of it is attributed to Cesar Chavez, but really Larry Itliong really pushed that ability to create a coalition. To create a connection to really fight for collective liberation. So this unification between the farmworkers of all different ethnicities, not just Filipino and Mexicano was really unprecedented. And really set an example for many of us—many of us meaning workers and organizers—many of us learned from that movement, how to really create alignment, how to really create a coalition, how to really fight alongside each other. And that movement was very successful. You may or may not know this, but Larry Itliong also was the president of the Filipino American Political Association, the first national political Filipino American organization. And it was very crucial, between Filipino professionals and laborers, that grew out of the Delano Grape strike. Larry Itliong was instrumental in founding lots of things including the Pablo Agbayani Village, a Retirement Home built by volunteers for retired Filipino Manos, who no longer had families and needed a place to call home. I recently visited Agbayani Village with my family. Even in my own family, my husband, his father was one of the farm workers, and it means a great deal to actually be there at Agbayani Village, quite literally, you feel the spirits. And having, having brought my daughter there and she got to, you know, see, where our ancestors lived. Larry Itliong, he passed away in 1977 at the age of sixty-three, very young. He left behind his wife and seven children. But his accomplishments and his legacy, continues to live and we really reap the benefits from all the work that he did. Aisa Villarosa: [00:06:41] I got shivers at several points when you shared Allyson. Thank you. And I am told that as part of your work as educational consultant for Larry The Musical, that one of your unique roles is helping the cast see history in this moment and see what Larry's struggle and Larry's story is to them and their families. So I love that sort of full circle practice. It also means that for a musical to take on you know you've named some, some pretty heavy things, right? You're naming organizing struggle, you're naming the struggle against white supremacy. Can you talk a little bit about what makes this musical special and, and even to be able to do right by Larry and his story, how did you all bring this to life? Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:07:33] Whoa. That's a really important set of questions and I really appreciate the connections between what's happening on the stage and what's happening in our classrooms and, you know, what's really happening in our communities. It is a really important show. I think a lot of shows have said, “Oh, we're a hundred percent this, we're a hundred percent that.” But when I go into working with the cast, I really see a hundred percent Filipino, Filipina, Filipinx Americans who are really telling a story that is important. Larry's story is not glamorous, [laughs] you know, and I say that because I've seen a lot of Broadway shows. You know, I have a child who's a performer and I spend a lot of time in New York, and I really do love watching musicals. And so this genre is like happy times for me, right? I go in and I get, I mean, they start singing and I, I just want to cry right away [laughs]. But there's something so powerful, yes, about a hundred percent Filipino cast, but also telling a story about struggle, and about labor, about someone who's working class, who really has changed our lives. I think sometimes when I go to musicals, I try to find myself, you know, like on stage I'm like, which character am I? You know? And in this musical I really feel like I'm all the characters. And you will see this, you know, because there's Larry, of course, this, it's a story about Larry Itliong, but you will see characters, and the creative team has wonderfully weaved characters from different parts of that era, and then also maybe even parts of their own lives and their own families, and they land on stage. They are telling this story alongside Larry, and it's beautiful and I'm really, really excited for people to see it. I'm not going to, I'm not gonna give too much away. Aisa Villarosa: [00:09:39] [Laughs] People gotta buy tickets. Yes. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:09:41] Buy your tickets and bring your tissue [laughs]. Because I really feel like people are going to not only see Larry on stage, but they're gonna see themselves, their families, their parents, their community, their ancestors, all of them there. I will say that, I had the fortune of working with the cast, specifically on a project called Tatlong Bagsak Talambuhay and what I said to the cast was, this work has to be different. This work cannot just be about telling one man's story. And so it's really important for them to understand their own story, their own family's legacy, and why they're doing this work. And so at the beginning of each of the rehearsals, there's one cast member who tells their story. Talambuhay, you know, telling their life story. So that every person is allowed to share their story on the stage, quite literally. And also to be able to make the connections to why they're there on that stage. I had one cast member come up to me last week and say, “I've never been part of a [laughs] a show like this. You know, like where I was seen.” And that's the power of Larry The Musical. It, it's definitely about Larry and how he has inspired us, but it is so much more. And so I'm really excited for people to be able to experience that. Aisa Villarosa: [00:11:18] I was lucky enough to attend the community preview y'all had put on in the fall. It was smashing and I could feel Dawn Mabalon's love and spirit in the room because so much of what you're saying is how are we creating a living archive, right? And there's so many stories that make up history that ultimately is intentionally not told or kept away from people. So it sounds like this is hopefully one of many opportunities for folks to either learn that history for the first time, or to learn it in a really freeing way. I want to talk a little bit about women. If we look at various movements across labor, thinking about the figures of labor, you know, you have Larry, you have Philip Vera Cruz. I am sure there are some strong, strong women in Larry. And as a Filipina we also see that the value of care work, of women really it's often invisibilized by history. Talk to us a little bit about, you know, what can we expect to see from the women in Larry? Are there any toxic narratives that are reversed or addressed by the musical? Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:12:32] I feel like you saw the script. [Laughs]. Aisa Villarosa: [00:12:34] I didn't. I did not. [Laughs]. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:12:36] Oh, okay. Okay. I can't give up too much. It'd be really unfair, but I'll say that this begins with the strong women who did the research and who wrote the play, the musical, the book, the script. And I'll start with, a lot of the work is rooted in Dr. Dawn Bohulano's research. I mean, she really was going to tell Larry Itliong's story in an academic book. And before she passed, she was able to write Journey for Justice with Gayle Romasanta. It was, it quite literally went to press the day that she passed. Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon had a dream to really tell Larry's story, but I know deep inside it wasn't just about Larry's story, it was a story about her family. It was a story about her ancestors, including the women. And so I think how beautiful it is to have quite literally the voice and research of Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon in the script that Gayle Romasanta really was able to bring forth. So we have writers like Gayle Romasanta, Kevin Camia, and then writing the music we have Brian Pangilinan, and then you'll hear the sounds of course of Sean Kana. But when we talk and think about the women, the voices quite literally, the singing voices of the women are so powerful. I think sometimes people imagine women during that movement as being behind the men. In this show, that's not the case. I think of the work of Stacey Salinas, Dr. Stacey Salinas, who writes about Filipina farmworkers in the movement. She has some beautiful archives of Filipina women during that time. And you literally see them on the stage and you see them challenging men and you see them saying yes, we are part of this struggle. And so, although it's called Larry The Musical, Larry definitely isn't the main character by himself. Aisa Villarosa: [00:14:40] I love that. And what you shared also reminds me of thinking about the people power movement and the phrase makibaka huwag matakot, where there is power in struggle, right? If, if we can come together collectively. Turning to the musical, it's going to premiere soon. We hope that folks visit the Apex Express website [kpfa.org] where y'all can buy tickets. Please support this incredible work. What is your greatest hope for this musical? Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:15:11] Ooh, that's a good question. It caught me off guard. I secretly hope that this musical goes beyond the Bay Area, potentially travels, potentially goes to Broadway, maybe the Philippines. You know, I want people to know how wonderful our story is, our story. And you will really see our story in this. So yeah, I hope it makes it big. [Laughs] I, I really do. We deserve it. Aisa Villarosa: [00:15:41] Well, it's not a secret anymore. You, you manifested it, so now it's gotta happen, right? [Laughs]. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:15:47] Yeah, I really do. I mean, I hope, I hope for all of that. And to be honest, I don't think the Pinnacle is Broadway in my mind. It might've been when we first started the project, but really, I, I feel like most importantly is for people to know the stories of our people. And Larry The Musical can really bring that out. And I hope people can see themselves on stage. I mean, that is a big goal for them to be able to see themselves on stage. Aisa Villarosa: [00:16:13] Allyson, it's been so wonderful talking with you. Before we head out, is there anything else you'd like to share with the listeners? Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:16:21] There's so many struggles going on right now in the world, whether that be, like the manifestation of colonialism and imperialism everywhere, to what's happening in our classrooms. I feel like really key that Larry The Musical is ethnic studies. I think [it's] important that people know that the goal of ethnic studies is collective liberation and we do that by centering the voices of people of color in the first person, ultimately to eliminate and eradicate racism and white supremacy. I mean, like it's all of that. Aisa Villarosa: [00:16:50] Yeah. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:16:51] But I want people to know that Larry is that, and I think sometimes we get stuck on wanting representation, like, oh, I wanna see a Filipino on stage. And so we vote for people on those shows and we get so excited. Aisa Villarosa: [00:17:05] Or that becomes the ceiling, right? Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:17:08] Exactly. It becomes the ceiling. We have made it because we've seen ourselves on TV or we've seen ourselves on a stage on Broadway, but I think it's not enough. Because those stories oftentimes are not the stories of our own people. We often play characters who are not ourselves, and we oftentimes have to compromise our integrity to actually become famous. And so for me, when I think about Larry The Musical, it does not compromise. It does not compromise. And it really is about our stories and us telling our stories in the first person. I'll leave it at that. Aisa Villarosa: [00:17:44] I love that. It's such a great way to send us off. And as someone who used to work in the arts and has been shushed at primarily white events, I love the decolonization of the arts as well. It's arts and ethnic studies. So many folks in our work do this work because of a really important moment in ethnic studies that came to them. Unfortunately, because of the forces that are out there trying to stop ethnic studies, for many that revelation comes kind of late in life or sometimes doesn't come at all. So, please let us have more Larry, more stories like Larry and more ways for folks to access this sort of awakening. Thank you so much, Allyson. It has been a pleasure. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: [00:18:31] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all the work that you do. Aisa Villarosa: [00:18:34] As Allyson shared, Larry The Musical is a lesson in living civil rights history, a chronicle of the racial violence faced by Filipinx organizers and how they mobilize to overcome it. This plays out in the musical's track, “Watsonville,” which we're about to preview. In the 1930s, violence against Filipinos was a daily occurrence. It was not out of the ordinary for Filipinos to get shot at, be beaten, or have their campos bombed. Two major events happened in January 1930, the Watsonville Riots and the bombing of the Filipino Federation of American Building in Stockton California. The Watsonville riots saw hundreds of Filipinos beaten and Fermin Tobera killed over four days of mob violence. White mobs beat and shot Filipinos, and in the end, no one was arrested. “Watsonville” follows our characters as these historic events unfold. It was written by Gayle Romasanta and Kevin Camia, music composed by Bryan Pangilinan and Sean Kana. Let's take a listen. SONG Aisa Villarosa: [00:19:39] You're listening to Apex Express on KPFA Radio with me, Aisa Villarosa. That was a special preview of “Watsonville” from Larry The Musical. I'm here with acclaimed New York City-based theater artist, director, performer teacher, and community-driven artivist Billy Bustamante, director of Larry The Musical. We are so honored to have you join us, Billy. Billy Bustamante: [00:21:02] Hi there. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so thrilled to be here. Aisa Villarosa: [00:21:06] Awesome. Well, we are going to dive into Larry The Musical. And a few months ago I had the honor of catching the community preview at the Brava Theater in San Francisco and it blew my socks off as a mentee of the great ate Dawn Mabalon, a hero and mentor gone too soon, it was beautiful to see her archiving come alive in song. For those who are new to Larry The Musical, can you tell us a little bit about what audiences can expect? Billy Bustamante: [00:21:38] Sure. When you come to the Brava Theater this spring, you will see a story about our shared Filipino American history, but even greater our shared American history brought to life on stage. You will see a story that centers Filipino Americans in the telling of that history. It is a musical that will make you laugh, will make you cry, will make you dance in your seat, and will hopefully make you step back out into the world as you leave the theater with a little more power in your hands. Aisa Villarosa: [00:22:06] Those all sound so incredible. Billy, can you share more, as someone who has been in the arts world for so long, why is this project near and dear to your heart? Billy Bustamante: [00:22:18] Larry means so much to me for so many reasons. I've been making theater now for a little over 20 years professionally. And throughout that time I have kind of had to hold two sides of myself in various capacities, right? I have my American-ness, and I have my Filipino-ness. As a born and raised Filipino American here in the States, I have always had to examine unconsciously how much of myself I can bring into an artistic space just because those spaces have predominantly been white led. Now that we are in a space that is created for by and about Filipino people telling a story that is for by and about Filipino people that really centers not just Filipino story, but the Filipino identity, not just in the product but in the process, that is a feeling I have literally never had before in my 42 years on this planet. And every time I step into this space, I am amazed at how much more myself I feel, and I can see that sensation flashing in every single person in the room. And it's on one side beautiful. It's like a beautiful thing to witness us all kind of come alive a bit more, expand into the space, be more of ourselves. And it's also a bit infuriating to know that it's taken me 42 years to get to this moment. This feeling of true belonging is something that I have grown more and more addicted to and that I continue to chase in any other experience that I have. Aisa Villarosa: [00:23:46] Wow. I'm getting a little goosebumps over here. I am hearing that it's, it's almost like coming home to yourself, that often, and I too have a Filipino family, grew up here I'm second generation, and often the dominant culture's understanding of Filipinos is limited to very simplistic notions, whether that's our food, even if food is very political. Billy Bustamante: [00:24:11] Yes. Aisa Villarosa: [00:24:11] There's often sort of a niceness, and the arts and culture world is no exception. So thank you for sharing. And in thinking about the cast of the musical, can you share what makes this cast special and unique? Billy Bustamante: [00:24:29] I am a firm believer that theater artists of any background are some of the most exhilarating people in the world [laughs]. As a theater artist, specifically as a musical theater artist, there is so much skill you must be able to access in order to do your job. It's not just one thing at a time, it is all things at a time. So we are making a show that sings, acts and dances all the time [laughs], and within that there's that triple threat of skill while also incorporating this fourth ingredient of identity and shared history. So each of the actors that we have brought into this cast has really shown up with not just those first three skills in brilliant capacity, but also a hunger and an enthusiasm to be generous about how they bring this fourth ingredient into the process. Again, another thing none of us have been able to do in an artistic space before. For so many of us, it's our first time bringing ourselves to the work in this way. Because none of us have had a chance to do it. So many of us have never played Filipino on stage before, let alone Filipino Americans specifically. I know I've been lucky to have played Filipinos on stage and have been telling Filipino stories, but none of those have been led by Filipinos or written by Filipinos. So there's a level of not just authenticity, but integrity to the work and the story we're telling that allows each of these cast members to be greater like artistic citizens and contributors to the work. Aisa Villarosa: [00:25:58] I love that. There's in Filipino culture, the word kapwa, right? Which is collective identity. And I was reading a quote from you and you said, “My favorite thing about Filipinx culture is creating community. If you've shared a meal with a Filipinx family, you're family.” And it sounds like here you're talking about a meal but this theater experience and all the prep that y'all did, there's a family feeling to that, and can you share some of the behind the scenes love and care and intentionality that went into creating Larry? Billy Bustamante: [00:26:33] Yes. Yes. I, I love that you found that quote. I can't remember when I said it, but I know I say it a lot. [Laughs]. Aisa Villarosa: [00:26:39] I was creeping on the internet. [Laughs]. Billy Bustamante: [00:26:40] I love it. I, and I do firmly believe, like that's one of my favorite things about Filipino culture. Yeah. If you sit at my table, you leave as a family member, right? And I do think that's the environment we wanna create for the audience as well. This piece of art that we are creating is what I hope will be a fully nourishing seven course meal of artistry that again, audience members come into the theater as guests and they leave as family. That is my hope. How we get there is, has been a thrilling experiment, again, as a theater maker for like 20 plus years, the pandemic, this pandemic pause that was forced upon us as artists, really forced me to examine, but I think forced the greater industry to examine the dysfunction in how we do what we do. And now that we have started creating theater again, I've personally been on this, you know, mission to honor the science experiment that we're all on in terms of a, how to be in a room together and then how to create art together and hopefully a healthier more empowering way across the board. So knowing that's been a mission I've been on with any theater project I take on, for this one specifically there is so much more importance laid onto that particular ingredient, right? How do we make a healthier room? How do we make a more restorative healing process for everyone? Recognizing that the story we are telling impacts the actors and their bodies in a way that no other story does, right? There is an additional toll and cost to reckoning with your own history on stage. And it's, it's a privilege to get to do that, but that does mean we need to reexamine what supportive systems and structures we are creating in the room. Again, this is all an experiment [laughs] and it's going well so far, but some steps we have taken or to gather our company. Our company, on the first full day of rehearsal when we got all the actors together. One thing I was excited about our first day of rehearsal was that we took a good amount of time to sit in a circle and create what we called community commitments. Like a set of shared agreements that we all were participatory in creating that gave us all a guideline of how we treat each other in this space. So now it's thrilling, it's freeing to have this social contract in place that we have all agreed to, that not just allows for the pursuit of an ideal space, but also a way to kind of move through conflict as we pursue that space. So to me that feels really helpful. Another thing we just did in rehearsal yesterday, was we brought Allyson in to lead a facilitation of how we bring our personal individual stories to this greater story that we are telling. We are telling a history and we are living history in this moment. So it was amazing to hear Allyson give us a technique for how we share our individual stories as humans to the rest of the company, which is a practice we will start incorporating at the beginning of every rehearsal. And I can only wait to see how much that impacts the art that we make on stage, knowing that everyone will know more and be more invested with each other as humans. Aisa Villarosa: [00:29:32] And you're talking about living history, right? And as you were sharing, I wrote down safety to create. It's rare that we as folks of color as Filipinos can be in these safe liberatory spaces. Taking it a little personal, has your family seen Larry yet? Billy Bustamante: [00:29:50] Well, I mean, no one really has, [laughs] you know, our world premiere in March will be a world premiere. No one will, even if people have seen every workshop, this is a version of the musical in its fullest form that no one will have ever seen before. So in that way, I'm very excited. With that said, my parents have been keeping up with all the filmed workshops and the interviews, and that's all been amazing. Both of my parents are on the east coast. They're in the DC area, which is where I'm from. So they're keeping up with it virtually. But I am so excited for them to fly out here, to catch opening weekend. I'm getting a little emotional talking about it right now, but my parents are incredibly supportive as is the rest of my family. And they do a great job at coming to see and support whatever I do. And this one, having them in the room to watch this one, I think will be a really special experience. Aisa Villarosa: [00:30:43] I, I can feel love and as a huge fan, a mentee of folks like Dr. Allyson and Dawn Mabalon there's a moment where a lot of Filipinos, Filipino organizations are trying to archive the struggle, the triumphs of the past, and it's incredible that through theater y'all are doing that in a way that will be fresh for new generations. And speaking of theater, you are always creating, you wear so many hats. Tell us what is coming down the road for you in addition to Larry, would love to hear more. Billy Bustamante: [00:31:26] Yeah. I'm gonna put this into the ether here. I, my hope is that this world premiere of Larry will be the first of many steps for this musical. So what I hope is that the next few years includes more productions of Larry at a bigger and wider scale. With that said, there are a few other projects that I'm really excited about. I am a theater leader, but also an educator. So I'm on teaching faculty at Circle in the Square Theater School, which is the only theater training ground attached to a Broadway theater. So, in that way I feel really excited about the work I get to do with young artists there. We are developing a new musical called The Rosetta Project, which I hope everyone checks out. It's gonna be amazing. I'll be directing that. From there I have a couple of, you know, other pots on the stove. I'll be directing, choreographing a new off-Broadway show called Straight Forward in spring of 2025, which I'm very excited about. There are a couple of other things that I cannot release at this moment, but if you want to keep up with the [laughs] shenanigans I am up to, please check out billybustamante.com because I'll be sure to be shouting from the rooftops with excitement once I can. Aisa Villarosa: [00:32:36] Beautiful. And we will include links to your website, Billy, as well as links for folks to get tickets for Larry at the Brava Theatre. And folks can check that out on the Apex Express website [kpfa.org]. And Billy, before we go, is there anything else you want to share? Billy Bustamante: [00:32:55] I think there is one thing. I'm usually not a person who really is enthusiastic about promoting my projects [laughs]. I've always kind of felt some sense of ickiness around that. Some sense of like transactionality around that [laughs]. But Larry is so special to me and there's a spirit that we are creating in this piece that I think everyone needs to experience and be a part of. And I also recognize that, you know, where audience members choose to spend their money is a big investment and a big decision and I hope that everyone who is excited by anything I've said today or anything we've talked about today finds a way to grab a ticket and join us at the theater. This time will be fleeting and it's gonna be over before we know it, and I really hope everyone gets to be a part of it because I think it's gonna be really special so get those tickets if you can. Aisa Villarosa: [00:33:49] Adding a plus one to that. And Billy, you earlier mentioned the impact of these covid pandemic years and yeah, that was the longest period of theater closures, right? Since World War II. As someone who used to work in the arts I also recall that often there's sort of an elite nature to the arts and one of my favorite things when I go to the Larry website is there are so many people who gave all sorts of amounts to make this happen, right? There's folks who gave like 50 bucks. It's such a welcoming site, so I too hope that this is only the beginning. Billy Bustamante: [00:34:28] Awesome. Thank you so much and thanks to everyone who supported us so far. I'm so grateful. Aisa Villarosa: [00:34:32] Our final track from Larry The Musical is called “Train,” which is about Filipinos jumping trains throughout the western United States, traveling from town to town in search of work in the 1920s and 1930s. Train was written by Gayle Romasanta and Kevin Camia, music composed by Brian Pangilinan and Sean Kana. They wanted to create a broad picture of how the thousands of Filipinos must have met each other, built friendships, planned labor meetings, and all while traveling. Here is the exclusive preview. SONG Aisa Villarosa: [00:35:03] You're listening to Apex Express on KPFA Radio, and I'm your host, Aisa Villarosa. That was a preview of “Train” from Larry The Musical. You just heard Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales and Billy Bustamante talk about what makes the world premiere of Larry The Musical so special. Larry debuts at the Brava Theatre in San Francisco March 16th through April 14th, 2024. Seats are limited, so visit www.larrythemusical.com to buy tickets today. Finally, tonight's episode of Apex Express is dedicated to the life and legacy of Reynaldo Timosa Novicio Jr. a father, son, friend, and prolific sound producer, artist and guiding light of the Filipinx American and Bay Area Music and Civil Rights community. Rey passed away on February 2nd, 2024. I'm joined right now by a friend, a colleague, an incredible artist, activist dad, and a martial arts practitioner, Nomi, AKA Power Struggle. Nomi, it's so great to have you on the show today. Nomi (Power Struggle): [00:37:12] Hey Aisa, thank you for having me. Thank you to the KPFA and the Apex Express listeners. What's up Bay Area? Aisa Villarosa: [00:37:19] Nomi, you rep the Bay Area hard. I think a good way to start our conversation is given all the hats you wear, all the ways that you're making change: What does it mean to be Filipinx American in the Bay Area right now? Nomi (Power Struggle): [00:37:34] I think right now it is a really important moment to, there's been so much happening in this particular moment around the liberation of Palestine and the end of the genocide in Gaza, and I think that a lot of folks in our community have been really seeing this moment as a way to express their solidarity and mobilize and take action against what's happening to the Palestinians. And I think that is just reflective of the bigger, historical context that a lot of Filipino, Filipinx, Americans, immigrants, have experienced and live under, right? So I believe like a lot of folks are just seeing those connections between colonization, the colonization of the Philippines from various different occupation nations and armies, to what's happening in Palestine. And they make those connections and they even are not that far removed, maybe like two generations removed from the experiences of their grandparents that went through the Japanese occupation during World War II and lived through some of those horrors and they remember that stuff and the stories that they were told and I think that informs a large amount of our community to, to mobilize and take action. I'm not saying that, we don't have more conservative folks in our broad community across the Bay Area, but I believe for a lot of young folks, a lot of folks that have taken time to be part of other movements, whether it be the movement for Black Lives, or Indigenous movements, or even for liberation movements in the Philippines, they kind of understand all these connections, and are building bridges and building solidarity with folks. Aisa Villarosa: [00:39:16] Yeah, it's the young and it's the young at heart, right? I think folks who can be ever curious, and, you know, we have made some headway in ethnic studies where folks are connecting the dots, right, between those shared histories, those living histories of struggle. Tonight's episode started off with a tour of Larry Itliong, the new musical coming out. And it's quite clear that to be Filipino in so many ways means to resist. And as it relates to Larry The Musical, resistance through music is such a powerful form of political organizing. Nomi, you're here today because this episode is also a tribute to our friend who passed away, the wonderful Mister Rey, who you have collaborated with, you have made music with. Can you start by just sharing a little bit about who Rey was to you and maybe talk a little bit about what made your musical collaboration so special? Nomi (Power Struggle): [00:40:27] I'm really thankful for this opportunity to just share the story of Mister REY with the entire Bay Area with the country. Mister REY, Reynaldo Novicio, and I worked on one of our first records together. It was called Remittances. And I met Rey back in around 2009. I can't remember specifically where we met. It just happens in life, especially in the art community, you start talking with people and collaborating, and he would invite me to a spot in Daly City, where he was living at the time with his family, and every Saturday morning we would session. I would go over there with Dennis and Kane, Drew, Vi, and we would just, he would just play beats that he had made, and we would write. And after a few months of that, we slowly started to create this body of work that was starting to be more cohesive that would be like the material for the album, Remittances. A couple months after that, we decided to move in, him and his partner, and their family were moving into a spot in the Excelsior District and they had an extra room. I think I was going through a displacement. I think I was going through an eviction in the mission. And so it all kind of worked out and I ended up moving in with them. And that really was just a great opportunity to live together and continue this process of working on this album, which is to me my favorite piece of work. It's so meaningful. The title Remittances. You know, is a remittance obviously, when you send money to your family back home or abroad, was just such a symbol of the immigrant experience, especially for our community and the Filipino community. And so the title was like an offering of culture and love, for our community through music. And that's why we chose that title Remittances and that offering and love transcends beyond just this neighborhood, but also across the seas to our homelands and throughout our diaspora. That project was just really important. For all the artists out there, when you go through a creative process you're partnering with someone and you live with them it's just like a deeper level of connection and struggle [laughs] as well, right? Because, you live together so and Rey has two twin daughters he has one more now. But at the time, and so, you know, you're just really immersed with the family. And for me, it was also such a beautiful experience because Mister REY was a bridge builder. He really was a tulay. He immigrated from the Philippines at a pretty young age, I think late elementary school or middle school, still very much had the identity of the migrant community you know, Tagalog was his first language a lot of his folks, his homies were a lot of recent immigrant hip hop heads and folks from that community. But he was also able to just because there, there is this kind of conception that there's a divide often between immigrant communities and first or second generation Filipino Americans. And it is true to an extent. I've seen it manifest in high schools and on the streets and things like that. But Rey was really able to bridge these differences and connect folks. And so for me, especially someone that grew up in the Midwest, that didn't really grow up around Filipinos, getting to experience living with Mister Rey and his family and living in the Excelsior District, which has the highest concentration of Filipinos in San Francisco, was just such an immersive and beautiful thing and a reconnection to our culture, on so many levels, and I'm already in my, late 20s at the time, and so to go through this experience was really powerful and eye opening. I think it also related to just like what we're fighting for in San Francisco. You know what I mean in the sense of upholding this identity of being a city of multiple languages, a city of multiple classes and incomes. And, and this is what, like, that experience really upheld. At the time I was also doing a lot of work with the Filipino Community Center as a worker's advocate. I was doing some organizing with Migrante, which is a migrant workers organization. And, for all of these kind of different things, from like the organizing work, to my day job, to living with Mister Rey, and being with the Filipino community in the Excelsior, coming together was like one of my favorite periods of my life where I was really understanding more about our culture, our history, our positionality in society and on a local level, on a national level, and on a global level to really understand how politics and history have brought us to America and to really experience it, right? All of these things were super impactful, and I feel like they helped inform and mold what that album, Remittances, was about. And Mister REY was such a huge part of that, right? He was, you know, he wasn't like this crazy political scientist but through his lived experience and his own way of analyzing his life and things he had been through was very sharp and also informing the kind of political influences of this record. So yeah, it was just such a really important time. I don't think I can ever come close to doing something like that again. I just thank him for that year or two that we lived together, embracing me and letting me come into their family life and just being in community with them. His work in terms of, if you visit his catalog of albums, which I highly recommend folks to check out his bandcamp. And it's just Mister REY, M-I-S-T-E-R R-E-Y, check that out and you can hear all of his work. So much like high level art, beat production wise is really sophisticated. He still embraces most of all of his writing and his rapping is in Tagalog. He sprinkles a lot of English in it too but it's just a really beautiful body of work where people in our diaspora can really identify with and just get a lot of nourishment from. So I really suggest folks go check out his catalog. It's really accessible on Bandcamp. Aisa Villarosa: [00:46:40] Nomi, thank you for opening your heart and sharing about what sounded like a really intimate process, right? To make music with someone. And I know the last time I was at Rey's place, he loves his kitchen so I feel like y'all also broke bread, right? Not just making the beats. I was also struck by Rey was such a multi-dimensional advocate, right? Whether it was mental health, whether it was youth issues, right? All of the sort of organizing he did to challenge juvenile curfew laws, for example. You've today brought a track that you worked on with Rey. It's titled “ArtOfficial Freedom” and I'd love for you to cue up the track and just share a little bit about the music. Nomi (Power Struggle): [00:47:31] This was a signature single on the album. It was produced by Mister REY and it also features Mister REY singing the chorus, where he just does a pretty basic refrain where he says, “round and round.” This was like, I feel like for me at least, or many hip hop artists, I think they have that one single on every album that represents the whole album, and I think this is the one. Like I mentioned earlier, around like all the different things that I was doing at the time in terms of community organizing and workers organizing and all the stuff that he was doing, at that time, he was really focusing on mentoring a lot of Tagalog hip hop rappers in the community. And so all these young cats would be at the apartment all the time [laughs], recording in the kitchen. And it was really a lesson for me in Tagalog where I had to like try to learn as much as possible. For all these things to come together, I think are reflected in the song. This song, “ArtOfficial Freedom” is just a great representation of the album. And the title itself is just like a play on words. It spelled art official freedom, to mean that like through art, we can try to aim towards some sense of freedom, some, you know, towards the goal of freedom using art, but then a play of words of artificial freedom that what we are currently existing in and under is an artificial form of freedom. Through this, capitalistic, imperialistic, racist society [laughs]. So that's kind of the play on words, artificial freedom. That was a long time ago. That was like 10 years, no, 14 years ago that we dropped that album. It's great to, I'm glad you're bringing it back on the airwaves. And I just want to give a shout out to also Fatgums, who was the number three part of this record. Lives in LA and is also the CEO of Beatrock Music and Beatrock Art Collective but he was just also a big part of this record. So shout out to Fatgums. Aisa Villarosa: [00:49:25] Here is ArtOfficial Freedom from Mister REY and Power Struggle SONG Aisa Villarosa: [00:53:29] Nomi before we go, is there anything else you'd like to share with the listeners tonight? Nomi (Power Struggle): [00:53:34] When our people leave us in the physical world, there's so many ways that we can continue for them to live on and their legacy to live on, especially through art, and especially through the technologies that exist now. Like I said before, please, check out Mister REY's catalog on Bandcamp, it's just Mister REY, M-I-S-T-E-R R-E-Y and look up his music. He also has a project with MrRey and Aristyles called America is in the Dark. That's a beautiful EP. Please check those things out and promote and propagate them, share them with your friends, download them. It's great music. If I could also please plug, to support his family, Mister Rey leaves behind two twin girls and a young son of the age of nine and their mother. And so if you could please donate to the GoFundMe, if you just look up Reynaldo Novicio, his name will pop up, and any donation is greatly appreciated. Lastly, on March 15th Fifth Elements and Hummingbird Farm is going to be organizing a life celebration, for Mister REY, his creative life and his legacy. It's going to be at Hummingbird Farm, which is in the Excelsior District right by Crocker Park, behind the soccer fields. Check that out on March 15th, 4 to 8 pm. The program is still being crafted, but I guarantee it's going to be a really special time. I think there's going to be some films, there's going to be performances, music, and the space in general, Hummingbird Farm, is a really dope community space that is really people power driven. So please check those things out. And again, just really appreciate this time to share about Mister REY and our work together. Aisa Villarosa: [00:55:14] Thank you, Nomi. And Rey would talk about how the Guitar Center in SoMa was a hub for him early on, and he would just meet people, and you have called Rey a bridge builder. So thank you for being with us here tonight and paying it forward with love. Please check out our website kpfa.org to find out more about Larry The Musical, Mister REY, Power Struggle, and the guests we spoke to. We thank you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world because your voices are important. Apex Express is produced by Aisa Villarosa, Anuj Vaidya, Ayame Keane-Lee, Cheryl Truong, Hien Nguyen, Jalena Keane-Lee, Miko Lee, Nate Tan, Preti Mangala-Shekar, and Swati Rayasam. Tonight's show was produced by Aisa Villarosa and edited by Ayame Keane-Lee. Have a great night. Mga kababayan. Makibaka, huwag matakot. The post APEX Express – 3.14.24 – Living Legacies Larry the Musical appeared first on KPFA.

Today   on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer and Kate Raphael talk to two Israeli spiritually informed Jewish activists and scholars about  what  the role  and effects are  of trauma are in living and growing up in the apartheid state of  Israel  on both their own lives, and the lives of others in Israel/Palestine and how that trauma and the exploitation of that trauma has supported the militaristic and colonialist Zionist state of Israel.  And we discuss  how racism and white supremacy are intrinsically part  of the  colonialist  Zionist project in Israel  from its founding and how healing from trauma is one of the important steps to peace. We talk to Meital Yaniv  who was born in Israel, and is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-ʔívil̃uwenetem Meytémak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luiseño-Payómkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga'yam.yaniv is the author of bloodlines. They make offerings through true name collective. And we talk to Hadar Cohen who  is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She is the founder of Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of God. She cultivated her own curriculum on the cosmology of creation and teaches it through her training God Fellowship. Malchut is also home for her Jewish Mystical School that includes a library of her classes and a community platform for connection. She is a 10th-generation Jerusalemite with lineage roots also in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq and Iran. Hadar consults and teaches on Judaism, multi-faith solidarity, spiritual and political activism and more. Her podcast, Hadar's Web, features community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Hadar coaches and mentors people 1:1 as well as leads and facilitates groups and community gatherings. Hadar weaves the spiritual with the political through performance art, writing, music and ritual.  Hadar can be heard at her substack where she share writings, events and talks for people who want to stay connected https://hadarcohen.substack.com       The post Role of Trauma and need for healing in Israel w two spiritually informed Jewish Israeli activists, and scholars, Meital Yaniv and Hadar Cohen appeared first on KPFA.

Talk It Out Radio: Friday, December 15 at 3:00pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org) Deepening Compassion and Hope: A Conversation About Supporting the Unhoused Population Join Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn with special guest Kristie Fairchild, Executive Director of North Beach Citizens, in a poignant discussion, Deepening Compassion and Hope: A Conversation About Supporting the Unhoused Population. Kristie shares her experience as a longtime community leader supporting critical programs for the unhoused in San Francisco's North Beach and surrounding communities. She outlines critical data and ways to bring compassion and hope to those who are in need of housing security. About Kristie: Kristie Fairchild has served as Executive Director since 2002.  In this position she is tasked with ensuring short and long-range strategies. Throughout her career she has actively participated in local working groups addressing homelessness and poverty issues including the Local Homeless Coordinating Board and recently serving on the ALL HOME Regional Impact Council's Technical Committee. In 2014, San Francisco Commission and Department on the Status of Women in partnership with Mayor Ed Lee and the SF Board of Supervisors celebrated Kristie at a City Hall celebration honoring Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment. In 2014, she was recognized with the National Jefferson Award for Social Impact. Listen live or, after the show, visit the show archives on KPFA, or listen on iTunes. The post Deepening Compassion and Hope: A Conversation About Supporting the Unhoused Population appeared first on KPFA.

Today on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine I will talk to Queer filmmaker Grace Anna Walcott, whose new documentary RIVER OF LIFE LGBTQI+ follows a 10-week drama therapy workshop, with 13 multigenerational queer participants, coming together to unpack internalized queerphobia and the evolution of the LGBTQ+ community and this will be shown locally at the Rialto Cinema in El Cerrito on October 15th as part of the Albany Film Fest . But first Preeti Shekar will talk to Kimberly Alvarenga, the executive director of the California Domestic Workers Coalition or the CDWC about a new domestic workers bill that the CDWC is trying to get passed in California The post Grace Anna Walcott- River of Life LGBTQI+ film, Kimberly Alvarenga from California Domestic Workers Coalition appeared first on KPFA.

The hosts of KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine gather to talk about what ideas they are thinking about, what is feminism to them, and future topics for shows.  Join Women's Magazine's hosts Margo Oakzaya-Rey, Jovelyn Richards, Vylma V and Lisa Dettmer as we gather at the river. The post Discussion with Women's Magazine's Host's appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday at 1pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine I talk to veteran biographer and gay rights activist Martin Duberman who assesses the life and thought of the combative radical feminist in his 2020 biography “Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist Revolutionary.” Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) was among the most controversial figures in the second-wave feminist movement, caricatured by her critics as a man-hating lesbian who believed all heterosexual sex was rape. Duberman, who knew her personally, paints a much more nuanced picture, pointing out that Dworkin lived for 40 years in a nonexclusive, occasionally sexual relationship with a devoted male partner and that she was ahead of her time in seeing gender as a social construct that denied the fluidity of human sexual behavior. His account of Dworkin's childhood and youth depicts a precocious rebel with a deep commitment to social justice and a theatrical, confrontational personality that brooked no compromise or evasions. When she was subjected to a brutal and humiliating vaginal exam after being arrested at a sit-in protesting the Vietnam War, 18-year-old Dworkin wrote to every newspaper in New York City describing her ordeal and the conditions at the Women's House of Detention. It was the beginning of her lifelong battle to make the world face the fact that women were routinely mistreated and abused, culminating in her famous crusade against pornography. Duberman persuasively argues that Dworkin's position was misunderstood as a call for censorship when in fact what she advocated was the right of women who had been harmed by pornography to sue its purveyors—and their obligation to prove their case in court. Her response to free-speech absolutists gives a good sense of both her belligerence and her searching intelligence: “People have no idea how middle-classed and privileged their liberal First Amendment stuff is—how power and money determine who can speak in this society.” These words resonate even more strongly today, and Duberman notes that after years of opprobrium, there is now “a modicum of acknowledgment of Andrea's insistent bravery, her mesmerizing public voice, her generosity of spirit.” The post Women's Magazine July 10, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

The Politics of Aging on Women and The Medicine to Treat It Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn is in conversation with guest, Asara Tsehai, African Medicine Woman, on the politics of aging, the impact on women in society at large, and the medicine to treat it. Asara has worked for decades to support the health & wellness, empowerment, and self-esteem of women, and sees their self-esteem, self-acceptance and joy being undermined by the mental imprisonment of anti-aging propaganda deeply conditioned throughout society.  Asara shines a light on how the second half of life can be the most fulfilling for women. Keep Them Guessing Your Age (myancienttreasure.com). 510-268-1720. Listeners are invited to call in to the show after 7:30 pm (510-848-4425 or 1-800-958-9008) to ask focused questions or provide comments related to the show's topic.  Sunday, June 11 from 7-8 pm KPFA, 94.1 FM. (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org)  OR CATCH Talk It Out Radio after the show airs on the KPFA.org archives or iTunes!   Guest Asara Tsehai Asara Tsehai plans to be fit, fine and fabulous at 100 years old and beyond, and believes that you can too. She believes in redefining and embracing ourselves at any age. As an African Medicine woman and healer for more than forty years, she has supported more than 10,000 women.  At 64 years young, she is living her best life and is a newlywed. Asara facilitates wellness retreats for women in locations held around the world, is a proud Chicago Stepper and recently danced for 30 hours over a period of four days. Asara is the founder of Ancient Treasure, a wellness company for women from 40+ and leads a Whole-body Wellness Reset Course https://wholebodywellnessreset.carrd.co/ Talk It Out Radio: Sunday June 11, 2023, 7:00 pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond) or livestream at kpfa.org. Starting July 7,2023, Talk It Out Radio airs live on Friday afternoons at 3:00 pm -This is a Permanent Change.       The post The Politics of Aging on Women and the Medicine to Treat It appeared first on KPFA.

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.Episode One: Sacred Waters, Returning to Our Natural Flow offers expansive praxis for a calling to calmness, to flowing slowly as we dive into the depths of our dialogue, and our ancestral soul's water baggage.This episode features Somos Semillas collaborators: Nicky & Cat of We Rise Production, and Erika of Sanadora Práctica Creativa.Through multimedia, digital and live productions, We Rise Production challenges audiencesto think critically about the systems that oppress us all, and uses art to inspire active solidarity.We vision for the future with empathy and intellectual rigor. ​We move with ancestors and future generations in mind, knowing that it is our responsibilityto be accountable to our communities. Creative collaboration and storytelling are our methodsfor disseminating knowledge. These offerings are intended to help us remember what colonization tries to erase and to inspire change, big and small, loud and subtle.We ride the cusp of what our ancestors have known and what remains unknown,what has been done in acts of bravery and brilliance, and what we are capable of creating.Catherine Duval Petru aka Cat (she/her) is a queer Jewish cultural producer born & raised in Huchiun, Ohlone land known to many as Oakland, California.Influenced by this land at the epicenter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and the survivor spirit of her paternal grandmother, Cat's pulse beats for our freedom movements. A dancer & pollinator, Cat brings whimsy & focus to supporting artists, educators, organizations, activists & visionaries tell stories that nourish our imaginations for collective liberation.​As co-founder & co-director of We Rise Production, Cat brings her experience as an audio producer (trained at KPFA Radio's community-based First Voice Apprenticeship Program in Berkeley), as well as her knack for writing & passions for accessibility & facilitation, to all her collaborations.NICOLE GERVACIO (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Huchiun, occupied Ohlone territory also known as Oakland, California. Their parents and grandparents immigrated from Luzon and the Bisayan islands. Inspired by bodies and memory, her work explores identity, permanence versus impermanence, and is often driven by a fear of forgetting – a response to the colonization, silencing, and invisiblization of their communities as well as many others under U.S. imperialism. nicole aims to heal the cultural & historical amnesia we inherited from the ongoing violence of colonialism that harms people, beings, and land and has us facing multiple crises today. The responsibility and purpose of being an artist is a dance she navigates by dreaming and creating with ancestors and future generations in mind. nicole has been a collaborator of Liberation Spring since 2016 and is the co-founder and co-director the cultural production collective We Rise - both continue to deepen her work as an artist and activist. NicoleGervacio.comErika Murcia a Poet, and editor. Daughter of Mesoamerican diaspora. Co-author of the anthology Mamahood Sovereignty, a collection of essays on how womxn embody our Creativity. I created the Sanadora Práctica Creativa classroom honoring Native Mesoamerican teachings to support children of the global diaspora's healing journeys through Breastfeeding their Creative Praxis. As a human, I enjoy dancing, hugging trees, and drinking high-quality coffee. Now I walk my talk in Mesoamerica and wherever Earth Mother calls my heart.LINKSEpisode transcript: Coming soon!Sumergirse by La Clave de Sol: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2NvLWNh9sNxdDhnFCkAOQ1?si=ajZr2gDlTga52lQA09NzuA & on IG @la.clave.de.solConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.Connect with Erika Murcia at https://linktr.ee/Mujeryselva

Miko Lee is an activist, storyteller and educator. She believes in the power of story to amplify voices. Miko is lead producer of APEX Express on KPFA Radio focused around AAPI activists and artists. She is Director of Programs for Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality and on the National Advisory Committee of Teaching Artists Guild. Miko's career has been rooted in the nonprofit world, first as a theatre actor, director and writer and then as an artistic director and as an arts education leader.Miko was executive director of Youth in Arts for over a decade and prior to that was Director of Arts and Public Education at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to Teaching Artists Guild, Miko is an artsEquity BIPOC leader and serves on California's Special Education + Arts Working Group and the Public Will Committee of CREATE CA. Miko's extensive background in theatre includes working on shows at Berkeley, Seattle and South Coast Rep, Public Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and many others.Annie Lee is the Director of Policy at Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, CA. In her role, Annie advocates for systemic change that protects workers' and immigrants' rights and promotes language diversity and education equity. CAA is a co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, and Annie develops policy solutions to address discrimination against the AAPI community.Annie previously worked as a Civil Rights Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the National Center for Youth Law, where she specialized in foster youth education rights, special education, and school discipline. Her passion for serving students stems from her experience as an 11th grade United States history teacher in the Bronx. Annie is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Fordham's Graduate School of Education, and the University of Pennsylvania.Chapters is a multi-part series concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations—including civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices that are perpetrated on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.This project was made possible with support from Chapman University and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Guests: Miko Lee and Annie LeeHosts: Jon-Barrett IngelsProduced by: Past Forward

This Monday on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we talk to feminist activist and scholar Bettina Aptheker and we have a special limited number of gift premiums available as an ebook of the new book by scholar and activist Bettina Aptheker which is called “Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s” “Communist in Closets”explores the overlooked and forgotten history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. This history is largely hidden because The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as “degenerates.” It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women's liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. Bettina Aptheker's parents Herbert and Fay Aptheker were both well known communist party members and activists and her father was a well respected historian and scholar of marxism and in particular about African American history. Bettina Aptheker joined the CP as a teenager, and went to college at University of California Berkeley, where she was a leading member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964-65. Later, she was a key member of the defense team for Angela Davis, another Communist Party member active in the black freedom movement, who had been charged by the government with kidnapping and murder. She eventually broke with the CP and, affected by the growing feminist movement, came out as a lesbian. Aptheker has taught in the Feminist Studies department at the University of California Santa Cruz for more than thirty years. photo: Pixabay The post Bettina Aptheker on Communists in Closets appeared first on KPFA.

Growing up in England, Opal Louis Nations was passionate about soul music and followed his calling to perform it amid England's soul and blues scene. In this interview Opal shares the roots of the painful history of gospel music and its evolution through decades of the 20th century to the 1960s. The episode includes rare music from his vast vinyl collection along with Opal's candid and brilliant humor in his short story, The Three Gospel Brushes. In addition to writing, producing, and being a dedicated musical historian, Opal shares his talents as a visual artist (you'll have the visit the web site to see those!). Opal's latest effort is co-producing the film How They Got Over, which is commanding new attention in 2021 for its historical portrayal about the rise of shout gospel.Opal Louis Nations was born in Brighton, England. During the mid-sixties he worked as lead vocalist in London clubs with the late Alexis Korner's Band and later his own group, The Frays. He helped popularize American soul-based R & B and gospel music in Great Britain. It was through his efforts that black American gospel artists visited England to perform in various major cities. He also became part of one of England's first integrated gospel groups, The Ram John Holder Group. With The Frays and later as a soloist, he recorded for Decca Records in London. In 1968, he turned his back on singing and began a career as an experimental fiction writer of sometimes strange, sometimes humorous works that have appeared in over 600 small press magazines worldwide. Opal launched a literary magazine, Strange Faeces, which featured experimental poetry, fiction and art by fresh young poets and writers and was published by Opal from 1970-1981. Opal's fiction has won him The Perpetua and Pushcart Prizes and some of his sound-poems have been included in the T.V. series “Man and His Music,” hosted by Yehudi Menuhin. Opal moved to San Francisco, California in 1973 and to Oakland, CA in 1981 after living in Canada and on the East Coast. He was a host of R&B / Gospel shows for KPFA Radio as well as the world music program, “Harmonia Mundi.” Opal is an avid collector of historical music and memorabilia. His vast record collection includes R&B, gospel, soul, rock & pop, world music and rockabilly music. He's also an incredible artist!

As with all specially designated months, we get to celebrate being queer year round. That said, happy pride friends! And happy belated summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.In December of 2021, just before the Winter Solstice, cat & nicky got to sit down (virtually) with KPFA Radio's First Voice Apprentice & Full Circle producer Sentient Shiloh AKA DJ Loh to reflect on lessons received in the first two years of global pandemic as queer, community-centered creatives.From roots to relationships, and slowing down to dispelling gaslighting, nicky & cat pause, listen, and share a bit about how we've navigated these challenging, painful, and deeply transformational times.In honor of this Pride & solstice season, and because it feels poignant to share this content now, here is our conversation with Shiloh.You can hear other queer artists & educators on the Full Circle show (link in show notes). Thank you again to Shiloh for inviting us to share in the power of reflections. If you're moved to share, we'd love to hear from you. Find us on social media or email us at WeRiseProducers@gmail.com.FULL CIRCLE LINKhttps://kpfaapprent.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/full-circle-03-18-2022-part-1-rona-reflections-queer-resilience/

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is an author, Zen priest, teacher, divine seer, artist, and Drum medicine woman. Her work has been featured in Essence Magazine, CNN, CBS NEWS, KPFA Radio, Buddhadharma, and Lion's Roar. She holds a M.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning from California Institute of Integral Studies. She spoke to me from Green Gulch Farm, a Zen practice center within the San Francisco Zen Center. She is the author of “Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging,” out now from Wisdom Publications. You can find her online at Zenju.org, where she has three episodes published of her own podcast, Teachings of the Hollow Bones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is an author, Zen priest, teacher, divine seer, artist, and Drum medicine woman. Her work has been featured in Essence Magazine, CNN, CBS NEWS, KPFA Radio, Buddhadharma, and Lion's Roar. She holds a M.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning from California Institute of Integral Studies. She spoke to me from Green Gulch Farm, a Zen practice center within the San Francisco Zen Center. She is the author of “Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging,” out now from Wisdom Publications. You can find her online at Zenju.org, where she has three episodes published of her own podcast, Teachings of the Hollow Bones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is an author, Zen priest, teacher, divine seer, artist, and Drum medicine woman. Her work has been featured in Essence Magazine, CNN, CBS NEWS, KPFA Radio, Buddhadharma, and Lion's Roar. She holds a M.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning from California Institute of Integral Studies. She spoke to me from Green Gulch Farm, a Zen practice center within the San Francisco Zen Center. She is the author of “Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging,” out now from Wisdom Publications. You can find her online at Zenju.org, where she has three episodes published of her own podcast, Teachings of the Hollow Bones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation Written & Performed by Austin Rich. https://ia601502.us.archive.org/28/items/20210813-1030-radio-zine/20210813%201030%20Radio%20Zine.mp3   Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”   Musical Selections (usually in excerpt): [untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981) The Tale of the […]

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation Written & Performed by Austin Rich. https://ia601505.us.archive.org/6/items/20210514-1030-radio-zine-006/20210514%201030%20Radio%20Zine%20006.mp3   Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”   Musical Selections (usually in excerpt): [untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981) The Tale of the […]

Episode 39   Bonus Tracks from the Archives   Playlist Steve Birchall, “Summer Memories” from Reality Gates (1973 Poseidon Electronic Music Studio). Self-produced and distributed. EMS VCS-3, Eventide Clockworks Instant Phaser, EMT Reverb, Cooper Time Cube delay, Steve Birchall. 10:37. Not used in episode 38, Before “New Age” Music. Paul Bley, “Improvisie” from Improvisie, 1971. ARP 2500 synthesizer and RMI electric piano, Paul Bley; Voice, Piano, Electric Piano, Annette Peacock; Percussion, Han Bennink. 13:52. Not used in episode 15, Electronic Jazz, Part 3: Early Synthesizer Jazz. John Cage, David Tudor, “Duet For Cymbal” from John Cage, David Tudor, Christian Wolff ‎– San Francisco Museum Of Art, January 16th, 1965. Historic concert of live electronic music recorded by KPFA Radio.at San Francisco Museum of Art. "Duet for cymbal" was performed on a single cymbal with contact microphones agitated by a wide gamut of objects. 9:34. Not used in episode 12, David Tudor: From piano to electronics. Walter De Maria, “Ocean Music,” 1968, privately released. 20:30. Not used in episode 13, Electronic Jazz, Part 1: Before the Synthesizer. Toshiro Mayuzumi, “Mandara” for electronic sounds and voices (1969, Philips). 10:21. Not used in episode 16, Vintage Electronic Music from Japan, Part 1. Jacqueline Nova, “Creación De La Tierra” from Bertola / Nova / Orellana–Tres Composiciones Electroacusticas (1976 Tacuabé). Tape composition, Jacqueline Nova. Creación de la tierra (composed 1972) realized in the Studio of fonologia de la Universidad nacionál de Buenos Aires. 18:22. Not used in episode 5, Seeing and Touching Sound—Music for Magnetic Tape. Eliane Radigue, “Triptych 1” from Triptych (1978 Important RE). ARP 2500 Synthesizer, Eliane Radigue. Recorded in the composer's studio in Paris. Commissioned by Douglas Dunn for choreography. Only this part of Triptych was staged at the premiere at the Dancehall/Theatre of Nancy on February 27, 1978. 17:33. Not used in episode 5, Seeing and Touching Sound—Music for Magnetic Tape. Miki Yui, “Whisper” from the album Small Sounds (1999 BMB). Electronics, Miki Yui. “Small sounds are to merge and fuse with your acoustic environment - please play in a transparent level; in different atmosphere.” Composed and recorded in Cologne, Germany. 3:12. Not used in episode 5, Seeing and Touching Sound—Music for Magnetic Tape. Madelyn Byrne, “Winter” from Lesbian American Composers (CRI 1998). Electro-acoustic composition by Madelyn Byrne. 7:37. Not used in episode 5, Seeing and Touching Sound—Music for Magnetic Tape. Barney Wilen, “Auto Jazz: The Tragic Destiny of Lorenzo Bandini,” part 1, 1968. 5:37. Not used in episode 13, Electronic Jazz, Part 1: Before the Synthesizer. Bass, Beb Guérin; Drums,Eddy Gaumont; Piano, François Tusques; Saxophone, Barney Wilen. Soundtrack of race cars recorded at the Grand Prix de Monaco, May 7, 1967 by Barney Wilen. Opening music: Ian Boddy, “Vox Lumina” from Aurora (2002 DiN). Composed, produced, played by Ian Boddy using: Software Instruments (Logic, Metasynth, Pluggo, Absynth, Reaktor, EVP88), Analogue synthesizers (VCS3, Roland 100M, Doepfer A100, Analogue Solutions, Analogue Systems), Sounds (Radio), Digital synthesizers (Roland JD990, Roland D550, Roland JP8000), Akai S6000 Digital Sampler. Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes.  

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Episode 12   David Tudor: From piano to electronics   The transition of a pianist to electronic music   David Tudor (1926-1996)   In which we listen to works created while Tudor transitioned from playing piano to composing works for homemade electronics.   Playlist Bo Nilsson, Quantitäten (1958), for “electronically fortified” piano. Recording from Swedish Radio made in 1960. This is an abbreviated performance of the work made for Swedish Radio. John Cage, Cartridge Music (1960). For amplified small sounds; also amplified piano or cymbal; any number of players and loudspeakers; parts to be prepared from score by performers. Recording by John Cage and David Tudor, Time Records (1963). John Cage, Variations II (1961), Parts to be prepared from the score, for any number of players, using any sound-producing means. Piano and electronics by David Tudor. Recorded in Japan in 1962. Christian Wolff, For 1, 2, or 3 People (1964), Piano by David Tudor. Recorded live by KPFA Radio in 1965 at the San Francisco Museum of Art. David Tudor, Bandoneon ! (A Combine) (1966), for bandoneon and live electronics. Recorded live in October 1966 at E.A.T.'s at Nine Evenings: Theatre and Engineering. From the collection, The Art of David Tudor released by New World Records and Radio Bremen.   The Archive Mix in which I conclude the podcast by playing two additional tracks at the same time, to see what happens. This time, I am once again drawing up David Tudor and John Cage from the Folkways recording in 1959 of the lecture Indeterminacy. John Cage and David Tudor, Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music, the first three minutes of the lecture recorded in 1959 for Folkways Records. John Cage and David Tudor, Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music, the last three minutes of the lecture recorded in 1959 for Folkways Records.   Read my book: Electronic and Experimental Music (sixth edition), by Thom Holmes (Routledge 2020).   Contact Composers Inside Electronics, c/o John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein, longtime Tudor associates beginning in the 1970s for a history of the group and updates about their ongoing activities.   Read You Nakai's new book about Tudor: Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music(Oxford 2020)   Full disclosure: I work for Oxford University Press by day, although not in the trade book division that has published You Nakai's new book.

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation Written & Performed by Austin Rich. https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/20200720-0900-radio-zine-006/20200720%200900%20Radio%20Zine%20006.mp3   Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”   Musical Selections (usually in excerpt): [untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981) The Tale of the […]

  Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, September 13, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or live stream at kpfa.org ):   The Gift of Deep Listening During Difficult Times Host Nancy Kahn holds a show for the community, inviting listeners to call in and share feelings and to connect to their needs about all that is going on in our country. She offers empathy, care and reflections to listeners impacted by the fires, pandemic, political climate in a highly racialized world. If you are a parent going through the challenges of online learning with your children, someone who is displaced because of the fires, if you are worrying about your friends or family members during this time, experiencing anti-blackness or racism in your workplace, if you are struggling with feeling blue, addiction, or your mental wellness, call in and be heard with empathy and compassion. Listeners are invited to call in to the show (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510 848 4425) to participate in this conversation.       A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences. The post The Gift of Deep Listening During Difficult Times appeared first on KPFA.

Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, August 16, 2020 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org):   A Nonviolent Approach to Addiction and Recovery- A Two-Part Series According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 19.7 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2017. Substance use addiction impacts an individual's life and their families. Host Nancy Kahn interviews expert guest, Kelvin Luster, Associate Director of Baker Places, to hear his personal story, professional perspective on addiction and recovery and strategies for identifying the signs of addiction along with tips for supporting someone in recovery. We address the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on addiction and recovery.  Nancy and Kelvin examine how compassion and empathy are integral to healing and recovery, and the ways to own clear boundaries. This is the second segment of our two-part series; the first part airs on July 26, 2020 and can be found in our archives. Call 1-800 -958 -9008 to join the conversation about the role of compassion and empathy in recovery, and your challenges and celebrations with addiction and recovery.   About Kelvin Luster   Kelvin Luster is a Bay Area native tried and true. Born in San Francisco on day one, day two, raised in the trifecta of the East Bay, namely Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond by a hard working single mother and his sister.  Kelvin grew up in the budding “heyday” of all three cities. In his teens, and referring to himself as a “back of the bus kid”,  that's where all the action was, Kelvin was exposed to things he may have not needed to see so early on. That is where he learned first rate street action; It was all educational. But Kelvin was fortunate. He had interests. He liked to write. Landing a major label recording deal, doing voice over work on a Grammy winning album, and production work for various up and coming Bay Area artists, Kelvin was on FIRE!!! Then tragedy struck in his family and Kelvin turned to street drugs for relief. And just like  that, it all disappeared! Now with 13 years sobriety under his belt, Kelvin gives back to others as it was given to him. He says, “It was not easy, but nothing worth having ever is”.   The post A Nonviolent Approach to Addiction and Recovery-Part II appeared first on KPFA.

  Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, July 26, 2020 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org): A Nonviolent Approach to Addiction and Recovery (A Two-Part Series) Part I: Compassion, Empathy and Knowledge According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 19.7 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2017. Substance use addiction impacts an individual's life and the lives of their family members. Host Nancy Kahn interviews expert guest, Kelvin Luster, Assistant Director of Baker Places, and hears his personal story and professional perspective on addiction and recovery. We address the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on addiction and recovery and examine how compassion, empathy and knowledge support the stages of healing and recovery. We discuss when setting clear boundaries is critical to recovery. This is the first segment of a two-part series; the second part airs August 16, 2020.Kelvin photo   About Kelvin Luster Kelvin Luster is a Bay Area native tried and true. Born in San Francisco on day one, day two, raised in the trifecta of the East Bay, namely Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond by a hard working single mother and his sister.  Kelvin grew up in the budding “heyday” of all three cities. In his teens, and referring to himself as a “back of the bus kid”,  that's where all the action was, Kelvin was exposed to things he may have not needed to see so early on. That is where he learned first rate street action; It was all educational. But Kelvin was fortunate. He had interests. He liked to write. Landing a major label recording deal, doing voice over work on a Grammy winning album, and production work for various up and coming Bay Area artists, Kelvin was on FIRE!!! Then tragedy struck in his family and Kelvin turned to street drugs for relief. And just like  that, it all disappeared! Now with 13 years sobriety under his belt, Kelvin now gives back to others as it was given to him. It was not easy, but nothing worth having ever is. Listeners are invited to call in to the show beginning at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 1-510-848-4425 ) to participate in this conversation. Listen live or, after the show airs, visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes.   The post A Nonviolent Approach to Addiction and Recovery: Part I: Compassion, Empathy and Knowledge appeared first on KPFA.

Today at 1-2pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we discuss violence against black women and girls and in addition violence against black women by police with Janelle White, Executive Director of San Francisco Women Against Rape and author and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie. And we will also talk to Regina Y. Evans who is creating art installations on Oakland'[s International Blvd in response to the enormous amount of sex trafficking that proliferates there. Due to technical difficulties The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards will air at a later date. The post Womens Magazine – July 20, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation Written & Performed by Austin Rich. https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/20200720-0900-radio-zine-006/20200720%200900%20Radio%20Zine%20006.mp3   Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”   Musical Selections (usually in excerpt): [untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981) The Tale of the […]

 Today at 1-2pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we discuss violence against black women and girls and in addition violence against black women by police with Janelle White, Executive Director of San Francisco Women Against Rape and author and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie. And we will also talk to Regina Y. Evans who is creating art installations on Oakland'[s International Blvd in response to the enormous amount of sex trafficking that proliferates there. The post July 13, 2020: Talking about Violence against Black Women and Girls appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday from 1-2pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine at 94.1FM and streaming and archived online at kpfa.org: As we demonstrate against the wide spread racism in this country we can not forget about the racism in sports where Black women athletes often experience the worst of misogyny mixed with racism. In our first segment, Kate Raphael talks with Dr. Joan Steidinger, author of , about struggles for equality of women and equality among women in sports. And next we look at the up to 20% rise in domestic violence during the Covid Pandemic. While the situation is horrific for all domestic violence survivors, accessing help can be particularly challenging for immigrants, including the large South Asian population in the south bay, specifically in Silicon Valley, where many women, many whom are privileged and economically independent, have no support system, are far from their families, and are not accustomed to calling the police to complain of their husbands, or accessing legal systems. Preeti Mangala Shekar talks to two women from local domestic violence groups that serve the south asian community; Zakia Afrin who manages the Helpline, Peer Counseling, Immigration Assistance and Legal Advocacy programs at Maitri in San Jose. and Bindu OOmmen Fernandes from Narika which also continues. to offer counseling, safety planning legal and shelter referrals and support groups via phone during the crisis. The post Womens Magazine – June 8, 2020 – Racism and Black Women Athletes; The Rise in Domestic Violence amidst Covid-19 Pandemic appeared first on KPFA.

In an interview with KPFA Radio’s, Back in August, 2016, Dr. Lako Tongun Joins Host, Walter Turner to Discuss Current Events in the Republic of South Sudan.

Monday May 11th, in the third month of this pandemic, KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine brings you the voices of people who are responding to this pandemic with both healing and vital information. One such local Organization we are blessed to help support us in these trying times is Thrive East Bay which is a new kind of community offering a space for diverse people seeking meaning and connection. Thrive combines ancient wisdom and modern thought to address our secular and spiritual cultures need for purpose and interconnectedness, thru art, music, and a focus on social change. We will talk to one of Thrive East Bay's founding members, Aryeh Shell in the second half of our show. In the first half hour, as part of our on going series From Moana Nui to California; Indigenous Stories of Land hosted by Dr Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, we present part of an ongoing panel discussion presented by Sogorea Te Land Trust, called the “Seeding Hope Speaker Series” featuring some of the organizers, cultural workers, farmers, activists, matriarchs, scholars, youth, and elders whose work gives us inspiration. They talk to Dr. Kalamaoka'aina Niheu, MD, a Kanaka Maoli/ Native Hawaiin physician, co-founder of the Standing Rock Medic Healer's Council, and Manua Kea Medics and Dr. Rupa Mayra, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition in conversation about their front-line, Covid-19 pandemic work with Bay Area and Indigenous communities. In addition, these experts will talk about the importance of environmental, climate and land justice and honoring Indigenous cultural practices for creating health and wellness and they offer directions that can help us to reimagine health and wellness through practices of Indigenous self–determination for our families and communities. Cultural Song offering by Aurora Mamea. The post Womens Magazine – May 11, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday March 23rd at 1pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer speaks with three pre-eminent Feminist activist scholars: Margo Okazawa-Rey, Paola Bacchetta, and Gwyn Kirk who provide an overview of contemporary intersectional and transnational feminism with a special attention to issues of race, class, sexuality and coloniality. They discuss feminism's importance in their lives and work, the importance of having an analysis of power, and they also address some of the myths and stereotypes prevalent among many about what feminism looks like. Paola Bacchetta is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California at Berkeley, and a globally renowned feminist, lesbian and Queer of Color scholar and activist. She has published six books and over 60 professional articles in English and many different languages. She has been active in decolonial, anti-capitalist, pro-immigration, anti-racism feminist and Queer of color movements in the U.S., India, France and Italy. Margo Okazawa-Rey is an activist and educator working on issues of militarism, armed conflict, and violence against Women examined intersectionally. She has long-standing activist commitments in South Korea and has been associated with the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling in Palestine. Gwyn Kirk is a scholar-activist concerned with genuine security and creating a sustainable world. She has taught Women's and gender studies at U.S. colleges and universities for 30 years. She publishes a textbook/anthology, Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives co-edited with Margo Okazawa-Rey and has written widely on eco-feminism, militarism, and women's peace organizing.   The post Womens Magazine – March 23, 2020 – Intersectional and Transnational Feminism appeared first on KPFA.

Today, Mitch Jeserich talks about Guantanamo Bay with Peter Jan Honigsberg, a professor at the university of San Francisco School of Law, founder and director of Witness to Guantanamo. His latest book is called A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo.   KPFA Event with PETER JAN HONIGSBERG A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices From Guantanamo with Steve Wasserman Tuesday, February 4, 7:30 PM Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com ::T: 800-838-3006  or Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe's, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs.Dalloway's Books $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events   The post Guantanamo Bay and the Presidential War Power appeared first on KPFA.

“Can We All Just Get Along?”, how Rodney King's question can serve as personal invitation for all in 2020   Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, December 29, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or live stream at kpfa.org): Host Nancy Kahn shares tools for getting along with others. She explores connection and compassion as human needs/values we can choose to attend to with others in any given moment and the range of ways to do this. She reflects on the question posed by Rodney King “Can we all just get along?”, and shares her experience as a communications coach over the past twenty years, and highlights the importance of building the skill set to get along. She covers practices and tools for experiencing connection, peace and compassion in our conversations and relationships at home and at work. Listeners are invited to call in to the show beginning at 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation.     Talk It Radio is a “a how-to and what-to-do” program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication around topics related to social justice and our society. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower each of us to connect across differences. The post “Can We All Just Get Along?,” Rodney King's Question, a Personal Invitation for 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

​Host Nancy Kahn ​is joined by Dr. Barbara Morrill who presents Part II of our series on the life of​ ​Etty Hillesum​. Etty was a ​young Dutch Jewish woman of twenty-seven, ​who ​found an inner path to liberation, and ‘union with the ground of her being' in the face of the horror of her times, the Nazi genocide sweeping across Europe, which ultimately engulfed Etty and her family in late 1943.  The life of Etty Hillesum moved from chaotic family dysfunction, to the healing of her own inner distress, depression, mood swings and somatic complaints, toward a vast inner life of spaciousness and presence, even with the awareness of the Nazi ​​horrors that awaited European Jewry.  Her mode of resistance was journal writing, and contributing to others, and as Denise de Costa says, ‘It was with her pen, rather than with her sword that she battled to save humanity.' (de Costa, 1998​). Dr. Morrill​ explores aspects of Etty Hillesum's process of transcending the ​​hate ​of​ her time, by “reposing in herself” which may be seen as a model for engaging the seemingly ubiquitous rise of nationalism, neo-facism or ​neol​iberalism throughout much of Europe and the United States in our time, and in a broader sense, the tension that exists between democratic and fascist principles, or open and closed systems in all times. ​   Listen live on Sunday, 1​1/17​, at 7 pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond) or visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes. Barbara Morrill, PhD, is core faculty and former chair of the Integral Counseling Psychology Program at The California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in CA, and has been in private practice in Palo Alto for 28 years. Barbara has spent much of her life exploring women's social, psychological, and spiritual development, with an emphasis on intergenerational trauma. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled: Quest for Wholeness; The Individuation Process of Seven African American Women. Barbara's study of Etty Hillesum began in 2000, culminating with a presentation at the 2008 International Transpersonal Congress, New Delhi, India, entitled Being in the Face of Annihilation: Transformation Through Writing as Inquiry in the lives of two Dutch Women During the Holocaust: Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Jetteke Frijda (1925-present). Her continued study has been about the Evolution of Consciousness as well as a spiritual practitioner with The Diamond Approach with A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson for 14 years. She presented on Unfolding Toward Being; Etty Hillesum and the Evolution of Consciousness in January, 2014 at the Second International Congress of the Etty Hillesum Research Center at Ghent University in Belgium.  This was published in the on-line Journal, Integral Review in 2015.  Barbara presented at the Third International Congress in September, 2018 in Middelburg, Holland: The Contours of These Times; Etty Hillesum as Chronicler of Love Transcending Hate in Her Times, for Our Time, For All Time. This article will be published in a book entitled: The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's Writings in November 2019 published by the Amsterdam University Press. Her Masters work was done at Boston College and Doctoral work at the former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, now Sofia University. The post Dr. Barbara Morrill presents: Etty Hillesum – Her Times, Our Times and All Times; Inner and Outer Resistance in the Face of Dehumanization and Genocide appeared first on KPFA.

Today at 1pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine at 94.1FM or online at kpfa.org Akemi Johnson gives us a close up view of what is happening in the border towns of military bases in places like Okinawa, Japan with book released in June 2019 Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U. S. Military Bases in Okinawa TV & Screenwriter and Producer Rebecca Sonnenshine tells us how having a seat at the writing table for network series and films, as a woman, is changing the way stories are told. Somali American women in Minnesota offer support for Representative Ilhan Omar, as she is continually bullied and mischaracterized by the president. Betty Reid Soskin, America's oldest park ranger turns 98 this week, just in time for the launch of the documentary featuring her life called, ‘Before it's too late' The post Akemi Johnson, Rebecca Sonnenshine, Somali American Women in Minn. and Betty Reid Soskin appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday from 1-2pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we talk to Mordecai Ettinger, founding director of the Health Justice Commons. The Health Justice Commons works at the intersection of raciai, economic, gender, disabilty and environmental justice to help marginalized communities to re-imagine and re-design health care and healing.   Health Justice provide training and consultation to engage in healing justice, movement building, and incubate community-driven solutions which generate health abundance and alleviate the devastating health burden of social injustice and environmental racism. HJC helps create community by providing online popular education  classes on Understanding and Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex and Medical Advocacy for all to know their rights andfor healers and activists among other classes and they are launching  a national Medical Abuse Hotline to expose how common medical abuse is.     Mordecai Ettinger has 20 years of experience as a social justice  activist and organizer holistic scholar, radical scholar, and educator including having co-founded the TGI Justice Project and served as an Interim Co-Director at Justice Now.  He is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.  His field is critical science, technology, and medicine studies and his  research spans environmental health and toxicology,  the workings of the Medical Industrial Complex, to the neurobiology of the social nervous system, and its implications with regard to collective and historical trauma, healing, resilience and social change. Schooled by years of movement work, and trained in Somatic Experiencing, Reiki, and Cranial Sacral therapy, he has studied with Dr. Peter Levine, biophysicist and founder of Somatic Experiencing and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. He is the author of the forthcoming book, We All Hold Up the Sky: Lessons in Health Justice for the 21st Century, both then recommneded if a similar research is conducted we should buy research peptides online to get the quality. Finally, Mordecai is gender non-binary queer.. He is a survivor of radiation poisoning and what is designated by the UN to be medical torture. He's here for transforming the Medical Industrial Complex for our futures to be possible The post Health Justice Commons appeared first on KPFA.

What do the resistance of soldiers in Vietnam, the death of Ho Chi Minh, the film Easy Rider, and future Trump-fixer Roy Cohn's defense of Joseph McCarthy have in common with each other? Among other things, they all took place in 1969 — and the voices of the participants were all captured by KPFA Radio and its sister stations. The post Fund Drive Special: Voices from 1969 appeared first on KPFA.

Shirah Dedman dropped out of high school at the age of 15-years-old and became a licensed attorney by 23. She found herself consistently un/under-employed despite her advanced education. But through perseverance, she built a film and legal career that included positions at William Morris Agency, DirecTV and Paramount Pictures. But after her last layoff, she decided it was time to pursue her true passion: unveiling stories at the intersection of economics, race and the environment. Shirah is an Associate of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and formerly an Associate of the Equal Justice Initiative. In March 2019, KPFA Radio listener-members elected her to the Local Station Board. To check out some of her work click HERE Check out the short documentary Uprooted, The story of Shirah's Great Grandfather's lynching. You can check me out on my website at ljeffreymoore.com Music Featured on the Show: Intro I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque Outro The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/l-jeffrey-moore/support

Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, June 23, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org) Inviting the Whole Self In Host Nancy Kahn interviews Dr. Alzak Amlani. Alzak addresses the complexity, joy and challenges of embodying our wholeness.  He offers perspectives, skills and tools to facilitate this inner journey. Moving towards wholeness means coming into more intimate relationship with various dimensions of ourselves. This includes our personality, body and gender, soul-nature, dreams and aspirations, sexuality and racial-ethnic aspects.  Making the unconscious conscious is a meaningful and expansive endeavor. It is also arduous and at times scary. Waking up to our whole self challenges how we see ourselves and who we think we are. Some parts of us are strong and liberate us and and other parts are hurt and afraid.  Coming into relationship with all of who we are requires a kind and curious space.  This invites more of us to be known and integrated. Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 1-510-848-4425 ) to participate in this conversation. Dr. Alzak Amlani, Ph.D. is a depth psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997.  His psychotherapy approach integrates humanistic, Jungian, psychoanalytic, and transpersonal perspectives to support growth and transformation for the whole person—mind, body, spirit. He works with individuals and couples.  Dr. Amlani is on the core faculty of Integral Counseling Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, since 2007. He teaches clinical psychology courses for students training to become licensed psychotherapists.  Some courses include: Transpersonal Psychotherapy; Clinical Relationship; Integrative Seminar; Inquiry into True Nature—exploring body, personality and the soul; Multi-cultural Counseling; and the Enneagram of Personality and Soul. The post Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, June 23, 7:00 pm Inviting the Whole Self In appeared first on KPFA.

We discuss the legal issues surrounding the circumstances of Julian Assange with Karen Greenberg.  Assange was arrested in London last week, he could face extradition to the United States. Guest: Karen J. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and the author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.  Then, we celebrate the 70th Anniversary of KPFA  Radio!!! Source: Flicker -Free Assange by John Englar The post The Legal Aspects of Julian Assange's Arrest. Then, A Celebration of KPFA's 70th Anniversary appeared first on KPFA.

Monday February 25th KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine offers a premium for fund driveyou don't want to miss.    A Great Ride which was just featured at Frameline this year, looks at the lives of local older lesbians—the lesbian feminist Icon, Sally Gearhart, activist, Brenda Crawford, and several women who live in an LGBTQ-friendly retirement community in Santa Rosa—all who are aging with dynamism and zest for life, determination, and humor.  We will be talking with A Great Ride director Deborah Craig about her documentary, which is both inspiring and funny and not to be missed. And we talk with well known Socialist Feminist author and activist Professor Zillah Eisenstein about what has happened with socialist feminism. Is it still alive and well or has it disappeared or merely changed since the heady days of the 1970's. The post Womens Magazine – February 25, 2019 – Film: A Great Ride appeared first on KPFA.

Somatic Approaches to Social Justice and Empathic Leadership   A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences. To listen after the program airs, use the following link:https://kpfa.org/episode/talk-it-out-radio-february-10-2019/ ​ ​Talk It Out Radio: Sunday, February 10, 7 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond) or livestream at kpfa.org: Somatic Approaches to Social Justice and Empathic Leadership Host Nancy Kahn talks with guest Kelsey Blackwell, a writer, embodiment facilitator, and coach specializing in wellness, racial justice, mindfulness, meditation, and natural living. Nancy and Kelsey discuss how they view embodiment practices as essential to the important work of Nonviolent Communication, Social Justice and Movement Building. Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (510-848-4425 or 1800-958-9008) to ask focused questions or provide comments related to the show's topic. That's Sunday, February 10, at 7pm on KPFA 94.1 FM. If you miss the live show, listen on the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or on iTunes. Nancy Kahn has more than 20 years experience as a skilled facilitator, consultant and mediator in Nonviolent Communication Across Differences in organizations and with private clients. Kelsey Blackwell is a body intellectual, writer and dancer who works at the intersections of spiritual practice, social justice and creative expression. As an embodiment facilitator, Kelsey offers mindfulness and embodiment practices for exploring power and privilege. Kelsey teaches the class InterPlay for Artists, Activists and Dabblers in Oakland, California, which offers body-wise tools for more expression, health and resiliency. She holds an MS in Magazine Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Follow her on her blog: themarvelouscrumb.com. The post Talk-It-Out Radio – February 10, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

Monday  on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we talk to Lenn Keller and Pippa Fleming about the upcoming Bay Area Lesbian Archives event at La Pena on February 17th to celebrate the Black Lesbian magazine and organization Ache and its role in the community in the 80's and 90's..  And We talk to Buddhist Nun and healer Kathleen Gustin about how to find peace while dealing with life changing transitions.   The post Conscious Dying and Bay Area Lesbian Archives appeared first on KPFA.

  Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, December 30, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org): Have you found yourself frustrated and horrified reading media statements like ” President Trump blames Democrats over deaths of Migrant Children in US Custody?”. Were you outraged when you heard that President Trump's tweeted his support for Brett Kavanaugh, who allegedly tried to rape Christine Blasey Ford in the 1980's and stated ” I have no doubt that if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents, Trump tweeted, blaming the victim of a sexual crime for not speaking up sooner. He was quoted as saying ” I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn the date, time and place!”  Have you felt troubled when you hear co-workers or management blame individuals based on their own personal bias or subjective evaluation for issues you believe are far more complicated because of the reality that most workplaces are not free of racial, class or gender inequality? Do you find yourself on the receiving end of blame in your primary partnership, or within core relationships in your family?  Talk it Out Radio host and co-producer, Nancy Kahn, examines the role of blame across different philosophical perspectives. Nancy, has 20 years experience as facilitator, consultant, trainer, mediator and practitioner of Nonviolent Communication Across Differences, shares practices that empower people to transform blame into opportunities for understanding, authentic self expression, empathic connection, dignity, inclusion and heightened awareness across social justice issues. Listen live or, after the show airs, visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes. The post Examining the Role of Blame In Communication and Within Our Society; Building Practices To Move Beyond Blame appeared first on KPFA.

The Art of Mindful Communication: Living Your Values In these extraordinarily polarized times, what would it be like if people could truly hear others and speak their minds in a clear, kind way, without becoming defensive or going on the attack? Join Talk It Out Radio's host and Oren Jay Sofer, meditation teacher and communication trainer, the author of a new book, “Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.” for an engaging conversation about Oren's work and new book. Oren's book is the first to synthesize mindfulness, somatic practices and Nonviolent Communication into simple, yet powerful exercises for healthier, more effective, and satisfying conversation. Whether it's navigating a political divide with a friend or relative, managing conflicts at work, or strengthening bonds at home—communicating effectively is what makes or breaks our relationships. Say What You Mean offers a clear method, concrete practices, and the vocabulary needed to have meaningful conversations that bring people together. Oren Jay Sofer teaches meditation and communication nationally. A member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, he holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University, is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, Senior Program Developer at Mindful Schools, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for trauma healing. Oren is the author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication. Learn more at www.OrenJaySofer.com. Listeners are invited to call in after 7:30 pm at 1-800-958-9008 to ask Oren questions about his integrative approach and new book. Listen live on Sunday, 12/9 at 7:00 pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond) or visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out radio or iTunes. To listen to the show after it airs: https://kpfa.org/episode/talk-it-out-radio-december-9-2018     Talk It Out Radio, KPFA Radio, 94.1 FM, Sunday Nights at 7:00 PM A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? Skilled practitioners  and facilitators in Nonviolent Communication, Mindfulness and Social Justice Leadership explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences. The post The Art of Mindful Communication: Living Your Values Talk-It-Out Radio – December 9, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, and Sputnik News analyst and producer Walter Smolarek.It’s the day before Thanksgiving and much of official Washington is closed. New members of Congress have been sworn in and have returned home to their families. But the rest of the world hasn’t come to a stop. The hosts take a look at this week’s major stories. Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and producers Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek join the show. We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Native Americans welcomed newly arrived pilgrims, showed them how to hunt and forage for food, and the two groups celebrated and gave thanks. But that’s a lie. The first mention of Thanksgiving came in 1627, six years after the Wampanoag tribe helped the pilgrims, and immediately after those same pilgrims massacred an entire Piquot village and celebrated their so-called victory. So what does Thanksgiving mean to Native Americans? Brian and John speak with Andrea Carmen, executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council, which is hosting their annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island tomorrow, broadcast on KPFA Radio at 6am Pacific. President Trump broke with his own Intelligence Community yesterday when he said that the CIA did not have a smoking gun proving that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman ordered the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. A CIA analytic report said that MBS did indeed order the hit. The President’s statement exposed a rift in his administration over how to handle the fallout. Professor Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran, joins the show. The EU Commission this morning again rejected Italy’s budget for 2019, paving the way for financial sanctions to be imposed in the coming months. The Commission Vice President said that the budget is in “serious non-compliance with EU rules” and could lead to political instability and as much as $4 billion in fines. Sputnik News analyst Walter Smolarek joins Brian and John. The Ohio House of Representatives has passed a bill — and the State Senate is considering it — that would ban abortions after just six weeks gestation. Another bill being proposed in Ohio would open up the death penalty as a possible sentence for an abortion. Jane Cutter, the editor of LiberationNews.org, joins the show.The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Brian Griffiths, arrived in the capital Sana’a today in a renewed push to get the various sides in the war there around a negotiating table. Griffiths has convinced the government and the Houthi rebels to agree in principle to begin talking. Brian and John speak with Brian Terrell, a long-time peace activist and also co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

  Communicating Across Sensitive Topics in Primary Partnerships Host Nancy Kahn facilitates a candid discussion between a couple who have been together for more than 20 years as they work through sharing sensitive feedback related to living together. Listen in to this interactive conversation between a long-term couple who receive coaching and support to help hear one another and focus on staying self connected and connected with one another across sensitive topics. Listen live on Sunday, 11/18, at 7pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond) or visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes. The post Talk-It-Out Radio – November 18, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is an author, Zen priest, teacher, divine seer, artist, and Drum medicine woman. Her work has been featured in Essence Magazine, CNN, CBS NEWS, KPFA Radio, Buddhadharma, and Lion's Roar. She holds a M.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning from California Institute of Integral Studies. She spoke to me from Green Gulch Farm, a Zen practice center within the San Francisco Zen Center. She is the author of “Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging,” out now from Wisdom Publications. You can find her online at Zenju.org, where she has three episodes published of her own podcast, Teachings of the Hollow Bones.

DARNELL L. MOORE. “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America”. When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death. Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer, a leading Black Lives Matter activist, and an advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in the Fire, he shares the journey taken by that scared, bullied teenager who not only survived, but found his calling. Moore's transcendence over the myriad forces of repression that faced him is a testament to the grace and care of the people who loved him, and to his hometown, Camden, NJ, scarred and ignored but brimming with life. Moore reminds us that liberation is possible if we commit ourselves to fighting for it, and if we dream and create futures where those who survive on society's edges can thrive. No Ashes in the Fire is a story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with family, with place, and with what it means to be free. Featuring: Darnell Moore Credits: Host: Anita Johnson Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani and Monica Lopez. Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Audience Engagement and Web Director: Sabine Blaizin Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker   Special Thanks to KPFA Radio in Berkeley, Ca and Darnell Moore. For More Information: https://www.darnelllmoore.com/ Black, Gay and Becoming Visible https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/books/review/darnell-l-moore-no-ashes-in-the-fire.html https://www.amazon.com/No-Ashes-Fire-Coming-America/dp/1568589484 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/darnell-l-moore https://kpfa.org/event/darnell-l-moore/ The post No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday February 19th on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine, Viveka Jagadeseen talks to author and activist Adrienne Maree Brown about how we can organize a resilient mass movement capable of creating fundamental social change in today's political climate with an  understanding of social change inspired by the resilience and adaptive nature of biological systems, that is non hierarchical and non harming.  Adrienne Maree Brown, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.  Brown is the Co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, and author most recently of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds a book described as a “resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us” and expands  our radical imagination.    The post Adrienne Maree Brown – visionary social change appeared first on KPFA.

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 producer Harvey Weinstein. And we speak to a panel of South Asian women participating in the 3rd i film festival which centers South Asian perspectives. We discuss with singer, composer, musician and filmmaker Gingger Shankar her film Nari, actress Nabila Hussein co-starring in the show Brown Girls, and documentary filmmaker Pallavi Somusetty their work and issues of representation and sexism in the film industry The post Violence against women, ‘me too' campaign and 3rd i film Festival appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we will hear from a local Queer Feminist anti fascist organizer who will discuss the importance of the antifa and the misogynist aspects of the white supremacist movement. And we will talk to Nonviolent Communication and Buddhist practioner Phoenix Soleil about her upcoming workshop at the Impact Hub Oakland on September 7th from 9 am-1pm on how to have those difficult conversations about Racial Justice in the workplace. The post Queer Feminist Antifa member and Phoenix Soleil on using NVC for talking about racial justice appeared first on KPFA.

This week on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we look at some of the marches, protests and actions happening this week around the issue of patriarchy and gender violence. We talk to Jadelynn Stahl, cofounder of Disclose, about the creative  intervention they are planning for January 19th at 6:30 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza to protest the election of an accused rapist and a government that supports gender violence and affirm the possibility of a world without gender-based violence. And we talk to Renee McKenna, Alison Mata and Jenny Bradanini some of the organizers of the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Women's Marches happening on January 21st in concert with Women's March in Washington DC and around the country to protest the election of Trump and to proclaim that women's rights are human rights. And lastly we talk to artist Epil about the “Women Who Made Us” project, which is a call to the strength of the generations of women who came before us. They will be carrying photos of our female ancestors and offering to print posters of others ancestors. The post Women's Marches around the Bay appeared first on KPFA.

The broadcast of January 14, 2015 builds on the September 28 report from San Marcos. It describes how the FRENA militia suppresses the rights of local peasants. One man, Casimiro Pérez, tells of being illegally imprisoned, and of doing hard labor under threat of being burned alive. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria. (www.lavoz.gt)

The broadcast of September 28, 2014 is a vivid account of the social conflict in San Pablo, San Marcos. Two American journalists and their guide are threatened by members of the FRENA militia. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria. (www.lavoz.gt)

The following reports on the conflict in San Pablo, San Marcos in southwestern Guatemala; in particular, on the dispute between Bishop Álvaro Ramazzini and former prosecutor Gilda Aguilar, now a private attorney representing a hydroelectric group. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria. (www.lavoz.gt)

This broadcast reports on the U.S. embassy’s interference in Guatemalan internal affairs with respect to the genocide trial. Specifically, it covers the embassy's attack on the bar association for its disciplinary measures against Yassmin Barrios, the presiding judge. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria. (www.lavoz.gt)

On August 2, 2013, Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz fired prosecutor Gilda Aguilar. Our report of two days later covers the events that led to the firing. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria.

This report continues to follow the story of Casimiro Pérez. Casimiro is kidnapped by the FRENA militia and forced to participate in their violent attack on a hydroelectric plant. Local police, greatly outnumbered, must stand down as the demonstrators go on their rampage. Casimiro manages to escape from the militia and is rescued by police. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria. (www.lavoz.gt)

Our first broadcast tells the story of justice ministry prosecutor Gilda Aguilar and her confrontation with Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz. The report highlights the attempted assassination of prosecutor Aguilar. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria

The broadcast reports on the genocide trial of former General Efraín Rios Montt. The spokesperson for a Washington, D.C.-based “human rights” group, and Guatemala's Armando de la Torre, comment on the trial from different perspectives. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria.

With this broadcast we report on Attorney Paz y Paz as she punishes one of her prosecutors--Hilma Ruano of Villanueva--for refusing to inflate justice ministry statistics. Since 2012 KPFA radio, from Berkley USA, has been pretty active following the Guatemalan situation, particularly in the countryside of our nation. This radio report first appeared in Liga Pro-Patria.

Right wing campaigns like Donald Trumps are not new and have been occurring throughout Europe. In 2015 Poland elected a right wing government that like Trump campaigned on an anti immigrant and anti feminist agenda as well as an anti- neo- Thousands of women demonstrate in Poland against new proposed anti-abortion law liberalism and anti-globalism agenda. Then on October 3rd thousands of Polish women walked out of their jobs and protested a proposed new law making abortion entirely illegal taking the one year old right wing Law and Justice government by surprise and delaying the new bill. In 1980 Poland lead by its new independent union Solidarity was one of the first countries in Eastern Europe to have a successful uprising against Soviet domination. Today the Catholic church and right wing dominate Poland. As we begin our struggle with a neo-facist government lead by Donald Trump can we learn from the right wing movements and the uprising of feminist and other activists against these authoritarian governments in Europe and in Poland? Today on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we talk to New School Professor Ann Snitow about feminism and the right wing in Poland and her article in the fall issue of Dissent “Gender Trouble in Poland.” The post Gender Trouble in Poland appeared first on KPFA.

Today on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we listen to a recent conversation recorded at the Impact Hub Oakland with feminist historian and cultural critic Lata Mani and filmmaker Nicolás Grandi,  who are the co-directors of the inspiring new film “The Poetics of Fragility.” Ashara Ekundayo hosts a conversation with the filmmakers and activist and scholar Angela Davis and acclaimed playwright and author Cherrie Moraga who are featured in this new film. They talk about the importance of reclaiming fragility as intrinsic to existence, their own experiences with aging and illness and the importance of embodied knowledge and a connection to the body for healing, politics and physical, spiritual and intellectual transformation. The post Poetics of Fragility film – discussion with Angela Davis, Cherrie Moraga, Lata Mani, Nicolas Grandi appeared first on KPFA.

Photo credit: Sue Katz Caroline welcomes fellow KPFA Radio host Kate Jessica Raphael, who has written a terrific detective novel, a worthy guide to all things Palestinian, “Murder Under the Bridge-A Palestine Mystery”, whereby, as with the originating impulse behind Myth*Fairy Tale* Murder Mystery (ancient crime fiction goes back to 231 bc) the purpose of the Palestinian woman detective is to restore human affairs to be in accord with the mandate of Heaven and Earth… (offering book as pledge incentive, O lucky, worthy listeners) — Murder Under The Bridge: A Palestine Mystery has won the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) silver medal for mystery.  www.kateraphael.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Caroline hosts Kate Jessica Raphael appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday May 23rd from 1-2pm, KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine talks to internationally known NonViolent Communication facilitator Miki Kashtan about her vision of a world where we can cooperate more fully with each other and where all our needs are attended to which is meticulously described in her inspiring new book “Reweaving Our Human Fabric-Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future.” Buddhist teacher Joanna Macy describes this book as a brave and brilliant book that shows how the radical interdependence of all things can be expressed in a more grounded and practical way for social as well as personal transformation. Her innovation in social change theory follows in the the lineage of Gandhi and MLK and move beyond nonviolent communication as a personal development resource to help transform the larger systems and norms that govern our world. The post Womens Magazine – May 23, 2016: A World without Violence appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday April 18th KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine talks to Erin Araujo and Sarai Garcia Lopez two of the women from Chiapss who created a non monetary, non capitalist feminist economic community where people donate and exchange services and goods for free. Their inspiring documentary, “Cambalache: El Valor de Inter-Cambiar” (The Courage to Inter-Change) which movingly depicts the “interchange” will be screening Sunday May 1st at the Humanist Hall in Oakland from 2pm or 2:30pm as part of the free festival “Utopia Now! Commons Fest.” And then we talk to Oakland based Queer Chicana poet and  Bruja Denise Benavides about her poetry which powerfully confronts themes of xenophobia, relocation, sexuality, religion, and love. That's Monday from 1-2pm on KPFA radio at 94.1 FM or online at www.kpfa.org The post Another World is Possible appeared first on KPFA.

On tonight's program we bring you interviews on Brazil, Cuba, an update on the fight for justice for Alex Nieto, we discuss worker's safety and feature the music of Diana Gameros as well as the week's calendar. Listen and enjoy on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM or online at kpfa.org at 7pm!

Over the last year uprisings against police violence have erupted around the U.S. spearheaded by victims of violence and their families and the newly organized Black Lives Matter, an organization lead almost entirely by Black women. Internationally women of color are also organizing against state violence. And this October 31st women of color in France are organizing a massive March for Dignity and Against Racism, in Paris, to demonstrate against police brutality and structural racism (in racial segregation, unemployment, the outlawing of the Islamic veil in schools, and daily humiliation). This March is being called on the 10th year anniversary of the 2005 uprisings in France's racialized, working class suburbs sparked by the deaths of two adolescent boys of color escaping a stop and frisk. This Monday on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine UC Berkeley Professor Paola Bacchetta talks about racism in France and also talks with Amal Bentounsi, the woman who brought together the collective of women of color organizing the March. They discuss the March, conditions of people of color in France and Amal Bentounsi's personal experiences with police violence, racism and Islamophobia. The post Womens Magazine – October 26, 2015- Racism and Islamophobia in France appeared first on KPFA.

Tune in to KPFA Radio tonight at 7 to hear an interview with ‪#‎CARECENofSF‬(Central American Resource Center-SF) on a recent delegation to ‪#‎ElSalvador‬ to commemorate Óscar Romero's legacy. We'll also bring you News from the Americas, an overview of the San Francisco International Film Festival, a piece on the The Hospitality House San Francisco 30th anniversary, commentary on Juniper Serra, as always a calendar of upcoming events and much more.

On tonight's program on KPFA Radio you'll hear Noticias sin Fronteras, an interview on the student massacre in Mexico in Iguala, Guerrero from Ayotzinapa, we'll also speak with featured musicians Irene Diaz, and El David Aguilar who will perform at Accion Latina 's 33rd Anual Encuentro del Canto Popular and hear about a exciting one day sale at Galería de la Raza highlighting vintage and new Indigenous textile art and a calendar of upcoming events.

Renowned author Chris Hedges paints a bleak picture of our world today, in rapid economic, environmental, and religious decline.  He says we have a chance to turn things around—but only if we stand up for our rights, and stop holding out hope that political parties, or other global leaders will act in our interests.  On this edition, Chris Hedges speaks about his new book, The World as it is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.    Special thanks to KPFA Radio in Berkeley.   Featuring:   Chris Hedges, author of “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress,” columnist for Truthdig and senior fellow for The Nation Institute. For More Information: Chris Hedges: http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges#bio Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/ The Nation Institute http://www.nationinstitute.org/ New York Times articles by Chris Hedges http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=chris+hedges&more=date_all Daniel Berrigan http://www.webster.edu/~barrettb/berrigan.htm Chris Hedges on War is a Force that Gives us Meaning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2SaM8RJ30c Chris Hedges on the death of Osama bin Laden: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/chris_hedges_speaks_on_osama_bin_ladens_death_20110502/ The post Making Contact – Chris Hedges on the Myth of Human progress appeared first on KPFA.

On Wednesday, June 11, the Prime Minister of Canada, Steven Harper, issued an "apology" to the entire Native population of Canada for the sexual and physical abuses they suffered in "residential schools" across Canada. But the Prime Minister's action is being called a criminal cover-up by some. There is irrefutable evidence of systematic mass-murder of more than 50,000 native children imprisoned in the schools. More than half of the children imprisoned in the schools never made it home alive. The schools were run by Catholic and Protestant ministers, priests and nuns, and funded by the taxpayers of Canada. The Churches and Government refuse to admit the genocide.Former United Church Minister Kevin Annett is interviewed by Amanda Bellerby for the program Flashpoints on KPFA Radio (6/18/08), regarding his documentary film titled "Unrepentant" which exposes the Christian Church-led genocide in Canada from the 1870s to the 1990s. For information contact: www.hiddenfromhistory.org or www.flashpoints.net. This program originally aired on 8/25/08.

Today, in honor of Black History month, KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine will look at the women who helped shape the civil rights movement and women of color activist who are still at the forefront in creating social change particularly in the academic world. On today's show we will talk to women who are organizing the upcoming U.C. Berkeley 22nd annual Empowering Women of Color conference. And we will hear voices from the women who were at the forefront of the civil rights movement women like Shirley Chisholm Barbara Jordan, and Amelia Boynton Robinson. Lastly, we feature an interview with Daphne Muse, director of the Women's Leadership Institute at Mills College and another veteran of the civil rights movement who is bringing her activism into the Ivory Tower. The post Women's Magazine – February 19, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.

Women's Magazine on KPFA Radio features women's voices on the crisis in the Middle East. We talk to Israeli Professor and author Tanya Reinhart about the new Middle East that the U.S. and Israel are trying to create. We also talk to Israeli women who are part of the Women's Peace movement in Israel about where the peace movement is going. And we hear voices of women from the anti-war demonstration held in San Francisco this past Saturday. The post Women's Magazine – August 14, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.

Dahr Jamail is an American independent writer for newstandardnews.net and can often be heard reporting from Iraq on Flashpoints on KPFA Radio. He has been on several trips to Iraq where he has spent months at a time. In fact, he just came from Iraq a couple of days before this interview in California. He speaks very movingly about life on a daily level in Iraq, with bombs going off all day and night. He speaks about the Iraqi people, himself, the US military-- all living in this unbelievably stressful environment where an Iraqi and/or those close to he/she, could be arrested and imprisoned and anyone can be killed at any time-- the pain of war and occupation-- both for the occupied and the occupiers, but especially the invaded and occupied Iraqis who, although they were mostly very hospitable to Jamail, were developing more and more hatred for American occupiers.