This week on Feminist Magazine : with host Lynn Harris Ballen ::
FIRST … Grassroots groups Made HISTORY in the 2020 election! Turning out unlikely voters and organizing communities to grow their power. But overt white nationalism and the fractious presidential election exhausted and traumatized organizers, in ways that will be felt for a long time. How can those BIPOC and immigrant organizers get support to keep working sustainably for social justice? We talk to Syd Yang, a senior director of the Movement Voter Project, to hear all about their new Healing Justice Project, which focuses on giving frontline activists access to mental health support.
THEN … a special from Making Contact Radio … Migrations: Standing in Solidarity With the Desperate: We’re waiting to see how the new Biden administration will take action to undo recent histories of closed borders and detained immigrants and refugees. Meanwhile three activist women co-founded groups to challenge the policies of detention, deportation, discrimination and denigration of migrants. They’ve been organizing to transform the immigration policy of the USA, and to uphold immigrants’ human rights internationally. Dr. Satsuki Ina co-founded Tsuru for Solidarity; Serena Adlerstein co-created Never Again Action; and Devi Machete co-created the Hecate Society, helping migrants stuck at the Mexican border with the US.
AND … Four years ago this month, the first Women’s March took over the streets of Washington DC. Despite all the controversies about the satellite marches and the organizers, that day in DC was a powerful and eye-opening inspiration for many new activists. We hear a flashback from Janelle Monae’s #SayHerName challenge on the March stage in January 2017.
All this on KPFK on Wednesday at 7pm
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This week’s program was produced by Lynn Harris Ballen
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