THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :
Coming up FIRST … for Valentines week, bell hooks asks Why Choose To Love?
We hear excerpts from a talk that the late author gave at the Los Angeles Public Library in December 1999 … when she was launching her book ‘All About Love‘. The bestselling ‘All About Love’ offers radical new ways to think about love, beyond the limits of couples and romantic love. By showing its interconnectedness – and how love is the basis of our personal and communal lives – hooks talks about love as a profoundly political ethic. And how it’s linked to her understanding of freedom and liberation, and undoing domination of all kinds.
THEN … One of the ways we can actively Defund the Police is by taking mental health crises out of police hands. Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you’re Black. 70 Million Reporter Jenee Darden looks at how folks in Northern California are trying to reimagine crisis response services. We hear about new response mechanisms that bypass law enforcement and result in helpful interventions.
Featuring: Taun Hall – Co-Founder of the Miles Hall Foundation
Shannon Scully – Senior Manager of Criminal Justice Policy at National Alliance on Mental Illness
Cat Brooks – Activist and Co-Founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project
Asantewaa Boykin – Co-Founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, Program Director for Mental Health First Sacramento, ER Nurse
V Rabelo – Volunteer at Mental Health First Oakland
Noel Gallo – Oakland City Council Member
Loren Taylor – Oakland City Council Member
Wednesday at 7 on KPFK
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