KPFA Women's Magazine - Monday, November 18, 2013: Poetry as an Agent of Change

Monday, November 18th, 1-2pm
Women's Magazine with Global Val
2nd Women's Poetry Showcase: Poetry as an Agent of Change
KPFA 94.1 & kpfa.org

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Poetry as an Agent of Change

When I started producing shows for Women's Magazine on KPFA 94.1, my intention was and remains to be highlighting women who are changing the world. I've brought it back to poetry this month because Poetry is an underdog of change. In this show, we'll hear from two poets who are using their words & work to inspire and activate others toward personal growth and creative community-based solutions for some of the world's most daunting challenges.

Poets

Alicia Zakon is an educator and spoken word poet in & from Berkeley, CA. She's written a poetic memoir called "Laundry and Love Notes", a collection of poems she wrote from age 10-25 that reveal her own choices in love & dating and gives readers a raw examination of how she has grown as a young woman. She plans to teach a series of free poetry workshops in 15 cities around the country so other young women can receive the gift of poetry as a means to deal with life's transgressions and gain a better sense of self-worth. You can contribute to her workshop tour by purchasing her book on her website, www.laundryandlovenotes.com

Alexandria 'Rain' is an ambassador of peace and positivity who came into our lives at The Common Thread Collective (Fridays 3-6pm) at Mutiny Radio this past summer. She has her feet, hands and heart planted in the grass roots as she shares her vision about how the creative collective can help us reinvigorate and inspire each other.
- She's currently involved with CAJA-3, standing up to feminicide by lobbying for a better distribution of US funds allotted for the drug war in Mexico, and by empowering a group of women in Mexico, who are suffering domestic violence, to grow and sell local delicacies to gain independence.
- She was also selected to participate in a retreat with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom as it looks ahead into the next 100 years of the organization. See the WILPF website to sign the petition to ratify CEDAW and let the 113th Congress know - on the day they're sworn in - that Americans want the US to join 185 other countries who have signed on to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Musicians

The Necatarian Collective from the Big Island of Hawaii consists of three goddesses: Mary Isis, Sea Star and Parmita, accompanied by their friends, Lotus Moon. Today's show features:

"Cosmic Mind" and "Earth's Child" by Mary Isis from her album Nectarian
"The Wellspring" by Sea Star from her album Sacred Red
and a special live track of "Only Love Can Heal Us" by Parmita

All their music can be enjoyed and downloaded at www.nectarianmusic.com

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Archive/Podcast will be posted here and on kpfa.org and kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com

Thank you for your participation!

Global Val

Litcrawl 2013: Global Val Reads with SF Poet Laureate, Alejandro Murguia!

This year, I'll be reading in Litcrawl with San Francisco's Poet Laureate, Alejandro Murguia!

Post Script, if you missed the intimate performance that night, here's link to a video by April Ellis, who captured it beautifully: Val Ibarra - LitQuake 2013

International Poetry Library Presents…"Los Días de Los Muertos Celebration" with Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Alejandro Murguía. The Executive Director of the International Poetry Library of San Francisco, Kimberly Escamilla, has invited me to read poetry at this event. It's an honor and I know it's going to be a fabulous evening.

Saturday, October 19th
Litcrawl/ Phase 3 / 8:30-9:30pm
Casa Bonampak
1051 Valencia St.

Peace & Poetry,
Global Val

100 Thousand Poets For Change presents...

Please join us in Berkeley on Sunday, October 13, 2013, 4pm, for a night of celebrating poetry as an instrument of change around the world!

Governor Brown Vetoes AB 926

Thank you, Governor Brown, for acknowledging the dangerous enticement that AB 926 would have posed on women in California who may have been unduly seduced into "donating" their eggs for research at risk of exploitation and health complications.

Click here to read the article and find the link to his Veto Letter to the Legislature.

http://www.synbiowatch.org/2013/08/california-governor-jerry-brown-vetos-bill-that-would-have-legalized-sale-of-human-egss/

Thank you to all of my guests on Women's Magazine for spreading their expertise and concerns for women's health.

If you missed the show, you can go to the directly to the archive HERE!


Peace and Thank You,
Global Val

KPFA "Women's Magazine" August 5th: Human Egg Harvesting & AB 926 + More!

Monday, August 5, 1-2pm
Women's Magazine with Global Val
KPFA 94.1 & kpfa.org


TUNE IN to this important two-part show that will address a range of women's reproductive health issues.
If you missed the show, you can go to the directly to the archive HERE!


Part I: Harvesting Human Eggs & International Surrogacy: Risks to Health & Human Rights

Discussing California AB 926 (on Governor Brown's desk as of August 5th): A bill that would repeal the current limits on compensation for women who 'donate' their eggs to research, and elevate it to $5-10K. Framed as a 'women's equity' bill, it neglects the health risks of invasive egg donation procedures. We'll discuss the history of this legislation, the health risks - as seen in the acclaimed documentary Eggsploitation - as well the legal argument against harvesting human eggs & the under-regulated industry of international surrogacy.

Featured Guests:
- Diane Tober, PhD, Assoc. Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society
- Jennifer Lahl, Executive Producer & Director of the Award Winning documentary Eggsploitation: The Fertility Industry has a Dirty Little Secret - www.eggsploitation.com
- Mona Lisa Wallace, Esq.

AB 926 is going to be on Governor Jerry Brown's desk as of Monday, August 5th 2013, where he has 12 days to sign it, veto it or let it pass into law without a signature. To contact the Governor, you can write to his aide: lark.park@gov.ca.gov


Part 2: Reports from the Abortions Rights Freedom Ride

The first in a series of regular updates on KPFA Women's Magazine directly from the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride going around the country to raise awareness about new state laws that are challenging reproductive health rights.


Monday, August 5, 1-2pm
Women's Magazine with Global Val
KPFA 94.1 & kpfa.org


*There are several ways to listen LIVE, but you can always go to kpfa.org > archives > search the date > Women's Magazine...voila!
KPFA 94.1 FM
KPFB 89.3 FM
Comcast Digital Cable 967
iPhone: Public Radio App
Android: TuneIn Radio App
WebOS: Public Radio App
KPFA Live Stream Channel: kpfa.org


*Podcasts/archive will be posted on kpfa.org and kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com


PEACE & THANK YOU,
GLOBAL VAL


Radio Producer
Mutiny Radio & KPFA 94.1
www.globalval.blogspot.com

California Senate set to vote on AB 926: Selling Human Eggs for Research Despite RISKS to Women's Health

On Friday, June 28, 2013, 1-2pm, I'll be talking to Diane Tober, PhD, the Associate Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society. We'll be discussing AB 926, currently being debated in the California Senate, which seeks to expand the market in human eggs by paying women for their eggs for research. This bill is coming up for a vote despite growing evidence of serious short and long-term health risks for young women.

Please join us on Women's Magazine (Mutiny Radio) for this important conversation so that you can get the knowledge you need to contact your State representative re: AB 926.

Friday, June 28, 2013
1-2pm
www.mutinyradio.org (aka: www.pcrcollective.org)
LIVE & Podcast

Thank you,
Global Val

Women's Poetry Showcase on KPFA 94.1 "Women's Magazine": Monday, June 3rd 2013, 1-2pm

Thank you for joining me. I'm Global Val of "The Common Thread Collective" on www.MutinyRadio.org & "Women's Magazine" KPFA 94.1 & kpfa.org.

Spring is a season of creativity, so throughout the month of April - National Poetry Month - I invited some poets into the studio at Mutiny Radio in San Francisco to share not only their poetry, but also their love of community. I put together a showcase from those interviews which airs on KPFA 94.1 & kpfa.org on Monday, June 3rd 2013, 1-2pm for "Women's Magazine".

Listen to the show here: kpfa.org
or kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com

If you were listening, you've come here to find out more about the Poets involved in this project. So it is my pleasure to present the women who were part of the 1st Women's Magazine Poetry Showcase.

MUSIC FROM THE SHOW:
Lost at Last, Clara Bellino "This is Happiness" & Nova Jazz

POETS:

E.K. KEITH organizes Poems Under the Dome, an annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside San Francisco's City Hall. She enjoys the spectacle of open mics for entertainment, as well as the fun of participating. Recent print publications include work in phati'tude Literary Magazine, Soul Vomit, Nerve Cowboy, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and Out of Our. Online publications include Dead Flowers and Dark Matter.

E.K. explained to her high school English students that the moniker Chief Keith was already taken, however they affectionately re-created her as a rap star after she told them she was a poet. She will complete a manuscript of her poetry this summer.

*Videos of Poems Under the Dome are all over YouTube, but there is some special footage from 2013, courtesy of the IPLSF (see below)at this YouTube link: Poems Under the Dome 2013


MAMA COATL- Barrio poet, songstress, activist and spiritual healer comes from the Yaqui people of the Sonora desert. She has presented her work at Theater Artaud, La Pena Cultural center, Brava Theater (SF), among many other international venues.

MamaCoatl has curated ceremonies to heal the Amazonic River Mother of God at the border of Bolivia-Brazil-Peru, concerts for peace in communities affected by femicide along Mexico's highways and healing days at public plazas in the US.

Blessed by a mayoral proclamation, MamaCoatl made San Francisco the first and only city in the United States to officially proclaim and celebrate International Day for the Elimination of Violence toward Women and Girls since 2006.

MamaCoatl MA in Women Spirituality, MFA in Performance Activism and Creative Inquiry is also a Reiki Master, Absolute Balanced Mastery practitioner and is currently training with the Maya Council of Spiritual Guides.

Her book, "Border Crossing Diosa" is available at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco

JENNIFER BARONE is the founder and co-host of the long-running “WordParty” – a poetry and jazz open mic which happens at Viracocha in San Francisco, every third Tuesday of the month.

Jennifer is known to collaborate with local artists combining poetry, fine art and jazz and has been a featured poet at venues such as The SF Public Library, The Red Poppy Art House, The Beat Museum, SF MoMa, DeYoung Museum, The Randall Museum and many local venues for poetry. She has had the honor of being a selected poet for the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco in the 2007 and 2012 “Poets Eleven” city-wide contest, organized by the SF Public Library.

She is the author of three self-published collections of poetry: Saporoso, Poems of Italian Food & Love with drawings by Lam Khong, 2012, Secret City, 2007 – a bi-coastal collaboration with her father's original artwork in response to her poems about New York City and San Francisco and Simple Language, 2003.

You can find links to her books, video files and more about Jennifer and the Word Party by visiting www.thewordparty.com


AVA BIRD is the author of two books 'the new now' & 'rage against the war machine.' & her work is published in many journals, publications, papers, and anthologies around the globe. You can check out more of her work by visiting: http://www.yogitimes.com/article/13-indigenous-grandmothers-meeting-cheyenne-indians-lame-deer-montana/ and http://www.yogitimes.com/article/yoga-tunes/ and liking her articles and poems and buying her books, and becoming a fan on facebook! Her new works will be released soon, including a cd, a musical project and several new fun stories, poetry, prose and a raw recipe collection. She is an organizer for 100thousand poets for change and will be hosting upcoming events in the bay/russian river at the center for sacred studies.

KIMBERLY ESCAMILLA’s recent work has appeared or forthcoming in Red Wheelbarrow, Huffington Post, Plath Profiles, 5AM, DMQ Review, and My Baby Rides the Short Bus anthology. She has taught college-level writing and literature in the San Francisco Bay Area for 19 years and is the director of The International Poetry Library of San Francisco. http://www.iplsf.org She lives on the coast, a few miles north Half Moon Bay, CA with her husband Michael and son Harrison.

Global VAL IBARRA is a native San Franciscan, world traveler, poet & radio producer. The weekly Co-Host/Producer of "The Common Thread Collective" with the legendary Diamond Dave Whitaker LIVE on Fridays, 3-6pm, on www.MutinyRadio.org. She has hosted events for "100,000 Poets for Change" in San Francisco Civic Center in conjunction with Peace Day SF, 2011. Her work has been selected for several honors, including: Winner of 'Poet of the Month' (December 2007) & given 'Honourable Mention' (October 2007)through The Beat Museum Poetry Contest of North Beach, for which she was subsequently published in "The Beat Museum Poetry Anthology Vol. 1" (2009). Selected by the Poet Laureate of Benicia to participate in a poetry & visual art collaboration in response to the news, called "I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY!" which was on exhibit in the Public Libraries of Benicia and Pacific Grove, CA, in 2011 (videos available on YouTube). Author of "Shaking Out the Smoke Screen", an introductory collection of poetry (2011, 2013). In October 2012, she joined the team of independent Producers for KPFA 94.1 & kpfa.org "Women's Magazine", Mondays 1-2pm - a weekly show uniquely forged to highlight issues affecting & change being affected by women - and looks forward to continuing to grow and produce more programs in collaboration with the inspirational members of our local and global communities.

If you have an important topic that you think needs to be covered, or to find out more about performance opportunities in San Francisco, you can contact: valibarra.poet@gmail.com