Accent of Women

On today’s show, we bring you the final part of our coverage of the Kurdish attack in Paris on 23 December. As you’ll recall, a man open fired on a Kurdish precinct, killing three people. They happened to be well known activists, and this appears to be an intentional, terrorist attack on the Kurdish people living in Paris. This attack was not isolated – not in France and not in the world – rather, it sits in a global context of rising fascism.Concluding the discussion today is my guest, Sarah Marcha, a spokesperson for the Kurdish Women’s Association based in Paris, the group of people who were directly targeted by this attack.

On today’s show, we bring you Part 2 of our coverage of the Kurdish attack in Paris on 23 December. As you’ll recall, a man open fired on a Kurdish precinct, killing three people. They happened to be well known activists, and this appears to be an intentional, terrorist attack on the Kurdish people living in Paris. There is a lot unknown about the killer, William M., even though these attacks are very closely related to similar attacks 10 years ago on the 11 January 2013.Continuing the discussion from last week is Sarah Marcha, spokesperson for the Kurdish Women’s Association based in Paris, the group of people who were directly targeted by this attack.

The new year has started much the same way as the previous one ended – mass poverty, war, discrimination, racism and global fascism on the rise.  A significant event occurred in Paris on the 23 of December – a man open fired on a Kurdish precinct, killing three people. They happened to be well known activists, and this appears to be an intentional, terrorist attack on the Kurdish people living in Paris.Over the next three weeks on Accent of Women, we’re going to tell this story. My guest is Sarah Marcha, a spokesperson for the Kurdish Women’s Association based in Paris, the group of people who were directly targeted by this attack.

Well this is the final show of Accent of Women for 2022, and we will conclude the year with a discussion about the extraordinary uprising in Iran in response to the murda of Mahsa Amini by the Morality Police. This is the second part of an extended interview with Frieda Afary, about the Iranian revolution. Frieda is an Iranian socialist feminist based in Los Angeles.

Well there are only two more shows of Accent of Women for 2022, and I thought it would only be fitting to conclude the year with a discussion about the extraordinary uprising in Iran in response to the Morality Police. Here is an extended interview with Frieda Afary, over the next two weeks, about the Iranian revolution. Frieda is an Iranian socialist feminist based in Los Angeles.

The Indonesian parliament passed a new criminal code on December 6, 2022, containing provisions that seriously violate international human rights law and standards. Articles in the new code violate the rights of women, religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and undermine rights to freedom of speech and association.On today’s program to discuss the details and implications of the new criminal code, is Dian Trisnanti, from the Indonesian Federation of United Trade Unions and Radio Marsinah.

The San Francisco Public Library hosted a conference on the future of libraries, which was held on the 18th of October. On today’s show we’ll hear from one of the keynote speakers at that conference. Today we hear from Wonda Powell, Professor Emerita of History, Los Angeles Southwest College and her talk is called From Critical Thinking to Critical Race Theory: Unearthing History

The San Francisco Public Library hosted a conference on the future of libraries, which was held on the 18th of October. On today’s show we’ll hear from one of the keynote speakers at that conference. Today we hear from Wonda Powell, Professor Emerita of History, Los Angeles Southwest College and her talk is called From Critical Thinking to Critical Race Theory: Unearthing History

The San Francisco Public Library hosted a conference on the future of libraries, which was held on the 18th of October. On today’s show we’ll hear from one of the keynote speakers at that conference. Today we hear from Frieda Afary, Ret. Librarian from the Los Angeles Public Library, Frieda is a socialist, feminist and librarian. Her talk is called, Confronting Disinformation and Book Bans by Cultivating Critical Thinking and Empathy.

The Santa Cruz massacre (also known as the Dili massacre) was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide.On today’s program we speak to two East Timorese trade unionists, one based in East Timor, the other based in Melbourne Australia – both continuing the struggle for workers’ rights and a free, independent East Timor - Elizabeth Araujo based in East Timor and Carla Chung in Australia.