This edition of "Nina Viva" revives and celebrates the original intent of International Women's Day to inspire women to join in collective and community struggles to overturn the systems that oppress  women. We focus on the example of Lucy Parsons--enslaved until she was 12--who became a militant fighter for socialism and freedom of all people. Award-winning actor, Kara Young, gives a passionate rendition of Lucy's speeches on women, Black people and freedom.

Worldwide Family Of Militant Women 3 16 21 For Nina Viva - 3:16:21, 10.16 PM

In this edition of NINA VIVA, Arlene Eisen talks to Julie Wark, author of "Rape the Women to Rape the Land", about how military conquerors deploy strategies of genocide and mass rape to re-enforce their control over the land and resources of the Black indigenous peoples of West Papua. Arlene Eisen, author of a major study on state sanctioned violence against Black people in the US, also comments on the Derek Chauvin verdict.

Nina Viva Apr 20 2021 Rape In West Papua - 4:20:21, 2.19 PM

Direct from Cali, the epicenter of the uprising against the Columbian fascist regime, Charo Mina Rojas, leader of Black Columbian peoples movement for self-determination and feminist, joins Arlene Eisen in conversation about the current uprising and struggles that led up to it. This edition of "Nina Viva" also features clips from India Moore and others on Israel's carpet bombing of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Palestine And Columbia Under Seige For Nina Viva May 18 2021 - 5:18:21, 2.22 AM

Founding members of the new Palestinian Feminist Collective join Arlene Eisen for conversation that begins with Randa Tawil and Jackie Husary sharing their personal stories of forced exile from Palestine. They explain how Israel embodies a settler colonial project that requires the removal of Palestinian people. They offer important insights on how  their peoples' struggles for Palestinian liberation links to struggles for feminism, freedom from white supremacy and imperialism.

Palestinian Feminist Collective Founders On Nina Viva June 15 2021  - 6:13:21, 6.34 PM

Special Two-Hour Memorial Celebration of Terry Collins (Part 1 of 2)
Hosted by Ida McCray and Arlene Eisen.
For more than five decades, Terry was a beacon and mainstay of Bay Area resistance: leader of the SF State Strike (1968-69), Black Panther, Founder and President of KPOO-fm Community Radio, Stalwart defender of political prisoners. Part 1 of this celebration features
 Terry’s family, comrades and friends in order of appearance: 
•	Cat, Kiara and Renya Collins (Terry’s wife and daughters)
•	Nedzada Baldwin (Family friend)
•	Avotcja (KPOO programmer, poet, musician)
•	Donna Wilmott (Catalyst)
•	Lara Kiswani (Director of Arab Resource and Organizing Center)
•	Devorah Major (3rd Poet Laureate of San Francisco)

Terry Collins Memorial Celebration Part 1

Special Two-Hour Memorial Celebration of Terry Collins (Milestones)
Hosted by Ida McCray and Arlene Eisen
For more than five decades, Terry was a beacon and mainstay of Bay Area resistance: leader of the SF State Strike (1968-69), Black Panther, Founder and President of KPOO-fm Community Radio, Stalwart defender of political prisoners.
Featuring Terry’s family, comrades and friends in order of appearance: 
•	Donna Amador (leader of SF State Strike, 3rd World Liberation Front, Los Siete
•	Melba Maldonado (Puerto Rican revolutionary, ret.Dir. La Raza Com Center )
•	Fiona Mae Brown (KPOO Intern for Terry)
•	Donna Wilmott (Catalyst)
•	Rabab Abdulhadi (Founder of Arab, Muslim,Diaspora Studies, SF State)
•	Soffijah Elijah (Attorney for the SF 8 and Marilyn Buck)

Terry Collins Memorial Celebration Part 2 of 2 7:20:21, 1.40 AM

Post-election commentary and conversation between Arlene Eisen and Layidua Salazar, veteran activist for migrant and reproductive rights. We focus on the prospects for DACA recipients, migrants in general, health and reproductive justice under a Biden/Harris administration and on the importance of re-invigorating massive resistance to the Democrats' historic loyalty to their corporate funders.

Nina Viva 11 17 20 Features Layidua Salazar - 11:17:20, 2.32 PM

Is the arrival of the vaccine a “Turning Point”? Can we look forward to a Covid-free world in a Trump-free Spring? In this edition of “Nina Viva”, Arlene Eisen, who worked in Public Health for 20 years, and four Black women physicians—Nwando Olayiola, Valerie Fitzhugh, Brittani Monee James and Oni Blackstock, leaders in the movement for medical justice, speak on this question.

Nina Viva 12 15 20 Vaccine Turning Point? - 12:15:20, 2.33 PM

This edition of "Nina Viva" investigates the role of white women in the Jan 6 attempted coup and the Neo-Confederate Movement that lives on.       We feature the voices of Stephanie Jones-Rogers, whose research upends the dominant narrative that white women had a passive role during slavery and Sayward Darby, whose book is a portrait of white women activists in today's Neo-confederate movement. This show starts with Tongo Eisen-Martin's inaugural speech as San Francisco's 8th Poet Laureate.

Nina Viva On Women In Attempted Coup Jan 19 2021 - 1:19:21, 2.27 PM

Here we trace the historic roots and present calamities that fuel today’s revolutionary upheaval in Haiti. The population of Haiti is in open revolt against the US-supported dictatorship of Jovenel Moise. Still, Biden continues to support him. Leslie Mullin and Judith Mirkinson join Arlene Eisen discuss the roots of today’s crisis in the US-led coup against Haiti’s elected President Aristide, the massacres—especially gender violence—that followed the coup, and future strategies for self-determination and justice

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