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In this bonus episode, Chera and Efrain from Freedom Dreams in Philanthropy engage in a heartfelt reflection on the elections. They explore themes of grief, resilience, and the concept of surrender amidst political and social uncertainty. The conversation covers the impact on various marginalized communities, personal anecdotes, and strategies for maintaining hope and humanity. They emphasize the importance of setting boundaries, self-preservation, and fostering a compassionate future while navigating personal and collective challenges.
How do we create learning environments that genuinely heal and nurture every child? In this episode of SELinEDU, we welcome Shannon Hawkins, founder and CEO of Leading A(head) Collaborative, to share her profound insights on transforming education through social and emotional learning (SEL). We start with reflections on the soothing power of water and the surprising weather, setting a serene mood for our discussion. Shannon's journey, inspired by her grandmother's story of resilience in Jamaica, reveals the profound importance of building healing-centered communities to support historically marginalized groups and combat toxic stress.We explore the vital partnership between schools and families in enriching children's education. Shannon highlights the crucial need for schools to provide platforms where families can share their valuable experiences and cultural strengths. With the concept of "Freedom Dreams," we envision how visionary thinking can revolutionize the educational landscape, especially in these challenging times marked by economic pressures and the impacts of multiple pandemics. This conversation underscores the importance of acknowledging and utilizing the cultural and linguistic assets that families contribute to the educational ecosystem and the necessity of collaboration.Finally, we delve into the critical role of emotionally responsive adults in children's healing process. Shannon references impactful work, including "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" and insights from Dr. Barbara Sorrels, to illustrate how educators and caregivers can create nurturing environments. We discuss Leading A(head) Collaborative's successful after-school programs that educate parents and teachers on toxic stress, trauma, and SEL, emphasizing the transformative power of compassion and empathy in schools. Reflecting on the importance of collective well-being and collaboration, we celebrate the communal spirit toward creating supportive and transformative educational spaces for every student.EPISODE RESOURCES: Connect with Shannon via her website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn Ginwright, Ph.DDaring Greatly by Brene Brown, Ph.D., MSWFreedom Dreams by Robin D.G. KelleyThe Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Dr. Bruce Perry
In this episode, we explore what it means to walk through the world with an open heart, the opportunities it creates for connecting across our differences, and for strengthening resilience as we manage the long work of building beloved community. Dennis Quirin is the executive director of the Raikes Foundation. Dennis oversees the Foundation's work in advancing equity and sets the organization's priorities on strategy, grantmaking and partnerships. In 2023 he established the Resourcing Equity and Democracy (RED) department at the Foundation to compliment the foundation's long-standing and successful focus on improving youth serving systems. RED focuses on building a representative, multiracial democracy through base organizing. While at the Raikes Foundation, Dennis has overseen the grant approval process moving 125 million dollars to hundreds of nonprofits to advance the Foundation's work. Learn more about Freedom Dreams in Philanthropy
In this episode, we explore how to embrace the opportunities presented by crossroads in our lives and careers. By honoring the insights of our bodies, communities, and becoming more human, crossroads can set us on a path of growth in the direction of our dreams for society and the self. Crystal Hayling is the Executive Director of the Libra Foundation. Growing up a Black girl in the South, Crystal's survival depended upon her navigating social hierarchy, where she had to fight to be seen, heard, and taken seriously. Despite the fact that both of her parents were professionals, Crystal's family experienced racial terrorism that endangered their existence and stripped away generational wealth. Early on in her life, Crystal committed herself to naming and correcting that injustice for all communities experiencing anti-Blackness, exploitation, and oppression. “The frontline communities Libra supports are my teachers. At the foundation, our goal is to listen. We honor interdependence, disrupt philanthropic patterns that prioritize productivity over humanity, and support a new culture that centers justice and liberation,” says Crystal. As executive director, Crystal is cementing Libra's dedication to being the type of funder that social movements need to bring forth progressive wins. She has brought together a team of empathic, knowledgeable, and curious individuals who are executing on that vision. With 30+ years of philanthropic and nonprofit experience, Crystal likes to say, “I've pretty much made all the mistakes already.” With Libra, Crystal has brought a fresh vision of philanthropy that rejects business as usual and is responsive to the needs of frontline communities. Since 2017, Crystal has worked with the Libra board to advance these goals, including doubling Libra's grantmaking in 2020 in light of the global pandemic and uprisings, and launching the Democracy Frontlines Fund, a new aligned giving strategy that raised $36 million in unrestricted, multi-year support for a slate of Black-led organizations. Crystal is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Prior to Libra, Crystal served as CEO of the Blue Shield of California Foundation, where she spearheaded work to achieve universal health coverage. She was also part of the founding team at The California Wellness Foundation, where she led a groundbreaking initiative to shift youth violence prevention from a criminal justice issue to a public health effort. Crystal currently serves on the boards of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Essie Justice Group, and Community Change. She frequently writes and publishes on leading edge topics in philanthropy, and Inside Philanthropy named Crystal “2021 Foundation Leader of the Year" and "One of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Philanthropy" in 2023. Outside of Libra, Crystal can be found in her garden, reading, listening to music, and going on long walks with her dogs. She's looking forward to live music and movies again. Crystal lives in San Mateo, CA with her husband and their two teenage sons. Learn more about Freedom Dreams in Philanthropy
The guys welcome back movement mentor and brilliant scholar-organizer Robin DG Kelley back to the show. Robin is a Professor of American History at UCLA and the author of seminal texts Hammer & Hoe, Freedom Dreams, and other offerings to the radical canon. He joins the show to talk about his personal path to his politic, the ebbs and flows of movement, and the reality of Palestinian solidarity in the belly of empire. SHOW NOTES Bring One Million Experiments to your space by hitting us up at contact@respairmedia.com! - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger Associate Producer - Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
We have a special episode to share this week from the podcast, The Best Advice Show. The Best Advice Show is your twice-weekly reminder that there are weird, delightful and effective ways to make life slightly and sometimes profoundly better. In every (very short) episode of the show, a different contributor offers their take on making life more joyful, healthful and livable and it's likely gonna be something you can try today, if you want. Zak Rosen is the host and creator of The Best Advice Show. He also co-hosts Slate's parenting show, Mom and Dad Are Fighting and he co-created and produces Pregnant Pause, How To Survive the End of the World and Freedom Dreams. ---Nell Wulfhartis a decision coach. Learn more about her coaching practice here.
This week Authentically Detroit welcomed former auto-worker, longtime community and labor activist, and board member at the Boggs Center, Richard Feldman. Together they discussed the historic “Stand Up Strike,” started by the United Auto Workers (UAW). This strike is the culmination of a workers movement that has taken over the United States. As a former auto-worker at one of the striking UAW plants and labor activist, Rich has a wealth of knowledge on the conditions that led to this groundbreaking strike. In the end, the trio expands upon what it will take to achieve true freedom for the working class.For more information on the Boggs Center, click here!FOR HOT TAKES:MEET THE DEMOCRAT BLOCKING MICHIGAN ABORTION BILLS. SHE SAYS SHE'S NOT ALONE TAX REFORM, TENANTS RIGHTS, BUS DISCOUNTS: WHAT'S NEXT FOR SHEFFIELD'S "PEOPLE'S BILL”Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
A final reflection from Amanda and Casey as they sign off, at least for now. Each day at the Detroit Justice Center our team fights to reunite families, lift barriers to employment and housing, and strengthen communities by supporting small businesses and land trusts. We're building a more equitable and just Detroit, and we need your help. To support our work click here. Freedom Dreams Website Freedom Dreams IG Freedom Dreams Twitter Detroit Justice Center Detroit Justice Center IG
"It's the education that goes with wanting to be safe. And if you talk to young people, they get it. They understand the police don't make us safe. The cameras don't make us safe. We make us safe." Myrtle Thompson Curtis, Feedom Freedom Growers --- Myrtle Thompson Curtis is the founder of Feedom Freedom Growers. She is a mother, grandmother, visionary organizer and thinker on the east side of Detroit. Myrtle is a life-long Detroiter , urban farmer and member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center. Curtis Renee is an aspiring healer and chef, a reiki practitioner, and a lifelong Nonviolence (positive peace) activist from Detroit, Michigan. Curtis' Social Justice passions encompass Black liberation, Black & Palestinian solidarity, feminism, and queer activism. Mama Myrtle and Curtis join Freedom Dreams to describe their vision for safety and beloved community in Detroit and why programs like Project Greenlight and ShotSpotter are not part of that vision. Curtis was featured in season 1 of Freedom Dreams in the episode, How Can We Heal and Reimagine Safe Communities?--- Each day at the Detroit Justice Center our team fights to reunite families, lift barriers to employment and housing, and strengthen communities by supporting small businesses and land trusts. We're building a more equitable and just Detroit, and we need your help. To support our work click here. Freedom Dreams Website Freedom Dreams IG Freedom Dreams Twitter Detroit Justice Center Detroit Justice Center IG
The legendary thinker and radical historian Robin DG Kelley joins us to discuss the importance of the radical imagination and the history of workers' writing. Kelley is author of many books on the history of labour and anti-racist struggles, and about luminary proletarian creative figures. These include: Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, and Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. In this conversation, Kelley explains how, in the face of corporate and capitalist power, which has never failed to mobilize racism, working people have consistently turned to the written word as a tool of solidarity and a means to demand a different future. In an age of digital capitalism where corporations like Amazon dominate the market for books, films and other "content," reclaiming the power to create and share works of the imagination are more important than ever. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Kelley * http://www.beacon.org/Freedom-Dreams-P1855.aspx The Workers' Speculative Society is a research podcast about the world Amazon is building and the workers, writers and communities that are demanding a different future. It is part of the Worker as Futurist Project, which supports rank-and-file Amazon workers to write speculative fiction about "The World After Amazon. It is hosted by Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola, and Graeme Webb and is an initiative of RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, with support from the Social Sciences a Humanities Research Council of Canada. Editing and theme music by Robert Steenkamer. * https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/the-workers-speculative * http://workersspeculativesociety.org * http://reimaginingvalue.ca
Join us for our last episode in our 3-part miniseries with Corey Best on racial justice in child welfare. In this episode, Janine Beaudry brings Corey B. Best and Vermont Family Services Division, Deputy Commissioner Aryka Radke together to dream about, and discuss, the just child and family support system we want to build, along with a few specific thoughts about some of the ways we might get there. Transcript, show notes, and links to episode 1 and 2 available at: https://vermontcwtp.org/lens-podcast/
Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)
On the radio show this week, we cover Freedom Dreams to create a better future where everyone can thrive; addressing childhood hunger in America; how you can help stop gun violence in our nation; and access to healthcare. Through the show, we give tips for activism and ways to help make change! *Special guests include: Dr. Chera Reid, Center for Evaluation Innovation, @FreedomDreamNow; Gina Plata-Nino, Food Research & Action Center, @fractweets; Gloria Pan, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Felicia Burnett, MomsRising, @MomsRising
Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The sixth discussion features actor and filmmaker Danielle Deadwyler. Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and movements for social transformation with pathbreaking artists and scholars. Speakers: Danielle Deadwyler is an American born multidisciplinary performance artist, filmmaker, and actor. She starred as Mamie Till Bradley in the MGM/Orion Pictures feature TILL for visionary director Chinonye Chukwu. She has starred in Netflix's limited series FROM SCRATCH as well the acclaimed Netflix feature THE HARDER THEY FALL for director Jeymes Samuel and producer Jay Z. Other prominent work includes Station Eleven, Watchmen, ATLANTA, and the indie international film THE DEVIL TO PAY. Deadwyler's own award winning experimental film work has been presented at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport; Atlanta Film Festival; New Orleans Film Festival; Cucalorus Film Festival; and Oxford Film Fest. She has exhibited with CUE Art Foundation (NY), MAMBU BADU collective, Mint Gallery, Whitespace Gallery, The Luminary, Atlanta Contemporary Museum, Spelman College's Museum of Fine Art Black Box Series, among others. Numerous grants have supported Deadwyler's works, including IDEA CAPITAL, ELEVATE Atlanta, Living Walls, Synchronicity Theatre, WonderRoot Walthall Fellowship, and Artadia. She is a former Atlanta Film Festival Filmmaker-in-Residence, MINT Gallery Leap Year Fellowship Recipient, a 2020 Franklin Furnace Recipient and a 2021 Princess Grace Award Winner. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement.
"We consider ourselves an incubator for transformative justice here in the south. We are committed to really creating a new way of being, of dealing with violence." - Rukia Lumumba, Executive Director, People's Advocacy Institute. Rukia Lumumba comes from a lineage of Black Freedom Fighters. Her dad was Chokwe Lumumba, former member of the Republic of New Africa and eventual mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. She is the Executive Director of the People's Advocacy Institute, co-coordinator of the Electoral Justice Project, and campaign co-coordinator of the successful Committee to Elect Chokwe Antar Lumumba for Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. She joins Freedom Dreams to describe how she's help build an incubator for transformative justice in the south. --- Each day at the Detroit Justice Center our team fights to reunite families, lift barriers to employment and housing, and strengthen communities by supporting small businesses and land trusts. We're building a more equitable and just Detroit, and we need your help. To support our work click here. Freedom Dreams Website Freedom Dreams IG Freedom Dreams Twitter Detroit Justice Center Detroit Justice Center IG
Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The fifth discussion features Harsha Walia. Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and movements for social transformation with pathbreaking artists and scholars. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and, most recently, Border and Rule (2021). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women's Memorial March Committee. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/wp-UBJT5DnQ Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
"We think that there is a basis for human beings to change, and if I didn't think that I wouldn't be involved in this. I often say I, I don't give this speech to alligators...they're not going to change, and I'd be wasting my time. I do think that humans can change and we have to shift the conditions that make it possible for people who may be leaning toward change to want to actually walk toward each other in a way that hold redemptive possibilities for the nation. - Reverend Nelson Johnson, Co-Founder of the Beloved Community Center. On November, 3rd, 1979, Reverend Nelson Johnson, Joyce Johnson and fellow members of their Communist Workers Party helped organize an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally and march. Five people were killed that day and others injured. Over 20 years after the Greensboro Massacre, the city convened a truth and reconciliation process designed to unpack and better understand the events of 1979. On this episode of Freedom Dreams, we ask...did it work? --- DIG DEEPER: The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Beloved Community Center --- Each day at the Detroit Justice Center our team fights to reunite families, lift barriers to employment and housing, and strengthen communities by supporting small businesses and land trusts. We're building a more equitable and just Detroit, and we need your help. To support our work click here. Freedom Dreams Website Freedom Dreams IG Freedom Dreams Twitter Detroit Justice Center Detroit Justice Center IG
East Pole Town to many Detroit residents is Chene, over there by the old Packard Plant, or Tyree Guyton's artistic footprint. For the families that live in the community, it is a place with rooted traditions. Jasmine Noble taught at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School and had the plan to connect the school to the community. Jasmine was in love with the Boggs approach of collective learning, leadership, and community. This inspired her nonprofit ComeUnity One Stop to start as a wrap-around service provider for young people 18 – 24 years old. Jasmine joins the Freedom Dreams collective with her organization and is now steeped in a community project about family empowerment. Learn more about Jasmin Noble's journey and story in her Detroit is Different feature. Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see and experience more of what makes Detroit different. Follow, like, share, and subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and Sticher. Comment, suggest and connect with the podcast by emailing info@detroitisdifferent.com Find out more at https://detroit-is-different.pinecast.co Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/detroit-is-different/82937295-3192-4f1b-9d79-77438af3c05e
Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)
On the radio show this week, we cover Freedom Dreams to create a better future where everyone can thrive; addressing childhood hunger in America; how you can help stop gun violence in our nation; and access to healthcare. Through the show, we give tips for activism and ways to help make change! *Special guests include: Dr. Chera Reid, Center for Evaluation Innovation, @FreedomDreamNow; Gina Plata-Nino, Food Research & Action Center, @fractweets; Gloria Pan, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Felicia Burnett, MomsRising, @MomsRising TAPED ON: Thursday, March 30, 2023
On the radio show this week, we cover Freedom Dreams to create a better future where everyone can thrive; addressing childhood hunger in America; how you can help stop gun violence in our nation; and access to healthcare. Through the show, we give tips for activism and ways to help make change! *Special guests include: Dr. Chera Reid, Center for Evaluation Innovation, @FreedomDreamNow; Gina Plata-Nino, Food Research & Action Center, @fractweets; Gloria Pan, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Felicia Burnett, MomsRising, @MomsRising
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast, rather than one last guest rounding out our March 2023 herstories series, I went into our archives with a specific goal of putting together a salon of sorts about craft. I think of craft as how vocation, location, persistence and passion fulfill us. According to Merriam-Webster, it is skill in planning, making, or executing. I always ask this question because I feel it allows my guest to share more than what they do on a day-to-day basis for economic returns i.e. work, and gets closer to the heart of who they are and how they go about manifesting a new world. So, this week we're re-visiting with: Jamaican-American, Nydia Swaby (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/nydia-swaby) a Black feminist researcher, writer, and curator based in London about Archives, Art and Freedom Dreams; Filipino-Jamaican-American, Zee Clarke (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/zee-clarke) an author, mindfulness practitioner and racial healing professional about Healing in Breathing; Ghanaian-Afro-German, Ekua Yankah (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/ekua-yankah) a thought leader in international development on being a Polyglot, Professor, Policy Advisor and Art Patron; Ghanaian-Brit, Esther Armah (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/esther-armah) an author, journalist and entrepreneur on storytelling for structural change; Nigerian, Sarah Adeyinka (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/sarah-adeyinka) a humanitarian researcher and author on Humanitarian CoCreating; and and Detroit Native, Dereca Blackmon (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/dereca-blackmon) an inclusion innovator, speaker and spiritual activist about Uncommon Conversations. Be sure to check out full episodes using the links above, there's a wealth of valuable, craft-inspired insights from each of these audacious women! Special Guests: Dereca Blackmon, Ekua Yankah, Esther Armah, Nydia Swaby, Sarah Adeyinka, and Zhalisa "Zee" Clarke.
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley returns to This is Hell! to talk about his essay titled, “Buried History: The Death and Life of Donald S. Kelley” Part of a collection of essays called “After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America." (Haymarket Books). Robin is a writer and professor of history at UCLA. His most recent book is "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/
0:08 — Robin DG Kelley, is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. The post Robin DG Kelley on the twentieth anniversary of “Freedom Dreams” appeared first on KPFA.
Show notes: The incredible Robin D. G. Kelley schools us on what true reparations could look like - and how to use our collective power to envision a better future. Recorded in Los Angeles with a live audience. See the video HERE! Guest: Robin D. G. Kelley Robin Kelley is a leading historian, author, and thinker of our time - or any time. His groundbreaking book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination offers inspiring visions for a bold Black future. He breaks down why we need to imagine a radically different world in the fight for reparations. Filmed with a live audience at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Check out the VIDEO of this episode!Highlights of Episode:[7:59] Freedom Dreams is invitation to engage in struggle, make mistakes, learn from past movements[10:10] The global nature of racism and oppression, seeing reparations more broadly[13:12] Role of artists as truth-tellers[24:39] Robin's bold possibilities for reparations[26:20] Why we need to transform society; link between Black and Indigenous reparations[32:42] Tony's tribute to our mothers[45:42] Why we can't ever get equality under capitalism Some key reparations movements and pioneers from the past:The Black ManifestoN'COBRAProvisional Government Of The Republic Of New Afrika"Queen Mother" Audley MooreCallie HouseSelected books by Robin Kelley:Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (20th anniv. edition)Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary TimesThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalYo' Mama's DisFunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban AmericaRace Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working ClassHammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great DepressionRobin highlights the critical role of artists in the struggle for Black liberation:Aja Monet - Dynamic young poet who wrote the new foreword to Freedom Dreams"Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul" by Gil Scott-Heron - Groundbreaking musician, poet, author, and activistSekou Sindiata - Brilliant poet who made profound impact on Freedom DreamsContact Tony & AdamSubscribe
Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The fourth discussion features Elleza Kelley. Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and movements for social transformation with pathbreaking artists and scholars. Speakers: Elleza Kelley is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University. Kelley works on African American literature, with an emphasis on black geographies and radical spatial practice in the United States. Her current research traces how black spatial knowledge and practice appear in literature and art, particularly through experimentations with form, genre, and media. Her first book project looks at practices of inscription and mark-making as modes of spatial production, representation, and reinvention. Her writing can be found in Antipode, The New Inquiry, Cabinet Magazine, and elsewhere. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Join the upcoming events in the Freedom Dreams Series: www.eventbrite.com/cc/freedom-drea…-kelley-1288129 Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/xQdu-7fpVbU Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: @haymarketbooks
0:08 — Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. The post Robin DG Kelley discusses the twentieth anniversary edition of “Freedom Dreams” appeared first on KPFA.
0:08 — Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. The post Robin DG Kelley on the twentieth anniversary editing of “Freedom Dreams” appeared first on KPFA.
This season on Freedom Dreams we're amplifying community-led solutions to violence and harm. We called on some of the boldest people we know to learn lessons from what they're building. And of course, we asked them what their freedom dreams are. Our new season begins on February 22nd. --- Learn more about the work of the Detroit Justice Center
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Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The third discussion features Samora Pinderhughes. Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and movements for social transformation with pathbreaking artists and scholars. Speakers: Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics alongside high-level musicianship. He is also known for using his music to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change and works in the tradition of the black surrealists, those who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution. Pinderhughes is a prison abolitionist and an advocate for process over product. His music is renowned for its emotionality, its honesty about difficult and vulnerable topics, and its careful details in word and sound. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Join the upcoming events in the Freedom Dreams Series: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/freedom-dreams-with-robin-dg-kelley-1288129 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/gTCtienJ8LA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The second discussion features Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and movements for social transformation with pathbreaking artists and scholars. Speakers: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning scholar and public intellectual. Taylor is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press. Race for Profit was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. She was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2021. Her earlier book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018. Taylor's scholarship examines racism and public policy, inequality, Black politics, radical politics and social movements in the United States, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Taylor is working on two projects, one that look at the dynamics of race, class and politics in the first generation after the Black social movements of the 1960s and a book that examines the Black radical tradition mediated through the life and politics of Angela Y. Davis. Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Paris Review, Guardian, The Nation and Jacobin, among others. She is a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. Taylor has been named one of the hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by The Root. Essence Magazine named her among the top one hundred “change makers” in the county. She has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians by the Organization of American Historians. For eight years, Taylor was a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Join the upcoming events in the Freedom Dreams Series: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/freedom-dreams-with-robin-dg-kelley-1288129 Watch the live event recording: youtu.be/BBoQI9HU1rk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: @haymarketbooks
A twentieth-anniversary edition of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by the UCLA-based historian Robin D. G. Kelley, recently came out. Kelley spoke about his book shortly after it was published. Kelley later joined the program to talk about Aimé Césaire, one of the thinkers featured in Freedom Dreams. (Encore presentation.) Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Beacon, 2022 (Image on main page by Ivan Radic.) The post Dreams of Liberation appeared first on KPFA.
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Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The first discussion features aja monet. Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and movements for social transformation with pathbreaking artists and scholars. Speakers: aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title in 20072007 and aja monet follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. Her first full collection of poems is titled, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter on Haymarket Books. Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and spirituality. In 20182018, she was nominated for a NAACP Literary Award for Poetry and in 20192019 was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry for her cultural organizing work in South Florida. aja monet cofounded a political home for artists and organizers called, Smoke Signals Studio. She facilitates “Voices: Poetry for the People,” a workshop and collective in collaboration with Community Justice Project and Dream Defenders. She is currently working on her next full collection of poems entitled, Florida Water. aja Monet also serves as the new Artistic Creative Director for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against all women and girls. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Join the upcoming events in the Freedom Dreams Series: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/freedom-dreams-with-robin-dg-kelley-1288129 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/BBoQI9HU1rk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
In this episode we welcome Robin DG Kelley back to the podcast. Robin DG Kelley is the Gary B. Nash professor of American History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, and the editor or co-editor of even more. For this episode, Kelley returns to the podcast to talk about the 20th Anniversary Edition of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. We talk to Kelley about what has been added to the new edition of the book, and discuss some of the ways that Freedom Dreams has been taken up during and in the wake of what Kelley terms “Black Spring” the protests following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others. Kelley also talks a bit about the context in which Freedom Dreams was written and why he's restored a previously unreleased epilogue to the book. Beyond that we ask several questions about the original text itself, drawing from the great reservoir of Black radical visions that continue to animate Freedom Dreams 20 years after its release. Just a quick plug Robin is currently raising funds for Palestine Legal which is an independent organization dedicated to defending and advancing the civil rights and liberties of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom. We'll include a link to that fundraiser in the show notes. We'll also include a link to purchase the new 20th anniversary edition of Freedom Dreams from Massive Bookshop. Speaking of Massive our book club for incarcerated readers with Massive Bookshop and Prisons Kill was able to fund copies of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Scenes of Subjection to all 41 its participants, so thank you very much to all of you who supported that campaign! We will be announcing our December book soon so keep an eye out for that. And we also hit our goal of adding 30 patrons for the month of November. Thank you to everyone who continues to support us. If you appreciate and enjoy conversations like this, become a patron of the show. You can do it for as little as $1 per month and be a part of the amazing group of folks who make this show possible. Links/References: Purchase Freedom Dreams from Massive Bookshop Conjuncture: Against Pessimism (hosted by Jordan Camp) with Robin DG Kelley Robin & LisaGay's fundraiser for Palestine Legal. More on Palestine Legal Midnight On The Clock Of The World - (our first interview with Robin DG Kelley)
The history and evolution of socialism in this country is connected to the history of social injustices and Black radicalism. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss a lecture by Robin D.G. Kelley at Haymarket Books' Socialism 2022 Conference titled “Freedom Dreams and the Socialist Project”, and what we learn about the history, power, and impact of socialism as a philosophy and movement that can help us in our continued pursuit of and work for social justice and collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Website, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
It was in 2002 that Robin D.G. Kelley published Freedom Dreams, a history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora throughout the twentieth century. The book presented a premise that the catalyst for political engagement is not oppression or misery, but hope. From Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, to Paul Robeson and Malcolm X, to Jayne Cortez, the book unearthed histories of these and other Black radicals who dared to dream of a brighter future. It tackled topics such as surrealism, Communism, and feminism and was replete with examples on how these and other movements and mindsets intersected with the Black experience. Two decades later, the work remains a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Town Hall welcomes Kelley as he marks the 20th anniversary of Freedom Dreams with a 2022 edition, complete with a foreword by poet and activist Aja Monet, as well as updated reflections. A new introduction highlights Kelley's expanded worldview and broadened vision of freedom that includes disability justice, abolition, decolonization, and mutual care. Likewise, a new epilogue explores the visionary organizing of those he deems today's freedom dreamers. This classic history of the power of the Black radical imagination, its underpinnings and offshoots, remains as fitting for the present as it was at the time of its initial publication. Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at UCLA. He is author or co-editor of numerous award-winning books, including Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America, and Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, among others. Reagan Jackson is a multi-genre writer, artist, activist, and international educator with an abiding love of justice, art, spirituality, and creating community. She is the Co-Executive Director of Young Women Empowered. She is also the co-host and producer of the Deep End Friends Podcast and the cofounder of Blackout Healing. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Estelita's Library
Love and imagination, potentially the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of the oppressed, the marginalized, and the exploited, are frequently unappreciated, too often underutilized—and yet still within reach and entirely available. Robin D.G. Kelley foregrounds love, imagination, and generosity in all of his work, including the groundbreaking https://bookshop.org/books/freedom-dreams-twentieth-anniversary-edition-the-black-radical-imagination-9780807007037/9780807007037?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7KqZBhCBARIsAI-fTKJegtoNeXn1PgHQVxweACej2F2xa9y_ISp-_ylFjukdI_IE-DgnBRsaAtcTEALw_wcB (Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination,) an original history of Black radicalism and a powerful vision of a revolutionary future. Kelley describes himself as a "Marxist surrealist feminist who is not just anti something, but pro-emancipation, pro-liberation.” We met up with Robin Kelley recently at the Socialism 2022 conference in Chicago where we released our radical imaginations in a generative and wide-ranging conversation.
Historian and author Robin D. G. Kelley joins us for an extended Part 2 interview about the 20th anniversary edition of his book, “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.”
Historian and author Robin D. G. Kelley joins us for an extended Part 2 interview about the 20th anniversary edition of his book, “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.”
The protests we see now have their foundation in the previous century and borrow from the intellectual work of black renegades. We talk to Robin DG Kelley about the 20th-Anniversary Edition of his seminal book "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination," the future of social movements, and the possibilities they can bring for our collective future.
The protests we see now have their foundation in the previous century and borrow from the intellectual work of black renegades. We talk to Robin DG Kelley about the 20th-Anniversary Edition of his seminal book "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination," the future of social movements, and the possibilities they can bring for our collective future.
When historian Robin D. G. Kelley published his seminal book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination in 2002, he hoped to inspire the racial justice activists of time to find hope in the ideas of visionaries like Malcolm X and CLR James.
On this week's episode of Up The Blunx, Kevin is at Malcolm X park in West Philadelphia on Juneteenth 2022 linking up with Corey of Move BHC to chop it up about the importance of community, working out strictly for the pit, the ideal future of Hardcore in 10 years and so much more. ALSO: If you're black, in a punk band and would like to be played on our show; send us a bio and link to your music at UptheBlunx@gmail.com This episode features the song Beyond Reform by Move BHC off of their 2021 release “Freedom Dreams” on Triple B Records
The Freedom Dreams team is hard at work on a new season of the show. It'll come to you this fall. But in the meantime, we want to share a conversation Amanda recently had with the incredibly brilliant and tender-hearted philosopher, Lewis Gordon. Their talk was hosted by Source Booksellers in Detroit's Cass Corridor this past winter. Gordon's new book is Fear of Black Consciousness and in it he peaks precisely to the moment that we're in. He helps us to understand the COVID 19 pandemic, police violence, and this latest wave of social movements and repression, in the context of the past five years and the past five centuries–and longer. His book weaves in history, linguistics, film interpretation (with an incredible reading of Jordan Peele's Get Out), music, memory, mythology, and more. His sources and frameworks are so wide-ranging because his task is so ambitious: to understand the contours of society and how we make meaning, to tell the history of anti-black racism, and, always, to orient us toward liberation. In that orientation, his book belongs to the radical visionary organizing tradition, which James Boggs furthered so powerfully in his lifetime. Gordon offers us tools to ask better questions of ourselves, like ‘how might we become agents of change?' ‘How can we expand our options,' and, as he puts it, ‘build productive and life-affirming institutions of empowerment?” If Lewis Gordon isn't a Freedom Dreamer, we don't know who is!
Reverend Matthew Wesley Williams is the 11th President of the Interdenominational Theological Center, a historically Black ecumenical graduate theological school in Atlanta, GA. Rev. Williams, an expert in the field of theological education, has built national programs and partnerships to advance opportunities for institutional change, faculty development, doctoral education, leadership formation, young adult vocational discernment, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education.Reverend Williams was the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for the Forum for TheologicalExploration (known as FTE), a national leadership incubator. During the 15 years Rev. Williams was with FTE, he designed and led initiatives that built the capacity of academic institutions and faith-rooted organizations to inspire, form, and equip emerging leaders.This is the second of a two part Sound of the Genuine with Rev. Williams.Music by: @siryalibeatsPortrait Illustration by: Olivia LimFollow FTE on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for alerts on new episodes.
Reverend Matthew Wesley Williams is the 11th President of the Interdenominational Theological Center, a historically Black ecumenical graduate theological school in Atlanta, GA. Rev. Williams, an expert in the field of theological education, has built national programs and partnerships to advance opportunities for institutional change, faculty development, doctoral education, leadership formation, young adult vocational discernment, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education.Reverend Williams was the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for the Forum for TheologicalExploration (known as FTE), a national leadership incubator. During the 15 years Rev. Williams was with FTE, he designed and led initiatives that built the capacity of academic institutions and faith-rooted organizations to inspire, form, and equip emerging leaders.This is the first of a two part Sound of the Genuine with Rev. Williams.Music by: @siryalibeatsPortrait Illustration by: Olivia LimFollow FTE on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for alerts on new episodes.
On this Resurrection Sunday, Camille and Jia pass the mic to directly impacted people to engage in a freedom dreaming conversation on reparations. Freedom Dreaming is about imagining into existence a world where everyone has what they need to flourish. This episode will be co-hosted by Andrea James, JD, the Founder and Executive Director of The National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and Richard Wallace, Founder and Executive Director of Equity and Transformation. They will be in conversation with Avalon Betts-Gaston, JD, Project Manager for IL Alliance for Reentry & Justice and Marvin Slaughter, Interim Director | The African American Leadership and Policy Institute. They engage in an authentic and honest conversation about what reparations means to them and how their vision of reparations would change their lives, the lives of their family and community?
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week in our final #herstory in our 2022 March series, I'm happy to welcome Black feminist researcher, writer, and curator Nydia Swaby. Nydia is a Jamaican-American and have called London home for the past decade. She has a PhD in Gender Studies (SOAS (https://www.soas.ac.uk)), an MA in Women's History [Sarah Lawrence College], and a BA in Anthropology and African American Studies [Rollins College]. Her practice builds on theories of racial, gendered, diasporic, and queer formation, Black feminism, Black studies, and my previous experience working at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In her creative approach to knowledge production, she uses archives, ethnography, photography, film, and the imagination to curate programs and visual narratives, write essays and performance pieces exploring the gendered and diasporic dimensions of Black being and becoming. She also creates ancestral altars using family pictures and memorabilia, found photographs and archival images, West African textiles and wood carvings, crystals, fossils, stones, shells, and other curios. These practices converge in her forthcoming monograph, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Back Feminist Archives (Lawrence Wishart, Summer 2022 (https://www.nydiaswaby.com/amy-ashwood-garvey-and-the-future-of-black-feminist-archives)) and Caird Research Fellowship at The National Maritime Museum, ‘Curating Archives of Affect: Black Feminist Pasts, Presents, and Futures' (December 2021 - September 2020), and my ongoing visual series, ‘Becoming with Archive: Blackness, Gender, Diaspora (https://www.nydiaswaby.com/becoming-with-archive)' (2010 - Present). Alongside her practice-based research, Nydia work as the Curator of Learning at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where she collaborates with academics, curators, artists, and writers to develop a multi-disciplinary, practice-based research and learning program. She is also a member of Feminist Review's Editorial Collective and the Curator of Programmes, and co-edited a recent issue on queer, feminist, diasporic, and decolonial archives. Please read on and explore the topics of interest below for a thoughtfully curated account of the many individuals discussed in the episode. Where to find Nydia? www.nydiaswaby.com On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nydia-a-swaby-85a04132/) What's Nydia reading? The Sex Lives of African Women (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08JHT3LNL&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_TQTYAW9KZ638NHQ5H6F8&tag=glocalcitiz09-20) by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Dear Science and Other Stories (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08QGNPLDP&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_14YR1EYY3KX9J5MJHBMD&tag=glocalcitiz09-20) by Katherine McKittrick What's Nydia watching? Master (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286210/) Daughters of the Dust (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104057/) Other topics of interest: Amy Ashwood Garvey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Ashwood_Garvey) Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association_and_African_Communities_League) Pan African Movement (https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/through-the-lens-of-history-biafra-nigeria-the-west-and-the-world/the-colonial-and-pre-colonial-eras-in-nigeria/the-pan-african-movement) Garveyism (https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/marcus-garvey) Jamaica Kincaid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Kincaid) On Code Switching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching) Double Consciousness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_consciousness) Girl, Woman, Other (https://smile.amazon.com/Girl-Woman-Other-Booker-Winner/dp/0802156983/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1648811909&sr=8-1#) by Bernardine Evaristo Ifeanyi Awachie (http://ifeanyiawachie.com/) Imani Perry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imani_Perry) Lorraine Hansberry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry) Barby Asante (https://www.barbyasante.com) S. Pearl Sharp (https://spearlsharp.com) Akosua Adoma Owusu (https://akosuaadoma.com/home.html) Rita Gayle (https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/rita-gayle/) Joan Morgan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Morgan_(American_author)) Brittney Cooper (https://www.amazon.com/Brittney-C.-Cooper/e/B01N6XZ20X%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share) The Politics of Pleasure (https://www.instagram.com/thepoliticsofpleasure/?hl=en) Special Guest: Nydia Swaby.
We're so excited to share an episode from a new podcast we think you'll love called Freedom Dreams. It's a show that explores historical examples of experiments in liberation, and dreams about how to expand the work already being done to build the abolitionist world we want to see beyond police and incarceration. SUBSCRIBE TO FREEDOM DREAMS WHEREVER YOU LISTEN TO PODCASTS. In this episode, the Freedom Dreamers head over to The James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit to learn about place-based education and its relationship to community action. Many think of school as a place where you get to know yourself…but what if it was also how you got to know your community? Ethan Lowenstein teaches us the basics of place-based education and how it knocks down the wall between school and community to better prepare students to live empowered, active lives. Then Julia Putnam, Amanda Rosman, and Marisol Teachworth (administrators at the Boggs School) tell us how language arts, science, and social studies classes can bring students into their communities to practice problem solving and engaging with the people around them. Our guests teach us about visionary organizing and how it focuses not just on what systems we're tearing down but also what we're building up. Listen in for these alternative models of academic success! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
“For anti-colonial movements in the past and still today, regaining access to land that you and your people were displaced from is a core part of what it means to be free.” In this final episode of the first season of Freedom Dreams, our guests take on black liberation through land ownership and food sovereignty. Tepfirah Rushdan and Erin Bevel talk about co-founding the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund to help local growers navigate purchasing land. Natalie Baszile, author of We Are Each Other's Harvest, discusses the history of Black farmland loss and the recent Black Farmers Act. And, Lynelle Herndon shows us how Home Ec Detroit builds community gardens on abandoned Detroit lots. You can contribute the The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund here and check out Natalie Baszile's book here. Find us on IG and Twitter. TRANSCRIPT
Tokologisch koken. Dat is in een notendop wat kok Manuela Goncalves Tavares doet. Ben je bekend in Rotterdam, dan ken je haar van restaurants Toko94, Tokotrash, Coco of Het Nieuwe Instituut. Ze leerde het vak bij Herman den Blijker, maar helpt ook in de keuken van metalpodium Baroeg. Maar ook: de vrouw die eind vorig jaar de Black Achievement Award won voor haar ondernemerschap. Actief is in de lhbti+-gemeenschap. Kookt voor daklozen. Vroeger in Parkzicht kwam om te hakken op gabber. Projecten leidt met tienermoeders. Oefent op de basgitaar. Praatgroepen organiseert voor jonge mensen die homoseksueel zijn. En Manuela is metalfan. Gróót metalfan. Dat laat ze horen in dit uur Dood & Verderf. En dan krijgt ze in deze uitzending ook nog eens een luistertip van het online magazine Zware Metalen! God, wat een feest. De playlist Zwaar Aanbevolen Move BHC - Freedom Dreams (Freedom Dreams, 2021) “Op het gebied van de black achievement awards is Freedom Dreams van Move BHC een mooie luistertip”, vertelt Pim Kastelein, eindbaas van het online magazine Zware Metalen en aandrager van de maandelijkse tip voor onze gast. Volgens Pim gaf Move BHC de ‘dikste moshcall van 2021': We'll never stop until we find liberation, Black Excellence unstained by degradation Where freedom reigns over incarceration Where Black joy is only meant with celebration “Sinds de zomer van 2020 zijn er meer hardcorebands opgekomen die geïnspireerd zijn door de Black Lives Matter-beweging, dermate dat er inmiddels van het subgenre BLM-core gesproken kan worden”, legt Pim uit. “Het hardcoregenre is van oudsher meer pluriform gebleken en gesynchroniseerd met hedendaagse problematiek. Qua lyriek is deze gehele EP van Move BHC smullen geblazen. Dat deze Stick To Your Guns-achtige muziek op het streetcredwaardige label Triple B Records uitgebracht wordt, is blijk dat hier geen sprake is van positieve discriminatie. Move BHC is gewoon een heel goede hardcoreband.” Beluister de Osmium-podcast van Zware Metalen waarin Move BHC besproken wordt
On this week's episode of Up The Blunx, Kevin and Akil talk about Anarchy, the latest Dave Chapelle special, and possibly developing a program that promotes taking drugs to get closer to Jesus.ALSO: If you're black, in a punk band and would like to be played on our show; send us a bio and link to your music at UptheBlunx@gmail.com This episode features the song “Freedom Dreams” by MOVE (BHC)
Welcome to Freedom Dreams! The show that explores the many paths to building a truly just future for everyone. Centered in abolitionist thinking, this podcast, produced by the Detroit Justice Center, expands beyond the realm of criminal justice into conversations around what we could be building and prioritizing instead of punishment and further harm to make our communities genuinely safe. Hosted by Amanda Alexander, Founding Executive Director of DJC & Casey Rocheteau, Communications Manager of DJC, each episode seeks to answer a question that faces our present moment. TRANSCRIPT
On 5/13/21, AirGo hosted Undocumented & Unafraid, a conversation as part of Allied Media Projects' Bloom Speakers Series. The guys had the privilege and honor of learning from: Jennicet Gutierrez, an organizer with queer and trans undocumented rights organization Famila TQLM; and Patrice Lawrence, the Co-Director of UndocuBlack Network (UBN) is a multigenerational network of currently and formerly undocumented Black people. The squad talks about what they've learned in the struggle, what needs to be centered in the conversation around borders and immigration, what their freedom dreams look like, and much more. Big shouts out to Allied Media for having us! SHOW NOTES Deadly Exchange campaign - https://deadlyexchange.org/ Freedom Dreams by Robin Kelley - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/ Undocublack Network - https://undocublack.org/ Familia: TQLM - https://familiatqlm.org/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091
Na 27 afleveringen is het dan zover: de presentatoren van Osmium - de zwaarste podcast in het Nederlands - nemen in levende lijve samen een aflevering op. Weg met de digitale afstandelijkheid en hoge geluidskwaliteit, in met de trekzakken en kussenkastelen. De aanleiding? Het Roadburn-festival kan voor de tweede keer op rij geen doorgang vinden en vindt daardoor, hopelijk eenmalig, volledig in digitale zin plaats onder de noemer Roadburn Redux. Pim trotseert de onveilige buitenwereld en daalt tot onder de rivieren om bij Niels een weekend lang op de bank te komen zitten. Onderuitgezakt en met uitpuilende bierbuik wordt vier dagen aan online content- van livestreams tot demoprimeurs - geconsumeerd, verteerd en beoordeeld. Black Flag schreef er in 1981 het profetische TV Party over. Onderwerpen: DVNE - Satuya (00:00) Welkomstwoord: trekzakken in kastelen van kussens (00:13) Introductie van de onderwerpen (02:35) Opvolging van de Fieldlab-experimenten (03:57) De dubieuze onderzoeksconclusies van de Fieldlabs (07:38) Roadburn Redux: wat is het? (12:31) Lof voor de vlekkeloosheid en productiewaarde (16:39) De voor- en nadelen van het consumeren van een online evenement (20:46) Het belang van de Roadburn-gemeenschap (25:19) De rooskleurige festivalaanhangers versus het zure Osmium-duo (26:59) Het plannen van je festivalvrijheid (31:22) De hoogtepunten van Roadburn Redux volgens Niels en Pim (35:19) Treurigheid om de ontbrekende sets (41:21) Luistertip van Pim: Move BHC - Freedom Dreams, Black Lives Matter-core met uiterst citeerbare songteksten (43:43) Luistertip van Niels: DVNE - Etemen Ænka, onpretentieuze, rauwe prog die zelfs proghaters bovenaan hun jaarlijst kunnen plaatsen (47:52) Shout-out naar Remco (51:41) In Memoriam: Remi Peterse, voorzitter van Zware Metalen (52:24)
How can we honor the leadership of Black trans sex worker communities in struggles for gender and LGBTQIA+ justice this Women's History Month? Black Trans Nation executive director and Decrim NY steering committee member TS Candii and Women with a Vision Sex Worker Advisory Committee member Paris Jackson speak with advocacy associate maya finoh and communications assistant Alex Webster about their work to pass legislation ending the criminalization of people in the sex trades and trans people in New York State and Louisiana, as well as their freedom dreams for Black and trans liberation. They explain why decriminalization is the legislative proposal that can best guarantee the safety of marginalized people working in the sex trades, why sex work must ultimately be recognized as the labor that it is and be provided labor protections the same as any other work, and how the criminalization of work in the sex trades is part of a larger and centuries-long project by the state to target and criminalize Black and trans communities. They also discuss how the histories of sex workers organizing to support each other appear in current mutual aid projects, and how to support and promote their crucial work.Resources:New York legislation:Walking While Trans Ban Bill (New York Senate Bill 1351 /Assembly Bill 3355) (signed into law)Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act (New York Senate Bill 3075 /Assembly Bill 849) (pending)Louisiana legislation:Louisiana House Bill 67 (pending)Deep South Decrim ToolkitSign-on form to support Louisiana House Bill 67
What happens when you dream of being a pilot but, after years of work in pursuit of that goal, you are told you don’t qualify? For one entrepreneurial woman, you take the skills that you’ve already developed and dedicate them to a new passion -- in this case, it was real estate.During her time with the U.S. Navy, Beka Shea earned her mechanical engineering degree. When she crossed “pilot” off her list, she worked as an engineer until her third pregnancy which made her realize she didn’t want to travel as much. That’s when she decided to try her hand at real estate and took on her first fix-and-flip. From there, she turned her skills into an amazing real estate career rehabbing dozens of homes, wholesaling many more, and buying several rental properties along the way.She attributes her success to a certain kind of mindset which you’ll hear more about in this episode! Currently, she works full-time helping other investors reach their real estate goals or what she calls “Freedom Dreams.” You’ll find her at: https://www.7figureflipping.comFor this episode and more, go to www.RealWealthShow.comIf you like our show, please subscribe and leave us a 5 star review and comment!
What happens when you dream of being a pilot but, after years of work in pursuit of that goal, you are told you don’t qualify? For one entrepreneurial woman, you take the skills that you’ve already developed and dedicate them to a new passion -- in this case, it was real estate.During her time with the U.S. Navy, Beka Shea earned her mechanical engineering degree. When she crossed “pilot” off her list, she worked as an engineer until her third pregnancy which made her realize she didn’t want to travel as much. That’s when she decided to try her hand at real estate and took on her first fix-and-flip. From there, she turned her skills into an amazing real estate career rehabbing dozens of homes, wholesaling many more, and buying several rental properties along the way.She attributes her success to a certain kind of mindset which you’ll hear more about in this episode! Currently, she works full-time helping other investors reach their real estate goals or what she calls “Freedom Dreams.” You’ll find her at: https://www.7figureflipping.comFor this episode and more, go to www.RealWealthShow.comIf you like our show, please subscribe and leave us a 5 star review and comment!
In this episode edna bonhomme speaks with Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor about Florida, Black communities in the American South, dreams, decolonizing the arts, writing, and joy. Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor is an artist, filmmaker and community organizer. Her roots are in the Southern United States, born in Mississippi and bred in Florida, formerly Thimogona land. Taylor's work manifests through performance, text, dialogue, dance and community building for Black People. Her work centers on themes of ritual, visibility and identity mythology. She is chiefly concerned with ways to dismantle oppressive institutions and the creation of racial equity in art and theater. She is currently based in Berlin and pursuing her Masters in Black British Literature at Goldsmiths University in London. Image: Muttererde Film Poster. Image by Mayowa Lynette
Episode 4- Feminism(s), Friendship, Freedom Dreams and Life as a Phd student with Niharika. by Veronica Kimani
Episode 4- Feminism(s), Friendship, Freedom Dreams and Life as a Phd student with Niharika. by Veronica Kimani
Meet Jay-Marie Hill. Evolutionary Leadership Cohort of 2018. Activist, musician, and educator who lives a life designed to help our world ascend beyond gendered and racialized norms. Tune in. Experience the way Jay-Marie brings us into the fullness of their heart while moving us with their piercing intellect. Listen, learn and feel. And please support the Black Trans & GNC Bike Ride. Let’s honor the truth held in these bodies. Jay-Marie Hill is a musician and Founder of Music Freedom Dreams. They are currently organizing and fundraising for The Black Trans Bike Experience, which is a 5 day 160 mile bike ride for black trans and gender non-conforming riders. The ride will conclude in DC on September 28, just in time for the first Trans March on DC. This bike ride aims to deepen rider’s connection to body, mind, and spirit. Trans and GNC folks deserve more than just the ability to survive, they deserve joy and freedom. DONATE HERE: https://www.blacktrans.bike/support
A love story that takes you from the suburbs of Nairobi to Bukavu in Dr Congo.
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer's The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016) rewrites elitist accounts that narrowly defined the party by its male leaders and masculine militarism. With a panoramic and critical lens on the role that gender politics played in effecting and affecting the Revolution – an internal and external activist project of overcoming oppression – Spencer's organisational history weaves the urban parameters of Oakland, California, into a national and international narrative of racial consciousness. A book that Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams, has said “tears down myths and distortions,” The Revolution Has Come traverses the BPP's uncritical embrace of heteropatriachy in self-defense tactics, the dialectic relationship of state oppression and Black Women's leadership of the party, the role of community programs in reshaping notions of masculinity and the personal toll of sexual double-standards in unspoken dating rules. Using archival and interview research that includes artwork, wiretap transcripts, poems, trial documents and the BPP's newsletter, Spencer provides an example of historical scholarship that forefronts the voices and mouthpieces of the BPP to creates a unique intimacy with the “coming of age” of the men and women who set the groundwork for current iterations of Black resistance. In the words of Spencer herself, “this book is right on time,” and is necessary reading for activists and scholars alike who are attempting to define the gendered assumptions and history of strength, self-care and endurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016) rewrites elitist accounts that narrowly defined the party by its male leaders and masculine militarism. With a panoramic and critical lens on the role that gender politics played in effecting and affecting the Revolution – an internal and external activist project of overcoming oppression – Spencer’s organisational history weaves the urban parameters of Oakland, California, into a national and international narrative of racial consciousness. A book that Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams, has said “tears down myths and distortions,” The Revolution Has Come traverses the BPP’s uncritical embrace of heteropatriachy in self-defense tactics, the dialectic relationship of state oppression and Black Women’s leadership of the party, the role of community programs in reshaping notions of masculinity and the personal toll of sexual double-standards in unspoken dating rules. Using archival and interview research that includes artwork, wiretap transcripts, poems, trial documents and the BPP’s newsletter, Spencer provides an example of historical scholarship that forefronts the voices and mouthpieces of the BPP to creates a unique intimacy with the “coming of age” of the men and women who set the groundwork for current iterations of Black resistance. In the words of Spencer herself, “this book is right on time,” and is necessary reading for activists and scholars alike who are attempting to define the gendered assumptions and history of strength, self-care and endurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016) rewrites elitist accounts that narrowly defined the party by its male leaders and masculine militarism. With a panoramic and critical lens on the role that gender politics played in effecting and affecting the Revolution – an internal and external activist project of overcoming oppression – Spencer’s organisational history weaves the urban parameters of Oakland, California, into a national and international narrative of racial consciousness. A book that Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams, has said “tears down myths and distortions,” The Revolution Has Come traverses the BPP’s uncritical embrace of heteropatriachy in self-defense tactics, the dialectic relationship of state oppression and Black Women’s leadership of the party, the role of community programs in reshaping notions of masculinity and the personal toll of sexual double-standards in unspoken dating rules. Using archival and interview research that includes artwork, wiretap transcripts, poems, trial documents and the BPP’s newsletter, Spencer provides an example of historical scholarship that forefronts the voices and mouthpieces of the BPP to creates a unique intimacy with the “coming of age” of the men and women who set the groundwork for current iterations of Black resistance. In the words of Spencer herself, “this book is right on time,” and is necessary reading for activists and scholars alike who are attempting to define the gendered assumptions and history of strength, self-care and endurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016) rewrites elitist accounts that narrowly defined the party by its male leaders and masculine militarism. With a panoramic and critical lens on the role that gender politics played in effecting and affecting the Revolution – an internal and external activist project of overcoming oppression – Spencer’s organisational history weaves the urban parameters of Oakland, California, into a national and international narrative of racial consciousness. A book that Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams, has said “tears down myths and distortions,” The Revolution Has Come traverses the BPP’s uncritical embrace of heteropatriachy in self-defense tactics, the dialectic relationship of state oppression and Black Women’s leadership of the party, the role of community programs in reshaping notions of masculinity and the personal toll of sexual double-standards in unspoken dating rules. Using archival and interview research that includes artwork, wiretap transcripts, poems, trial documents and the BPP’s newsletter, Spencer provides an example of historical scholarship that forefronts the voices and mouthpieces of the BPP to creates a unique intimacy with the “coming of age” of the men and women who set the groundwork for current iterations of Black resistance. In the words of Spencer herself, “this book is right on time,” and is necessary reading for activists and scholars alike who are attempting to define the gendered assumptions and history of strength, self-care and endurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer's The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016) rewrites elitist accounts that narrowly defined the party by its male leaders and masculine militarism. With a panoramic and critical lens on the role that gender politics played in effecting and affecting the Revolution – an internal and external activist project of overcoming oppression – Spencer's organisational history weaves the urban parameters of Oakland, California, into a national and international narrative of racial consciousness. A book that Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams, has said “tears down myths and distortions,” The Revolution Has Come traverses the BPP's uncritical embrace of heteropatriachy in self-defense tactics, the dialectic relationship of state oppression and Black Women's leadership of the party, the role of community programs in reshaping notions of masculinity and the personal toll of sexual double-standards in unspoken dating rules. Using archival and interview research that includes artwork, wiretap transcripts, poems, trial documents and the BPP's newsletter, Spencer provides an example of historical scholarship that forefronts the voices and mouthpieces of the BPP to creates a unique intimacy with the “coming of age” of the men and women who set the groundwork for current iterations of Black resistance. In the words of Spencer herself, “this book is right on time,” and is necessary reading for activists and scholars alike who are attempting to define the gendered assumptions and history of strength, self-care and endurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016) rewrites elitist accounts that narrowly defined the party by its male leaders and masculine militarism. With a panoramic and critical lens on the role that gender politics played in effecting and affecting the Revolution – an internal and external activist project of overcoming oppression – Spencer’s organisational history weaves the urban parameters of Oakland, California, into a national and international narrative of racial consciousness. A book that Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams, has said “tears down myths and distortions,” The Revolution Has Come traverses the BPP’s uncritical embrace of heteropatriachy in self-defense tactics, the dialectic relationship of state oppression and Black Women’s leadership of the party, the role of community programs in reshaping notions of masculinity and the personal toll of sexual double-standards in unspoken dating rules. Using archival and interview research that includes artwork, wiretap transcripts, poems, trial documents and the BPP’s newsletter, Spencer provides an example of historical scholarship that forefronts the voices and mouthpieces of the BPP to creates a unique intimacy with the “coming of age” of the men and women who set the groundwork for current iterations of Black resistance. In the words of Spencer herself, “this book is right on time,” and is necessary reading for activists and scholars alike who are attempting to define the gendered assumptions and history of strength, self-care and endurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016) rewrites elitist accounts that narrowly defined the party by its male leaders and masculine militarism. With a panoramic and critical lens on the role that gender politics played in effecting and affecting the Revolution – an internal and external activist project of overcoming oppression – Spencer’s organisational history weaves the urban parameters of Oakland, California, into a national and international narrative of racial consciousness. A book that Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams, has said “tears down myths and distortions,” The Revolution Has Come traverses the BPP’s uncritical embrace of heteropatriachy in self-defense tactics, the dialectic relationship of state oppression and Black Women’s leadership of the party, the role of community programs in reshaping notions of masculinity and the personal toll of sexual double-standards in unspoken dating rules. Using archival and interview research that includes artwork, wiretap transcripts, poems, trial documents and the BPP’s newsletter, Spencer provides an example of historical scholarship that forefronts the voices and mouthpieces of the BPP to creates a unique intimacy with the “coming of age” of the men and women who set the groundwork for current iterations of Black resistance. In the words of Spencer herself, “this book is right on time,” and is necessary reading for activists and scholars alike who are attempting to define the gendered assumptions and history of strength, self-care and endurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Subscribe on iTunes SHOW NOTES: www.travelfreedompodcast.com/024 In the Travel With Bender episode: Even if you don't have kids you'll want to learn from Josh & Erin Bender - Family travel lifestyle experts. The benefits of an "on-the-road" education and the biggest challenges kids pose to their nomad parents. Plus, we celebrate 2 years on the road! Feature Topics in this episode: Why Kids are not a barrier to travel What are the biggest challenges to long term travel with kids Living in Bali in a high quality place for a Family of 4 for $2,500 - all inclusive. Why travel is a better education for your kids Transitioning from a web development business to being full time bloggers. Running competitions to monetize your blog Why advertisers are not paying for your writing, and what they are paying for... How having kids doesn't affect your opportunities to work with travel companies Why Family travel bloggers find it easier to get free stuff Getting paid to travel by a sauce company? Travel Lifestyle does not have to be permanent Weblinks from Travels With Bender Episode World Nomads Insurance - Specifically designed for digital nomads, flashpackers, adventure & long term Travellers - Get a 5% Discount with our coupon code: WN5DP Trusted Housesitters.com - Use discount code 5DP to get a 15% discount on membership How to become a housesitting pro in just 3 months.
Hi I'm Laura Flanders of GRITtv. I've just spent two very different weekends in the company of two very different groups of people dealing with two very related problems; on the one hand, invasive, warrantless wiretapping; on the other, violent, unwarranted policing. The first gathering was dominated by white people: hackers, journalists and artists, concerned about surveillance, secrecy and censorship. Their stories were hair-raising, dealing with tracked cellphones, data-driven drone strikes and whistleblowers imprisoned. Ten days later, with the Millions March in New York, the demographics were very different. Predominantly African American, the triggers there were police brutality and killings in communities of color – as well as official impunity in the slaughter of among others, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Aiyana-Stanley Jones, Tamir Rice... and the list keeps growing. The two groups and the two events differed, but they put me in mind of a single story: the one about feeling the elephant. In the story, a group of people who can't see are trying to learn what an elephant looks like by touching it, but each is feeling a different part. Is the monstrous creature mostly tusk, all tummy or overwhelmingly trunk? Compiling the big picture is no simple matter, but when the touchers compare notes, it all comes together. Depending on who's doing the touching, our creature feels like drones and wiretaps or guns and chokeholds, but can we agree we're touching parts of the same elephant? It's not affecting us all the same, or all of us equally, or with the same result, but it's one big problem. From our government's urge to control global communications and punish dissent to our beat cop's demand for total submission and obedience; too many of us are being policed too much, too brutally, with too little accountability -- to grievous effect on our shared body politic. Coming together could make us smarter quicker. In just one example, in a recent interview with The Nation magazine, NSA leaker Edward Snowden asked: “The question is: particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?” Frontline communities of color could have answered that question right quick, and they might suggest that 9-11 doesn't have much to do with it. Drones or chokeholds, our elephant is rampant policing or if you prefer, authoritarianism. Now if only all those who've been feeling it, tusk and trunk, could feel their way towards one another and make common cause to tame the monster. You can watch my interview with Robin D.G. Kelley author of Freedom Dreams on this topic and more at GRITtv.org and find out about The Laura Flanders Show which you can now see on LinkTV and TeleSUR English. To tell me what you think, write to: Laura@GRITtv.org. For GRITtv, I'm Laura Flanders.
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