Podcasts about pico network

Since 2020, L.A.'s 10th council district has had a revolving cast of councilmembers, both elected and appointed. Now, voters finally get to choose a permanent, voting representative on the council.There is a big and impressive field of candidates   – and on this episode I talk with Aura Vasquez.Aura Vasquez is an Afro-Latina Colombian immigrant, community leader, fearless environmental justice advocate, and renewable energy advisor.  She served as a mayoral appointee to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners from 2017 to 2020.  She has served as the  Climate Justice Director for the Center for Popular Democracy. Prior to that, she advocated for state and federal immigrant rights with the PICO Network, fought for the the largest rooftop solar program in the country, and pushed for clean energy as an organizer with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.  She was elected to the Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council (WCKNC) in 2012, where she became the only Latina and only non-Korean American on the board. You can find out more about her at her campaign website: https://www.auraforthepeople.com/

Megan Black, PICO Network’s national clergy organizer guest hosts this special episode. Megan traveled to Washington, DC to meet with Rev. Erik Martínez Resly and Ahmane' Glover, co-directors of the Sanctuaries, an arts community  whose mission is to ignite the sacred power of the arts for social change. We were first introduced to the Sanctuaries last fall when they brought their gifts of art, movement and song into the Prophetic Resistance Summit in Indianapolis. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience and  is part conversation, part call and response and part performative art. We invite you to take it all in. Show Notes: Learn more about The Sanctuaries by visiting http://thesanctuaries.org/. Learn more about the Prophetic Resistance Summit, https://thinkprogress.org/prophets-resistance-undermine-trump-8cfdda05ab1a/

DID U LIKE LAST WEEK?! DID U WANT SOME MORE?! COOL. Here ya go - we have the second half of our conversation with Lauren Jewett and Erika Katske, which is obv super fascinating and eye-opening, and then we have a V SPECIAL AND SECRET GUEST FOR THE SECOND HALF, SO JUST HOLD ONTO YR BRITCHES WE TALKIN BOUT LEFTISM AND FAITH AND ALL THE WAYS WE CAN STRENGTHEN LEFTIST MOVEMENTS VIA FAITH ORGS AND FAITH MOVEMENTS Check out Erika and Lauren's orgs below: Youth Spirit Artworks: www.youthspiritartworks.org instagram: www.instagram.com/youthspiritartworks/ facebook: www.facebook.com/YouthSpiritArtworks/ twitter: @YouthSpiritArt_ And the PICO Network: www.piconetwork.org Music this week by Mechanical Boy: https://mechanicalboy.bandcamp.com/ Theme muzic as always by Brandon Payton-Carrillo!

HARK THE HAROLD LEFTISTS SINGGGG GLORY TO MARX ETC! Hello there! Tis us, yr weekly socialist feminists, this time bringing u some info on FAITH BASED ORGANIZING! We talk w/ 2 very very incredible guests this week, Lauren Jewett and Erika Katske, who had SO MUCH TO SAY on this topic that we broke it up into TWO parts! In this first half, we talkin' bout how harmful religion can be, the differences between religion, faith, and spirituality, and got some background on our guests! We also start talking about how faith based institutions can be powerful tools for the left! Next week you'll hear our guests talk more about Marxism and the dogmatic approach to capitalism that the US uses (ooooooh, ahhhhhhhh). Plz check out Youth Spirit Artworks: www.youthspiritartworks.org instagram: https://www.instagram.com/youthspiritartworks/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YouthSpiritArtworks/ twitter: @YouthSpiritArt_ And the PICO Network: http://www.piconetwork.org Theme muzic as always by Brandon Payton-Carrillo!

From Charleston to Pluto: Looking To The Heavens and Close To HomeThis week on State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast, Interfaith Alliance Executive Director Rabbi Jack Moline is filling in for Welton Gaddy as host. We’ll check in with PICO National Network’s Pastor Mike McBride about his organization’s broad response to the tragedy in Charleston. We’ll hear from Celene Ibrahim-Lizzio about a new training program for the next generation of interfaith leaders. And Jack and Rabbi Elliot Dorff will reflect on NASA’s mission to Pluto and our spiritual connection to the stars. Finally, Jack leaves us with some thoughts about the American flag and the historical role of religion in American public life. Faith in Times of Tragedy When tragedy struck Chattanooga, Tennessee this week, too many of us had still not healed from last month’s tragic shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Miraculously, though, the struggle to move forward has manifested itself not in hatred, blame, or anger, but, instead, in a new sense of community and support. We have taken the Confederate battle flag down from the South Carolina statehouse and approached the discussion of racism across the country with new, more understanding, eyes. Today the Director of PICO Network’s LiveFree Campaign and pastor of “The Way” Christian Center in West Berkeley, CA, Pastor Mike McBride, joins us to discuss PICO’s activism since Charleston, the meaning of activism, and how to bring faith-based messages to more secular communities. The Necessity and Future of Diversity in Belief Exciting interfaith initiatives have sprung up all over the world as we grow to more fully respect the diverse beliefs in our global community. Nowhere is this newfound necessity more clearly understood than in programming at Newton Andover Theological Seminary and Hebrew College in Boston, Massachusetts. We’re joined today by Islamic Scholar-in-Residence, Celene Ibrahim-Lizzio, to talk about the history of collaboration between these two institutions, and a new interreligious leadership degree program that seeks to meet the need for a new generation of interfaith community. How and Why We Decide Who and What to Believe In This week marked an exciting discovery as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to reach the dwarf planet, Pluto. In light of this new innovation in the scientific community, we ask ourselves what it is about the sky and stars that inspires so much belief and questioning. We’re joined by Rabbi Elliot Dorff, professor of Jewish Theology at the American Jewish University, to ask what we really are looking for when we look up to the sky, the celestial aspects of Jewish teaching, and the relevance of new space discoveries to faith leaders and scholars. American Christianity: Our State Culture, If Not Religion In the final part of our show, we will reflect on Christianity in America. Though it is officially stated that, “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,” there is no denying the presence of a Christian culture in American society. However, how does that change when America’s openness towards new definitions of equality, freedom, and accessibility translate into openness towards new, diverse sets of faith in our culture? Rabbi Moline will discuss Christian culture in America’s history and why it is so important to celebrate the diversity of faith in American society.