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Come join me as we discuss the case of Marissa Alexander and Siwatu-Salama Ra. The lessons not often taught are those often repeated. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
AirGo hosts the second volume of Unelectable, our live podcast series with Black Youth Project exploring electoral politics and radical imagination, as part of Allied Media Conference 2020! The live virtual event's focus is Feminism, and features Unelectable cohost Asha Ransby-Sporn, environmental justice organizer Siwatu-Salama Ra, and Detroit movement legend Tawana Petty. Check out the illustration of the event by Emily Simons on our IG, and learn more about Emily's work here: https://www.pittsburghposterproject.org/emily-simons SHOW NOTES: http://Freesiwatu.org https://www.honeycombthepoet.org Check out video of many of the conference's amazing sessions and learn more about this remarkable gathering: https://amc.alliedmedia.org/ Recorded 7/26/20
Failure of Justice in the Case of Siwatu-Salama Ra The CAIR Michigan Podcast is hosted by Dawud Walid, Amy Doukoure, Esq., and Asha Noor. CAIR-MI’s mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding through education, mediation, media and the law.
We are humbled and honored to speak with Siwatu-Salama Ra, an environmental activist based in Detroit who was wrongfully imprisoned while pregnant, and her mother Rhonda Anderson, about prison, survival, and practicing freedom. https://www.freesiwatu.org/ Music by Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Sessions - www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow www.endoftheworldshow.org/ @endoftheworldPC --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
Mary and Maeve learn how all of our access to the very basics - clean air, clean water, livable temperatures - are at risk as well as the mental health implications of the destruction of the natural world. We meet a Black Lives Matter activist who believes that black neighbourhoods would be safer with less police and more trees. We speak to Siwatu Salama-Ra, a prolific environmental justice campaigner currently incarcerated in Detroit, Michigan and we spend time with a Traditional Custodian of the Fitzroy river in western Australia, currently at risk from fracking and industrial developments to consider our spiritual connection with nature. This week’s mothers of Invention are: Stella Hartinger - Lima, Peru Doctor and researcher exploring the global health impacts of climate change and fossil fuel pollution. Contributor to the Lancet Countdown report. lancetcountdown.org/the-report/ Sarra Tekola - Phoenix, Arizona Black Lives Matter activist, scientist and academic working on a PhD in Sustainability at Arizona State University. Co-founder of Women of Color Speak Out. @wocspeakout Siwatu Salama-Ra - Detroit, Michigan Climate justice activist. Co-Director of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council, building community power through environmental justice education, youth development, and collaborative relationship building. Learn about the campaign to free her from prison at freesiwatu.org Anne Poehlina - Kimberley, Western Australia Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Custodian and academic working to promote new economy opportunities and green collar jobs for Indigenous people. http://majala.com.au News clip from Democracy Now! Amy Goodman: On This Earth Day, Demand Freedom for Siwatu-Salama Ra Radio news clip, story from Sarah Cwiek on Michigan Radio (NPR)
In episode 91, we bring you yet another informative legal show on this week’s InJustice! We breakdown New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to allow paroled felons the right to vote. We also dive into human trafficking victim Cyntoia Brown is granted a clemency hearing. Plus, we discuss Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors seeking justice for pregnant mother Siwatu-Salama Ra, who is incarcerated by stand your ground law. This and more on #InJustice.
In episode 91, we bring you yet another informative legal show on this week’s InJustice! We breakdown New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to allow paroled felons the right to vote. We also dive into human trafficking victim Cyntoia Brown is granted a clemency hearing. Plus, we discuss Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors seeking justice for pregnant mother Siwatu-Salama Ra, who is incarcerated by stand your ground law. This and more on #InJustice.
Ify and Turquoise discuss Sinclair Brodcast Group "fake news" propoganda in local markets nationally, Kat Blaque's question of how Black women feel when we find out Black men killed by cops hate Black Women, Crystal Mason and Siwatu-Salama Ra highlight the failure to rally behind Black women, Bernie Sanders agreeing with Trump on Amazon, ICE reverses policy of not detaining pregnant women, University of Washington announcing Mario Barnes as new Dean of the School of Law, Notre Dame women's team wins NCAA championship, Laura Ingrahm takes a hiatus, and three Black youth prevent an attmepted suicide.