A Healing Meditation
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Leah Barros and Jazmin Hicks are going to take you through a healing session to relieve stress, reconnect and restore balance as we recuperate from one of the most stressful periods in modern history. They will also provide information on wellness practices and how to build capacity in your life for your own healing and emotional and spiritual vitality.
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What to Do About White People?
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We invited Aja Davis and Molly Ola Pinney, co-founders of the Facebook group White People. Doing Something. The interracial couple began the group to engage white people in productive conversations around race and engagement after the George Floyd murder, and it has grown into a very robust group of 40,000 doing daily actions around engaging white people in difficult conversations and giving them the tools to create change in their communities. They discuss their philosophy with host Tre Borden in this wee
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The Power of Trans People
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Trans people are some of the strongest, most generous, most hilarious and aware people there are, and I think it is a fitting time to give them the floor to explain how they are interpreting the world right now. Qween Amor, Omega Chuckii, and Ebony Harper represent the best of activism, indomitability, humor and the knowledge of real shit that allows people to take care of themselves and others. This is the best episode we have produced, and I encourage you to listen to the ENTIRE EPISODE and get your life
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Learning the Power of Resilience from Our Elders
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Featured Guests: Bill Borden - US Air Force Pilot and Vietnam Veteran, Tre’s Dad Dr. Marsha Hirano - Nakanishi - Retired Vice Chancellor for CSU System, Second generation Japanese-American. 2020 has tested us to the breaking point. Many of us have suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic, and for people of color that suffering has compounded an already cumbersome daily reality that comes with living in a society built upon racism and exploitation. The upcoming election offers some comfort, but also comes with the knowledge that even if the election results in a new president, there is...
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The Future of the American Woman
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The death of RBG is the tragic culmination of an administration that has overseen a reign of disrespect, misogyny and policies aiming to pull back many of the protections and rights guaranteeing women’s autonomy in this country.
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Avoiding a Climate Apocalypse
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A silver lining of this catastrophe is that what was once considered an abstract theory that only scientists understood or cared about is something is now extremely tangible, and this provides a moment for dramatic action especially when we consider the potential economic opportunities that would come with a green revolution to fight climate change. It is also a time to reexamine the systems we use to dispense relief so that communities are able to handle the immense resources necessary for fundamental cha
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Policing the Police
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On the heels of the disappointing (and expected) miscarriage of justice for Breonna Taylor, and our ongoing racial justice movement, calls to defund the police and acknowledge the white supremacy inherent in law enforcement are deafening and deserved.
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Our Immigration Crisis
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As we take calls to Defund Police and ICE and reform our needlessly punitive and racist criminal justice system it is also clear how much these movements overlap with immigration and asylum reform.
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On View: Racism at the Museum
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Taylor Brandon, Founder of No Neutral Alliance; Curator/Artist Jova Lynne Johnson, Founder of MoCAD Resistance; and Curator Faith McKinnie, Founder of Black Artists Fund, speak to host Tre Borden about their experiences fighting intransigent museums. They discuss what it takes to build movements that can hold the museum to account while also providing space to empower BIPOC artists and communities.
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The Crisis in Lebanon
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On August 4, 2020 a neglected hoard of highly explosive sodium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut. In an instant over 100 people died with thousands more injured with tens of thousands of people displaced and a central city destroyed.
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- Brandy Bones - Vice President of Disaster Management, ICF
- Dr. Peter Schultz - Vice President of Climate and Resilience, ICF
If you’ve been in California in the last few months, or anywhere else in the United States really, it is becoming almost impossible to deny the impacts of climate change. For the second time in two years wildfires in the Western US have threatened millions of acres, evacuated whole regions and caused air quality so bad San Francisco could have been mistaken for Mars for almost an entire week. The World Meteorological Organization has run out of hurricane names for 2020, and it’s only September. Flooding is debilitating many parts of the southeast even some areas that aren’t designated flood plains. In September Death Valley had a recorded temperature of 130 which is possible the hottest anywhere on earth in modern times.
For many people experiencing these disasters it is no longer an isolated, once-in-a-generation event, but a frequent reality that threatens the short and long-term viability of their region as a place to live. The economic toll of these events continues to grow astronomically, not to mention the human costs of lost life and having to uproot whole communities with nowhere to go. This reality check takes place during a pandemic that has cost many people their health and livelihoods and decimated our economy with no end in sight. Not to mention a federal administration that still discredits climate change as a reality, let alone our most important global priority. Trump recently came to a still on-fire California to meet with the Governor and told gathered officials that “science doesn’t really know” what’s happening with climate change. It’s unbelievable. As usual the populations most impacted by this lack of action are the poor, communities of color and other marginalized groups who usually contribute the least to the problem.
A silver lining of this catastrophe is that what was once considered an abstract theory that only scientists understood or cared about is something is now extremely tangible, and this provides a moment for dramatic action especially when we consider the potential economic opportunities that would come with a green revolution to fight climate change. It is also a time to reexamine the systems we use to dispense relief so that communities are able to handle the immense resources necessary for fundamental change and allow for truly equitably driven solutions. To paint a picture for what this new world could look like, and how we might get there I invited two guests whose whole world is understanding the impact of climate change and how we can create resilient communities. Brandy is our first repeat guest, and this time she discusses her expertise on disaster recovery and the coordination between federal and local governments to rebuild and measure risk. Dr. Schultz brings decades of modeling experience as well as an understanding of how large a role economics and the private sector play in our ability to create an opportunity for change that can bring prosperity and sustainability to many communities.