Tag: abolition
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Episode # 72: Open Your Mouths for the Muted; Fight for the Rights of the Destitute with Randolph Stone
This political moment—complex, contradictory, characterized by escalating crises—urges us to focus our attention on movement building. Beyond campaigns, projects, policies, or organizations, we need to find multiple ways to weave our work together into a sturdy quilt, or a mighty and irresistible social upheaval that advances the cause of peace and freedom, joy and justice…
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Episode # 68: From Dungeons to Revolutionary Focos with Destine Phillips, Denzel Burke, & Tommy Hagan from the R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative
It takes a lot to change the world, and because we live day-by-day immersed in what is—the world as such—imagining a landscape much different from what’s immediately before us requires a combination of somethings: seeds, surely, desire, yes, effort, of course, always effort, idealism and romance, maybe, necessity and desperation at times, and a vision…
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Episode 66: Waiting for Democracy with Stephanie Skora
Stephanie Skora is the force behind the Girl, I Guess Progressive Voter Guide. She’s a self-proclaimed ‘Jewish, queer, trans, nerd’ dedicated to helping members of the community navigate confusing ballot races and identify the most progressive candidates. A grouchy Jewish trans dyke, and an anarchist with a political science degree – Stephanie is as wise…
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Episode 65: Chasing Justice – A Homecoming with Marshan Allen
We travel to the Illinois Parole Board to stand in solidarity with a couple of my students seeking clemency or commutation or a pardon from Governor Pritzker, and to support our friend and colleague Marshan Allen as he asks to have his conviction erased so that he can practice law when he finishes law school.…
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Episode 62: “Freedom Has Always Been the Horizon” with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
Authentic learning requires free thought—curiosity, inquiry, imagination, initiative, problem-posing, question-asking. Learning is undermined when students are inspected, spied upon, regulated, appraised, censured, measured, registered, counted, admonished, checked off, prevented, and sermonized. In this episode we visit a unique college commencement ceremony—filled with joy and pain—and explore with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and University…
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Episode 53: Dorothy Burge
Stitch by Stitch: The Threads of Abolition, Pt. II Picking up where we left off in our last episode, we visit with the incomparable Dorothy Burge, activist, story-teller, educator, art-maker, quilter extraordinaire—and a pillar of the abolitionist movement. Mama Dorothy sat down with us at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago a few days before she…
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Episode 52: Dr. Sharbreon Plummer and Rachel Wallis
Stitch by Stitch: The Threads of Abolition Stitch by Stitch is a gathering of artists and activists, quilters and abolitionists to be held in Chicago on July 15, 16, and 17. We’re honored to sit down with two of the Stitch organizers—Dr. Sharbreon Plummer, author of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fiber, and Textiles, and Rachel Wallis,…
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Episode 28: Mariame Kaba
Sometimes we ask, What can one person do? The first step is to stop being one person. Move away from “me,” and take steps toward creating a “we.” From one to two, from two to three, step-by-step toward an irresistible movement for justice and peace, powered by love—the organizer’s credo. We’re honored to be joined…
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