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The Threads of Abolition (part 2)
Episode 53
Picking up where we left off in our last episode, we visit with the incomparable Dorothy Burge, activist, story-teller, educator, art-maker, quilter …
4 years, 1 month ago
Stitch by Stitch: The Threads of Abolition
Episode 52
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 s…
4 years, 2 months ago
Fight/Build! Maroon Spaces and Real Black Utopias
Episode 51
We take a turn toward worker cooperatives in this episode, and what is variously called the solidarity economy, community wealth-building, or econom…
4 years, 2 months ago
Searching for the Ghost of John Brown
Episode 50
For this special episode we change things up a bit and journey to the high peaks of the Adirondack Mountains, to the town of North Elba, and to the h…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Dialectic of Freedom
Episode 49
Everything’s in motion, everything in flux, nothing and no one stays the same: the young become the old, stories get retold, and the blowtorch of his…
4 years, 3 months ago
I Have a Story to Tell
Episode 48
I remember when in 2003 Ruth Simmons, the first Black president of an Ivy League school, launched an investigation into Brown University’s toxic ties…
4 years, 4 months ago
A Child is a Child is a Child
Episode 47
The Convention on the Rights of the Child requires governments to adopt laws, policies, and practices that protect the rights of children and enhance…
4 years, 5 months ago
From Death Row to Life!
Episode 46
The criminal punishment system is institutionalized dehumanization. It's organized violence congealed, concentrated, and out of control. The everyday…
4 years, 5 months ago
Joy and Justice: Collaborating toward Freedom
Episode 45
We live in a time and a place where the cage has become naturalized, where punitive, punishing measures are the “normal,” “common sense” responses to…
4 years, 5 months ago
Freedom and the Poetry of Comix
Episode 44
Artists ask no one’s permission to interrogate the world, and the art of teaching embraces that same ethic. Art can shock us into new awarenesses, ch…
4 years, 7 months ago