Thousands of local social justice organizers passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn’t make the headlines.  On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll hear about some of the fallen heroes of 2016.

Featuring:

Joani Blank, founder of Good Vibrations; Carol Queen, Sexologist; Darren Seals, Ferguson activist; Ebony Williams, Chosen Diamonds mentor; Berta Caceres, co-founder of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH); Silvio Carillo, journalist and nephew of Berta Careres; Cedric Robinson, UC Santa Barbara professor and author of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition; Robin Kelley, UCLA Black Studies and History professor;  Tom Rainey-Smith, Amnesty International Korea coordinator; Luis de la Garza, Member of La Colectiva; Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, Queer Latin@ oral historian

Credits:

Host: Andrew Stelzer

More information:

Joani Blank

Videos, articles ETC:

The Malleable Memory of Darren Seals

Who Killed Darren Seals and Why

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