HOME RULE

Today we’re diving into Municipal Broadband--which has started to gain some traction as an idea here in DC as a result of the pandemic forcing many aspects of life to go remote. Internet access is an intersectional equity issue, with Black and Latinx households often lacking high-speed internet service. To discuss, we’re joined by Dana Floberg, Policy Manager at Free Press Action, and subject matter expert on broadband access and affordability.

Shireen Shakouri, subject matter expert on reproductive justice, links up with Home Rule to discuss reproductive health disparities, the outlook on abortion access and rights and how reproductive justice is a DC Statehood issue.

ANC2F Candidates Alexandra Bailey, Michelle Yan, Rehana Mohammed and Sherene Joseph hop on Home Rule to discuss their campaigns and outlook for their slice of Ward 2.

Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz is an associate professor at GWU’s Milken Institute of Public Health, who focuses on social determinants of health, and community health disparities within the realm of infectious disease. Lately, his work has centered around COVID-19’s impact on minority communities.

The name Home Rule is a callback to the cultural and political history of DC. The podcast, hosted by Ward 2 DC Council candidate Martín Miguel Fernández, is about centering native and local voices to share, discuss, and expand our vision of what this great city, and future state, can be.

Daniel del Pielago, Organizing Director of Empower DC, an organization battling for housing equity and justice across the District, hops on Home Rule to discuss housing, which is simultaneously under the stressors of gentrification, systemic lack of investment and a pandemic induced economic crisis.

Historian C.R. Gibbs, author of Remembering Black Georgetown, joins the show to drop knowledge on the racial history of Georgetown and DC and draw parallels between the past, present and future.