The alternatives to prison are few and far between. And after serving time, the options for getting back on your feet are even worse. Finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women building their own support network after being released from prison. We’ll hear “A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad” a documentary by Chris-Moore Backman.

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Women Rising radio profiles food sovereignty activists from India, Mexico, and Native American communities.

Featuring:  

Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya; Adelita San Vicente Tello, founder of Semillas de Vida; Sage La Pena, Native American, ethno- botanist and food sovereignty activist; Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Native American youth educator.

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Host: Sandina Robbins

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Navdanya

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Covering the movements and organizations fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, and Jasmín López.

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Fredy Villaneuva was playing dice in a park in Montreal North when police officers arrived. In less than a minute, the 18-year-old was fatally shot by police. Eight years later, what happened in those sixty seconds remains unclear. The documentary play Fredy tries to untangle what happened before and after the shooting, as it asks questions about racial profiling, systemic discrimination, and the promise of art for social change.

Featuring:

Annabel Soutar, Artistic Director, Porte Parole

Ricardo Lamour, actor, musician community activist

Parker Mah, multimedia artist, community activist

Joanie Poirier, Actress

Florence Blain, audience member

Angel Mota, audience member

Actors voices:

Solo Fugère – Will Prosper, Dany Villanueva

Ricardo Lamour

Iannicko N’Doua – Jeffrey Sagor-Météllus, Alain Arsenault

Alice Pascual – Anonymous police officer, Martha Villaneuva

Joanie Poirier – Stéphanie Pilotte, Lilian Villaneuva’s interpretor

Etienne Thibeault – Jean-Loup Lapointe

Music:

Emrical

Jahzzar

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In cities across the country, black women – many of whom have been on the front lines of the Movement for Black Lives – are lifting up the names of their sisters killed by police.

This March, Manolia Charlotin, a multimedia journalist with the The Media Consortium, and Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project sat down at a community event in San Francisco to talk about Say Her Name and what it looks like to build a movement that centers black women.

Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the police kill someone.

Featuring:

Jamison Robinson, brother of Yuvette Henderson; Manolia Charlotin, journalist with The Media Consortium, Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with the Anti Police-Terror Project

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