Medicine for the Resistance

Leticia Jones joins us to talk about what it means to work with Black and Indigenous communities. People want to be allies, but are they willing to be interns?

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For part two of our discussion about abolition we are joined by the members of the Free Land Free People collective. This Edmonton based advocacy group supports prisoners in a variety of ways including fundraising to help inmates with the costs of being imprisoned and becoming free. On the road to abolition, prisoners need support.

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Human Rights lawyer Anthony Morgan joins us again, this time to talk about abolishing police. Policing has a long history of disproportionately targeting and incarcerating Black and Indigenous people. More than that, the systems we live in push us to the edges where options are limited and the resulting criminality becomes part of a cycle that is impossible to break out of.

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Briana l. Ureña Ravelo joins us again on the eve of the US election to talk about refusal to engage with electoral politics. How much does voting really change things, and what happens next. All that energy that went into getting out the vote, what happens next?

For most people? Nothing. Electoral politics is the beginning and end of their engagement. But what if we directed our energy elsewhere? What if we put that same energy into mobilizing people to effect real change instead of intersectional imperialism.

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We're all familiar with the Tulsa Race Riots, but there is a story that we are unfamiliar with. The history of the people who formed that neighbourhood. The Freedmen who came, as slaves, with the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Osage and who also received land allotments in Oklahoma.

This is the story of Tulsa. Which is the story of the Freedmen. With Dr. Alaina Roberts.

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This episode was recorded on Thursday October 22 and begins with an update from journalist Karl Dockstader, friend of the podcast and co-host of One Dish One Mic on the iheart radio network. Karl has been providing on the ground coverage of the action at 1492 Landback Lane and you can find more information on that here: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane

We then talk with Dr. Robyn Bourgeois about how Indigenous resistance is connected across Canada in particular, but also the US, to the colonial project and how Black and Indigenous people are impacted.

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Inside and outside the church we all have ideas about purity that drive our decisions and relationships. People are too radical, not radical enough. Their beliefs or goals don't align perfectly with ours. Our lives become more defined by what we don't do, where we can't shop, what we won't eat all in a quest for purity that we will never achieve.

So how do we live with impurity?

And how does that apply to our relatives, not only in the sense of family but more broadly. Who claims you? And what do you do about that.

Alexis Shotwell, author of Against Purity and Knowing Otherwise joins us for a necessary, and welcome, conversation.

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Joy Henderson returns to talk about education in the time of Covid. We also talk about the two-spirited character in Lovecraft Country and the importance of having relationships when you are learning.

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The arts have always functioned as a means of resistance, a way of pushing back against established authority or traditions, challenging us to think and act in new ways.

Janet Marie Rogers is a Mohawk poet currently living at the Six Nations Reserve outside Brantford Ontario. She is a writer and artist, the author of poetry including her most recent work, Ego of a Nation. Janet is currently the writer in residence at McMaster University.

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In this episode we talk with Dr. Sarah Taber of the Farm to Taber podcast. She has worked in and studied trends in farming and agriculture across the US.

transcript available here: http://daanis.ca/2020/09/28/the-truth-about-big-ag-with-dr-sarah-taber/

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