Moral Courage Radio

Moral Courage Radio

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Moral Courage Radio episodes

  • Protest and Repression - At the Root (Episode 5)
    The final episode of this season features the stories of Marlon Kautz and Adele MacLean, who were arrested in March 2023 in a police raid on their house and charged with felonies under RICO for their work with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which is set up to get protestors released from jail.
    40 min
  • This is What Democracy Looks Like - At the Root (Episode 4)
    The movement to Stop Cop City is what democracy looks like in motion. The version of democracy embodied by the Stop Cop City movement calls into existence a robust, deep, and profound system that centers on agency, participation, and self-determination. If it’s going to work, democracy must be responsive to the people’s needs, rather than elite interests. But, instead of creating channels to hear and implement the people’s concerns, the government and the police narrowed avenues for democracy and punished anyone who dared to test the boundaries.
    51 min
  • Public Safety - At the Root (Episode 3)
    The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. It’s right there in the name: Public Safety. The facility known to its opponents as “Cop City” is pitched as an essential investment to train officers to better protect the public from harm. However, marginalized communities often experience policing as a threat to their safety and a source of harm. Which raises the question, whose safety do police officers protect?
    26 min
  • The Weelaunee Way - At the Root (Episode 2)
    In Episode 2 of At the Root, we explore the environmental advocacy of the movement to Stop Cop City through the words of Dr. Jackie Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance, Matthew Johnson and the Forest Defenders, and Belkis Teran, the mother of Manuel Esteban "Tortuguita" Teran, the first environmental defender killed by law enforcement in United States history.
    38 min
  • Carceral Scars - At the Root (Episode 1)
    In Episode 1 of At the Root, we learn about the history of the forest and hear from Reverend Keyanna Jones and the ways in which Cop City presents a troubling set of threats: environmental harm, militarized policing, racial injustice, and the quality of democracy itself.
    35 min
  • People Power - UnHousing (Episode 5)
    In the final episode of the fourth season of Moral Courage Radio, we learn from Noni Session, third generation West Oaklander and founder of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, who insists that we can reorient our relationship to market forces by building power together.
    29 min
  • Forever Home - UnHousing (Episode 4)
    In a volatile housing market, lenders, investors, and landlords determine who can afford to live where. To counter instability and profit motives, some of Oakland’s local organizations take a permanent and communal approach to land and housing, using the community land trust model to keep land off the market and in community control in perpetuity. In this episode we hear from Shekinah Samaya-Thomas and Chris Thomas, two homeowners with the Oakland Community Land Trust.
    29 min
  • More with Less - UnHousing (Episode 3)
    Forced from their homes and banned from the streets, Oaklanders are struggling to find a place to survive. In this episode, we hear from John, a resident of Cob on Wood, an unhoused encampment supported in part by a local organization, Artists Building Communities.
    22 min

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The Moral Courage Project is a collaboration between the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and PROOF: Media for Social Justice that strives to shift debate and shape narrative by centering the…