Radicals for Good

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even though her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we start our co(sin)e series - a series of roundtable discussions designed to solve the equation for building community power through voting, decision making, and civic participation. This roundtable includes, Aly Thee Activist, an activist against police brutality from Grand Rapids; Lexis Zeidan, a Palestinian-American organizer and co-founder of the Uncommitted Movement; and Jenn Onwenu, host of Detroit-based talk show, AskJenn.

Learn More and Take Action

* Donate to Movimento Cosecha working with families being terrorized by ICE in Grand Rapids, Michigan: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/nobusinesswithice

* Watch the Ask Jenn Show: https://www.askjennshow.com/

* Join Arab Americans for Progress: https://www.aaforprogress.org/

* Watch the Peoples Production trailer about the Uncommitted National Movement: https://www.peoplefirstproductions.com/uncommitted

* Arab Americans for Progress voting resources: https://www.aaforprogress.org/voting-resources

* Use the Isreal Lobby Tracker tool: https://www.trackaipac.com/

Additional Sources

* Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

* About Patrick Lyoya: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094104164/patrick-lyoya-shooting-grand-rapids-michigan

* Interview about Uncommitted Movement with Lexis Zeidan: www.democracynow.org/2024/9/20/lexis_zeidan_uncommitted_national_movement_2024

* Political Action Committees (PACs) vs. Super PACs:

* Recent DTE rate hike in Michigan: https://planetdetroit.org/2026/09/dte-rate-hike-line-5-data-centers/

* Detroit Board of Police Commissioners: https://detroitmi.gov/government/boards/board-police-commissioners

* How to track PACs: https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/pacs-parties-and-other-committees/

The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. - Audre Lorde

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss what it looks like to be radically well and tend to grief during times like these, with Adria Moses, a poet, author, and founder of the School of Radical Healing. We invite listeners to tend to their bodies while listening as Adria walks us through guided breathing and gentle movements.

Learn More and Take Action

* Take a class at detroityogalab.com

* Learn more about all of Adria’s incredible work at adriamoses.com‍ ‍

* Use code ‘radicals’ for free shipping on adria’s latest book ‘towards what hurt’: https://www.adriamoses.com/thebook

Additional Sources

* Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

* No fear poem by Maya Angelou: https://internetpoem.com/maya-angelou/life-doesn-t-frighten-me-poem/

* Listen to Audre Lorde read ‘Uses of the Erotic’:

* Poetry is not a luxury by Audre Lorde: https://www.poetrypedagogy.com/uploads/8/9/3/8/89385582/poetry_is_not_a_luxury-lorde.pdf

* Yoga with Adrienne: https://www.youtube.com/yogawithadriene/featured

* Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/pleasure-activism/

* Loving our Own Bones by Julia Watts Belser: https://www.juliawattsbelser.com/

* Inward by Yung Pueblo

* Tending Grief by Camille Barton

True citizenship is found in the courage to speak truth to power and hold leaders accountable.

-Frederick Douglass

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we start our co(sin)e series - a series of roundtable discussions designed to solve the equation for building community power through voting, decision making, and civic participation. This roundtable includes, Joanna Whaley, the Democratic nominee for Michigan House of Representatives and if elected, the first openly trans woman legislator; Imani Foster, an activist fighting for education justice in Detroit and communication director for 482Forward; Parish Halsell, a Detroit-based storyteller and the voice behind Pardon Me TV!; and Brianna Bryant, a artist and activist in Detroit.

Learn More and Take ActioN

* Donate to or volunteer with Joanna’s campaign: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/joannawhaley .

* Watch more on pardonme.tv

* Volunteer with 482Forward: https://www.482forward.org/

Additional Sources

* Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/trans-woman-joanna-whaley-michigan-legislature

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In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about the true impacts of urban gardening as a means of feeding our people and building community with Dolores Perales-Lara, an urban planner and co-director of Cadillac Urban Gardens.

Learn More and Take Action

* Learn more, volunteer, pick up free produce, and/or donate to Cadillac Urban Gardens: https://www.cadillacurbangardens.org/home

* Donate to Cadillac Urban Garden and support free food: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/AXTKTP42KWZSE

* Read youth led research on food insecurity: https://www.learngala.com/cases/detroitfood/

* Learn more about food systems and food insecurity in Detroit: https://detroitfoodpc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/DFMR24-Report-20260416-FINAL.pdf

Additional Sources

* Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re discussing the future of voting with Arabia Simeon, a designer, technologist, and CEO & Founder of Politics on the Go (POGO).

Learn More and Take Action

* Learn more about and start using POGO Vote:

https://www.pogovote.com/

* Watch Arabia’s TEDx presentation, From Likes to Votes:

* Read A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand

* Read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

* Check out this resource: https://ground.news/

* Look up political campaign donors: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup

Additional Sources

* Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): https://snccdigital.org/

* Kamala Harris coconut tree quote: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/07/21/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-quote-explained-what-she-meant-and-why-its-going-viral-as-biden-drops-out/

“Our Choice now is war or death. Our option is survival. Listen to your own Black Hearts.”

—Nikki Giovanni

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about how reading is a radical practice and ways to build community with books and food with Francescha Lamarre, a local artist and organizer from The Peoples Book Club and Ayiti Spaghetti.

Our Top 10 Radical Reads

* Assata by Assata Shakur

* freedom is a constant struggle by Angela Davis

* the salt eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

* the common wind by professor Julius s. Scott

* black feeling black talk black judgement (poetry) by Nikki Giovanni

* parable series by Octavia E. Butler

* abbott (graphic novel series) by Saladin Ahmed

* the next american revolution by Grace Lee Boggs

* becoming good ancestors by David Ehrenfeld

* rage becomes her by Soraya Chemaly

Further Learning

* Join The People’s Book Club: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6qKU0cGjuAoLiMBWFj5VoitS2wSLcvVLNkVhrzRalAS9MhQ/viewform

* Check out Fran’s Substack: FREEEVERYNIGGA

* Watch We Gon Get Free Videocast: http://www.youtube.com/@wegongetfree1325

* Ayiti Spaghetti Free Monthly Luncheon Interest Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1co0qxh-rXTgEkx9PO9kQQyxHQQOb7C9skS1ZQlIG9EA/viewform

* Ayiti Spaghetti Catering Request Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8MPN5yLfvGd4SJPtjrgrzEXoflFdTUV2Z-K0jeM-C8VucIg/viewform

* Watch Virago Part 1 Trailer:

* Sign up for The Boggs Center Thinking for Ourselves Newsletter: https://www.boggscenter.org/thinking-for-ourselves

* Find links to all Fran’s incredible work (yes there’s more!) on her instagram @franchescalamarre or at https://tr.ee/Vhpflh6d03

Additional Sources

* Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

* https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g-s1-90790/assata-shakur-joanne-chesimard-dies

* https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/restaurant-of-the-year/2025/04/01/best-restaurants-detroit-2025-ayiti-spaghetti-haitian-pop-up/82628687007/

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about community-centered journalism and how organizers can utilize non-traditional media sources with Ethan Bakuli, an independent journalist whose work has appeared in Prism Reports, USA Today, Chalkbeat, Planet Detroit, Capital & Main, and more.

Get out of your comfort zone & take action

Donate and/or get involved with freedom freedom growers: https://www.facebook.com/FeedomFreedom/

Subscribe and/or donate to Planet Detroit: https://planetdetroit.org/

Subscribe and/or donate to Outlier Media: https://outliermedia.org/

Subscribe and/or donate to Chalkbeat Detroit: https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/

Further Learning

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee

Black Awakening in Capitalist America Robert L. Allen

The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

The Seven Generations and The Seven Grandfather Teachings by James Vukelich

Sources

Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

Palestinian journalists: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166481

What is a zine: https://artincontext.org/what-is-a-zine/

Detroit Zine Fest: https://www.detroitzinefest.com/

Independent journalism vs. mass media journalism: https://thisvsthat.io/independent-journalism-vs-journalism

"Disabled people have always existed, whether the word disability is used or not. To me, disability is not a monolith, nor is it a clear-cut binary of disabled and nondisabled. Disability is mutable and ever-evolving. Disability is both apparent and nonapparent. Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy. Disability is sociopolitical, cultural, and biological. Being visible and claiming a disabled identity brings risks as much as it brings pride." - Alice Wong, American disability rights activist

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we're discussing organizing with disabilities (visible and invisible) and how we can embody Disabled revolutionaries in our work with Tameka Citchen-Spruce, a disability justice advocate, independent media producer, author and national speaker who uses storytelling to amplify voices and challenge systems of exclusion.

Get out of your comfort zone & take action

Donate to #AutisticOutLoud documentary

Get involved with Detroit Disability Power

Get involved with Warriors on Wheels of Metro-Detroit

Further Learning

Learn about the 10 principles of disability justice

Learn more about #AutisticOutLoud film and watch the teaser: https://linktr.ee/autisticoutlouddocumentary

Follow Divas in the City TV on Instagram and YouTube

Living Unapologetically Media: www.tamekacitchenspruce.com

Read Tameka's book: Women in Leadership: From No to Yes, A Black Disabled Woman's Leadership Journey

Watch PBS documentary Renegades: Thomas Wiggins

Sources

Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

Disability Visibility by Alice Wong: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Brad Lomax: https://www.centerforlearnerequity.org/news/brad-lomax-uniting-the-civil-rights-and-disability-rights-communities/

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution: https://cripcamp.com/

Fannie Lou Hamer: https://19thnews.org/2023/07/fannie-lou-hamer-disability-voting-rights-activism/

Harriett Tubman: https://rootedinrights.org/why-dont-more-people-know-harriet-tubman-was-disabled/

Elias Hills: https://www.knowitall.org/video/former-slave-elias-hills-untold-story-palmetto-scene

Elias Hills testimony: https://www.scribd.com/doc/170718992/1-Testimony-Before-Congress-on-the-Activities-of-the-Ku-Klux-Klan

Fidel Castro source confirmed at Castro Center in Havana, Cuba

Revolution will be from my bed: https://diagnosisbedamned.com/2020/04/25/so-i-start-a-revolution-from-my-bed/

Intersectional disability justice: https://www.intersectional-disability-justice.org/en/intersectional-disability-justice-english/

Michigan disability rights resources: https://www.michigan.gov/disabilityresources

Trump admins war on disability: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-war-on-disability/

in office work: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/10/02/return-office-work-mandates-accommodate-ada-people-disabilities/70963365007/

Without community, there is no liberation. - Audre Lorde

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about all the many ways we can become better neighbors, especially in times of crises with Lejuan Council, an east side neighbor, mother, lead of Feed Your Neighborhood Corp., and a 2026 candidate for Michigan State Senate.

Get out of your comfort zone & take action

* Volunteer with Feed Your Neighborhood Corp

* Register to Vote, finding polling location, request absentee ballot, etc.

Further Learning

* Detroit Area Disaster Recovery Group

* Basement Backup and Flooding Handbook

* State of Michigan All About Mold

* Flood risk maps

* Long term trauma and public health impacts of flooding

Sources

* Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

* Southwest Detroit Flooding 2025: https://www.wxyz.com/news/its-one-detroit-donations-pour-into-sw-detroit-as-community-recovers-from-devastating-flood

* Detroit flooding leads to mold: https://www.bridgedetroit.com/devastating-floods-leave-detroiters-with-toxic-mold/

* Flood risk map 2021: https://detroitography.com/2023/04/14/map-current-flooding-risk-in-detroit-2023/

* School sound levels and nervous system stress: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/8/4128

* Student mental health days: https://adolescentmentalhealth.com/blog/mental-health-days-for-students/

* Detroit flooding 2014: https://www.clickondetroit.com/weather/2018/02/20/great-flood-of-2014-how-historic-was-it/

* Tornadoes 2014: https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/reports-of-funnel-cloud-spotted-in-northern-macomb-county/

* Detroit flooding 2016: https://www.michiganpublic.org/weather/2016-09-29/detroit-keeps-flooding-whats-being-done-about-it

* Michigan flooding 2021: https://today.wayne.edu/news/2021/07/12/detroit-household-flood-report-gives-overview-solutions-to-decades-long-issue-42849

* Michigan flooding 2021: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/flooding-detroit-rain.html

* Detroit flooding 2021: https://bridgemi.com/urban-affairs/understanding-why-detroit-floods-and-why-it-keeps-happening/

* Detroit trash collection issues: https://michiganchronicle.com/detroits-waste-management-plan-addresses-residents-trash-collection-challenges/

* Detroit food sovereignty: https://www.detroitagriculture.net/

* Detroit food sovereignty: https://www.bridgedetroit.com/food-sovereignty-detroit-um-detroit-center/

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. — Ernesto Che Guevara

In this episode of radicals for good, we experience together on the ground resistance to imperialism in Cuba. This episode is a collection of interviews of Cubans living on the island and international comrades showing solidarity in Cuba during the 19th International May Day Brigade.

Get out of your comfort zone & take action:

* Join the NO WAR ON CUBA campaign!

* In Michigan? Join Michigan Action for Cuba Committee!

Further Learning:

* Belly of the Beast Cuba

* National Network on Cuba’s 101 series

* Revolution with the Revolution Podcast

* Upstream Podcast Cuba series

* International Solidarity Podcast

* We Are Cuba! by Helen Yaffe

* Revolution within the Revolution by Michelle Chase

* Remembering Che by Aleida March

* More articles and books here!

Sources:

* https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

* https://www.brookings.edu/articles/cuba-the-u-s-and-the-concept-of-sovereignty-toward-a-common-vocabulary/ (sovereignty)

* https://theflags.org/what-countries-celebrate-may-day/

* https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/labour-life-and-liberation-the-emancipatory-significance-may-day-3599286

* https://discoverdreamlands.com/tour/when-did-cuba-allow-american-tourists

* https://www.radiorebelde.cu/english/the-mallory-memorandum-outlined-the-blockade-against-cuba-66-years-ago-06042026/

* https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/trump-transcripts/transcript-president-trump-discusses-the-capture-of-nicolas-maduro-in-venezuela-10326

* https://theintercept.com/2026/05/27/trump-donroe-doctrine-violence-western-hemisphere-cartels/

* https://acleddata.com/report/us-donroe-doctrine-reshaping-conflicts-latin-america-and-caribbean

* https://liberatedetroit.org/why-im-fighting-for-energy-sovereignty/

* https://sustainablepowernews.com/detroits-energy-divide-utility-giants-abandoned-poor-neighborhoods/

* https://planetdetroit.org/2026/03/how-canceled-clean-energy-projects-are-costing-michigan-and-what-happens-next/

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-off-grid-project-is-bringing-streetlights-back-to-detroit/

* https://detroitmi.gov/government/mayors-office/office-sustainability/energy

* https://humanidades.com/en/imperialism/

* https://www.prosperityforamerica.org/literacy-statistics/