Silver Threads Podcast

Happy winter solstice! In these darker days, it feels an apt time to shine a light on our past so that we may better illuminate a future - manifested by imagination, holding joy, hope, fear and despair as we still walk, still wake.

carla and Eleanor share some of their own stories as we reflect on previous episodes and consider the road ahead - both in terms of personal projects, and systemic shifts.

Transcripts for this episode available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rB3f6WKYuVhz3438rMF50cqXo-leqfR8VtD3hTEYAY/edit#

"Radicalism to me is aligning my passion with what my community needs."

Katie Pettit is a radical organizer who re-envisions community-driven initiatives through art, film, and technology. She joins the show to discuss creative works as visions for the future, the undercurrents as the source of our collective power, and more!

Mutual Aid goes to Katie's org, Current Movements: Current Movements: currentmovements.com

Transcripts for the show available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QqCoUY9JIZJqvoEbkt1f7faRVOrDkYZ4qo5337osY4A/edit?usp=sharing

"Climate is a powerful gateway to the world of anti-capitalism."

Sina Reisch is a climate justice and civil disobedience advocate from Germany. She joins the show to talk about her work at the intersections of issues, growing up in the shadow of fascism, the power of direct action, imagining the past and more!

Mutual aid goes to Ende Gelaende and their fight for climate justice: https://www.ende-gelaende.org/en/

Read the transcript for this show here: https://bit.ly/30DUqwf

"Don't aim for what's realistic - aim for what actually kicks you in the guts. Aim for what is so beautiful that you're gonna give it everything you've got collectively to make it happen."

Juliette is an author and independent journalist who joins us from France to talk about the power of imagining the impossible, territories in struggle, collective solidarity and more!

Mutual Aid goes to: collectif justice et vérité pour Babacar Gueye; a collective founded by Awa Gueye, whose brother was shot by police in the French city of Rennes. The collective aims to support Awa in her struggle to demand truth and justice for her brother's death.

Project: https://justicepourbabacar.wordpress.com/

Money: https://www.lepotcommun.fr/pot/15pqogdr

Transcript available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wdbDTYmMaEOLQQ8T9wPFwBprGXnVfv58HjRnaGVHn8g/edit?usp=sharing

"It took me a long time to get to the point where I could be honest about my background - to get rid of that shame around growing up in poverty and say, 'hey, these are my people.'"

Dani Burlison is a mom, writer, teacher, activist and witch who joins the show to discuss recent watershed moments, reconciling with her past, raw fear and hope for the future, and more!

Solidarity Funds go to UndocuFund.org

Read the transcript here

"We're not trying to hack the system in our unschooling - we're trying to burn it down."

Antonio founded Abrome to support the liberation of children and fundamentally change the way people think about education. He joins ST to discuss his military past that gave way to a militant present, the difference between emancipation and liberation, daring to respect kids and more!

Mutual Aid this week goes to Street Form ATX: https://opencollective.com/street-forum

"It doesn't have to be The Walking Dead or Mad Max - there's more to the future than these hellish, violent scenarios."

Dad and rapper Sole, aka Tim, joins the show to discuss the possibilities in the present and future, finding and building radicality wherever you are, the power of art and more!

Solidarity donations go to:

Final Straw Podcast

20 years after 9/11, Joy Damiani, a veteran and artist, joins the show to reflect on 911, the Military Industrial Complex, simple radicalism, systemic narcissism and more.

Solidarity Funds go to:

Highlander Research Center - highlander center.org Veterans for Peace - veteransforpeace.org Mutual Aid PDX - Venmo @pdxra

"We need to create spaces for gentleness. In the harshness that we live in, we don't think about that gentleness enough, and the kindness that's going to be required to build a new world."

This week, we sit down with Am Johal, connector of radicals, builder of worlds and local organizer in Vancouver to talk about art, fight, play, gentleness and more!

Mutual Aid donations this week go to:

• Carnegie Community Action Project (Vancouver based): http://www.carnegieaction.org/
• Union of BC Indian Chiefs: https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/

"I consider myself to be a conductor on the underground railroad."

Sima is an organizer, educator and artist. She joins the show to talk about ideological pitfalls, cos-play radicalism, bringing (some of) the past forward and through her hip-hop, asking the tough questions like 'what is freedom?'

Solidarity Funds go to Maroon Quest:

paypal: [email protected] Cashapp: $Simaleerbg Venmo: Simaleerbg

https://simalee.bandcamp.com/