Silver Threads Podcast

"We need to let our comrades be as brave as they wanna be, as brave as they can, and sometimes braver than us, and hopefully they inspire us."

Mark k. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He joins the show to share poetry, the necessity of cynicism, what we're willing to give up and more.

Solidarity Donations: Camp Mniluzahan & Creek Patrol https://www.mllegalfund.org/

"The way that I organize is deeply offensive to anyone who's really got a vested interest in a power dynamic being at play..."

Community organizer Sierra Ramírez joins the show to talk about carving worlds, infighting, fear, and the beautifully messy work of building capacity and community - sprinkled with Orwell and Zapatista quotes.

Solidarity Funds:

DC Ward 1 Mutual Aid DC IWW Emergency Hardship Fund

Nietzsche wrote that "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

Today, carla and Eleanor dive into the starbursting chaos, weaving through multitudes: discomfort, thriving, learning, boundaries and the boundless accordion time of past, present and future!

Solidarity funds this week go to No One Is Illegal - Vancouver.

"We need to think about how we speak to people who have lost all agency, lost all hope and are living in a nihilistic existence - that's the sleeping giant that's gonna change things."

Eugene Puryear is a longtime journalist and community organizer who joins the show to offer up new and animated viewpoints on root issues and radical solutions, highlighting the power of imagination, collectivity, personal growth and more!

Solidarity Funds go to: Liberation Center in Philadelphia https://phillyliberationcenter.org/

Hey all! Happy May Day! Just a quick message about some rad episodes to check out, and some updates on upcoming Silver Threads shows.

"Love is older than doubt, so curiosity is older than doubt. Creation comes from curiosity."

Hari Alluri joins the show to share poetic musings on everything from the concept of home to masculinity, weaving his own poetry between and into the threads of conversation that center creativity, humility, strength and radical love.

harialluri.com

Solidarity Funds:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/memorial-for-yong-yue-and-family

https://searafund.ca/donate

"Right now radicalism feels like a locked, very heavily loaded, hidden treasure chest."

After 15 years of a fully nomadic lifeway, Korean diasporic experimentalist Jimmy Betts is stationary. And while the parked isolation of now being an exhausted working class queero in so-called Iowa is heavy, Jimmy remains a part of the radical roots, while being apart from them. They join the show to talk about home, growth, perspective, misunderstandings and more!

Des Moines Mutual Aid: https://www.facebook.com/DesMoinesMutualAid

"There is so much need for this storytelling. I want to be the bridge between these Kashmiri stories and the world."

Ifat Gazia was born and raised in the most militarized place on earth, Kashmir. She grew up listening to stories of oppression, occupation and resilience and eventually became a storyteller, bringing the story of Kashmir to the world through her articles, research papers, films and podcast.

She joins the show to talk about this storytelling, the manifold expressions of freedom, and being prepared for liberation.

Ifat's podcast: https://standwithkashmir.org/the-kashmir-pod-cast/

Solidarity funds: https://standwithkashmir.org/donate/

"The Black Panther Party allowed me to have a more developed view on what freedom might look like."

Anarchist Panther Elder Ashanti Alston joins the show to talk about rifts and icons, of reading beyond the page and into life, of deep dives into fear, freedom, the internalizing of oppression, and of the ultimate exit - from empire. Solidarity Funds to The National Jericho Movement & Center for Grassroots Organizing https://www.thejerichomovement.com/ https://www.grassrootscenter.net/

"Mutual aid is actually the work of building the world that we want to live in."

Natacia is an organizer with a broad and varied base of experience that's taken her across the globe and across the spectrum of charity, solidarity, hope and despair. She joins Silver Threads to dig into the past, present and future, to analyze the lenses with which we view the world, and the work of building new worlds - block by block.

Solidarity Funds to East of the River Mutual Aid: https://www.gofundme.com/f/east-of-the-river-mutual-aid-fund