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Trash Talk: The Young Lords' Garbage Offensive & Protesting Environmental Racism in El Barrio (with Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano)
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, a professor of communication at Texas A&M University and the author of The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. Dr. Wanzer-Serrano teaches college courses in rhetoric, cultural studies, critical theories of race/ethnicity, de/coloniality, and Latinx studies; and he has a research focus on the same topics.
We discuss the Garbage Offensive, a protest that the Young Lords organized in New York City in 1969 to protest the environmental racism their community of East Harlem/El Barrio faced: the New York City sanitation department's extreme negligence in picking up the neighborhood's garbage. Dr. Wanzer-Serrano explains how the Young Lords' grassroots organizing activated a new political paradigm among Puerto Rican New Yorkers, as well as how they successfully built multi-ethnic and intergenerational coalitions. We contemplate what lessons this historical activism can teach us about more equitable environmentalism today--with some musings on how the Green New Deal was likely informed by AOC's knowledge of the Young Lords' history, and more!
To learn more about Darrel Wanzer-Serrano's work, visit his website: https://wanzerserrano.com/dws/
You can also follow him on Twitter @DoctorDWS
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Everyday Environmentalism is a podcast that tells past and present stories about "urban nature" in New York City. We interview current activists in tandem with environmental historians to produce a long history of the ways ordinary New Yorkers have experienced the urban outdoors and created more sustainable relationships with their environment.
Visit www.everydayenvironmentalism.org for more information.
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For a full transcript of this podcast, click here or visit this URL:
https://otter.ai/u/C78JUCqE81Khls0Hw1ZDznrCbsE
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This episode features a conversation with Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, a professor of communication at Texas A&M University and the author of The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. Dr. Wanzer-Serrano teaches college courses in rhetoric, cultural studies, critical theories of race/ethnicity, de/coloniality, and Latinx studies; and he has a research focus on the same topics.
We discuss the Garbage Offensive, a protest that the Young Lords organized in New York City in 1969 to protest the environmental racism their community of East Harlem/El Barrio faced: the New York City sanitation department's extreme negligence in picking up the neighborhood's garbage. Dr. Wanzer-Serrano explains how the Young Lords' grassroots organizing activated a new political paradigm among Puerto Rican New Yorkers, as well as how they successfully built multi-ethnic and intergenerational coalitions. We contemplate what lessons this historical activism can teach us about more equitable environmentalism today--with some musings on how the Green New Deal was likely informed by AOC's knowledge of the Young Lords' history, and more!
To learn more about Darrel Wanzer-Serrano's work, visit his website: https://wanzerserrano.com/dws/
You can also follow him on Twitter @DoctorDWS
***
Everyday Environmentalism is a podcast that tells past and present stories about "urban nature" in New York City. We interview current activists in tandem with environmental historians to produce a long history of the ways ordinary New Yorkers have experienced the urban outdoors and created more sustainable relationships with their environment.
Visit www.everydayenvironmentalism.org for more information.
***
For a full transcript of this podcast, click here or visit this URL:
https://otter.ai/u/C78JUCqE81Khls0Hw1ZDznrCbsE