Community Focused Economic Models, Cooperative Housing, and the New Economy Coalition
Collective housing, cultural co-ops, land trusts, community banks are community-rooted enterprises that empower those that have been excluded from traditional economic institutions. Solidarity economy models exercised throughout the country are becoming viable solutions towards sustainable and economically just living.
Today we're visiting community-rooted enterprises where people are rethinking power and participation in their lives. Collective housing and cultural co-ops, land trusts and community banks are providing fundamental shifts in our workplaces, living spaces, and economic understanding of local communities.
Featuring
Eri Oura - Cycles of Change, The Bikery
Devi Peacock - Peacock Rebellion, Liberating Ourselves Locally
Harper Bishop - Open Buffalo
Julia Ho - Solidarity Economy St. Louis
Iya Ifalola Omobola - Cooperation Jackson
Amara Enyia - Public Policy Expert
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.
Host: Anita Johnson
Producers: R.J. Lozada, Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez.
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Audience Engagement and Web Director: Sabine Blaizin, Development Associate: Vera Thykulsker
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