A journey through a diverse collection of remarkable communities and movements figuring out how to build power, solidarity, and connection in a world beset by disasters — both natural and human-caused. From hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more, The Response's audio documentaries and interviews highlight some of the most inspiring stories of response and pave a path towards the better world we know is possible.
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Tufts University and Shareable.net present Cities@Tufts, a free series exploring community innovations in urban planning. The live discussions are moderated by professor Julian Agyeman and the podcast is hosted by Shareable's Tom Llewellyn. The sessions will focus on topics such as Environmental justice vs White Supremacy in the 21st century; Sacred Civics: What would it mean to build seven generation cities; Organizing for Food Sovereignty; From Spatializing Culture to Social Justice and Pu ...
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Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
The Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier
A monthly conversation with creative activists pioneering new forms of commoning.
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Live music from the 95bFM studio, every Friday evening on 95bFM Drive with Milly and Tuva'a. Broadcast weekly from Auckland, New Zealand.
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The Advantage of Adversity podcast is focused on showcasing inspiring stories of people who have endured significant adversity in their personal or professional lives and in spite of their circumstances have chosen to find the opportunity and advantage in the adversity.
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Tom Llewellyn on the Many, Innovative Spheres of Organized Sharing
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37:38Tom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, describes the countless varieties of organized sharing that it supports through its journalism, organizing, and partnerships. In recent years, Shareable has helped amplify the work of mutual aid networks, expand the Libraries of Things concept, championed new forms of urban commoning, and develop new …
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Michael Llewellyn joins the Friday team in the studio to play a couple of tracks off his latest album "I'M GORGEOUS". The tour kicks off shortly so be sure to grab some tickets from Under The Radar and listen to the new album. Thanks to NZ On Air and McLeod's Brewery!
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Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona with Megan Saltzman
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48:41Megan Saltzman presented her new book--Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona--which explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, playing, walking, etc.) challenge the increase of top-down control in the global city. Public Everyday Space focuses on post-Olympic Barcelona—a time of unprecedented levels of gent…
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Swallow the Rat live-and-direct from the 95bFM lounge playing tracks from their forthcoming EP Face Unpopular. Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
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The first live session on Drive for NZ Music Month features VIDA in the bFM lounge! Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
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Mutual Aid in Action with Sanae Lahgazi Alaoui, Alexa Baiano, Rain, Valinda Chan, Laurie Bertram Roberts, and Vicky Osterweil
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38:07We’re back with the fifth installment in our Mutual Aid 101 mini-series. This episode is going to be a little different from what we’ve shared before. Rather than extended presentations, you’ll hear six 5-10 minute “Rad Talks” covering examples of mutual aid in action. We welcomed Sanae Lahgazi Alaoui from Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund; Alexa Baian…
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A History of Violence: The Legacy of Environmental Racism in Canada with Ingrid Waldron
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53:27Canada was founded on enslavement and dispossession, most exemplified by its assimilationist ideologies and policies, the displacement, subjugation and oppression of Indigenous and Black peoples and cultures, and the expropriation of Indigenous lands. The colonial theft of land and the accumulation of capital have been foundational to Canada’s weal…
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Phoebe Rings are in the studio to play several gorgeous tracks from their forthcoming album Asurei. We're beyond excited for the album's release in June! Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery!
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Tom Lark joins Milly and Tuva'a in the studio to play some tracks from their fantastic new album Moonlight Hotel on Friday Live. Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
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Surveillance, cybersecurity, and financial tech for mutual aid with Elijah Baucom and Sarah Philips
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37:17Today, we're sharing excerpts from Shareable’s Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series' third session. Elijah Baucom of Everyday Security & UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic discusses security for mutual aid groups before Sarah Philips of Fight for the Future shares the current state of mutual aid financial surveillance and privacy tech. The third speaker fr…
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Commoning within Arts Collectives, Episode #61
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53:23What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art? This episode hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how they organize their commoning practices. The three collectives are the "-" (dash) collective in Iran (with an artist who goes by the pseudonym "M" for …
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Coast Arcade play a ripper set and give us a sneak peak of their forthcoming single Acetone out this Friday! Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
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Yurt Party's high energy set had us all dancing in the bFM lounge last Rāmere. Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
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Group decision making, conflict management, and power dynamics with Julian Rose
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39:44We’re back with the third installment in our Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series. Today, we're sharing the audio from the second half of Mutual Aid 101 Session 2, featuring Julian Rose from the New Economy Coalition and EndState ATL. Julian will start with a 25-minute presentation about power dynamics and how to work with others before addressing questi…
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Local Leadership for Climate Justice with Hessann Farooqi
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56:39This talk explores how and why city governments can step up to lead on climate action and how resident organizing is critical in making this happen. This talk also explores how to build and sustain the political coalition to ensure climate justice policies can be passed and implemented. Hessann Farooqi is the Executive Director of the Boston Climat…
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Club Ruby comes up to the station to play some tunes for us! Featuring thier new single Heartbreak Overtime, which you can find here. Thanks to NZ on Air.
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Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
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From City to Sink: Urban Carbon Removal as Promise and Practice with Duncan McLaren
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57:03Climate policy increasingly relies on techniques to remove CO2 from the environment as a supplement to cutting emissions: counter-balancing residual emissions in ‘net-zero’ and reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to safer levels. In this talk, Duncan will survey how cities are engaging with carbon removal – reviewing the realistic scope of p…
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Brandn Shiraz and Caru join Milly in the studio to play some tracks off their latest EP back to back, and chat about closing the Cross Street Music Festival tomorrow night! Grab your tickets here! Thanks again to Brandn Shiraz and Caru, and thanks to NZ on Air and McLeod's Brewery.
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Building (and rebuilding) mutual aid groups with Stephanie Rearick
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38:13We’re back with the second installment in our Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series. Today, we're sharing the audio from the half of Session 2, and will be joined by Stephanie Rearick, to discuss how to start and build momentum for a new, or (re)newed mutual aid group. She’s a longtime organizer and advocate for cooperative economies, and the founder of t…
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David Bollier on His New, Updated Edition of 'Think Like a Commoner'
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39:59Radio Kingston host and executive director Jimmy Buff interviews David Bollier about his new, updated and revised edition of 'Think Like a Commoner,' originally published in 2014. This popular introduction now includes material on the commons as a living, relational organism, bioregionalism and the relocalization of economies, governance of digital…
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Mutual aid for survival and resistance with Dean Spade
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1:18:16Last week, we were blown away by the 2,200 people who registered for our new Mutual Aid 101 Series. We were fortunate to have Dean Spade, organizer, teacher, and the author of "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)” and “Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together” lead the fi…
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Solidarity Cities: Examining Solidarity Economies at the Urban Level with Maliha Safri
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55:55Contemporary urban discourse is caught in a binary between the Gentrified City, and the Disinvested City. Maliha Safri’s new book presents an alternative urban imaginary: the Solidarity City. Her new co-authored book Solidarity Cities. Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation introduces an alternative spatial imaginary highlighting sol…
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Environmental Justice, Political-Economic Inequalities, and Pathways to Justice with Prakash Kashwan
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54:51Most researchers of environmental and climate justice agree that political and economic inequalities hurt the environment, racial minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and other marginalized communities. Yet, these conclusions are based, almost exclusively, on analyses of the distribution of "environmental bads" (e.g., industrial pollution and toxic wast…
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Future Natures: On Seeing Commons through Popular Genres
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36:07Anthropologist Amber Huff, coordinator of the Centre for Future Natures at the University of Sussex in England, explains how popular genres like comic books, zines, social media, podcasts, and video, among others, can illuminate contemporary commons, enclosures, and the disorienting crises of capitalist modernity. What does this moment of crisis an…
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Mutual Aid Lessons from East Boston
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1:17:46This is a special bonus episode of the Cities@Tufts podcast! Last fall, Tufts University Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning, Penn Loh, hosted a discussion following the release of a new report, Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure in East Boston through Community Car…
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Voices of The Response: Live at the Oregon Country Fair 2024
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44:17Nearly 20 years ago, The Response host Tom Llewellyn was fortunate to experience Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States live at the Berkeley Community Theater. In 2018, after we finished our first set of audio documentaries for The Response, it was clear that the personal stories shared with us by those o…
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Pirate Care as a Revolutionary Act: Valeria Graziano & Tomislav Medak
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43:31Pirate Care is a term used to describe creative, public acts that challenge the "organized abandonment" of people in need. In the tradition of civil disobedience, pirate care activists intervene to show compassion and social solidarity for ordinary people. Pirate Care also highlights how the state, markets, or patriarchal families have politicized …
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Decolonizing Climate and Energy Policy with Noel Healy
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54:11Addressing the climate crisis requires more than incremental reforms; it necessitates a transformative approach that dismantles deep-seated inequalities and confronts the historical injustices embedded in global structures. Achieving global climate justice hinges on decolonizing fossil fuel politics and dismantling obstructionist forces at both nat…
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Mobilizing Food Vending with Ginette Wessel
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55:32Throughout US history, street food vending has rarely been considered an improvement to modern society or its capitalist economy. However, beginning in 2008, a new generation of mobile vendors serving high-quality, inventive foods became popular among affluent populations. Ginette Wessel’s new book, Mobilizing Food Vending: Gourmet Food Trucks in t…
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Yuria Celidwen on Applying Indigenous Wisdom Traditions to Modern Challenges
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49:40Yuria Celidwen, an Indigenous researcher in the Department of Psychology at University of California Berkeley, discusses how contemplative practices in Indigenous traditions can expand mindfulness, heartfulness, compassion, and planetary flourishing. Her new book, 'Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations for Collective Well-Being,' argues that rela…
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Indigenous disaster response: The fight against a mining giant in Brazil with Allen Myers
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35:38In this episode of The Response, we explore a devastating and ongoing story of environmental disaster, Indigenous resistance, and corporate exploitation in Brazil. This powerful installment brings listeners face-to-face with the catastrophic failures of Vale, a multinational mining corporation, and the resilient efforts of the Kamakã Mongoió people…
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Reimagining Urban Planning with Jose Richard Aviles
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54:46Reimagining Urban Planning is a talk based on the monthly webinar series of the same name hosted by the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. This talk openly critiques the ways in which Urban Planners have been trained and the impacts it has had in the ways Planners approach the Land, and the People that inhabit the land. This talk will…
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