iChange Justice Season 5

Irene Morgan and Joy Gilfilen, Hosts of iChange Justice, discuss the very real post-pandemic human fallout from multiple years of economic domination by the Whatcom County Executive branch officials. Homeless emergencies started being declared in 2017, and the emergency declarations for covid and other disasters have been ongoing for over 3 years while people were in lockdown, dealing with high-ri...

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, and Irene Morgan, founder of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, talk about what they saw happen on January 28, 2021 when they went on a peace-making mission to help the homeless talk with officials to resolve emergency crisis needs. Instead, at 7 am they found that four law enforcement agencies "jumped the gun" on their promises and converged a da...

"Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice, interviews Irene Morgan, the founder of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, about civic trauma, court processes and how glacial the systems of justice seem to be working post pandemic. Irene was observing one morning as a Whatcom County Superior Court Judge meets with roughly a dozen Prosecutors, Defenders, and various staff to schedule felony cases for...

Thursday at Noon on KPNW-DB, Published to other outlets at 6:00 PM iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen discusses "The Domination Effect" with Beth Brownfield, an activist who has been working with original nations and people for over 41 years to understand the long-term impacts of cultural genocide on humanity. Just last week, Beth hosted Lummi Elder Jewell James at the Bellingham Universa...

"Compassionate Action" is the discussion between Ruth Ann Lonardelli and Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice. In this New Year especially, people across all layers of our society and across all generations are facing different kinds of grief, trauma, distress, sadness, and emotional upheavals. The civic, social, and economic stress has been building up over several years post-pandemic. We've...

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, talks with Peter, a father of a young woman dealing with Fentanyl addiction issues, overdoses, depression, mental illness and the long road to try to find a path to recovery. What happened? How does it feel going through it? From his lived experience -- what do we need to know about the despair, the paralysis? What has been the ripple effect, the gaps, the un...

Joy Gilfilen and Chene Keltz discuss hosting season #1 of the iChange Justice podcast and how this ties into the Open House and 16th Anniversary Celebration of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition on December 28th!  There will be a special Zoom call that night that anyone can attend online (or in person at their offices in Bellingham, WA!  Go to www.theRestorativeCommunity.org for links a...

iChange Justice Podcast, Season 2, Episode 2, John Fitzpatrick joins Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice to discuss his life behind bars, and afterwards since release and successful reintegration into society. John shares his history with Irene Morgan and why the Restorative CommUnity Coalition's pioneering work in building alternatives to incarceration mattered to him, and to others. Irene Morg...

Season 2 of iChange Justice Podcast begins with "The Money Business" as experienced from inside prison walls. Our listeners hear firsthand how jail industry contractors and DOC officials do business. This interview is directly from an inmate discussing how things have changed the past few years for people incarcerated (especially since 2007) in Washington State. It has become very difficult to tal...

Irene Morgan is the featured guest interviewed by Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, speaking about "expungement of records" and why it matters to people involved in the criminal legal system.  Rebuilding their lives is often virtually impossible without mentorship supports and people with experience helping them recover through all the legal chaos.   Helping people do expungements is one of t...

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, interviews Atul Deshmane about the complex effects of compound civic trauma in the community. How has it impacted individual people to live with 3 - 5 years of escalating distress as we went through layers of conflict...political, social, economic, emotional, and physical disasters and emergencies? What were the impacts on different kinds of people in differe...

In today’s 50th episode of iChange Justice Podcast, Joy Gilfilen, President of the Restorative Community Coalition and podcast Host,  interviews our Media Manager, Ava Sakowski, and former outreach counseling professional.  Why?  To share Ava’s reflections as a social service worker from 1970-1995 regarding the last three years of emergency crisis conditions affecting our families....

iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen interviews Paxton...what a working man learned when he started exploring what happens to people when they get "bucked out" of the working class and live homeless - outside the bubble of what people think is normal. What did he learn about how the world works differently when you have no phone, no credit card, and no network to support your view of yourself? He sha...

Tomorrow on ichange Justice podcast, Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast, speaks with Marc Santos, the Founder of Noble Goldman, an online international mastermind and intentional change platform.  The topic is about raising our consciousness, and opening our minds to the idea that it is possible to be the ones "Bringing Peace to Justice in a Divided Nation".  Using the latest...

Interviewing Mel Hoover and Rose Edington about "Recognizing New Opportunities for Change" was a delight for Joy Gilfilen, host of the iChange Justice Podcast! Mel and Rose are each Unitarian Universalist Ministers with a lifetime of experience working with deep complexity in the field of social, economic, and civic change issues!  They recently attended the Community Regeneration Conversatio...

Joy Gilfilen, the host of iChange Justice, interviews Jerome Gold, the author of Paranoia and Heartbreak, about his experiences working at Echo Glen, the Washington State Juvenile Prison as a rehabilitation counselor for 15 years.   The conversation is about how prevention, intervention, and various kinds of therapies help reduce recidivism and increase the probability of people staying out o...

With iChange Justice, this week you will hear from host Joy Gilfilen, Irene Morgan, and Chene Keltz about how one of our clients has impacted our lives over the past ten years, as he re-entered society as a 31-year-old man after living for 17 years in prison. A businessman, Jeff, was recently gunned down in Belize after he had helped a man the day before; and this is heartbreaking. Each of us had...

This iChange Justice episode, hosted by Joy Gilfilen, includes a "Do You Recognize Me" lived experience story illuminated by Chene Keltz after surviving decades of emotional trauma and justice-involved events that accumulated, then compounded, and repeated incessantly. It provides a true story perspective that shows how we are addicted to old patterns that do not work.  That is unless and unt...

James White of the ESATTA Cooperative discusses "Healing the Civic Heart"  with Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice podcast.  For 38 years, James has worked compassionately in the community living field in British Columbia, CA.  James founded a non-profit for people with "diverse abilities" - typically called the learning disabled who have been marginalized and dismissed as us...

"Community Regeneration Conversations" is the hot topic today, with Host Joy Gilfllen and guests, Chene Keltz, Irene Morgan, Debbie David, and Ilona Krohn. They are all involved in the weeklong civic education program for the Restorative CommUnity Coalition going on this week - Sept 12-16 in Bellingham, WA. The RCC has invited many people to a series of calls discussing the issues we face with the...

iChange Justice host Joy Gilfilen discusses "Community Alternatives & Justice" with Karen Ball, from the Grassroots Compassionate San Antonio project in Texas. Karen is bringing her boots-on-the-ground knowledge in doing prevention and intervention at the community level, together with her institutional knowledge of civic engagement and the criminal justice field. Karen clearly shows how the d...

Guest Franklyn Smith, with Freedom Project WA, discusses how he's learned that "Healed People, Heal People" with Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChangeJustice. As a young man, he lived deep in the jazz music world in downtown Seattle with his mother, and when she died, he got into drugs. Today he has "lived on all sides of the fences", for he went through the military, incarceration, drug addiction, homele...

Today's topic, "Solutions: The Value of Having Lived Experience," is with Don Kirchner interviewed by Joy Gilfilen, iChange Justice podcast host, about how it worked after he served time in federal prison.  Don was one of the original members of the Restorative Community Coalition who wrote about his journey in his book, A Matter of Time, then Return to Honor.    He was Irene's...

  Bo Richardson is our guest with iChange Host Joy Gilfilen discussing how businesses, governments, media, and education create, dominate and maintain monopolies - all as it relates to the justice system.  Bo was a commercial fisherman in Alaska for 30 years and has been an activist, researcher, and writer published in Whatcom Watch, Bellingham Herald, Organic Press, and Cascadia Weekly....

Host Joy Gilfilen discusses "A Historical Opportunity for American Leadership" with Ilona Krohn, a global economist.  They discuss many issues that interlink and show how and why solving the real human social value issues in the US is directly related to building a healthier global economy and determining our future as a species.  Being compassionate and humane is our greatest asset, and...