Radio Reimagine

“I absolutely think housing for poor, homeless, and low-income queer folks is a huge issue for us, as is doing anti-violence work…” —Kenyon Farrow Editors note: The June 26, 2015 Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 States shifts the terms of the debate about where the gay rights movement should be...

Claiming Our Voice Panel Discussion with Gulnahar Alam (lead organizer and founder of Andolan: Organizing South Asian Workers), Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel (filmmaker & director of Claiming our Voice), YaliniDream (performance artist featured in the film) and Sheila Bapat (author of Part of the Family? Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers and the Struggle for Domestic Workers’ Rights) offer r...

An interview with Sheila Bapat “The roots of domestic work are deeply connected to the history of slavery in the U.S. It’s no accident that a vast majority of domestic workers were African American women to begin with, and increasingly now, immigrant women of color.” An interview with Sheila Bapat “The roots of domestic work...

This interview was recorded at the Our Power Convening in Richmond, California in August 2014. The meeting drew community organizers, scholars, and activists from all over the nation together to consider new approaches to ecological restoration, social justice, and paths towards ending the extractive economy. Listen to the podcast at reimaginerpe.org.   Colette Pichon Battle:...

“So here I am! I get to be around all the kinds of people I like and enjoy, and who inspire me, motivate me, and make me happy. But I am also the poorest, the brokest, I’ve been in my whole life. In the beauty business, I made money because I was really good. This...

  “The growing “bio-economy” is based on control, manipulation and commodification of life… things like microbial factories that are producing industrial food products, that will make fuels and pharmaceuticals, seeds and now even species.” —Gopal Dayaneni Dr. Vandana Shiva, the internationally known author, scientist and advocate for small farmers and agroecology, spoke with Gopal Dayan...

An Interview by Christine Joy Ferrer with Krissy Keefer Dance Mission Theater’s Krissy Keefer voices her opinions and concerns about the current social and economic conditions in San Francisco’s Mission district and DMT’s commitment to its vibrant community at the intersection of arts and politics. Christine Joy Ferrer: Tell me a little bit about who...

Excerpted here are the voices of young activistas who redefine what it means to be part of the new majority as women of color. We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For Activistas from the New Majority By Christine Joy Ferrer At the Empowering Women of Color conference in March this year, I was moved to...

Interview with Bertha Lewis By B. Jesse Clarke Bertha Lewis is president and founder of the New York-based action think tank, Black Institute and former president and chief organizer for the community organizing group, ACORN. A veteran organizer and powerful public speaker, Bertha has been organizing since the 1980s. The following is an excerpt from...

Interview by Irene Florez Transcript Irene Florez: Making Home Affordable is a key part of the Obama Administration’s effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. If you are struggling with your monthly mortgage payments or if you have already missed a payment, now is the time to take action and apply for HAMP the Home Affordable...

Interview with Katie Joaquin By Christine Joy Ferrer MAKIBAKA! Imagine the life of a domestic worker—a caregiver, nanny, or housekeeper, serving in a private home. Now, imagine not being able to sleep for more than three hours a night, having to wake every few hours to change a patient’s diapers. Or only being allowed sponge...

Your audience are the people of America who can have a different society, a different set of electoral prerogatives but cannot do it through the election system. (9:00) We need direct civil resistance in America as never before. Never before. It must happen. James Lawason Erin Aubry Kaplan: Great, so this is I guess the...

A Conversation with Movement Generation Interview by Ellen Choy The transformation of the Occupy moment into power for movements that can actually challenge entrenched economic interests will be a complex process. Movement Generation activists recently gathered to reflect on what it will take to make this happen.   Ellen Choy: Why  are you committed to...

A panel discussion with Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein Moderated by Scott Kurashige Scott Kurashige: We’re going to start with our panelists giving us their sense of how they see the world today and the core concepts we need—to make sense of the challenges we confront. Grace Lee Boggs: I had the great privilege...

By Frank Lopez and Joe Feria-Galicia Frank Lopez: How are the plaintiffs going to ensure that the criteria chosen to evaluate the alternatives are going to be more equitable? Alegria De La Cruz: Part of what is exciting to us about being able to open this [up], is that there’s a lot more information available...

Interview by Christine Joy Ferrer In the summer of 2003 RP&E published Where Do We Go From Here? A Look at the Long Road to Environmental Justice. The young activists of 2003 voiced their aspirations for the EJ movement in “The Next Generation, Youth Voices in Environmental Justice.” Today, the young and the fearless continue...

“Gender constructions themselves are racialized. Our overarching notion of what is a good man and what is a good woman, are based on white people being good people and people of color being bad people.” Interview by B. Jesse Clarke Rinku Sen is the president and executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and...