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Happy winter solstice! In these darker days, it feels an apt time to shine a light on our past so that we may better illuminate a future - manifested by imagination, holding joy, hope, fear and despair as we still walk, still wake. carla and El
"Radicalism to me is aligning my passion with what my community needs." Katie Pettit is a radical organizer who re-envisions community-driven initiatives through art, film, and technology. She joins the show to discuss creative works as visions
"Climate is a powerful gateway to the world of anti-capitalism." Sina Reisch is a climate justice and civil disobedience advocate from Germany. She joins the show to talk about her work at the intersections of issues, growing up in the shadow o
"Don’t aim for what’s realistic - aim for what actually kicks you in the guts. Aim for what is so beautiful that you’re gonna give it everything you’ve got collectively to make it happen." Juliette is an author and independent journalist who jo
"It took me a long time to get to the point where I could be honest about my background - to get rid of that shame around growing up in poverty and say, ‘hey, these are my people.’" Dani Burlison is a mom, writer, teacher, activist and witch wh
"We’re not trying to hack the system in our unschooling - we’re trying to burn it down." Antonio founded Abrome to support the liberation of children and fundamentally change the way people think about education. He joins ST to discuss his mili
"It doesn’t have to be The Walking Dead or Mad Max - there’s more to the future than these hellish, violent scenarios." Dad and rapper Sole, aka Tim, joins the show to discuss the possibilities in the present and future, finding and building ra
20 years after 9/11, Joy Damiani, a veteran and artist, joins the show to reflect on 911, the Military Industrial Complex, simple radicalism, systemic narcissism and more. Solidarity Funds go to: Highlander Research Center - highlander center.o
"We need to create spaces for gentleness. In the harshness that we live in, we don’t think about that gentleness enough, and the kindness that’s going to be required to build a new world." This week, we sit down with Am Johal, connector of radi
"I consider myself to be a conductor on the underground railroad." Sima is an organizer, educator and artist. She joins the show to talk about ideological pitfalls, cos-play radicalism, bringing (some of) the past forward and through her hip-ho
"We need to let our comrades be as brave as they wanna be, as brave as they can, and sometimes braver than us, and hopefully they inspire us." Mark k. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He joins the
"The way that I organize is deeply offensive to anyone who’s really got a vested interest in a power dynamic being at play..." Community organizer Sierra Ramírez joins the show to talk about carving worlds, infighting, fear, and the beautifully
Nietzsche wrote that "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." Today, carla and Eleanor dive into the starbursting chaos, weaving through multitudes: discomfort, thriving, learning, boundaries and the bo
"We need to think about how we speak to people who have lost all agency, lost all hope and are living in a nihilistic existence - that’s the sleeping giant that’s gonna change things." Eugene Puryear is a longtime journalist and community organ
Hey all! Happy May Day! Just a quick message about some rad episodes to check out, and some updates on upcoming Silver Threads shows.
"Love is older than doubt, so curiosity is older than doubt. Creation comes from curiosity." Hari Alluri joins the show to share poetic musings on everything from the concept of home to masculinity, weaving his own poetry between and into the t
"Right now radicalism feels like a locked, very heavily loaded, hidden treasure chest." After 15 years of a fully nomadic lifeway, Korean diasporic experimentalist Jimmy Betts is stationary. And while the parked isolation of now being an exhaus
"There is so much need for this storytelling. I want to be the bridge between these Kashmiri stories and the world." Ifat Gazia was born and raised in the most militarized place on earth, Kashmir. She grew up listening to stories of oppression
"The Black Panther Party allowed me to have a more developed view on what freedom might look like." Anarchist Panther Elder Ashanti Alston joins the show to talk about rifts and icons, of reading beyond the page and into life, of deep dives
"Mutual aid is actually the work of building the world that we want to live in." Natacia is an organizer with a broad and varied base of experience that's taken her across the globe and across the spectrum of charity, solidarity, hope and despa
Eriel is a Dënesųłiné mother from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN). Her work focuses on Indigenous rights and building intersectional dialogue between Indigenous rights, climate justice and other social justice movements. It is from
“When we withhold trust from each other all the time, what is the world we create?" Freedom fighter, writer and singer YahNé Ndgo joins the show to discuss the power of "we," the power of art and the shedding of past shame in order to build be
A radical and kinetic start to 2021! We sit down with Marina Sitrin, mother, dreamer and associate professor to discuss not just movements in time, but in space - journeys that shift paradigms and societies - from Greece to Argentina to upstate
Behind the curtain, the 4th wall; beyond the distinction between guest and host - today, carla and Eleanor sit down with each other to dig into everything from pop culture embarrassments to melancholic hope and book recs. A perfectly radical wa
“When I was growing up, I was instinctively an anarchist, an anti-capitalist, an environmentalist, but I didn’t have the language for that yet.” Maia Ramnath (writer, historian, teacher, performing artist, aerialist, activist and more!) joins t
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