This episode features a discussion of possible changes to the Metro Supportive Housing Services Measure, a history lesson about the limits of even "good" Supreme Court rulings, and commentary from Desiree Hellegers on Mourning, Solidarity, and freeing Leonard Peltier. Frann Michel hosts.
More about the segments:
Frann Michel talks with Molly Hogan of the Welcome Home Coalition about adjustments to the Supportive Housing Services Measure. Welcome Home members are calling on the Tri-county Metropolitan Regional Council to make sure that adjustments honor the initial intentions of the measure while improving its implementation using lessons learned since the tax was passed by voters in 2020 to better serve the needs of our community in addressing homelessness. Welcome Home has a call to action to protect investments in housing stability for all by contacting the the Metro President and Councilors.
You can send letters to Metro Councilors and sign up to find out more at welcomehomecoalition.org.
Brown v. Board of Education & Missed Opportunities
This year is the 70th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs Board of Education which required desegregating US schools. In recognition of that anniversary, we share a brief clip from our friends at The Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.
In Racism and Resistance in the North During the Civil Rights Movement, educator Brian Jones spoke with Jesse Hagopian about the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be included in the curriculum. This Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class was hosted in collaboration with the New York City Civil Rights History Project.
You can find their whole discussion and more resources at the Zinn Education Project.
Colonialism, Solidarity, and Leonard Peltier
This year, the annual deluge of Black Friday ads egging us on to attain higher levels of consumption–with corresponding carbon emissions and solid and liquid waste–seemed particularly hollow, morbid–predatory, even– falling as Black Friday did this year on November 29, the date the U.N. first recognized in 1977 as International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Desiree Hellegers talks about the confluence of these two occasions, and about the settler colonial simulacra of Thanksgiving, and the urgency of calls for Joe Biden to free 80-year-old Dakota, Lakota, Anishinaabe political prisoner Leonard Peltier.