September 2014: Activist Amanda Lickers on Reclaim Turtle Island, and the repeated victimization of Janay Rice

Activist and member of the Onondowaga nation Amanda Lickers was in studio to discuss her grassroots radical media project, Reclaim Turtle Island. The project has produced several films and aims to build capacity for Indigenous and anticolonial struggles in Turtle Island, including the extraction of oil from tar sands. Amanda will speak to us about Reclaim Turtle Island, decolonization, divestment, and indigenous solidarity.

Also, earlier thins month, TMZ released a video of football player Ray Rice punching his fiancee, now wife, Janay in an elevator. The Baltimore Ravens, Ray’s team, subsequently posted a disturbing tweet that  “Janay Rice says she deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident." Since then, Ray has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL. Led by Mercedes, we will discuss how Janay Rice is being victimized over and over again.

Spitfiyah! September 2014

In this episode, meet Bobby Wong, a social worker in the Bay Area, California. Here, Bobby describes how, despite having to stop going to school at a young age, she found ways to pursue her dream and eventually get a degree - a graduate degree! - and how her journey has landed her in a unique position of offering hospice care services to Cantonese-, Mandarin- and English-speaking communities. 

Music by: 
Estoy Fuera by Dadalú
No Squirell Commotion by Podington Bear
Transformation of Pachelbel's "Canon" by Nanae Mimura

Produced by:
Geraldine Ah-Sue

Advised by:
Alice Wong

Episode 1 - There's No Time to Waste

Mia Mingus is a Bay Area activist and community organizer and educator with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. In this episode, Mia talks about the important work of love and transformative justice in order to foster community healing and accountability without the use of the criminal justice system.

*This segment includes conversation around child sexual abuse and may be triggering, so please take the care that you need before, during and after listening.

For more information on the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, and for a full transcript of Episode 2, visit the website at inplainsightradio.com.

Producer: Geraldine Ah-Sue
Advisor: Alice Wong

Music by:
Podington Bear – Chimera
Podington Bear – Firefly
Podington Bear – No Squirell Commotion
Chris Zabriskie – We Always Thought the Future Would be Kind of Fun

Episode 2 - The Work Of Love

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In Plain Sight is a podcast that celebrates stories of everyday activism from Asian and Asian American women. Through these stories, In Plain Sight explores how social and political change are created everyday through those whose work is often portrayed as largely absent - Asian American women. By highlighting the ways our struggles are ongoing, never absent, and ever present, In Plain Sight aspires to make visible the work, strength and love of our communities, and how through many different actions and and in a wide array of arenas, we are indeed creating a world we wish to see. 

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Episode 2 - The Work Of Love

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