Award winning poets Martin Espada and Lauren Marie Schmidt in the studio! Espada, is the 2018 Ruth Lilly Award winner - one of the most prestigious awards given to an American poet, Espada is the first Latino poet to win the award. Espada and Schmidt talk about their work, teaching, and how to use poetry to critically examine and talk about the world.

REPLAY: Poetry and Resistance

Indigo hosts Kelly and Olivia discuss the proposed legislation across several states that bans discussion of racism, sexism, and other “divisive” topics in schools. We talk with a veteran New Hampshire social studies teacher as well as two high school students doing work around consent education. We also discuss related legislation that criminalizes protest and that aims to reverse gains made by social movements in recent years

Government Censorship in U.S. schools & more

Keyvan Chemirani & Pandit Anindo Chatterjee - Battements Au Coeur De l'Orient

We spend the hour with Umaymah Mohammad - Palestinian, organizer, and current MD/PhD student at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Umaymah speaks with us about her own history, rejecting the silence of the university in not protecting the safety of those students who have been targeted by racist, anti-Palestinian, xenophobic, and Islamophobic harassment , international solidarity, and what she calls "victory outside of empire."  

Read Umaymah's Open Letter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WveLfyzyxalsmLg6SdKQ0O7oeLjqcbv/view

Read here: an Open Letter to Emory Jan 24, 2024 by a coalition of community and civil rights organizations, writing on behalf of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students and students perceived to be Palestinian or Muslim at Emory University.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/open-letter-on-the-anti-palestinian-and-islamophobic-environment-at-emory-university/

"Victory Outside of Empire" : Palestinian Resistance & Our Collective Freedom

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Today we are talking about Mutual Aid in the Era of COVID 19 - How can we work towards solidarity not charity! We  interviewed Story from Western Mass Community Mutual Aid network and Eva from Out in the Open, an organization based in Brattleboro working to connect rural LGBTQ people to build community, visibility, knowledge and power. 

This will be part 1 of a series in which we will continue to add more as stories of mutual aid organizing emerge in this time of crisis.

"Victory Outside of Empire" : Palestinian Resistance & Our Collective Freedom

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