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    adrienne maree brown: Pleasure Activism and Black Women’s Legacy of Joy

    Get the full interview by becoming a supporter on our Patreon!We must recognize that “pleasure is a measure of freedom,” that’s the first ambition writer, healer, and teacher adrienne maree brown has for her...
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    Web Exclusive: Will Schumer See The Sunrise?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg4sPZW9U3wSeven activists were arrested on Tuesday, April 30, while demonstrating outside Senator Chuck Schumer's office, demanding that he sponsor a Green New Deal Resolution. "In its current form, the Green New Deal is a...
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    Excerpt: Afro-centric Education and Black Power in Bed-Stuy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOcqXyhP8ts"How do we put self-empowerment at the center of schools?" We visit Ember Charter Schools for Mindful Education, a culturally-responsive school in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant.With over 40 nations represented, Ember is an institution seeking to...
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    Remembering Marielle Franco

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubbo9L5dFBsJust days before the one year anniversary of activist Marielle Franco's assassination in Brazil, prosecutors there charged two former police officers with her murder. Those arrests may provide a partial answer to the question...
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    The State of Human Rights in Brazil – K.K Verdade

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EHU2n0OflsK.K Verdade of Fundo ELAS, Brazil's largest and only women's foundation, updates us on the fight for human rights post-Bolsonaro's election, gender ideology, and how Marielle Franco's fight still continues.
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    How To Stop Letting The System Screw Us All: Jaclyn Friedman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG5YxF1CmyEWe talk a lot about economics on the show, but we're not just economic beings, we're human ones, with a wide range of wants and desires; including desires for sex. Writer, educator and activist...
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    The Need For Accessible Technology – Chancey Fleet

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cemtDfKX8icWhat's missing in the tech industry? We need developers to really know something about accessibility and to challenge the notion that some things are too visual, says Chancey Fleet in this excerpt from our...
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    International Women’s Day: the View from Kyrgyzstan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toA3vR9dZr4Britain's John Smith Trust works with up and coming leaders who are building civil society in the former Soviet Union. The Trust recently invited Laura (along with her sister Stephanie, of Bloomberg News) to...
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    The City as Living Laboratory: Mary Miss

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8HCNVvtNiMIn this excerpt we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist, whose organization, The City as Living Laboratory, strives to empower people to create not the cliché of the sustainable city, she...
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    A Love Letter to Long Island City

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzpra1HL5YUAmazon might no longer be putting its headquarters here, but Western Queens and specifically, Long Island City are a new frontier for New York City's politicized land battles. A Long Island City preacher's son...
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