Collective Power Podcast
72 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago -Welcome to Collective Power: we are out to transform trauma system-wide by presenting a mirror of the system to itself. Each week, we focus on one system. Each show, we hear from a person who has an experience of one aspect of that system. On the last show each month, we bring folks back together to look at the big picture and what is possible for our city, our country and our world. From these conversations, repeated patterns at different levels across society: the key to societal transformation.
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In public service draw strength from the ancestors and tend to the land. A conversation with PA House Rep. Chris Rabb
April 08, 2024 01:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBIn this episode, my co-Host Diane Little and I interview PA State House Representative Chris Rabb (called Rep Rabb). This episode is a provides profound insight into the ethic of public service--for Rep Rabb insists on not being called a politician--because it's service, not a profession. His service spans, Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Commerce, Finance, Veterans affairs, and the Judiciary. Join us as we take a walk in his world of advocacy through, agrivoltaics, sustainability, electoral r...
Caucus Crises: A Break in Reciprocity and Trust with Michael Lawson
March 25, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBIn this episode our Hosts Dr. Rita and Diane Little welcome our guest, Michael posits that the Democratic Party is always in crises, by its inclusive nature, because it tends to fold within it, the crises of the communities it attempts to represent. We review the variety and intent of Caucuses: their history, purpose and relevance: the Black caucus, African American Caucus, Women's Caucus, Young Dem's Caucus, Rural Caucus, County caucuses, and district caucuses, etc. We identify a breakdown...
The heart to serve: with Marshville, NC Town Manager, Franklin Deese
March 15, 2024 19:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBIn this episode, current town manager and former Mayor of Marshville, NC of 14 years Franklin Deese discusses with our co-hosts Dr. Rita and Diane Little tells the riveting experience from incarceration to become his town's mayor. He talks passionately about the importance of public service and how truth and trust led his journey. Even if things don't turn out quite as we expect them to, public service, Franklin says, is always worth it! Franklin D. Deese is presently serving his fifth yea...
Seeing the System doesn't mean giving up, with Joel Ford
February 20, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBIn this episode, Hosts Dr. Rita and Diane Little interview interview Joel Ford, former North Carolina State Senator. We talk about his disappointment with the Democrat party and his concerns with progressive approaches to change. With economic freedom as his primary goal, he unpacks his approach to questions about school choice, vouchers, education, and voting rights. He also explains his major concern: too many elected officials are more concerned with fighting than working; and our li...
What's the difference between governing and ruling? with NC House Rep John Autry
February 14, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. Rita and Diane Little we talk with NC House Rep. John Autry. We talk about the difference between governing and ruling and share examples of how polarization in government and opposition towards anything the other party does gets the democratic process stuck and frustrates legislators themselves. In the face of the challenges of voting rights and redistricting, the House Rep. offers glimmers of hope in his ability to work across the aisle, still leveraging the basic fun...
Skin in the game: why should white people want racial justice? With Jill Nagle
May 11, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBIn this episode, consultant and author Jill Nagle join us for a discussion on the book she’s writing —Skin in the game: how white people benefit from dismantling white supremacy. We face the question: Why should white people want change? What do we get out of it? We look at whiteness as a system that has created a set of mindsets with negative consequences—similarly to how family dynamics can create repeated, unhealthy dynamics and expectations that diminish our humanity, our health, and...
Trailblazer Series: Making your truth your life with Sharon Hurley Hall
July 17, 2022 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBIn this episode, we zoom in on the journey of a trailblazing leader and her passage from being a corporate writer to full-time antiracism professional. We explore how a personal calling can shift from side-kick to a way of being that doesn't allow us to walk any other way in the world. As for the antiracism conversation, we touch upon self-care, global whiteness, and lexicon--and most importantly where the field is going. Our guest, Sharon Hurley Hall is an anti-racism activist, writer, ...
Love and Fear Series: Power is Neutral with Organizer Pastor Daniel Hughes
May 30, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this episode, we look at the Church's participation in white supremacy as the complete opposite of Jesus' tradition as a community organizer, himself. We look into religious concepts such as mercy and grace as they inform our personal, relational, and social way of organizing our society. Two GenXers in conversation about relationships, connections, and healing for the generation of latchkey kids who didn't feel tended to. "A lot of churches have resources, but they don't have the hear...
Love and Fear Series: Racial Justice Organizing beyond Fear with Robin Wright-Pierce
May 21, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBIn this episode, we talk about our bodies play a crucial role in requiring us to shift from unsustainable social justice organizing from fear, anxiety, hyper-vigilance, and chaos to organizing from the more sustainable care, trust, love, and even joy. We also talk about the how organizational dynamics such as perceived leadership, funding, and results strengthen fear, too. Our guest invites us to "build our capacity to enter into new relationship with white supremacy, patriarchy, and sexi...
Educational Excellence despite the system with Dr. Ishmail Conway and Dr. Rodney Hopson
May 12, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBIn this episode, we look at examples of educational excellence throughout African American history in the face of tremendous challenges. Two deeply committed educators challenge us to think about the educational system more broadly given the many ways we learn. They offer examples of questioning language and reconnecting to self, community, and land bring forth healing. Our guest, Ishmail Conway Ph.D., is a “public intellectual” and “catalyst.” Dr. Conway is a third-generation educator, pr...
Love and fear series: What we fear most is ourselves with amy j howton, Ph.D.
May 10, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBIn this episode, we review ways in which fear can be not a stop sign, but an invitation into deeper practice. We need others to be the mirror with us, and liberation is in community and in relationship , so as we build a deeper relationship with each other, through fear, we discover that the system is not separate from us, but we uphold it with our culture. As we transform, the System will, too. This happens both in relationship and in our personal work. Our guest, invites us to show up m...
The Power of Intention with Yvonne DeVastey
April 13, 2022 09:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBIn this episode, we navigate the importance of intention as the fuel that mobilizes life. We look into how intention helps direct the flow of life and face the unknown, but also how we must release control for it to show its full power. We also discuss some current events such as war that tend to disempower--and reveal how we can indeed stand in our own power no matter what is happening in the rest of the world. Our guest, Yvonne DeVastey, is a Reiki Master teacher with a wealth of experi...
Data Geek Series: Family Preservation Works! the Child Welfare System with Richard Wexler
March 23, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBIn this episode, we look at data on racial bias in the child welfare system, and on the case for family preservation against the current family policing system and its biases, since COVID-19. We also talk about data collected in NYC, on how COVID-19 activated local networks and how the child welfare system can be changed to suit the data we know. Our guest, Richard Wexler, is Executive Director of NCCPR. His interest in child welfare grew out of 19 years of work as a reporter for newspapers...
Data Geek Series: Legal (Criminal InJustice) Systems with Attorney Karla Cruel
March 15, 2022 12:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBIn this episode, Attorney Karla Cruel walks us through the components of the legal system for criminal law and the ways in which these different processes are flawed. "The very fact that we know there are frequent innocent convictions, in and of itself, tells us the system is flawed," she says. She walks us through various stages of bias and misjudgment, and how the are compounded over time. Our guest, Karla L. Cruel, Esq. is a former educator, now social entrepreneur who launched Legal Em...
DataGeek Series: The Music Business Design to Keep Artists in Debt with Andrae Alexander
March 07, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this episode, we take a systems look at the music industry and how it sets up artists and composers to be in constant debt through the lack of fair and transparent contracts and the restrictions in regulations and contract terms. We envision a music industry where artists and composers are more informed about their contracts, their rights, and their fans. Andrae is a Grammy-Nominated musician and professor who moved to Los Angeles in 2009 from Maryland and is a faculty member at the Un...
DataGeek Series: The Music Business System is Designed to Keep Artists in Debt with Andrae Alexander
March 07, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this episode, we take a systems look at the music industry and how it sets up artists and composers to be in constant debt through the lack of fair and transparent contracts and the restrictions in regulations and contract terms. We envision a music industry where artists and composers are more informed about their contracts, their rights, and their fans. Andrae is a Grammy-Nominated musician and professor who moved to Los Angeles in 2009 from Maryland and is a faculty member at the Un...
DataGeek Series: Technology-Innovation Pipeline System with Anne Heberger Marino
February 21, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode, we look at how the technology innovation happens pipeline happens from research, to industry, to community. We look at how these relationships are typically extractive and how they can become more sustainable. How high levels of collaboration and collective intelligence and emergence work can enrich the way we think about nature and problem-solving: ocean memory, gentle accountability, human heart-work, and valuing the contribution of all. Our guest, Anne is the founder of...
DataGeek Series: The Philanthropy-Evaluation system with Audrey Jordan
February 14, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBThis episode looks at the relationship between Program Evaluation and philanthropy as a system, one that allocates small monies to communities in need while controlling the definitions and management of standards of success. We propose engaging stakeholders more, shifting what we measure, and ..... Dr. Audrey Jordan is the Jerry D. Campbell Professor and DEI Specialist at Claremont Lincoln University, and is a certified executive life coach, focused on “accompanying social justice leaders a...
Data Geek Series: Data Are Never Gospel Disrupting whiteness in Health Systems with Dr. Sharon Attipoe, Rachel Dungan, and Janice Tufte
February 07, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes - 38.4 MBIn this show, three experts of health systems data bring us insights into how racism and bias contribute to all points of health data collection, from uncovering old assumptions--like assuming lower thresholds of pain for African Americans, competition among groups, inappropriate diagnoses for bodies of color. Our guests invite us to recommend engaging diverse stakeholders in problem-solving, centering narratives on the direct experience of patients, disrupting and questioning the norm of w...
Relationships Series: How Do We Build Authentic Partnership Across Race Lines? with Dr. Audrey Jordan
January 30, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBThis episode is an exploration of what gets in the way of partnerships between Black women and white women: control, superiority, power struggles, and plantation narrative. We also talk about the white wounds that we unwillingly bring into the work and what's possible when we heal and move beyond the wounds. Dr. Audrey Jordan is the Jerry D. Campbell Professor and DEI Specialist at Claremont Lincoln University, and is a certified executive life coach, focused on “accompanying social justic...
DataGeek Series: The Juvenile (In)justice system: Are we punishing youth who are grieving? with Deven Wisner
January 23, 2022 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this episode, we look at some data as relates the the juvenile (In)justice system and ways in which our systems perpetuate disproportional representation of youth of color and don't support what we know works. Our guest invites us to look at how our system is based on society having deprived youth of opportunities to grieve. Programs that provide space to grieve have been successful. Are we punishing youth who are just grieving? Our guest, Deven (he/him) is the Managing Partner of Viable...
Data Series: How does the use of data in Higher Education reinforce white supremacy? with Libby Smith
January 19, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBIn this episode, we discuss how higher education reinforces white supremacy by design. We highlight the data that exposes these contradictions. In particular, we talk about three ways higher education enforces white supremacy: 1) Quality of life for millennials will not higher than parents' generations; 2) There is a gap between white students and students of color and no meaningful attempts really close that gap; and 3) Data are often collected as a diversion. Our guest, Libby Smith (she/...
It's All One System: Moving Beyond Shame with Jeanette Vega
February 26, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBIn this episode, we discuss how parents who have been targeted by the family policing system (child protective services) experience all the systems, together, allied to the detriment of their own families. By sharing her powerful-first hand experience, Jeannette Vega inspires a life beyond fear and shame, where the experiences of parents who had their children removed are honored and become the core to support system transformation. Our guest, Jeanette Vega is a proud mother of four boys and...
It's all one System: Changing the Formula of our Purple Country
February 14, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBIn this episode, we use the mathematical definition of a "system" as a set of rules that preserve a certain result, to look at the ways that the System as a whole preserves itself. Our guest, Attorney Karla Cruel, walks us through her approach to re-write the constitution--laid out in a new article she co-wrote with Rita Fierro on Medium (link below). Rewriting the constitution is a strategy designed to bring out the purple majority and overcome the dialectic of blue against red that we'v...
white Supremacy in the Body: Make Pearls, Not War with Lisa Jo Epstein, Bernadette Pleasant, and Roz Thomas
February 01, 2021 11:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this episode we engage in conversations with three expert facilitators on their personal stories that led them to experience, understand, and value how white supremacy is stored in our bodies and how healing in community is an essential way for what's next. By healing together, we can shift from inherited fear through being witnessed and being curious. There are ways for us to come to the table together. There are ways for us to strengthen our relationships, re-embrace consistency, joy a...
white Supremacy in the Body: Facing the Ring of Fire--Unlearning Racism with Bernadette Pleasant
January 27, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this episode, through storytelling and reflection, we review the somatic experience that people of color have of how the System can unleash itself against them at any time. We highlight how bodies of people of color retain memories of traumatic events and how the retriggering is unlikely for white people to understand. We offer ways to weave the gap across different experiences and pave the way for unlearning racism, healing, and mutual understanding. Our guest, Bernadette is a fiery sens...
white Supremacy in the Body: Democracy is Freedom from Inner Tyranny with LisaJo Epstein
January 27, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this episode we break down several aspects of internalized white supremacy: perfectionism, conflict as danger, defensiveness, not-good-enough story, and obsession with product over process and doing the right thing. We also highlight how the discomfort and dissonance between our perception of ourselves and the realties we are confronted with are key to healing internal white supremacy and freeing ourselves from the inner tyranny that keeps us separate and isolated. Healing the inner tyran...
white Supremacy in the Body: Body Memory, Honesty, and Health with Roslyn Thomas
January 09, 2021 16:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBIn this show, we talk about how racism assaults the body and stores emotions and pains for decades. By walking through some key concepts of Resam Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands, we highlight some ways that meditation, dance, exercise, expressing clean pain, and releasing grief, can help release trauma from the body providing a way to lighten up, ground, and be more fully our true selves. Choosing clean pain daily, requires courage, and the awareness of choosing responsibility over fragili...
Economic System: An Economy that Serves Humanity and the Earth with Wayne Armitstead, Matt Birkhold, David Caplan, Erick Murillo Ramos, Gagan Oberoi
December 17, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBIn this provocative episode, we move beyond the definitions of capitalism, socialism, and communism, through the assumptions of inequality as the backbone of our system, to a vision for a new economy. Our guests have knowledge of and insights from different corners of the economic world. Wayne Armitstead having authored Capitalism Perverted, as a prior stockbroker, sees a system that is too unstable to serve even the richer among us. Matt Birkhold has studied the history of capitalism and...
Economic System: An Economy that Serves Humanity and the Earth with Wayne Armitstead, Matt Birkhold, David Caplan, Erick Murillo Ramos, Gagan Oberoi
December 17, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBIn this provocative episode, we move beyond the definitions of capitalism, socialism, and communism, through the assumptions of inequality as the backbone of our system, to a vision for a new economy. Our guests have knowledge of and insights from different corners of the economic world. Wayne Armitstead having authored Capitalism Perverted, as a prior stockbroker, sees a system that is too unstable to serve even the richer among us. Matt Birkhold has studied the history of capitalism and...
Economic System Basics: Economy is not Accounting with Gagandeep Oberoi
December 12, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBIn this episode, we review the basic concepts of the economic system that we mostly take for granted: money, economy, accounting, transactions, growth. Our Guest, Gagandeep Oberoi is a global citizen, currently living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. who stands for ‘everyone winning’ with a possibility of love and happiness for all. Gagan believes that we are working from wrong assumptions about the economy, and those wrong assumptions are what disempower us most. Instead, Gagan has us note how l...
Economic System: Bubbles Don't Have to Burst with Wayne Armitstead
December 08, 2020 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBIn this episode we review many of the mechanisms that keeps the economy stuck in bubble growths and bursts. From the uncovering the fake economic boost of right now, to the dark money in politics, and the elimination of the gold reserve, we walk from what has become morn in our current economic system and what we can actually shift for the world we want. Breaking up trusts, full employment, and increased regulation are some of the options offered by economist Heiman Minsky. Our guest, Wayne...
Economic System: Love, Racism, and the Economy with Matt Birkhold
December 03, 2020 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this episode, an old colleague of mine and I meander on the importance of Love in overcoming the restraints of racism and the economy in the USA. We discuss how knowledge won't set us free, how healing is essential, and how we can build our economic power in the face of capitalism--a very knew system in the history of humanity, despite we think of it as rigid and unchangeable. Our guest, Matt Birkhold, takes seriously his and others' ability and responsibility to create and foster the eme...
Economic System: GDP Growth Is NOT Wealth with Erick Murillo Ramos
November 30, 2020 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBIn this episode, we look at international economic and some somecreen dynamics to inequality: the GDP, disparities, and fake choices. Our guest, Erick Ramos Murillo, is an economist and entrepreneur with wide experience serving as a strategist and consultant for a number of private companies, government and multinational organizations. Mr. Ramos was co-founder of PointSpectrum and CEO of RemesaTel Corporation, a company focused on solving end-user financial needs by developing proprietary M...
Economic System: A Country is Not a Business with David Caplan
November 25, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this episode, we explore some misperceptions of the economic system: trickle down economics, trade deficits, and managing countries like businesses. We also look at how our states are different and how the Federal and Commonwealth structures were established to maintain differences, too. Our guest, David A. Caplan, has been a sole practitioner since purchasing an accounting practice in 1992. His client base and services offered are diverse, encompassing everything from tax returns to fin...
Election Results: Systemic Bridge-Building is Next with Raphael Freeman
November 10, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBThis episode was recorded when the results of the election were clear, but not yet declared. We engage in a conversation beyond the angst of the results by discussion what the elections say about where our country is and what's next. What would it be like if we built systems that all across the country would connect people instead of separating us? Our Guest Raphael Freeman is a political scientist by training and the lenses of politics and political history shape his view of the world. He ...
Sharing Visceral Fears of Extinction with Dove
November 04, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this episode, we talk about breaking the silence by sharing our deepest fears and how transformative that can be for ourselves, but also breaking down barriers within our families and in our society establishing more authentic relationships. We also talk about the failures of the liberal/progressive movement to address the visceral fears of extinction of white men. Our guest, Dove, is my yoga teacher, a humanist, a dad, a gay man, and a humanist. Dove: humanistic Dove: dad Dove: born 195...
Juvenile Justice Systems: What Humanizing Looks Like with Michael O'Bryan and Sousan
September 29, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBIn this show we envision how our Juvenile (In)Justice system could be humanizing, instead of detrimental to youth and society. It's shifting a system from an approach that breaks youth's will by having them cave-in, give up, or get tough and instead align the system with what we know about youth, about learning, and about life. We have two guests: Sousan is the mom of youth in the Juvenile (In)Justice system and school counsellor, Michael is the Director of Youth Programs at the Village for...
Juvenile Justice System: Stop Incriminating Young People Like Adults with Joanna Visser and John Pace
August 11, 2020 21:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this episode, we talk with two advocates for juveniles who have been working intensely to end youth sentenced to life without parole. They also support other youth to get out of the juvenile justice system, once and for all. John Pace is the Juvenile Life Without Parole (“JLWOP”) Reentry Coordinator with the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project. In this role he coordinates efforts to garner the necessary resources to support former juvenile lifers returning home. As a former juvenile lif...
Juvenile Justice System: Restoring Robbed Childhood with Michael O'Bryan
August 08, 2020 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this episode, we talk with a youth worker who provides sobering insights on the importance of caring for our youth and having compassion for the ones who go astray. Michael O’Bryan is an expert practitioner and budding researcher in the fields of community development, organizational culture, and human wellbeing. Mike has spent more than a decade working directly with resilient yet underserved populations —including veterans, adults in recovery, returning citizens, and families experienci...
Juvenile Justice System: Data Don't Say what You Think with Adam Serlin
August 08, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this episode, we discover the limitations of juvenile justice reform due to the data that is reported and the data that isn't. Our guest, is Adam Serlin who currently serves as a Stoneleigh Fellow with The Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. In this role, he is helping Philadelphia’s juvenile justice stakeholders use data to drive more efficient, responsive, and cost-effective services for justice-involved youth. Prior to his fellowship, Adam spent twelve years a...
Juvenile Justice System: Breaking the Cycle of Violence to Peace-Making with Iran Nazario
July 17, 2020 02:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBTrigger warning: this episode has vivid references to physical violence. In this episode, we talk with a prior youth in the juvenile justice system about how the cycle of violence started in his own life and what it took him to break it and become a peacemaker for himself, his family, and his community. Our guest, Iran was a foster child in the custody of DCF in his childhood who then immersed himself in to the violent street culture of gang membership and prison though his twenties. In t...
Juvenile Justice System: A child not embraced by his village.....with Sousan
July 09, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB...will burn it down to feel its warmth" An African Wisdom Saying--that Sousan mentions on the show. In this episode, we talk with a mother who has seen all three of her children in the juvenile justice system. We talk about personal power, race, and the split between how the private juvenile "injustice" facilities offer high quality services--to predominantly white children, while the state facilities are youth prisons with predominantly children of color. Sousan also describes the soul-cr...
Juvenile Justice System: A child not embraced by his village with Sousan
July 09, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB...will burn it down to feel its warmth" An African Wisdom Saying--that Sousan mentions on the show. In this episode, we talk with a mother who has seen all three of her children in the juvenile justice system. We talk about personal power, race, and the split between how the private juvenile "injustice" facilities offer high quality services--to predominantly white children, while the state facilities are youth prisons with predominantly children of color. Sousan also describes the soul-cr...
Child Welfare Systems: The Caucus of Denial with Lawanda, Jazmin Banks, and Richard Wexler
July 02, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBIn this episode, by talking with a birth parent, foster parent, a journalist, and a researcher, we look at the way the different mechanism of trauma and family separation work together. We also begin to envision what it would take to overcome the denial of how racism works within these systems and what it would take for us to organize together to change them. Resources mentioned on the show: National Coalition for Child Protection Reform website Originally Aired on February 28, 2020 Sup...
Child Welfare Systems: Seeds of Bigotry with Richard Wexler
July 02, 2020 22:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this episode, a journalist who has been covering child welfare since 1990, highlights how much about the system hasn't changed, and how it's rooted in seeds of profound bigotry against catholics, that has not been extended to people of color: racism as the backbone of the system. Richard Wexler is Executive Director of NCCPR. His interest in child welfare grew out of 19 years of work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television. During that time, he won more than two d...
Law Enforcement System: Accountability and Loopholes with Louis Molina and Karla Cruel
July 02, 2020 22:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this episode, we look at the law enforcement system from two different perspectives, a correctional executive and a lawyer activist provide insights into how the system is, and how it needs to change. Our guests are Louis Molina and Karla Cruel: bios below. Louis Molina is a second generation, decorated veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, with over twenty years of experience in the public sector, namely in the criminal justice arena having uniquely worked in policing, the District Attorne...
Law Enforcement System: Liberty and Justice for All is a New Constitution with Damon K Jones, Louis Molina, and Karla Cruel
July 02, 2020 22:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBIn this really phenomenal show (if I say so myself) we talk about how we can leverage our collective power to envision and create a system for liberty and justice for all. We talk about the need for a truth and reconciliation commission, legislative activism, and even a new constitution! It's an explosive episode. Let's go! Our guests from this month come back in this show: Damon K Jones, Louis Molina, and Karla Cruel. Contact information: Damon K Jones: Blacks in Law Enforcement Facebook...
Child Welfare Systems: The Zemblanity of Forced Orphans with Jazmin Banks
July 02, 2020 22:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, a foster parent talks about how she was the "perfect victim" who entered the system to save children only to discover she was complicit in a brutal system that perpetuates psychological abuse against both foster parents and birth parents. Jazmin S. Banks was a “Family and Community Inclusion Specialist” at the Department of Behavioral Health (a.k.a. DBH), for 14 years. She worked tirelessly to bridge the gaps between large Serving Systems, Community Based Organizations (CBO...
Child Welfare Systems: My Child Was Taken with Lawanda
July 02, 2020 21:00 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode we hear from a birth parent who lost one of her children to foster care how daunting the experience with DHS was an how, the more she advocated for her child's needs, the worse the experience became. Our guest, Lawanda, is a single mother of three. "I'm college educated and hard working. I'm a survivor of DHS. My story is a little different, you see DHS wasn't always the beast they became. In the beginning they were a source of help. I can't explain how or why they changed bu...