Community Room Conversations
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -In late 2018 we began recording select events to share online. Our hope is that this extends the reach of the content we host and creates opportunities for exchange at a distance.
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Mutual Aid: A Conversation With Rural Organizing And Resilience
April 15, 2020 00:00 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBOn this episode of the Firestorm Community Sustainers Drive, I sit down with Whitney and Leslie from Rural Organizing And Resilience – otherwise known as ROAR, a project started in 2017 with a goal of increasing access to essential resources for all people and communities in rural Madison County, North Carolina. Throughout our conversation, we discuss how they got involved with the project, their organizing approach of mutual aid, how the context of Southern Appalachia influences the...
Harm Reduction: A Conversation with Steady Collective
April 15, 2020 00:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBFor the second installment of our Community Sustainers Drive we sit down with Hillary Brown, director of the Steady Collective, an organization committed to improving overall community health by reducing the rate of drug overdose and the spread of infectious disease with education, advocacy, and direct services. In our conversation we discuss the approach and principles of harm reduction, the challenges involved in implementing these programs, the connection between the opioid crisis...
Ignite, Transform, Heal: A Conversation With CPC
April 15, 2020 00:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBFor the sixth installment of our Community Sustainers Drive, we sit down with Samhita and Giannina, co-directors for The Center For Participatory Change, a democratically run, multiracial organization that works to open up space focused on learning, healing, and relationship building for folks most affected by structural inequalities. Throughout our conversation, we take a deep dive into the three circles of their work: popular education, racial equity, and language justice, as well ...
ACAB 2019: A Conversation with Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair
April 15, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBFor the first installment of our Community Sustainers Drive, members of our co-op sat down with organizers of the third annual Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair happening this weekend, August 23 - 25, in Asheville, North Carolina. In our conversation we cover the origin of the book fair, the responsibility of organizers in curating a safe(r) space of encounter, the importance of gatherings like this for anarchists and anti-authoritarians in southern Appalachia, and what newcomers m...
Prisoner Solidarity: A Conversation With Asheville Prison Books
April 15, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBFor the fifth installment of our Community Sustainers Drive, we sat down with Julian and Julie from Asheville Prison Books, a loosely run volunteer collective that distributes free literature to people incarcerated in North and South Carolina. As a project rooted in anti-authoritarian politics, Asheville Prison Books finds ways to connect with, humanize, and meet the every day needs of incarcerated people while building collective power to challenge mass incarceration, the prison ind...
The Asheville Blade: A Conversation With David Forbes
April 15, 2020 00:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBOn this episode of the Firestorm Community Sustainers Drive, we sit down with local investigative journalist David Forbes. David is the founder and editor of The Asheville Blade, a local news site known for its rigorous long-form journalism and principled perspectives on the inner workings of Asheville city government’s economic and social issues. In our talk, we discuss what first drew David to journalism, the factors that led them to start the Asheville Blade, her ideas of what it ...
Radical Spaces: A Conversation With Cindy Milstein
April 14, 2020 00:00 - 21 minutes - 30 MB"[Radical spaces] serve increasingly where there's almost no place that isn't privatized or commodified or policed. More and more they serve a crucial role of people finding each other and being able to actually engage in face to face conversation... After the Trump election, so many people were suddenly interested in politics, and where do you go to find that?" Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations, co-author of Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of E...