Using Truth in the Face of Opposition with Tarika Powell
Hope & Hard Pills
English - January 22, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes - 30.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsSociety & Culture antiracism black dismantle hard hope justice lives pills racial racism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tarika is a queer, neurodivergent environmental policy professional who specializes in helping communities fight against large-scale fossil fuel terminals. Over the past decade, she helped kill dozens of proposed fossil fuel projects in the Pacific Northwest. She was a protester at the police precinct occupation in Seattle in 2020, and is a vocal critic of both police violence and the commodification of the BLM movement. She lives in Philly, where she is building an advocacy and education space arout neurodivergence, mental health, and outdoor therapy.
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Music: It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (Remix) by Andre Henry.