Youth Organizing X
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYoung people around the world are organizing themselves and demanding a more equitable future - the movement for Black lives, the international youth climate movement, the #nodapl movement. Young people have always been at the cutting edge of political movements for justice throughout history.
But what does youth organizing and activism actually look like? How can young people become organizers? What skills do young organizers need? How can older organizers support young organizers - and learn from them in the process?
Youth Organizing X dives into these questions - and more.
Every episode, Matt hosts a discussion with a young grassroots organizer and an elder organizer to explore the ins and outs of youth community organizing and imagine what the future of organizing might look like through inter-generational storytelling.
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Episodes
Designing a More Just Built Environment
December 10, 2020 07:00 - 50 minutes - 25.3 MBIn the first of two conversations, Taylor, Kiki and Matt explore the practice of design justice in the built environment - and the sheer variety of forms design justice can take in reality. Taylor and Kiki share the origins of the Design as Protest Collective (DAP) as a group of anti-racist designers, its policy demands for a more just built environment, and how DAP is working to organize designers of all stripes from the grassroots to make the profession a more just one. Taylor and Kiki sha...
Budgets and the Morality of Money
December 03, 2020 08:00 - 55 minutes - 29.7 MBShari, Jay, and Matt explore the role of budgets in organizing - and how to make budgetary processes of all sorts more accessible and equitable. Shari walks through the steps in the participatory budgeting process and how it can make budgets into the positive moral documents they should be in communities through democratizing decision making power. Jay shares his experience in the budgeting process at his school, what he calls a bit of a "black box." Shari and Jay unpack how budgets are mora...
Navigating Imposter Syndrome
November 19, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 29.4 MBMatt, Rayshauna, and Maya dive deep into what imposter syndrome means for each of them. They work through the first half of Rayshauna's #theHeartWork Framework to help us explore imposter syndrome's societal roots and its complex individual and community-wide consequences - the lie within imposter syndrome, it's convenient messaging, the core wound underneath the messaging, and the consequences of socializing this messaging. They trace the effects of systemic racism, sexism, and toxic indivi...
Community-based Healthcare
November 13, 2020 22:15 - 55 minutes - 27 MBMatt, Nav, and Kyle dive into the realities of our inequitable healthcare system and the opportunities to reimagine our systems to be truly community-based. They explore the ins and outs of organizing for equity within healthcare institutions - and ultimately argue for an expanded, interconnected definition of "health" that invites everyone into the work of health equity and offers a more holistic view of healthcare. Kyle shares his work on global health equity that involve community members...
Coalition Building
October 29, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 26.8 MBMatt, Thomas, and Representative Welch pull back the curtain on what coalition building actually looks like in practice - the importance of coalitions in organizing work, how to deal with tensions and disagreements in coalitions, and how to think about coalition building around climate change, specifically. Thomas shares their story organizing in support of the #nodapl movement, how that work led to his involvement with the International Indigenous Youth Council, and the lessons he gleaned a...
Coalition Building
October 29, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 26.8 MBMatt, Thomas, and Representative Welch pull back the curtain on what coalition building actually looks like in practice - the importance of coalitions in organizing work, how to deal with tensions and disagreements in coalitions, and how to think about coalition building around climate change, specifically. Thomas shares their story organizing in support of the #nodapl movement, how that work led to his involvement with the International Indigenous Youth Council, and the lessons he gleaned a...
Ethical Storytelling
October 22, 2020 07:00 - 50 minutes - 24.5 MBMatt, Gari, and Lam explore the practice of ethical storytelling as an essential set of skills in community organizing. Lam explores how his innovative "community activism lawyering" model for legal aid aims to shift the paradigm around who gets to tell the stories in the legal aid profession. Gari shares how her work with Our Climate Voices uses their seven principles of ethical storytelling to amplify the human stories behind climate organizing and activism. They explore the different type...
The 2020 Census and Civic Engagement
October 15, 2020 06:00 - 56 minutes - 24.9 MBMatt, Rocio Ortega, and Dr. Kathleen Yang-Clayton discuss organizing around the census as a lens through which we can better interrogate the role of organizing communities to engage in civic institutions of all forms - including registering and turning out to vote. Kathleen shares her journey in advocacy and organizing for racial equity, her role in administering the 2020 census in Illinois, and why the census is so important. Rocio shares her work in the nonprofit sector, her journey grappl...
Building Equitable Relationships in Organizing
October 10, 2020 16:27 - 46 minutes - 23 MBMatt, Oscar Sanchez, and Tania Anaissie discuss how to build authentic, equitable relationships in our organizing - and how relationships are the fundamental building blocks of our work. They explore the power of building relationships as both invitation into the work and accountability to the work. Oscar shares his personal experience organizing with youth through the Southeast Youth Alliance (SYA). He explores how the jargon of organizing can be barriers to entry for young folks who want t...
Activism in 2020
October 03, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes - 18.8 MBMatt, Rayshauna Gray, and Maya Green discuss the realities of activism and organizing in 2020, from the importance of our own stories to deciding how to get involved and the importance of self-care. They focus on the power of starting with your own story of lived experience. Maya speaks from personal experience around how her story drives her work and was a unique asset that she brought to the table as a young organizer, even if she wasn't familiar with the specific terminology for the syste...
Disability Justice
October 03, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 31.8 MBAlice and Alex explore their journeys in the disability community, what they've learned from their disability justice work, and what we can all learn from applying a disability justice lens to organizing. They focus on the power of finding community and the importance of interrogating the popular culture of activism and organizing. Alice shares her journey in activism - her grappling with the label itself, its implications, and what activism as a disabled person looks like for her given her ...
Welcome to Youth Organizing X
September 26, 2020 19:08 - 2 minutes - 1.74 MBWhat does youth organizing look like in practice? How can young people become organizers? How can older organizers support them - and learn from them along the way? Youth Organizing X dives into these questions - and more. Every episode, Matt brings together a younger organizer and an older organizer to explore the practice of youth community organizing. Listen to the trailer for the podcast and hit subscribe for a new episode every Saturday morning.