Stories from Home: Living the Just Transition Podcast
Climate Justice Alliance
16 episodes
1 week ago
After a season that journeys through the history of environmental and climate justice, how to identify good and bad solutions to climate change, the importance of storytelling and creativity in the movement, we conclude with a focus on the most foundational element of the work: each of us, our capacity for self-transformation and leadership, and our relationships in the ecosystems that are our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
The Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing includes a “commitment to self-transformation,” recognizing that “We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.”
Organizations like the Kheprw Institute focus on just that – community empowerment through self-mastery. In this episode, guests Aghilah Nadaraj and Asli Mwaafrika from Kheprw share what it means to build “community wealth” and how leadership is within each of us.
You’ll also hear from Najari Smith, founder of Rich City Rides, on his journey from Brooklyn, New York, to Richmond, California, and how he channeled the voices of his community into the visionary bike cooperative and ecosystem that it is today.
Lastly, you’ll meet Climate Justice Alliance’s co-executive director Marion Gee, who talks about personal loss, grief, and her calling to leadership.
We hope you’ve enjoyed Stories from Home, Season 2. Please let us know your thoughts at media@climatejusticealliance.org
Resources:
The Kheprw Institute: https://kheprw.org/
The KHEPRW Story video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6cooMdIPE
Rich City Rides: https://www.richcityrides.org/
Cooperation Richmond: https://www.cooperationrichmond.org/
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After a season that journeys through the history of environmental and climate justice, how to identify good and bad solutions to climate change, the importance of storytelling and creativity in the movement, we conclude with a focus on the most foundational element of the work: each of us, our capacity for self-transformation and leadership, and our relationships in the ecosystems that are our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
The Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing includes a “commitment to self-transformation,” recognizing that “We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.”
Organizations like the Kheprw Institute focus on just that – community empowerment through self-mastery. In this episode, guests Aghilah Nadaraj and Asli Mwaafrika from Kheprw share what it means to build “community wealth” and how leadership is within each of us.
You’ll also hear from Najari Smith, founder of Rich City Rides, on his journey from Brooklyn, New York, to Richmond, California, and how he channeled the voices of his community into the visionary bike cooperative and ecosystem that it is today.
Lastly, you’ll meet Climate Justice Alliance’s co-executive director Marion Gee, who talks about personal loss, grief, and her calling to leadership.
We hope you’ve enjoyed Stories from Home, Season 2. Please let us know your thoughts at media@climatejusticealliance.org
Resources:
The Kheprw Institute: https://kheprw.org/
The KHEPRW Story video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6cooMdIPE
Rich City Rides: https://www.richcityrides.org/
Cooperation Richmond: https://www.cooperationrichmond.org/
Episode 5 - Esperanza, A Portrait of East Boston and Language Justice
Stories from Home: Living the Just Transition Podcast
43 minutes 38 seconds
5 years ago
Episode 5 - Esperanza, A Portrait of East Boston and Language Justice
“Why are we still building high risk infrastructure in 2020 in an environmental justice community?”
In this episode, host Keenan Rhodes chats with organizers Gabriela Cartagena and Noemy Rodriguez about GreenRoots’ story snapshot: a short film, Esperanza: The Heart of Eastie, documenting the community’s fight for inclusion in neighborhood decision-making and three portraits of families from the community of East Boston (“Eastie”).
We talk about the importance of language justice, popular education, and the importance of documenting community activism.
This episode is available in English and in Spanish language.
Special thanks to Jazmín Rumbaut, our interpreter, and Lupe Romero, the CJA Just Transition Project Steward, for support on the Spanish language version of this episode.
View all the Story Snapshots at: storysnapshots.climatejusticealliance.org/
GreenRoots (http://www.greenrootschelsea.org/) is a community-based, multi-lingual organization in East Boston that advocates for environmental justice and focuses on community engagement and empowerment, youth leadership, and innovative projects and campaigns as a way to bring about Just Transition in their community.
Learn more about Pueblo Unido de East Boston para Liberar y Organizar (PUEBLO) and the fight against Suffolk Downs, a luxury housing development in a Latino and working class neighborhood here: https://www.liberationnews.org/east-boston-residents-demand-affordable-housing/
Learn about energy company Eversource’s plan to build an electrical substation by the Chelsea Creek here: https://www.clf.org/blog/language-justice-east-boston-eversource/
For more on language justice, check out this pamphlet from Antena on how to build language justice: http://antenaantena.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/langjust.pdf (more resources and versions available here: http://antenaantena.org/language-justice/)
Stories from Home: Living the Just Transition Podcast
After a season that journeys through the history of environmental and climate justice, how to identify good and bad solutions to climate change, the importance of storytelling and creativity in the movement, we conclude with a focus on the most foundational element of the work: each of us, our capacity for self-transformation and leadership, and our relationships in the ecosystems that are our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
The Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing includes a “commitment to self-transformation,” recognizing that “We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.”
Organizations like the Kheprw Institute focus on just that – community empowerment through self-mastery. In this episode, guests Aghilah Nadaraj and Asli Mwaafrika from Kheprw share what it means to build “community wealth” and how leadership is within each of us.
You’ll also hear from Najari Smith, founder of Rich City Rides, on his journey from Brooklyn, New York, to Richmond, California, and how he channeled the voices of his community into the visionary bike cooperative and ecosystem that it is today.
Lastly, you’ll meet Climate Justice Alliance’s co-executive director Marion Gee, who talks about personal loss, grief, and her calling to leadership.
We hope you’ve enjoyed Stories from Home, Season 2. Please let us know your thoughts at media@climatejusticealliance.org
Resources:
The Kheprw Institute: https://kheprw.org/
The KHEPRW Story video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6cooMdIPE
Rich City Rides: https://www.richcityrides.org/
Cooperation Richmond: https://www.cooperationrichmond.org/
