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Radicals for Good

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Radicals for Good is a podcast and network that aims to encourage everyday people to take small yet revolutionary action towards collective good. Our podcast is a means to amplify and support the radical work happening across the globe but always connecting back to our hometown of Detroit, Michigan – one of the most radical cities with some of the most radical thinkers and leaders in the country. It aims to shift the stigmatized verbiage of ‘radical’ to a more accepted and fluid adjective. Hosted by Shayla Zimmerman.

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Episodes
16
Releases
Every two weeks
Typical length
49 min
On air since
2026
Latest episode
2 days ago

Episodes

16 episodes, newest first

  1. s1e16: co(sin)e series - knock your block

    Season 1, Episode 16

    Show notes

    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself.” - José Martí

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we continue our co(sin)e series - a series of roundtable discussions designed to solve the equation for building community power through voting, decision making, and civic participation. This roundtable includes, Jenell Mansfield, the first Black woman and former educator to serve as the Political, Legislative and Communications Director for American Federation of Teachers Michigan; Mond Sankara, Detroit-based tattoo artist; and Abraham Aiyash, Michigan's youngest-ever House Majority Leader.

    Learn More and Take Action

    * Get involved with Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign: https://abdulforsenate.com/

    Additional Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

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    1 hr 16 min
  2. s1e15: co(sin)e series: embracing solidarity

    Season 1, Episode 15

    Show notes

    “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even though her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we start our co(sin)e series - a series of roundtable discussions designed to solve the equation for building community power through voting, decision making, and civic participation. This roundtable includes, Aly Thee Activist, an activist against police brutality from Grand Rapids; Lexis Zeidan, a Palestinian-American organizer and co-founder of the Uncommitted Movement; and Jenn Onwenu, host of Detroit-based talk show, AskJenn.

    Learn More and Take Action

    * Donate to Movimento Cosecha working with families being terrorized by ICE in Grand Rapids, Michigan: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/nobusinesswithice

    * Watch the Ask Jenn Show: https://www.askjennshow.com/

    * Join Arab Americans for Progress: https://www.aaforprogress.org/

    * Watch the Peoples Production trailer about the Uncommitted National Movement: https://www.peoplefirstproductions.com/uncommitted

    * Arab Americans for Progress voting resources: https://www.aaforprogress.org/voting-resources

    * Use the Isreal Lobby Tracker tool: https://www.trackaipac.com/

    Additional Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    * About Patrick Lyoya: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094104164/patrick-lyoya-shooting-grand-rapids-michigan

    * Interview about Uncommitted Movement with Lexis Zeidan: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/20/lexis_zeidan_uncommitted_national_movement_2024

    * Political Action Committees (PACs) vs. Super PACs:

    * Recent DTE rate hike in Michigan: https://planetdetroit.org/2026/09/dte-rate-hike-line-5-data-centers/

    * Detroit Board of Police Commissioners: https://detroitmi.gov/government/boards/board-police-commissioners

    * How to track PACs: https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/pacs-parties-and-other-committees/

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    1 hr 4 min
  3. s1e14: radical wellness with adria moses

    Season 1, Episode 14

    Show notes

    The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. - Audre Lorde

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss what it looks like to be radically well and tend to grief during times like these, with Adria Moses, a poet, author, and founder of the School of Radical Healing. We invite listeners to tend to their bodies while listening as Adria walks us through guided breathing and gentle movements.

    Learn More and Take Action

    * Take a class at http://detroityogalab.com

    * Learn more about all of Adria’s incredible work at http://adriamoses.com‍ ‍

    * Use code ‘radicals’ for free shipping on adria’s latest book ‘towards what hurt’: https://www.adriamoses.com/thebook

    Additional Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    * No fear poem by Maya Angelou: https://internetpoem.com/maya-angelou/life-doesn-t-frighten-me-poem/

    * Listen to Audre Lorde read ‘Uses of the Erotic’:

    * Poetry is not a luxury by Audre Lorde: https://www.poetrypedagogy.com/uploads/8/9/3/8/89385582/poetry_is_not_a_luxury-lorde.pdf

    * Yoga with Adrienne: https://www.youtube.com/yogawithadriene/featured

    * Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/pleasure-activism/

    * Loving our Own Bones by Julia Watts Belser: https://www.juliawattsbelser.com/

    * Inward by Yung Pueblo

    * Tending Grief by Camille Barton

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    50 min
  4. s1e13: co(sin)e series:our radical roles

    Season 1, Episode 13

    Show notes

    True citizenship is found in the courage to speak truth to power and hold leaders accountable.

    -Frederick Douglass

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we start our co(sin)e series - a series of roundtable discussions designed to solve the equation for building community power through voting, decision making, and civic participation. This roundtable includes, Joanna Whaley, the Democratic nominee for Michigan House of Representatives and if elected, the first openly trans woman legislator; Imani Foster, an activist fighting for education justice in Detroit and communication director for 482Forward; Parish Halsell, a Detroit-based storyteller and the voice behind Pardon Me TV!; and Brianna Bryant, a artist and activist in Detroit.

    Learn More and Take ActioN

    * Donate to or volunteer with Joanna’s campaign: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/joannawhaley .

    * Watch more on http://pardonme.tv

    * Volunteer with 482Forward: https://www.482forward.org/

    Additional Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    * https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/trans-woman-joanna-whaley-michigan-legislature

    *

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    1 hr 8 min
  5. s1e12: gardening for our people with Dolores Perelas-Lara

    Season 1, Episode 12

    Show notes

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about the true impacts of urban gardening as a means of feeding our people and building community with Dolores Perales-Lara, an urban planner and co-director of Cadillac Urban Gardens.

    Learn More and Take Action

    * Learn more, volunteer, pick up free produce, and/or donate to Cadillac Urban Gardens: https://www.cadillacurbangardens.org/home

    * Donate to Cadillac Urban Garden and support free food: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/AXTKTP42KWZSE

    * Read youth led research on food insecurity: https://www.learngala.com/cases/detroitfood/

    * Learn more about food systems and food insecurity in Detroit: https://detroitfoodpc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/DFMR24-Report-20260416-FINAL.pdf

    Additional Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

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    43 min
  6. s1e11: Futuristic Voting with Arabia Simeon

    Season 1, Episode 11

    Show notes

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re discussing the future of voting with Arabia Simeon, a designer, technologist, and CEO & Founder of Politics on the Go (POGO).

    Learn More and Take Action

    * Learn more about and start using POGO Vote:

    https://www.pogovote.com/

    * Watch Arabia’s TEDx presentation, From Likes to Votes:

    * Read A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand

    * Read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

    * Check out this resource: https://ground.news/

    * Look up political campaign donors: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup

    Additional Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    * Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): https://snccdigital.org/

    * Kamala Harris coconut tree quote: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/07/21/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-quote-explained-what-she-meant-and-why-its-going-viral-as-biden-drops-out/

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    40 min
  7. s1e10: Reading as Resistance w/ Franchesca Lamarre

    Season 1, Episode 10

    Show notes

    “Our Choice now is war or death. Our option is survival. Listen to your own Black Hearts.”

    —Nikki Giovanni

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about how reading is a radical practice and ways to build community with books and food with Francescha Lamarre, a local artist and organizer from The Peoples Book Club and Ayiti Spaghetti.

    Our Top 10 Radical Reads

    * Assata by Assata Shakur

    * freedom is a constant struggle by Angela Davis

    * the salt eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

    * the common wind by professor Julius s. Scott

    * black feeling black talk black judgement (poetry) by Nikki Giovanni

    * parable series by Octavia E. Butler

    * abbott (graphic novel series) by Saladin Ahmed

    * the next american revolution by Grace Lee Boggs

    * becoming good ancestors by David Ehrenfeld

    * rage becomes her by Soraya Chemaly

    Further Learning

    * Join The People’s Book Club: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6qKU0cGjuAoLiMBWFj5VoitS2wSLcvVLNkVhrzRalAS9MhQ/viewform

    * Check out Fran’s Substack: FREEEVERYNIGGA

    * Watch We Gon Get Free Videocast: http://www.youtube.com/@wegongetfree1325

    * Ayiti Spaghetti Free Monthly Luncheon Interest Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1co0qxh-rXTgEkx9PO9kQQyxHQQOb7C9skS1ZQlIG9EA/viewform

    * Ayiti Spaghetti Catering Request Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8MPN5yLfvGd4SJPtjrgrzEXoflFdTUV2Z-K0jeM-C8VucIg/viewform

    * Watch Virago Part 1 Trailer:

    * Sign up for The Boggs Center Thinking for Ourselves Newsletter: https://www.boggscenter.org/thinking-for-ourselves

    * Find links to all Fran’s incredible work (yes there’s more!) on her instagram @franchescalamarre or at https://tr.ee/Vhpflh6d03

    Additional Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    * https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g-s1-90790/assata-shakur-joanne-chesimard-dies

    * https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/restaurant-of-the-year/2025/04/01/best-restaurants-detroit-2025-ayiti-spaghetti-haitian-pop-up/82628687007/

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    57 min
  8. s1e9: Community Journalism with Ethan Bakuli

    Season 1, Episode 9

    Show notes

    There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about community-centered journalism and how organizers can utilize non-traditional media sources with Ethan Bakuli, an independent journalist whose work has appeared in Prism Reports, USA Today, Chalkbeat, Planet Detroit, Capital & Main, and more.

    Get out of your comfort zone & take action

    Donate and/or get involved with freedom freedom growers: https://www.facebook.com/FeedomFreedom/

    Subscribe and/or donate to Planet Detroit: https://planetdetroit.org/

    Subscribe and/or donate to Outlier Media: https://outliermedia.org/

    Subscribe and/or donate to Chalkbeat Detroit: https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/

    Further Learning

    The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee

    Black Awakening in Capitalist America Robert L. Allen

    The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

    The Seven Generations and The Seven Grandfather Teachings by James Vukelich

    Sources

    Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    Palestinian journalists: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166481

    What is a zine: https://artincontext.org/what-is-a-zine/

    Detroit Zine Fest: https://www.detroitzinefest.com/

    Independent journalism vs. mass media journalism: https://thisvsthat.io/independent-journalism-vs-journalism

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    43 min
  9. s1e8: Disabled & Revolutionary with Tameka Citchen-Spruce

    Season 1, Episode 8

    Show notes

    "Disabled people have always existed, whether the word disability is used or not. To me, disability is not a monolith, nor is it a clear-cut binary of disabled and nondisabled. Disability is mutable and ever-evolving. Disability is both apparent and nonapparent. Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy. Disability is sociopolitical, cultural, and biological. Being visible and claiming a disabled identity brings risks as much as it brings pride." - Alice Wong, American disability rights activist

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we're discussing organizing with disabilities (visible and invisible) and how we can embody Disabled revolutionaries in our work with Tameka Citchen-Spruce, a disability justice advocate, independent media producer, author and national speaker who uses storytelling to amplify voices and challenge systems of exclusion.

    Get out of your comfort zone & take action

    Donate to #AutisticOutLoud documentary

    Get involved with Detroit Disability Power

    Get involved with Warriors on Wheels of Metro-Detroit

    Further Learning

    Learn about the 10 principles of disability justice

    Learn more about #AutisticOutLoud film and watch the teaser: https://linktr.ee/autisticoutlouddocumentary

    Follow Divas in the City TV on Instagram and YouTube

    Living Unapologetically Media: http://www.tamekacitchenspruce.com/

    Read Tameka's book: Women in Leadership: From No to Yes, A Black Disabled Woman's Leadership Journey

    Watch PBS documentary Renegades: Thomas Wiggins

    Sources

    Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    Disability Visibility by Alice Wong: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

    Brad Lomax: https://www.centerforlearnerequity.org/news/brad-lomax-uniting-the-civil-rights-and-disability-rights-communities/

    Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution: https://cripcamp.com/

    Fannie Lou Hamer: https://19thnews.org/2023/07/fannie-lou-hamer-disability-voting-rights-activism/

    Harriett Tubman: https://rootedinrights.org/why-dont-more-people-know-harriet-tubman-was-disabled/

    Elias Hills: https://www.knowitall.org/video/former-slave-elias-hills-untold-story-palmetto-scene

    Elias Hills testimony: https://www.scribd.com/doc/170718992/1-Testimony-Before-Congress-on-the-Activities-of-the-Ku-Klux-Klan

    Fidel Castro source confirmed at Castro Center in Havana, Cuba

    Revolution will be from my bed: https://diagnosisbedamned.com/2020/04/25/so-i-start-a-revolution-from-my-bed/

    Intersectional disability justice: https://www.intersectional-disability-justice.org/en/intersectional-disability-justice-english/

    Michigan disability rights resources: https://www.michigan.gov/disabilityresources

    Trump admins war on disability: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-war-on-disability/

    in office work: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/10/02/return-office-work-mandates-accommodate-ada-people-disabilities/70963365007/

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    49 min
  10. s1e7: Being A Good Neighbor with Lejuan Council

    Season 1, Episode 7

    Show notes

    Without community, there is no liberation. - Audre Lorde

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we’re talking about all the many ways we can become better neighbors, especially in times of crises with Lejuan Council, an east side neighbor, mother, lead of Feed Your Neighborhood Corp., and a 2026 candidate for Michigan State Senate.

    Get out of your comfort zone & take action

    * Volunteer with Feed Your Neighborhood Corp

    * Register to Vote, finding polling location, request absentee ballot, etc.

    Further Learning

    * Detroit Area Disaster Recovery Group

    * Basement Backup and Flooding Handbook

    * State of Michigan All About Mold

    * Flood risk maps

    * Long term trauma and public health impacts of flooding

    Sources

    * Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    * Southwest Detroit Flooding 2025: https://www.wxyz.com/news/its-one-detroit-donations-pour-into-sw-detroit-as-community-recovers-from-devastating-flood

    * Detroit flooding leads to mold: https://www.bridgedetroit.com/devastating-floods-leave-detroiters-with-toxic-mold/

    * Flood risk map 2021: https://detroitography.com/2023/04/14/map-current-flooding-risk-in-detroit-2023/

    * School sound levels and nervous system stress: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/8/4128

    * Student mental health days: https://adolescentmentalhealth.com/blog/mental-health-days-for-students/

    * Detroit flooding 2014: https://www.clickondetroit.com/weather/2018/02/20/great-flood-of-2014-how-historic-was-it/

    * Tornadoes 2014: https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/reports-of-funnel-cloud-spotted-in-northern-macomb-county/

    * Detroit flooding 2016: https://www.michiganpublic.org/weather/2016-09-29/detroit-keeps-flooding-whats-being-done-about-it

    * Michigan flooding 2021: https://today.wayne.edu/news/2021/07/12/detroit-household-flood-report-gives-overview-solutions-to-decades-long-issue-42849

    * Michigan flooding 2021: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/flooding-detroit-rain.html

    * Detroit flooding 2021: https://bridgemi.com/urban-affairs/understanding-why-detroit-floods-and-why-it-keeps-happening/

    * Detroit trash collection issues: https://michiganchronicle.com/detroits-waste-management-plan-addresses-residents-trash-collection-challenges/

    * Detroit food sovereignty: https://www.detroitagriculture.net/

    * Detroit food sovereignty: https://www.bridgedetroit.com/food-sovereignty-detroit-um-detroit-center/

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    51 min
  11. s1e6: On Liberated Lands: Cuba

    Season 1, Episode 6

    Show notes

    We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. — Ernesto Che Guevara

    In this episode of radicals for good, we experience together on the ground resistance to imperialism in Cuba. This episode is a collection of interviews of Cubans living on the island and international comrades showing solidarity in Cuba during the 19th International May Day Brigade.

    Get out of your comfort zone & take action:

    * Join the NO WAR ON CUBA campaign!

    * In Michigan? Join Michigan Action for Cuba Committee!

    Further Learning:

    * Belly of the Beast Cuba

    * National Network on Cuba’s 101 series

    * Revolution with the Revolution Podcast

    * Upstream Podcast Cuba series

    * International Solidarity Podcast

    * We Are Cuba! by Helen Yaffe

    * Revolution within the Revolution by Michelle Chase

    * Remembering Che by Aleida March

    * More articles and books here!

    Sources:

    * https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    * https://www.brookings.edu/articles/cuba-the-u-s-and-the-concept-of-sovereignty-toward-a-common-vocabulary/ (sovereignty)

    * https://theflags.org/what-countries-celebrate-may-day/

    * https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/labour-life-and-liberation-the-emancipatory-significance-may-day-3599286

    * https://discoverdreamlands.com/tour/when-did-cuba-allow-american-tourists

    * https://www.radiorebelde.cu/english/the-mallory-memorandum-outlined-the-blockade-against-cuba-66-years-ago-06042026/

    * https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/trump-transcripts/transcript-president-trump-discusses-the-capture-of-nicolas-maduro-in-venezuela-10326

    * https://theintercept.com/2026/05/27/trump-donroe-doctrine-violence-western-hemisphere-cartels/

    * https://acleddata.com/report/us-donroe-doctrine-reshaping-conflicts-latin-america-and-caribbean

    * https://liberatedetroit.org/why-im-fighting-for-energy-sovereignty/

    * https://sustainablepowernews.com/detroits-energy-divide-utility-giants-abandoned-poor-neighborhoods/

    * https://planetdetroit.org/2026/03/how-canceled-clean-energy-projects-are-costing-michigan-and-what-happens-next/

    * https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-off-grid-project-is-bringing-streetlights-back-to-detroit/

    * https://detroitmi.gov/government/mayors-office/office-sustainability/energy

    * https://humanidades.com/en/imperialism/

    * https://www.prosperityforamerica.org/literacy-statistics/

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    59 min
  12. s1e5: Tactics for Worker Solidarity with Loren Branch

    Season 1, Episode 5

    Show notes

    “To me, the Beloved Community is a realistic vision of an achievable society, one in which problems and conflict exist, but are resolved peacefully and without bitterness.”

    -Coretta Scott King

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss different tactics, like boycotting and strikes, we can use to build solidarity in the working class with Loren Branch (Nyerere Omowale), an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), writer, street drummer and popular political educator.

    Loren Branch (aka Nyerere Omawale) is a New Afrikan Revolutionary Socialist from the westside of Detroit, Joy Road to be exact. From Chicago to Detroit, Loren has been building independent working class power across liberation struggles including Black liberation, Palestine Solidarity movement, queer liberation, immigrant rights, police murder, anti-war, and more. Rooted in Marxism, the Black Radical tradition, and Pan-Africanism—Loren is a product of UAW Local 600 and the Republic of New Afrika.

    His ultimate life goals are to become a father and to build the world dignity and self-determination we need and deserve. To play a role in advancing the unfinished revolution of his ancestors and elders—ending capitalism and building a new socialist system run for and by The People. To see Detroit and the global working class liberated in our lifetime.

    Sources

    https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future: https://1804books.com/products/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future

    Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880: https://1804books.com/products/black-reconstruction-in-america-1860-1880

    Assata: https://www.commabookstore.com/shop/p/assata-an-autobiography

    Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374307/motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries

    The Civil Rights Revolution & Montgomery Bus Boycott: https://liberationschool.org/civil-rights-and-the-u-s-revolution/

    Debunking the myth that “we’re not ready” for a general strike in the U.S.: https://liberationnews.org/debunking-the-myth-that-were-not-ready-for-a-general-strike-in-the-u-s/

    Alkebu-lan Village & Inner City Sub Center: https://liberationnews.org/dc-to-detroit-30-years-later-million-man-march-black-liberation/

    The Republic of New Afrika: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/521c580a15244ad0bee5e33f121c2bff

    Peaches Anderson (my grandmother): https://www.congress.gov/114/crec/2016/06/09/162/91/CREC-2016-06-09-pt1-PgE867.pdf

    Learn more about PSL and get involved in the socialist movement: https://www2.pslweb.org/action

    PSL Detroit: https://www.instagram.com/psldetroit

    https://liberationnews.org/07-11-20-revolutionary-optimism-socialist-html/

    https://radicalreads.com/black-panthers-favorite-books/

    Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash

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    58 min
  13. s1e4: Technology in Movements with Tawana Petty

    Season 1, Episode 4

    Show notes

    “It’s not our fault but it is our fight.”

    -Monica Lewis Patrick

    In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss utilizing technology in movement spaces and what digital justice could look like in Detroit with Tawana Petty, a mother, digital justice organizer, poet, and author.

    Tawana Petty, also known by her poetry stage name Honeycomb, is a mother, social justice organizer, poet, author, facilitator and keynote lecturer. Her work focuses on racial justice, equity, privacy, and consent. She is the founding Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc., an artist incubator, which leverages poetry, policy literacy and advocacy, anti-racism facilitation, political education and community-centered initiatives in pursuit of data and digital justice and racial and environmental justice. In 2024, Petty was named on Business Insider’s AI Power List for Policy and Ethics.

    Sources:

    https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    https://unsplash.com/photos/text-zO7VVw7Hxik

    https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroiters-get-oversight-of-surveillance-technology-but-is-it-enough/

    https://www.bridgedetroit.com/michigan-central-is-collecting-a-lot-of-data-can-we-trust-it/

    https://open.substack.com/pub/tawanapetty/p/defending-detroit?r=7g7rur

    https://tawanapetty.org/selected-media/f/defending-black-lives-means-banning-facial-recognition

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/11/tsa-airport-security-facial-recognition/

    https://stoplapdspying.org/

    https://voicesfromthegrassroots.org/lewis-patrick-monica/

    https://www.detroitk12.org/about-dpscd/initiatives/one-to-one-student-technology-iniiative

    https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/detroit-police-to-enforce-ticket-people-not-following-stay-at-home-order

    https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/PST045224

    https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/14dd97b35cbb4a4298786c75855f8080

    https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/08/28/detroit-police-department-celebrates-1k-project-green-light-partners/

    https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/09/detroit-bridges-internet-access-digital-divide/

    https://connectyourcommunity.org/cleveland-and-detroit-lead-worst-connected-large-cities-of-2023/

    https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/10/07/grim-reality-more-than-half-of-detroit-children-are-now-living-in-poverty-census-bureau-data-shows/

    https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/detroit-partnership-on-economic-mobility/

    https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later

    AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World by Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz

    Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Colin Schupfer

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    49 min
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  15. s1e2: Generational Resistance

    Season 1, Episode 2

    Show notes

    Please donate to Namira's neighborhood nonprofit, Dream of Detroit! https://dreamofdetroit.org/donate/

    Sources:

    https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    https://medium.com/@niawrites/16-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked-my-immigrant-father-214570fe1e44 (please email hey@radicalsforgood.com for a friend link)

    https://planetdetroit.org/2021/10/its-all-waawiyaatanong/

    https://pixabay.com/photos/skyline-river-water-detroit-8061846/

    https://medium.com/dsa-detroit-newspaper/waawiyatanong-resists-43f4d7806c1c

    https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8814474/

    https://planetdetroit.org/2021/01/detroits-battle-with-climate-change-flooding-asthma-and-infrastructure/

    https://www.mindful.org/a-6-minute-loving-kindness-meditation-to-expand-your-awareness/

    https://www.nqa.org/what-is-qigong

    https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-use-new-technology-to-track-individual-monarch-butterfly-migrations

    Video by SimplyArt4794: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-video-of-butterflies-7787029/

    https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx8sf82#zcyq2v4

    Becoming Good Ancestors by David Ehrenfeld

    We Do This Until We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

    Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

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    44 min
  16. Season 1 Episode 1 - Radical Introductions

    Season 1, Episode 1

    Show notes

    On our very first episode of Radicals for Good, we give a radical introduction to our podcast and host. We discuss the history and current moment of Detroit and why we believe hosting this podcast in the most radical city in the United States is timely and necessary. And why we believe it’s important to share this podcast in this moment ‘on the clock of the world’.

    Sources:

    https://unsplash.com/photos/a-statue-of-a-fist-is-suspended-by-a-crane-xs1W9DoYEVs

    https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

    https://againstthecurrent.org/atc168/p4071/

    https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/parks-rosa

    https://the-spark.net/o_ford1941.html

    https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/race-riot-1943

    https://urbanhistory.willmackintosh.org/project/madelines-project/

    https://time.com/4879062/detroit-1967-real-history/

    https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/1963-march-washington

    https://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/what-time-is-it-on-the-clock-of-the-world-by-grace-lee-boggs/

    Freedom is a constant Struggle by Angela Davis

    https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/blog/remembering-mlks-influence-detroit

    https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/362782#slide=gs-200036

    https://unsplash.com/photos/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-mathew-ahmann-in-a-crowd-of-demonstrators-at-the-march-on-washington-bTF3gkd2L28

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    11 min