This week – on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen : we’re Rethinking Thanksgiving. SURJ – Showing Up for Racial Justice asks us to rethink Thanksgiving by being in Solidarity with Indigenous Resistance, and interrogating the legacy of the Thanksgiving holiday. Check out their “Rethinking Thanksgiving” Toolkit created by the Indigenous Solidarity Network
THEN … from the Archives, we hear about Idle No More – an Indigenous grassroots movement that brought together environmental justice and indigenous rights. Spreading across Canada, the organization was founded in 2012 by four women. Since then, thousands of people have joined in their protests. Making Contact Radio talked with one of Idle No More’s co-founders Sylvia McAdam.
AND … Tis the season for Pumpkin Spice everything. But why is it so easy to hate on Pumpkin Spice lattes and the people who drink them? Soleil Ho of Popaganda asks guests how this assortment of spices from the Indian subcontinent become the hallmark of basicness, and what can its autumnal popularity tell us about capitalism, misogyny, and the need to belong?
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