Mutual Aid is essential now for addressing the Trump administration’s cuts to SNAP benefits during the government shutdown. On this episode, we speak with Michael Flood, CEO of the Los Angeles Food Bank. We also speak with Oakland-based rapper and activist Ryan Nicole about her fundraiser happening this upcoming Tuesday, November 11. Ryan is organizing Sisala, a good drive and benefit concert to support people experiencing disruption of their SNAP benefits. Learn more about how to get involved https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQnN0Y5Eoe-/
We also speak with Jen Wickham, director of the film Yintah, a feature length documentary on the Wet’suwet’en nation’s fight for sovereignty. The film will be screening November 8th at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland. https://www.yintahfilm.com/
Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Tiny aka “PovertySkola,” a formerly unhoused, incarcerated, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork.
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