Best Emergencyresponse Podcasts (2024)

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Surveillance and Reproductive Justice with Rafa Kidvai 37:15

8d ago37:15

37:15

On this episode of The Response, we get to the heart of reproductive justice with Rafa Kidvai, the director of the Repro Legal Defense Fund at If/When/How. The RLDF champions the rights and freedoms of people criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes, offers bail support, and stands as a bastion for strong defenses in the face of criminalization, s…

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Facing the Heat: Disaster Management in the Age of the Climate Crisis with Samantha Montano 33:19

3M ago33:19

33:19

For our first episode of 2024, we interviewed noted disasterologist and previous guest, Dr. Samantha Montano. We discuss the impact of climate change on disasters and the need for better disaster management and planning. We also explore the difference between emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes. And highlight the importance of community involv…

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SolidarityWorks with Gabbie Barnes, Ida Aronson, and Rachel Kinbar 56:19

4M ago56:19

56:19

For our final episode of The Response this year, we interviewed three mutual aid organizers from Orlando, FL, Hartford, CT, and Bvlbancha (aka New Orleans, LA). Gabbie Barnes is the founder of FREE HART Closet, a worker-owner at the People's Saturday School, a mutual aid organizer, and a Library of Things Fellow. Rachel Kinbar is an organizer with …

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Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats, and Edget Betru 59:51

5M ago59:51

59:51

On this week’s show, we’ll be turning our focus towards the Solidarity Economy and what is meant by 'Resist & Build'. Joining us for this conversation is Emily Kawano, Co-Director of the Wellspring Cooperative Corporation and Coordinator of the United States Solidarity Economy Network, Matthew Slaats, co-director of the Solidarity Research Center a…

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Direct Action for Palestine with Mohamed Shehk 36:05

5M ago36:05

36:05

On today’s show we brought on Mohamed Shehk, Campaigns Director for Critical Resistance and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center here in the Bay Area. In this conversation we talk about some of the recent actions taking place to support the struggle for Palestinian liberation, including recent actions aimed at stopping military cargo i…

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[BONUS CROSS-POST] The Fire These Times: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine 1:22:08

6M ago1:22:08

1:22:08

Today, we’re cross posting "A Roundtable on Palestine-Israel" from our friends at The Fire These Times podcast as a bonus episode for listeners of The Response. The Fire These Times Co-hosts, Joey Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik are joined by Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach to think through this moment, process their grief together, and artic…

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Mutual Aid Networks with Stephanie Rearick 59:46

6M ago59:46

59:46

After a statement about the war in Palestine, we’re in conversation with Stephanie Rearick, a founder, and Director of the Madison Mutual Aid Network Cooperative and Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, or HUMANS for short, which is a new type of networked cooperative ‘creating means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, wi…

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The United Auto Workers Strike with Teddy Ostrow 58:05

6M ago58:05

58:05

Summer might be over for us in the Northern Hemisphere — but things are still heating up in the US labor movement. A ground-swell of labor action continues to heave and crack the crust which had been slowly hardening on the surface of the radical fires dormant under neoliberalism. The latest news in the ongoing strike wave comes out of the United A…

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From Relief to Resilience with Will Heegaard 1:02:34

7M ago1:02:34

1:02:34

Anyone who's been in a disaster and experienced the initial government or major nonprofit response may have noticed that there's a lot of waste involved. From the thousands of single-use water bottles and throw-away medical supplies to the constant churning of diesel and gas-powered generators, there’s just really no other option. But what if there…

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Disaster Dispatch: The Maui Wildfires with Nicole Huguenin 46:00

8M ago46:00

46:00

On today’s show we’re continuing our ongoing Disaster Dispatch series with a deep dive into the Maui wildfires. Earlier this month a series of wind-driven wildfires in Hawaii, predominantly in Maui, led to widespread devastation and destruction, killing at least 115 people and leaving 850 others missing in the town of Lāhainā. These numbers are est…

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Labor Battles and the Beer Industry with Pedro Mancilla 50:28

8M ago50:28

50:28

This summer has truly turned out to be a hot labor summer, with a number of high-profile labor actions stretching across industries and across the country, from the streets of Hollywood to the shop floors at UPS — things are heating up. With that said, there is a story that hasn’t hit headlines in the same way as some of these other actions and con…

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[RE-RELEASE] Documentary #9: Heatwaves and energy poverty in the Mediterranean 39:26

9M ago39:26

39:26

All across the globe, temperatures are rising, and thanks to the most recent report published by the International Panel on Climate Change and recent U.N. projections, we know that even if we do make sweeping cuts to emissions, we’re still on course for a catastrophic temperature rise of 2.7 degrees Celsius by the year 2100. That means, the record-…

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Decolonial Marxism with Sungmanitu Bluebird 58:10

9M ago58:10

58:10

On our last show, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about Land Back with David Cobb — specifically, we discussed moving the idea of land back from a metaphor to a reality, by focusing on a specific case in northern California where the city of Eureka actually gave 200 acres of land back to its original stewards, the Wiyot tribe. On today's episode, …

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Land Back with David Cobb 1:05:51

10M ago1:05:51

1:05:51

The idea of Land Back — a growing movement to return occupied land to the Indigenous people that it rightfully belongs to, often exists as a metaphor for us. It can feel like the discussion around land theft and genocide by settler-colonists in the United States is often limited to land acknowledgments or statements of solidarity — both of which ar…

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Unions, Strikes, and the Labor Movement with Alex Press 38:16

10M ago38:16

38:16

Today on the show we’ve brought on Alex Press, a staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, to explore labor power — specifically, looking at how the strengthening of the labor movement through unions, strikes, and other workplace actions, are serving as a response to not only the harms inflicted by neoliberalism, but also, how these institutions and action…

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People Power Battery Collective with Kansas, Crystal, and Yasir 53:52

10M ago53:52

53:52

Last week, the skies over much of the east coast of the United States were orange, red, and almost entirely blacked out in some regions. Smoke from wildfires raging up north in Canada blew down to engulf many major U.S. cities in an apocalyptic glow that left New York City with the worst air quality in the world. For those of us in California, seei…

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Trans Liberation with Lee Shevek 41:08

11M ago41:08

41:08

Today on the show we’ve brought on Lee Shevek, an anarchist, writer, and domestic violence researcher. Pride Month is just around the corner and we thought it would be a good time to take a deep dive into the reactionary politics side of this show — namely, the attacks from the right wing and from the state against our transgender comrades. States …

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Anarchism with Daniel Baryon 46:14

11M ago46:14

46:14

Today on the show we’ve brought on Daniel Baryon, an anarchist and organizer who runs the Youtube channel Anark. When we talk about horizontal power structures, for example in the context of grassroots mutual aid response, we're talking about a concept situated within a very specific theoretical framework. Likewise, when we explore the concepts of …

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Building the New in the Shell of the Old with Joey Ayoub 59:05

12M ago59:05

59:05

On this episode of The Response we’ve brought on Joey Ayoub, a Geneva-based writer, researcher, activist, and host of The Fire These Times podcast, which asks the questions: How do we build the new in the shell of the old? How do we tackle global warming and its associated crises? How do we build bonds across nation-states and groups? How do we mak…

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The Assault on Medicinal Abortion with Breya Johnson 43:33

1y ago43:33

43:33

Today on the show we’ve brought on Breya Johnson, an abortion doula, reproductive justice organizer, writer, curator, and the Deputy Director of Organizing at Girls for Gender Equity. Since the Dobbs decision was passed last year, we’ve continued to see the right wing’s assault on legal abortion and bodily autonomy escalate. Most recently through a…

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The French Uprising with Konstantin 43:44

1y ago43:44

43:44

Today on the show we’ve brought on Konstantin — a Parisian garbage collector and union militant. For the past two months, France has been in a state of agitation. A growing movement of workers has been engaged in protests and strikes which erupted in Paris and other cities in response to President Emmanuel Macron unilaterally raising the French ret…

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All Power to the People with Jesse Barnett 53:30

1y ago53:30

53:30

Today on the show we’ve brought on Jesse Barnett, a musician and a co-founder of All Power Books in L.A. All Power Books is more than a bookstore: it’s a volunteer-run community space that offers a wide range of programs, from a free store with food, cleaning supplies, and menstrual products; to a free community clinic; to music classes, poetry rea…

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[RE-RELEASE] Abortion Access & Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape 58:33

1y ago58:33

58:33

In this documentary episode, we take a deep dive into how communities are responding to the growing abortion access crisis in the United States, sharing the stories of those impacted and highlighting a number of radical grassroots, mutual aid, and solidaristic efforts aimed at helping people access abortion in the places where it's currently outlaw…

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Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams: Saket Soni in Conversation with Rebecca Solnit 55:02

1y ago55:02

55:02

Today on the show — a special presentation of a live conversation between Saket Soni and Rebecca Solnit on Saket Soni’s new book, The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. The Great Escape is the harrowing story of how 500 disaster relief workers from India were trafficked to the United States under false prete…

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The Disastrous Response in East Palestine, Ohio with Prem Thakker 42:40

1y ago42:40

42:40

Today on the show, we’ve brought on Prem Thakker, a journalist with The New Republic who has been reporting on East Palestine, Ohio. Prem’s recent piece is titled: “Life After the Ohio Train Derailment: Trouble Breathing, Dying Animals, and Saying Goodbye.” In this episode, we’ll bring you up to date on everything happening in the aftermath of the …

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Surveillance and Reproductive Justice with Rafa Kidvai 37:15

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Facing the Heat: Disaster Management in the Age of the Climate Crisis with Samantha Montano 33:19

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SolidarityWorks with Gabbie Barnes, Ida Aronson, and Rachel Kinbar 56:19

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Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats, and Edget Betru 59:51

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Direct Action for Palestine with Mohamed Shehk 36:05

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[BONUS CROSS-POST] The Fire These Times: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine 1:22:08

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Mutual Aid Networks with Stephanie Rearick 59:46

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The United Auto Workers Strike with Teddy Ostrow 58:05

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From Relief to Resilience with Will Heegaard 1:02:34

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Disaster Dispatch: The Maui Wildfires with Nicole Huguenin 46:00

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Labor Battles and the Beer Industry with Pedro Mancilla 50:28

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[RE-RELEASE] Documentary #9: Heatwaves and energy poverty in the Mediterranean 39:26

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Decolonial Marxism with Sungmanitu Bluebird 58:10

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Land Back with David Cobb 1:05:51

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Unions, Strikes, and the Labor Movement with Alex Press 38:16

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People Power Battery Collective with Kansas, Crystal, and Yasir 53:52

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Trans Liberation with Lee Shevek 41:08

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Anarchism with Daniel Baryon 46:14

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Building the New in the Shell of the Old with Joey Ayoub 59:05

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The Assault on Medicinal Abortion with Breya Johnson 43:33

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The French Uprising with Konstantin 43:44

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All Power to the People with Jesse Barnett 53:30

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[RE-RELEASE] Abortion Access & Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape 58:33

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Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams: Saket Soni in Conversation with Rebecca Solnit 55:02

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The Disastrous Response in East Palestine, Ohio with Prem Thakker 42:40

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