Let’s vote through this apocalypse together. The executive directors of Vote.org and Spread The Vote are here to answer your voting questions with activists, politicians, and your favorite celebs. Vote! is for anyone who has ever felt powerless, overwhelmed, under-resourced, or just plain lost when it comes to voting -- aka pretty much all of us!
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Unmuted Africa is a Pan-Africanist podcast learning and educating on what it means to be African-descended.It discusses systemic challenges black people face and explores how real freedom and emancipation requires a re-Africanization of culture. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unmutedafrica/support
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Off-Kilter is a podcast about economic liberation—and the shifts in collective consciousness it will take to set us all free. Every week, Rebecca Vallas talks with visionary leaders and organizations working to reinvigorate our shared imagination and disrupt the imbalance of power in our society. Find Off-Kilter on the Progressive Voices Network, the We Act Radio network in D.C., local radio stations across the U.S., and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Welcome to the Dialogue Lab Podcast, an interview show dedicated to helping you thrive as you make your impact. Every episode, I host conversations with social change leaders about how we can thrive in this work, so our movements thrive too. We talk about how burn-out culture shows up in social change spaces, and explore what it takes to stay engaged and effective over the long haul. I offer you these conversations as an antidote to burnout culture in the social change sector. Join me every ...
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THE DJ BE EXPERIENCE DJ BE (Diversifiedsound / ATL House Notes / Pop Up House Headz / 4Deep) Home Base: Atlanta, GA Styles: Deep Soulful Afro House + Lounge & Soul. Much can be said of a DJ that plays to win. A DJ, much like a point guard running his team’s offense on the court, brings their A game to any environment, home court advantage or not. This is the playing field for one of Atlanta’s “hardest working house music DJs.” DJ BE, AKA BEasy, electrocutes the atmosphere with pulsating char ...
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Episode 70: PUHH WREK 91.1 FM - June 2024
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REPLAY of Pop Up House Headz Show (June 2024) Enjoy the Sounds of Deep + Soulful + Afro + Latin + Jackin + House Music on Electronic Sound System WREK 91.1 FM. Live mix by Resident DJ BE + Guest: DJ Yusef Take your Mind, Body and Soul on a Musical Journey. **FOR PROMO USE ONLY** Contact/Booking Info: IG: djbe_392 atlhousenotes@gmail.com www.faceboo…
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Episode 69: PUHH WREK 91.1 FM - April 2024
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REPLAY of Pop Up House Headz Show (April 2024) Enjoy the Sounds of Deep + Soulful + Afro + Latin + Jackin + House Music on Electronic Sound System WREK 91.1 FM. Live mix by Resident DJ BE + Guest: DJ Butta Take your Mind, Body and Soul on a Musical Journey. **FOR PROMO USE ONLY** Contact/Booking Info: IG: djbe_392 atlhousenotes@gmail.com www.facebo…
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Episode 68: PUHH WREK 91.1 FM - FEB 2024
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EPLAY of Pop Up House Headz Show (Feb 2024) Enjoy the Sounds of Deep + Soulful + Afro + Latin + Jackin + House Music on Electronic Sound System WREK 91.1 FM. Live mix by Resident DJ BE + Guest: Calvin Morgan Take your Mind, Body and Soul on a Musical Journey. **FOR PROMO USE ONLY** Contact/Booking Info: IG: djbe_392 atlhousenotes@gmail.com www.face…
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Episode 67: PUHH WREK 91.1 FM - JAN 2024
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REPLAY of Pop Up House Headz Show (Jan 2024) Enjoy the Sounds of Deep + Soulful + Afro + Latin + Jackin + House Music on Electronic Sound System WREK 91.1 FM. Live mix by Resident DJ BE + Guest: Swift Vidal Take your Mind, Body and Soul on a Musical Journey. **FOR PROMO USE ONLY** Contact/Booking Info: IG: djbe_392 atlhousenotes@gmail.com www.faceb…
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Episode 66: PUHH SHOW WREK 91.1 FM - DEC 2023
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REPLAY of Pop Up House Headz Show (DEC 2023) Enjoy the Sounds of Deep + Soulful + Afro + Latin + Jackin + House Music on Electronic Sound System WREK 91.1 FM. Live mix by Resident DJ BE + Guest: ZACKIRIA SOUL Take your Mind, Body and Soul on a Musical Journey. **FOR PROMO USE ONLY** Contact/Booking Info: IG: djbe_392 atlhousenotes@gmail.com www.fac…
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Episode 65: PUHH WREK 91.1 FM - NOV 2023
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REPLAY of Pop Up House Headz Show (NOV 2023) Enjoy the Sounds of Deep + Soulful + Afro + Latin + Jackin + House Music on Electronic Sound System WREK 91.1 FM. Live mix by Resident DJ BE + Guest: DJ LA Take your Mind, Body and Soul on a Musical Journey. **FOR PROMO USE ONLY** Contact/Booking Info: IG: djbe_392 atlhousenotes@gmail.com www.facebook.co…
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Inside West Virginia’s New Economic Bill of Rights–with Troy N. Miller
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For this week’s episode, Rebecca sat down with Troy N. Miller, who’s long served as the Off-Kilter podcast’s beloved “man behind the curtain,” aka executive producer. When he’s not producing Off-Kilter, the Zero Hour, Breaking Through, and other progressive podcast/radio programs, Troy serves as West Virginia organizer and special projects director…
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Episode 64: PUHH WREK 91.1 FM - OCT 2023
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REPLAY of Pop Up House Headz Show (OCT 2023) Enjoy the Sounds of Deep + Soulful + Afro + Latin + Jackin + House Music on Electronic Sound System WREK 91.1 FM. Live mix by Resident DJ BE + Guest: Sir Thomas Take your Mind, Body and Soul on a Musical Journey. **FOR PROMO USE ONLY** Contact/Booking Info: IG: djbe_392 atlhousenotes@gmail.com www.facebo…
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Wealth is a word that gets thrown around a lot, especially in economic conversations and spaces. The most basic definition is what you own minus what you owe. But as Aisha Nyandoro—CEO of Springboard to Opportunity and architect of the Magnolia Mother’s Trust—argues in her recent Tedx Talk, it’s time to redefine wealth in the United States. In her …
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Shifting the Paradigm on Disability Employment—with Bryan Gill and Nan Gibson
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For this week’s episode of Off-Kilter, with October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Rebecca sat down with two leaders at JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) who are at the forefront of advancing disability employment within the business and employer community: Bryan Gill, head of JP Morgan Chase’s Office of Disability Inclusion and the firm’s…
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“It doesn’t have to be this way”—with Jen Burdick of Community Legal Services
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For this week’s episode of Off-Kilter, Rebecca sat down with Jen Burdick, supervising attorney of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) unit at Community Legal Services (CLS), Rebecca’s legal aid alma mater. They had a far ranging conversation about how “eligibility doesn’t equal access” and other lessons Jen has learned throughout her years as a …
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Older Workers in Physically Challenging Jobs Are in Trouble
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According to recently released Census data, poverty among older adults increased sharply again in 2022, after reaching an all-time low just two years before. One group of older Americans who’s especially struggling is older workers in physically demanding jobs. Contrary to the popular narrative that everyone’s living longer and work is getting easi…
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Inside the Voices of Disability Economic Justice Project–with Emily Ladau
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For this week’s episode of Off-Kilter, Rebecca sat back down with Emily Ladau. She’s the editor of the Voices of Disability Economic Justice Project and the author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally. She’s someone who’s done an immense amount throughout her career to shift narratives on disability in the Un…
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Labor of Love: A Sit-down with America’s Most Celebrated Labor Reporter—with Steven Greenhouse
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For this week’s episode of Off-Kilter, Rebecca sat down with longtime labor journalist Steven Greenhouse. He’s someone who really needs no introduction after spending thirty-one years at the New York Times, eighteen of which he spent covering the labor beat, until 2014. He’s also the author of The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker an…
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American Identity in Crisis–with Kat Calvin
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Something many of us take for granted, if we’ve never been without it, is how vitally important it is to have photo ID. In this day and age you can’t do pretty much anything without ID—from accessing public benefits to renting an apartment to voting, and so much more. So for this week’s episode, Rebecca sat back down with a dear friend who’s been l…
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Inside the Disabled Journalists’ Association–with Cara Reedy
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For this week’s episode, Rebecca sat down with Cara Reedy. She’s a journalist and the founder of a new organization called the Disabled Journalists Association (DJA)—which she’s spent the past two years setting up to identify the needs of disabled people in journalism and to amplify the voices of disabled journalists across the United States. It’s …
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Speaking about pain—with Kate Nicholson
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For this week’s episode, Rebecca sat down with Kate Nicholson, a dear friend and colleague and a policy advocate who’s been leading the charge when it comes to fighting on behalf of people who live with chronic pain. Today she serves as the founder and executive director of the National Pain Advocacy Center. They talk about what it’s like to live w…
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“Find your north star and your strategy” —with Indi Dutta-Gupta
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For this week’s episode, Rebecca sat down with Indi Dutta-Gupta, a dear friend and colleague who’s dedicated his career to ending poverty in America and building an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few. Today he serves as president and executive director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), one of the nation’s leadi…
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“Combining head and heart in the work” —with Kathleen Romig
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For this week’s episode, Rebecca sat down with Kathleen Romig, a dear friend and colleague who today serves as the director of Social Security and disability policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, one of the nation’s leading organizations that focuses on economic and budget policy for low-income families. To mark the eighty-eighth an…
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“My passion is my superpower”—with Zaki “The Barber” Smith
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For this week’s episode, Rebecca sat back down with Zaki “The Barber” Smith, an entrepreneur, a powerhouse activist, and a criminal justice reform leader whose work focuses on ending the perpetual punishment that comes with having a criminal record in America. They had a far-ranging and emotional conversation about the historic clean slate legislat…
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On Resilience—with Alejandra Vazquez-Baur
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For this week’s episode, Rebecca sat down with Alejandra Vazquez-Baur, an educator-turned-policy advocate whose work focuses on expanding supports for K–12 immigrant students—especially newcomers—and multilingual students. As Alejandra describes herself: “I am a product of resilient Mexican women. A sister. A dancer. An educator. A visionary.” They…
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“Lead with empathy, fight with fire”—with Mia Ives-Rublee
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Welcome to the summer/fall season of Off-Kilter! We’re excited to be back and up and running with the show after a break, just in time to mark Disability Pride Month. And to kick things off right, Rebecca sat back down with Mia Ives-Rublee, a long-time disability rights and justice activist who today serves as the director of the disability justice…
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Claiming Identity as Self-Care —feat. Andraea Lavant
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This week, Off-Kilter is wrapping up our ongoing series digging into why in the famous words of Audre Lorde, “self-care is political warfare. A recurring theme uplifted by several guests throughout this series has been the importance of bringing your whole self to the work—a phrase that, like so much within the topic of self-care, has become watere…
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The Poverty Line Is Too Damn Low, Part 2: Redefining Poverty as Collective Self-Care
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As Off-Kilter’s ongoing series continues, digging into why in the famous words of Audre Lorde, “self-care is political warfare,” we’re zooming out for this next episode to explore the goal of ending poverty in the United States—and the broader work of economic and social liberation—as self-care for the larger collective organism of which we are all…
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How to Embed a Disability Lens Across Policymaking (and detoxing from the White House as self-care, too!) —feat. Kim Knackstedt
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This week Rebecca sat down with Kim Knackstedt, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where she serves as director of the Disability Economic Justice Team and director of the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative, both of which launched a little over one year ago in April 2022. Before coming to TCF, Kim served as the first-ever director of…
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“Finding Beauty in the Struggle”—feat. Michele Evermore
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This week, Off-Kilter continues our ongoing series of conversations with social justice leaders digging into why, in the famous words of Audre Lorde, self-care is political warfare—and the role radical self-care plays in their own lives to sustain them in this work. Our next guest in this series is Michele Evermore, a longtime leading voice fightin…
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Marking a Year of Collective Progress for Disability Economic Justice
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This week, Off-Kilter's taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a conversation hosted by The Century Foundation's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative, marking its one-year anniversary. Launched in April 2022, the Collaborative is a first of its kind initiative bringing together more than 40 disability rights and j…
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“We’re Either Whole Human Beings or We’re Cogs in the Wheel”—feat. Julie Kashen
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This week, Off-Kilter continues our ongoing series of conversations with social justice leaders digging into why, in the famous words of Audre Lorde, self-care is political warfare—and the role radical self-care plays in their own lives to sustain them in this work. And this week, Rebecca sat down with Julie Kashen, a friend and a colleague at The …
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“You Have to Work Until You Die” and Other Barriers to Self-Care for People with Disabilities
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This week, Off-Kilter continues our ongoing series of conversations with social justice leaders digging into why, in the famous words of Audre Lorde, self-care is political warfare—and the role radical self-care plays in their own lives to sustain them in this work. As we’ve explored a good bit in recent weeks as part of this series, the disability…
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