Rural Roots Rising is a monthly podcast by and for rural Oregonians who are creatively and courageously building stronger and more vibrant communities for a just democracy. Rural Roots Rising centers organizing stories and lessons from powerful multiracial organizing across rural and frontier Oregon and focuses on the issues that matter to rural Oregonians most, including migration, affordable housing, disaster response, and more. Visit RuralRootsRising.org for rural organizing resources and ...
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Broadcast Studio is a project built for community with efforts focused on supporting small businesses, our creative communities, economic development, oral histories, new industry, & technical growth in rural Mississippi. The broadcast / recording studio comprises capabilities for podcasting, video & music production, recording, live streaming, & content development, centered around our regional collective, bringing together capacities across a multitude of sectors & production / development ...
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Conversations on Gender, Geography & Violence Against Women in Mexico & Central America.
Noria Mexico & Central America
This Podcast Series is part of Noria’s Mexico and Central America Program, and belongs to our "Violence Takes Place" project. We are delighted to present a set of conversations on gender, geography, and violence against women in rural Mexico and Central America. Six episodes with the leading women working on violence in the region: researchers, journalists, activists. Discover their work, their newest books, and their ongoing investigative projects.
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Learn to block and delete idiots from your life. Remove addiction to bad people, drugs, alcohol, government and more (WITHOUT MEETINGS!) Then use your new-found time and energy to MAKE A LIVING DOING WHAT YOU LOVE, like the author does. A USER'S MANUAL FOR THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE is a libertarian manifesto for getting healthy, getting brilliant, maximizing potential and changing the world. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS BOOK: "Part intellectual memoir, part self-help book. Michael W. Dean's ...
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Enjoyed our chat with community leader, Tammy Herod, sharing with us about her event this Saturday, August 26 from 4-8P at the The Old Armory Pavilion Sponsored by Women of Worth and Excellence WOWE End of the Summet Festival is approaching soon. We are still accepting vendors. Register today with the link. Live music, food, performances, inflatabl…
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From growing seeds, farming, childbirth, nutrition, and building new channels around cultural exchange as we face some of the most challenging of times; these beautiful farmers are cultivating inspiring movement in food from West Africa to the south around the most delicious dishes.In our interview this morning; impressive chef, farmer, nutritionis…
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This is the Final Episode in Season 2 of Rural Roots Rising! We go behind the scenes of Tea, Toast, and Truth and talk with Ashland High School’s Truth to Power Club about how they pair education and action through their podcast and community organizing campaigns. If you missed last month, be sure and check out that episode to hear a shortened vers…
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In our second season of Rural Roots Rising, we’ve been on a state-wide mission to explore community-based, intergenerational, collaborative, rural media. Join us this month as we feature Tea, Toast, and Truth, a podcast created by Ashland High School’s Truth to Power Club. This podcast is a great example of everyday people using DIY media to amplif…
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This month’s episode continues our community media spotlight series with a behind-the-scenes interview with KPOV 88.9 FM, High Desert Community Radio station manager Bruce Morris. This episode is the second in a two-part profile of KPOV and features Bruce discussing KPOV’s early history and the role of local stations in community organizing. Bruce …
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This month’s episode continues our community media spotlight series by highlighting KPOV & The Point, a daily radio show hosted by a rotating cast of hosts at KPOV 88.9 FM, High Desert Community Radio. This episode is part one of a two-part series! In this first episode, you will hear how The Point and KPOV support and resource community organizing…
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Last month we introduced LaNicia Duke and her call-in program Rural Race Talks on Coast Community Radio. We recommend listening to Community Media Spotlight: Rural Race Talks first. This month’s episode, Behind the Scenes with Rural Race Talks, explores the power of learning in public with LaNicia and discusses how her radio show is an extension of…
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Rural Roots Rising is both a podcast and a radio show airing on 19 community radio stations, and it’s also an ongoing experiment in building up our media skills across rural Oregon. In Season 2 we are amplifying rural radio shows and digging into how they do what they do in the hopes of building up our collective rural media making abilities and su…
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Episode 6 - Gendered Lynching: Women & Extrajudicial Violence in Mexico. Conversation with Gema Santamaría
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Gema Kloppe-Santamaría is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Loyola University, Chicago. Her research deals with questions of violence, security, religion, and gender in Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico and Central America. Before joining Loyola, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Stud…
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For the last year, we’ve been producing monthly episodes of Rural Roots Rising to share stories of courageous and creative organizing across rural Oregon. But why? To get us rolling on our second season, we pulled back the curtain to share what inspired this show, and how the process of making it has changed our organizing. In this month’s episode,…
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Episode 5 - Marijuana & Masculinity: Colombia's First Drug Boom. A conversation with Lina Britto.
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Lina Britto is a Colombian historian, journalist, and an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. In this episode, we talk about her book, Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise, which came out in Spring 2020 with University of California Press. Lina Britto received her PhD from New York University, an…
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Episode 4 - Where are Women in Sinaloa's Organized Crime? A Conversation with Deborah Bonello.
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In this 4th Episode of the Series, we talk about Deborah Bonello's investigations on organized crime and illegal logging in Mexico, and then jump into a discussion about her current book project on Women in the Sinaloa Cartel. Deborah Bonello is a journalist, editor and investigator and has been based in Latin America since 2005. She is a former em…
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"The Troop. Why do soldiers kill?". In this episode recorded in Spanish, we speak with Daniela Rea, a Mexican journalist and writer. Daniela is Editor at "Pie de Pagina", an independent media. With Daniela, we talk about her book "La Tropa, ¿por qué mata un soldado?", written with Pablo Ferri, analyzing issues of militarization and gender violence …
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Andalusia K. Soloff is a multimedia journalist based in Mexico City. She specializes in state violence, migration, indigenous land struggles and gender based murders in Latin America. In her reporting, Andalusia seeks to center on the voices of those most affected by these crises and violence. We discuss her new graphic novel on forced disappearanc…
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Over a year ago, when ROP committed to making 13 monthly episodes to share organizing stories from across rural Oregon, we had no idea what 2020 would hold! Hindsight 2020: Telling Rural Stories features Monica Pearson with North Coast Progressive Action in Clatsop County, Rita Schenkelberg, a new city councilor-elect in Deschutes County, Brenda Fl…
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Nina Lakhani is the first Environmental Justice Reporter for the Guardian US, based in New York. In this conversation, she discusses her new book Who Killed Berta Cáceres? (2020). Nina Lakhani's book focuses on environmental violence and women in Honduras, but due to her experience in Mexico City, she will also talk about obstretic violence in the …
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As rumors fly about who can and can’t vote by mail, and threats to a fair election escalate, rural Oregonians are sharing paper and digital STAND Election guides with their neighbors to offer clear information about how people who are displaced by the fires or who were wrongfully evicted can still vote by mail, are leading car caravans to safely dr…
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As rural Oregonians, we’re not new to taking care of each other in a crisis. In the midst of the fear and grief, we’re returning this month to the story of thousands of committed people who joined together across county lines and faiths. By bringing their skills and networks together, opening the doors of their religious meeting places for shelter,…
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This month’s episode, Taking Risks highlights the voices of Suzanne Pharr, a renowned community organizer and movement elder, and Zachary Stocks, whose passion to make museums dynamic spaces accessible to everyone brought him into community organizing. Find out when your local radio station is playing Fighting for Rural and download this episode’s …
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Fighting for Rural features Kim Schmith, Kelsey Olivera, and Kelly Huang of the Madras Key Club sharing a story of multigenerational small-town organizing for equity! Madras Key Club is working inside the schools to build a more inclusive Jefferson County. You’ll learn about their work celebrating their family’s traditions in a local park, distribu…
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Welcome to a Rural Roots Rising podcast extra! As protests of police violence against black Americans continue across the country, we have witnessed large scale police and National Guard deployment, many outfitted with intimidating and sophisticated warfighting gear. Countless videos have shown police officers and the National Guard using batons, t…
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We are in the midst of a global movement, with Black Lives Matter protests erupting all around the nation and beyond. Rural Organizing Project’s multiracial network of human dignity groups is answering the call. Here in Oregon, rural and small-town communities have hosted over 75 community events in every corner of the state. People are gathering o…
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Community-based radio and other local media help us weather the storms we face, both literally and figuratively. When radio works for the good of all our neighbors, this free, accessible service, fosters the sense of belonging, resilience & connection necessary for survival. And the importance of local media has never been more clear than during th…
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The spread of COVID-19 and the insufficient response to it, has made it much more difficult to access safe and healthy food, especially for those most vulnerable among us. Feeding Our Communities features Harry MacCormack from Sunbow Farm in Benton County, Oregon and Martina LeForce with Berea Kids Eat in Madison County, Kentucky. Both Harry and Ma…
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Building an Ever Wider Circle features Gwen Trice from the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center in Wallowa County. Gwen is creating accessible ways for people to grapple with racism in Oregon through learning about the experiences of multicultural loggers who have called Wallowa County home for generations. If you are interested in connecting with…
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It Takes All of Us shares a story about the power of interfaith organizing and the successes that are possible when hundreds of volunteers join together in a moment of crisis. This month, we follow the story of Navneet Kaur, who took action in support of asylum seekers in rural Yamhill County with her Sikh community, Innovation Law Lab and ICE Out …
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Building Community Power features Miriam Vargas Corona with Unidos Bridging Community in Yamhill County and Bruce Morris with KPOV, High Desert Community Radio in Deschutes County. They both won victories for human dignity by bringing people together from different segments of their communities. If you are interested in connecting with other rural …
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Rural Community Building features Martha Verduzco with Hood River Latino Network in the Columbia River Gorge and Katie Cook with Rural Voices based in Gilliam County. This episode emphasizes a core truth about rural community organizing: breaking isolation by building connections, relationships, and community through organizing is a skill that many…
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Anyone Can Be An Organizer features Brenda Flores with Raíces in Stanfield, Umatilla County, Juan Navarro with Here to Stay in the mid-Willamette Valley, and Monica Pearson with Indivisible North Coast Oregon in Astoria, Clatsop County. We talked with each of them about their work for migrant justice, how they first started organizing, and what mot…
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Rural Roots Rising, produced by the Rural Organizing Project, is a monthly podcast created by and for rural Oregonians who are creatively and courageously building stronger and more vibrant communities for a just democracy. Subscribe where you listen to podcasts and reach out to your community radio station to ask them to play Rural Roots Rising on…
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THE END OF THIS PODIOBOOK! Bonus two of two: MP3 of 1992 Bomb song "Lucy in the Sky with Desi." Written by Michael W. Dean, Jay Crawford, Tony Fag, Doug Hilsinger. Lead vocals and bass guitar, Michael W. Dean. Website for the band Bomb: http://www.hitsofacid.com
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Bonus one of two: MP3 of 1992 Bomb song"Power of Suggestion." Written by Michael W. Dean, Jay Crawford, TonyFag, Doug Hilsinger. Lead vocals and bass guitar, Michael W. Dean. Website forthe band Bomb: http://www.hitsofacid.com
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Here the author goes BRAVELY AND SWEETLY INTO THE PAST. He sits down with his morning coffee at age 44 and writes a wise and loving letter to himself at 22 (knowing full well that himself at 22 wouldn't listen to what "some old guy" has to say!). We end this chapter (and the book) with the author at age 44 receiving a wise and loving letter from th…
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We continue to present ways to "herd cats" in any organization from the smallest to the biggest, from the local to the global (and beyond!). We also talk about priorities, fighting only the fights worth fighting (which is different from only fighting fights we can win). Also how to AVOID fights, even when working with people who disagree.…
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"Group-dynamic games" are exercises where a "team building consultant" is hired to come into a company for a few days and lead employees through problem-solving exercises. The goal is to try and learn to work together more effectively. WE AREN'T GOING TO DO THAT. WE AREN'T PLAYING GAMES HERE. This is THE REAL DEAL. ORGANIZATION BUILDING is more abo…
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This chapter describes how the author came to make a living doing what he loves. Here we teach you how to love, rather than dread, waking up each day. It's all about making your mark without stepping on toes, now that you know how to keep the toes of others off yours.
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Learn to be a light-on-your-feet WORK NINJA with the simplest time-management system in the world. And it's free, doesn't require ongoing software or seminars, and best of all, you can start doing it RIGHT NOW.
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In this chapter, I'm going to give you some more of my patented work philosophy - some "punk rock cheerleading." Then we'll get down to business with some serious step-by-step time-management ideas (including The Dean One-Page Plan). You could skip the theory part and go straight to THE PLAN, but you know by now how I work, so you know I think it's…
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On ProfessionalismBasically, a large part of being a success in the world is interacting with people in a professional manner. It's often the difference between being well employed and being unemployed. Here, Michael tells you step-by-step how to do this, whether you're making art, starting a business, or changing the world by developing a movement…
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PART TWO OF BOOK: AMP This is where we step out of "get rid of weenies" mode and step into "now that you've got your life more in order, let's do something with it." Learn to focus your drive and focus like a quantum laser. Here Michael W. Dean shares the techniques that have made him an in-demand modern renaissance man. You'll learn to apply these…
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