This is an episode that gives recognition to Juneteenth and spends some time acknowledging the Black Lives Matter movement and examining White Supremacy Culture through the insightful article published by Dr. Tema Okun. This is crucially important education that will need to be addressed and worked through in order for us to arrive at a place where we can move collectively towards sustainable development.

#BlackLivesMatter #Juneteenth

Click HERE to Donate to the Black Resilience Fund!

You can read the article White Supremacy Culture at www.dismantlingracism.org

Check out Rose City Justice for ways to get involved and please, please, please show up for this incredible and worlds largest civil rights movement we are in the midst of. Thank you.

City Repair is hosting the 20th Annual Village Building Convergence which starts May 29th and runs through June 7th, 2020. 10 days of events to be held, for the first time, mostly online this year as we find our way coming into the late springtime here during a global pandemic. I spoke with Kirk Rea who has been a part of City Repair for many years now and we talked at some length about what the VBC is about and how this year is going to be a bit different.

To learn more please check out the links below:

https://villagebuildingconvergence.com

www.twitch.tv/anjaliandthekid

https://www.portlandunitedagainsthate.org/

https://villagebuildingconvergence.com/youthpowerpdx

Roberta Eaglehorse-Ortiz, is a Member of the Oglala-Lakota Yomba-Shoshone Tribe And enrolled in the Lower Brule Souix Tribe, she’s the founding Farmer of Wombyn’s Wellness Garden, and previous Executive Director and Full Circle Doula for the Oregon Inter-Tribal Breastfeeding Coalition which she also helped create. She’s a mother, a daughter, a wife, an herbalist, farmer, friend, educator, activist and oh so much more.

We had a wonderful talk and I welcome you to tune in.

And I send so much love and gratitude to Roberta Eaglehorse for taking the time to share stories and provide education from such a refreshing perspective. And the message of resilience, especially in regards to the indigenous storyline is beyond inspiring. Please check out Wombyn’s Wellness Garden on their Facebook page or website, as well as Oregon Inter-Tribal Breastfeeding Coalition for the work they do that continues on as well. And I wish to take a moment again to note that yesterday was the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, this issue is serious and I ask that you do what you can to learn more about this issue and contribute to this cause if you can. There is a lot of reckoning that needs to be done on these lands and understanding and learning more about the issues connected to settler colonialism that brought us to this point in our shared story. We face multiple crises at this time, and while the pandemic is certainly the one that is the most in our face, the climate and environmental crisis is also being seen everywhere we look. The roots of a lot of the devastation we face is disproportionately affecting communities of color and the native populations of these lands. Let us acknowledge that and embrace the wisdom, knowledge, and education that is coming from these communities as well. They are on the front lines and have shined through the darkness with incredible stories of resilience, we have much to learn from these amazing communities. I am grateful for them.

To be fair, we should give thanks to this precious planet Earth every day. But today, April 22nd, in the year 2020, we mark the 50th Anniversary of our global Earth Day celebrations. It’s 2:22 in the afternoon and there’s something about all those 2’s that I’m tickled by. 4/22/2020 at 2:22pm. That seems potent, or just fun to look at anyway. And, this is Episode number 2 so there’s that, too…

The episode is 22 minutes recognizing Earth Day and reflecting on where we are today. It also explores the place we find ourselves as we look to the next 50 years and wonder if we can find our way to the envisioned Ecotopia imagined on Earth Day in 2070. 

I touch on the pandemics role in this years Earth Day as well. Enjoy...

Here we go. A fresh new podcast, started in the midst of this global pandemic. The episode is an introduction to what this podcast will be about and features an interview with Mak Porotesano, a 2nd generation American Samoan, who is the Sylvania Campus Multicultural Center Coordinator of Portland Community College. Porotesano is also an elder council member of Pacific Climate Warriors and 350 Pacific, he also has a hand in several other organizations as well and was slated to be the keynote speaker of the GPSEN 2020 Sustainability Symposium, until COVID-19 happened and the in person event was cancelled (along with life as we knew it...). We talk about that and more in the episode. Come tune in, won't you?