Host Taylor shares an extra-long final episode of the 2020 season featuring many, many voices and a lot of gratitude for everyone who helped bring this project to life after many years.
In the first section of the show, we hear posthumously from Richard Stone, a long time member of the social justice community in Fresno, CA, a writer, a powerhouse volunteer, a partner, and a friend to many.
The latter part of the show includes partial interviews–some from 2015 and some from 2020 with the following folks (in order of appearance):
John Zerzan, in Eugene, OR;
David Barsamian, in Boulder, CO;
Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish, in Boulder, CO;
Billy, Christopher, and Kori, in Detroit, MI;
and members of the Kentucky Workers League, in Lexington, KY.
They share a diversity of backgrounds, approaches to change and ideologies–a diversity I’ve always strived to include in this show. I so appreciate all of them, and hope that you will return to the archive as it grows this year to hear their full stories, along with those of many others not featured this year.
This show is part of a series running through the end of 2020, new episodes published weekly, in which I revisit interviews taken during a radio show road trip in the summer of 2015—checking back in with those activists, organizers and artists I met to see how their lives and work have adapted to changing times. You can find more information about that project at praxisradio.com/praxis.
Find a full transcript of the episode here.
For more information on the people and projects discussed, check out the links below:
*Richard Stone memorial by Mike Rhodes at Community Alliance: https://fresnoalliance.com/richard-stone-was-a-beloved-member-of-the-progressive-community/
*John Zerzan’s website, including Anarchy Radio archive: www.johnzerzan.net
*Alternative Radio website: https://www.alternativeradio.org/
*More about Candelas Glows: https://www.facebook.com/CandelasGlows/
*More about Donna Young (referenced, to be featured in archive): https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/whats-killing-the-babies-of-vernal-utah-33666/
*More on CDC, the organization referenced by folks in Detroit: https://www.centraldetroitchristian.org/empower/
*More about Kentucky Workers League: https://www.facebook.com/KentuckyWorkersLeague/