Solidarity Is This

Oct 23 2024 46 ep. 98
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Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Building Movement Project where she runs Solidarity Is, a multi-strategy program to deepen transformative solidarity practices, models, narratives, and ideas. On the podcast, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with cross-racial and cross-movement solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. Learn more at www.solidarityis.org

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Solidarity: 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems

Oct 23 2024 30 mins  
Join co-hosts Adaku Utah and Deepa Iyer as they present the "2024 Elections and Beyond" toolkit, offering tools to clarify values, engage in rapid response, and strengthen ourselves, our organizations, and ecosystems.

Solidarity: Building Solidarity In an Era of Silos

Jun 18 2024 65 mins  
In an age of increasing polarization and division, how can we build bridges. Join us in this special State of Solidarity episode to explore the challenges and opportunities of building solidarity in our current social and political climate.

Solidarity: Reckoning with Sustainability

Mar 19 2024 44 mins  
In this episode, co-host Adaku Utah and guest M Adams reflect on BMP's latest report: Reckoning with Sustainability, which explores how more than 50 Black movement leaders and their organizations understood the brief moment of “racial reckoning” in 2020..

Solidarity: Healing across generations at the intersections of memory, care, and justice

Jan 23 2024 43 mins  
In this episode, Cara Page of Changing Frequencies discusses with host Adaku Utah how we reclaim ancestral wisdom for collective liberation and shape futures that center collective care and safety and build power.

Solidarity Narratives in Crises: A Practice Guide

Nov 29 2023 23 mins  
Deepa Iyer and Shanelle Matthews discuss how organizations can shape solidarity narratives in a time of crisis.

Solidarity: Mothers of Gynecology transform our history and future

Oct 22 2023 34 mins  
In this episode, Michelle Browder from the More Up Campus speaks with host Adaku Utah about how reclaiming the history of gynecology can transform our conditions and teach us how to center empathy and dignity.

Solidarity: Truth Telling From The Banks of the Ohio River

Sep 26 2023 21 mins  
In this episode, Hannah Drake and Josh Miller from the (Un)Known Project speak with host Deepa Iyer about how sharing the names of stories of enslaved Black men, women and children in Kentucky transforms our understanding of history.

Solidarity: Reclaiming Our Collective Memory

Aug 20 2023 38 mins  
In this episode, host Adaku Utah is in conversation with Mariame Kaba about transformative spaces and practices to reclaim our interdependence and collective memory.

Solidarity: How Sites of Conscience Can Transform Us

Jun 26 2023 24 mins  
The new season of Solidarity Is This begins with an introduction to the power of sites of conscience. Host Deepa Iyer speaks with Braden Paynter and Ereshnee Naidu at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.

Solidarity: Introducing The Next Season

Apr 26 2023 22 mins  
Deepa Iyer, Adaku Utah, and UyenThi Tran Myhre of the Building Movement Project/Solidarity Is team introduce the themes addressed in the next season of Solidarity Is This