This episode features a discussion of possible changes to the Metro Supportive Housing Services Measure and commentary from Desiree Hellegers on Mourning, Solidarity, and freeing Leonard Peltier. Frann Michel hosts.
More about the segments:
Frann Michel talks with Molly Hogan of the Welcome Home Coalition about adjustments to the Supportive Housing Services Measure. Welcome Home members are calling on the Tri-county Metropolitan Regional Council to make sure that adjustments honor the initial intentions of the measure while improving its implementation using lessons learned since the tax was passed by voters in 2020 to better serve the needs of our community in addressing homelessness. Welcome Home has a call to action to protect investments in housing stability for all by contacting the the Metro President and Councilors.
You can send letters to Metro Councilors and sign up to find out more at welcomehomecoalition.org.
Colonialism, Solidarity, and Leonard Peltier
This year, the annual deluge of Black Friday ads egging us on to attain higher levels of consumption–with corresponding carbon emissions and solid and liquid waste–seemed particularly hollow, morbid–predatory, even– falling as Black Friday did this year on November 29, the date the U.N. first recognized in 1977 as International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Desiree Hellegers talks about the confluence of these two occasions, and about the settler colonial simulacra of Thanksgiving, and the urgency of calls for Joe Biden to free 80-year-old Dakota, Lakota, Anishinaabe political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
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