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In 2015, Barcelona EnComu’s Ada Colau - a housing rights activist - won her election to become mayor of Barcelona, Spain’s 2nd largest city. Barcelona En Comú’s guiding document was drawn up through citizen participation and its policy priorities included radicalizing democracy, stopping evictions, fighting touristification, returning the city’s water company to the people, and reducing economic inequalities between neighborhoods. Join us as we speak with Kate Shea-Baird member of the Barcelona EnComu executive committee that governed from 2015 to 2023 as we talk to her about what happened when the people took the power. Read more about Municipalism: https://www.shareable.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/win-the-city-guide.pdf https://wagingnonviolence.org/2023/05/lessons-barcelona-en-comu-ada-colau/

We've got a special treat for you this week. I'll be interviewing Jackrabbit, the executive producer for the Redneck Gone Green show. You know him as the handsome fella who comes onto the show from time to time to share his wisdom with us. This will be a valuable episode to hear from an organizer and activist who has a rich perspective on life in general and politic in particular. I met Jackrabbit at Zuccotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) moment was growing in strength every day. I was impressed with his focus on converting grassroots energy into political power. I guess I must have made an impression on him as well since we're still friends today...lol From being homeless in Philadelphia to protesting the DNC in Atlanta. He's hitchhiked to a street fight with the police at the San Francisco federal building to the wild-west of mid-90s Burning Man. He co-founded a theatre company and was active in the campaigns for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Please join us for a fascinating discussion with a good friend.

Join us Tuesday at 6p ET/3p PT as we talk to Sean Dougherty Green party candidate for congress in California's 19th. We'll be discussing the latest developments in the national Green party as Cornell West has left to run as an independent and Jill Stein has once again taken up the mantle for the party. We'll also take some time to cover the ongoing horror unfolding in Gaza.

As the horror of war rages, our guest for the Nov 7, 2023 episode of Redneck Gone Green will be anti-war activist, journalist, and filmmaker Eleanor Franklin. Her latest film is “To The Trees,” a documentary that tells the story of the struggle to defend the forests of Northern California where tree-sitters, forest advocates, and Indigenous peoples are working to protect, reclaim and manage the remaining 2% of old growth redwood forests, and the second-growth areas that are beginning to become nurturing ecosystems again.

It is my pleasure to share that our guest for the Oct 31, 2023 episode of Redneck Gone Green will be Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders (CMB) in Atlanta. CMB is one of the key organizations educating, organizing and mobilizing a powerful grassroots movement to STOP COP CITY.

In 2015, Barcelona EnComu’s Ada Colau - a housing rights activist - won her election to become mayor of Barcelona, Spain’s 2nd largest city. Barcelona En Comú’s guiding document was drawn up through citizen participation and its policy priorities included radicalizing democracy, stopping evictions, fighting touristification, returning the city’s water company to the people, and reducing economic inequalities between neighborhoods. Join us as we speak with Kate Shea-Baird member of the Barcelona EnComu executive committee that governed from 2015 to 2023 as we talk to her about what happened when the people took the power. Read more about Municipalism: https://www.shareable.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/win-the-city-guide.pdf https://wagingnonviolence.org/2023/05/lessons-barcelona-en-comu-ada-colau/

I’m gonna be honest y’all. I am straight up giggling like a schoolboy over our guest for the Oct 10, 2023 episode of Redneck Gone Green. That’s because we will be talking to singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton about the role of Art in Revolution. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our channel! Please subscribe to our substack: https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com Music credit: Banjos, Unite! by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The 11th episode of Redneck Gone Green will be an interview with Dr. Ana Malinow. We will be talking about the fight to save– and to expand– Medicare. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our channel! Please subscribe to our substack: https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com Music credit: Banjos, Unite! by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Emily Kawano is a rare combination. She is a professionally trained economist, who has served in the academy as a professor. She is also a popular educator who can “break it down without dumbing it down.” She has also spent decades in on-the-ground work putting the principles and practices of the Solidarity Economy into lived practice. As the Co-Director of Wellspring Cooperative, she is at the forefront of transformative change. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our channel! Please subscribe to our substack: https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com Music credit: Banjos, Unite! by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Join us as we talk with Nathan (Santi) Lou about the Transition Towns movement rooted in solidarity economy, restorative justice, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. This movement brings together communities of practice to drive social and ecological solutions that take us beyond extractive and oppressive systems, from-the-ground-up. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our channel! Please subscribe to our substack: https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=ifxv Music credit: Banjos, Unite! by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

We will be discussing how Worker-Owned Cooperatives, Participatory Budgeting, Community Land Trusts and Public Banking are providing models and pathways to build a more cooperative, democratic, equitable, and sustainable world.

Our guest for the Sept 5, 2023 episode of Redneck Gone Green will be David Rovics, a songwriter, musician, writer and podcaster based in Portland, Oregon. Amy Goodman describes Rovics as “the musical version of Democracy Now.” That’s because he is not only a talented musician, he is also a deep thinker with decades of practical experience as part of the anti-authoratarian Left.

Proportional representation (PR) is a democratic electoral system designed to ensure that the distribution of seats reflects the overall proportion of votes received by each political party. Unlike the predominant winner-takes-all system in the United States, PR seeks to eliminate the problem of wasted votes and better represent diverse viewpoints. PR systems come in various forms, such as the list PR, single transferable vote (STV), and mixed-member proportional (MMP), each tailored to the specific needs of a nation's political landscape. We welcome Caledon Meyers to discuss how he's worked to advance democracy with his organization the California Proportional Representation Coalition. We hope you'll join us. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our channel! Please subscribe to our substack and check out David's latest take on proportional representation here: https://open.substack.com/pub/redneckgonegreen/p/advancing-democracy-with-caledon Find out more about the California Proportional Representation Coalition https://www.prorepcoalition.org/ Music credit: Banjos, Unite! by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Mutual Aid embodies the essence of community and human solidarity. It fosters a sense of interconnectedness that transcends societal barriers. It happens whenever individuals and groups voluntarily come together to provide assistance, resources, and support to one another, driven by a collective spirit of cooperation and empathy. The positive aspects of mutual aid are abundant, spanning from the personal to the societal level. Join us as we discuss Mutual Aid with Michelle Eddelman-McCormick of Cooperation Vermont (CVT)

The Aug 15 episode of Redneck Gone Green will be Mike Strode, founder and organizer with the Kola Nut Collaborative in Chicago’s South Side. We will be discussing “Time Banking” with Mike. What is it and how can we use it in the world we will create together.

This week's show will be a conversation with Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report. Margaret and I will be discussing the Presidential campaign of Dr. Cornel West. Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/ West 2024: https://www.cornelwest24.org/ Open Letter to the Movement from the Green Eco-Socialist Network’s endorsement of the West campaign. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kw6r52YSjKfX3rGXGKAvaadmf5NdJmAgNn-5JPjMweE/edit