The Freedom Fighters Podcast: Recent Episodes
Miranda Grundy, Jairson Ascencao, Elias Turner
We are a group of Providence, RI based organizers seeking to create spaces for discussion and collaboration centered around current social justice issues and interests. We believe that collective understanding and solidarity, especially among the working class is what will unify and empower us. Our podcast episodes will encompass a broad range of social, political, and intersectional topics that we hope inspire our community to look at our world through a more critical lens. Mixed/Mastered and Produced by Enare and Tengu.
Damon Drury, Jairson Ascencao, and Casandra Inez open themselves up for a real conversation.
Damon, a 16 year old student from PPSD asks Casandra questions about police in schools and questions alternatives to policing to resolve root causes of school problems, like poverty and a school system not designed to cater to the needs of the student population.
Casandra talks about her views and origins in the area, as well as the things she cares the most about in running for office, like starting the process of mobilizing her neighbors for better community oversight.
Jairson asks questions of Casandra more in the realm of advice that she has for the younger communities and what hopes she has for the Black and Brown communities of our era.
We hope you enjoy, feel free to stick around if you want to build an understanding of Rhode Island with us.
This episodes is meant to give someone with no insight into what a state budget is an insiders look of how the budget works, and who it has helped and hurt historically. This episode was co-written with our special guest State Senator Samuel Bell.
Led by a local young Cape-Verdean Rhode Islander, this episode explores the history of the island more broadly, and the localized history of Cape-Verdeans here in Providence. We explore what it means to hold that identity with pride while simultaneously enacting political resistance.
This episode explores, through organic conversation: imperialism, US empire, migration patterns, our local role in these issues, and looking at such things through an intersectional feminist lens. It features our first ever podcast guests!
This episode delves into Housing Affordability issues nationwide, but particularly at the local level here in Rhode Island and Providence. We explore the racialized history of housing discriminaiton, current day problems, and avenues for change here and now.