Houston Indy Media - Angela con Courtney: Recent Episodes
Houston Indy Media - AconC
Houston Indy Media is part of Independent Media Center’s (IMC) international network of producers bringing grassroots non-corporate coverage of global and social justice issues affecting the South Texas Gulf Coast region. IMC works to be a tool for freedom in content expression and an information revolution.
AconC (Angela con Courtney) are one of Houston Indy Media’s production teams providing an intersectional view on news, community and culture. As a bilingual, BIPOC unity focused duo, Angela con Courtney work to agitate perspectives; organize self, family, community and cultivate collaboration and accountability.
Angela con Courtney (AconC) unpack the "Heights" of representation and Critical Race Theory and what happens when we have to explore them in or community spaces, like KPFT. They share a late night CommuniTEA conversation from earlier this week.
Last week, new General Manager David Baes, unilaterally obliterated the program schedule by removing all of its ethnically and culturally diverse programming off prime hours and away from FM. Primarily BIPOC programmers saw their shows moved away from prime hours and completely off FM or just removed all together. Angela con Courtney (AconC) spoke to several of the programmers affected and unpacked this whitewashing of our publc airwaves.
Angela con Courtney (AconC) Stir up a gumbo edition for International Women's Day that has hints of pop culture with Joulsy and the Industry of shaming black women, a sprinkling of affirmations from Toni Jones and her Affirmations for the Grown-Axx Woman, a heap full of resistance through dance with why Puerto Rican Bomba music is resistance, and all the La Brega you need.
Angela con Courtney (AconC) Unpack some of the many unbalanced happenings and discuss the raging homicide rates across the country and how the “Ferguson Effect” is back in the conversation, the antics of the Reddit traders and the precariousness of crossing the aisles.
Angela con Courtney (AconC) End and start the year talking about PIC abolition, Defund the Police and all the talk on both sides about its impossibility. Sharing a VERY important conversation with Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, titled Eyes on Abolition, who visited the University of Houston Graduate of Social Work recently.
Photo Credit: KQED.org, Mark Fiore
Angela con Courtney (AconC) Continue on the Thankstaking conversation and explore the ways to work on a zero waste food preparation as well as issues around food insecurity and food sovereignty. Not just food for THOUGHT but for ACTION throughout the year.
The issues felt acutely in native communities— land losses, conservation, food related issues, climate change— are ALL our issues and will absolutely be felt by the entire population soon if things do not change drastically.
Angela con Courtney (AconC) share a small collection of conversations the day after Thankstaking to get some historical and present perspectives of the land losses, disparity, poverty and create not just food for THOUGHT but for ACTION throughout the year.
The issues felt acutely in native communities— land losses, conservation, food related issues, climate change— are ALL our issues and will absolutely be felt by the entire population soon if things do not change drastically.
Photo Credit: Tony B Conscious
Angela con Courtney (AconC) Discuss some of the post election conversations being had. And as the country prepares for the organizing work that is ahead, we get an amazing teach-in from Haymarket Books on locating abolition within the fight against Imperialism...and as always a bonus of some motivating tunes!
Angela con Courtney (AconC ) Talk through some of the post-election mire and how communities of color are not monolithic. Race and racism play a big part in all, but especially this, election and we begin to unpack identity politics stoking divisions, centering blackness with just a touch of critical race theory.
Angela con Courtney (AconC) report back from City Hall on Houston’s Indigenous People’s Day. We continue the conversation on the native diaspora, grow our knowledge during this Hoodoo Heritage Month as well as discuss the Ice Cube polemic.
On Wednesday September 30 the Houston city council, by an almost unanimous vote, passed the resolution for Houston to join a growing number of cities and states across the country now officially observing Indigenous Peoples day as an alternative to Columbus Day. AconC (Angela con Courtney) spoke to Houston artivist Bianca Rivera who was one of the main advocates over the last several years to push this through to its passage.