This is a bonus episode. Back on Juneteenth, we shared Episode 1 of Angela Glover Blackwell's Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life. Last Wednesday, you heard our full conversation with Angela. Today, we're closing that loop with Chapter 6, the final episode of Season 1: Hope Is a Discipline. Angela and choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez explore how art moves a place, and a country, from resistance to creation, with stops along the way for joy, honest pushback on whether LA is really "the model," and a reminder from Mariame Kaba that hope has to be practiced, not just felt. Season 2, focused on Georgia, is out now.
Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life is a podcast created by PolicyLink in partnership with Pineapple Street Studios.
Chapter Markers
00:00 — Cold open: Charles White's mural and Angela's reflection on Black artists in the fight for democracy
03:32 — Show intro: welcome to Chapter 6, Hope Is a Discipline
07:17 — Ana Maria Alvarez on Contra-Tiempo Activist Dance Theater and art as resistance
09:15 — Intergenerational organizing: Ana Maria's parents and the village that built PolicyLink
10:33 — Resistance as a healthy democratic practice, the salsa metaphor
12:53 — Joy as fuel for the movement, adrienne maree brown and Pleasure Activism
15:25 — Is LA the model? Denise Fairchild's honest pushback
16:31 — Manuel Pastor: "a thing of beauty with our friends"
17:35 — Anthony Thigpen: standing at the brink
18:30 — 2024, the biggest global election year in history
21:00 — Hope is a discipline, the Mariame Kaba idea
22:07 — Justin Jones and Justin Pearson: expelled, reinstated, undeterred
23:17 — Fight for 15, ROC United, and the New Georgia Project with Nse Ufot
25:58 — Closing reflection and Shanaka Hodge's poem
27:22 — Angela's closing charge, credits, and a call to vote
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