May 8, 2015: Monica Bell; Race and Violence in the U.S.: Ta-Nehisi Coates; the DC Youth Slam Team; Calling 4 Justice, Marc Thompson; Chico Breast Liberation: Meagan Fischer and Rain Aliza Scher

Host: Monica Bell

Part 1: Race and Violence in the U.S. 

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates' inagural address delivered last week at the Forum on Race in America at Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore Native and senior editor of The Atlantic, Coates talks about state violence, race in the U.S., and growing up in Baltimore. Source: www.colorlines.com  
  • “There’s a War Going on in My City”, slam poetry by the DC Youth Slam Team
  • Calling 4 Justice, on-going segment demanding justice in the local unsolved murder case of Marc Thompson.

Part 2: Chico Breast Liberation

  • Chico Breast Liberation founders Meagan Fischer and Rain Aliza Scher discuss their paradigm-shifting, grassroots work building respectful culture through events like last month’s 'Toptional Bike Ride'. Chico Breast Liberation is an organization of members of the Chico community, uniting to support the normalization of women’s and all people's freedom to be bare-chested in public. They celebrate breasts as beautiful and sacred, not offensive. They desire a safe, consensual, and accepting environment in which their healthy attitude towards breasts and bodies as a whole is supported and respected-- and they organize events around this cause.

Music:

  • Gathering the Tribes and Prayer for Rain from The Polish Ambassador's album, Pushing Through the Pavement 
  • Show Yourself by Ayla Nereo
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