Let's Be Real: A New Economy Project Podcast

Let's Be Real: A New Economy Project Podcast

Let’s Be Real, A New Economy Project podcast, introduces you to the people, places, and organizations at the forefront of the movement for justice in NYC. Interviews with organizers on the ground will let you know what’s happening across the five boroughs, and how you can get involved. Follow us on iTunes or Soundcloud, and keep an eye on this page for podcast information and new episodes. And check our webpage at: http://www.neweconomynyc.org/letsbereal/

Episodes

Episode 11: New York State Community Equity Agenda Pt. 1

April 1, 2020 • 11 mins
Producers’ Note: This series of interviews was conducted before the COVID-19 outbreak. While we engage in mutual aid efforts and digital organizing, we think it’s important to continue releasing stories about community-led institutions that can support New Yorkers through our current crisis, and make NYC neighborhoods more resilient going forward – as we build a new economy that works for all. The next four episodes of Let’s Be Re...
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Episode 10: UPROSE

February 3, 2020 • 12 mins
In this episode of Let’s Be Real, we speak with Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE. Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest Latinx community-based organization and has been deeply involved in the climate justice movement for decades. In our interview, Elizabeth discusses what it means for the organization to be community-led, how all organizing in a frontline community is intersectional, and how UPROSE’s commun...
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Episode 9: Housing Justice For All

July 28, 2019 • 10 mins
In this episode of Let’s Be Real, we speak with Dominga Payano, a tenant organizer with Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. Dominga represented the organization in the statewide Housing Justice for All Campaign. In an interview recorded just weeks before the campaign won a landmark victory—with the Legislature’s enactment of the strongest tenant laws in New York history—Dominga reflects on how she got involved in tenant...
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Episode 8: Neighbors Beyond Amazon

May 6, 2019 • 12 mins
In this episode of Let’s Be Real, we speak with two organizers—Fahd Ahmed from DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), and Sasha Wijeyeratne from CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities—from the Neighbors Beyond Amazon coalition. Reflecting on the landmark victory to keep Amazon’s second headquarters, or HQ2, out of New York, Fahd and Sasha discuss the power of community organizing, what this victory means for the communities and members th...
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Episode 7: Organizing for Community Control, a Conversation with Linda Levy

January 24, 2019 • 15 mins
When the last remaining bank branch on the Lower East Side closed its doors in 1986, local activists took matters into their own hands and organized to establish a non-profit financial cooperative, the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union. This episode features a conversation between New Economy Project co-director Sarah Ludwig and Linda Levy, the credit union’s longtime CEO. They discuss how the credit union got started,...
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New Yorkers Speak Out: Kenneth Lovell & Patrick Lovell

August 7, 2018 • 7 mins
New Yorkers Speak Out: Kenneth Lovell & Patrick Lovell by New Economy Project
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Episode 6: We're Fed Up!

May 8, 2018 • 14 mins
This episode, we take a look at a campaign that focuses on the Federal Reserve System and its impact on working people and people of color. We take you to a rally in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where we spoke with two protesters about how the Fed impacts their communities. Then, we sit down with the Director of the Center for Popular Democracy’s Fed Up! Campaign to hear about the fight to put working people and co...
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Support our DACA Fund Today!

March 22, 2018 • 1 min
While the larger fight continues, we're grateful to be working with our network of partners to support DACA recipients in our communities. Please donate to our DACA fund and consider supporting our work today: neweconomynyc.org/Donate
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Episode 5: A Vision for Financial Justice in New York

November 22, 2017 • 15 mins
This episode, we focus on the payday lending industry’s most recent attempt to legalize high-cost predatory lending in New York. We feature a conversation with New York State Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou about the importance of standing up for strong consumer protections as a matter of racial and economic justice. We also sit down with New Economy Project’s Campaigns Director, Andy Morrison, to discuss a vision for financial justic...
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Episode 4: The Fight to #DefendDACA, with Walter Barrientos

September 22, 2017 • 8 mins
Watch video-podcast here: https://youtu.be/ABgDCYOn-Xo “What’s happening is a major assault on immigrant communities that…will go down in the history of this country as one of the most inhumane moments of discrimination towards one particular group.” That’s how Walter Barrientos, Make the Road’s lead organizer and longtime leader in the immigrant rights movement, described the Trump Administration’s recent termination of the Defe...
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Episode 3: "Who knows better than the people who live there?"

July 17, 2017 • 18 mins
This episode, we feature a conversation with Mychal Johnson, co-founder and leader of South Bronx Unite, about the group's work organizing for sustainable, community-driven development in the Mott Haven & Port Morris neighborhoods of the South Bronx.
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