takeback politics
Detroit-based campaign strategist Herasanna Richards talks politics with the organizers, policy experts, and advocates who are the millennial voices making it happen.
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Every so often in the heart of a great conversation, you get a powerful story. takeback bites is a shorter audio collection of stories, ten minutes or less, that highlight the perspectives that drive our passions and lay the foundation for our values and beliefs.
Last year, we spoke with Donavan McKinney, organizer, activist, and at the time candidate for State Representative. We were discussing what propels his purpose and d...
Coming out of the 2020 election into a new Administration and with power realigned in Congress, climate, infrastructure, and clean energy have emerged as unifying and critical policy issues across diverse constituencies. Climate policy intertwined with infrastructure is likely to see major action early in the Biden/Harris Administration. Herasanna chats with Jeremy Orr and Justin Onwenu about the big reforms that we can anticipate,...
The political shift this year has changed how we interpret and interface with our understanding of government. We kicked it with our friend Aaron Stephens, the Mayor of East Lansing this week on takeback politics to talk about what we've learned about politics from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and how government at all levels really works for us.
Aaron Stephens is the Mayor of the city of East Lansing, the home of Michigan...
In this episode, Herasanna is joined by friends Janelle Moulding, MSW and director and producer of Break the Chain Laura Swanson for a timely conversation about their journeys through activism and the lessons learned about boundaries, managing your expectations, elevating others and the importance of prioritizing self in order to serve.
Herasanna is joined by community organizer and environmental justice advocate Donavan McKinney for a conversation on the state of Michigan's environmental infrastructure -- addressing concerns about ongoing water contamination, the state of our shorelines, what should be next for Enbridge's Line 5, and what investments are necessary to ensure Michigan's environmentally sustainable future.
We're (finally) back - and politics in 2020 is already too much. Chris gives us a history lesson via the works of Robert A. Caro, and the gang recaps an iconic week of political moments from the Twilight Zone.
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