Formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast, Irresistible is a virtual practice space at the intersection of collective healing & social change. Host Kate Werning & collaborators share conversations with powerful social justice leaders, and accompanying audio practices to help resource you in your leadership and vision. We are more than resistance -- we are irresistible.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
35 Practice: Mad Maps with The Icarus Project's Rhiana Anthony
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
In this practice, Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project offers us a concrete tool called "Mad Maps" to help us develop a plan to support our own mental health. Use this worksheet to follow along and participate: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I2vtfT-j1R4KcA5F710YvD9XiVB8xpjv/view?usp=sharing
In the previous episode (Destigmatizing Mental Health), we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the first place, how it interplays with systems of oppression, suicide, ableism, medication, hospitalization, and more.
The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. We transform ourselves through transforming the world around us. http://www.theicarusproject.net
Rhiana Anthony (she, they, boo) is a queer black girl magician working toward collective liberation through community organizing, soulful facilitation, and healing justice. Her roots run from the Third Coast of Houston, TX and the Piney Woods of Marshall, TX. Rhiana currently works as the Icarus Project webinar coordinator and facilitator, founder/consultant of Conjure Community Healing Arts, and trainer for The Isaiah Young Institute.
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Thank you to Rachel Ishikawa for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
For our first full episode back with Season 2, we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the first place, how it interplays with systems of oppression, suicide, ableism, medication, hospitalization, and more.
The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. We transform ourselves through transforming the world around us. http://www.theicarusproject.net
Agustina Vidal has been part of The Icarus Project Community since 2006, and is currently the program Director. She has a masters degree in mental health counseling, and her focus is the development of new tools and resources for both the U.S. and Latin America.
Rhiana Anthony (she, they, boo) is a queer black girl magician working toward collective liberation through community organizing, soulful facilitation, and healing justice. Her roots run from the Third Coast of Houston, TX and the Piney Woods of Marshall, TX. Rhiana currently works as the Icarus Project webinar coordinator and facilitator, founder/consultant of Conjure Community Healing Arts, and trainer for The Isaiah Young Institute.
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PRACTICE:
Next week, join Agustina and Rhiana for their practice episodes where they teach us how to make our own Mad Map - a plan to support our own mental health. Mad Maps will be offered both in English and in Spanish.
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RESOURCES:
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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla Fett
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The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Some
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Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery by bell hooks
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The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways by Wanda D. McCaslin (restorative and transformative justice)
- Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD): https://boldorganizing.org/
- Join Icarus Project online spaces and find more resources at http://www.theicarusproject.net
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Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it!
Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at www.patreon.com/healingjustice
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Thank you to Rachel Ishikawa for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Welcome to Season 2! (with Kirin Kanakkannatt & Kate Werning)
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Welcome to Season 2 of Healing Justice Podcast!
This season's theme might just be action-while-incomplete. Or change-in-motion.
Hear host Kate Werning and incoming Board member Kirin Kanakkannatt talk about all the ways we are working to grow and aren't there yet, and how we decided to come back to hang out with y'all and grow in public anyway.
You'll hear what we've been up to these past 4 months and what to expect this season; including our new amazing disability justice Access Team, a forthcoming NAME CHANGE for this project, how we're thinking about building more community with you this year, the Zapatistas' New Year party, and dilemmas of queerness & diaspora. We are so glad to keep dreaming, aligning, acting, and practicing with you!
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SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it!
Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at www.patreon.com/healingjustice
You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb
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Thank you to Sonja Hanson for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Welcome to our LIVE SHOW from Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami, Florida! We are joined by Uprooted & Rising leaders Estefanía Narváez and Miles Francisco, and the amazing local musician Inez Barlatier. We shared live music, deep personal stories, and learned about food sovereignty as a site of liberation and healing - from its parallels to survivorship, to the origins of soul food in West Africa, to what Uprooted & Rising is mobilizing around now.
We also offer creative ways that funders can support healing in justice work, share the a primer on the origins of this project and the lineage of healing justice, and give an update about season 2 (psst - it's coming soon!). For more information on series sponsorship or to propose a creative collaboration idea, email healingjusticepodcast@gmail.com
A big thank you to the lively crowd at The Funders Network Conference, and to the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation for sponsoring our presence there. An extra special thank you Michelle Knapik for your vision and coordination to bring it all together.
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Learn more about Uprooted & Rising at https://www.uprootedandrising.org, and find Inez Barlatier's new EP MOUN|MOON at http://www.inezbarlatier.com
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Download and make your own Healing Justice Zine at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pv38x2W_7k9YRgN-txHzPP0VMWZkDwtH and learn how to fold it here https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17921812159167443/
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION:
Sign up for our email list to receive occasional communication from us with resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org
Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter
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SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it!
Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice
You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb
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Thank you to Phillip Brown of Spring Up for running the Facebook livestream, Guido Girgenti for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Resilience is Ours: Voices from the Allied Media Conference
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Resilience is deeply necessary for us to survive and thrive, but it can often be imposed, distorted, or misunderstood. So we wanted to hear from our people what it means to them, and how they cultivate it for themselves.
This past June, our podcast volunteer team from all over the country took a trip to Detroit together for the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference (AMC), and hosted a workshop called Healing Justice Podcast Story Lab. We set up recording booths and asked participants to share the experiences, practices, and relationships that sustained them in their justice journey on the mics. In this episode we invite you to listen in and reflect on these many voices in their own words.
Check out our Instagram Story Highlight from AMC for visuals to accompany these stories here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17937918448104448/
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ACCESS TEAM
Join our new Access Team to help us embody our commitment to disability justice, and specifically to volunteer transcribe all of our episodes from this past season. Sign up at www.tinyurl.com/hjptranscript
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RESOURCES
You heard Myra, Parke, and Rachel refer to the following Healing Justice Podcast episodes:
-- 07 De-spa-ifying Healing & Accessibility with Third Root Community Health Center (Geleni Fontaine & Emily Kramer)
-- 22 Sustaining Ourselves when Confronting Violence with Black Lives Matter Global Network & Black Visions Collective (Miski Noor & Kandace Montgomery)
-- 03 Practice: Journaling Our Identity with Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Learn more about Allied Media Conference and their chrysalis year at https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc
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JOIN THE COMMUNITY
-- Become a sustaining member at www.patreon.com/healingjustice
-- Find us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter -- and check out our Instagram Story highlight for visuals from the workshop!
-- Learn more and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org
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THANK YOU to:
-- Rachel Ishikawa, Myra Al-Rahim, and Parke Ballantine for the creative direction and production of this episode, and your leadership at the workshop at AMC.
-- Marcia Lee, Justin Campbell, and Kate Werning for co-designing and co-facilitating the Healing Justice Podcast Story Lab workshop at AMC in June 2018.
-- Miriam Zoila Perez and JD Davids for being an essential part of the production team at the workshop.
-- Kirin Kanakkanatt, Brittany Koteles, Charlie Bruce, Nat McClellan, and Josiah Werning for your volunteer support at AMC.
-- Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for mixing and final production, Josiah Werning for graphic design, and Danny O’Brien for intro and closing music.
AND THANK YOU TO OUR GUESTS: Each of these folks and many more attended our Story Lab workshop at AMC and generously shared their brilliance with us. The voices you heard include Chimaera Bailey, Hadassah Damien, Jekaren Olaoya, Symone Johnson, Nada Beydoun, Isis Rose, Rajelin Escondo, Vern Plotkin, Lydia Nylander, Sarahlyn Pablo, Unny Nambudiripad, Frankie Mastrangelo, Chaz Barracks, and Carlin Christy.
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
New Years Practice: Cast a Spell with adrienne maree brown
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Welcome to a very special New Years practice with adrienne maree brown, where she'll guide you through writing and casting a spell for yourself and your community to help transition us from 2018 to 2019. You'll need 30-90 minutes, a clear space, something to write on, and something to write with.
** If it helps you to have the prompts adrienne uses visually, scroll all the way to the bottom of these show notes for a list of the key questions for this practice. **
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THE REMIX
This practice was originally posted last year, so some of you have already done this with us! If you have your spell from last year, we give instructions in the first 10 minutes about how to release and transform it so you are ready to create a new one. (Thank you to Mya Spalter, author of Enchantments, for her recommendations.) If you want to skip right now to where the 2018-19 instructions begin, jump to about 17 minutes in.
You'll also hear us release our COLLECTIVE SPELL FOR 2018 that our community wrote together at this time last year! Follow along to see words and images from our community (it's so awesome) at http://www.healingjustice.org/spell
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SHARE YOUR SPELL!
We'd love to hear from you about the spell you've written to transition into the new year. Share a selfie, the full text, one line, or your reflections on what it was like to do this practice on social media with us - let's see what our community is conjuring for 2019! Find us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter.
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MEET OUR GUEST:
adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, healer/doula, and pleasure activist living in Detroit, and co-host of the podcast How to Survive the End of the World.
KEEP LEARNING WITH ADRIENNE:
How to Survive the End of the World podcast
Read - Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
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WILL YOU HELP US CONTINUE IN 2019?
So many people need this support to help sustain their liberatory work, and these practices and this wisdom are not ours to sell. We have radical faith that we can sustain this project on a gift economy, with the generosity of our community as our fuel.
Please give what you can to our Facebook fundraiser here before midnight on 12/31: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpgive
OR donate via the links on our website: http://www.healingjustice.org
Learn more and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org
THANK YOU!
This podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM
All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning
Intro and closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien
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REFERENCE NOTES FOR THE PRACTICE:
Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
Welcome to our first-ever LIVE SHOW, coming at you from our first birthday party! We are joined by Kate Werning, Jillian White, Sumitra Rajkumar (of episode 12), Alexis Francisco (of episode 33), The Peace Poets (of episode 23) with Dr. Drum, and 150 of our celebrating friends in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
We enjoyed powerful music with The Peace Poets and Dr. Drum, talked about how healing is moving for us in our organizing work, and celebrated the amazing things this broader community has moved in the world this past year.
We also talked about our dreams to continue this powerful project, including Jillian joining the team as our Producer, and bringing in movement partners as regular correspondents to share the voice and content curation on the show.
We need a lot of help to make that sustainable and possible. Can you help us get there?
Donate to help us make it to season 2 on our Facebook fundraiser here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpgive
Check out the gorgeous livestream on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/healingjusticepodcast
And photos from the night on our Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/healingjustice
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Thank you to to the teams who made this party possible!
Our planning & hosting team: Kirin Kanakkanatt, Parke Ballantine, Nadia Tykulsker, and JD Davids.
Our amazing volunteers: Michelle Ling, Sophie Lasoff, Christina Shiroma, Sophia Holly, Thais Marques, Tom Corcoran, Josiah Werning, Krissan Pattugalan, Jana Lynne Umipig, Adrienne Haddaway, Joey Dosik, Danielle Pomorski, Melanie Berkowitz, and Tasha Amezcua.
Our sound team: Anne Pope and Myra Al-Rahim for your work live at the show, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for mastering the episode.
Our brilliant guests: Sumitra Rajkumar, Alexis Francisco, the Peace Poets (RAM 3, Frankie 4, Lu Aya, The Last Emcee), and Dr. Drum.
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And a BIG thank you to our sponsors of the party: Third Wave Fund, Pierce Delahunt, Beth Jacobs, Maura Bailey, and Hallie Boas.
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Join our email list & stay in touch at http://www.healingjustice.org
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
You're invited to our Birthday Party!
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
You're invited to our first birthday party & live show!
More info and tickets here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjparty
Sliding scale tickets and sponsorships available.
Did we mention there will be cake?
If you can't be in Brooklyn on December 11th, join us via livestream on our Instagram (@healingjustice) or Facebook page (Healing Justice Podcast).
Thank you to Kirin Kanakkanatt, Jillian White, Kate Werning, and Zach Meyer for creating this episode.
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
We made it through to November 7th! Come get through your midterm election adrenaline/terror hangover with us. The world is drowning in spin and hot-takes, so we're holding a different kind of vulnerable, real-talk space to process the results and work to understand what comes next for our movements as we take stock of both our wins and our losses.
Let's hear about how fun Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory party was *and* recommit ourselves to the long-game work of building a multiracial populist movement for liberation.
We're joined today by Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell, longtime organizer Barbara Dudley, and Alexandra Rojas of Justice Democrats.
With the whirlwind of the 2018 US midterm elections, Healing Justice Podcast brought you the SURVIVING ELECTIONS miniseries to help us all survive this political cycle together. Learn more & check out the complete series at www.healingjustice.org/elections
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COME PARTY WITH US!
Healing Justice Podcast is turning 1 year old! We’re having a birthday party & hosting our first *live show* on December 11, 2018 in Brooklyn, NY... and you're invited: https://tinyurl.com/hjparty
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This miniseries is sponsored by Groundswell Action Fund, resourcing visionary political organizing led by women of color, low-income women and transgender people across the country. This week, we're joined by Managing Director, Charlene Sinclair. Pitch in to support Groundswell's critical work here: bit.ly/groundswellaction
Partner with us: If your foundation or organization is interested in a partnership sponsorship for season 2 of the podcast to celebrate your work and spread your message like Groundswell has so wonderfully done here, reach out to kate.werning@gmail.com
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MEET OUR GUESTS:
Maurice Mitchell is the National Director for Working Families Party (WFP) and has over two decades of experience in political and community organizing. Before joining WFP he co-founded Blackbird, a movement-building organization that offers communications services and has worked closely with Black Lives Matter Global Network.
Barbara Dudley has been a movement activist for 50+ years, but only in the last ten has she engaged in electoral politics, via the Working Families Party. She was a lawyer for GI’s resisting the war in Vietnam, for tenant unions, and for unionizing farmworkers, she went on to serve as Director of the National Lawyers Guild during the Reagan years, then Director of Greenpeace US, and then Director of Strategic Campaigns for the national AFL-CIO during the Clinton years.
Alexandra Rojas is the Executive Director at Justice Democrats (JD), an organization founded by former staff of the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign in order to transform the Democratic Party into a party that works for its voters, not just its corporate donors.
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SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it!
This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice
You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb
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THANK YOU:
Mixing and production by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM & Katie McCutcheon
Music by Danny O’Brien & Zach Meyer
Production support from Parke Ballantine, Jillian White, & Guido Gigenti
Visuals by Josiah Werning
Maurice Mitchell photo by Rafael Shimunov
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Inside the Candidate Experience with Stacey Abrams, Ashlee Marie Preston, & Nelini Stamp
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Welcome to our CANDIDATES TELL ALL episode, powered by Black women! Running for office is an incredibly strenuous experience. Why do candidates do it, and how do they keep themselves grounded along the way?
Esteemed guests join us today to dish about candidacy and all that it entails: Stacey Abrams (Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia) tells us how she stays energized on the campaign trail and what her favorite TV shows are, Ashlee Marie Preston (the first transgender candidate to run for state office in California) tells us about what she learned when taking on the establishment from the inside, and Nelini Stamp (Working Families Party National Organizing Director) shares about how she takes care of herself and what it takes to select and support great candidates nationwide.
With the 2018 US midterm elections upon us, Healing Justice Podcast brings you the SURVIVING ELECTIONS miniseries to help us all survive this political cycle together. Learn more & check out the upcoming episode list at www.healingjustice.org/elections
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If you have the right to vote in the United States, PLEASE VOTE on November 6th! This is not a time where we can afford to be ideological purists -- voting is a necessary harm reduction strategy. Find out everything you need to know to vote in your area at http://www.vote.org
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This miniseries is sponsored by Groundswell Action Fund, resourcing visionary political organizing led by women of color, low-income women and transgender people across the country. This week, we're joined by two of their grantees: Co-Founders Tequila Johnson and Charlane Oliver of The Equity Alliance Fund in Tennessee. Pitch in to support Groundswell's critical work here: bit.ly/groundswellaction
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MEET OUR GUESTS:
Nelini Stamp is the National Organizing Director at the Working Families Party. She works with volunteer leaders across the country to build local progressive infrastructure, and is deeply involved in social movement work around economic and racial justice.
Ashlee Marie Preston is a Civil Rights Activist, Media Personality, Producer, Writer, and Speaker. She was a candidate for California State Assembly District 54 in 2018; making her the first openly trans person to run for California State Legislature.
Stacey Abrams is Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia and former House Democratic Leader. She founded the New Georgia Project, which submitted more than 200,000 registrations from voters of color between 2014 and 2016.
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION:
Sign up for our email list to receive new episodes and election survival tips right to your inbox. (Come on, don't you want to receive at least one email this month that isn't asking you to chip in $3 before the reporting deadline at midnight?!) Sign up here: www.healingjustice.org/elections
Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter
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SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it!
This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice
You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb
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THANK YOU:
Mixing and production by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM & Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Danny O’Brien & Zach Meyer
Production support from Guido Girgenti & Parke Ballantine
Visuals by Josiah Werning