Episode Summary “For anti-colonial movements in the past and still today, regaining access to land that you and your people were displaced from is a core part of what it means to be free.” In this final episode of the first season of Freedom Dreams, our guests take on black liberation through land ownership and...Read More

Episode Summary In our penultimate episode of the season, we’re talking about radical solutions in health care. We look at the historical example of the 1970 Lincoln Hospital Takeover in the Bronx with former Black Panther and Young Lord Cleo Silvers. Casey also goes down the history rabbit hole discussing their MA thesis. We also sit down with Fiyah...Read More

This episode focuses on one of the larger issues often brought against anti-policing movements: it’s not enough to imagine that the absence of police equates to the absence of harm. Violence and harm are real, so what can we do about them? First, the youth of Detroit Heals Detroit take us through how they found...Read More

In this week’s episode, we head with Julia Putnam over to The James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit to learn about place-based education and its relationship to community action. Many think of school as a place where you get to know yourself…but what if it was also how you got to know your...Read More

In this episode, we look at participatory budgeting: a way of democratizing government spending so that investments reflect community priorities. We learn from Shari of the emancipatory power of a democratic funding process. We talk with Angelica from the Seattle coalition who fought with groups like Decriminalize Seattle and King County Equity Now to use...Read More

In the third installment of Freedom Dreams, we interact with existing cooperative economics models and discuss the real potential for more anti-capitalist economics in our communities. Jerry Hebron of Oakland Ave Farms tells us about the history of cooperative economics in Detroit and its relationship to real estate development while Whitely Granberry talks economic equity...Read More

In this episode, we discuss the history of the Atlanta City Jail, broken taillight policing, and the power of community organizing to build new futures without jails. We interview Marilyn Winn, who organizes Women on the Rise, and Xochitl Bervera, director of the Racial Justice Action Center. These two activists and community organizers from Atlanta...Read More

In this inaugural episode, Freedom Dreams introduced you to the team behind the podcast. Meet the Freedom Dreams team! Amanda Alexander (co-host and producer) is a lawyer, writer, historian and Founding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center. She and her team work alongside community-based movements to end incarceration and build thriving and inclusive cities....Read More