Playlist: Sylvia Richardson's Portfolio
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LATIN WAVES INTERVIEWS AUTHOR/ACTIVIST MICHAEL ALBERT
From Latin Waves Media | Part of the Latin Waves Media series | 29:34
Albert on the current economic system and need to move to participatory economy
**new to the PRX but have been producing radio for over 10 yrs now**
Michael Albert is an American activist, speaker, and writer. He is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles.
Micheal speaks about the structures of society that continually enhance the few at the benefits of the many. And what we need to do to make the changes we need
Latin Waves Interviews Indigenous Bolivian leader Marcelo Saavedra
From Latin Waves Media | Part of the Latin Waves Media series | 27:33
Marcelo on the notion of rights/role of languages and women in paradigm shift thats happening
**Please note this is my first piece on the prx although I have been syndicating my work for 10 yrs.**
A professor at Carleton University, Marcelo Saavedra is an Indigenous Bolivian leader and founder of the Bolivia Action Solidarity Network.He speaks to Latin Waves about the need to protect indigenous languages as these languages change how we view the world. He challenges the western notion of rights and how the paradigm shift that’s taking place must have women front and center.”If we can harness that wisdom that is embedded in our ancestral cultures, we can get rid of capitalism, patriarchy , Globalization and colonialism. And Women are a central central piece in this puzzle”
Interview with Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson
From Latin Waves Media | Part of the Latin Waves Media series | 28:39
Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally syndicated radio program Latin Waves and serves as the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)’s Vice President from the North America region. She is interviewed on his book Fleshmapping
Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally syndicated radio program Latin Waves and serves as the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)’s Vice President from the North America region. She is interviewed on his book Fleshmapping
A Brief Book synopsis
What can be learned from a story woven out of fragmented moments of joy, pain, horror, and blissful awareness? Flesh Mapping is an attempt to create a pedagogy of shared narrative, place, and politics; to narratively map the injuries of the material, emotional, and spiritual impact of poverty, displacement, hunger and war on an individual life. The book is an invitation to instructors in education, anthropology, women’s studies, and labor studies to re-imagine education as the praxis for liberation, renewal, and hope. It serves as a process of naming the injuries inflicted on real bodies by privilege and power, like sites on a map. The goal is not simply to name and make visible privilege but to simultaneously create emergent spaces of dissonance in education that can challenge and transform power at the site where the personal is political