Homebound: Eco-Justice in the Age of Disasters with JACQUI PATTERSON /175

Today we are re-listening to our conversation with Jacqui Patterson on Eco-Justice in the Age of the Anthropocene, originally aired in 2017.  We’re bringing this episode back from the archives because over the past couple of weeks, we have seen far too many narratives of disposability when it comes to the communities who are already impacted the most when it comes to environmental, social, and economic injustice (rural, disabled, BIPOC, undocumented, incarcerated, LGBTQIA2S+, etc.). Jacqui reminds us that we must strategically address the needs of our communities; when we work to uplift those at the bottom - we all rise. In light of this conversation with Jacqui we are asking ourselves: Why is it that so many of us are so willing to sacrifice others? Where did we first learn disposability? How can people of all positionalities take back power in times of emergency? Music by Althea and Donna and Sister O.M. Terrell