Getting to the Root of it with Venus Roots

By niki franco

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Episodes: 41

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join niki franco (venus roots), a community organizer, writer, and facilitator of spaces for collective study, as she leans into conversations of radical truth-telling with artists, theorists, and organizers living in a world of rigid binaries and multiple truths. she navigates the urgency of solidarity, ancestral preservation, and dismantling systems of oppression that inform and deform our lives. @venusroots www.venusroots.com

Episode Date
The Encampments, with Kei Pritsker
Apr 15, 2025
Love in a F*cked up World, With Dean Spade
Feb 14, 2025
Seed Saving as an Antidote to Colonization, with Vivien Sansour of Palestine Heirloom Seed Library
Feb 04, 2025
The Incoming Trump Administration, with Eugene Puryear
Jan 20, 2025
Audre Lorde and June Jordan's Black Feminism and Palestine, with Marina Magloire
Aug 27, 2024
US Out of Korea, with Jamie Tyberg of Nodutdol
Jul 26, 2024
Why Is The US Calling China Imperialist Towards Africa? with Mikaela Nhondo Erskog
May 31, 2024
Why Is The US Smearing Mexico's President, with Kurt Hackbarth
May 06, 2024
Why Mass Protests Don't Equate to Revolution, with Vincent Bevins
Apr 19, 2024
The Legacy of Cuban Medical and Healthcare Solidarity, with Dr. Samira Addrey
Apr 08, 2024
Organized Labor, Unions, Strikes and Palestine, with Zaina Alsous
Feb 28, 2024
On Palestinian Resistance and Why the US Can't Win Wars, with Vijay Prashad
Jan 22, 2024
Neither Democrats nor Republicans Save Us, So Now What? With PSL Presidential Candidate, Claudia De la Cruz
Oct 29, 2023
One Year Ago, I Went on Hiatus!
Jul 19, 2023
Who Is Wellness For? With Fariha Róisín
Jul 27, 2022
Pandemic Ain't Over, with Elea Chang
Jun 09, 2022
Connection in a Digital World, with Annika Hansteen-Izora
Apr 26, 2022
Indigenous Resistance As An Antidote to Climate Crisis, with Nick Estes
Jan 07, 2022
Hands Off Cuba, with Manolo De Los Santos
Nov 15, 2021
Haiti, Cuba, and Lessons of Caribbean Resistance, with Claudia De La Cruz
Jul 12, 2021
Politicizing Journalism, with Clarissa Brooks
Jul 06, 2021
2nd Year Anniversary Special, with Mimi Zhu
Jun 11, 2021
Work Won't Love You Back, with Sarah Jaffe
Mar 27, 2021
The Role of An Artist and Cultural Worker, with Fresco Steez
Mar 08, 2021
Abolition and A New Administration, with Derecka Purnell
Feb 17, 2021
Embodying Our Abolitionist Dreams, with adrienne maree brown
Dec 28, 2020
How To Do Nothing, with Jenny Odell
Nov 27, 2020
Let's Talk Cuba, with Liz of Belly of The Beast
Nov 13, 2020
Context > Content, with Phil Agnew
Oct 26, 2020
Like a Bird, with Fariha Róisín
Sep 14, 2020
We Can't Win Unless We're Organized, with James Lopez
Aug 24, 2020
Unpacking Black Capitalism, with Francisco Perez
Jul 20, 2020
Being a Lowkey Superstar, with Kari Faux
Jul 09, 2020
Cannabis Politickin, with Mennlay Golokeh Aggrey
May 18, 2020
Mother's Day Special: Challenging Oppressive Ideas of Motherhood, with Cynthia Cervantes Gumbs
May 07, 2020
Talkin' Music Industry and Music as a Tool of Solidarity, with Doris Muñoz
May 03, 2020
Getting Real About the Art World and Social Media, with Decolonize This Place
Apr 24, 2020
Tracing Ancestral Wisdom through Food, with Kia Damon
Dec 02, 2019
Chipping Away at the Toxicity of the Fashion Industry, with Becca McCharen-Tran
Nov 12, 2019
Art and Organizing as World-Making, with Zaina Alsous
Jul 21, 2019
The Era of Radical Online Art Collectives, with Mars
Jun 05, 2019