The Next World
Produced by Partners for Dignity & Rights, we explore and celebrate the work of poor people's movements, particularly in the US. We highlight innovative and powerful organizing campaigns and community building led by women, LGBTQ folks, Black communities and other people of color, that are pushing the boundaries and have the potential to transform this society.Hosted by Max Rameau, a Haitian-born Pan-African theorist, campaign strategist, organizer, author and member of Pan-African Community Action.
Episodes
37 episodes
The Workers Bill of Rights With Britain Forsyth & Nadiyah Muhammad of Step Up Louisiana
Host Max Rameau is joined by two leaders of New Orleans' workers’ bill of rights campaign, which recently passed in the November elections. Britain Forsyth is an organizer with Step Up Louisiana and a member of the Louisiana Democratic State Ce...
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Season 7
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Episode 37
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37:26
Grassroots Democracy with Molly Martin & Erika L. Anthony
Host Max Rameau is joined by Erika L. Anthony, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Cleveland VOTES, and Molly Martin, a member of the Cleveland Catholic Worker and the lead organizer for the People's Budget Cleveland grassroots ballot initiati...
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Season 7
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Episode 36
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47:54
Puerto Rico & Hawai'i: Building Power with Energy Democracy With Keani Rawlins-Fernandez, Ruth Santiago, Todd Yamashita, & Niki Franco
Today on the show: a special panel discussion addressing the questions: How can communities build power in the face of colonization, natural disasters, and corporate profiteering? In Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian island of Molokai, residents hav...
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Season 7
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Episode 35
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54:56
Changing the World Through Abolition: Manju Rajendran of Durham Beyond Policing
Host Max Rameau talks with Manju Rajendran of Durham Beyond Policing. Together, they discuss the landscape of organizing in North Carolina, abolition, healing justice, and the work of building and maintaining community.Manju Rajendran i...
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Season 7
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Episode 34
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38:39
Stop Cop City! Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders
Host Max Rameau talks with Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders, Inc and Black Power Media. Together, they discuss the movement to Stop Cop City, its national relevance, and the strategy behind the movement. They also discuss creating ...
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Season 7
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Episode 33
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50:24
A World Without Police: Geo Maher, Andrew Hairston, & Tafari Melisizwe
DSC Communications Coordinator Tafari Melisizwe and Coordinating Committee Member Andrew Hairston of Texas Appleseed join organizer, writer, and radical political theorist Geo Maher for a robust conversation on policing and social justice movem...
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Season 6
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Episode 32
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1:22:14
Governing Power: Movement Strategies in the US and the Global South: With Elianne Farhat, Faduma Fido, Tarson Núñez, & Kesi Foster
Today on the show: a special panel discussion featuring leaders who are utilizing co-governance strategies in organizing. Hear from Elianne Farhat of TakeAction Minnesota, Faduma Fido of People’s Economy Lab, and Tarson Núñez, member of t...
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Season 6
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Episode 31
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1:08:08
Cooperatives Challenging Capitalism: Tamara Prosper and Tamah Yisrael of Cooperation New Orleans
Host Max Rameau talks with leaders of the Cooperation New Orleans Loan Fund: Tamah Yisrael, the Education and outreach coordinator, and Tamara Prosper, the Loan Steward. Together, they discuss unions, capitalism, and organizing for cooperative ...
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Season 6
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Episode 30
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51:41
Our Struggle is to Indigenize: Judith Le Blanc of Native Organizers Alliance
Host Max Rameau talks with Judith Le Blanc of the Native Organizers Alliance. Together, they discuss organizing in Native nations, protecting sacred spaces, lessons from Standing Rock, and celebrating victories.Judith LeBlanc <...
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Season 6
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Episode 29
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55:11
Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools: With Janice Harper, Kameisha Smith, Katie Coates & Tafari Melisizwe
On this episode, Mississippi organizers discuss their work to end state sanctioned violence in schools.We explore the statistics behind the fight to end corporal punishment in Mississippi and the other 18 states where it is still ...
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Season 6
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Episode 28
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1:01:07
Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: With Brooke Floyd, Rosie Grant, Shaw San Liu and Ben Palmquist
On this episode, leaders from Black and immigrant community organizations discuss their work and draw out lessons and challenges for communities and local governments interested in working together to advance racial and economic justice. They d...
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Season 6
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Episode 27
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1:18:32
Global Solidarity Against Fascism: Aisha Ahmed of the Palestinian Youth Movement
On this episode, we talk with Aisha Ahmed, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and the International League of People’s Struggle. Together, we look at the current resistance in Palestine, fighting against fascism, Black-Palestinian...
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Season 6
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Episode 26
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37:31
The People Must Decide! Rukia Lumumba from the People's Advocacy Institute, Jackson, Mississippi
On this episode, we talk with Rukia Lumumba from the People’s Assembly, Jackson, Mississippi. Together, we discuss the state of Mississippi’s attempts to disenfranchise Black political power, and the revolutionary organizing happening now in re...
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Season 6
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Episode 25
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48:09
Housing is a Human Right! With Sofia Lopez, Tomás Rivera, & James DeFilippis
On this episode, hear from a recent panel discussion featuring Sofia Lopez, Tomás Rivera, James DeFilippis, & Kesi Foster. Together, they discuss strategies to wrest control of housing from the real estate industry.Sofia Lopez is De...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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52:56
Food and Capitalism, with Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Raj Patel, Rafaela Rodriguez, & Kesi Foster
On this episode we present a panel discussion featuring Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Raj Patel, Rafaela Rodriguez, & Kesi Foster. Together, they discuss how what we eat connects to labor rights, health, culture, and more.Jessica Gordon ...
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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55:25
Capitalism Ruins Everything Around Me with Njera Keith and Kristina Brown of 400+1
On this episode, we talk with Njera Keith and Kristina Brown, the co-founders and Ministers of Cohesion of 400+1, a Black cooperative federation based in Texas. Together, we discuss reproductive justice, creating and holding Black space, revolu...
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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1:19:22
Hurricane Katrina, Education Justice, and Finding your Sanctuary, with Ruth Idakula of Dignity in Schools Campaign
Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, join us in exploring the legacy of Katrina and education justice. In conversation with host Max Rameau is Ruth Idakula, Program Director of Dignity in Schools Campaign.Ruth dis...
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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57:24
Art and Abolition With Bryonn Bain, Author of Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape
Join us in exploring art and abolition, with host Max Rameau and artist, professor, writer, and prison abolitionist Bryonn Bain.Bryonn talks with Max about his new book
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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1:10:58
Where Food Justice Meets Black Liberation, With Savi Horne and Fred Carter
On this episode, we discuss the intersection where food justice meets Black liberation. Joining host Max Rameau are Mama Savi Horne and Baba Fred Carter, two organizers who are also on the board of the National Black Food & Justice Alliance...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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58:24
Solidarity With Haiti! With Mamyrah Prosper of Community Movement Builders - Part Two
On this episode, part two of a two part interview, Mamyrah Prosper discusses the aftermath of the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse, as well as grassroots responses. This interview was recorded just days before the recent earthqu...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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1:07:21
What is Happening in Haiti? With Mamyrah Prosper of Community Movement Builders - Part One
On this episode, part one of a two part interview, Mamyrah Prosper discusses her personal history as the daughter of a political prisoner in Haiti through her movement activism and work as a scholar, as well as recent Haitian political history,...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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34:55
Liberating Housing: With Cole Williams of Greater New Orleans Citizen's Relief Team
Cole WIlliams of the Greater New Orleans Citizen's Relief Team talks with host Max Rameau about liberating homes owned by the city of New Orlea...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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38:56
Police Free Schools: With M. Adams of Freedom Inc in Madison, Wisconsin
M. Adams, Co-Executive Director of Freedom, Inc, talks with host Max Rameau about Black-Asian solidarity, lessons from multiracial organizing in a mostly white Midwest city, and their recent victory in remo...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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42:56
Free The Land: Sterling Johnson and Jenn Bennetch, Philadelphia Housing Action
Philadelphia Housing Action used direct ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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45:32
Community Solutions in a Time of Crisis: Webinar Conversation featuring Scot Nakagawa, Sunni Patterson, Letha Muhammad, Crystal Hayling, and Adriana Foster
This episode, adapted from a recent webinar hosted by Partners for Dignity & Rights, is an important conversation on community solutions to the interconnected crises we are facing in this political moment. Liz Sullivan-Yuknis of Partners fo...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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47:30
