Episodes
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Building a World Without Police and Prisons
Emmanuel Garcia and Jeanne Kracher talk with Eisha Love and Benji Hart about the violence of the carceral system, the experience of being criminalized, and what building a healthy community free of police and prisons would look like.
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#NoCopAcademy
Our guests on this episode of Queering Left are activists Page May and Debbie Southorn. Our focus with them will be their work and organizing with young people, particularly #NoCopAcademy. The No Cop Academy campaign is a youth led effort supported by community organizations across Chicago that...
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ACT UP! Fight Back!
Our guests on this episode of Queering Left are long-time activists, Mary Patten and Jeff Edwards, both of who have many years of experience in movements for racial, social, and economic justice. Our focus with them is on their work in ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Mary Patten is…
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Legacy of Puerto Rican Resistance
On today’s episode of Queering Left we will hear from Ricardo Jimenez and Jessie Fuentes, two activists from the Puerto Rican community. To give a brief historical reminder, Puerto Rico was a territory of Spain that, in 1898, was taken by the United States during the Spanish American War. Since…
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Queer, Undocumented and Unafraid
Emmanuel Garcia and Jeanne Kracher talk with Tania Unzueta and Rey Wences about the Immigrant Youth Justice League (IYJL). IYJL was founded in 2009 by a group of undocumented students fighting against the deportation of co-founder, Rigo Padilla. Believing in the legal system, Rigo attempted to...
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Introduction
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Crossroads Fund is chronicling fearless queer-led organizing in Chicago through a podcast named “Queering Left.” Queering Left is series of interviews with organizers who have participated in transformative and visionary Chicago…
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About this show
Crossroads Fund is a public foundation supporting community organizations working on issues of racial, social and economic justice in the Chicago area.
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