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The Response
by Shareable
A journey through a diverse collection of remarkable communities and movements figuring out how to build power, solidarity, and connection in a world beset by disasters — both natural and human-caused. From hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more, The Response's audio documentaries and interviews highlight some of the most inspiring stories of response and pave a path towards the better world we know is possible.
Episodes
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Meeting mass migration with 'Welcome Tables' (not walls) with Josh Fox
The world as we knew it is no more. It sounds dark, trite, and reductive, but there's a truth in there that can't be denied. All signs point to the global climate changing faster than most scientists predicted. In the news, we see stories about extreme heat waves causing tens of thousands of...
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Compassion in crisis with Kailea Loften and Kate Weiner
How do we live in an age of disaster? That's the provocation put forth in the new book "Compassion in Crisis." With engaging prompts, concise checklists, and heartfelt guidance, co-authors Kailea Loften and Kate Weiner lead readers in building and sustaining durable mutual aid networks for rapid...
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'Re-storying disaster': Regenerative responses to crisis with Bob Stilger and Nicole LaJeunesse
For 25 years, NewStories has been supporting communities that have faced the unimaginable, total loss from disaster—those who don't want to rebuild the old normal, but are ready to co-create something that affirms life, reciprocity, and interdependence. They call this approach, Re-Storying...
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'Flock off!' Fighting mass surveillance with Aaron Fernando and Chad Marlow
On March 4, 2026, the Ithaca Common Council in Ithaca, New York, U.S., voted to non-renew its contract with Flock Safety. Flock, among other things, is a vendor of fixed-location automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems. You may have seen them pop up in your city or county in the past couple...
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Mutual Aid 101: Navigating conflict when building power with Dean Spade
On November 20, 2025, we hosted activist, organizer, and writer Dean Spade to lead a Mutual Aid 101 session about navigating conflict. So many of our mutual aid groups and solidarity economy projects are dealing with burnout, conflict, and the pressure of doing real care work with limited…
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Sexual health emergency preparedness with Kelley Dennings and Kyliah Hughes
When floods, fires, freezes, or other extreme weather rip through our communities, the fallout goes far beyond damaged homes and downed power lines. As we've established on The Response Podcast, the climate crisis touches everyone—especially women and gender-diverse people—yet sexual and...
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Tool libraries, mutual aid, and community-led disaster response with Rachel Kinbar, Shelby Treichler, and Ben Wyatt
On October 21, 2025 Shareable and the Tool Library Alliance hosted a crossover event of the Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series and Library of Things Co-Lab for "Tool Libraries, Mutual Aid & Community-Led Disaster Response." A panel of practitioners from tool libraries and mutual aid groups discussed...
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Artists against fascism: People power and resistance with Jordan Seaberry
In this episode of The Response, we hear from Jordan Seaberry, co-director of the US Dept of Arts and Culture (USDAC). In addition to being a working artist and a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, he has built a career as a grassroots organizer and legislative advocate, helping to...
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Organizing in the Extinction Era with Daisy Carter and Aracely Jimenez-Hudis of Survival Bloc
The Response is back after a two-month hiatus. For today's show, we resumed our interview format and welcomed two of the seven co-founders of Survival Bloc, Daisy Carter and Aracely Jimenez-Hudis. Survival Bloc is a BIPOC-led network of leaders, movement organizations, and grassroots groups...
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Mutual Aid in Action with Sanae Lahgazi Alaoui, Alexa Baiano, Rain, Valinda Chan, Laurie Bertram Roberts, and Vicky Osterweil
We're back with the fifth installment in our Mutual Aid 101 mini-series. This episode is going to be a little different from what we've shared before. Rather than extended presentations, you'll hear six 5-10 minute "Rad Talks" covering examples of mutual aid in action. We welcomed Sanae Lahgazi...
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Surveillance, cybersecurity, and financial tech for mutual aid with Elijah Baucom and Sarah Philips
Today, we're sharing excerpts from Shareable's Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series' third session. Elijah Baucom of Everyday Security & UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic discusses security for mutual aid groups before Sarah Philips of Fight for the Future shares the current state of mutual aid…
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Group decision making, conflict management, and power dynamics with Julian Rose
We're back with the third installment in our Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series. Today, we're sharing the audio from the second half of Mutual Aid 101 Session 2, featuring Julian Rose from the New Economy Coalition and EndState ATL. Julian will start with a 25-minute presentation about power dynamics...
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Building (and rebuilding) mutual aid groups with Stephanie Rearick
We're back with the second installment in our Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series. Today, we're sharing the audio from the half of Session 2, and will be joined by Stephanie Rearick, to discuss how to start and build momentum for a new, or (re)newed mutual aid group. She's a longtime organizer and...
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Mutual aid for survival and resistance with Dean Spade
Last week, we were blown away by the 2,200 people who registered for our new Mutual Aid 101 Series. We were fortunate to have Dean Spade, organizer, teacher, and the author of "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)" and "Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build...
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Voices of The Response: Live at the Oregon Country Fair 2024
Nearly 20 years ago, The Response host Tom Llewellyn was fortunate to experience Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History of the United States live at the Berkeley Community Theater. In 2018, after we finished our first set of audio documentaries for The Response, it was…
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Indigenous disaster response: The fight against a mining giant in Brazil with Allen Myers
In this episode of The Response, we explore a devastating and ongoing story of environmental disaster, Indigenous resistance, and corporate exploitation in Brazil. This powerful installment brings listeners face-to-face with the catastrophic failures of Vale, a multinational mining corporation…
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Resisting gentrification and displacement with Andrew Lee
On this episode of The Response, we're joined by author and organizer Andrew Lee. In his book Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War, Andrew writes about how gentrification is often seen as inevitable or automatic and an "economic, social plan." In that sense, the resulting...
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Covering Palestine: The impact on journalists on the frontlines and abroad with Arvind Dilawar
On this episode of The Response, we're joined by Arvind Dilawar, an independent journalist who has recently written a piece for Shareable about the union supplying Palestinian journalists with safety gear amid the ongoing Israeli genocide. His articles, interviews, and essays on everything from…
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Surveillance and reproductive justice with Rafa Kidvai
On this episode of The Response, we get to the heart of reproductive justice with Rafa Kidvai, the director of the Repro Legal Defense Fund at If/When/How. The RLDF champions the rights and freedoms of people criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes, offers bail support, and stands as a bastion...
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Facing the Heat: Disaster Management in the Age of the Climate Crisis with Samantha Montano
For our first episode of 2024, we interviewed noted disasterologist and previous guest, Dr. Samantha Montano. We discuss the impact of climate change on disasters and the need for better disaster management and planning. We also explore the difference between emergencies, disasters, and...
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SolidarityWorks with Gabbie Barnes, Ida Aronson, and Rachel Kinbar
For our final episode of The Response this year, we interviewed three mutual aid organizers from Orlando, FL, Hartford, CT, and Bvlbancha (aka New Orleans, LA). Gabbie Barnes is the founder of FREE HART Closet, a worker-owner at the People's Saturday School, a mutual aid organizer, and a Library…
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Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats, and Edget Betru
On this week's show, we'll be turning our focus towards the Solidarity Economy and what is meant by 'Resist & Build'. Joining us for this conversation is Emily Kawano, Co-Director of the Wellspring Cooperative Corporation and Coordinator of the United States Solidarity Economy Network, Matthew...
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Direct Action for Palestine with Mohamed Shehk
On today's show we brought on Mohamed Shehk, Campaigns Director for Critical Resistance and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center here in the Bay Area. In this conversation we talk about some of the recent actions taking place to support the struggle for Palestinian liberation,...
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[BONUS CROSS-POST] The Fire These Times: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine
Today, we're cross posting "A Roundtable on Palestine-Israel" from our friends at The Fire These Times podcast as a bonus episode for listeners of The Response. The Fire These Times Co-hosts, Joey Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik are joined by Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach to think through...
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Mutual Aid Networks with Stephanie Rearick
After a statement about the war in Palestine, we're in conversation with Stephanie Rearick, a founder, and Director of the Madison Mutual Aid Network Cooperative and Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, or HUMANS for short, which is a new type of networked cooperative 'creating means for…
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The United Auto Workers Strike with Teddy Ostrow
Summer might be over for us in the Northern Hemisphere — but things are still heating up in the US labor movement. A ground-swell of labor action continues to heave and crack the crust which had been slowly hardening on the surface of the radical fires dormant under neoliberalism. The latest news...
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From Relief to Resilience with Will Heegaard
Anyone who's been in a disaster and experienced the initial government or major nonprofit response may have noticed that there's a lot of waste involved. From the thousands of single-use water bottles and throw-away medical supplies to the constant churning of diesel and gas-powered generators,...
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Disaster Dispatch: The Maui Wildfires with Nicole Huguenin
On today's show we're continuing our ongoing Disaster Dispatch series with a deep dive into the Maui wildfires. Earlier this month a series of wind-driven wildfires in Hawaii, predominantly in Maui, led to widespread devastation and destruction, killing at least 115 people and leaving 850 others...
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Labor Battles and the Beer Industry with Pedro Mancilla
This summer has truly turned out to be a hot labor summer, with a number of high-profile labor actions stretching across industries and across the country, from the streets of Hollywood to the shop floors at UPS — things are heating up. With that said, there is a story that hasn't hit headlines…
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[RE-RELEASE] Documentary #9: Heatwaves and energy poverty in the Mediterranean
All across the globe, temperatures are rising, and thanks to the most recent report published by the International Panel on Climate Change and recent U.N. projections, we know that even if we do make sweeping cuts to emissions, we're still on course for a catastrophic temperature rise of 2.7...
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Decolonial Marxism with Sungmanitu Bluebird
On our last show, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about Land Back with David Cobb — specifically, we discussed moving the idea of land back from a metaphor to a reality, by focusing on a specific case in northern California where the city of Eureka actually gave 200 acres of land back to its...
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Land Back with David Cobb
The idea of Land Back — a growing movement to return occupied land to the Indigenous people that it rightfully belongs to, often exists as a metaphor for us. It can feel like the discussion around land theft and genocide by settler-colonists in the United States is often limited to land...
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Unions, Strikes, and the Labor Movement with Alex Press
Today on the show we've brought on Alex Press, a staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, to explore labor power — specifically, looking at how the strengthening of the labor movement through unions, strikes, and other workplace actions, are serving as a response to not only the harms inflicted by...
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People Power Battery Collective with Kansas, Crystal, and Yasir
Last week, the skies over much of the east coast of the United States were orange, red, and almost entirely blacked out in some regions. Smoke from wildfires raging up north in Canada blew down to engulf many major U.S. cities in an apocalyptic glow that left New York City with the worst air...
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Trans Liberation with Lee Shevek
Today on the show we've brought on Lee Shevek, an anarchist, writer, and domestic violence researcher. Pride Month is just around the corner and we thought it would be a good time to take a deep dive into the reactionary politics side of this show — namely, the attacks from the right wing and…
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Anarchism with Daniel Baryon
Today on the show we've brought on Daniel Baryon, an anarchist and organizer who runs the Youtube channel Anark. When we talk about horizontal power structures, for example in the context of grassroots mutual aid response, we're talking about a concept situated within a very specific theoretical...
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Building the New in the Shell of the Old with Joey Ayoub
On this episode of The Response we've brought on Joey Ayoub, a Geneva-based writer, researcher, activist, and host of The Fire These Times podcast, which asks the questions: How do we build the new in the shell of the old? How do we tackle global warming and its associated crises? How do we build...
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The Assault on Medicinal Abortion with Breya Johnson
Today on the show we've brought on Breya Johnson, an abortion doula, reproductive justice organizer, writer, curator, and the Deputy Director of Organizing at Girls for Gender Equity. Since the Dobbs decision was passed last year, we've continued to see the right wing's assault on legal abortion...
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The French Uprising with Konstantin
Today on the show we've brought on Konstantin — a Parisian garbage collector and union militant. For the past two months, France has been in a state of agitation. A growing movement of workers has been engaged in protests and strikes which erupted in Paris and other cities in response to…
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All Power to the People with Jesse Barnett
Today on the show we've brought on Jesse Barnett, a musician and a co-founder of All Power Books in L.A. All Power Books is more than a bookstore: it's a volunteer-run community space that offers a wide range of programs, from a free store with food, cleaning supplies, and menstrual products; to…
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[RE-RELEASE] Abortion Access & Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape
In this documentary episode, we take a deep dive into how communities are responding to the growing abortion access crisis in the United States, sharing the stories of those impacted and highlighting a number of radical grassroots, mutual aid, and solidaristic efforts aimed at helping people…
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Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams: Saket Soni in Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Today on the show — a special presentation of a live conversation between Saket Soni and Rebecca Solnit on Saket Soni's new book, The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. The Great Escape is the harrowing story of how 500 disaster relief workers from India...
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The Disastrous Response in East Palestine, Ohio with Prem Thakker
Today on the show, we've brought on Prem Thakker, a journalist with The New Republic who has been reporting on East Palestine, Ohio. Prem's recent piece is titled: "Life After the Ohio Train Derailment: Trouble Breathing, Dying Animals, and Saying Goodbye." In this episode, we'll bring you up to...
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Disaster Dispatch: Bomb Trains & Death Plumes with Rebecca Burns
Today on the show we've brought on Rebecca Burns, co-author of the recent piece in The Lever, Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment. On February 3rd, 150-car train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. The train was carrying several cars of vinyl chloride, an extremely hazardous...
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Surviving the Collapse, Agroecology, and Mutual Aid with Andy C. of Poor Prole's Almanac
Today on the show we've brought on Andy C. from Poor Prole's Almanac to talk about a wide range of fascinating topics — from agroecology and sound ecological practices regarding the growing of food and the stewardship of land, to native seed bombing and other forms of mutual aid and disaster...
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Stop Cop City with Jesse Pratt López & Nolan Huber-Rhoades
For the past couple of years, the City of Atlanta, George, has been pushing forward a project nicknamed "Cop City" — a tactical training compound featuring a mock city which has been referred to as a kind of war base where police will learn military-style maneuvers. The 90 million dollar compound...
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Mutual Aid and Police Accountability with Tha Hood Squad
From a chicken coop providing omelet breakfasts to underserved communities, to a network of farms stretching from Oakland to East Palo Alto, to a night watch program aimed at keeping the police accountable and protecting marginalized communities from police violence, to providing grassroots...
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Survival of the Richest with Douglas Rushkoff
Today on the show, we've brought on Douglas Rushkoff to talk about his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Douglas is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at Queens/CUNY and a research fellow at the Institute for the Future. Named one of the...
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[RE-RELEASE] Documentary #1: A Radical Approach to Disaster Relief
How do we respond to natural disasters? What comes to mind? Large relief organizations like the American Red Cross? Or perhaps the Federal Emergency and Management Agency? Well, those images are certainly part of the story — but they're not the whole story. In our new podcast series, The…
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Common Humanity Collective with Genean
Today on the show, we've brought on Genean from Common Humanity Collective — a mutual aid organization based out of California's Bay Area. When the pandemic began in 2020, it felt like there was a huge spike in mutual aid efforts — in fact we did an entire series of episodes on many of the...
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A journey through a diverse collection of remarkable communities and movements figuring out how to build power, solidarity, and connection in a world beset by disasters — both natural and human-caused. From hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more, The Response's audio documentaries and interviews highlight some of the most inspiring stories of response and pave a path towards the better world we know is possible.
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