When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
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Voices from the Grassroots is a series of interviews seeking to amplify the voices of people changing our society from the bottom-up. I am always seeking to interview interesting people working to transform our social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. If you would like to be interviewed, or would like to recommend someone be interviewed, please send me an email at voicesfromthegrassroots@gmail.com. I do my best to adhere to basic journalistic ethics. If you have any comments or que ...
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Episode 8: Chris Smalls On Amazon and The Essential Workers' Movement
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18:32Former Amazon warehouse worker Christian Smalls discusses the walkout he led over health and safety concerns and his subsequent firing. We also discuss his new project called The Congress of Essential Workers.저자 Voices from the Grassroots
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Episode 7: "Neo-Fascism" and the Rise of Trump (Part 1)
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Here is an interview I did with Plaedo at the end of 2018. Plaedo and I I speak about a range of topics from his youth initiative, direct democracy, and Avant-Gardeners.저자 Voices from the Grassroots
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Episode 5: On the Nuts and Bolts of Electoral Democracy
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53:54This episode I sit down with Tracy Howard to discuss a variety of issues surrounding the elections process. Tracy is the General Registrar of Voters in Radford, VA.Our discussion ranges from voter suppression to how underfunded elections departments are. Issues surrounding racial discrimination and voting are not thoroughly discussed in this episod…
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Episode 4: Our Children's Trust and "The Trial of the Century"
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27:30This episode I interview Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Council of Our Children's Trust. Our Children's Trust is the environmental organization suing the federal government to address climate change.저자 Voices from the Grassroots
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