Best Tom Llewellyn Podcasts (2025)

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From City to Sink: Urban Carbon Removal as Promise and Practice with Duncan McLaren 57:03

1d ago57:03

57:03

Climate policy increasingly relies on techniques to remove CO2 from the environment as a supplement to cutting emissions: counter-balancing residual emissions in ‘net-zero’ and reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to safer levels. In this talk, Duncan will survey how cities are engaging with carbon removal – reviewing the realistic scope of p…

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Building (and rebuilding) mutual aid groups with Stephanie Rearick 38:13

8d ago38:13

38:13

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 advocate for cooperative economies, and the founder of t…

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Mutual aid for survival and resistance with Dean Spade 1:18:16

17d ago1:18:16

1:18:16

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 Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together” lead the fi…

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Solidarity Cities: Examining Solidarity Economies at the Urban Level with Maliha Safri 55:55

27d ago55:55

55:55

Contemporary urban discourse is caught in a binary between the Gentrified City, and the Disinvested City. Maliha Safri’s new book presents an alternative urban imaginary: the Solidarity City. Her new co-authored book Solidarity Cities. Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation introduces an alternative spatial imaginary highlighting sol…

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Environmental Justice, Political-Economic Inequalities, and Pathways to Justice with Prakash Kashwan 54:51

1M ago54:51

54:51

Most researchers of environmental and climate justice agree that political and economic inequalities hurt the environment, racial minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and other marginalized communities. Yet, these conclusions are based, almost exclusively, on analyses of the distribution of "environmental bads" (e.g., industrial pollution and toxic wast…

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Mutual Aid Lessons from East Boston 1:17:46

2M ago1:17:46

1:17:46

This is a special bonus episode of the Cities@Tufts podcast! Last fall, Tufts University Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning, Penn Loh, hosted a discussion following the release of a new report, Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure in East Boston through Community Car…

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Voices of The Response: Live at the Oregon Country Fair 2024 44:17

2M ago44:17

44:17

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 clear that the personal stories shared with us by those o…

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Decolonizing Climate and Energy Policy with Noel Healy 54:11

3M ago54:11

54:11

Addressing the climate crisis requires more than incremental reforms; it necessitates a transformative approach that dismantles deep-seated inequalities and confronts the historical injustices embedded in global structures. Achieving global climate justice hinges on decolonizing fossil fuel politics and dismantling obstructionist forces at both nat…

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Mobilizing Food Vending with Ginette Wessel 55:32

3M ago55:32

55:32

Throughout US history, street food vending has rarely been considered an improvement to modern society or its capitalist economy. However, beginning in 2008, a new generation of mobile vendors serving high-quality, inventive foods became popular among affluent populations. Ginette Wessel’s new book, Mobilizing Food Vending: Gourmet Food Trucks in t…

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Indigenous disaster response: The fight against a mining giant in Brazil with Allen Myers 35:38

4M ago35:38

35:38

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, and the resilient efforts of the Kamakã Mongoió people…

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Reimagining Urban Planning with Jose Richard Aviles 54:46

4M ago54:46

54:46

Reimagining Urban Planning is a talk based on the monthly webinar series of the same name hosted by the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. This talk openly critiques the ways in which Urban Planners have been trained and the impacts it has had in the ways Planners approach the Land, and the People that inhabit the land. This talk will…

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Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies with Charisma Acey 50:55

4M ago50:55

50:55

Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies from Coastal Nigeria to the American South explores how marginalized communities in coastal Nigeria and the American South draw upon historical practices of marronage to create autonomous spaces and combat environmental degradation within cities. Marronage refers to the practices of enslaved…

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Resisting gentrification and displacement with Andrew Lee 42:40

4M ago42:40

42:40

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 displacement of people from their homes and communities i…

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Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures with Karilyn Crockett 53:11

5M ago53:11

53:11

Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures with Karilyn Crockett explores a Boston-based project that gamifies collective memory-driven social research and local knowledge sharing to anchor the intergenerational creation of future urban plans. Hacking the Archive (HTA) is a coalition of two dozen civic, faith-based and archival inst…

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Urban Mobility for Human Autonomy with Peter Norton 54:07

5M ago54:07

54:07

Measured by distance and speed, today North Americans move more than ever. Movement, however, is but a means to an end; more movement is not in itself beneficial. Movement is a cost of meeting daily needs, and provided these needs are met, less movement is generally advantageous. Nevertheless, since the 1930s traffic engineers have pursued movement…

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Social Cooperative Academy: Why social coops offer potential transformation of care and more 58:51

9M ago58:51

58:51

Cities@Tufts is still on our summer break, but we have a special offering for you this month. For the past eight weeks, Shareable has co-hosted the Social Cooperative Academy with the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center and several other partners. Social cooperatives remain relatively obscure in the United States, despite thriving in various c…

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Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility with Professor Esther Charlesworth 1:02:41

10M ago1:02:41

1:02:41

Professor Esther Charlesworth’s talk for the Boston Salon on May 1, 2024 focused on her nomadic design journey across the last three decades. In trying to move from just theorizing about disaster architecture to designing and delivering projects for at-risk communities globally, Esther started both Architects Without Frontiers (Australia) and ASF (…

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Covering Palestine: The impact on journalists on the frontlines and abroad with Arvind Dilawar 34:37

10M ago34:37

34:37

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 the spacesuits of the future to love in the time of vi…

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Consuming the Creative City: Gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy with Eden Kinkaid 49:08

11M ago49:08

49:08

Scholars have recently coined the term “gastrodevelopment” to refer to the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. Drawing on a case study of Tucson, Arizona – the United States’ first UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy – Kinkaid uses the lens of gastrodevelopment to examine how food culture is transformed int…

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Surveillance and reproductive justice with Rafa Kidvai 37:15

11M ago37:15

37:15

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 for strong defenses in the face of criminalization, s…

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How Local Governments Can Work with Grassroots Initiatives for Sustainability Transitions 48:37

11M ago48:37

48:37

In cities across the world grassroots initiatives organize alternative forms of provisioning, e.g. food sharing networks, energy cooperatives and repair cafés. Some of these are recognized by local governments as engines in sustainability transitions. In this talk, I will discuss different ways that local governments interact with, and use, such gr…

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Reciprocal Relations: The Coevolution Between Planning and Constitutional Rights: The Case of London with Orwa Switat 54:33

12M ago54:33

54:33

Minorities in cities worldwide confront disparities, advocating for rights within a dynamic interplay of urban planning and constitutional legal frameworks. How does the coevolution between planning and legal frameworks shape the status of minorities? This lecture will dissect the coevolution of British constitutional rights and the status of minor…

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Advancing Urban Planning with the Community Capital Compass with Mark Roseland 52:45

1y ago52:45

52:45

Contemporary planning approaches often fall short in addressing the cascading environmental, economic, and social issues planners and their communities face. Planners need comprehensive, forward-thinking approaches that prioritize sustainability, equity, and inclusivity. Mark Roseland’s new book, Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citize…

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How to Fight a Mega-Jail with Maya Singhal 51:24

1y ago51:24

51:24

In 2017, New York City committed to a plan to close Rikers Island Jail Complex and build four smaller jails around the city in Manhattan’s Chinatown, Downtown Brooklyn, Mott Haven in the Bronx, and Kew Gardens in Queens. The Chinatown jail is planned to be built on the site of the current jail in the neighborhood, but rather than repurposing or rem…

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Facing the Heat: Disaster Management in the Age of the Climate Crisis with Samantha Montano 33:19

1y ago33:19

33:19

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 catastrophes. And highlight the importance of community involv…

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Here There Be Dragons: Urban Research Methods with Jess Myers 53:32

1y ago53:32

53:32

In this Cities@Tufts episode, Myers discusses her eight years working on the research, design, and production of the urbanism podcast Here There Be Dragons. HTBD starts with residents first and seeks to forefront methods from the social sciences as crucial techniques in the analysis of the built environment. The podcast covers one city per season. …

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Co-Design in Global Development Data Initiatives with Dana R. Thomson 58:32

1y ago58:32

58:32

What is co-design, and what does it look like in global initiatives that produce data about development indicators? Projects that strive for inclusivity might hold well-designed multi-stakeholder engagement workshops throughout a project but still see limited local uptake of their data in the end. Why are multi-stakeholder workshops usually not eno…

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SolidarityWorks with Gabbie Barnes, Ida Aronson, and Rachel Kinbar 56:19

1y ago56:19

56:19

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 of Things Fellow. Rachel Kinbar is an organizer with …

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From Drug and Alcohol Addiction to a Blessed Life with Greg Goad 1:10:08

1+ y ago1:10:08

1:10:08

Early in his life, Greg Goad became addicted to drugs and alcohol. It took him spending time in jail multiple times and two rehab centers before he overcame his demons and built a beautiful life for he and his family. His story will inspire and encourage you to work through your own challenges in life!…

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You Wanna Cut Off My WHAT?? with Rob Knieriem 36:31

1+ y ago36:31

36:31

In 2016, Rob Knieriem was diagnosed with stage 4 Squamous Cell Urethral cancer. This very rare form of cancer left him with an 8% chance of survival, Through a plethora of protocols and health practices, Rob went from stage 4 to cancer-free in an astonishing thirteen weeks! Rob is now an advocate for everything health related and he truly embodies …

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Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats, and Edget Betru 59:51

1+ y ago59:51

59:51

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 Slaats, co-director of the Solidarity Research Center a…

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Infrastructure Apartheid to Liberatory Infrastructures with Maya Elizabeth Carrasquillo 57:47

1+ y ago57:47

57:47

"Infrastructure Apartheid to Liberatory Infrastructures" - this phrase highlights a fundamental shift in our framing of both harms and solutions, respectively, from individual and direct, to systemic and distributed. Dr. Carrasquillo and the Liberatory Infrastructures Labs' aim, as they continue to not only challenge the theoretical framings but al…

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Direct Action for Palestine with Mohamed Shehk 36:05

1+ y ago36:05

36:05

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, including recent actions aimed at stopping military cargo i…

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Democratizing Power 1:26:32

1+ y ago1:26:32

1:26:32

Welcome to the second episode of the Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Democratizing Power. This a special series of episodes that we've been sharing over the summer until Cities@Tufts officially resumes for our fourth season in the Fall. Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays i…

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[BONUS CROSS-POST] The Fire These Times: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine 1:22:08

1+ y ago1:22:08

1:22:08

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 this moment, process their grief together, and artic…

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The Trials and Tribulations of Building AquaGuard Foundation Solutions with Tom DiGregorio 43:09

1+ y ago43:09

43:09

If you have lived in metro Atlanta for any amount of time, you have inevitably seen Tom DiGregorio on television, heard him on the radio or seen his fleet of trucks canvassing the city. More than two decades of challenges, adversity and lessons learned from the trenches have led to the amazing success story that we know today as AquaGuard Foundatio…

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Mutual Aid Networks with Stephanie Rearick 59:46

1+ y ago59:46

59:46

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 everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, wi…

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