Moral Courage Radio
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The Moral Courage Project is a collaboration between the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and PROOF: Media for Social Justice that strives to shift debate and shape narrative by centering the accounts of individuals and communities with first-hand experiences of divisive issues. Moral Courage Radio is the podcast platform that accompanies our work in other media, which includes traveling exhibits, interactive websites, and print materials. Season One of Moral Courage Radio launched in 2017 as "Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame" and chronicles the first-hand experiences of those who witnessed and shaped the 2014 Ferguson Uprising that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson. Season Two, "America the Borderland," documents frontline defenders on the US-Mexico border, in El Paso, Texas, and was released in Spring 2018. Our third season featured Water Warriors, fighting for access to clean and affordable water in Flint, Detroit, Appalachia. "UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home" is the fourth season of the show and rolls out beginning March 10, 2023.
Location:
Dayton, OH
Description:
The Moral Courage Project is a collaboration between the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and PROOF: Media for Social Justice that strives to shift debate and shape narrative by centering the accounts of individuals and communities with first-hand experiences of divisive issues. Moral Courage Radio is the podcast platform that accompanies our work in other media, which includes traveling exhibits, interactive websites, and print materials. Season One of Moral Courage Radio launched in 2017 as "Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame" and chronicles the first-hand experiences of those who witnessed and shaped the 2014 Ferguson Uprising that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson. Season Two, "America the Borderland," documents frontline defenders on the US-Mexico border, in El Paso, Texas, and was released in Spring 2018. Our third season featured Water Warriors, fighting for access to clean and affordable water in Flint, Detroit, Appalachia. "UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home" is the fourth season of the show and rolls out beginning March 10, 2023.
Language:
English
Episodes
People Power - UnHousing (Episode 5)
8/18/2023
In the final episode of the fourth season of Moral Courage Radio, we learn from Noni Session, third generation West Oaklander and founder of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, who insists that we can reorient our relationship to market forces by building power together.
Duration:00:28:47
Forever Home - UnHousing (Episode 4)
7/13/2023
In a volatile housing market, lenders, investors, and landlords determine who can afford to live where. To counter instability and profit motives, some of Oakland’s local organizations take a permanent and communal approach to land and housing, using the community land trust model to keep land off the market and in community control in perpetuity. In this episode we hear from Shekinah Samaya-Thomas and Chris Thomas, two homeowners with the Oakland Community Land Trust.
Duration:00:28:39
More with Less - UnHousing (Episode 3)
6/23/2023
Forced from their homes and banned from the streets, Oaklanders are struggling to find a place to survive. In this episode, we hear from John, a resident of Cob on Wood, an unhoused encampment supported in part by a local organization, Artists Building Communities.
Duration:00:21:53
Preserving Legacies - UnHousing (Episode 2)
3/18/2023
Gentrification is an act of erasure against the cultural character of a neighborhood. In this episode, we hear from people working to protect and preserve the historical legacies of places they hold dear.
Duration:00:30:50
The UnHousing Market - UnHousing (Episode 1)
3/10/2023
In the first episode of our fourth season, we meet Oaklanders who teach us about how their communities are confronting the market forces that render housing security out of reach for so many.
Duration:00:21:32
Trailer - UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home
2/16/2023
This is the trailer for the fourth season of Moral Courage Radio, "UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home"
Duration:00:02:25
Epilogue - Poison and Power (Episode 7)
7/2/2021
In the epilogue to Season Three, we hold space for the life and memory of student team member, Jillian Parker.
Duration:00:12:13
Confluence - Poison and Power (Episode 6)
6/29/2021
In the season finale, Water Warriors show us the way forward: by challenging power, building together, and fighting for democracy.
Duration:00:52:11
Everything Downstream - Poison and Power (Episode 5)
5/20/2021
The stories we have told so far obviously ignore the first nations of these territories, the first stewards of the rivers, the lakes, the forests, and the mountains. As the original Water Warriors, indigenous people remain active in the struggle for environmental protection.
Duration:00:32:19
Beloved Work - Poison and Power (Episode 4)
4/24/2021
Women have always lead the way on environmental issues, including in the fight for water in Flint, Detroit, and Appalachia, because of the inherent connection between care for family, for community, and for the natural world.
Duration:00:24:38
Blood Memory - Poison and Power (Episode 3)
3/29/2021
How do we talk about the way that race and class shape access to water in the United States? Our storytellers in this episode illuminate this question by detailing how their personal and cultural histories drive their work for clean and affordable water.
Duration:00:40:07
Toxic Truth - Poison and Power (Episode 2)
3/21/2021
In the second episode of the season, we share the timeline of events that lead to the water crises in Flint, Michigan and Martin County, Kentucky. One central through-line in both stories points to how science and knowledge were manipulated and ignored at the outset, but were harnessed by citizens in defense of their own well-being.
Duration:00:35:09
Bodies of Water - Poison and Power (Episode 1)
3/14/2021
This episode connects environmental health to human health through an introduction to several key voices from the frontlines of the fight for water in Flint, Detroit, and Appalachia.
Duration:00:44:40
Trailer - Poison and Power: The Fight for Water
2/21/2021
This is the trailer for the third season of Moral Courage Radio, "Poison and Power: The Fight for Water."
Duration:00:04:04
Lighting the Way - America the Borderland
5/16/2019
In the final episode of our season, we hear from fronterizas who show us the way forward -- as a nation -- by committing to what's right, fighting for what they believe in, and making a difference in their community.
Duration:00:17:09
Building to Breathe Free - America the Borderland
5/10/2019
As we lurch from crisis to crisis and headline to headline, organizers and activists on the US-Mexico border dig in with a long-term strategy to build a foundation that supports the dignity and consciousness of immigrant communities.
Duration:00:13:38
Hugs Not Walls - America the Borderland
5/3/2019
At Hugs Not Walls, families separated by border policies get three minutes to reunite, embrace, and then return to their sides and their lives apart.
Duration:00:18:17
Radical Welcome - America the Borderland
4/26/2019
In this episode, we learn from community leaders on the US-Mexico border who express their faith in public by living in solidarity with the poor and the migrant.
Duration:00:14:41
Motherland of Exiles - America the Borderland
4/19/2019
This episode documents ways in which the border interrupts love and human connection, while also making it necessary for people to rethink and reform what it means to be a part of a family.
Duration:00:13:34
A Torch, A Truth - America the Borderland
4/12/2019
Episode one of "America the Borderland" focuses on the struggle to obtain a quality education on the border, particularly for students who are immigrants and children of immigrants.
Duration:00:13:20