Social Justice Tours Pandemic Podcast - season 1

COVID-19 highlights the need for Birth Justice in NY

In part two of our conversation about how Covid has affected reproductive freedoms in NY, we chat with Neelu Shruti. Neelu is a birth justice advocate in NY, and our conversation focuses on the challenges that pregnant and birthing people face, how their issues have been exacerbated due to insufficient action during COVID-19 and a vision for a better birth future.
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Reproductive freedoms in the age of Covid

In this episode, we explore the way Covid-19 has been used as an excuse to roll back reproductive freedoms, the challenges pre-and post-covid to reproductive freedoms, the ways in which New York has led the fight to expand access historically and the role this state may play in the future.

Contagion: When Xenophobia is a disease that spreads

Episode 2: In today's episode we discuss the ways throughout New York's history that disease has been placed in the bodies of certain populations to exploit racist or xenophobic ideas. We go back to the European colonists, move forward to the cholera epidemic of the 1830's and the backlash against the Irish, and discuss some implications for the Covid-19 pandemic of today. 

NYC Mass Rent Strikes, Past and Present; Interview with Lucy P.

In this time of pandemic, millions of people across the country are feeling increased pressure to be able to make rent.  In response, tenant organizers are organizing rent strikes.  We talk with guide and activist Lucy P. about the history of rent strikes in NYC, and the women who led them, from the early 1900's to today.