Radio Aurora: Letters from Earth Aurora Levins Morales
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- Maatschappij en cultuur
Internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer and activist. Support this project at https://www.patreon.com/auroralevinsmorales.
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Aquifers
Nestle is one of a group of giant corporations seeking to privatize the biggest reserves of water, like the Guaraní Aquifer in South America, but many people around the world, from the Amazon to the Great Lakes, believe water should be part of the commons.
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Lights
Life in rural Puerto Rico has always included power outages, but the long blackout after Hurricane Maria is deliberate and cruel, making Hanukkah, and solidarity campaign to send solar lanterns to my home barrio especially poignant for me.
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LFE Unobituary
From the midst of Northern California's wildfires, I keep writing the devastation of my homeland, Puerto Rico, borrowing from Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary.
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LFE-Honorable Harvest
This episode explores the indigenous concept of honorable harvest as described by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book Braiding Sweetgrass, and how it affects my eating and also my writing life.
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LFE-Fidel
My perspective on Fidel, as a Puerto Rican child growing up in a time of Latin American dictatorships and political repression.
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Radio Silence
In honor of the mobilization for net neutrality, I write about some historical moments of radio silence, the creative ways people have responded to silencing and how we always need to be ready to boost our signals.