Radio Aurora: Letters from Earth

Aurora Levins Morales

Internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer and activist. Support this project at https://www.patreon.com/auroralevinsmorales.

  1. Aquifers

    12/19/2017

    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.

    11 min
  2. Lights

    12/14/2017

    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.

    6 min
  3. LFE Unobituary

    10/08/2017

    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.

    8 min
  4. LFE-Honorable Harvest

    08/08/2017

    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.

    8 min
  5. LFE-Fidel

    07/24/2017

    LFE-Fidel

    My perspective on Fidel, as a Puerto Rican child growing up in a time of Latin American dictatorships and political repression.

    12 min
  6. Radio Silence

    07/14/2017

    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.

    7 min
  7. Delta

    07/04/2017

    Delta

    California's Sacramento River Delta is an ancient marshland full of fish, small farms and wild waterfowl, and is threatened by plans to pipe water out of the Delta to subsidize unsustainable big agriculture. But California's entire economy is built on promising more water--to factory farms and desert cities--than actually exists. I wrote this piece while camping in the heart of the Delta, among flocks of migrating Snow Geese and other migratory birds that stop here to feed, as they travel the Pacific Flyway.

    9 min
  8. Letters from Earth: Birds and Bees

    06/21/2017

    Letters from Earth: Birds and Bees

    This episode includes two shorter pieces, one on birdwatching and what feminist ornithology might offer us, and the other about solidarity with bees, who exist for their own purposes, and not just to get food on our tables.

    7 min
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