35 min
Public Health Pulse Podcast w/Rita Valenti Season 2 Episode: 4 Public Health Pulse Podcast w/ Rita Valenti Season 2 Episode: 1
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Throughout the pandemic and the escalating assaults on women’s bodily autonomy and transgender life & healthcare, Black women in the South have continued to lead society forward not only in resistance but also with a vision of a transformative just society. Tamika will discuss the ways the historic roots of our current landscape connect the intersections of reproductive justice, abolition, disability justice and healing justice in a powerful motion toward our collective political liberation! Tamika Middleton is the Managing Director of the Women’s March. She is an organizer, doula, midwifery apprentice, writer and unschooling mama who is passionate about and active in struggles that affect Black women’s lives, especially regarding Reproductive Justice, abolition, and the rights of domestic workers. She is engaged in multiple grassroots organizations in Georgia including the Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid (MAMA) and the leadership team of Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She serves as a Community Advisory Board Member of Critical Resistance and is the Treasurer of the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy! Link: https://www.womensmarch.com/team/tamika-middleton Host: Rita Valenti is a Registered Nurse, retired from Grady Health Systems. She is deeply engaged with health and healing justice strategies as a focus of her political work. She holds membership in many diverse healthcare organizations and healing justice collectives including, the People’s CDC, Healthcare-NOW, Georgia Physicians for a National Health Program, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and the Healthcare Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. She is a co-founder of Project South, a former Georgia State Legislator and frequent speaker on the embedded harms in corporate private healthcare, while promoting the necessity for free, universal, equitable, comprehensive and trusted healthcare for all. Links: https://peoplescdc.org https://lrna.org Produced by: Rita Valenti Executive Produced by: Crescent City Media Group https://www.the-mediagroup.us Supported by: Project South https://projectsouth.org
Throughout the pandemic and the escalating assaults on women’s bodily autonomy and transgender life & healthcare, Black women in the South have continued to lead society forward not only in resistance but also with a vision of a transformative just society. Tamika will discuss the ways the historic roots of our current landscape connect the intersections of reproductive justice, abolition, disability justice and healing justice in a powerful motion toward our collective political liberation! Tamika Middleton is the Managing Director of the Women’s March. She is an organizer, doula, midwifery apprentice, writer and unschooling mama who is passionate about and active in struggles that affect Black women’s lives, especially regarding Reproductive Justice, abolition, and the rights of domestic workers. She is engaged in multiple grassroots organizations in Georgia including the Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid (MAMA) and the leadership team of Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She serves as a Community Advisory Board Member of Critical Resistance and is the Treasurer of the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy! Link: https://www.womensmarch.com/team/tamika-middleton Host: Rita Valenti is a Registered Nurse, retired from Grady Health Systems. She is deeply engaged with health and healing justice strategies as a focus of her political work. She holds membership in many diverse healthcare organizations and healing justice collectives including, the People’s CDC, Healthcare-NOW, Georgia Physicians for a National Health Program, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and the Healthcare Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. She is a co-founder of Project South, a former Georgia State Legislator and frequent speaker on the embedded harms in corporate private healthcare, while promoting the necessity for free, universal, equitable, comprehensive and trusted healthcare for all. Links: https://peoplescdc.org https://lrna.org Produced by: Rita Valenti Executive Produced by: Crescent City Media Group https://www.the-mediagroup.us Supported by: Project South https://projectsouth.org
35 min