25. Nandita Sharma critiques nationalisms, Bianca García on Detroit vs. Trump, CUPE on union power

Free City Radio

Listen to the 25th edition of Free City Radio. On this edition we start with Daria Ivanochko, who is a representative from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) speaking on the importance of union power within the context of the pandemic. A look at the ways that this global health crisis has reoriented popular thinking about the rights of essential workers and how to build on that. Info on CUPE: https://cupe.ca Also we go to Detroit and hear from community activist Bianca García on the efforts of community activists to mobilize against Trump. Bianca speaks about the complexities around the importance of the community networks who stepped up in the Detroit area to vote against fascism and Trump. Bianca works with La Casa Guadalupana in Detroit. https://lcgdetroit.org Finally we hear from author Nandita Sharma who recently published "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" via Duke University Press. Nandita offers a critical take on nationalisms and the importance of deconstructing the layered relationship between political conceptions of borders and colonial orientations toward the earth and cultures. Info: https://www.dukeupress.edu/home-rule Music on this edition by Asian Dub Foundation, Galya Bisengalieva and Rosalía. Free City Radio is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and is also a community radio show that broadcasts on Wednesdays at 11h on @radiockut in Montréal.