Beyond Voting

The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership•reason.kzoo.edu

Welcome to Beyond Voting, a limited series podcast that digs into the critical issues central to the 2024 election cycle. Each episode, we'll bring you insightful interviews with activists, community leaders, and experts focused on building a more just and sustainable future that goes beyond the ballot box.

Also, check out our previous podcast, Radical Futures Now, for more thought-provoking conversations with social justice leaders around the world.

The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership (ACSJL) is an initiative of Kalamazoo College whose mission is to develop and sustain leaders in human rights and social justice through education and capacity-building

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Episodes

Movements & Master Narratives with Lisa Brock [BLM Series #1]

In this special Black Lives Matter mini series, we brought back one of our favorite radical intellectuals, activists and the acting Executive Director of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, Dr. Lisa Brock to help us decipher the following questions/comments: 1. What’s currently happening on the ground in Chicago? 2. Discuss current brutal killings Black people like George Floyd, Ahmad Arbury, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. 3. Shed light on the current raci...

Jul 15, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Migration & US/Mexico Border conversations with Jason De Leon

In this Episode, TRZ is so excited to tap into great wisdom of Jason De Leon on issues Immigration and Migration. Jason De León is Professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a 501 (c)(3) committed to documenting and raising awareness about the violent social process of clandestine migration through a combination of anthropological research, education, ar...

Jul 08, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Babaluku in Conversation with The Radical Zone

In our second episode, The Radical Zone had a social distancing conversation with a Hip Hop movement builder Babaluku to decipher the effect of Covid19 in Africa as well the creatives around the world. Silas Babaluku is the founder and executive director of The Foundation, creator of the Dynasty as well as an award-winning musician, producer, community youth activist and social entrepreneur. Being raised in Uganda and living in Canada during his late teens and early twenties has given Silas a un...

Jul 01, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Lisa Brock in conversation with TRZ

Radical Zone Podcast got in a social distancing sit down with Lisa Brock & now we bring you full conversation with; Dr. Lisa Brock is currently the Academic Director of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is the senior editor of the Praxis Center, an online resource center for Scholars, Activists and Artists. She serves as a Trustee on the Davis Putter Scholarship fund for radical student activists. Since the early 1990s, Brock has...

Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 2

The Radical Zone Podcast

The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership (ACSJL) is an initiative of Kalamazoo College whose mission is to develop and sustain leaders in human rights and social justice through education and capacity-building. We envision a world where: every person's life is equally valued, the inherent dignity of all people is recognized, the opportunity to develop one’s full potential is available to every person, and systematic discrimination and structural inequities have been eradicated...

May 12, 2020•55 sec•Season 1Ep. 1

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