Ali Velshi | Bad actors are watching Ukraine closely
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi reveals the three countries that are keeping an eye on the war in Ukraine and what it means for their ambitions.
Feb 28, 2022•4 min•Season 1Ep. 756
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Your miserable E.R. experience isn't just about Covid
Will the pandemic be a wake-up call about the weaknesses in emergency care? Or will it be a death blow? The answer is in what we do next.
Feb 25, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 755
Making businesses green with no money down
With his Navy Yard-based company, Ecosave, Marcelo Rouco is providing the kind of win-win solution that’s good for businesses, the city and the planet.
Feb 24, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 754
Ali Velshi | The link between climate change and racism
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi breaks down the effects of climate change and how they hit minority communities faster and harder
Feb 23, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 753
Helping vulnerable people find jobs
Since The Citizen wrote about First Step Staffing in 2018, the nonprofit has placed thousands of Philadelphians in entry level jobs around the region. Now, it’s launching Second Step to create even better opportunities for all.
Feb 22, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 752
Reality Check | Period Poverty
WURD host Charles Ellison talks to Lynette Medley, one of the partners of SPOT period hub in Germantown, who is trying her best to stamp out menstrual poverty in the city
Feb 21, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 751
Turning on Larry Krasner
A former assistant DA hired by Krasner on why can no longer support his former boss
Feb 18, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 750
The folly of a public bank
Councilman Derek Green’s bill putting you—the taxpayer—in the banking business is expected to pass Council tomorrow. What problems does it solve? What problems does it create?
Feb 16, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 749
How do we broker peace on our streets?
In this episode from the Ideas We Should Steal Festival, Aqeela Sherrills (Director, Newark Community Streets Team) lays out a plan for initiating peace and redefining safety in the city
Feb 16, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 748
A new way to fund farmers? Look to Atlanta
In this Ideas We Should Steal, we look at the Working Farms Fund which has helped small, organic farmers preserve and cultivate hundreds of acres of farmland around Atlanta. Could Philly be next?
Feb 15, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 747
Ali Velshi | Why the hell do we need a lawsuit to stop police from attacking journalists?
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi applauds a recent victory for the ACLU, but wants to know why it was necessary when we already have a First Amendment
Feb 14, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 746
To break or not to break from your base
Philly’s Democratic Socialists tried to upend the appointment of democracy-saving Republican Seth Bluestein to city commissioner. But two local pols demonstrated the real progressive ideals we need from our leaders.
Feb 11, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 745
The Museum of Black Joy
Andrea “Philly” Walls’ photos of Black joy can be seen as a visual act of ongoing resistance. They're also the exact antidote to the time we live in.
Feb 10, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 744
Food waste? There's an app for that.
Since 2014, Food Connect has tackled the problems of rampant food waste and hunger with a logistical solution: connecting people in need of food with people who have excess food
Feb 09, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 743
Rethinking Capitalism with Ali Velshi and Peter Georgescu
In this Ideas We Should Steal episode, Ali Velshi chats with Peter Georgescu, former CEO of Young & Rubicam, about rethinking capitalism and how businesses were created to make life better for everyone in society
Feb 08, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 742
Ali Velshi | Banning books makes stupid people
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi has been watching the recent book bans and is worried this trend will make for a stupider society that reverses the social progress we've made
Feb 07, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 741
One word to fix Philly's trash crisis
Invest. Illegal dumping sites like the one Ya Fav Trashman tried to clean up last month are a product of longtime disinvestment in Black neighborhoods. WURD’s mid-day host challenges the city to match Ya Fav’s commitment.
Feb 04, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 740
Our kids are buckling under mental stress
Could a new behavioral health model from Girard College and CHOP be the solution our children need in these overwhelming times?
Feb 03, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 739
How do you fight climate change? Electric Car Share
In this episode from our Ideas We Should Steal Festival, Russ Stark, St. Paul's Chief Resilience Officer, lays out a path to combat the climate crisis through car sharing.
Feb 02, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 738
Witty Gritty?
In this episode of Generation Change Philly, we spotlight Michelle Freeman, Founder of event management company Witty Gritty. To both locals and those outside our city, she is one of the region's biggest cheerleaders.
Feb 01, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 737
Ali Velshi | Afghans are selling kidneys for food
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi soberly assesses the "tsunami of hunger" now breaking over Afghanistan. Their desperation is appalling. America must act.
Jan 31, 2022•4 min•Season 1Ep. 736
Who has the guts to say we need cops?
For progressives, it's the ultimate inconvenient truth: We need better, smarter policing and prosecution to combat gun violence. Eric Adams is saying that in NY. Anyone here care to agree?
Jan 28, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 735
IWSS Festival | Orange Is The New Black's Piper Kerman on prison reform
Author Piper Kerman joins Reform Alliance CEO Robert Rooks to discuss achieving what is achievable: safety and reform in our prison system
Jan 27, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 734
Special Interview | A light at the end of the Covid tunnel
Katherine catches up with Dr. David Rubin, director of PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), who has been blanketing the airwaves arguing that it’s time to rethink our Covid risk management strategies
Jan 26, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 733
What's the cure for our languishing? Other-care
In the Age of Self-Care, a Stanford psychologist suggests a better antidote to what ails us right now is focusing on other people
Jan 25, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 732
Ali Velshi | 3 cowards and George Floyd
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi discusses new intervention requirements for police officers in the wake of George Floyd's murder--including one disturbing case from Florida caught on tape.
Jan 24, 2022•4 min•Season 1Ep. 731
How Jim Kenney could turn things around: potholes, litter, customer service
Amid a tsunami of crises, Jim Kenney should become a quality-of-life mayor. It's how he'd bring the city back.
Jan 21, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 730
🌳 More Trees 🌳
In this episode of Ideas We Should Steal: the benefits of trees. They go beyond health, heat and raised property values. Here, a few ways other cities are increasing their tree canopies, and how we can follow suit.
Jan 20, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 729
IWSS Festival 2021 | How do we really end generational poverty?
What's the long game to breaking the cycle of generational poverty in Philly? We invited Terri Sorenson of Friends of the Children, THRIVE CEO Omalara Fatiregun and Bill Golderer, President of United Way of Greater Philadelphia to outline the steps we need to be taking. Join us for this important brainstorming.
Jan 19, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 728
Our kids are ending up in adult prisons
In the eight years since co-founding the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, Joanna Visser Adjoian and Lauren Fine have helped dozens of young people stay out of adult prisons—and get the support they need to lead productive lives
Jan 18, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 727
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