Interweaving
What is Interweaving?
Join us for fresh, timely conversations about underreported stories from around the globe. We highlight the role of grassroots journalists, activists, and authors who are working to create a better information ecosystem and a more just world.
Interweaving #9 - COVID-19 Diaries (March 18, 2020)
In this episode, we weave the world together in the midst of a global health crisis by hearing from four Weave News contributors in Argentina, the United States, and the United Kingdom. How is COVID-19 affecting their communities? What are they seeing and experiencing? And what are some of the larger questions raised by this ongoing pandemic?
Interweaving #8 - Digging Into North Country Archaeology
In this episode, Nicole Roché speaks with two archaeology professors from the State University of New York at Potsdam about their recent work in New York State’s North Country region. Dr. Hadley Kruczek-Aaron and Dr. Tim Messner highlight how archaeology can be a powerful tool for challenging historical narratives that too often privilege the perspectives of the powerful.
Interweaving #7 - Storytelling in Gaza with We Are Not Numbers
In this episode, student journalists from St. Lawrence University offer a profile of We Are Not Numbers, a youth-run independent media organization in the Gaza Strip. In addition to project founder Pam Bailey, they speak with two WANN contributing writers, Basman Derawi and Ali Abusheikh. Ali also gives us an inside look at how ordinary Gazans experienced a recent period of Israeli airstrikes during the holy month of Ramadan.
Interweaving #6 - A Look Inside Project Censored
In this episode, student journalists from St. Lawrence University take a look inside the independent media work of Project Censored, which has been promoting media democracy for more than four decades. We hear from Project Censored associate director Andy Lee Roth, Dr. Susan Rahman (College of Marin), filmmaker Doug Hecker, and Project Censored student contributor Isabelle Snow (College of Marin).
Interweaving #5 - North Country Climate Crisis Activism
In this episode, John Collins and Terry DuBray explore local efforts in northern New York to build a grassroots movement in response to the urgent threat of climate crisis. They speak with activists at a climate vigil in Canton, NY, researcher Dr. Jon Rosales, and grassroots organizer Toni Kennedy about the challenges associated with trying to shift the conversation about climate change.
Interweaving #4 - Lisa Guenther and Rivka Rocchio on Mass Incarceration
In this episode, Weave News editor Savannah Crowley speaks with Dr. Lisa Guenther about the “horizon” of prison abolition, and theater educator Rivka Rocchio shares some of the creative work she is doing to highlight the stories of correctional officers in northern New York. Rocchio’s work is part of the St. Lawrence Citizen Journalism Incubator (SLCJI) program.
Interweaving #3 - Humanizing Global Conflicts with War News Radio
In this episode, three St. Lawrence University students offer a profile of War News Radio, a unique independent media project based at Swarthmore College. We hear from one of the students who helped create War News Radio in 2004 as well as a current Swarthmore student who is part of the new generation of WNR journalists.
Interweaving #2 - Sean Jacobs on the Politics of Representing 'Africa'
In this episode, Shanice Arlow interviews Sean Jacobs, a professor at The New School and founder and editor of the influential Africa Is a Country blog. They touched on US media representations of Africa, the current state of politics on the African continent, and much more. (Banner image courtesy of Africa Is a Country. Photo credit: Nicholas Rawhani.)
Interweaving #1 - Liliana Trevizan on Women’s Art and Activism in Chile
In the inaugural episode of our Interweaving podcast, John Collins speaks with Liliana Trevizan about Chilean arpilleras and the legacy of women’s resistance to dictatorship.