Transforming the World - Solidarity with Black Lives Matter in Rural Ontario

Rallies in solidarity with Black people and the uprisings in the US, Canada and places that I didn't expect like Belleville, Ontario are sharpening the focus on police brutality and the systemic racism we live in. Bay of Quinte Society of Friends Against Racism's Fiona Dodsworth joins me to discuss the groups recent Belleville rally and vigil in to support the lives of Black people in the USA, Canada and Belleville. It was an enlighting conversation that covered a lot - allyship and how to be an ally; how to organize a rally in a pandemic and what a radically transformed world could look like. Big thanks to Fiona for the great interview and BQSFAR's other members for making this interview happen - hat tip to Kayla Koomans who connected me to Fiona who stressed how much this was a team effort to make the rally and vigil happen. 

Added bonus! Local poet Serena Rykert shares her poem, Memory, The Handmaid from her 1995 book of poetry One Leaf One Place One Time. The poem is read by  Ken Fraser.

Music: Dangerous System by Pad Anthony