Silver Threads

Still walking, still waking

Collapsing Silos — Am Johal

Show Description:

“We need to create spaces for gentleness. In the harshness that we live in, we don’t think about that gentleness enough, and the kindness that’s going to be required to build a new world.”

This week, we sat down with Am Johal, connector of radicals, builder of worlds and local organizer in Vancouver (Canada), to talk about art, fight, play, gentleness, and more!

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Black and white photo of Am Johal, from the shoulders up. He is sitting, leaning up against a wall, looking off to the right and smiling. He has on thick framed glasses with a beard, and is wearing a white button-down shirt with a vest.

BIO

Am Johal is the Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, and is the author of Ecological Metapolitics, and co-author with Matt Hern and Joe Sacco, of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life. He is the host of the Below the Radar podcast.

About Silver Threads: still walking, still waking

carla bergman and Eleanor Goldfield interview long term organizers about their watershed moments, what they have learned along the way, and how they maintain their hope on this path; dreaming and building emergent worlds for a present and future that is anchored in justice and freedom for all.

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