Silver Threads

Still walking, still waking

Imagined Pasts - Sina Reisch

Show Description:

“Climate is a powerful gateway to the world of anti-capitalism.”

Sina Reisch is a climate justice and civil disobedience advocate from Germany. She joins the show to talk about her work at the intersections of issues, growing up in the shadow of fascism, the power of direct action, imagining the past and more!

Music for the show: Floodlight by Eleanor’s former Band Rooftop Revolutionaries.

Mutual Aid:

Mutual Aid donations this week go to Ende Gelaende (www.ende-gelaende.org/en/).

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Black and white photo of Sina Reisch outside. In the distance behind her are levelled off piles of earth. She has short bleached hair, glasses, and a cozy scarf wrapped around her neck. She is smiling into the camera.

BIO

Sina Reisch is a 27 year old queer woman and a climate justice and civil disobedience advocate who grew up in the countryside in Southern Germany. She organizes across a range of topics – including migrants rights, antifascism, internationalism and in particular the anti-coal movement. She joined Ende Gelände in 2017 and was a press speaker for the collective in 2019 and 2020. She is also active in the Kurdistan solidarity movement and was in Northern Iraq / Southern Kurdistan with a peace delegation in June, and she works with a solidarity initiative for emancipatory groups in Syria.

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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