Our Streets is a column by writer and reporter Ray Levy Uyeda that highlights activists, artists, and organizers who are doing the work and reclaiming power for the people.
One of the tasks of movement workers is to help us imagine what a more humane world could look like. The social ideologies that govern our lives can seem so deeply entrenched; systems of capitalism and production or justified poverty can seem inherent to life on Earth. But the reality is that we can correct for inequities like poverty, a lack of access to food or education, or environmental injustices born out of redlining — if we can imagine new ways of living.
