S01e00 An introduction to Lifepod

Host Adam Greenfield welcomes you to Lifepod with an overview of the show’s themes and central concerns, rooted in his book Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World On Fire (Verso, 2024). In this episode, we consider the Occupy Sandy mutual-aid effort in New York City in 2012, and what it might have to teach us about surviving our era of climate-system collapse with values of dignity, invitationality and justice intact.

Terms and topics mentioned:
- Mass population movements associated with the end of the Second World War and the Partition of India
- The “survival programs” of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
- Solidarity kitchens, clinics and pharmacies in Crisis-era Greece
- Municipalist city government in Spain
- Rojava, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
- The First International (International Workingmen’s Association congress, 1866)
- San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk
- Guardian article on preparing for a 3˚C rise in average temperature
- Iwan Baan’s photograph of Lower Manhattan blacked out during Superstorm Sandy
- US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) activities during Superstorm Sandy
- 520 Clinton Avenue (Occupy Sandy distribution hub)
- “Filter blockades” (Counter-ICE measure in the Twin Cities)
- Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell
- John P. Clark, The Impossible Community
- scott crow on Common Ground, New Orleans mutual-aid effort
- Cassie Thornton, The Hologram
- Charles Fritz’s disaster studies
- An account of “Spinozan joy”

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