Event recap: Exploring community solutions to the loneliness epidemic
On Wednesday April 10, 2019 over 120 people gathered at San Francisco State University (SFSU) to discuss today’s loneliness epidemic and how community action can help reduce it. Shareable’s executive...
View ArticleAnnouncing the world premiere of Shareable’s new documentary ‘The Response’
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, a quiet revolution has been percolating on the island of Puerto Rico. What began as an impromptu community kitchen meant to help feed survivors in the town of Caguas...
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The Response Podcast is back! (season two preview)
Climate change-fueled disasters are destructive, scary, and rising around the world. While the media focuses on the destruction, victims, a few “extraordinary heroes,” and criminality, a vitally...
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Shareable launches ‘The Response’ film in Oakland, while Puerto Rico’s...
On July 24, Shareable held a film screening of our new documentary, “The Response: How Puerto Ricans are Restoring Power to the People” at the ProArts Gallery and Commons in Oakland, California to a...
View ArticleVoices of The Response: The Tubbs fire and UndocuFund
As an undocumented immigrant, you realize that the police, the sheriff, the system — everything — we’re outside of that. But when Undocufund started and we saw so many people helping from all kinds of...
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Healing population-wide trauma from Gaza to Parkland: Q&A with Dr. Jim Gordon...
As the whole country was reeling from the 2018 Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, members of the surrounding communities well beyond the school...
View ArticleThe Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, a quiet revolution has been percolating on the island of Puerto Rico. What began as an impromptu community kitchen meant to help feed survivors in the town of Caguas...
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The Response podcast episode 4: Fighting misinformation in the aftermath of...
In the first episode of our second season, The Response travels to Mexico City and puts the focus on the 2017 Puebla Earthquake — a magnitude 7.1 quake that toppled over forty buildings and killed over...
View ArticleTransitioning from competition to collective resilience: Q&A with Sebastien...
Paris has been on the cutting edge of a worldwide municipal movement dedicated to making cities more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st...
View ArticlePreparing for climate chaos now: Q&A with disasterologist Dr. Samantha Montano
When discussing climate change these days, it’s no longer suitable to simply imagine its impacts on “future generations.” It’s also not exactly appropriate to imagine the result of climate change as...
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The Response podcast episode 5: Inequality, structural racism, and the fight...
On June 14, 2017, a fire started in a 24-story public housing apartment in West London called Grenfell Tower. The fire raged all night and reduced the building to a shell. Seventy-two people lost their...
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The Response podcast episode 6: Reimagining Paradise in an age of climate...
In this age of climate disruption and record shattering megafires, hurricanes, and the many other disasters wrecking havoc around the world, how do you rebuild from scratch? Allen Myers grew up in the...
View ArticleIngredients for a great life: A 2019 recap from Shareable
At Shareable, we work every day toward a goal of changing the stories that guide our lives and society. Competition, shopping, and self-obsession aren’t the ingredients for a great life or society, but...
View ArticleBottom-up politics in urban landscapes: Q&A with author Barbara Brown Wilson
Every element of a city’s design, from street lighting to sidewalk drainage to the shape of the skyline, is influenced by politics. It’s not always clear what that politics is, or who the...
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When disasters occur, the majority of news coverage teeters on the edge of “disaster porn” at best, emphasizing the sheer mass of destruction in the affected area while celebrating a few token...
View ArticleThe Response: A Permanent Real Estate Cooperative to combat the affordable...
This month’s episode of The Response features an interview with Noni Session, the executive director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC), which “facilitate[s] BIPOC and allied...
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The Response film will air on Free Speech TV through May 7th
Update (April 23rd): The tv premiere was a great success! If you missed it, the film will be re-broadcast several more times (through May 7th) on Free Speech TV (all times in Eastern Daylight Time):...
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Navigating a Just Transition through COVID-19 and the climate crisis: A Q&A...
Can we navigate a Just Transition through COVID-19 and the climate crisis? What would it take to make this happen and how can we get started in our communities right now? We dug into these questions...
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Community-led disaster response, from Hurricane Maria to COVID-19: A panel...
Shareable and Free Speech TV recently co-hosted a panel discussion after the television premiere of the documentary film, “The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People.” Panelists...
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The Response: Resisting COVID-19 with mutual aid in Chico, CA
Pretty much every night since the coronavirus lockdown began, people all across the country have been coming out on their patios and porches and front lawns at eight o’clock in the evening to howl....
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