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This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.
Trees for Economic and Social Justice was produced for the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Ephemera.
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Anna Boiko-Weyrauch has worked in a variety of capacities for the newsrooms of WNYC and WBAI in New York City, the United Nations Radio News Service, The Takeaway, and RadioLab. Her pieces have appeared on This American Life, Morning Edition, Marketplace, Weekend America, and the World Vision Report. She is particularly interested in global human rights and development issues. Boiko-Weyrauch is fluent in Japanese and Spanish and can converse to varying degrees in French, Mandarin, and Kinyarwanda. She has lived and traveled in Costa Rica, China, Japan, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Ghana.
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Radio Ephemera challenged any/everyone to produce a short audio work inspired by two books from the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, and featuring the voice of a stranger.
Trees for Economic and Social Justice
Inspired by: The Big Strike / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: the narrator from a citizenship video from the 1950s
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