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A long time activist on many peace and justice issues, Rena is the founder and Director of Just Future. She lives in Oklahoma City with her two dogs.
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Left in Oklahoma #38 Educating, Legislating for Racial Justice

Left in Oklahoma with Serena Blaiz. News and events for progressives. https://archive.org/download/liok038/liok038.mp3 In this episode: The Tulsa Race Massacre added to state public education curriculum. OU’s BERT gains historic changes …

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Left in Oklahoma #37 Vote on March 3!

Serena Blaiz with election reminders and info, event announcements from ACLU, Oklahoma County Democrats, Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, Sierra Club Oklahoma and the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma. …

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A Wander in Poetry: A Psalm for Dust

This is a new poetry podcast I’m doing as part of the Objector Church weekly webcast. But I thought, why not have them stand alone as well. The first poem …

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Prepare yourself. Oklahoma is going on a killing spree

It’s not hard to predict how Oklahoma’s new execution method will play out. The future of the death penalty in Oklahoma may have been established in 2015 when Republican Rep. …

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To We, the Many: Let the banners drop, the strike be called, the revolution go forward

This is the intro to my podcast, Left in Oklahoma, episode 25, for Feb. 6, 2018. It’s a complaint as old as protest itself: “Your tactics are wrong. You are …

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Politics of terror vs. the People

This was prepared as an intro to my podcast, Pointing Left, an Oklahoma alternative news and opinion program. This episode was released Jan. 31, 2018. As I think about Trump’s …

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Chelsea Manning is free! Looking back at seven years of activism for our hometown whistleblower hero

This reflection on my time working on Chelsea Manning support and awareness in her home state was published by the Oklahoma Observer in the June 2017 issue under the title “In Oklahoma, A Celebration Seven Years In The Making.”

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Chelsea Manning Submits Personal Account of Her Struggles and Motivations in Application for Clemency

Included in Chelsea Manning’s recent request for clemency from President Obama, filed by her attorneys on November 10, was a very personal recounting by the imprisoned whistleblower of her personal history, …

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ACTION ALERT: This may be the final effort to save Chelsea Manning

Attorneys for Chelsea Manning have filed a request for commutation of her sentence to time served.  In a statement accompanying her petition, a copy of which her lawyer provided to …

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