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The Moral Courage Project is a collaboration between the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and PROOF: Media for Social Justice that strives to shift debate and shape narrative by centering the accounts of individuals and communities with first-hand experiences of divisive issues. Moral Courage Radio is the podcast platform that accompanies our work in other media, which includes traveling exhibits, interactive websites, and print materials. Season One of Moral Courage Radio launched in 2017 as "Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame" and chronicles the first-hand experiences of those who witnessed and shaped the 2014 Ferguson Uprising that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson. Season Two, "America the Borderland," documents frontline defenders on the US-Mexico border, in El Paso, Texas, and was released in Spring 2018. Our third season featured Water Warriors, fighting for access to clean and affordable water in Flint, Detroit, Appalachia. "UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home" is the fourth season of the show focuses on adequate housing in Oakland and rolled out in March 2023. The newest season, "At the Root: Policing and the Right to Protest," covers the movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta.

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Protest and Repression - At the Root (Episode 5)

2026/07/21

The final episode of this season features the stories of Marlon Kautz and Adele MacLean, who were arrested in March 2023 in a police raid on their house and charged with felonies under RICO for their work with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which is set up to get protestors released from jail.

This is What Democracy Looks Like - At the Root (Episode 4)

2026/03/23

The movement to Stop Cop City is what democracy looks like in motion. The version of democracy embodied by the Stop Cop City movement calls into existence a robust, deep, and profound system that centers on agency, participation, and self-determination. If it’s going to work, democracy must be responsive to the people’s needs, rather than elite interests. But, instead of creating channels to hear and implement the people’s concerns, the government and the police narrowed avenues for democracy and punished anyone who dared to test the boundaries.

Public Safety - At the Root (Episode 3)

2026/02/04

The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. It’s right there in the name: Public Safety. The facility known to its opponents as “Cop City” is pitched as an essential investment to train officers to better protect the public from harm. However, marginalized communities often experience policing as a threat to their safety and a source of harm. Which raises the question, whose safety do police officers protect?

The Weelaunee Way - At the Root (Episode 2)

2026/01/28

In Episode 2 of At the Root, we explore the environmental advocacy of the movement to Stop Cop City through the words of Dr. Jackie Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance, Matthew Johnson and the Forest Defenders, and Belkis Teran, the mother of Manuel Esteban "Tortuguita" Teran, the first environmental defender killed by law enforcement in United States history.

Carceral Scars - At the Root (Episode 1)

2026/01/20

In Episode 1 of At the Root, we learn about the history of the forest and hear from Reverend Keyanna Jones and the ways in which Cop City presents a troubling set of threats: environmental harm, militarized policing, racial injustice, and the quality of democracy itself.

Trailer - At the Root: Policing and the Right to Protest

2025/03/15

This is the trailer for the fifth season of Moral Courage Radio, At the Root: Policing and the Right to Protest.

People Power - UnHousing (Episode 5)

2023/08/19

In the final episode of the fourth season of Moral Courage Radio, we learn from Noni Session, third generation West Oaklander and founder of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, who insists that we can reorient our relationship to market forces by building power together.

Forever Home - UnHousing (Episode 4)

2023/07/13

In a volatile housing market, lenders, investors, and landlords determine who can afford to live where. To counter instability and profit motives, some of Oakland’s local organizations take a permanent and communal approach to land and housing, using the community land trust model to keep land off the market and in community control in perpetuity. In this episode we hear from Shekinah Samaya-Thomas and Chris Thomas, two homeowners with the Oakland Community Land Trust.

More with Less - UnHousing (Episode 3)

2023/06/23

Forced from their homes and banned from the streets, Oaklanders are struggling to find a place to survive. In this episode, we hear from John, a resident of Cob on Wood, an unhoused encampment supported in part by a local organization, Artists Building Communities.

Preserving Legacies - UnHousing (Episode 2)

2023/03/18

Gentrification is an act of erasure against the cultural character of a neighborhood. In this episode, we hear from people working to protect and preserve the historical legacies of places they hold dear.

The UnHousing Market - UnHousing (Episode 1)

2023/03/10

In the first episode of our fourth season, we meet Oaklanders who teach us about how their communities are confronting the market forces that render housing security out of reach for so many.

Trailer - UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home

2023/02/16

This is the trailer for the fourth season of Moral Courage Radio, "UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home"

Epilogue - Poison and Power (Episode 7)

2021/07/02

In the epilogue to Season Three, we hold space for the life and memory of student team member, Jillian Parker.

Confluence - Poison and Power (Episode 6)

2021/06/29

In the season finale, Water Warriors show us the way forward: by challenging power, building together, and fighting for democracy.

Everything Downstream - Poison and Power (Episode 5)

2021/05/20

The stories we have told so far obviously ignore the first nations of these territories, the first stewards of the rivers, the lakes, the forests, and the mountains. As the original Water Warriors, indigenous people remain active in the struggle for environmental protection.

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student248 2019/05/03

Incredible!

The stories that are shared in this podcast are nothing short of incredible. They have flipped my views on their head and made me question my status a...

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2HHB2 2019/04/21

Great work!

This is amazing! Good work to this team. Keeping sharing this message.

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a real live human being 2019/03/24

Phenomenal!

Can’t wait for America the Borderland to drop! Great work. Recommending to everyone I know.

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StrangersBelt 2017/10/06

Great podcast

While the lasting memories of Ferguson to some people might be the violent protests and riots, this podcast does a great job of giving you an inside l...

★★★★★

DaisyBnu 2017/10/01

Spread the word!

This podcast is outstanding!! Learned so much. Powerful stories. Strong writing, slick music and editing, and an awesome narrator!!

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TeddyBearBnu 2017/09/26

highly recommended

An insightful and provocative look at a story we all think we know. The voices are clear. The production is crisp. Highly recommended!

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Ditru 2017/09/06

Fascinating insights into a compelling human rights story

Before this podcast, I'd only heard about Michael Brown and Ferguson second hand. I'm so impressed with how the University of Dayton brings these fir...

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