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“It’s not our fault but it is our fight.” -Monica Lewis Patrick In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss utilizing technology in movement spaces and what digital justice could look like in Detroit with Tawana Petty, a mother, digital justice organizer, poet, and author. Tawana Petty, also known by her poetry stage name Honeycomb, is a mother, social justice organizer, poet, author, facilitator and keynote lecturer. Her work focuses on racial justice, equity, privacy, and consent. She is the founding Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc., an artist incubator, which leverages poetry, policy literacy and advocacy, anti-racism facilitation, political education and community-centered initiatives in pursuit of data and digital justice and racial and environmental justice. In 2024, Petty was named on Business Insider’s AI Power List for Policy and Ethics. Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement https://unsplash.com/photos/text-zO7VVw7Hxik https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroiters-get-oversight-of-surveillance-technology-but-is-it-enough/ https://www.bridgedetroit.com/michigan-central-is-collecting-a-lot-of-data-can-we-trust-it/ https://open.substack.com/pub/tawanapetty/p/defending-detroit?r=7g7rur&utm_medium=ios https://tawanapetty.org/selected-media/f/defending-black-lives-means-banning-facial-recognition https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/11/tsa-airport-security-facial-recognition/ https://stoplapdspying.org/ https://voicesfromthegrassroots.org/lewis-patrick-monica/ https://www.detroitk12.org/about-dpscd/initiatives/one-to-one-student-technology-iniiative https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/detroit-police-to-enforce-ticket-people-not-following-stay-at-home-order https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/PST045224 https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/14dd97b35cbb4a4298786c75855f8080 https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/08/28/detroit-police-department-celebrates-1k-project-green-light-partners/ https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/09/detroit-bridges-internet-access-digital-divide/ https://connectyourcommunity.org/cleveland-and-detroit-lead-worst-connected-large-cities-of-2023/ https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/10/07/grim-reality-more-than-half-of-detroit-children-are-now-living-in-poverty-census-bureau-data-shows/ https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/detroit-partnership-on-economic-mobility/ https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World by Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Colin Schupfer Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

Please donate to Alia's founding nonprofit, FORCE Detroit! Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement  https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/100-years-black-history-origins-anti-hunger-movement  https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan/2025/07/24/violence-intervention-leaders-gather-in-lansing-to-advocate-for-funding/85327767007/ https://detroitmi.gov/news/mayor-sheffield-launches-mayors-office-neighborhood-and-community-safety-strengthen-violence https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-origins-free-breakfast-and-food-justice-movement https://www.blkhlth.com/resources/racial-gaps-in-colorectal-cancer-tnt2y-9pegt https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change   The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

Please donate to Namira's neighborhood nonprofit, Dream of Detroit! https://dreamofdetroit.org/donate/ Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement  https://medium.com/@niawrites/16-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked-my-immigrant-father-214570fe1e44 (please email [email protected] for a friend link)   https://planetdetroit.org/2021/10/its-all-waawiyaatanong/  https://pixabay.com/photos/skyline-river-water-detroit-8061846/  https://medium.com/dsa-detroit-newspaper/waawiyatanong-resists-43f4d7806c1c https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8814474/ https://planetdetroit.org/2021/01/detroits-battle-with-climate-change-flooding-asthma-and-infrastructure/ https://www.mindful.org/a-6-minute-loving-kindness-meditation-to-expand-your-awareness/ https://www.nqa.org/what-is-qigong https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-use-new-technology-to-track-individual-monarch-butterfly-migrations  Video by SimplyArt4794: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-video-of-butterflies-7787029/ https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx8sf82#zcyq2v4 Becoming Good Ancestors by David Ehrenfeld We Do This Until We Free Us by Mariame Kaba Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

On our very first episode of Radicals for Good, we give a radical introduction to our podcast and host. We discuss the history and current moment of Detroit and why we believe hosting this podcast in the most radical city in the United States is timely and necessary. And why we believe it’s important to share this podcast in this moment ‘on the clock of the world’. Sources: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-statue-of-a-fist-is-suspended-by-a-crane-xs1W9DoYEVs https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement https://againstthecurrent.org/atc168/p4071/ https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/parks-rosa https://the-spark.net/o_ford1941.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/race-riot-1943 https://urbanhistory.willmackintosh.org/project/madelines-project/ https://time.com/4879062/detroit-1967-real-history/ https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/1963-march-washington https://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/what-time-is-it-on-the-clock-of-the-world-by-grace-lee-boggs/ Freedom is a constant Struggle by Angela Davis https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/blog/remembering-mlks-influence-detroit https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/362782#slide=gs-200036 https://unsplash.com/photos/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-mathew-ahmann-in-a-crowd-of-demonstrators-at-the-march-on-washington-bTF3gkd2L28 Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe