Radio Aurora: Letters from Earth

Nestle is one of a group of giant corporations seeking to privatize the biggest reserves of water, like the Guaraní Aquifer in South America, but many people around the world, from the Amazon to the G...

Life in rural Puerto Rico has always included power outages, but the long blackout after Hurricane Maria is deliberate and cruel, making Hanukkah, and solidarity campaign to send solar lanterns to my ...

From the midst of Northern California's wildfires, I keep writing the devastation of my homeland, Puerto Rico, borrowing from Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary....

This episode explores the indigenous concept of honorable harvest as described by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book Braiding Sweetgrass, and how it affects my eating and also my writing life....

My perspective on Fidel, as a Puerto Rican child growing up in a time of Latin American dictatorships and political repression....

In honor of the mobilization for net neutrality, I write about some historical moments of radio silence, the creative ways people have responded to silencing and how we always need to be ready to boos...

California's Sacramento River Delta is an ancient marshland full of fish, small farms and wild waterfowl, and is threatened by plans to pipe water out of the Delta to subsidize unsustainable big agric...

This episode includes two shorter pieces, one on birdwatching and what feminist ornithology might offer us, and the other about solidarity with bees, who exist for their own purposes, and not just to ...

I wrote this after the April 13th bombing of Afghanistan with what was referred to as "the mother of all bombs," reflecting on the stories I har as a child about the bombing of Spain during the Spanis...

This poem was a response to badly skewed media coverage of the terrorist attacks, in one week, on Paris and Beirut. After it aired on Flashpoints, on Pacifica Radio, I was contacted by Al Jazeera to ...

Picking Raspberries is about my summer at the eastern edges of the Massachusetts Berkshires and New York's Hudson Valley, about Monsanto's conspiracy to privatize food, migrant workers in New England,...

Introducing Letters from Earth, a new environmental justice podcast by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer Aurora Levins Morales, exploring the natural and social landscapes of our time....

I wrote this poem after the Orlando massacre of LGBTQ people, mostly people of color, and half of them Puerto Rican. I needed to remind myself that imagining the possibility of winning, of creating t...