Weaving Voices
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The oldest strains of cotton tell a story of the people who cultivated it. Weaving Voices is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about Weaving Voices here. Find show notes here. And transcript here.
Published 01/04/23
Sammy Oteng is a Kantamanto Market organizer in Accra Ghana. The market is a 28 acre site, historically created by the people of Ghana to repurpose and reuse materials. Since the onset of fast fashion, the marketplace has become a dumping ground for the waste of the Global North. In a country of...
Published 12/28/22
Ground building legislation was passed in 2021 to protect the California garment worker community from the “piece rate”, otherwise known as life threatening wages. We’ll talk to the Executive Director of the Garment Worker Center, an organization that worked with the affected community to design...
Published 12/21/22