Ep 242 - On the Line with Asiaha Butler of RAGE Englewood

From the isolation of our homes, AirGo is presenting a series called On the Line, which focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and the people putting their bodies on the line to help us all survive and heal. Over the next few weeks, we'll be hopping on the line with workers in the health care, educational, governmental, organizing, and prison abolition spheres to talk about what their work looks like right now, and what we can do to help as we isolate our physical bodies at home. This episode's guest is Asiaha Butler, the cofounder of the Resident Association of Greater Englewood, aka RAGE. Asiaha talks about the pandemic-related shift in the communal development of the mind RAGE does, how she's built a food distribution system for the seniors in Englewood, and how she creates communal development while fighting against displacement.

Big thanks to AirGo Alum Tonika Lewis Johnson for the connection!

Support the work of RAGE Englewood: https://ragenglewood.org/

Recorded 5/9/20 in Chicago Music from this week's episode: Park - Isaiah Rashad