Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch sits down with Davida of North Bay Jobs with Justice in this episode of Think Hopeful, Act Local. Based in Sonoma County, Davida is supporting the development of SEMU — Semillas y Manos Unidas — an emerging immigrant worker cooperative creating a just transition for farm workers and day laborers as the wine industry declines. SEMU's mission is to put land care work into the hands of the people doing it: training workers in fire mitigation, prescribed burns, and vegetation management, building democratic self-governance structures, and growing a worker-owned model rooted in both climate resilience and economic dignity.

Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch sits down with Flavio Martinez, Diego Rodriguez Zamora, and Mercedes de la Torre of In-Advance and the Oakland Freedom Project in this episode of Think Hopeful, Act Local. Based in Oakland's flatland communities historically shaped by redlining and disinvestment, In-Advance runs the Oakland Freedom Project, a community-led initiative that turns political education into action. The organization's mission is to build power from the ground up by training everyday residents in community organizing, creating spaces of belonging through art, theater, and shared meals, and running campaigns driven by the people most affected.

Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch interviews Isaiah Powell of Dragonspunk GRO in this episode of Think Hopeful, Act Local. Isaiah is President of the organic urban farm, which is located on a former dumping ground in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point. The organization’s mission is to bridge the food-access gap in an area designated as a food desert by providing affordable organic produce directly to neighborhood residents while also serving as a community resource and educational space.Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠blueheartaction.org/signup⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a monthly donation⁠.

This conversation is between Blue Heart and Auntie Frances Moore, the founder and visionary behind Self Help Hunger Program. SHHP is a grassroots organization based in North Oakland and South Berkeley that uses food as a tool to organize community, provide essential support services, and act as a steward of local land.Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠blueheartaction.org/signup⁠⁠⁠ with a monthly donation⁠.This interview was conducted by Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch.

This conversation is between Blue Heart and Tiny from POOR Magazine. Tiny is an organizer and Poverty Skola, and POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across Mama Earth.Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at ⁠⁠⁠blueheartaction.org/signup⁠⁠ with a monthly donation⁠.This interview was conducted by Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch.

The Regional Tenant Organizing Network (RTO) brings together local organizing efforts from over sixteen jurisdictions across six counties that fight for tenant rights.Blue Heart Director Eva Orbuch interviews James Huynh, Director of Regional Tenant Organizing Network in this inspiring episode of the Think Hopeful, Act Local Podcast.In it, Eva and James discuss tenant organizing on many levels, from 1:1 counseling to the more strategic interventions RTO works on. They cover personal motives for wanting to see this work get traction as well as ways to motivate others to engage.Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠blueheartaction.org/signup⁠⁠⁠ with a monthly donation⁠.

Bay Resistance is a powerful network of community organizations, unions and neighborhood groups organizing to defend our communities and defeat fascism in the Bay Area.Blue Heart Director Eva Orbuch interviewed Bay Rising Director Kimi Lee in this episode of the Think Hopeful, Act Local Podcast, where they discuss rapid response action, organizing against fascism at various levels, and the various roles allies and supporters can play in this work.Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at ⁠⁠⁠blueheartaction.org/signup⁠⁠ with a monthly donation⁠.

This conversation is between Blue Heart and Egypt Ina Marie Derensberg-King of The Healing Place, based out of Castro Valley. The Healing Place offers a range of holistic healing services including a mobile petting zoo, stress management clinics, and various ways of coming into body awareness, and connecting with animals and to the land.Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at ⁠⁠blueheartaction.org/signup⁠ with a monthly donation⁠.This interview was conducted by Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch.

This conversation is between Blue Heart and Indy, Dee and Dr. Charlie of Cultivating Self, an educational institution providing integrative healing to support clinicians, patient advocates, community healers, and healthcare administrators.You can connect with them and donate on their website. Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at ⁠blueheartaction.org/signup with a monthly donation⁠.This interview was conducted by Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch.

This conversation is between Blue Heart and ⁠Pep Talk⁠ AKA PRE-ENTRY PLATFORM (P.E.P.), which offers resources to incarcerated individuals planning re-entry.You can connect with them and learn about upcoming events on their website. NOTE: the audio quality is not up to our usual standard, due to a real-time lockdown of the institution at the time of recording; there are multiple breaks where the interviewee ran out of time on the available phones and had to dial back in.Join the movement of Grassroots Giving by becoming a Blue Heart member at https://www.blueheartaction.org/signup.This interview was conducted by Blue Heart's Director Eva Orbuch.