AEWCH 301: UNA MULLALLY on HOW TO SAVE YOUR CITY

Against Everyone with Conner Habib

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Friends: We need ideas which are not just radical or "revolutionary." We need ideas, feelings, and actions that work on many levels; that are systemic; that have multiple potentials for realization, and have enough points of articulation that they can touch on their own fabric and maneuver to witness themselves.

And what better place to start then the ground beneath your feet: where you live?

After all, you see the place you live every day. It's entered you as a daily language of patterns. It's become a set of expectations for your feet as you move through the morning. It lives in your lungs and gives your eyes nourishment. And I'm sure it also frustrates you sometimes, makes you feel blocked and angry. You might feel threatened there or bored. But I hope you also find joy, surprise, and feel held by where you live, greeted by each of its days.

When my friend and collaborator - the artist, organizer, and journalist UNA MULLALLY - released her new 10-part podcast series SAVING THE CITY , I found in it a perfect representation of that transformative ideal we need.

I also knew that Una and I had different ideas of what we wanted from cities. I like cars, I have trouble with a lot of bigger cities that Una loves. I even like an area of Dublin that Una has... let's say, different feelings about. But this is exactly right for transformation of a place- discussing with your neighbors what you want, what your concerns are, but most importantly what would bring you joy, piece of mind, excitement, potential, opportunity in the city

This is a long episode, and like a city, it encourages a sort of wandering. Stop along the way any time you want, think about how it will apply to where you live whether it's a city or somewhere else. I'm so excited to share this episode with you.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Well, we're beyond resistance, aren't we? I've always said this, but I think
0:08.0	it's becoming apparent more than ever that we need not just critiques, but actual propositions.
0:15.0	We need ideas which are not just radical or revolutionary, but ideas, feelings, and actions that work on many levels that are
0:24.3	systemic, that have multiple potentials for realization, and have enough points of entryway for
0:31.9	communities, differing people with differing beliefs to enter in, and also enough points of articulation
0:39.0	that they can touch on their own fabric and maneuver to witness themselves.
0:44.4	What better place to start than the ground beneath your feet, where you live?
0:50.7	After all, you see the place you live every day.
0:53.6	It's entered you as a daily language of patterns and forms.
0:57.3	It's become a set of expectations for your feet as you move through the morning. It lives in your lungs and gives your eyes nourishment.
1:05.0	And I'm sure it also frustrates you sometimes. It makes you feel blocked and angry or even threatened or worse, perhaps,
1:13.1	bored. But I hope you also find where you live, joy, surprise, connection to others, and a feeling
1:21.0	of being held, greeted by each of this place's days.
1:31.9	When my friend and collaborator, the artist, organizer, and journalist Una Malali,
1:36.4	released her new 10-part podcast series, Saving the City,
1:40.8	I just found it to be a perfect representation of that transformative ideal that we need now. Through interviews, recordings in
1:47.5	multiple locations across Dublin, reflections and suggestions for exercises, she covers everything
1:52.8	about where we live, from beautification of cities to crime, housing crises, to how trees and
1:59.4	animals fit into where we live, into urban and suburban
2:02.7	landscapes, public spaces, waterways, and more.
2:07.6	Una and her interviewees identify problems, yes, but their real direction and the real
2:12.9	indication of the show is towards effort, effort to stimulate and nourish the good, and even where it can be
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