Janet Sui Jing Lumb, a great Montrealer, a musician, community organizer and activist.

In this episode we invite you to listen to Janet Lumb life story.

In this episode of Future is Now, you’ll hear a conversation about gentrification that co-producers Shahrzad Arshadi and Caroline Kunzle had with two scholars,  Aaron Vansintjan and Fred Burrill. Both Aaron and Fred have studied and organized around the question of gentrification for a long time. They share their thoughts on what it is, how it works and what we as artists -- and most importantly, as citizens -- can do to stop it. 

In this episode ,  I am focusing  on our Hopes and Dreams. What is the future we are wishing to live or wishing to leave behind for our children and grandchildren and the generations after us.

For that I asked different people to record their voices in order to  share their hopes and dreams with us. A beautiful collage!

Many of us have experienced atrocities by living through wars, brutal fundamentalist revolutions, dictatorship, political repressions and corrupted regimes and unwanted migration.

I am one of those people…

Time passes whether I want to or not, I am getting old and it makes me so sad to think this is the world that I am leaving behind for my grandchildren. It makes me think more than ever that  we must do something to stop this brutal machine. 

And this episode is a little trigger,  at least for some of us to think about the future and to  dream! 

Maybe by talking about our hopes and dreams we realize ( I mean our collective we) deserve a better life than what we have been offered by greedy capitalists and warlords.