The Lines We Live On was made to spark conversation.
These discussion guides are designed to help bring each episode into the spaces where it matters most: classrooms, community meetings, faith spaces, advocacy campaigns, and organizing work.
Whether you’re an educator, organizer, advocate, or community member, each guide offers context, discussion questions, and frameworks to go deeper with the stories and issues each episode explores.
Carry What We Cannot Keep
This guide accompanies the first episode, which follows mark! Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice. It covers themes of inheritance, legacy, and the fight for clean air in communities living closest to the freight system.
Inside you’ll find discussion questions, background on environmental justice and freight pollution, and tools to bring these conversations into classrooms, community spaces, and organizing work.
Ideal for educators, organizers, advocates, and anyone who wants to go deeper.