We talk to filmmaker Cheo Tyehimba Taylor about his new film East Oakland Rising. This documentary highlights the stories of everyday people coming together to build relationships and trust, knowledge and understanding, and collective determination to fight environmental racism, unfair housing policies, and gentrification in East Oakland, CA, one of the last predominantly-African American communities … Continued


Two prominent currents within ecosocialism are ecomodernism and degrowth. David Ravensbergen, in this first-time presentation of the full-length interview, describes and assesses the ecomodernist and degrowth positions; he also weighs in on “doomer politics” and the Green New Deal. Latham, Kingsmith, von Bargen, and Block, Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination Fernwood … Continued


Chuck Collins, Inequality.org, explains the relief package—and what’s possible.  PLUS: Rush, Murdoch, Ailes and Trump; the four horsemen of the media apocalypse, says Robert Lipsyte. Hosted by Kris Welch. Guests: Chuck Collins is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is author of … Continued


0:08 – More than 138 protesters have been killed in Myanmar military crackdown on resistance against its coup Seinenu Thein-Lemelson is a Burmese-American psychological anthropologist, currently a lecturer and post-doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Department at UCLA. 0:25 – Kayleigh Long is a researcher on Myanmar with Amnesty International. Their most recent report is “Myanmar: … Continued