0:08 – We start in Sri Lanka where months of mass demonstration have pushed the president to flee the country. The government appears to be in the process of falling as people protest intense economic insecurity. We’re first joined by Luwie Ganeshathasan, a lawyer and consultant with the Centre for Policy Alternatives (@CPASL), which is a research and advocacy organization based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We’re also joined by Mythri Jegathesan (@MythriJega), Professor of Anthropology at Santa Clara University, and author of Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka.
0:34 – Turning to yesterday’s congressional proceedings to investigate the January 6th attack on the capitol, which focused particularly on militia and militant groups which were involved, we dive in with Amy Cooter (@AmyCooter), a senior lecturer in sociology at Vanderbilt University. She’s an expert in the United States militia movement.
1:08 – There are not many places in the modern world where anarchist politics have played a defining role in shaping governing social structures. Following the social, political and military developments in the Kurdish parts of Northern Syria that became organized during the civil war there has followed anarchist principles – once known as Rojava, now the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. Janet Beihl (@jbiehlvt), has visited the region numerous times to trace the influence of her longtime collaborator Murray Bookchin, and authored her new graphic novel Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS.