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On today’s episode of our weekly Monday segment, The Palestine Post, we’re joined by Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East analyst and director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is the author of a brand new book, Understanding Palestine & Israel. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Phyllis Bennis’ new book: … Continued
On today’s show, we begin by exploring the human impact of transphobia on our transgender family and community members, in conversation with kai alviar horton, the Executive Director of Trans Lifeline, a peer support and crisis hotline offering phone support to transgender people. It is the first transgender crisis hotline to exist in the United … Continued
FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $180 and receive Brittany Friedman’s Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Carceral Apartheid delves into how the California prison system has deployed various official, clandestine, and at times extralegal control techniques to suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in … Continued
George McCalman is an artist and creative director based in San Francisco, who recently published The Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen. He joins us today to discuss the process he went through to narrow his list of historical figures from 500 to 145, his artistic process, and what it meant for him … Continued
The intersection of immigration, border enforcement, new technology and specifically artificial intelligence, is racing toward more intense and more violent border enforcement strategies that are fueled by problematic algorithms, that mostly replicate the social and economic systems of power and exclusion that western societies are rooted in. On today’s show, we’ll explore part of how … Continued
We start today’s show by returning to our recurring segment, the State Terror Roundup. Then, Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele has offered to house people who’ve been convicted of violent crimes in the United States after meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a new Salvadorean megaprison called Cecot. The offer came alongside an … Continued
On today’s show – cleaning up white supremacy sounds odd, but some white supremacists are pushing wellness and health while continuing to pedal hate. Joining us to discuss is Mark Hay, a freelance journalist based in New York. He covers conspiracy and far right movements among other topics. His recent article that we’re discussing today … Continued
A 2019 report showed that police violence is a leading cost of death for young Black men in the United States. About one in every 1,000 Black men can expect to be killed by the police, with the highest risk amongst all ethnic groups and genders between the ages of 20 and 35 years old. … Continued
Today’s guests for our weekly Palestine Post segment are: Laila is a Syrian-Palestinian law student and organizer with the Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement: a transnational grassroots organization of Palestinian and Arab Youth in the diaspora which fights Zionism and other forms of imperialism. This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is poet, … Continued
State Terror is a primary theme on this show – often emphasizing the myriad things that go wrong when cops enter a situation they are not built for, trained for, or even wanting to engage in. One of those situations is mental health crisis. Around fifty percent of all folks murdered by law enforcement are … Continued
