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Palestine Post: Addressing the Lebanese Border & Report from the West Bank

On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with Rami Khouri,a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East; we also speak with Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn, an independent reporter who recently returned to the US from the West Bank. This week’s Resistance … Continued


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New Heat Protection for CA Workers Excludes Prisons; Leonard Peltier Benefit; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Noa Gardner

As the summer continues to heat up, legislators in Sacramento are finally moving forward with protections for workers who work in overheated indoor conditions across the state. The rules have been caught up in limbo following the state prison system’s concern that it would simply be too expensive to renovate their facilities to make it … Continued


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DOJ Investigation on Phoenix Police; SF ‘Doesn’t Give a Damn What Goes on in its Jails’; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Noa Gardner

We start today’s show bringing you updates on the case of Jacob Harris who was murdered by the Phoenix police department in 2019. He was just 19 years old. We speak on the latest case updates with his father, Roland Harris, as well as Anti-Police Terror Project support organizer Refilwe Gqajela, alongside a conversation with … Continued


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Palestine Post: Doctor Returns from Gaza; CAIR Demands Condemnation of Israeli Treatment of Palestinian Detainees

On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with James Smith who recently returned to London following two months of performing emergency medical care in Gaza. We speak with him alongside Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of the Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR Press release calling on Biden Admin to condemn … Continued


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Juneteenth Reflections w/ Annette Gordon Reed; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Favianna Rodriguez

Today is the national holiday of Juneteenth, and so we’ll spend the hour in conversation with Annette Gordon Reed, an author and Harvard professor from Texas, descending from slaves who were directly impacted by the actual events of Juneteenth. We’ll be talking about her book On Juneteenth, which is both an essential account and a … Continued


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Basketball, Ascension, and Palestine w/ Hanif Abdurraqib; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Favianna Rodriguez

On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with the author of one of the most anticipated books of the year. The book is called There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, and it’s a poetic love letter to basketball; also to being rooted in Columbus Ohio, where the author has lived most of his … Continued


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Palestine Post: Mapping Pro-Palestine Repression in the US; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Favianna Rodriguez

First, we speak on the latest news and analysis from Israel’s aggression in Palestine with guest Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Then, a conversation about repression against US-based pro-Palestine demonstrators with guest Dylan Saba, a staff attorney at Palestine Legal … Continued


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Ancestral Healing from Syria to the Sinai; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Ashley Smiley

We’re joined on today’s show by the author of a brand new book that ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. In The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of … Continued