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On today’s show, we return to our weekly Monday segment The Palestine Post. We start in conversation about a recent report released on the impacts of Israel’s aggressions in Gaza on children in the area. We’re in conversation with Kim McCall, the Executive Director for Children in Conflict, whose UK-based partner organization called War Child … Continued
On today’s show we’ll speak with Kanahus Manuel, founder of the Tiny House Warrior Movement, speaking about the Alberta Tar Sands and the recent Justin Trudeau resignation. Learn more about the Tiny House Warrior Movement here: https://www.ip3action.org/tiny-house-warriors-for-the-homelands/ Then, Terria Smith is the director of Hedey’s Berkeley’s Roundhouse Program and editor of News from Native California Magazine. … Continued
The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with the Antioch Police Department following a series of scandals including a racist text messaging circuit amongst officers. In this episode we discuss the Department of Justice’s oversight ruling on the Antioch Police Department with Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker. Then, a long-term substitute teacher in Clovis, California, … Continued
On today’s show we speak with Marisa Almor with East Bay Sanctuary Covenant about what their organization is doing to support immigrants as we move into another US Trump presidency, anticipating anti-immigrant legislation and deportation regime. Marisa Almor speaks about two upcoming events at La Peña Cultural Center – the first on January 12, arming … Continued
Our Palestine Post guests this morning are Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies and Samer Araabi from the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is pianist, trumpeter, composer, and music producer who dabbles on the borders of jazz and hip hop, Javier Santiago. Check out Javier Santiago’s website: … Continued
We’ll spend the hour today in conversation with Christopher Blackwell, an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center. He is serving a 45-year prison sentence for taking another human’s life during a drug robbery and has been incarcerated since 2003. We’ll talk about the book he’s contributing to about the terrors of solitary … Continued
On today’s show – a powerful conversation with author and activist Shourideh Molavi about her new book Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance which chronicles the legacy of land control, degradation and theft as part of the Zionist war chest. We talk perimeters, environmental warfare and crop control and the … Continued
The courthouse is an important part of every story of mass incarceration in America and, too often, it is a place of powerlessness for those facing criminal charges, their families, and their communities. But the courthouse can also be an important site of resistance, a place where Americans affected by incarceration can become agents of … Continued
Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble of storytellers and theater makers hailing from the mountains of central Appalachia. In its decades since its founding in 1975, the ensemble has taken on the task of people’s theater, engaging social issues and abandoning the ‘fourth wall’ concept in order to bring audiences into the process of cultural … Continued
In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years … Continued
