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In this episode, we hear an interview with Corey D. Fields, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. About Black Elephants: The book considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race … Continued
In the first half of this episode, we hear an interview taken at Standing Rock with Fred Hampton Jr., founder of the Black Panther Cubs, about the importance of Red-Black solidarity. Then, we hear an interview with Arsalan Iftikhar, author of the book, Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms.
In this episode host Salima Hamirani speaks with Jennifer Freidenbach, the Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, about the passage of San Francisco’s Proposition Q, and what that means for the city’s homeless. Then, we hear an interview with Baz Dreisinger, an Associate Professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice, who traveled for … Continued
In this episode, Mitch Jeserich speaks with Eileen Markey, a journalist and author of the book A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura, about the killings of three American-Catholic nuns in El Salvador in 1980. Then Cat Brooks speaks with Noura Erakat, an activist, attorney, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University about the Palestinian … Continued
In this episode we hear an interview with Chris Lehmann, author of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity and the Unmaking of the American Dream, about the history of American Protestantism’s obsession with financial prosperity, megachurches, and Donald Trump’s worship of positive thinking. Then we hear an interview with Gabriel Thompson, a journalist who wrote the … Continued
In this episode we hear an interview with Peter H. Irons about the constitutionality of the Japanese Internment during World War II. Irons is the author of many books, including Cases and Controversies : Civil Rights and Liberties in Context and A People’s History of the Supreme Court. Then we hear an interview with Cid Martinez, an anthropologist … Continued
In this episode we hear an interview with Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, about the various contemporary social movements in the US, from Black Lives Matter to Occupy. Then, we hear an interview with Ibram X. Kendi, author of the book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas … Continued
In this episode Salima Hamirani speaks with Hamid Khan, the campaign coordinator for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, about the NSEERS program, the original post 9/11 registry in the US, and the prospect for a renewed program under Trump. and then, she speaks with Dr. Satsuki Ina, a practicing psychotherapist who was born in Tule Lake Japanese internment … Continued
In the first half of the episode hosts Cat Brooks and Mitch Jeserich speak with Mong Palatino, political blogger and former Representative in the Philippine Congress, and Rhonda Ramiro, VP at Bayan USA, about the current dire situation in the Philippines under president Rodrigo Duterte. Then, they speak with Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood … Continued
In this episode we dig into the historical context of what’s going on in Aleppo with the help of Bassam Haddad, the Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies program at George Mason University, and Richard Becker, author, journalist and anti-war activist. Then we talk with representatives Qilombo, a radical community social center in Oakland, … Continued
