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00:08 Rwanda at war in the DRC: the fall of Goma Zachariah Mampilly is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the CUNY Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, where he is also the Co-Founder of the Program on African Social Research. 00:36 Immigration raids and your rights Jehan Laner is Senior Staff Attorney … Continued
00:08 — Ahmad Abuznaid is Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights. 00:33 — Jeff St. John is the director of news and special projects at Canary Media, a nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis.
00:08 — Laura Carlsen is the director of the Mexico-City based international relations think tank Mira: Feminisms y Democracies. 00:33 — Nathan Tankus is the Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He also writes the newsletter Notes on the Crises.
00:08 — Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist writing for the Electronic Intifada. His latest book is Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn. 00:33 — Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism … Continued
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
00:08 — Steve Phillips is Founder of Democracy in Color. His latest book is How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good. 00:33 — Alexei Koseff covers state politics for Calmatters. Ben Christopher is a reporter for CalMatters covering housing policy.
00:08 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 00:33 — Gregg Gonsalves is Associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership.
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies. 00:33 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. .
00:08 Rabbi Alissa Wise is currently the Lead Organizer and Co-founder of Rabbis for Ceasefire, Rebecca Vilkomerson is former Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace and now Co-Director of the Funding Freedom project. They’ve co-authored the book Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing.
00:08 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria. 00:33 — Camille Pannu, is the Founder and Director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Clinic at Columbia Law School. 00:45 … Continued
