by efc8d-admin | Oct 14, 2023 | Activism and Actions, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Human Rights, Palestine, Transnational Solidarities
The volatile situation in Gaza has been grossly distorted in the mainstream western press. By omission, selective editorializing, and misstatement of so-called “facts,” a particular caricature has emerged that has invisibilized the Palestinian people, the history and...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 5, 2023 | Activism and Actions, Art and Cultural Resistance, Human Rights, New Books, Politics and Culture
On today’s episode we speak with two of the founders of the Polis Project—Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia—about their new book, How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners. We are also deeply honored that the eminent Dalit intellectual,...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Activism and Actions, Climate Crisis, Ecological Justice
Amidst great fanfare, Stanford University created the Doerr School for Sustainability, which immediately said that it would accept funding from the fossil fuel industry. A group of students has pushed back, and built an impressive movement to dissociate from such...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 21, 2023 | Activism and Actions, Palestine, Politics and Culture
Attacks on those protesting the Israeli state policies and practices which have maintained the violent dispossession of Palestinians have commonly misrepresented, distorted, and even manufactured disinformation. This has done great damage to the lives and careers of...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 17, 2023 | Activism and Actions, Climate Crisis, Ecological Justice
Today we talk with Liza Featherstone about this huge victory for ecosocialists, and for everybody actually, in New York, that came with the passage of a bold piece of legislation, the Build Public Renewables Act, or BPRA. Featherstone explains the genesis of the bill,...