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...
Activism and Actions
Resisting Silencing as Opinion Shifts on Israel: Nader Hashemi and Omar Shakir
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...
Ecosocialists Win Big Climate Bill in New York: Liza Featherstone Tells Us How, and Why It’s So Important
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,...
On the Obligation to KillJoy: Sara Ahmed on the Feminist Killjoy Handbook
Today we talk with Sara Ahmed about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. How and why is it that complaining about sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry, is considered impolite? How is civility uncivil, and the mandate to be...
Michael Hardt on Catching Up with the Subversive Seventies
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with Michael Hardt about his new book, The Subversive Seventies. This expansive study of a broad range of subversive movements across the globe shows us how the 70s were actually ahead of us in terms of confronting key issues...
Manijeh Moradian on Iranian Student Revolutionaries in the US–Diasporic Politics and Global Alliances
Today we talk with Manijeh Moradian about her book, This Flame within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States, which documents the formation of Iranian student activists in the US in the 1970s, and their impact on the Iranian revolution. This Flame Within is not...
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