by efc8d-admin | Oct 30, 2025 | Abolition, Activism and Actions, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Law and Violence, Politics and Culture, Race
In 2017, activist-scholar Robyn Maynard published her groundbreaking study, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Today, I have the privilege of talking with her about the second edition of this study, which has just been...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 5, 2025 | Abolition, Law and Violence, Migration and Borders, Race
Today I have the honor of speaking with longtime activist Silky Shah, Executive Director of the Detention Watch Network, about her new, and extremely important book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. Shah provides a critical discussion about the...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 14, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Politics and Culture
Last week, over 100 agents from nine federal agencies stormed a bucolic public park in Los Angeles, claiming it was a hotbed of terrorism and lawlessness. In fact, heavily armed soldiers in camouflage found a group of young children attending a summer camp. This was a...
by efc8d-admin | Jun 21, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Human Rights, Race, Transnational Solidarities
Today I speak with Gabrielle Apollon and Pooja Bhatia about the histories behind the persecution of Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and beyond. Targeted as exemplary “bad people” by demagogue Donald Trump, the stories of both the town and the people of...
by efc8d-admin | Jun 2, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Antifascism, Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Gender, Labor, Philosophy, Politics and Culture, Recovering Radical Histories, Technologies
Today I talk with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 to 2072. They imagine a world haunted by genocide, ecocide, disease, fascism, and viral capitalism, but...
