by efc8d-admin | Oct 20, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Africa, Congo, Human Rights, Politics and Culture
How have young people in rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo invented new forms of radicalism in response to the impact of new flows of foreign investment and the inability of normal national and international politics to serve their needs and interests?...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 29, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Palestine
Today I have the real pleasure of speaking with Maytha Alhassen and Halah Ahmad, two prominent feminist activists, writers, and scholars deeply committed to exploring the connections between the Arabic language, storytelling, and political agency, from the historical...
by efc8d-admin | Aug 4, 2025 | Capitalism, Politics and Culture, Race
Today I talk with Rahim Kurwa about a powerful study of housing rights and police repression in Southern California. Tapping into a vast historical archive as well as oral histories with residents of Antelope Valley, California, Rahim traces the complex relationship...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 27, 2025 | Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Environment and Biosphere
Today we welcome Malcolm Harris back to the show. Previously he talked with us about his mammoth study, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. This time we are looking not at a history of Capitalism and the World, but our possible futures...
by efc8d-admin | Jul 20, 2025 | Africa, Politics and Culture
Today we talk with Samar Al-Bulushi about her rich and complex work on Kenya, which, across multiple scales of time and place, discovers how the War on Terror both tapped into colonial ideologies of the past and present-day political calculations at the intersection...
