by efc8d-admin | Mar 16, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Antiracism, Politics and Culture, Race
Today, on Speaking Out of Place, I have the pleasure of talking with Say Burgin about her book, Organizing on Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit. Tracing the changing terrain of anti-racist organizing and activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Burgin’s...
by efc8d-admin | Feb 9, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Capitalism, Indigenous Rights, Political Economies, Politics and Culture, Socialism
Starting in the autumn of 2025, the US began attacking small civilian boats in or near Venezuelan waters, summarily executing over 126 people. January, 2026 began with it kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and bringing them to the US. This...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Politics and Culture, Race, The Arts
Today I am deeply honored to speak with novelist, essayist, and scholar Yuri Herrera about his new novel, Season of the Swamp, which is a deeply researched and dazzlingly imagined account of Benito Juarez’s time spent in exile in New Orleans. We talk about what that...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 19, 2026 | Abolition, Activism and Actions, Human Rights, Migration and Borders, Politics and Culture
Today I am happy to speak with Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky about their co-edited volume, Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, which was based on a Sawyer Seminar they convened at UCLA. The essays collected in this book are international in scope...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 8, 2026 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Indigenous Rights, Journalism, Politics and Culture, The Arts
Today I have the true honor of speaking with journalist, storyteller, historical researcher, and Native American ceremonial dancer Julian Brave Noisecat about his book, We Survived the Night. This highly original book blends many voices and registers, from both...
