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 16, 2025 | Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Politics and Culture
Today I have the pleasure of speaking with cultural anthropologist Greta YOU-LING about her new book, Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom, a fascinating story about an indigenous group in Crimea fighting for its rights. ...
by efc8d-admin | Aug 9, 2025 | Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Politics and Culture
How do not only monuments, but also the very idea of monumentality, serve to mystify and perpetuate beliefs that maintain social orders that deserve to be strenuously re-evaluated? Archaeologist and anthropologist Dan Hicks traces the development of a particularly...
by efc8d-admin | Aug 6, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Antifascism, Fascism, Human Rights, Race
Today we speak with Daniela Navin and Jeanette de La Riva, two members of Grupo Auto Defensa, a community organization based in Pasadena CA which has come about in response to attacks by ICE which have violently disrupted everyday life and led people to form new...
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...
