by efc8d-admin | Oct 16, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Asian American, Youth Activism
Today I have the pleasure of talking with Supriya Khandelwal and Koa Tran, two members of the South Bay Youth Changemakers, and one of its co-directors, Amulya Mandava. This Asian American organization, located at the heart of Silicon Valley, seeks to both challenge...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 12, 2025 | Gender, Politics and Culture, Race
Today I have the honor and the pleasure of speaking with legal scholar Mary Anne Franks, about her book, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. As the title of the book indicates, this is a fearless and iconoclastic critique of the ways that the...
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 | Aug 23, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Educational Liberation, Politics and Culture, Race, Recovering Radical Histories
Today it’s my honor to speak with Danica Savonick about her marvelous book entitled Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College. This is a riveting and deeply inspiring story of...
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...
