by efc8d-admin | Apr 10, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Antifascism, Educational Liberation, Palestine
Today we talk with members of the organizing collective of the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, or CAHE, about their second National Day of Action, taking place on Thursday, April 17. The Day of Action is a call for free higher education in every meaning of...
by efc8d-admin | Feb 2, 2025 | Abolition, Activism and Actions, Educational Liberation, Law and Violence
Today I am delighted to have Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson on Speaking Out of Place to discuss their new book, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. We talk about what inspired them to commission a wide range of amazing activists, artists, scholars...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 12, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Educational Liberation, Environment and Biosphere, Gender, Indigenous Rights, Race
Today on Speaking Out of Place I have the honor of talking with Professor Christen A Smith on a new book she has co-edited entitled, The Dialectic is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento. Smith explains that “Beatriz Nascimento was a critical...
by efc8d-admin | Dec 26, 2024 | Educational Liberation, Labor, Politics and Culture, Technologies
Today on Speaking Out of Place I talk with Lindsay Weinberg and Robert Ovetz about the use of Artificial Intelligence in higher education. Under the guise of “personalizing” education and increasing efficiency, universities are increasingly sold on AI as a cure to...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 16, 2024 | Capitalism, Politics and Culture
On today’s show we talk with journalists, activists, and political commentators, Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood about the recent Presidential elections. We try to make sense of the fact that a convicted felon, proud misogynist, outright racist, authoritarian...