by efc8d-admin | Oct 27, 2024 | Activism and Actions, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Ecological Justice, Environment and Biosphere
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with scholar-activists Naomi Paik and Ashley Dawson about the close connection between abolition and environmental activism from below. How are the twin projects raising profound questions about borders, carcerality, enclosures,...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 20, 2024 | Antifascism, Art and Cultural Resistance, Educational Liberation, Fascism, Indonesia
Today, Sunday morning, October 20, former general Prabowo Subianto is being sworn in as Indonesia’s new president. We release a conversation we had earlier this month with Intan Paramaditha and Michael Vann about the road leading up to this inauguration, beginning in...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 9, 2024 | Activism and Actions, Anti-Zionism, Palestine
Today we speak with Rebecca Vilkomerson and Rabbi Alissa Wise about their foundational work in starting and growing Jewish Voice for Peace. It’s a story captured in their new book, Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 3, 2024 | Activism and Actions, Palestine
The Palestine Exception opens as campus encampments increase across the US in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. In the largest anti-war movement since the 1970s, students, faculty and staff make demands on their institutions to divest from companies that do...
by efc8d-admin | Aug 27, 2024 | Politics and Culture
Today we speak with journalists and political commentators Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood about the state of the US Presidential elections. Recorded just after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we muse about Kamala Harris’s ascension, her choice of...
