by efc8d-admin | Nov 14, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Empire and Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, Poetry, Politics and Culture, Transnational Solidarities
Today I am deeply honored to spend time with poet, activist, and scholar Jamaica Osorio. Shortly after October 7, 2023, she began to write a series of astonishing poems about the war in Gaza and the genocide. Osorio graces us with readings of some of those poems, and...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 26, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Africa, Capitalism, Sudan, Transnational Solidarities
Today I talk with Professor Nisrin Elamin about the situation in Sudan, where we find both a war between rival factions and these same factions continuing counter-revolutionary campaign against pro-democracy forces. We discuss how regional actors such as the United...
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 | Oct 8, 2025 | Ecology, Environment and Biosphere, Science
Today I am delighted to speak with primatologist Christine Webb about her new book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters. The title of the book itself is a concise and precise description of its two constituent halves. First, Webb...
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...
