I talk to Silvia Ribero about the role that industrial food systems give rise to viruses such as swine flu, Covid19 etc. What are the processes involved that lead to this happening? Who are the corporations involved? How wide spread has this become? What is being done to challenge these kind of food systems? Why is […]
I spoke with Boaventura Monjane on the situation in Mozambique. He has a degree in journalism (Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo). His journalistic – and analysis – work was published in Mozambique, South Africa, Brazil, Spain, France and Portugal. He was the Portuguese editor of Pambazuka News. He is now pursuing a PhD at the University […]
We spoke to Kali Akuno of Coorperation Jackson about what the distribution of Covid in the USA tells us about the nature of racism and white supremacy. Kali highlights the organising that is happening across the USA towards May Day events and the building of a movement that can give birth to a new world.
I spoke with Lyn Ossome, Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, in Uganda. She received her PhD in Political Studies from Wits University. Her specializations and taught courses are in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with particular research interests in land and agrarian […]
Nathan Banda heads the health and safety project of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is the primary trade union federation in Zimbabwe. Currently Mr Japhet Moyo is the Sectratary General and Mr Peter Gift Mutasa is the President.The former General Secretary was Morgan Tsvangirai. Nathan discusses the […]
Ruth Nyambura is a feminist political ecologist and activist from Kenya working on the intersections of gender, economy and ecological justice. Ruth is a founding member and the convener of the African Ecofeminists Collective and also works with several regional agrarian and climate justice movements to track and challenge the privatization of the agrarian commons. […]
Rob Wallace, is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu (Monthly Review Press, 2016). He is an evolutionary biologist and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. This discussion will look into how viruses such as the new coronavirus get generated. We also discuss the extent to which, […]
I spoke with Soffiyah Elijah, ED of Alliance for Families for Justice, whose mission is to support, empower and mobilize those impacted by the criminal justice system so they can marshal their collective power to create a just world. We discuss organising on incarceration in the time of Covid-19 in the USA and specifically in […]
I talk with Andries du Toit: Director: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape. Food in the time of the Coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid. We talk about why we should be “very, very afraid”.
Today (Saturday April 4, 2020) I spoke with Alexssandro Robalo from Cabo Verde, an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Mauritania & Senegal. It was colonised by the Portuguese and became a major source of wealth from The Atlantic slave trade. As […]
I spoke with Elimane Kane, Founder and Chairman of LEGS-Africa (www.legs-africa.org), a pan African think tank based in Dakar. Elimane is a Governance and Development analyst and contributor to the Alternative report on Africa (AROA). The Alternative Report on Africa is a structuring initiative for new milestones towards the complete decolonization of our minds, our […]
Would you please consider obtaining the pamphlet/ manifesto, Rinky-Dink Revolution: Moving Beyond Capitalism by Withholding Consent, Creative Constructions, and Creative Destructions” and letting your contacts know about it? As you can see, it’s available mostly on a donation basis in several formats from Daraja Press , audiobook, and soon as a Monthly Review Essay (https://mronline.org/category/monthly-review-essays/). […]
We as the Women’s League of Abahlali baseMjondolo see the need to express our pain and fear, and our deep disappointment and anger at the eThekwini municipality. We need to issue a clear warning that we will not continue to accept oppression. Abahlali as a movement teaches respect. Men must respect women. People of different […]
TODAY April 2 at 1pm (GMT+1) Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2012 […]
We discuss the impact of the COVID19 epidemic on the Algerian uprisings with Hamza Hamouchene, a London-based Algerian scholar-activist, commentator, researcher, and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA).
Sally Kane talks about the role of community radio stations in the USA. Sally Kane is Chief Executive of the US National Federation of Community Broadcasters. She has twenty years of experience in the field of community radio. Based on her travels across the USA, she will speak about the conditions facing people in rural […]
Alyxandra Gomes Nunes, Brazilian, 48 yrs old, is based in Salvador da Bahia, the state where the majority of the population is black. She is a teacher and researcher on African Literature at UNEB (Bahia State University), Campus V, in Santo Antônio de Jesus City. She is also the former Portuguese language translator and editor […]
You will find here both video and audio versions Interview with S’bu Zikode, founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo about situation of COVID-19 on the day that lock-down began.
I talk to Silvia Ribero about the role that industrial food systems give rise to viruses such as swine flu, Covid19 etc. What are the processes involved that lead to this happening? Who are the corporations involved? How wide spread has this become? What is being done to challenge these kind of food systems? Why is […]
I spoke with Boaventura Monjane on the situation in Mozambique. He has a degree in journalism (Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo). His journalistic – and analysis – work was published in Mozambique, South Africa, Brazil, Spain, France and Portugal. He was the Portuguese editor of Pambazuka News. He is now pursuing a PhD at the University […]
We spoke to Kali Akuno of Coorperation Jackson about what the distribution of Covid in the USA tells us about the nature of racism and white supremacy. Kali highlights the organising that is happening across the USA towards May Day events and the building of a movement that can give birth to a new world.
I spoke with Lyn Ossome, Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, in Uganda. She received her PhD in Political Studies from Wits University. Her specializations and taught courses are in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with particular research interests in land and agrarian […]
Nathan Banda heads the health and safety project of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is the primary trade union federation in Zimbabwe. Currently Mr Japhet Moyo is the Sectratary General and Mr Peter Gift Mutasa is the President.The former General Secretary was Morgan Tsvangirai. Nathan discusses the […]
Ruth Nyambura is a feminist political ecologist and activist from Kenya working on the intersections of gender, economy and ecological justice. Ruth is a founding member and the convener of the African Ecofeminists Collective and also works with several regional agrarian and climate justice movements to track and challenge the privatization of the agrarian commons. […]
Rob Wallace, is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu (Monthly Review Press, 2016). He is an evolutionary biologist and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. This discussion will look into how viruses such as the new coronavirus get generated. We also discuss the extent to which, […]
I spoke with Soffiyah Elijah, ED of Alliance for Families for Justice, whose mission is to support, empower and mobilize those impacted by the criminal justice system so they can marshal their collective power to create a just world. We discuss organising on incarceration in the time of Covid-19 in the USA and specifically in […]
I talk with Andries du Toit: Director: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape. Food in the time of the Coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid. We talk about why we should be “very, very afraid”.
Today (Saturday April 4, 2020) I spoke with Alexssandro Robalo from Cabo Verde, an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Mauritania & Senegal. It was colonised by the Portuguese and became a major source of wealth from The Atlantic slave trade. As […]
I spoke with Elimane Kane, Founder and Chairman of LEGS-Africa (www.legs-africa.org), a pan African think tank based in Dakar. Elimane is a Governance and Development analyst and contributor to the Alternative report on Africa (AROA). The Alternative Report on Africa is a structuring initiative for new milestones towards the complete decolonization of our minds, our […]
We as the Women’s League of Abahlali baseMjondolo see the need to express our pain and fear, and our deep disappointment and anger at the eThekwini municipality. We need to issue a clear warning that we will not continue to accept oppression. Abahlali as a movement teaches respect. Men must respect women. People of different […]
TODAY April 2 at 1pm (GMT+1) Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2012 […]
We discuss the impact of the COVID19 epidemic on the Algerian uprisings with Hamza Hamouchene, a London-based Algerian scholar-activist, commentator, researcher, and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA).
Sally Kane talks about the role of community radio stations in the USA. Sally Kane is Chief Executive of the US National Federation of Community Broadcasters. She has twenty years of experience in the field of community radio. Based on her travels across the USA, she will speak about the conditions facing people in rural […]
Alyxandra Gomes Nunes, Brazilian, 48 yrs old, is based in Salvador da Bahia, the state where the majority of the population is black. She is a teacher and researcher on African Literature at UNEB (Bahia State University), Campus V, in Santo Antônio de Jesus City. She is also the former Portuguese language translator and editor […]
You will find here both video and audio versions Interview with S’bu Zikode, founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo about situation of COVID-19 on the day that lock-down began.
Would you please consider obtaining the pamphlet/ manifesto, Rinky-Dink Revolution: Moving Beyond Capitalism by Withholding Consent, Creative Constructions, and Creative Destructions” and letting your contacts know about it? As you can see, it’s available mostly on a donation basis in several formats from Daraja Press , audiobook, and soon as a Monthly Review Essay (https://mronline.org/category/monthly-review-essays/). […]
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