The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting ‘non-white’, racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, have been race neutral or wilfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. In this interview, […]
Rene Loewenson speaks to Firoze Manji: ON THE PODCASTS THEMSELVES 1. Your interviews have covered a wide range of countries, social groups, organising spaces, areas of struggle – what have you perceived as common across them? what has been unique or different? a. There are many rich, interesting podcasts – If you had to name […]
Shemon Salam & Arturo Castillon discuss their new pamphlet on the meaning of the George Floyd Uprising (https://darajapress.com/…/insurgent-possibilities…)
This book launch is a conversation between Andrés and Brian Murphy.
I speak with Brown Motsau from the Bench Marks Foundation and Kea Feipato from AIDC in Cape Town, South Africa about the most important issues arising from the Indaba, what progress or otherwise has been made on the demand for communities to say no! and to discuss what have been the impact of COVID-19 both […]
I speak with Juliet Wanjira and Maryanne Kasina about COVID-19 in Nairobi. Juliet Wanjira is co-founder of the Mathare social justice centers, founder Matigari kids book club, member of the social justice movement working group and women in social justice centers.I am a grassroots human right defender passionate about advocating for dignified lives in informal settlements […]
You may recall that I spoke to Mostafa Henaway last May about the scale of infections and deaths due to Coronavirus, affecting migrant workers, frontline workers, and those living in crowded accommodation. I thought it would be helpful to have an update on the current situation in Montreal. Mostafa Henaway is a longtime community organizer […]
I speak with Dr Rene Loewenson, a Zimbabwean epidemiologist and director of Training and Research Support Centre. After teaching for a decade at the University of Zimbabwe Medical school, she led a health department in the national trade union congress in the 1990s, worked with the African continental trade union body in health programmes and is […]
Access to health technologies (vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, PPE, ventilators etc) depends on the ability for distributed local production. Nationalism and protectionism on these technologies has implied a sustained struggle to get sufficient access to meet population needs, and global measures such as CTAP (for voluntary patent pooling) and COVAX (for vaccine and technology pooling) have […]
Over the last few months we have seen the emergence of several successful mutations of COVID-19, famously in the UK where Rob Wallace named it the Bo-Jo virus! I speak with Rob Wallace to get a better understanding of the political and other conditions that favour the emergence of viable viruses. This is a follow […]
I spok with to Samir on Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 11:00 am EST. Samir Shaheen-Hussain has been involved in anti-authoritarian social justice movements – including Indigenous solidarity, anti-police brutality and migrant-justice organizing – for nearly two decades. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective, and has written or co-written about […]
Sylvia Tamale, author of Decolonization and Afro-Feminism, will be discussing her new book with Charmaine Pereira, writer and feminist scholar in Abuja, Nigeria. In this extraordinary and erudite book, Sylvia Tamale, the distinguished Ugandan scholar and public intellectual, brilliantly dissects and demolishes the dangerous tropes of coloniality that distort our understanding of African societies, cultures, […]
Firoze Manji interviews Kali Akuno on Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Banamallika Choudhury is a feminist social activist and development consultant based in Guwhati, Assam. She is the Executive Director of Women’s Leadership Training Centre and a co-founder of NEthing – an art and culture collective for social change. She does feminist participatory action research, writes on gender and social issues and organises women led grassroots feminist actions […]
I speak to Dr Saerom KIM and Professor Chang-Yup KIM about how Korea has been dealing with COVID-19 Saerom KIM, MD, Ph.D., MPH, is a director of Gender and Health research center at the People’s Health Institute, Korea. The focus of the research area is participation, empowerment, gender, and power in health-related decision making. Saerom […]
Emem Okon is a feminist activist, grassroots mobilizer, gender specialist, social change advocate, pan-africanist and a development practitioner who has successfully led grassroots campaigns in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and in the African region with over 20 years experience in the non-profit sector and specializes in practical issues associated with gender, women empowerment, […]
Timothy A. Wise is a Senior Adviser at IATP, where his work focuses on the Future of Food, based on his recent book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press). Tim has a long history of collaboration with IATP, on issues including agricultural dumping, U.S. agricultural […]
Paul Christian Namphy works on the nexus between water / sanitation / hygiene (WASH), the health sector, and community involvement, in Haiti. Formerly in the public sector in the struggle to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene services in displaced-persons’ camps after the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the to eliminate cholera in Haiti […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting ‘non-white’, racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, have been race neutral or wilfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. In this interview, […]
Rene Loewenson speaks to Firoze Manji: ON THE PODCASTS THEMSELVES 1. Your interviews have covered a wide range of countries, social groups, organising spaces, areas of struggle – what have you perceived as common across them? what has been unique or different? a. There are many rich, interesting podcasts – If you had to name […]
Shemon Salam & Arturo Castillon discuss their new pamphlet on the meaning of the George Floyd Uprising (https://darajapress.com/…/insurgent-possibilities…)
This book launch is a conversation between Andrés and Brian Murphy.
I speak with Brown Motsau from the Bench Marks Foundation and Kea Feipato from AIDC in Cape Town, South Africa about the most important issues arising from the Indaba, what progress or otherwise has been made on the demand for communities to say no! and to discuss what have been the impact of COVID-19 both […]
I speak with Juliet Wanjira and Maryanne Kasina about COVID-19 in Nairobi. Juliet Wanjira is co-founder of the Mathare social justice centers, founder Matigari kids book club, member of the social justice movement working group and women in social justice centers.I am a grassroots human right defender passionate about advocating for dignified lives in informal settlements […]
You may recall that I spoke to Mostafa Henaway last May about the scale of infections and deaths due to Coronavirus, affecting migrant workers, frontline workers, and those living in crowded accommodation. I thought it would be helpful to have an update on the current situation in Montreal. Mostafa Henaway is a longtime community organizer […]
I speak with Dr Rene Loewenson, a Zimbabwean epidemiologist and director of Training and Research Support Centre. After teaching for a decade at the University of Zimbabwe Medical school, she led a health department in the national trade union congress in the 1990s, worked with the African continental trade union body in health programmes and is […]
Access to health technologies (vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, PPE, ventilators etc) depends on the ability for distributed local production. Nationalism and protectionism on these technologies has implied a sustained struggle to get sufficient access to meet population needs, and global measures such as CTAP (for voluntary patent pooling) and COVAX (for vaccine and technology pooling) have […]
Over the last few months we have seen the emergence of several successful mutations of COVID-19, famously in the UK where Rob Wallace named it the Bo-Jo virus! I speak with Rob Wallace to get a better understanding of the political and other conditions that favour the emergence of viable viruses. This is a follow […]
I spok with to Samir on Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 11:00 am EST. Samir Shaheen-Hussain has been involved in anti-authoritarian social justice movements – including Indigenous solidarity, anti-police brutality and migrant-justice organizing – for nearly two decades. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective, and has written or co-written about […]
Sylvia Tamale, author of Decolonization and Afro-Feminism, will be discussing her new book with Charmaine Pereira, writer and feminist scholar in Abuja, Nigeria. In this extraordinary and erudite book, Sylvia Tamale, the distinguished Ugandan scholar and public intellectual, brilliantly dissects and demolishes the dangerous tropes of coloniality that distort our understanding of African societies, cultures, […]
Firoze Manji interviews Kali Akuno on Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Banamallika Choudhury is a feminist social activist and development consultant based in Guwhati, Assam. She is the Executive Director of Women’s Leadership Training Centre and a co-founder of NEthing – an art and culture collective for social change. She does feminist participatory action research, writes on gender and social issues and organises women led grassroots feminist actions […]
I speak to Dr Saerom KIM and Professor Chang-Yup KIM about how Korea has been dealing with COVID-19 Saerom KIM, MD, Ph.D., MPH, is a director of Gender and Health research center at the People’s Health Institute, Korea. The focus of the research area is participation, empowerment, gender, and power in health-related decision making. Saerom […]
Emem Okon is a feminist activist, grassroots mobilizer, gender specialist, social change advocate, pan-africanist and a development practitioner who has successfully led grassroots campaigns in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and in the African region with over 20 years experience in the non-profit sector and specializes in practical issues associated with gender, women empowerment, […]
Timothy A. Wise is a Senior Adviser at IATP, where his work focuses on the Future of Food, based on his recent book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press). Tim has a long history of collaboration with IATP, on issues including agricultural dumping, U.S. agricultural […]
Paul Christian Namphy works on the nexus between water / sanitation / hygiene (WASH), the health sector, and community involvement, in Haiti. Formerly in the public sector in the struggle to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene services in displaced-persons’ camps after the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the to eliminate cholera in Haiti […]
