I speak with Asad Rehman about climate justice, the importance of internationalism, and Organising in the time of Covid-19 Asad Rehman is the executive director of the radical anti-poverty and social justice charity War on Want, working to achieve a vision of a just world, through their mission to fight against the root causes of […]
I speak with Yasser Munif. He is a Sociology Assistant Professor in the institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College where he teaches courses about social movements, the Arab uprisings, gender in the middle east, and the history of racism. He is the author of “The Syrian Revolution: between the politics of life and the […]
I will be discussing with Dalit poet Chandramohan S his new book – Love after Babel, published by Daraja Press https://darajapress.com/publication/love-after-babel-and-other-poems. This comes out at a time of the Covid19 crisis in which Dalit people, long exploited and oppressed, face serious threats in India. We will be speaking to Chandramohan in Trivandrum.
I speak with Ajamu Dillahunt on the impact of COVID-19 on people in North Carolina, racism and the struggle of organising in the time of Covid-19. A native of New York City, Ajamu has lived in N.C. since 1978. He is a retired postal worker who served as President of the Raleigh Area Local of […]
I speak with two activist members of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists about organising in the time of Covid Frieda Afary is a librarian, translator, producer of Iranian Progressives in Translation and member of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists. Lara al-Kateb is a Syrian gender studies researcher […]
I speak with Mahmoud Zwahre who is a Palestinian grassroots activist and academic. He is living in Al Ma’sara village, 10 KM to the south of Bethlehem. Mahmoud finished his PhD in Peace and conflict resolution studies from Coventry University in April 2019. The title of his thesis was “Mobilization and Demobilization of Palestinian Society […]
Consistent with the island’s history of medical internationalism, Cuba has sent medical brigades to many countries to combat the virus. A brigade of 52 doctors and nurses was sent to Lombardi, Italy—the hardest hit region in the hardest hit country at the time. The Cuban government has dispatched hundreds of doctors and medical personnel to […]
I speak with Eurig Scandrett & Ros Walker, both active trade unionists in Scotland, UK. Eurig talks about the pandemic reaching Britain whilst UCU was in a national dispute over pay and equalities, in the context of neoliberal commercialisation and new public management throughout higher education. During the national dispute, the relationship between local branch […]
I speak to Gacheke Gachihi from the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Gacheke spoke to us a couple of weeks ago, and we go back to catch up on news about the coercion and repression being used against people in the time of Covid-19
I speak to Joël E. Vorbe from Haiti. He is a member of the National Council for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled (CONARHAN), an entity which reflects on the problem of people living with disabilities in order to make proposals for public policies to improve their living conditions. This fan of Fidel Castro, of Nelson […]
Nick Dearden talks about a debt jubilee. As director, Nick Dearden manages the staff team and resources on behalf of Global Justice Now’s members. He is also the public face of the organisation. Nick started his career at War on Want where he became a senior campaigner. He went on to be corporates campaign manager […]
This is such a terrific interview and analysis of the conditions of rural people in India, that I decided to re-post this interview here. I was hoping to interview P. Sainath myself — he is easily India’s foremost journalists on the struggles of rural India — but Frank Barat has done an excellent job at […]
I talk with Coumba Toure and Lamin Mohammed about Covid19 in Senegal and in Africa. Coumba is, writer, story-teller, member of the African Feminist Forum and the Per Ankh collective. She is a board member of TrustAfrica and an Ambassador of Africans Rising for peace justice and dignity. She has serve on the board of […]
I speak with I speak with Sandew Hira, penname of Dew Baboeram. He is director of the Institute for Scientific Research (IISR) in The Hague. IISR is an institute for research into Decolonizing The Mind. IISR publishes a book series title Decolonizing The Mind with Amrit Publishers. Hira studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam […]
I interview Cesare Ottolini, global Coordinator International Alliance of Inhabitants, Italy, is a former squatter, engaged since 1977 in global / local struggles for the right to housing and the city, he was also the secretary of a Trade Union of the building, former world coordinator of Habitat International Coalition, also a member of UN-HABITAT […]
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Researcher and Professor of Sociology at Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She has done research about indigenous movements in Latin American and more recently about the feminist struggles. She has participated deeply in those struggles she writes and thinks about. Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and […]
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 […]
I speak with Asad Rehman about climate justice, the importance of internationalism, and Organising in the time of Covid-19 Asad Rehman is the executive director of the radical anti-poverty and social justice charity War on Want, working to achieve a vision of a just world, through their mission to fight against the root causes of […]
I speak with Yasser Munif. He is a Sociology Assistant Professor in the institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College where he teaches courses about social movements, the Arab uprisings, gender in the middle east, and the history of racism. He is the author of “The Syrian Revolution: between the politics of life and the […]
I will be discussing with Dalit poet Chandramohan S his new book – Love after Babel, published by Daraja Press https://darajapress.com/publication/love-after-babel-and-other-poems. This comes out at a time of the Covid19 crisis in which Dalit people, long exploited and oppressed, face serious threats in India. We will be speaking to Chandramohan in Trivandrum.
I speak with Ajamu Dillahunt on the impact of COVID-19 on people in North Carolina, racism and the struggle of organising in the time of Covid-19. A native of New York City, Ajamu has lived in N.C. since 1978. He is a retired postal worker who served as President of the Raleigh Area Local of […]
I speak with two activist members of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists about organising in the time of Covid Frieda Afary is a librarian, translator, producer of Iranian Progressives in Translation and member of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists. Lara al-Kateb is a Syrian gender studies researcher […]
I speak with Mahmoud Zwahre who is a Palestinian grassroots activist and academic. He is living in Al Ma’sara village, 10 KM to the south of Bethlehem. Mahmoud finished his PhD in Peace and conflict resolution studies from Coventry University in April 2019. The title of his thesis was “Mobilization and Demobilization of Palestinian Society […]
Consistent with the island’s history of medical internationalism, Cuba has sent medical brigades to many countries to combat the virus. A brigade of 52 doctors and nurses was sent to Lombardi, Italy—the hardest hit region in the hardest hit country at the time. The Cuban government has dispatched hundreds of doctors and medical personnel to […]
I speak with Eurig Scandrett & Ros Walker, both active trade unionists in Scotland, UK. Eurig talks about the pandemic reaching Britain whilst UCU was in a national dispute over pay and equalities, in the context of neoliberal commercialisation and new public management throughout higher education. During the national dispute, the relationship between local branch […]
I speak to Gacheke Gachihi from the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Gacheke spoke to us a couple of weeks ago, and we go back to catch up on news about the coercion and repression being used against people in the time of Covid-19
I speak to Joël E. Vorbe from Haiti. He is a member of the National Council for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled (CONARHAN), an entity which reflects on the problem of people living with disabilities in order to make proposals for public policies to improve their living conditions. This fan of Fidel Castro, of Nelson […]
Nick Dearden talks about a debt jubilee. As director, Nick Dearden manages the staff team and resources on behalf of Global Justice Now’s members. He is also the public face of the organisation. Nick started his career at War on Want where he became a senior campaigner. He went on to be corporates campaign manager […]
This is such a terrific interview and analysis of the conditions of rural people in India, that I decided to re-post this interview here. I was hoping to interview P. Sainath myself — he is easily India’s foremost journalists on the struggles of rural India — but Frank Barat has done an excellent job at […]
I talk with Coumba Toure and Lamin Mohammed about Covid19 in Senegal and in Africa. Coumba is, writer, story-teller, member of the African Feminist Forum and the Per Ankh collective. She is a board member of TrustAfrica and an Ambassador of Africans Rising for peace justice and dignity. She has serve on the board of […]
I speak with I speak with Sandew Hira, penname of Dew Baboeram. He is director of the Institute for Scientific Research (IISR) in The Hague. IISR is an institute for research into Decolonizing The Mind. IISR publishes a book series title Decolonizing The Mind with Amrit Publishers. Hira studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam […]
I interview Cesare Ottolini, global Coordinator International Alliance of Inhabitants, Italy, is a former squatter, engaged since 1977 in global / local struggles for the right to housing and the city, he was also the secretary of a Trade Union of the building, former world coordinator of Habitat International Coalition, also a member of UN-HABITAT […]
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Researcher and Professor of Sociology at Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She has done research about indigenous movements in Latin American and more recently about the feminist struggles. She has participated deeply in those struggles she writes and thinks about. Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and […]
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 […]
