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Canada's CBC chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault takes a closer look at the issue of foreign intimidation and speaks to the people being forced into the shadows in the very place they came to be safe.

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Our latest episode is just in time for Thanksgiving! Check out our interview with engineer and marathoner Muna Mitchell—we're talking procedurals, book art, thinking in #stories , and more!

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While Palestinians are fleeing the war, one group of Israelis are planning for beachfront homes on the strip. Bethan McKernan and Ruth Michaelson report

A conversation about adapting to sea level rise in California using nature-based solutions. Solarpunk even gets a shoutout.

A recent conversation we had with the Ben Lorber and Shane Burley, co-authors of the recently published book, Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. For the hour we discuss the roots of antisemitism in the West, pushing back on Zionism in the midst of the genocidal war on Palestinians, a rebirth of Bundism and addressing antisemitism in left spaces. I definitely recommend this book to folks and hope you enjoy the chat! And as always, thanks for supporting this project.

Today on the show, two stories of building power in swing states: from the top down, and the bottom up.

First, how a future Supreme Court justice helped launch a program to challenge voters at the Arizona polls in the early 1960s, in a county that's become a hotbed for election conspiracies in the decades since. Then, how a 1973 labor strike led by Arab Americans in a Michigan factory town sparked a political movement that could play a major role in the 2024 election.

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Primer is a music podcast about translation and illumination. In its first season, music writer Yosuke Kitazawa (PBS SoCal, Light in the Attic) joins Christian Dueñas to explore Japanese City Pop.

Primer invites both newcomers and crate diggers alike to find their next favorite album and learn more about the music they already love.

In this episode we discuss Sho Konishi's brilliant Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 2013). This book has been on our radar for a long time, and it was a pleasure to spend some time discussing Konishi's framing of anarchism as an alternative vision of modernity, as exemplified in the exchanges between radical thinkers and activists in Japan and Russia from 1880 to 1920.

The Anarchist Library:

Anarchist Modernity | Dr. Sho Konishi of Oxford on Japan, Russia and Anarchism | Dr. Sho Konishi interviewed by Matt Dagher-margosian

“This war is not a civil war, it’s a counterrevolutionary war against civilians,” says Sudanese organizer Nisrin Elamin.

"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws." — Linnea Johnson. This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves.

In part one, Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.

Part Two: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us

In part two, Margaret talks with Robert Evans one more time about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.

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Time for another episode of Plain Reading! Episode 4 features the incomparable J. R. Hustwit; we're talking creepy #literature, horology, #YachtRock, the importance of discomfort, and more!

https://plainreading.libsyn.com/intertextuality-and-telling-time-j-r-hustwit

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Join Karyn Sanders for a discussion of wildcrafting, harvesting plants from the wild, from an Indigenous perspective and listen to her invitation to re-think this practice. Originally aired 10.05.2017.