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Trump, Netanyahu & the Weaponizing of Fear One Year After October 7

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 10/9) Israel’s far-right leaders, assisted by their allies in the U.S., have waged a year-long assault on...

Crime & Migration: An Abolitionist Plan for Immigration Justice

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 5/6). When it comes to crime and migration, all sorts of politicians have justified mass detention and...

Israel, Hamas & Universal Human Rights: Former UN Official Craig Mokhiber Describes Path Forward

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations 75 years ago this December, as...
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New Yorkers Welcome Migrants: What’s it Take to Make Sanctuary Real?

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform. In 1989, New York City declared itself a sanctuary city — a place where undocumented immigrants seeking asylum...

Saket Soni: How Trafficked Workers Pulled Off “The Great Escape”

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 2/5). “THE GREAT ESCAPE: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America” tells the...

Militarization & Uvalde: The Context Media Coverage Omits

Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass shootings are not covered in the same...
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Winning War, Building Peace: Activists from Ukraine, Russia & The US Debate

FOR UKRAINIAN ASSISTANCE: The Kyiv School of Economics established a charitable fund for centralized procurement of protective gear and medical equipment:  https://kse.ua/support/donation/ The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual...

Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal

Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew,” wrote acclaimed author...
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Cristina Jiménez: Dreaming and Building Immigrant Freedom

In a recent episode called Unforget, Dream, Build, we featured two Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of the idea that immigrants are a problem or immigration a threat. We spoke Roberto...

Unforget, Dream, Build

About The Trump years have seen a doubling-down on the immigrants-as-problem narrative in which migrants are accused of bringing gang violence, crime, and disease to the United States, and of “stealing” jobs. Reformers often play...

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