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Speaking Out of Place
Public activism on human rights, environmental and indigenous justice, and educational liberation, with an emphasis on politics, culture, and art. Website:
https://speakingoutofplace.com/
Episodes
Speaking Out of PlaceLiza Featherstone and Doug Henwood: What to Make of the Democratic Convention?
Today we speak with journalists and political commentators Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood about the state of the US Presidential elections. Recorded just…
Speaking Out of PlaceUS Immigration and Abolitionist Sanctuary: A Conversation with A. Naomi Paik and Arianna Salgado
Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (2020, University of California Press) and…
Speaking Out of PlaceHow Are Settler Colonialism, Imperialism, and Elitism Baked into the US Constitution? Aziz Rana on The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them
Today we speak with legal scholar and historian Aziz Rana about his deep study into the ways the Constitution has been critiqued, reimagined, and adapted from…
Speaking Out of PlacePriyamvada Gopal and Françoise Vergès on the Recent Elections in Britain and France
For our snap episode on the snap elections in the UK and France, we're joined by eminent decolonial scholar activists, Françoise Vergès in France and…
Speaking Out of PlaceDiana Buttu and Richard Falk on the Broad Significance of the ICJ’s Ruling on the Israeli Occupation
Charged by the United Nations General Assembly to ascertain the legality of the continued presence of Israel, as an occupying Power, in the Occupied…
Speaking Out of PlaceWhat is Behind the Devastating War and Famine in Sudan?: A Conversation with Dr. Osman Hamdan and Umniya Najaer
Far too few people know about the terrible war and the massive famine taking place in Sudan. Today learn about the long history behind these events, the people…
Speaking Out of PlaceWhat Do the June 2024 Elections in India Mean? A Conversation with Angana Chatterji & Siddhartha Deb
For decades, the works of scholar Angana Chatterji and author and journalist Siddhartha Deb have exposed the violence and fascism lying behind the mythology of…
Speaking Out of PlaceRadical World-Making: A Conversation with Legendary Writer-Organizer-Activist Chris Carlsson
Today we speak with acclaimed author and activist, and San Francisco legend, Chris Carlsson about his new novel, When Shells Crumble. It begins in December…
Speaking Out of PlaceMy Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine--A Conversation with Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha
Today we speak with co-authors Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha about their book, My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine. The eminent Palestinian author…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Black Antifascist Tradition--a Conversation with Janelle Hope and Bill Mullen
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with Jeanelle Hope and Bill Mullen about their new book, The Black Antifascist Tradition, which uses a vast set of…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Ongoing Struggle of the Rohingya—Will the World Address this Genocide, Finally?
As the long burning genocide against the Rohingya continues to unfold with recent conflagrations of violence in Rakhine State, we are joined on Speaking Out of…
Speaking Out of PlaceWar Regimes: A Conversation with Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra
Today, on Speaking Out of Place, we are joined by eminent political theorists Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra to talk about their thesis of a global war…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Student Intifada Spreads--A Conversation with Activists from Columbia U, LSE, and Queen's University, Belfast
As protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, and apartheid repression within ’48 harden into a proliferation of…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Long Tradition of American Jewish Critiques of Israel and Their Suppression
As protests against Israel’s geocidal attack on Gaza and increased dispossession and violence on the West Bank grow into encampments that have sprung up across…
Speaking Out of PlaceIran and Israel: A Discussion of the Recent Attacks with Scholars Narges Bajoghli and John Quigley
Recent weeks have seen a series of strikes between Israel and Iran. Israel's attack on an Iranian embassy building in Damascus, killing seven, followed by…
Speaking Out of PlaceColumbia and Beyond: The Surge in Activism for Palestine, the Instrumentalizing of “Safety,” and the Attack on Education by the Far Right
In the wake of Congressional investigations into a wave of so-called “anti-Semitism” on university campuses, college administrators are bending over backwards…
Speaking Out of PlaceHow US, UK, and Israeli Universities are Punishing Speech on Palestine: A Conversation with Neve Gordon, Laurie Brand, Adi Mansour
Today on Speaking Out of Place, we have a special extended conversation on the suppression of Palestine solidarity at universities from the U. S. to the U. K…
Speaking Out of PlaceNoura Erakat and Jeffrey Sachs on Possible Futures for Palestine
Today on Speaking Out of Place we are joined by Noura Erakat and Jeffrey Sachs in a discussion of possible futures for Palestine. Our conversation includes…
Speaking Out of PlaceRace, Violence, and For-Profit Prison: A Conversation with Robin Bernstein
Today we speak with Harvard professor Robin Bernstein about her new book, Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit…
Speaking Out of PlaceBlack Geographics with Camilla Hawthorne--histories, futures, and affiliations
Today we talk with Camilla Hawthorne about her recent edited collection, The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity, and its relation to her prior…
Speaking Out of PlaceImagining a New Left Internationalism Outside the Legacies of the Settler State
Today on Speaking Out of Place, we have a conversation with critical political theorists Adom Getachew and Ayça Çubukçu on the colonial construction of the…
Speaking Out of PlaceOrganizing Against A Genocide: Sherene Seikaly & Andrew Ross on National Faculty for Justice in Palestine
Since October the 7th we have seen an eruption of support for Palestinian liberation. On university campuses we find both the tremendous growth of activism for…
Speaking Out of PlaceFragmentation and Unity: Palestinian Political Expression
Today we speak with Professor Amahl Bishara about her book, Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression. She is joined…
Speaking Out of PlaceUniversity of Michigan Faculty Pass Resolution Divesting from Firms Complicit in Gaza Genocide
In January, the University of Michigan Faculty Senate passed a resolution calling for “the University’s leadership, including the Board of Regents, to divest…
Speaking Out of PlaceA Palestinian Prisoner's Devastating Memoir: A Conversation with Its Publisher and Translator
Today we speak with publisher Judith Gurewich and translator Luke Leafgren about a remarkable first-person narrative by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian…
Speaking Out of PlaceStudent Activism for Palestinian Liberation Achieves Landmarks and Educates
Ever since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza, global protests have grown exponentially. This is most evident on the streets, and also, very…
Speaking Out of PlaceDefund Genocide, Not UNRWA: Global Statements of Support for Palestine
After the International Court of Justice's finding that Israel's war on Gaza was a "plausible case of genocide," Israel smeared the UN Relief and Works Agency…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience
Today we speak with scholar Julie Norman about her book, The Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience. She is joined in conversation by her…
Speaking Out of PlaceWhat Does the Recent ICJ Finding with Regard to Israel's War in Gaza Mean? A Discussion with Noura Erakat, Michael Lynk, and Maung Zarni
Today, on Speaking Out of Place, we discuss the recent International Court of Justice ruling on the Gaza genocide case, which found that Israel is plausibly…
Speaking Out of PlaceListening to & Being with the Earth: A Conversation with John Borrows & Paco Calvo
Plants show signs of communication and of learning. They produce and respond to many of the same neurochemicals as humans, including anesthetics. They share…
Speaking Out of PlaceFighting the Fossil Fuel Companies' Pseudo-Economics: A Conversation with Ben Franta
Today I speak with noted researcher and scholar Ben Franta about two new articles he has written that add to his growing archive of seminal work on climate…
Speaking Out of PlaceArtists, Activists, and Anarchists Seize Wetlands from the French Republic: We Learn How
Today on Speaking Out of Place, we talk with artists and activists Isabelle Frémeaux and Jay Jordan about their book, We are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself…
Speaking Out of PlaceKohei Saito Talks About Degrowth Communism, and the Need for Radical Democracy
Today we speak with Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito, whose book, Marx in the Anthropocene , sold over half a million copies. In it, Saito shows how late in…
Speaking Out of PlaceGenocide and Beyond: A Conversation with Omer Bartov & Penny Green
For weeks, hundreds of international law and genocide experts have been warning that the situation in Gaza is approaching or has become an active genocide, a…
Speaking Out of PlaceInternational Law and Mass Violence: Colonial Roots and Practices
Today on Speaking Out of Place, we are joined by Frédéric Mégret, Neve Gordon, and Nicola Perugini. As the devastation of Gaza is permitted to continue to…
Speaking Out of PlaceLinking Antifascist Solidarity & Solidarity with Palestine--Guernica and Gaza
Today’s conversation is perhaps one of the most unusually important ones we have had on the podcast. Len and Hwei-ru Tsou are two Taiwanese activists whose…
Speaking Out of Place21 Voices from South Africa and Israel-Palestine Working for Palestinian Liberation
Today I talk with Marthie Momberg, whose book 21 Voices from Israel and South Africa: Why the Palestine Struggle Matters, compiles interviews Momberg conducted…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Moral Imperative to Divest: Conversation with Bill McKibben and Caroline Levine
Today we speak with legendary climate activist Bill McKibben and scholar Caroline Levine. McKibben relates his long struggle to get companies to divest from…
Speaking Out of PlaceOn International Children's Day 2023, A Discussion of Childhood in Gaza: Law, History, and Politics
We recorded this episode of Speaking Out of Place on Saturday the 18th of November, 2023, as Israel’s massive attack on Gaza passed the 40-day mark. Almost…
Speaking Out of PlaceWriters' & Artists' Statements & Readings in Solidarity with Palestine
This is a special project of Speaking Out of Place, meant to collect and amplify the voices of artists, musicians, and publishers from around the world raising…
Speaking Out of PlaceStatements Read at "Warning to Humanity" Global Event: David Palumbo-Liu, Neferti Tadiar, Chloe DS
On Saturday 4th November, 2023, leading scholar activists, anti-genocide campaigners, human rights defenders, and musicians from 20 countries, as well as…
Speaking Out of Place"In This Moment": Noura Erakat's Speech at the Palestine Literature Festival
On Wednesday, 1 November, the Palestine Festival of Literature held an event in New York titled, "But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of…
Speaking Out of PlaceA Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Today we speak with Palestinian American poet and physician Fady Joudah. We are recording this interview on Thursday, November 2, 2023, as the State of Israel…
Speaking Out of PlaceBlack Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Today we talk with the prolific and wide-ranging scholar Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the…
Speaking Out of PlaceHow Uber et al. is Redefining Work in the Worst Way Possible: Veena Dubal Explains Algorithmic Violence
How have companies like Uber and Lyft, Instacart and DoorDash and others, changed the nature of work from bad to horrific? Veena Dubal joins me to explain how…
Speaking Out of PlaceStatements of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
In response to the attacks launched against the Palestinian people in Gaza by the State of Israel, on Oct 12 Speaking Out of Place created a special episode on…
Speaking Out of PlaceWhen “Natives” Aren’t: Liza Black and Joseph Pierce Discuss the Epistemic and Communal Violence, and Re-storying
Today we talk with Joseph Pierce and Liza Black about the vast number of questions that are opened up when people pretend to be Native when they in fact are…
Speaking Out of PlaceLegal Experts Deconstruct Media Lies about Gaza; Voices from Around World Shout Out Solidarity with the Palestinian People
The volatile situation in Gaza has been grossly distorted in the mainstream western press. By omission, selective editorializing, and misstatement of so-called…
Speaking Out of PlaceVoices of Resistance Emerge from Behind the Walls of India’s Security State
On today’s episode we speak with two of the founders of the Polis Project—Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia—about their new book, How Long Can the Moon Be…
Speaking Out of PlaceWhat Would a True School of Sustainability Look Like? Rejecting Oil Money, for a Start
Amidst great fanfare, Stanford University created the Doerr School for Sustainability, which immediately said that it would accept funding from the fossil fuel…
Speaking Out of PlaceResisting Silencing as Opinion Shifts on Israel: Nader Hashemi and Omar Shakir
Attacks on those protesting the Israeli state policies and practices which have maintained the violent dispossession of Palestinians have commonly…
Speaking Out of PlaceEcosocialists Win Big Climate Bill in New York: Liza Featherstone Tells Us How, and Why It's So Important
Today we talk with Liza Featherstone about this huge victory for ecosocialists, and for everybody actually, in New York, that came with the passage of a bold…
Speaking Out of PlaceOn the Obligation to KillJoy: Sara Ahmed on the Feminist Killjoy Handbook
Today we talk with Sara Ahmed about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. How and why is it that complaining about sexism, misogyny, homophobia…
Speaking Out of PlaceMichael Hardt on Catching Up with the Subversive Seventies
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with Michael Hardt about his new book, The Subversive Seventies. This expansive study of a broad range of subversive…
Speaking Out of PlaceManijeh Moradian on Iranian Student Revolutionaries in the US--Diasporic Politics and Global Alliances
Today we talk with Manijeh Moradian about her book, This Flame within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States, which documents the formation of Iranian…
Speaking Out of PlaceTim Hewlett, co-founder of Scientist Rebellion on the Need for Climate Activism
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with Dr. Tim Hewlett, co-founder of the international protest organization Scientist Rebellion. With more than a…
Speaking Out of PlaceTalking with Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin about their new book, Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century: Documents of Hope and Resistance.
Today in Speaking Out of Place, we are joined by Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin, who are the co-editors of a marvelous new volume entitled Voices of a…
Speaking Out of PlaceRe-enchanting the World with Silvia Federici: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Today we are speak with renown scholar, activist, and writer Silvia Federici about her powerful and inspiring collection of essays, Re-enchanting the World…
Speaking Out of PlaceCreating an institutional space for the Critical Study of Zionism: A Conversation with Emmaia Gelman and Christine Hong
Today we speak with Emmaia Gelman and Christine Hong, two of the founders of the new Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. They tell us what motivated…
Speaking Out of PlaceAmplifying Palestine Through Art: Author-Activist Susan Albuhawa Discusses the Palestine Writes Festival
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with award-winning novelist and activist Susan Albuhawa about a major literary festival she is organizing entitled…