#1283 Native (Mis)Representation (Native Peoples Series Part 5)
Air Date: 6–21-2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Native Peoples are represented in white society and pop culture, how some are working to take back their own narratives and some insight into the profound effects, both positive and negative, of how peoples are represented.
Read more#1397 Vaccine Rollout Once Again Exposes the Divide in Our Global Medical Apartheid
Air Date: 2–10-2021
Today we take a look at the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the US and around the world. Between White and Black in the US, Israeli and Palestinian in Israel and the Global North and Global South broadly, the legacies of colonialism and racism predictably play themselves out.
Read more#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths: America is a Force But Not Always For Good
Today we take a look at some of the many zany foreign misadventures the United States has had over the past 100 years. And by "zany misadventures" I mean the naked pursuit of capitalism at any cost, the support of military coups and other undemocratic overthrows of foreign governments and wars for oil and resources in an unabashed attempt to keep America wealthy and the rest of the world less so - all while maintaining an anti-imperial, pro-democracy, pro-freedom, live-and-let-live poker face.
Read more#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism
Air Date: 10–13-2020
Today we take a look at the myths of Columbus and American Exceptionalism™ that we cling to and turn our gaze to some of the less-understood but more accurate and important aspects of our collective history
Read more#1353 Uprising, George Floyd was the spark that ignited the world
Air Date: 6–17-2020
Today we take a look at the uprising sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the context of a world in which that event was just the last straw in an innumerable series of straws.
Read more#1298 Standing up Against Cowardly Fear, Fragility and Mass Murder (Gun Responsibility)
Air Date: 8–20-2019
Today we take a look at the El Paso and Dayton shootings by connecting the dots between white supremacy, misogyny, privilege and power
Read more#1296 Decolonizing the Puerto Rican Mind
Air Date: 8–12-2019
Today we take a look at the recent rebellion in Puerto Rico that unseated the governor as well as plenty of the context of what led us to this point.
Read more#1283 Native (Mis)Representation (Native Peoples Series Part 5)
Air Date: 6–21-2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Native Peoples are represented in white society and pop culture, how some are working to take back their own narratives and some insight into the profound effects, both positive and negative, of how peoples are represented.
Read more#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Native Peoples Series Part 4)
Air Date: 4–16-2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the aspects of modern life for Native Peoples that we can see as stemming from the racism and colonialism that has been endemic in post-contact America. This episode is fourth in an ongoing series focusing on Native Peoples in North America. Previous episodes are, in order, #1216 on Christopher Columbus, #1230 on Thanksgiving and #1252 on Westward Expansion.
Read more#1264 Protesting neoliberalism the only way they could think to (Brexit)
Air Date: 4–12-2019
Today we take a look at everything there is to know about Brexit, Lexit, Remain and Reform, the Irish question, The Troubles, the neoliberalism of the EU and the senses of local and national identity in an age of globalism
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