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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt discusses storytelling, writing, and reading during the Palestinian genocide with Eman Aljhaj Ali in Gaza. Eman Alhaj Ali is a Palestinian writer, translator, and storyteller from Gaza. Reading and writing are her passions with her byline appearing on a number of international news outlets – The Nation, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, The New Arab, and others. “Writing is the act in which I share part of my soul with the world,” she says. She has contributed to anthologies such as, “We Were Seeds” and is a member of Palestinian writing collective, We Are Not Numbers, where she has published several pieces and contributed to their upcoming anthology.
Eman has written features and opinion articles to personal testimonies, poems, and fictional stories. She loves documenting the world around her, expressing her feelings through both speech and writing. “I firmly believe that writing is crucial for conveying our messages,” she says, “especially to those who prefer to read. Words hold incredible power, and I see it as essential to harness that power through writing,”
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with Jesse Hagopian about his new book Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education. Jesse has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, the co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School and Teaching for Black Lives.
This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, “Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in American History” (Columbia University Press).
David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and the director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School.
Gerald Markowitz is distinguished professor of history at John Jay College.
Together, they have written many books, including Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America (1991) and Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children (2014). They are both elected members of the National Academy of Science’s National Academy of Medicine.
Check out their resource site, ToxicDocs.org.
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Kim Kelly and Hamilton Nolan about what to expect in the next four years of Trump and how to build labor power in a world dominated by billionaires.
Kim Kelly is a writer and labor activist based in Philadelphia. She is the author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.
Hamilton Nolan is a labor journalist who writes regularly for In These Times magazine and The Guardian. His new book is The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor.
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Ashley Dawson about his new book, Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet (Haymarket Books).
Ashley is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of several books on key topics in the environmental humanities, including People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, and Extinction: A Radical History. A member of the Public Power NY campaign and the founder of the CUNY Climate Action Lab, he is a long-time climate justice activist.
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Silky Shah and Eman Abdelhadi join Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg to discuss how we should gear up to take on the Trump administration, and the best way to empower our movements going forward, from immigration to Palestine.
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Jeffrey St. Clair, editor-in-chief of CounterPunch, and author of many books, including Been Brown so Long it Looked like Me and Grand Theft Pentagon, is interviewed by Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank about the 25th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle. They discuss Jeffrey’s dispatches from the streets of Seattle and the book that was born from those reports, Five Days That Shook the World. They also address the significance of the protests, and what transpired in the decades to follow.
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Janene Yazzie, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the NDN Collective, joins Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg to talk global climate policy, the plight of Leonard Peltier, and the push for clemency from President Biden. Janene, who just returned from COP29, also addresses how we move forward under a second Trump term. As a bonus, we’ve included Janene’s scorching plenary speech from Socialism 2024.
To learn about NDN Collective- www.ndncollective.org
For our actions and campaigns: https://ndncollective.org/take-action/
Palestine Solidarity: https://ndncollective.org/the-right-of-return-is-landback/
For Leonard Peltier work- https://freeleonard-peltier.com/
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In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with members of Acción Palestina Chiapas, grassroots organizers in southern México raising awareness around Palestinian resistance within their communities. They discuss the vínculos, the connections, between local Indigenous struggles against displacement, forced migration, and narco-violence and the Palestinian struggle for liberation. The episode is dedicated to Padre Marcelo, who dedicated his life and work to the Indigenous peoples and farmworkers of Chiapas and who also advocated for Palestinian liberation in the months before his assassination in October 2024.
This week on CounterPunch Radio, the tenacious Ralph Nader talks to Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank about why Kamala Harris lost, Israel’s influence in American politics, and demise of working class America.