Tag: radicals

• Episode 63: Dare to Struggle! Dare to Win! with Helen Shiller

  This is our last Episode for 2022—we look forward to being back in mid-January. For this Special Episode, we’re joined in conversation with the legendary activist and organizer Helen Shiller at the 57th Street Bookstore in Hyde Park, Chicago. In her new autobiography, Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win, Shiller captures a sense of what it…

  December 14, 2022

  Episodes

  activists, Black Panthers, chicago politics, Fred Hampton, freedom, Harold Washington, helen shiller, political education, radicals, Uptown Chicago

• Episode 61: Education for Liberation with Brian Jones

  An authentic education rests on the twin pillars of enlightenment and liberation—it’s about opening doors, opening minds, and opening possibilities; the principal message to students is straight forward: you can explore, interrogate, and understand your world, and, working together, you can change it. Schooling is too often about judging and sorting students into a hierarchy…

  November 16, 2022

  Episodes

  activists, black powers, civilrights, education, educators, radicals, student uprising, tuskegee

• BONUS Episode: Injustice Watch

  Talking Judges and Elections with Injustice Watch We’re a few days away from election day across the country. But many of us here in Chicago are looking at our ballots and overwhelmed with the incredible number of offices, ballot measures, and judges about whom we are expected to make informed decisions. So who are all…

  November 4, 2022

  Episodes

  activists, ballots, charles preston, chicago, cook county, elections, injustice watch, judges, maya dukmasova, radicals

• Episode 60: Medea Benjamin

  Peace Now! with Meadea Benjamin and Code Pink Americans want to think of ourselves as peace-loving people, but the facts contradict the myth: US military bases stretch around the globe; nuclear weapons poised to strike from flying fortresses circle the earth; the US is the top global arms dealer as well as Number One in…

  November 2, 2022

  Episodes

  activists, codepink, freedom, medea benjamin, military industrial complex, peace, radicals, russia, ukraine, war, war economy, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict

• Episode 58: Dave Zirin

  Playing Through Fire with Dave Zirin We’re joined in conversation today with Dave Zirin, the sports editor for The Nation magazine and the creator of the blog, the Edge of Sports. Dave is a ground-breaking sportswriter who brings radical politics, deep critical analysis, and side-splitting humor to a field sorely lacking all three qualities. The author or co-author…

  October 5, 2022

  Episodes

  activists, davezirin, fairplay, freedom, liberation, peopleshistory, radicalism, radicals, socialism2022, sports, zirin

• Episode 57: Robin D.G. Kelley

  Freedom Dreams Love and imagination, potentially the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of the oppressed, the marginalized, and the exploited, are frequently unappreciated, too often underutilized—and yet still within reach and entirely available.  Robin D.G. Kelley foregrounds love, imagination, and generosity in all of his work, including the groundbreaking Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, an…

  September 21, 2022

  Episodes

  activists, black, emancipation, feminism, freedom, freedomdreams, liberation, marxism, radicalism, radicals, socialism2022, surrealism

• Episode 56: Robert Shetterly

  Portraits of Freedom What history do you stand on? What future do you stand for? Robert Shetterly’s dazzling series of portraits—“Americans Who Tell the Truth”—cuts through the cotton wool that entangles us, shakes us awake from the deep American sleep of denial, and invites us to move beyond the United States of Amnesia. Here are…

  September 7, 2022

  Episodes

  activists, AmericansWhoTellTheTruth, artist, citizenship, civilrights, portraits, radicals, rebels

• Episode 54: Zayd Ayers Dohrn

  Mother Country Radicals We are impatient with radicals who summon up the imagined “good old days” when every campaign was inspired and every action a success—all of it wrapped in the gauzy glow of nostalgia. There’s nothing more depressing than longing for a ship that’s already left the shore. But there are occasions when a…

  August 10, 2022

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  mothercountryradicals, radicals, weatherunderground, zaydayersdohrn