Essential Dissent

This episode is a webinar sponsored by the Geopolitical Economy Research Group.

Featuring speakers from the immediately threatened countries, it will look at Trump’s expansionist designs on Canada and Greenland, his ‘reclaiming’ of the Panama Canal, and his new tariffs on any country buying Venezuelan oil, among other topics.

https://geopoliticaleconomy.org

This episode features Gary Younge and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in a conversation centered on Younge’s new book, “Dispatches From the Diaspora.”

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in Britain.

Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine .

Gary Younge is the author of five books, including Another Day in the Death of America, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.

She is currently a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Gary Younge and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor spoke on February 25, 2025 at the Francis Kite Club, which is also the home of OR Books, in New York City.

https://orbooks.com

https://www.franciskiteclub.com

This episode is “The Growing Movement for Divestment from Genocide,” a panel from the Anti-War Action Network’s Founding Conference, held February 15th & 16th, 2025 in St. Paul, MN.

The Anti-War Action Network is a nationwide, grassroots, volunteer-based organization comprised of anti-war, student and Palestine solidarity groups and activists from across the U.S. – many of whom participated in national days of action during the upsurge in Palestine solidarity to stop the U.S./Israel genocide in Gaza.

https://www.antiwaractionnetwork.org/

This episode is "Defending the Bolivarian Revolution: Delegates Report Back from Venezuela", a webinar sponsored by the International Manifesto Group.

It features delegates to the recent inauguration of Nicols Maduro, who will discuss the situation in Venezuela, the US's attempts at regime change, and the importance of defending the Bolivarian Revolution.

Speakers:

Alan Freeman, Maria Paez Victor, Camila Escalante, Dan Kovalik, Arnold August, Fiona Sim

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This episode is the Opening Panel of the Anti-War Action Network’s Founding Conference, held February 15th & 16th, 2025 in St. Paul, MN.

The Anti-War Action Network is a nationwide, grassroots, volunteer-based organization comprised of anti-war, student and Palestine solidarity groups and activists from across the U.S. – many of whom participated in national days of action during the upsurge in Palestine solidarity to stop the U.S./Israel genocide in Gaza.

Featuring:

Jim Byrne - Panel chair, Tucson Anti-War Committee

Nazek Sankari - Co-chair of the Chicago Chapter of the US Palestinian Communities Network

Taher Herzallah - Associate Director of Outreach & Community Organizing for American Muslims for Palestine

Meredith Aby - Organizer with the MN Anti-War Committee & conference organizer

This episode features Jack Gilroy of Veterans for Peace interviewing Mary Anne Grady Flores of Ithaca Catholic Workers in Ithaca, NY on February 10, 2025.

Jack and Mary Anne have both been active in the peace and justice movement for decades, and both have served multiple prison terms for various acts of civil resistance.

Mary Anne recently returned from a week-long pilgrimage to occupied Palestine, a pilgrimage sponsored by Sabeel, an organization which, according to its website, "strives to develop a spirituality based on love, justice, peace, nonviolence, liberation and reconciliation for the different national and faith communities."

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Audio from a webinar titled “Defend Socialist China.”

The webinar was sponsored by Friends of Soclaiist China, and hosted by UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition.

Keith Bennett, Friends of Socialist China

Danny Haiphong, journalist geopolitical analyst

Sanyika Maloney, All African People's Revolutionary Party

Mick Kelly, Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Sara Flounders, International Action Center

KJ Noh, journalist, peace activist

https://socialistchina.org

https://www.unacpeace.org

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Audio from a webinar which took place on January 19, 2025, and was co-sponsored by the International Manifesto Group, Critical Theory Workshop, the International Action Center, The Palestine Chronicle, and Friends of Socialist China.

Given that the US is usually the prime instigator of our world’s conflicts, and given that Trump sometimes spoke on the campaign trail about ending at least some of them, we ask what prospects the incoming Trump administration offers for peace. Will Trump’s second term be more or less aggressive than his first? Will he honour his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine? Will he double down on his enthusiastic support for Israeli genocide? Will he escalate the New Cold War on China or attempt another ‘deal’? Will opportunities for peace in Korea and Iran be seized or squandered? What to make of Trump’s bellicose rhetoric in relation to Central America? How will the new administration affect humanity’s trajectory towards peace and multipolarity? Join us to explore all these questions and more.

International Manifesto Group: www.manifesto.org

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46dreSImJEc&t=856s

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Daryle Lamont Jenkins spoke at Burning Books, a radical bookstore in Buffalo, NY specializing in activism, social justice, and liberation struggles, on November 20, 2024.

https://burningbooks.com/

Born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby Somerset, Daryle Lamont Jenkins was influenced by the civil rights movement as a young man. At 19, while serving in the military, Daryle saw an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show on the subject of Skinheads.That grew into a lifelong passion for documenting the hate politics of the right, and with the founding of One People’s Project, his passion found a home.

One People’s Project has played an instrumental role in exposing and causing the collapse of hate groups throughout the US, and aims to form a larger community of activists dedicated to antifascist work.

Idavox, the media outlet of One People’s Project, issues up-to-date reports on hate groups from around the country.

Daryle Lamont Jenkins was a consulting producer of the short film “Skin”, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.

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Excerpts from a webinar titled “False Ukraine Narratives: Sleepwalking Us Toward a Great Power War?”, featuring noted political commentator and author Glenn Diesen.

The webinar took place on January 7, 2025, and was sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action.

They bill the event as “A free ranging discussion on the roots of the Ukraine war, the false Ukraine narrative constructed in the west, the danger of nuclear war posed by the conflict, prospects for negotiations, the war’s impact on falling governments in Germany and France, and its role in the great struggle between a unipolar world dominated by the U.S. and a multi-polar world.”

Glenn Diesen’s latest book is “The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order.”

https://masspeaceaction.org