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00:08 — Vincent Rigby is a Professor at McGill University, recently retired from Canada’s Public Service after 30 years in departments including Global Affairs, Public Safety and National Defense.

00:33 — Sam Gould is an artist and educator who lives in Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, four blocks from where ICE agents killed Renee Good. 

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CORRECTIOS:

The author followed up with the correction that activists stormed the Israeli embassy twice in 2011, not 2012.

In regards to the January 25th, the author had not mentioned that it was after the activists arrived at Mustafa Mahmoud Square with their march on January 25 and found way more numbers there than they expected. As such, they decided to lead their march to Tahrir Square.

00:08 — Rusha Latif is an Egyptian-American researcher and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on social movements and revolutions, particularly in the Middle East. Her book, Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (2022), draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Cairo during the 2011 uprising to examine activist agency in the absence of formal leadership.

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00:08 Hajar Yazdiha  is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California; now author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement  [repeat – originally recorded in 2024]

00:33 David K Randall, senior reporter at Reuters, discussing his book Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague [repeat – originally recorded in 2019]

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00:08  Christopher Mathias, journalist who’s covered the far right for most of the past decade, now out with the forthcoming book To Catch a Fascist, the fight to expose the radical right  (due out February 3) .

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00:08 — Miguel R. Tinker Salas is Professor Emeritus of History at Pomona College. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela.

00:33 — Renee Saldana is Press Secretary for SEIU-UHW.

00:45 — Aisha Wahab is California State Senator representing Senate district 10.

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00:08 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation.

00:33 — Kat Tenbarge is an independent journalist and founder of Spitfire News, a newsletter about internet culture, violence, and media.

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