Monks and Punks

Monks and Punks

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Monks and Punks episodes

  • "I Refused to Load the Bombs for Gaza" - An Interview with Israeli Conscientious Objector Aharon Dardik
    Aharon Akiva Dardik is a US/Israeli student leader on the American Left. He is founder of "Jews for Ceasefire," and is President of J Street, both at Columbia University. He was active in the encampments and recent struggles against genocide, at Columbia. In recent years, he was drafted into the Israeli military to help load bombs to drop on Gaza. He went through the court-martial process, and did hard time in a military prison. He tells us all about his experiences, struggling for justice. He will be speaking at our upcoming retreat, in the Catskills, "Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain." (More info on that at www.nonviolence.works.)

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    43 min
  • The rise of a new left
    Adventures with the (New) New Left: Sander Hicks speaks with author Raina Lipsitz about the new movements for serious social change. (Raina is author of the great new book, "The Rise of a New Left" from Verso.)

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    43 min
  • Gospel of Peace LIVE EVENT with John Dear
    Recorded live at a book event for Gospel of Peace, author John Dear, a Catholic priest and nonviolent creative resistor, speaks about his long career doing civil disobedience and Gospel studies, focussed on the nonviolence of Jesus. The new book, Gospel of Peace, is an intense reading and commentary on the traditional Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.

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    1 hr 2 min
  • White Collar Crime:

    Sander Hicks takes a look back at some of the songs he has written and performed with White Collar Crime, Subterfuge Corporation, and his solo work. An overview of a creative, theatrical side of punk rock.



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    38 min
  • Shawna Kenney at the PUNK ROCK MUSEUM

    Shawna Kenney, punk rock writer and publisher, catches up with her old friend Sander about various adventures in punk, book writing, & indie media. Includes memories of old friends, including Ian MacKaye, Fugazi, and the new news of Shawna's upcoming event at the Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, NV.



    biographical info:


    Shawna Kenney was raised in the Washington, DC area on a steady diet of Fugazi. She is the author of the award-winning memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Last Gasp), editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers (Seal Press), co-author of Imposters (Mark Batty Publisher), and co-author of the oral history Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998 (Rare Bird Books).

    Kenney is a Contributing Editor with Narratively and her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, Creative Nonfiction, Vice, The Rumpus, Bust, Salon and more.

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    42 min
  • Combatants for Peace!

    There’s a group in the Middle East that brings together Israelis and Palestinians who refuse to keep engaging in violence.


    They are called Combatants for Peace. They are Israeli veterans and former Palestinian fighters, who have realized that war is a real dead end. They engage in dialogue and meetings, and get connected rather than engage in more bloodshed.


    With all the new evidence of Gaza genocide, it seems more and more important that we as a global society take a new look at nonviolence and how to create dialogue rather than war.


    Monks and Punks' Sander Hicks interviews Palestinian activist in the West Bank who speaks for Combatants for Peace. Her name is Mai Shahin. this is our interview. she is a dedicated activist, and from her words, you will learn a hell of a lot of new information about what it’s like to be a Palestinian today, in a world oppressed by war, but holding onto the light, working for peace.

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    47 min

About Monks and Punks

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Monks and Punks is a podcast about fighting the power with all your heart.


Hosted by Sander Hicks, the show explores radical spirituality, nonviolence, punk rock,…