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Liza Featherstone is a journalist based in New York City and a contributing editor to The Nation, where she also writes the advice column “Asking for a Friend.” She is also a columnist for Jacobin. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Ms., and Rolling Stone among many other outlets. She is the co-author of Students against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (Verso, 2002) and author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic, 2004). She is the editor of False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Clinton (Verso, 2016). This interview is the first part of a two part series about Liza's most recent book, Divining Desires, a history of focus groups.

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Liza Featherstone is a journalist based in New York City and a contributing editor to The Nation, where she also writes the advice column “Asking for a Friend.” She is also a columnist for Jacobin. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Ms., and Rolling Stone among many other outlets. She is the co-author of Students against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (Verso, 2002) and author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic, 2004). She is the editor of False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Clinton (Verso, 2016). This interview is the first part of a two part series about Liza's most recent book, Divining Desires, a history of focus groups. 

 

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Judy Ancel produces the Heartland Labor Forum and coordinates the team of volunteers who do the show. She is a labor educator, recently retired from the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), and prides herself on teaching people to question authority, especially at work and stand up for their rights. Judy is also active in Missouri Jobs with Justice and the Cross Border Network. She hosts the 'Heartland Labor Forum,' Kansas City's only program about the workplace. It is produced by and for our working people. We have been agitating on the air since 1989. Find out who is busting unions and who is fighting back. Judy has worked with labor unions and wide range of social movements since the 1970s

 

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Kathryn Weber-Boer is a socialist of the international revolutionary variety. As a young activist, she was involved in the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Palestinian activism, and the movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She now lives in the Netherlands, where she is occupied by motherhood, wage labor, and household management (she's a wife, mother, and university employee). In her free time, she is working towards a PhD in archaeology, trying to understand political power in the past.

 

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This week, Vince and Sergio discuss the U.S. Presidential Election following Biden's announcement that Kamala Harris would be his running mate, the toxicity of hyper-individualism in U.S. culture, and the challenges community organizers face in today's context of Neoliberal alienation and suffering. Good times. 

 

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A French and American scholar and filmmaker, Olivier Morel is the director of several feature-length nonfiction films (documentaries) and is the author of essays including one graphic novel with the artist and writer Maël. His academic work, as well as his films, highlight the importance of creation and the arts (music, literature, cinema, photography…) in the perception of historical events. He is a joint assistant professor at the department of Film, Television and Theatre, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. While creating radio documentaries and working as a community organizer, Morel pursued a master’s and post-master’s degree in social sciences, philosophy and literature, at the University of Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France) under the supervision of Jean-François Mattéi, Bruno Etienne and Mustapha Khayati. He then studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, where he attended Cornelius Castoriadis’s seminars as well as those of Jacques Derrida who has had a significant influence on his work. At the Collège International de Philosophie he attended Hélène Cixous’s seminar and has devoted several scholarly papers to this writer, playwright and thinker. He defended his doctoral dissertation (Ph.D.) at the University of Paris 8 in 2011 under the direction of Bruno Clément. After having coauthored several films for public and private television channels, his first feature nonfiction film On the Bridge (ARTE-TV “Grand Format,” France, Germany, USA, 2011) received many prizes in international film festivals. In On the Bridge young female and male soldiers of the US military give account of the crimes perpetrated during the war in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) through the prism of the severe post traumatic stress (PTSD) that they endured. The film was awarded the Second Jury Prize at the Baghdad International Film Festival (Iraq) in 2013. His third feature-length film explores Hélène Cixous’s poetic endeavors as well as her current activity as a “house playwright” of the Théâtre du Soleil.

 

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Ricardo Levins Morales describes himself as a “healer and trickster organizer disguised as an artist.” He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago when his family moved there in 1967. Ricardo left high school early and worked in various industries, and over time began to use his art as part of his activism. This activism has included support work for the Black Panthers and Young Lords to participate in or acting in solidarity with farmers, environmental, labor, racial justice and peace movements. Increasingly Ricardo sees his art and organizing practices as means to address individual, collective and historical trauma. He does workshops on creative organizing, social justice strategy and sustainable activism, and mentors and supports young activists. Ricardo’s art has won numerous awards but the greatest affirmation is the uses to which it has been put by grassroots movements and communities.

 

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Kathy Kelly, co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, (www.vcnv.org) a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. During each of several recent trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe that “where you stand determines what you see.” They are resolved not to let war sever the bonds of friendship between them and Afghan people whom they’ve grown to know through successive delegations. Kelly and her companions insist that the U.S. is not waging a 'humanitarian war' in Afghanistan. Kelly has also joined with activists in various regions of the country to protest drone warfare by holding demonstrations outside of U.S. military bases in Nevada, upstate New York, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin. During late June and early July of 2011, Kelly was a passenger on the 'Audacity to Hope' as part of the US Boat to Gaza project. She also attempted to reach Gaza by flying from Athens to Tel Aviv, as part of the Welcome to Palestine effort, but the Israeli government deported her back to Greece. In 2009, she lived in Gaza during the final days of the Operation Cast Lead bombing; later that year, Voices formed another small delegation to visit Pakistan, aiming to learn more about the effects of U.S. drone warfare on the civilian population and to better understand consequences of U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan. She returned again to Gaza in November 2012 to meet with the survivors of Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense and to hear their stories. From 1996 – 2003, Voices activists formed 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq. Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing. She was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) and spent three months in prison, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning’s military training school. As a war tax refuser, she has refused payment of all forms of federal income tax since 1980. She and her companions at the Voices home/office in Chicago believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression. 

 

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Derrick Jensen is a leading voice of cultural dissent. He explores the nature of injustice, how civilizations devastate the natural world, and how human beings retreat into denial at the destruction of the planet. Rather than proposing easy answers, Jensen traces the roots of the culture's pathology and finds the places where they intertwine, revealing fresh and startling connections. 'The Culture of Make Believe' (2002) examines the interrelationship between hate and economics. The book was a finalist for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.Arguing that contemporary culture is destined to collapse due to destruction of the planet, Jensen advocates dismantling civilization. Jensen, a long-time activist who lives in Northern California, unflinchingly examines the culture's darkest corners while searching for a way forward. He is the author of over 25 nonfiction and fiction books. 

 

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Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (ISP), focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world. She has served as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East issues and was twice short-listed to become the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Phyllis has written and edited eleven books. Among her latest is the just-published 7th updated edition of her popular 'Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.' She has also written 'Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror' and 'Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power.'

 

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