This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Shanti Singh, communications coordinator with the California statewide renters' rights group Tenants Together. Shanti discusses the challenges of navigating the landscape of housings advocacy, and how a pandemic and  unprecedented unemployment numbers have turned already challenging campaigns for housing rights into minefields for renters and activists alike. Shanti also helps us tackle the intersection of class disparity and police repression, and how the police further housing insecurity in order to protect the property owning class while homelessness surges and Black communities face increased racial segregation. You can follow Shanti Singh on Twitter @uhshanti and Tenants Together @tenantstogether and learn more about how you can support at tenantstogether.org If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to  subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Episode 175 - Rent Eats First

Delete Your Account is a new podcast hosted by journalist Roqayah Chamseddine and her plucky sidekick Kumars Salehi. Every week they will talk about important stories from the worlds of politics and pop culture, both on and off-line, in a way that will never bore you. They’re radical leftists, but not that kind. The other kind. The fun kind.

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by professor and academic, Mohamed Abdou, for a discussion of decolonial theory and a reflection on how the framework of decolonization benefits pro-Palestine solidarity and organizing. Mohamed, one of three faculty members targeted and smeared during congressional testimony by House Republicans and the president of Columbia University, discusses the explosion of student encampments around the United States in support of Gaza, and the lessons we can learn not only about the farce of academic freedom but the impressive tenacity of students and what they are sacrificing.  We also learn more about the smeared campaign facing Mohamed, as well as the significance of Columbia University's connection to Israel which makes it a legitimate target of BDS. Follow Mohamed on Twitter @minuetinGmajor and Instagram @slightlydrifting, and sign the petition in support of Mohamed  here. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to  subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!  

Episode 236 - Unsettling Ourselves

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you  subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.  Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined by two of the biggest and brightest Star Wars fans we know, artist and Delete Your Account debutante @hayleyglyphs along with president of the Campaign Workers Guild and returning guest Marvin Gonzalez. Hayley, Marvin and Kumars discuss the highs and lows of the prequels, the sequels and (almost) everything in between, from Ben Shapiro’s definitive ranking of the movies to who the best funny little guy is, before ending by playing an all-new Star Wars trivia game. Follow Hayley on Twitter @hayleyglyphs and Instagram, also @hayleyglyphs. Follow Marvin @sulliedsubjects. You can also keep up with Marvin’s organizing with the Campaign Workers Guild @CWG_Workers as well as his work around Puerto Rico by following his organization Repatriotas @repatriotasPR.

Episode 235.5 - Han Solo Fraud Watch (free preview)

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by two Boston-based student organizers for an update on the Palestine solidarity movement on US college campuses. Lea Kayali is a law student and activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine, and Mohamed Mohamed is a graduate student and activist with the Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Lea and Mohamed discuss their personal paths to organizing, the repression they’ve faced on their campuses since Oct. 7th from their university administrations and beyond, and how Palestine solidarity became the defining political issue for a generation of student activists. Follow Lea on Twitter @huriya_lea as well as orgs like @MIT_CAA and the undergraduate Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (HarvardPSC) to keep up with the latest campaigns and actions on their campuses.  If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to  subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!  

Episode 235 - Can't Suspend the Movement

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Bam and Dan, cohosts of The Power Report on Twitch and YouTube. Bam also cohosts the soccer podcast We Made It, and Dan reviews music on Audioface.  Bam and Dan share their thoughts on the 2024 presidential election, Dan’s experience working at The Young Turks, why left media figures turn to cultural conservatism, and who will win the English Premier League.  Follow Bam on Twitter @WeMadeItPodcast and Dan @danfromtheweb, and stream The Power Report every Thursday 9 ET to midnight on YouTube and Twitch. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to  subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!  

Episode 234 - The Power Report

This week, Roqayah and Kumars share their thoughts on Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza, including escalating violence and displacement of its population.  They also discuss the Northern front, i.e. Lebanon, where since October 8th Hezballah and Israel have been engaging in a mounting offensive that has achieved a number of objectives for the Lebanese resistance faction while also directing Israel away from engaging to the fullest of its military capabilities in Gaza. They also highlight the shared history between South Lebanon and Palestine, and why there remains a fervent and unshakeable bond between the two peoples until today. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to  subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!  

Episode 175 - Rent Eats First

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