As we wrap up October, the Resistant Communiqués Collective is honored to present Season I, Episode V of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast, “Resistance at Home and Abroad: Palestinian Solidarity with Dr. Eman Abdelhadi”, featuring Dr. Eman Abdelhadi, a leader in the Palestinian Liberation movement.

In our timely discussion, we discuss the history of Palestine, resistance, the contemporary Red Scare, solidarity, and movement steps forward. We are incredibly grateful to our guest, Dr. Eman Abdelhadi, for her time discussing these critical issues and for her insights on how to build our movement.

Our incredible guest, Eman Abdelhadi, is a scholar, organizer, and writer based in Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on Arab and Muslim communities in the United States, and has been cited by NPR, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and other outlets. She co-wrote the revolutionary sci-fi novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions Press, 2022), and co-edited a “Queer Palestine” issue of Pinko magazine published in 2024. She also writes a regular column on Palestine and politics for In These Times magazine, and her essays have appeared in Jacobin, Truthout, Zeteo, and other publications. Abdelhadi is the subject of Coming Around, a feature-length documentary. A long-time organizer in the movement for Palestinian liberation, she is active in Scholars for Justice, Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine, and the AAUP at the University of Chicago.

The ongoing genocide in Palestine has led to a seismic shift in how many Americans see Israel: across age, ethnicity, and even political affiliation, there has been a marked turn against the Israeli government. And yet, party leaders on both sides of the aisle are fighting to try to tamp down on any dissent over support for Israel while maintaining armed and economic support for the Netanyahu government. While the recently announced ceasefire was met with initial relief, it has already been violated multiple times by the IDF -- and food continues to be scarce in Gaza.

To discuss the long history of global solidarity with Palestine, we sat down with Dr. Eman Abdelhadi to discuss the history of Palestinian activism around the globe, what this ceasefire really amounts to, the connection between the ongoing persecution of Palestinians abroad and repression at home, and the future directions and orientations needed for effective activism to resist authoritarianism.

Here is our interview with Dr. Eman Abdelhadi.

Listen, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below.

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Multimedia Syllabus: “Resistance at Home and Abroad: Palestinian Solidarity with Dr. Eman Abdelhadi”

Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point for further research.

Movement for Palestinian Liberation

NOTE: This section is in order of timeline, not alphabetical.

Council on Foreign Relations. (2025, June 24). Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Timeline. CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations. https://education.cfr.org/learn/timeline/israeli-palestinian-conflict-timeline

Al Jazeera English (Director). (2013, May 29). Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 4 | Featured Documentary [Video recording].

Kalam. (2024, April 4). The First Intifada with Islah Jad (No. 4) | Podcast on Spotify [Broadcast].

Adam, A. (2020, September 28). Palestinian Intifada: How Israel orchestrated a bloody takeover. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/28/palestinian-intifada-20-years-later-israeli-occupation-continues

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). (2005). Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance to Occupation Since 1967. https://afsc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Palestinian%20Nonviolent%20Resistance%20to%20occupaltion%20since%201967.pdf

Ceasefires

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). (2012, May 15). Fact Sheet: Israel’s History of Breaking Ceasefires. The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). https://imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-israels-history-of-breaking-ceasefires/410

Quillen, S., & News Agencies. (2025, October 29). Israeli military kills two in new Gaza attack despite ‘resuming’ ceasefire. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/israeli-military-kills-two-in-new-gaza-attack-despite-resuming

Boycotts & The Economics of Genocide

Albanese, F. (2025, July 2). A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. OHCHR. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement. (2025, October 10). BDS Movement | BDS MOVEMENT. https://bdsmovement.net/node/3

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement. (2015, August 31). CAMPAIGNS | BDS Movement. https://bdsmovement.net/campaigns

Glickman, L. B. (n.d.). OAH | The American Tradition of Consumer Politics. Retrieved from https://www.oah.org/tah/may-3/the-american-tradition-of-consumer-politics/

Larson, Z. (2022, February 13). Op-Ed: Anti-apartheid divestment built a movement of people. That’s what the climate crisis needs. Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-13/climate-divestment-fossil-fuels-anti-apartheid-movement

MEMO, & Middle East Monitor. (n.d.). Timeline: International attempts to boycott BDS – Middle East Monitor. Retrieved from https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170316-timeline-international-attempts-to-boycott-bds/

Imperial Boomerang

Democracy Now! (2008, April 21). Aime Cesaire, 1913-2008: Remembering the Life and Legacy of the Black Pride Poet and Anti-Colonial Activist. Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/21/aime_cesaire_1913_2008_remembering_the

Erakat, N. (2025, February 5). The Boomerang Comes Back. Boston Review. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-boomerang-comes-back/

Jokic, D. (2025). Césaire and Fanon on Fascism: The “Boomerang Effect” Beyond the Metropole. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12809

Red Scare

Democracy Now! (Director). (2025, September 29). Hear Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur Read Her 1998 Letter to Pope [Video recording].

Hayes, K. (2025, October 2). Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship—Movement Memos | Podcast on Spotify [Broadcast].

Hayssen, S. (2021, June 9). How McCarthy’s Anti-Communist ‘Red Scare’ Is Still Relevant Today. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-was-the-red-scare-anti-communist-mccarthy

History that Doesn’t Suck. (2024, March 11). The First Red Scare—Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover (No. 151) | Podcast on Apple Podcasts [Broadcast].

Liberalism & Neoliberalism

C-Span. (1986, June 5). User Clip: Joe Biden- USA would have to invent an Israel | Video | C-SPAN.org. https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-highlight/user-clip-joe-biden-usa-would-have-to-invent-an-israel/4964168

Fraser, N. (2019). The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond. Verso.

Scahill, J. (2021, April 27). Introduction: Joe Biden’s Long War. The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2021/04/27/joe-biden-long-war/

Mapping

Haddad, M., & Chughtai, A. (2023, November 27). A brief history of Israel-Palestine conflict in 10 maps. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/27/palestine-and-israel-brief-history-maps-and-charts

Listen to the Music of the movement

El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe (Director). (2024, March 6). خدني ع فلسطين- فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية / El-Funoun Dance Troupe—Take me To Palestine [Video recording].

[CREDITS] Resistant Communiqués Podcast Season I, Episode V - Resistance at Home and Abroad: Palestinian Solidarity with Dr. Eman Abdelhadi.

This episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast:

* Podcast Episode Writers: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Question and Script Development: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Researcher: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Fact-Checking: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Recording: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Production: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Editing: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Transcript: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: Jamila Hammami

Featuring:

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Host: Jamila Hammami

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Guest: Eman Abdelhadi

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode outro: Jamila Hammami

[MUSIC]

Royalty-Free Music Artists/ Composers:

* Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

* Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection

* Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn

* Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

Royalty-Free Music for the Podcast and Episode:

* Music Editing: Jamila Hammami

* Music Mixing: Jamila Hammami

We are pleased to return from a brief summer break with a new episode of Resistant Communiqués Podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt, “Race, Foreign Policy, and Africa: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt.”

Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt is professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Maryland and president of the African Studies Association. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A scholar-activist, she has written six books about Africa, covering US involvement in apartheid South Africa, women under colonialism in Zimbabwe, the nationalist movement in Guinea, and foreign intervention in Africa from the Cold War to the war on terror. Her current book project focuses on US and UK support for the white minority regime in Southern Rhodesia in the context of decolonization and the Cold War. Based on recently declassified documents in the US National Archives, it makes a plea for public historians to introduce the population at large to the lessons of history.

For most Americans, Africa is a misunderstood and largely ignored part of the world. The continent is flattened into one homogenous entity: its historical experiences are erased, and the common perception is that the whole continent is dysfunctional. Dated racist tropes and beliefs are still commonplace. The U.S. government has followed suit: apart from intervention as part of the Global War on Terror, Africa is given little attention. Under the Trump Administration, foreign aid commitments have been slashed. Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt is a historian of Africa and U.S. diplomacy who first became an academic at the height of the movement to oppose apartheid in South Africa. Her activism began with research opposing U.S. business involvement in the South African economy. Still, she went on to write multiple books on Southern Africa, decolonization, and foreign intervention on the continent. She spoke with us to discuss her work, the Trump Administration’s views on race and its impact on foreign policy, current U.S. foreign policy towards the continent, and both the challenges and opportunities available to university educators today.

Here is our interview with Dr. Schmidt.

Listen, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below.

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Multimedia Syllabus

Race

Elizabeth Schmidt. “The Dangers of White Totalitarianism.” Africa is a Country. https://africasacountry.com/2024/09/the-dangers-of-white-totalitarianism

William Minter and Sylvia Hill. “Anti-apartheid solidarity in United States–South Africa relations: From the margins to the mainstream.” In The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 3, International Solidarity, Part II. http://www.noeasyvictories.org/research/sadet_usa.pdf William Minter and Zeb Larson. “Make Apartheid Great Again?” Foreign Policy in Focus. https://fpif.org/make-apartheid-great-again/

“The National Party Victory and the Implementation of Apartheid, 1948-1960.” https://antiapartheidlegacy.org.uk/national-party-victory-implementation-apartheid/

Foreign Policy

Inkstick Media. “America’s Forever Wars Have Yielded a 75,000% Increase in Terror Attacks in Africa.”

https://inkstickmedia.com/americas-forever-wars-have-yielded-a-75000-increase-in-terror-attacks-in-africa/

Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror. Ohio University Press. Open Access: https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/13/.

NPR. “Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths

Post-Independence Africa

BBC. “Sudan war: A Simple Guide to what is happening.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjel2nn22z9o

Global Public Life. “Review: Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.” https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-walter-rodney-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa

Talking Politics. “Fanon on Colonialism.”

Elizabeth Schmidt. “The Global Exploitation of Congo Must End.” https://jacobin.com/2023/02/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-war-colonialism-exploitation-resources-intervention-history

Education

The Texas Tribune. “Texas Tech’s limits on gender identity discussion deepen fears of politics breaching academic freedom.” https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/texas-tech-university-system-transgender-identity-restrictions/

Elizabeth Schmidt. “Learning the Scholar’s Craft.” https://issforum.org/essays/formation-essay/204-schmidt

Philosophize This! “Episode #210: Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”

Listen to the Music

Stand By Me (Playing for Change) Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

Resistant Communiqués Podcast Credits

The Resistant Communiqués Collective co-hosts and collaborates on the development of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast.

This episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast:

* Podcast Episode Writers: Zeb Larson

* Podcast Episode Question and Script Development: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson

* Podcast Episode Script Development: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson

* Podcast Episode Researcher: Justin Fowler, Jamila Hammami, & Zeb Larson

* Podcast Episode Fact-Checking: Justin Fowler & Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Production: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Editing: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

Featuring:

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Co-Hosts: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode guest: Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode outro: Zeb Larson

Royalty-Free Music:

* Music Editing: Zeb Larson

* Music Mixing: Jamila Hammami

Royalty-Free Music:

* Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

* Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection

* Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn

* Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is ecstatic to present Season I, Episode III of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast this July, featuring an insightful discussion on the national protests resisting ICE, particularly in Los Angeles, California, with Ms. Guerline M. Jozef: "ICE Resistance & The Struggle for Human Rights in L.A.: Liberation, Black Resistance, & the Legacy of the Haitian Revolution with Guerline Jozef, Founder, & Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance". In it, we discuss national protests against ICE, the Haitian community in the United States, and the history of Haiti.

The Trump Administration, flush with cash from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has transformed ICE into the most significant and best-funded policing force in history—the Imperial Boomerang returned home. As we finished this episode, news broke that the Trump Administration was going to begin deporting Haitian green-card holders and those with TPS status under the guise of fighting Viv Ansanm, a Haitian gang and "terrorist" organization. As with Venezuelans, while those who will be facing deportation allegedly have criminal ties, in practice, most of those who will experience targeting have no criminal history and have no links to Viv Ansanm. What they're preparing for is a massive anti-immigrant purge that will happen nationwide, with the summer's LA protests an opening salvo in what's to come.

The recent news from the Trump Administration and the U.S. State Department makes our discussion with Ms. Guerline M. Jozef all the more critical. Ms. Guerline M. Jozef, a Haitian-American, serves as the Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance and is a human rights advocate. In our conversation, Guerline explains the effect that this immigration crackdown has had on the Haitian community and contextualizes it within the long history of U.S.-Haitian relations, as well as the Haitian Revolution.

The Haitian Revolution was an early blow struck for human rights: Haitians led the vanguard in fighting for the essential dignity of all people and an end to chattel slavery. Today, Haiti is spoken of disparagingly, but it was a potent symbol of freedom throughout the 19th century. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass said in 1893 that:

"We should not forget that the freedom you and I enjoy to-day; that the freedom that eight hundred thousand colored people enjoy in the British West Indies; the freedom that has come to the colored race the world over, is largely due to the brave stand taken by the black sons, of Haiti ninety years ago".

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Our incredible guest, Ms. Guerline M. Jozef (she/her), is a prominent human rights advocate and strategist, best known as the Founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance—the only Black womynx-Haitian-American-led organization supporting migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, with a focus on people of African descent. She co-founded the Black Immigrants Bail Fund and the Cameroon Advocacy Network and created Tales from the Borderlands and Beyond. Recognized globally, Jozef was named one of POLITICO's most influential ppl on race and police in the U.S, the BBC's 100 Women of 2024, WASHINGTONIANS' 500 People changing policies in the U.S., and has received numerous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the AFL-CIO's 2024 GMLK Human Rights Award. She has testified at the United Nations, the U.S. Congress, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She has been featured in prominent media outlets, including CNN, BBC, MSNBC, ABC, Forbes, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Politico, The Griot, and Democracy Now! She is a powerful voice for racial and social justice, human rights, and the rights of immigrants.

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as "the Bridge", is a grassroots community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA also seeks to elevate the issues unique to Black migrants and build solidarity and a collective movement toward policy change. Anpil men, chay pa lou ("Many hands lighten the load"). Follow HBA at HaitianBridge.org and on social media on X, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok: @haitianbridge. HBA is grateful for all donations.

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Lastly, we are proud to offer our dedicated paid subscribers full, behind-the-scenes, longer-form videos of our interviews. As a sneak peek for our subscribers, we are offering the full-length video of this episode, paywall-free! The Resistant Communiqués Podcast was created as a grassroots project to record important People's and Resistance History. We would like to sincerely thank our paid subscribers.

Your contributions are vital in helping cover high overhead costs, such as purchasing podcasting software for producing higher-quality recordings and using advanced design tools for vibrant promotional materials. These investments help us continue to engage and educate our audience, especially younger generations eager for radical People's and Resistance History interviews and insights. Your support allows our grassroots project to continue and grow, documenting and sharing essential People's and Resistance History with everyone. Thank you so much for your support.

This Substack is reader-supported. To receive the new Resistant Communiqués Podcast episodes and Multimedia Syllabi in your inbox, consider becoming a free subscriber. To support this grassroots work and receive special Behind-The-Scenes long-form videos of our interviews and other exciting benefits, consider becoming a paid subscriber today.SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK TODAYListen, watch, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below (here).

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Resistant Communiqués Podcast Credits

The Resistant Communiqués Collective co-hosts and collaborates on the development of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast.

This episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast:

* Podcast Episode Writers: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

* Podcast Episode Question and Script Development: Jamila Hammami & Zeb LarsonPodcast Episode Script Development: Zeb Larson

* Podcast Episode Researcher: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Fact-Checking: Zeb Larson

* Podcast Episode Recording: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Production: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Editing: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Episode Transcript: Zeb Larson

* Podcast Video Recording: Jamila Hammami

* Podcast Video Production: Zeb Larson

* Podcast Video Editing: Zeb Larson

* Podcast Video Transcript: Zeb Larson

* Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: Ms. Guerline M. Jozef, Jamila Hammami, and Zeb Larson

Featuring:

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Co-Hosts: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode guest: Ms. Guerline M. Jozef

* Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode outro: Zeb Larson

Royalty-Free Music:

* Music Editing: Zeb Larson

* Music Mixing: Jamila Hammami

Royalty-Free Music:

* Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

* Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection

* Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn

* Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

The Resistant Communiqués Podcast is a listener- and reader-supported educational podcast and publication. To receive the new Resistant Communiqués Podcast episodes and Multimedia Syllabi in your inbox, become a free subscriber. To support this grassroots work and receive special Behind-The-Scenes long-form videos of our interviews and other exciting benefits, consider becoming a paid subscriber today.

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The Resistant Communiqués Collective is ecstatic to present Season I, Episode III of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast this July, featuring an insightful discussion on the national protests resisting ICE, particularly in Los Angeles, California, with Ms. Guerline M. Jozef: "ICE Resistance & The Struggle for Human Rights in L.A.: Liberation, Black Resistance, & the Legacy of the Haitian Revolution with Guerline Jozef, Founder, & Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance". In it, we discuss national protests against ICE, the Haitian community in the United States, and the history of Haiti.

The Trump Administration, flush with cash from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has transformed ICE into the most significant and best-funded policing force in history. As we finished this episode, news broke that the Trump Administration was going to begin deporting Haitian green-card holders and those with TPS status under the guise of fighting Viv Ansanm, a Haitian gang and "terrorist" organization. As with Venezuelans, while those who will be facing deportation allegedly have criminal ties, in practice, most of those who will experience targeting have no criminal history and have no links to Viv Ansanm. What they're preparing for is a massive anti-immigrant purge that will happen nationwide, with the summer's LA protests an opening salvo in what's to come.

The recent news from the Trump Administration and the U.S. State Department makes our discussion with Ms. Guerline M. Jozef all the more critical. Ms. Guerline M. Jozef, a Haitian-American, serves as the Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance and is a human rights advocate. In our conversation, Guerline explains the effect that this immigration crackdown has had on the Haitian community and contextualizes it within the long history of U.S.-Haitian relations, as well as the Haitian Revolution.

The Haitian Revolution was an early blow struck for human rights: Haitians led the vanguard in fighting for the essential dignity of all people and an end to chattel slavery. Today, Haiti is spoken of disparagingly, but it was a potent symbol of freedom throughout the 19th century. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass said in 1893 that:

"We should not forget that the freedom you and I enjoy to-day; that the freedom that eight hundred thousand colored people enjoy in the British West Indies; the freedom that has come to the colored race the world over, is largely due to the brave stand taken by the black sons, of Haiti ninety years ago".

SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK

Our incredible guest, Ms. Guerline M. Jozef (she/her), is a prominent human rights advocate and strategist, best known as the Founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance—the only Black womynx-Haitian-American-led organization supporting migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, with a focus on people of African descent. She co-founded the Black Immigrants Bail Fund and the Cameroon Advocacy Network and created Tales from the Borderlands and Beyond. Recognized globally, Jozef was named one of POLITICO's most influential ppl on race and police in the U.S, the BBC's 100 Women of 2024, WASHINGTONIANS' 500 People changing policies in the U.S., and has received numerous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the AFL-CIO's 2024 GMLK Human Rights Award. She has testified at the United Nations, the U.S. Congress, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She has been featured in prominent media outlets, including CNN, BBC, MSNBC, ABC, Forbes, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Politico, The Griot, and Democracy Now! She is a powerful voice for racial and social justice, human rights, and the rights of immigrants.

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as "the Bridge", is a grassroots community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA also seeks to elevate the issues unique to Black migrants and build solidarity and a collective movement toward policy change. Anpil men, chay pa lou ("Many hands lighten the load"). Follow HBA at HaitianBridge.org and on social media on X, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok: @haitianbridge. HBA is grateful for all donations.

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Lastly, we are proud to offer our dedicated paid subscribers full, behind-the-scenes, longer-form videos of our interviews. As a sneak peek for our subscribers, we are offering the full-length video of this episode, paywall-free, here.

The Resistant Communiqués Podcast was created as a grassroots project to record important People's and Resistance History. We would like to sincerely thank our paid subscribers.

Your contributions are vital in helping cover high overhead costs, such as purchasing podcasting software for producing higher-quality recordings and using advanced design tools for vibrant promotional materials. These investments help us continue to engage and educate our audience, especially younger generations eager for radical People's and Resistance History interviews and insights. Your support allows our grassroots project to continue and grow, documenting and sharing essential People's and Resistance History with everyone. Thank you so much for your support.

This Substack is reader-supported. To receive the new Resistant Communiqués Podcast episodes and Multimedia Syllabi in your inbox, consider becoming a free subscriber. To support this grassroots work and receive special Behind-The-Scenes long-form videos of our interviews and other exciting benefits, consider becoming a paid subscriber today.SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK TODAYListen, watch, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below (here).

Luta,Resistant Communiqués CollectiveLearn more about Resistant Communiqués on the About page (here).Accessibility: The transcript for this episode is available.

Find more Resistant Communiqués @ResistantCommPod across all social media platforms: Instagram | Threads | Bluesky | TikTok | Mastodon | Facebook

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Resistant Communiqués Podcast Credits

The Resistant Communiqués Collective co-hosts and collaborates on the development of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast.

This episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast:

Podcast Episode Writers: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

Podcast Episode Question and Script Development: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

Podcast Episode Script Development: Zeb Larson

Podcast Episode Researcher: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Fact-Checking: Zeb Larson

Podcast Episode Recording: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Production: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Editing: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Transcript: Zeb Larson

Podcast Video Recording: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Video Production: Zeb Larson

Podcast Video Editing: Zeb Larson

Podcast Video Transcript: Zeb Larson

Podcast Graphic Design: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: Ms. Guerline M. Jozef, Jamila Hammami, and Zeb Larson

Featuring:

Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Co-Hosts: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode guest: Ms. Guerline M. Jozef

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode outro: Zeb Larson

Royalty-Free Music:

Music Editing: Zeb Larson

Music Mixing: Jamila Hammami

Royalty-Free Music:

Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection

Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn

Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

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Happy Pride from the Resistant Communiqués Collective!

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is thrilled to present Season I, Episode II of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast this June in recognition of Pride Month, featuring an incredibly enlightening and thought-provoking episode, "From Stonewall to the Repeal of "Rights": Reexamining the Queer Political Imagination & Resistance with Activist, Social Movement Historian, & Co-Founder & Editor of Against Equality, Ryan Conrad".

Our extraordinary guest, Ryan Conrad (he/him), is an activist and social movement historian based in West Quebec with roots in Maine. Ryan currently teaches part-time at Carleton University in Human Rights and Sexuality Studies, and he is also president of his academic labour union, Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4600. Ryan, alongside friend and frequent collaborator Yasmin Nair, founded Against Equality, an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. You can learn more about Ryan's work on his website: faggotz.org.

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In 2025, we are living during a period of rising authoritarianism in the United States. The fact that mainstream or "Beltway" LGBTQ+ politics are collapsing amid rising far-right movements demonstrates that there are lessons to be learned about queer radical history, particularly in light of experiencing a bankruptcy of queer politics.

Moreover, the application of this history can illuminate lessons that aid all of society: the harm inflicted by heteronormative and cis-gendered politics is not solely limited to the LGBTQ+ community, and reimagining these politics can and will materially benefit everyone.

In this critical Pride episode, Ryan Conrad offers an opportunity to explore what we can learn by examining an earlier era of queer activism, a more radical queer politic, and resisting LGBTQ+ Beltway politics of heteronormative assimilation. Further, in light of the recent HIV research, vaccine, and prevention program cuts in the U.S., Ryan delves into the complex interplay between the HIV Pandemic, AIDS Crisis, and Pandemic Politics. Ryan provides a fascinating analysis of the Trump administration's cuts while unearthing the critical history of the Reagan administration's negligence during the early years of the AIDS Crisis and how it amounted to genocide through state inaction, underscoring the historical and ongoing impact of biopolitical control and state abandonment.

The Against Equality digital archive is a vital and unique digital repository that critiques mainstream gay and lesbian politics, seeking to "seize the means of production of knowledge" and rejuvenate the "queer political imagination" by questioning the status quo and offering visions of transformative justice. Complementing the archive, Ryan's book (Ed.) Against Equality: Not Mere Inclusion is a must-read for anyone invested in radical queer politics.

The Against Equality: Not Mere Inclusion collection of essays challenges the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement's push for inclusion in traditional systems like marriage, the military, and prisons, arguing that such inclusion often masks systemic injustices rather than addressing them. Conrad and his fellow contributors advocate for a queer revolution that is not content with mere assimilation but seeks to restructure the societal norms at their core that perpetuate inequality and oppression. Together, these works urge readers to reexamine the goals of queer activism and movements, moving beyond the rhetoric of "equality" and towards genuine liberation and systemic change for everyone.

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The Resistant Communiqués Collective chose to utilize this Pride episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast to reexplore the radical roots and history of Pride and the necessity of radical queer movements engaged in resistance that focus on more than just "mere inclusion" into heteronormative and cisnormative society and instead on the material needs of LGBTQ+ communities and critiques of Beltway LGBTQ+ politics in the United States and to reflect on what that legacy means today.

Pride falls on June 28 each year, as June 28, 1969, marks the beginning of the Stonewall Uprising. However, the Pride Parade in Manhattan, New York City, the largest (and most corporatized) Pride Parade in the U.S., takes place on the last Sunday of June. So, instead of publishing this special, extended episode for Pride on our usual last Saturday of the month, we opted to publish it today, Sunday, June 30, 2025. We hope you enjoy and learn from this episode as much as we do.

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[CREDITS] Resistant Communiqués Podcast Season 1, Episode 2 - From Stonewall to the Repeal of "Rights": Reexamining the Queer Political Imagination and a Politic of Resistance with Activist, Social Movement Historian, and Co-Founder and Editor of Against Equality, Ryan Conrad

The Resistant Communiqués Collective co-hosts and collaborates on the development of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast.

This episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast:

Podcast Episode Writers: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

Podcast Episode Question and Script Development: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Researcher: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Fact-Checking: Zeb Larson

Podcast Episode Recording: Zeb Larson

Podcast Episode Production: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Editing: Jamila Hammami

Podcast Episode Transcript: Zeb Larson

Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: Ryan Conrad, Jamila Hammami, and Zeb Larson

Featuring:

Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Co-Hosts: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode guest: Ryan Conrad

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode outro: Zeb Larson

[MUSIC]

Royalty-Free Music Artists/ Composers:

Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection

Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn

Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling

Royalty-Free Music for the Podcast and Episode:

Music Editing: Zeb Larson

Music Mixing: Jamila Hammami

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is thrilled to launch the Resistant Communiqués Podcast this May in honor of May Day, International Workers' Day, with a powerful episode featuring Dr. S.E. Anderson.

In 2025, we are living through an era of book bans in the United States, one that rivals the era of McCarthyism. Florida has led the charge nationally with legislation allowing any school district member to challenge books held by a school library. Florida alone has challenged more than 4,000 books in the past few years, and other states are working on passing similar legislation. These political acts are part of an organized strategy to attack civil rights history, LGBTQ history, and women's history.

However, it is vitally important that we produce these stories and make them accessible to all, particularly young people. Dr. Anderson, an author, educator, founding member of the Harlem Black Panther Party and the NYC Coalition to Finally End Mayoral Control, a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC), and a lifelong organizer, published a visual primer on the Atlantic Slave Trade entitled The Black Holocaust for Beginners.

In The Black Holocaust for Beginners docu-comic, Dr. Anderson lays bare the understudied and enduring violence that people of African descent experienced for centuries, written to teach younger generations and non-readers.

In February 2023, while one of our collective members, Jamila, was watching a video by The Conscious Lee about book bans, Dr. Anderson's docu-comic, The Black Holocaust for Beginners, flashed onto the screen as one of the banned books. Jamila reached out and recorded this episode with Dr. Anderson to discuss his critical text.

The Resistant Communiqués Collective chose to launch the Resistant Communiqués Podcast here to honor the foundational yet violently coerced labor of Africans who were enslaved and built the wealth of the United States and to reflect on what that legacy means today.

This episode is a tribute to Dr. Anderson's life’s work, the power of memory as a form of resistance, and a culture of solidarity and resistance in practice.

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In Solidarity and Struggle,Resistant Communiqués CollectiveLearn more about Resistant Communiqués on the About page.Accessibility: The transcript for this episode is available on Substack.

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Multimedia Syllabus

Dr. S.E. Anderson, The Black Holocaust for Beginners, & a Culture of Solidarity and Resistance in Practice

Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point.

SNCC Visual/ Cultural Organizing

AFL-CIO. (2017, January 4). A Brief History of Labor, Race and Solidarity. Labor Commission on Racial and Economic Justice. https://racial-justice.aflcio.org/blog/est-aliquid-se-ipsum-flagitiosum-etiamsi-nulla

Ganeva, T. (2019, July 25). Black Panther Fred Hampton Created a “Rainbow Coalition” to Support Poor Americans | Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fred-hampton-black-panthers-rainbow-coalition-poor-americans

Thornton, J. K., & Thornton, J. K. (1998). Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 (Second edition). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511800276

Culture of Resistance

Getz, T. (2024, February 1). A Serious History of Black Comics Creators—OER Project Blog—OER Project Teacher Community—OER Project Community. https://community.oerproject.com/b/blog/posts/a-serious-history-of-black-comics-creator

Howell, P. A. (2020, August 17). On the Flourishing of Black Literary Arts, Old and New. Literary Hub. https://lithub.com/on-the-flourishing-of-black-literary-arts-old-and-new/

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (Director). (2020, June 2). Tom Feelings discusses The Middle Passage [Video recording].

Ukweli, E., & The 19th. (2024, February 27). Black Writers Share Their Favorite Books to Honor Black History Month. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-writers-share-favorite-books-to-honor-black-history-month

Capitalism & the History of the Enslavement of Africans

Anderson, S. E. (with Holley, V. & Cro-maat Collective). (1995). The Black Holocaust for Beginners. For Beginners LLC.

Feelings, T. (with Nelson, K., Feelings, K., & Diouf, S. A.). (2018). The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (Updated edition). Dial Books.

PBS. (n.d.). Africans in America/Part 1/The Middle Passage. Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html

Thornton, J. K. (1998). Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 (Second edition). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511800276

Black and Indigenous History, Chattel Slavery, and Resistance: the Seminole

Baer, S. (Director). (1992). WARRIOR The Life of Leonard Peltier—YouTube [Video recording].

Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Beacon Press.

Explore: Black & Indigenous History Mapping

Angelo, B. S. (2023, January 18). Surviving Strategic Discontent. Picturing Black History. https://picturingblackhistory.org/surviving-strategic-discontent/

Native Land Digital. (2025). Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land. Retrieved from

https://native-land.ca/

Visit

"Blacksonian", learn more:

Smithsonian, & National Museum of African American History and Culture. (2025). A People's Journey, A Nation's Story. National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).

https://nmaahc.si.edu/

Listen

CeeCmusic (Director). (2024, September 28). Nina Simone Young Gifted and Black 1969 [Video recording].

Resistant Communiqués Credits

The Resistant Communiqués Collective co-hosts and collaborates on the development of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast.

This episode of Resistant Communiqués:

Recording and podcast production: Jamila Hammami

Syllabus Development: Jamila Hammami and Zeb Larson

Transcript: Arielle Rebekkah

Featuring:

Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Arielle Rebekkah

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Host: Jamila Hammami

Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode guest: Dr. S.E. Anderson

Resistant Communiqués Podcast Outro: Zeb Larson

Royalty-Free Music Editing: Jamila Hammami

Royalty-Free Music:

Karl Casey - New Dawn

Wayne Jones - Connection

Karl Casey - Endless Night