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(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 125 - Squid Game (2021) w/ Sam Yang

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On 10 May 2024, the Early Caribbean Society hosted a virtual, communal, poetry reading noting connections between Haiti, Sudan, DRC, Palestine, and Indigenous people on Turtle Island, facing invasion and genocide. Program available here  https://earlycaribbeansociety.org/events/poetry-for-liberation-from-haiti-to-palestine/ Watch the video edition of The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Donate to CareForGaza and to the family of one of our poetry readers Consider supporting the show  www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Poetry for Liberation: From Haiti to Palestine

This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation. Friend of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) joined me for an episode on the perennial questions of violence and self-defence.  CBC Documentary about Palestinian resistance in Gaza  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J__Burgr8qU&t;=312s&ab;_channel=AnnaBens

Bonus Episode 182 - Palestine and the right to defensive violence w/ Alex Avina

   Walaa Alqaisiya (@walqaisiya) is a Palestinian academic born and raised in Hebron in the West Bank. She is a Marie Curie Fellow based at the University of Venice, Italy. Walaa's work draws on anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, and feminist approaches to highlight the deeply gendered and ecocidal nature of Zionist settler colonialism and US-led imperialism. Madonna Thunder Hawk is a Lakota activist best known as a member and leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM), co-founding Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and the Black Hills Alliance,and as an organizer against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She established the Wasagiya Najin Grandmothers' Group on the Cheyenne River to help build kinship networks while also developing Simply Smiles Children Village. She also serves as the Director of Grassroots Organizing for the Red Road Institute. Thunderhawk has spoken around the world as a delegate to the United Nations and is currently the Lakota People's Law Project principal and Tribal liaison. She was an international Indian Treaty Council delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva and a delegate to the U.N. Decade of Women Conference in Mexico City.   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Indigenous solidarity in the time of genocide: Standing against settler colonialism from the Turtle Island to Palestine w/ Madonna Thunder Hawk

The US regime has spent over 300 million USD constructing a port on the Gaza coast and is calling it a "humanitarian pier". Ahmed Alqarout (@MENAUnleashed), a political economist from Gaza based in the UK, explores the darker motivations behind the construction of the port. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast    

Imperial scheming and the "humanitarian pier" in Gaza w/ Ahmed Alqarout

We're back for another round of group therapy talking about the latest developments in the Gaza genocide with a small group of Tankie therapees: Sina (@UrOrientalist), Rob (@robrousseau) and Mikey (@karaokecomputer). Sadly, our comrade Joe Emersburger was on the call but his file didn't upload so we sometimes reference his contribution. Please send your complaints to Podcastle.ai for their shitty, unstable platform. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 125 - Squid Game (2021) w/ Sam Yang

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