Sheepherding is Resistance! Land Back & the Fight for Black Mesa!
In this episode, Sofia and Savanna sit down with Siihasin, a land defender, communist, and community organizer from the Navajo Nation and Black Mesa, New Mexico. They discuss Siihasin’s theories on community organizing, what Sheep Camp and Wood Camp are, how you can get involved, and resources th...
Disavowal with Jessie Liu
In this episode, the co-hosts put on their smarty-pants to unpack how the term ‘disavowal’ can illuminate Asian Australians’ role in settler colonialism. Jessie Liu helps us flesh out this psychic structure–an active suppression or forgetting–through ideas of depoliticisation, class, and localisa...
The Ninth Ward, New Orleans
This episode examines the Lower Ninth Ward as a case study in the ongoing structure of settler colonialism and its impact on land, vulnerability, and community displacement. Rather than treating Hurricane Katrina as an isolated tragedy that impacted the Lower Ninth Ward, Shannon Lee and Gabriela ...
The Map that Murders and the Mind that Masks
Hello Interactors,
This one attempts to balance the privilege of cold analytical escapism with the gruesome rehumanization of past, present, and future atrocities. I end up trying to make sense of the political psychology that leads to such jubilant violence. While it can be understood, its the v...
When Mexican Kids Bust a Pinata of Two Flags: Indigenous Solidarity, Settler Colonialism, and What School Won't Teach
Y’all see them children in Mexico busting a pinata with two flags on it — Israeli and American? That image symbolize so much that we got a really young package today, kinfolks. And I already know a lot of people gon’ see this and be infuriated because they wanna believe these children being indoc...
Settler Colonialism with Andrew
Andrew and James discuss settler colonialism across several contexts.
Sources:
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe
https://www.britannica.com/place/Liberia/History
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy by Mary H Moran.
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by R...
Reindustrialization Beyond Announcements: Turning Investment Into Real Output with Patrick J. Wolf
The episode of US Manufacturing Today focuses on whether massive reindustrialization investments translate into real productive output, jobs, and supply chain resilience or become stranded, announcement-driven projects. Host Matt Horine interviews Patrick J. Wolf, executive director and chair of ...
The American Lawn Is a Colonial Project: Grass, the Dream, and Ecological Collapse
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The Most Honest Acre in America
The lawn looks like nothing. That’s the point. A flat green silence out front, mowed to the same height as the neighbor...
The 14th Amendment Was Built for the Freed Slaves, Not Ellis Island
The clip went something like this: every American who is a natural-born U.S. citizen is only a couple generations removed from somebody who wasn’t, go back far enough and every single American is the child of a migrant, this is literally the United States of America, so trying to end birthright c...
Episode 454: Jerusalem Flatline
This week we're looking at a hilariously grim foundational text of Christian Zionism: John Hagee's mid-aughts book "Jerusalem Countdown." We discuss the history of non-Jewish Zionism, the nature of the United States and Israel's relationship, and why no one can admit that Iran has gotten the uppe...
