Episode 292. What These Palestinian & Israeli Activists Need Us to Know: Standing Together’s Sally Abed & Alon-Lee Green
Sally Abed, an elected leader at Standing Together and Alon-Lee Green, the National co-Director and a founder of Standing Together, talk us through what is happening in Palestine and Israel right now, their own stories of growing up and ... Show More
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WHY ARE BILLIONAIRES?!?: You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. with Amanda & Anand Giridharadas
Amanda’s first You’re Not Gonna Believe This B.S. show is here: The myths and truth of BILLIONAIRES! We pull back the curtain on how billionaires were made, how much they have, how they skate on public benefits while hoarding the fruits of our labor, how they pretend to fight to ... Show More
1h 19m
Jan 13
Martha Beck Changes Lives With This Question
What happens when your mind makes a convincing case for staying safe—but your body is quietly asking you to move toward something warmer? In this beloved conversation, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda return to their very first talk with Martha Beck, whose work has helped them come home ... Show More
58m 28s
Jan 6
Have We Ruined Fun? (And the Future of the Pod!)
We start the year by asking a simple question: Why does something that’s supposed to be fun—like youth sports—feel so awful? After a scary incident at their daughter’s soccer game, Glennon and Abby talk honestly about how pressure, performance, and social capital have overtaken w ... Show More
59m 26s
Dec 2023
Palestine Pt. 4: False Solutions and Paths of Resistance with Sumaya Awad
<p class="MsoNormal">Before the Zionist project and the state of Israel placed their boots on the neck of Palestine, this region was a multicultural, multi-religious land, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived side-by-side in relative peace and harmony. </p> <p class="MsoNorm ... Show More
1h 4m
Nov 2023
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: Building Solidarity with Palestine
Join leading Palestine solidarity activists for a discussion of the role of BDS in solidarity with Palestine.
Israel’s attack on the 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip has been described by genocide scholars, international law experts and UN official ... Show More
1h 21m
Feb 2024
Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green on Standing Together
Standing Together is a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, social, and climate justice. In this podcast, we talk to National co-director Rula Daood and Founding National co-director Alon-Lee Green on what it mean ... Show More
1h 5m
Nov 2023
Decolonizing Palestine: Toward National Liberation in the Levant
Alyson and Breht discuss the ongoing national liberation struggle in Palestine (recorded Oct. 30th 2023). Together, they discuss the incredible shift in public opinion on Israel and Palestine, the internal and external contradictions culminating in unison for Israel, the discussi ... Show More
1h 37m
Nov 2023
Palestine Pt. 2: Justice for Some with Noura Erakat
<p class="MsoNormal">For those of us living in the United States, today — what we call Thanksgiving — is a very significant holiday because, for some of us at least, it's a day to recognize and remember the violent, genocidal, settler-colonial history of the land we live on. Our ... Show More
55m 14s
Oct 2023
Palestine: Understanding the War on Gaza feat. Anita Zsurzsán and Jamil Khader
<p>We are joined by philosopher Anita Zsurzsán and Jamil Khader, the Dean of Research at Bethlehem University in Palestine for a roundtable on the war on Gaza, otherwise known as the "2023 Hamas-Israel war". We discuss the politics of the current war, the status of Islamist polit ... Show More
1h 44m
Oct 2023
[BEST OF] Understanding Settler Colonialism in Israel and the United States
<p><strong><em>Originally aired on May 30, 2021</em></strong><br /> <br /> In this classic episode, Alyson and Breht use texts from Fanon, Cesaire, Mao, and Lenin to help make sense of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the history of zionism, the role of the United States in t ... Show More
2h 5m
Oct 2023
Palestine Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction with Sumaya Awad
<p class="MsoNormal">Before 1948, the land of Palestine was dotted with olive groves along rolling hills between mountains and the Mediterranean sea. Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and Christians all lived alongside one another in relative harmony, practicing agriculture and ... Show More
59m 41s