Delete Your Account Podcast
205 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 401 ratingsDelete 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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Episodes
Episode 235.5 - Han Solo Fraud Watch (free preview)
April 15, 2024 06:51 - 17 minutes - 23.7 MBThis 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 A...
Episode 235 - Can't Suspend the Movement
March 18, 2024 01:28 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBThis 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 r...
Episode 234 - The Power Report
February 29, 2024 04:58 - 1 hour - 114 MBRoqayah 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 @danfromt...
Episode 233 - The Northern Front
February 21, 2024 08:30 - 27 minutes - 36.6 MBThis 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 h...
Episode 232.5 - Guys Being Dudes (free preview)
January 08, 2024 06:46 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBThis 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 from the top of the hour by renowned cartoonist and returning guest Mattie Lubchan...
Episode 232 - Poems for Refaat
December 09, 2023 06:55 - 40 minutes - 50.5 MBIn tribute to Palestinian poet, activist, academic, and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, Refaat Alareer, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by his colleague at the Electronic Intifada, Nora Barrows-Friedman, to discuss Israel's deliberate assassination of Refaat, and his legacy. Nora discusses the impact of Refaat's targeted execution by Israel, and the impressions he left upon thousands of students who he helped mentor during his life. The crew also weighs the significance of the written wo...
Episode 231 - A New Middle East
November 25, 2023 03:34 - 1 hour - 145 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars welcome back returning guests Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer, cofounders of the outstanding resource hub and archive decolonizepalestine.com. Rawan is a writer and translator working at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, and Fathi is currently Palestine Policy Fellow at Al Shabaka, the only independent, transnational Palestinian thinktank. After sharing their thoughts on some of the ways Palestine advocates in the US have relied on their website as an important ...
Episode 230 - No Words
November 03, 2023 04:21 - 1 hour - 102 MBThis week, in a preview of our upcoming series of interviews with Palestinian activists and journalists, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the ongoing situation in Palestine, including the events of October 7th, current conditions in Gaza, the impact of BDS, and what’s different this time. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We c...
Episode 229.5 - Cinema Copaganda (free preview)
September 28, 2023 06:53 - 16 minutes - 21.4 MBThis 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. This week, Roqayah and Kumars follow up their After Hours episode on the best and worst cop shows with a rundown of the most ce...
Episode 229 - Critical Space Theory
August 30, 2023 23:53 - 2 hours - 198 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Nick Estes and former guest host Shanti Singh for a deep dive into the past, present and future of extraterrestrial visitation. Nick is a member of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate nation, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, a cofounder of The Red Nation, and cohost of TRN’s flagship podcast. He is also lead editor at Red Media, the author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the D...
Episode 228.5 - Country Music Guys (free preview)
August 01, 2023 08:24 - 11 minutes - 15.1 MBThis 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. This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined from the top of the hour by longtime friend of the show Bryan Quinby. Bryan, Roqayah...
Episode 228 - Work Related
July 25, 2023 20:43 - 45 minutes - 58.3 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by returning guest and editor of Workday Magazine Sarah Lazare to discuss her latest reporting for Workday and In These Times. After introducing listeners to Workday Magazine and its long history in Minnesota and beyond, Sarah shares the story of Amazon warehouse worker Roger Kieca, whose tragic death due to brutal working conditions was dismissed as “not work-related” by both Amazon and OSHA before the revelation of ...
Episode 227 - Family Business
July 07, 2023 03:57 - 49 minutes - 74.6 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by independent journalist Bryce Covert to discuss her latest for In These Times about the impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization one year after the Supreme Court’s decision overturned the limited constitutional protections for abortion in the United States. Bryce is a reporter in residence at the Omidyar Network and a contributing writer at The Nation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New Yo...
Episode 226.5 - Choose the Choice (free preview)
May 28, 2023 23:39 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBThis 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. This week, Roqayah returns to try her hand at the new sensation sweeping the nation and play our game “Overrated or Overhated”. ...
Episode 226 - The Global South Remembers
April 12, 2023 08:37 - 2 hours - 172 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by the DSA International Committee’s Marvin Gonzalez, Mirah and Jorge Rocha. Marvin Gonzalez is president of the Campaign Workers Guild, founder of Repatriotas and a member of the National Political Committee of DSA, as well as the NPC’s liaison to the IC. Mirah is co-chair of the IC’s Middle East & Africa Subcommittee. Jorge sits on the Steering Committee for DSA’s International Committee and is currently on NYC-DSA’s ...
Episode 225 - Hannibal Lecture
March 19, 2023 22:46 - 2 hours - 173 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by fan favorite clinical psychologist Megan the Meme Witch and first-time guest Sam, also known as @Mardirooster on Twitter. After Sam introduces himself to the Delete Your Account family, the gang talks about some of their favorite movies of 2022, then spends more time than you ever expected dissecting their favorite episodes, characters, and character deaths from the NBC television adaptation of Hannibal, debating ke...
Episode 224 - Nationalize Rail (Again)
March 09, 2023 01:19 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Chicago-based journalist and author Kari Lydersen to discuss the cover story of the March edition of In These Times, her article on “The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads”. Kari and Kumars begin by touching on her earlier work, including her run-in with Rahm Emanuel after making him the subject of her first book. Kari then takes us through the case for nationalizing railroads in the United States with reference ...
Episode 223.5 - I Did It Mao's Way (free preview)
February 28, 2023 00:04 - 19 minutes - 26.1 MBThis 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, but Kumars is joined for a very special After Hours interview with director, cinematographer, teacher ...
Episode 223 - Radio Free Tote Bag
February 13, 2023 20:01 - 1 hour - 108 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Audrey Brehm and Donovan Eyre, cohosts of the lefty relationship advice podcast Radio Free Tote Bag, for a very intimate Valentine’s Day special. The gang trade embarrassing dating stories and discuss gender, mental health, neoliberalism, Nashville, polyamory, Digimon (Pokemon), Digimon (Digimon), Ron Paul, and what leftist relationship advice means to them. Finally, Audrey and Dono play our new and improved game, “O...
Episode 222.5 - General Interest Communism (free preview)
January 27, 2023 06:05 - 26 minutes - 34.5 MBThis 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 for a very special AFTER HOURS episode by Famous Horse, host of The Horse Show on Tw...
Episode 222 - Free Melvin Ortiz
December 22, 2022 00:54 - 1 hour - 116 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by two advocates with the campaign to free Melvin Ortiz, Victoria Blanco and Ismary Guardarrama. Victoria Blanco has worked with the criminal legal reform group It Could Happen To You, which brings attention to Pennsylvania's hornet's nest of wrongful convictions. Ismary is a recent graduate from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Victoria, Melvin’s fiancee, and Ismary, who helped revive the push to exonerate Melvin as an undergradu...
Episode 221 - World Cup of Scams
November 21, 2022 01:39 - 1 hour - 102 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by friends of the show Sam Knight and Sam Sacks for another World Cup preview. The Sams are founders of the District Sentinel news co-op and together cohost the podcast District Sentinel Radio. Sam Knight is a reporter and editor for Truthout.org and a writer on Means TV’s Means Morning News, anchored by Sam Sacks. The boys kick things off with a discussion of Sam Knight’s latest for Truthout on the revelations of inv...
Episode 220.5 - Halloween Friends (free teaser)
October 24, 2022 04:18 - 22 minutes - 28.3 MBThis 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. This week, Roqayah and Kumars celebrate Halloween on the After Hours feed with friends of the show Bryan Quinby, Donald Borenstei...
Episode 220 - Gaslit
September 12, 2022 23:24 - 1 hour - 114 MB*Sorry for the audio issue with this one folks, it should be fixed if you download again or reopen the app. Thanks for bearing with us! This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Danielle Espiritu and Mikey. Danielle is a Kanaka Maoli educator and activist from Kāneʻohe, O'ahu and Mikey is a filmmaker and activist also born and raised on O'ahu who also organizes with Shut Down Red Hill Mutual Aid. Dani and Mikey describe their fight against the United States military's poisoning of Ha...
Episode 219.5 - Copaganda (free teaser)
August 16, 2022 04:48 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBThis 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. In this week’s bonus episode, Roqayah and Kumars spend a solid two hours breaking down an array of historic television police pr...
Episode 219 - Class Clowns
July 28, 2022 04:45 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined from the top of the hour by Aaron Thorpe, Jamie Peck and Jorge Rocha, hosts of the podcast Everybody Loves Communism. Aaron is a cohost of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast and organizes with the Democratic Socialists of America in Atlanta, Jamie is a veteran of The Majority Report and the Antifada and organizes with North Brooklyn DSA, and Jorge is a NYC-based organizer with DSA and serves on the International Committee. Aaron, Jamie and Jorge ...
Episode 218 - The Homeless Industrial Complex
June 30, 2022 02:15 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by housing justice and tenant advocates Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal and returning guest Shanti Singh. Tracy, making their Delete Your Account debut, is a writer and cofounder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union whose book Abolish Rent is forthcoming from Verso Books. Shanti, formerly deputy data director of for the Bernie Sanders campaign in California, serves as Legislative and Communications Coordinator for Tenants Together as well as on the board of the Sa...
Episode 217 - Car Wars
June 05, 2022 22:12 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Paris Marx, author of Road Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation out July 5th from Verso Books and host of the hit podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, where they cover the intersections of labor, tech and finance. Paris and Kumars discuss the significance of the union drive currently gaining momentum at Apple stores across the US, the recent victory of the nation’s first major US video ...
Episode 216.5 - Crash (free teaser)
May 22, 2022 17:15 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBThis 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 once again by Sam Knight and Sam Sacks, founders of the District Sentinel news co-op...
Episode 216 - The End of Roe
May 12, 2022 05:48 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined for the hour by Tamika Turner, a reproductive rights advocate and former Associate Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and returning guest Christine O’Donovan-Zavada, a reproductive rights organizer in northeastern Pennsylvania. Tamika, Christine and Kumars discuss the limits of the status quo under Roe v. Wade, the practical implications of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning it, how it will affect t...
Episode 215 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Crime Data
April 21, 2022 05:38 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Tamara K. Nopper, who is a writer, editor, and professor of sociology whose research focuses on the intersection of economic, racial, and gender inequality, with emphasis on globalization, and urban development, among other areas. Tamara helps us understand the power of data literacy, especially when examining racialized violence, and why excessive dependence on crime data has reinforced racial inequality. Tamara also discusses the risk of depl...
Episode 214.5 - Fog of War (free teaser)
April 13, 2022 03:36 - 6 minutes - 5.57 MBThis 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. This week, Roqayah and Kumars welcome back independent writer and media critic Adam Johnson for a rundown of the most pernicious t...
Episode 214 - Yemen Under Attack
February 16, 2022 02:35 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by first-time guest Shireen Al-Adeimi and returning guest Ken Klippenstein for an in-depth discussion of the ongoing war in Yemen. Shireen is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University who has advocated for an end to the humanitarian catastrophe facing the country of her birth on Al Jazeera and in the pages of Current Affairs Magazine, Al Bawaba, and In These Times, and she has a new piece out on Business Insider called “Biden has mere...
Episode 213 - Red Nation Rising
January 31, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Nick Estes, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and Melanie Yazzie, members of the Red Nation’s Bordertown Violence working group and coauthors of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation. Nick is an indigenous author, and member of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate nation. Nick is also an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a cofounder of The Red Nation, a revolutionary Native-led community organization an...
Episode 212.5 - City of Bitcoins (free teaser)
January 20, 2022 01:58 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis 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. This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again by labor and tech reporter extraordinaire Edward Ongweso Jr., a staff writer...
Episode 212 - Psychoanalysis in Palestine
December 17, 2021 02:30 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi. Lara us Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University, and the secretary and president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. She is also co-editor of Studies in Gender & Sexuality and of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara also serves on the advisory board to the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. ...
Episode 211 - Testimony
November 17, 2021 04:28 - 1 hour - 66 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Sarah Lazare, reporter and web editor for In These Times and the coauthor, with her late father Peter Lazare, of the new novel Testimony, a political thriller out now from Strong Arm Press. Sarah introduces listeners to her formative experiences in organizing and independent media, including her father’s legacy of socialist union organizing as well as her own history in the so-called “anti-globalization” and antiwar movements. The gang then dives i...
Episode 210.5 - A Scare is Born (free teaser)
October 29, 2021 05:07 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBThis 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. This week, Roqayah and Kumars celebrate Halloween on the After Hours feed with friends of the show Bryan Quinby, Donald Borenste...
Episode 210 - Striketober
October 20, 2021 04:48 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota Federation of Labor, he’s also the former statewide representative for AFSCME Council 65, which represents workers in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota. Previously, Kooper worked with the American Federation of Teachers and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Kooper joins us to discuss the wave of strikes sweeping across the United States: over 10,000 John Deere workers, 1,400 Kello...
Episode 209 - Deportation Nation
September 27, 2021 16:22 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by immigration attorney and returning guest Sophia Gurulé, policy counsel and staff attorney with the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project at the Bronx Defenders, a public defender nonprofit in New York City. Sophia was also involved in the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project in Dilley, Texas where she helped provide legal services to asylum-seeking women and children and advocated for an end to family detention. Sophia sheds light on the Bid...
Episode 208.5 - Street Fight Forever (free teaser)
September 11, 2021 22:11 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBThis is a free clip of our Patreon-only episode with Brett and Bryan of Street Fight Radio. Subscribe at Patreon to hear the rest! On this episode of Delete Your Account After Hours, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again by the hosts of Street Fight Radio, Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby. Brett and Bryan update us on their latest post-pandemic lifestyle choices—from Bryan's weight loss to Brett's flashy new paint job—and what types of hedonistic misadventures they've been up to. The ...
Episode 208 - Oakley for Congress
August 20, 2021 17:58 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by socialist congressional candidate and political organizer Imani Oakley, formerly legislative director for New Jersey Working Families, deputy chief of staff in the New Jersey State Assembly, and constituent advocate in the US Senate. She is also the first Dean of Movement Building at the Movement School and recently declared her candidacy in New Jersey’s 10th congressional district, challenging four-term incumbent Donald Payne Jr. in the June 2022...
Episode 207 - A Tenants' Vision
August 12, 2021 05:53 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Shanti Singh and René Christian Moya. Shanti is the Legislative and Communications Director for the statewide tenants rights organization Tenants Together. René is an organizer with the L.A. Tenants Union and campaign coordinator for ACCE, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. Shanti and René join us to discuss the consequences of evictions in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, and how the eviction moratorium has played out for re...
Episode 206 - Wrecked by Tech
August 01, 2021 21:33 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by labor and tech reporter extraordinaire Edward Ongweso Jr., a staff writer at Vice’s Motherboard and cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast about the political economy of tech. Ed shares a bit about his own history as an organizer, which saw him involved in the successful campaign to pass the country's first ride-hail vehicle license cap for drivers in New York City, before expanding on his reporting about the nationwide strike of Uber and Lyf...
Episode 205 - The Abolitionist Horizon
July 26, 2021 16:48 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again by grassroots organizer and abolitionist Mariame Kaba, known best as @prisonculture on Twitter. Mariame, whose work focuses primarily on dismantling the prison industrial complex, is also the founder of Project NIA, an advocacy group focused on ending youth incarceration, and co-founded a number of other organizations including the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women. Mariame describes the impact that mutual aid h...
Episode 204.5 - A Labor Struggle (free teaser)
June 11, 2021 01:34 - 6 minutes - 5.84 MBEnjoy this free teaser of our interview with Sarah Jaffe. Subscribe at Patreon to hear the whole thing! This week Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest and labor journalist extraordinaire Sarah Jaffe, cohost of Dissent Magazine’s Belabored podcast and the author of two books: Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and a new book out this year from Hurst and Bold Type Books, Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. T...
Episode 204 - Decolonize Palestine
June 03, 2021 05:03 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined—from Ramallah, Palestine—by Rawan Eid and Fathi Nimer, creators of the resource hub Decolonize Palestine. Previously, Rawan organized for Students for Justice in Palestine and the Democratic Socialists of America. After moving to Palestine, she began working for a feminist organization in Ramallah and attending meetings at a local youth group dedicated to sharing Palestinians’ stories and providing a space for discussion. Fathi Nimer is a political s...
Episode 203 - Property of the People
May 28, 2021 17:01 - 1 hour - 67 MBKumars and Roqayah are joined this week by India Walton, a registered nurse, community organizer and candidate for mayor of Buffalo, New York. She is a founder and former executive director of Fruit Belt community land trust, an historic grassroots housing justice organization, and also former lead community organizer for Open Buffalo’s Opportunity and Justice coalition. She’s already picked up endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America and New York’s Working Families Party. They...
Episode 202 - Going PRO
May 20, 2021 02:58 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Sydney Ghazarian and first timer Ashik Siddique, both climate organizers with the Democratic Socialists of America’s Ecosocialist Working Group and coordinators for DSA’s Green New Deal and PRO Act campaigns. Syd is the Los Angeles-based founder of the Ecosocialist Working Group and previously came on the show to tackle everything from racism in the environmentalist movement to what we can learn from indigenous-led pipeline block...
Episode 201 - Anarchist Elegy
May 11, 2021 19:17 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBThis week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again from the top of the hour by Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby, hosts of Street Fight Radio and the creators and stars of an upcoming live action comedy series on Means TV, in their first appearance on the show since November. The gang catches up, discussing Biden banning blunts and recent innovations in the field of getting high. Brett and Bryan talk about the community response in Columbus to the police murder of Ma’Khia Bryant before tacklin...