Latest Conflicttransformation Podcast Episodes
113: An Audio Diary from Gaza
Latitude Adjustment - November 12, 2023 18:28 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWe have been wanting to bring you voices from inside Gaza since the very start of the current atrocities, but for what are obvious reasons this has proven to be extremely difficult, especially after Israel cut all communication lines and mobile phone networks in Gaza, in the prelude to their gro...
112: Colonialism in Global Public Health
Latitude Adjustment - August 28, 2023 22:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhy don’t we see more African researchers presenting at global Public Health conferences and in US and European research journals? Who determines which public health issues are prioritized in Africa? What is Public Health and “Vaccine Apartheid”? What do these insights reveal about the current s...
111: Death and Corruption in the Shadows - The Global Arms Trade
Latitude Adjustment - July 30, 2023 22:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhile the global arms industry may only account for about one percent of global trade, it’s important to note what that one percent actually buys. Beyond the price tags on the weapons themselves, arms and arms sales have a tremendous impact on all other aspects of global trade, and on relations ...
110: Solidarity Rising for Western Sahara
Latitude Adjustment - July 20, 2023 19:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn 1975 Spain formally ended its colonization of "Spanish Sahara", but instead of ceding control to the indigenous Sahrawi population Spain instead handed the keys to its former colony to the Moroccan regime. For nearly 50 years the Sahrawi people of illegally occupied Western Sahara have been s...
Africa's Last Colony - Understanding Western Sahara
Latitude Adjustment - July 20, 2023 02:56 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhere is Western Sahara? What is Western Sahara? Is it a country? Who lives there? If you find yourself unable to answer any of these questions, or if you want a resource that will help you to quickly explain the history and the current political realities around Africa's last colony to your fri...
109: The American Roots of African Homophobia
Latitude Adjustment - June 27, 2023 19:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhat we are seeing now in the US, with the rollback of so many progressive victories, and with the passage of bigoted legislation towards sexual minorities, is in many ways the final stage of a decades-long strategy by violent strains of American Christian Evangelism. That strategy has seen Afri...
108: Assad's "Human Slaughterhouse" - Surviving Sednaya
Latitude Adjustment - June 13, 2023 22:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsOmar Alshogre is currently 28 years old. He was first arrested at 15 for attending a protest against the Al Assad regime, and was arrested a total of 11 times between 2011 and 2013. His last arrest, in 2012, along with the arrests of two of his cousins, led to his incarceration in the Branch 215...
107: Understanding the War in Sudan
Latitude Adjustment - June 05, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn April 15th war broke out in Sudan. The fighting between the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group and the Sudanese army has devastated Khartoum, spread across the country, and an estimated 1,800 people have lost their lives, with hundreds of thousands displaced. Dalia AbdelMoniem joins u...
106: From Kabul to Canada (2 of 2)
Latitude Adjustment - May 30, 2023 21:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis is the second of a two-part series about Basir Bita’s escape from Afghanistan after the US withdrawal in August, 2021. In this second half of his story, Basir shares his experiences getting from Pakistan to Canada, the challenges of adjusting to a new culture, the double-standards in Wester...
105: Abandoned in Afghanistan (1 of 2)
Latitude Adjustment - May 24, 2023 00:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn August 30th 2021, the US and its coalition partners ended their nearly twenty-year occupation of Afghanistan. Two weeks before they left, the Taliban swept across the country taking major urban centers, including Kabul. As embassies were abandoned, and as Afghans government officials fled the...
104: Iran-Saudi Detente & Iran Protests
Latitude Adjustment - April 12, 2023 00:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn September 13th of last year 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family, having traveled from Irans’ Kurdish region. While in Tehran she was stopped by Iran’s morality police for improperly wearing her hijab, or head covering. Three days after her arrest she was dead. In the d...
103: Christian Zionism - An Unholy Faith
Latitude Adjustment - February 22, 2023 03:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhile there have been different strains of Christian Zionism dating back to the Sixteenth Century, the most politicized, powerful, and violent iteration of the movement has its roots in the contemporary Christian Evangelical Church. Modern Christian Zionists hold that the ethnic cleansing of r...
102: The Military Industrial Complex
Latitude Adjustment - November 24, 2022 01:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe US military industrial complex describes the relationship between the US armed forces, weapons and military systems corporations and, though they are often omitted from the phrasing, the Legislative and Executive branches of the US government. This episode is dedicated to examining the in...
101: Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine
Latitude Adjustment - November 17, 2022 00:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsFor this episode we cover a wide range of issues related to Palestinian human rights and political autonomy, including the recent Israeli elections, the current state of Palestinian resistance, parallels and distinctions between Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, and the aims of the Boycot...
100: Andrius Again!
Latitude Adjustment - November 10, 2022 19:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIt's episode 100 of Latitude Adjustment Podcast, and what better way to celebrate the occasion than to bring back our guest from Episode 1? We catch up with Andrius Mažeika in Lithuania, and in the spirit of our very first episode we cover a wide range of topics, from the war in Ukraine to being...
99: The Iran Protests in Context
Latitude Adjustment - October 26, 2022 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsOn September 13th, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family, having traveled from Irans’ Kurdish region. While in Tehran she was stopped by Iran’s morality police for improperly wearing her hijab, or head covering. Three days after her arrest she was dead. In the days and week...
98: Shamanism
Latitude Adjustment - October 14, 2022 05:12 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsYaari Toolie-Walker is a member of the Alaska-Native Yupik community, an activist, an educator, and a healer. Yaari is also a returning guest, and we highly encourage you to listen to our first conversation with her about the Yupik community, in episode 16 of Latitude Adjustment. The topic of...
97: The Russian Presence in Africa
Latitude Adjustment - September 27, 2022 23:21 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsRussia’s relationship with the African continent dates back to the Soviet era and Cold War proxy battles between Russia and the US. These days the Russian presence in Africa might be lighter, but it’s also growing and the dynamics are changing. From the deployment of Russian mercenaries like the...
96: Forgetting Gaza
Latitude Adjustment - August 19, 2022 22:50 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe recent Israeli assault on Gaza lasted three days, from August 5 through August 7th. Before a ceasefire was concluded on the 7th of August, 49 Palestinians lay dead, including 17 children, with more than 360 injured. Israeli occupation raids in the West Bank, in particular in Jenin, coincided...
Revisited: Human Trafficking in the US
Latitude Adjustment - July 14, 2022 02:47 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsRosine Hounakey is from Togo but she was trafficked to the US at 13 years old. Forced to work for free on both coasts of the US, she was later coerced into an abusive marriage until she was freed with her two young sons as the result of an ICE raid when she was just 17 years old. She then had ...
95: Who is Santa Muerte?
Latitude Adjustment - June 28, 2022 23:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsSanta Muerte (or “Saint Death”) is far more than a popular saint, she’s a framework for understanding Mexican history, Mexican politics (in particular the legacies of corruption, and the marginalization of women, the poor, the incarcerated, and those living on the fringes of “legitimate” society...
Revisited: Racism and Aid in Africa (2 of 2)
Latitude Adjustment - June 22, 2022 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis is a re-broadcast of an episode first published November 25th, 2020. This episode is the second of a two-part conversation with Tity Agbahey. Tity is an attorney based in Senegal, her current work focuses on central Africa, though her previous work has focused elsewhere on the continent, ...
Revisited: Racism and Aid in Africa (1 of 2)
Latitude Adjustment - June 22, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis is a re-broadcast of a two-part series first published November 25th, 2020. This episode is the first of a two-part conversation with Tity Agbahey. Tity is an attorney based in Senegal, her current work focuses on central Africa, though her previous work has focused elsewhere on the con...
Revisited: The Global Arms Trade
Latitude Adjustment - June 14, 2022 19:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe global arms industry may only account for about one percent of global trade, but it’s important to note what that one percent is buying and the role that arms sales play in influencing other aspects of global trade and political relations. We speak with Frank Slijper in Groningen, The Nether...
LAPA 1: Kanpamentu Barrutik
Latitude Adjustment - June 09, 2022 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsLatitude Adjustment Podcast Academyren lehen podcast-atalean, "Moria 2.0" pertsona errefuxiatuen kanpamentu berrian giltzapetuta bizi diren bost gizon afganiarrek aurre egin behar dieten borroka batzuei buruz hitz egiten entzungo duzu. Atalaren lehen erdia euskaraz dago eta bigarren erdia beraie...
LAPA 1: Desde el Interior del Campo
Latitude Adjustment - June 09, 2022 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsEn el primer episodio de Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy escucharás a cinco hombres afganos hablar sobre algunas de las luchas a las que se enfrentan al vivir encerrados en el nuevo campo de personas refugiadas "Moria 2.0". La primera mitad del episodio está en español y la segunda mitad en ...
LAPA 1: Kanpamentu Narrutik
Latitude Adjustment - June 09, 2022 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsLatitude Adjustment Podcast Academyren lehen podcast-atalean, "Moria 2.0" pertsona errefuxiatuen kanpamentu berrian giltzapetuta bizi diren bost gizon afganiarrek aurre egin behar dieten borroka batzuei buruz hitz egiten entzungo duzu. Atalaren lehen erdia euskaraz dago eta bigarren erdia beraie...
Revisited: Transgender Community
Latitude Adjustment - June 07, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAdrien Lawyer is the founder and director of the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico, an organization that “provides support, community, and connection to transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and gender variant people and their families through advocacy, education, and direct serv...
94: Anarchism, a US History
Latitude Adjustment - May 31, 2022 17:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsKenyon Zimmer is an associate professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Zimmer specializes in transatlantic migration, political radicalism, and labor history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His research centers on the connections between migration, race and ethnic...
LAPA 4: Moriako Gizakiak
Latitude Adjustment - May 29, 2022 19:37 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsKikirentzat, "Alfa kapitaina" ezizenez ezaguna, ez zen berria pertsona errefuxiatu gisa bizitzea 2019ko urrian Moriako kanpamendura iritsi zenean. Ordurako bere bidaia luzeak Burundiko etxetik ihes egin, eta Ruandako pertsona errefuxiatuen kanpamendu batean urte batzuk pasatzera eraman zion. Due...
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