Latest Refugee rights Podcast Episodes
Our Tattered Tapestry: Hate and Extremism Across America
Gravity FM - February 29, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsExposing, Investigating and Inoculating Against Hate Discussion with Lisa Borden and Susan Corke from the Southern Poverty Law Center on hate and extremism groups throughout the United States. We discuss rising right radicalism, including religious and white nationalist groups and their means ...
Letters of Leadership
Gravity FM - January 29, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA Celebration of Civics and Connection Amidst Crises and Consternation Discussion with Shannon A. Mullen on her recent book In Other Words, Leadership: How a Young Mother’s Weekly Letters to Her Governor Helped Both Women Brave the First Pandemic Year which looks at agency, representative demo...
From the Courtroom to the Community: Revitalizing Law to Empower Frontline Communities
Gravity FM - November 12, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHow Grassroots Movements for Climate and Environmental Justice Are Critical to Surviving the Climate Crisis Discussion with Vivek Maru on the importance of community paralegals in extending access to the law, enforcing rights and aiding in structural change. We discuss the Customary Land Right...
Deflection, Deceit and Division in the Time of Climate Crisis
Gravity FM - September 16, 2023 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsClimate Change, Subterfuge and Building a Broad Climate Coalition Discussion with Dr. Michael Mann on the subterfuge tactics by the fossil industry to prevent systemic and structural decarbonization. We discuss how the fossil fuel industry promotes doomsday theories to engender apathy and deny...
Our Immolated Heart: Deforestation and Land Grabbing in Brazil's Amazon
Gravity FM - August 07, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCattle Ranching, Palm Oil Plantations and Other Agrobusiness Drivers of Deforestation, Fraud and Violence Against Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples, Bolsonaro's Crimes and the Need for Due Diligence and Accountability in Financing and Supply Chains Discussion with Gabriella Bianchini on...
ISDS: Clandestine Corporate Courts that Entrench Colonialism and Exacerbate the Climate Crisis
Gravity FM - June 09, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNeocolonialism, Democratic Deficits and Regulatory Chill of the Investor State Dispute Settlement Mechanism Discussion with Lisa Sachs on the regulatory chill and democratic deficit of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS). We discuss the structural issues of ISDS, including c...
Of Olives and Tears: Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the First Amendment
Gravity FM - April 23, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPalestinian Human Rights Defenders, SLAPP Suits, Anti-Boycott Laws and Human Rights Abuses in Israel and the OPT Discussion with Maria LaHood on the curtailment and criminalization of advocacy on behalf of Palestinian human rights and criticism of Israeli government policies and their conflati...
The United States of Waste and Woe: Conserving Toxicity at the Santa Susana Field Lab
Gravity FM - November 11, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsRegulatory Capture, Lobbying, Astroturfing, Greenwashing and the Failure to Clean up LA’s Toxic Secret Discussion with Daniel Hirsch, Denise Duffield and Melissa Bumstead on the history and current contamination of the nuclear experiment and rocket testing site, Santa Susana Field Lab, above V...
Toxic Tastes: How Industry Seeds Doubt, Fights Regulation and Hurts Our Health
Gravity FM - September 12, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Nexus Between Environmental Health and Social Justice Discussion with Dr. Jimena Díaz Leiva on the health and environmental impact of fracking, forever chemicals, flame retardants and glyphosate. We discuss how trade secrets are being utilized to protect against disclosure of all toxic che...
Ecocide: An Egregious Crime Causing Collective Calamity
Gravity FM - May 19, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDrafting and Establishing the 5th International Crime Against Peace Discussion with Darryl Robinson and Kate Mackintosh on the history of ecocide and the gravity and culpability elements necessary for it to be the fifth international crime against peace. We also discuss the process of establis...
A Tapestry of Humanity: Adam Hochschild's Ghosts of Rapacity and Resistance
Gravity FM - March 21, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAdam Hochschild's Ghosts of Rapacity and Resistance Discussion with Adam Hochschild on the historical movements and moments throughout Adam’s books. We discuss the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the turmoil and anti-immigrant and anti-labour purges in the United States during and afte...
Total Extraction: Brutality and Blindness in Business and Banking
Gravity FM - December 12, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Noxious Nexus of Environmental Destruction, Corruption, Conflict and Human Rights Abuse Discussion with Patrick Alley on the intersectionality of environmental destruction, human rights abuse, conflict and corruption. We discuss how our banks and institutional funds finance deforestation w...
Light Departing: Umbrellas v. Gas Canisters
Gravity FM - November 01, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDemocratic Resistance in Hong Kong Discussion with Alex Yong-Kang Chow and Brian Leung on China’s increasing control over Hong Kong and its breaches of the Sino-British Declaration. We discuss the student democratic protests in 2014 and 2019 and the arrest and trials of the protestors. We disc...
A Sun-Stroked Country: Fortress Australia and its Need for a Bill of Rights
Gravity FM - September 16, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAbandoned Australians, Cultural Restitution and Human Rights Accountability Discussion with Geoffrey Robertson QC on how Australia’s COVID response, including its border closure to citizens abroad, has violated human rights and Geoffrey’s petition on behalf of abandoned Australians before the ...
Cobbled by Cobalt: Forced Child Labor in Cobalt Mines in the DRC
Gravity FM - May 21, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCobalt, Chocolate, Blood and Corporate Impunity Discussion with Terry Collingsworth on forced child labor in cobalt mines in the DRC and his Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) case against American tech companies which knowingly benefit from the cheap cobalt mined by ch...
Revamping Rights for the 21st Century
Gravity FM - February 12, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsExpanding the Rights Rubric: Adding Rights and Rights Holders for a Good Society Discussion with Sushma Raman on The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights, her book with William F. Schulz. We discuss the need for specific rights to redress the needs of LGBTQIA+ communities a...
Oiling the Courts: How the Fossil Fuels Industry Attacks Activists and Advocates and How to Fight Back Against their Sticks and SLAPPS
Gravity FM - December 30, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsChevron’s Carious Crusade Against Steven Donziger, SLAPP Suits and the Defense of Climate Necessity Discussion with Lauren Regan on corporate SLAPP suits and in particular the oil and gas industry’s utilization of RICO against grassroots environmental activists. We also discuss the miscarriage...
Janine Lee Urges Philanthropy to Step Up to a Pivotal Leadership Moment
ForumNation - October 30, 2020 03:39 - 46 minutesJanine Lee is a veteran strategist and grantmaker in philanthropy, with more than 25 years of diverse leadership experience with nonprofits and foundations. She is President & CEO of the Southeastern Council of Foundations (SECF), based in Atlanta, which is the largest regional association of gra...
One World, One Health: How Pathogenic Policies Contribute to Pandemics
Gravity FM - July 02, 2020 20:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Need for a Unified, Holistic Approach to Environmental, Animal and Human Health Discussion with Professor Dr. Christine Kreuder Johnson on anthropogenic ecosystem drivers of disease emergence in wildlife and spillover into the human population. We discuss how habitat destruction, including...
Patricia Eng Talks About the Rise in Hate Against Asian Americans & Why Philanthropy Needs a “Reset”
ForumNation - May 06, 2020 15:10 - 36 minutesPatricia Eng’s extensive career has included key leadership positions in the public, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. Since September 2019, she has served as president & CEO of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), a national membership and philanthropic advocacy organiza...
When the Boardroom Enters the Bedroom: The Art of Profit and Predation in the ART Industry
Gravity FM - April 23, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsRegulatory Gaps and Conflicts in the Fertility Industry Discussion on regulatory gaps and issues in the fertility industry with Professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbone. We discuss the marketing of egg freezing, brokerage of egg donation and surrogacy and issues surrounding informed consent, vul...
(Part 1 of 3) Amanda Misiko Andere Is Fighting to End Homelessness
ForumNation - March 10, 2020 04:10 - 22 minutesAmanda Misiko Andere has spent her entire career fighting to prevent and end homelessness and break the cycle of poverty. She has worked in the nonprofit sector, the public sector and now the philanthropic sector. For the past four years, Amanda has served as Chief Executive Officer of Funders To...
(Part 2 of 3) Amanda Misiko Andere is Fighting to End Homelessness
ForumNation - March 10, 2020 04:05 - 21 minutesAmanda Misiko Andere has spent her entire career fighting to prevent and end homelessness and break the cycle of poverty. She has worked in the nonprofit sector, the public sector and now the philanthropic sector. For the past four years, Amanda has served as Chief Executive Officer of Funders To...
(Part 3 of 3) Amanda Misiko Andere Is Fighting to End Homelessness
ForumNation - March 10, 2020 04:00 - 13 minutesAmanda Misiko Andere has spent her entire career fighting to prevent and end homelessness and break the cycle of poverty. She has worked in the nonprofit sector, the public sector and now the philanthropic sector. For the past four years, Amanda has served as Chief Executive Officer of Funders To...
(Part 3 of 3) Daranee Petsod: Advocate for Immigrants, Bridge Builder, Surfer
ForumNation - February 14, 2020 11:10 - 18 minutesIn Part 3 (of 3) of ForumNation's first episode, host Dave Biemesderfer interviews Daranee Petsod. For more than three decades, Daranee has devoted her career to fighting for justice and equity for immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers, working primarily in the philanthropic sector. She has wor...
(Part 2 of 3) Daranee Petsod: Advocate for Immigrants, Bridge Builder, Surfer
ForumNation - February 14, 2020 11:05 - 21 minutesIn Part 2 (of 3) of ForumNation's first episode, host Dave Biemesderfer interviews Daranee Petsod. For more than three decades, Daranee has devoted her career to fighting for justice and equity for immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers, working primarily in the philanthropic sector. She has wor...
(Part 1 of 3) Daranee Petsod: Advocate for Immigrants, Bridge Builder, Surfer
ForumNation - February 14, 2020 11:00 - 20 minutesIn Part 1 (of 3) of ForumNation's first episode, host Dave Biemesderfer interviews Daranee Petsod. For more than three decades, Daranee has devoted her career to fighting for justice and equity for immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers, working primarily in the philanthropic sector. She has wor...
Stifling Dissent: Activism Between the Stick and Slap
Gravity FM - December 23, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Little Gitmo and Corporate SLAPP Suits Discussion on the terrorization of activists and the criminalization of dissent with Rachel Meeropol. We discuss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, how it may operate to violate the First Amendment and its chilling e...
The Slaughterhouse Straitjacket: How Big Ag Gags and Guts Our Speech
Gravity FM - October 16, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAg-Gag Laws and the First Amendment, Carious CAFOS and the Endangerment of the Endangered Species Act Discussion with Cristina Stella on the advent and continuance of Ag-gag laws that criminalize undercover reporting at animal enterprises and their violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment r...
Grit and Gravity in International Law
Gravity FM - July 17, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDemocratizing the Colonial Space of International Law Discussion with Rachel López on the colonial development of international law and its continuing hierarchical structure. We also discuss the duty to refrain from assisting states in committing grave crimes and its interrelation with the res...
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