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From the River to the Sea w/ Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi May 22, 2021

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Dan speaks with Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi: an in-depth interview on Israeli apartheid and dispossession, the history and future of the Palestinian struggle, Israeli politics, media false equivalences, and shifting US public opinion toward Palestine.

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We Are Not Numbers wearenotnumbers.org/home/donate
Multiple organizations: muftah.org/organizations-working-in-palestine-that-need-your-support/#.YKQaGZNKhpT

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Gaza with Aya Alghazzawi & Issam Adwan May 18, 2021

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Two voices from Gaza. The first of two episodes on Palestine this week with teacher and BDS activist Aya Alghazzawi and journalist Issam Adwan, project manager for We Are Not Numbers.

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We Are Not Numbers wearenotnumbers.org/home/donate
Multiple organizations: muftah.org/organizations-working-in-palestine-that-need-your-support/#.YKQaGZNKhpT

Hammer and Hoe with Robin D.G. Kelley May 15, 2021

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Dan interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression.

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“Cancel Culture” w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield May 09, 2021

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What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ from the anti-PC discourse that first emerged in the early 1990s? How do we distinguish between liberal opponents of PC like Jonathan Chain and right-wing ones like Donald Trump? And then, finally, is there still a there there? Some problems with The Discourse that we should reflect upon?

Readings:
Some “Politically Incorrect” Pathways Through PC by Stuart Hall ram-wan.net/restrepo/hall/some%20politically%20incorrect%20pathways.pdf

Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy by Moira Weigel theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump

The Use of Free Speech in Society by Asad Haider versobooks.com/blogs/4793-the-use-of-free-speech-in-society

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Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili Apr 30, 2021

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Dan interviews Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The Suez Canal, the colonial roots of contemporary maritime trade, Aden dock worker radicals, why Dubai is not exceptional, the impacts of steam engines and containerization—and so much more.

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Empire in the Philippines with Rick Baldoz Apr 24, 2021

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US empire in the Philippines, Filipino migration, labor organizing in the fields, and the nativist campaign for Asian exclusion. Dan interviews Rick Baldoz on his remarkable book The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946.

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Combat Liberalism w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Mindy Isser, & Zachary Hershman Apr 16, 2021

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Three thinkers and organizers on the much debated question of ultra-leftism post-Bernie 2020. Two texts that informed our discussion:
The Liberal to Ultra-Left Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle by Brian W.
Liberalism, ultraleftism or mass action, a speech delivered by Socialist Workers Party leader Peter Camejo.

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Black Left with Charisse Burden-Stelly Apr 11, 2021

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Dan interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly on racial capitalism, the history of the US Black left, and the US government’s Red Scare attacks on Black radicals.

Read Burden-Stelly’s work
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
Black Cold War Liberalism as an Agency Reduction Formation during the Late 1940s and the Early 1950s
Constructing Deportable Subjectivity: Antiforeignness, Antiradicalism, and Antiblackness during the McCarthyist Structure of Feeling
Caste Does Not Explain Race
The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies

Meet with Charisse Burden-Stelly at the Dig’s last Book Club event thedigradio.com/dig-book-club

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Asian America w/ Andy Liu, Jay Caspian Kang, & Tammy Kim Apr 01, 2021

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Dan interviews the hosts of Time to Say Goodbye podcast on Asian American politics and identity.

Check out Time to Say Goodbye wherever you get podcasts.

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Counterculture to Cyberculture with Fred Turner Mar 26, 2021

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How the 60s counterculture went on to make the techno-utopian ideology that suffuses our techno-dystopian reality. Dan interviews Fred Turner on his classic From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.

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