People's Movements

Last week, 19 students at Pomona College in Southern California were arrested by riot police and banned from campus after holding a pro-Palestine protest on their campus. Melia, one of the students arrested at the sit-in, joins the show to discuss Pomona Divest from Apartheid activism and the significant repression...

On March 25, the UN Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to be implemented during the month of Ramadan and to end on April 9. The resolution was able to pass because the US did not exercise its veto power as it did...

Senegal is celebrating after Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the young, anti-establishment presidential candidate defeated the French-backed president Macky Sall to win the Presidential election. Faye’s election follows months of protests in the country, where thousands have taken to the streets against widespread poverty and neo-colonialism. Amzat Boukari-Yabara, a historian, author, and...

Israel continues to starve, bombard, and ethnically cleanse Palestine with the full backing of the US government. The death toll stands at over 31,000 people, and more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people are facing imminent famine. And while the world has its eyes on Gaza, Israel...

The Israeli killing spree in Gaza has sparked a global movement united in support of the Palestinian people. Meanwhile the U.S. government sets imaginary “red lines” while facilitating the genocidal colonial project. This is a turning point in global history, and the Palestine solidarity movement in the West has a...

Supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal are calling for urgent action as his health takes a serious decline and he continues to battle the state for his life. Mumia, who will turn 70 next month, has been unjustly incarcerated for over 41 years, where he has spent the majority of...

Over 100,000 Michigan Democrats sent an unmistakeable message that the genocide against the Palestinians would not be forgotten in November. Rania Khalek is joined by Prem Thakker, politics reporter for The Intercept, to discuss the potential political fallout of Biden’s unconditional backing of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 

The Trinity of Fundamentals, a novel written by former Palestinian political prisoner Wisam Rafeedie while  he was imprisoned, has been published in English for the first time. The novel is an evocative and fictionalized account of Rafeedie’s nine years hiding from and resisting the Zionist occupation of Palestine, which ended...

Throughout Israel’s genocide in Gaza, those who care have used their skills in beautiful and inspiring ways to help bring attention to the struggle for justice in Palestine. One of those people is musician Leila Hegazy, an Egyptian-Italian-American solo artist and activist as well as a member of the twin...

Over 140 days into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, the death toll has surpassed 30,000 Palestinians, and over 70,000 have been injured. In addition to constant Israeli bombardment, Gaza is experiencing widespread famine, its hospitals are besieged, and threats of an Israeli ground invasion in Rafah loom near. Layan Sima...