Guerrilla Radio
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Guerrilla RadioApr 03, 2024
Moving Beyond Hasbara - The Complexity of Telling the Palestinian Story w/ Bassam of PreOccupation Pod
It’s one thing to tell a story, it’s another to do it in a way that does justice to the topic. In much of the discussion of Palestine, the focus lies squarely on Palestinians largely in relation to their interactions to the Zionist project. But there it more to dive into, and more to discuss beyond simple counter-hasbara.
Partisan Brigade member James is joined by Bassam, the brains behind the podcast PreOccupation: A Not-So-Brief History of Palestine to talk about his work and the critical importance of how we frame and discuss Palestinian history, and how doing so effectively can be an effective means of inoculating people against hasbara before we even have to get to the point of refuting it. Be sure to follow PreOccupation on Instagram
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Music as Revolutionary Propaganda w/ Communist Party of Kenya's Bangaisa Crew
In this episode of Guerrilla Radio, Henry Hakamaki and Matt Deitsch, part of the Guerrilla Radio Partisan Brigade, interview members of the Communist Party of Kenya's Bangaisa Crew, a revolutionary music and dance outfit. The Crew is well known for their song "Booker 2022", and we talked here about using music and dance as revolutionary propaganda. A great conversation! Be sure to follow the Bangaisa Crew and Communist Party of Kenya YouTube Channels to stay up to date on their latest work.
Also some resources mentioned throughout the episode: Guerrilla History's interview with Taylor Genovese (translator of Bogdanov's Art and the Working Class). Guerrilla History's first and second interviews with Comrade Booker of the CPK.
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The Campus Front: A Field Report from Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine
In this special episode of both the Majlis podcast of the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives project at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON and Guerrilla Radio, an activist companion podcast to Guerrilla History podcast, Adnan Husain and Matt Deitsch, part of the Guerrilla Radio activist network, discuss campus organizing, the repression of Palestinian solidarity at universities, and how faculty and students have responded. A diverse group of students and faculty from Syracuse University joined the program to discuss the range of issues about academic freedom, the denial of expertise, the persecution of racialized communities, and repression of pro-Palestinian solidarity. They issued a call and petition making concrete demands that has articulated the shape of the intersectional struggle for freedom and justice in the neoliberal university and for Palestine.
USACBI, BDS call for Faculty of Palestine chapters: https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/
Bios:
Co-Host:
Matt Deitsch is a filmmaker, writer, educator and organizer w/NNOC (National Network on Cuba), Friends of Swazi Freedom, Progressive International and in Democratic Socialists of America’s International Committee. He has a political economy background through work at the IDEAs Institute, a development economics institute located in India.
Guests:
Sophie Clinton is from Syracuse, NY, and is currently studying to get their MPA at Syracuse University. Their research focuses on the study of global atrocities, historical memory, and genocidal patterns with a focus on contemporary Latin America. Their current project is on the ways in which family planning policies under the authoritarian regime of Augusto Pinochet played a role in queer erasure and heightened violence against the queer community. Their other research interests include historical atrocities in the Middle East and South Asia.
MoAde M. J. is a recent alum of Syracuse University and the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. They are a poet, essayist, and creative nonfiction writer who pays special attention to the fields of regenerative agriculture and afrofuturism. They founded the @blackatcuse Instagram account to provide a platform for radical honesty about the experiences that Black and Indigenous students have at Syracuse University.
Biko Mandela Gray is a writer and ethicist concerned about life, liberation, and freedom. He is also an associate professor of religion at Syracuse university, where he teaches on politics, ethics, and race. He is the author/co-author/co-editor of three books, all of which interrogate the religious and/or philosophical dimensions of antiblackness in the west.
Carol Fadda grew up in Beirut, Lebanon and is currently faculty member at Syracuse University. Her teaching and scholarship lie at the intersections of American Studies, transnational SWANA studies, and women’s and gender studies. She focuses in her work on critical engagements with race, gender, war trauma, carcerality, cross-racial solidarities, and transnational belonging across the US and the SWANA region.
Dana Olwan teaches in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University. She is a core member of Faculty for Palestine-Syracuse University chapter.
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The Crisis of Zionism on Campus w/ University of Illinois Chicago SJP
In January, several Palestinian students at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) registered for a virtual event hosted by the Study Abroad Office (SAO) about a new summer programme to be held in Israel. The university’s response has led to a a federal complaint alleging discrimination against Palestinian students at UIC.
Partisan Brigade member James is joined by Salaam, Jenin, and Soha, three SJP organizers who have been taking the fight to UIC on the ground against a hostile Zionist administration.
Their LinkTree if you want to support:
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Freedom or Martyrdom – Walid Daqqah’s fate is in our hands w/ Jeanine and Thawra from the Palestinian Youth Movement
In this high-priority episode of Guerrilla Radio, we are joined by Jeanine and Thawra from the Palestinian Youth Movement to bring light to their current campaign for the urgent and immediate release of the Palestinian political prisoner Walid Daqqah, and the history, centrality, and role the Prisoners Movement plays in the struggle for national liberation.
The Palestinian Youth Movement calls on the international community to demand the immediate release of Walid Daqqah and expose the illegal nature of his imprisonment.
Link to the petition: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/free-walid-daqqah
Link to the toolkit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vw3YvXsB_pCVm2OJzyrOIFNL2OE5VojForV8gmQ60T8/edit
Check PYM's social media for actions happening near you:
IG: palestinianyouthmovement Backup account: palyouthmvmt
Twitter: palyouthmvmt
Facebook: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
To find out about more campaigns: https://linktr.ee/palestinianyouthmovement
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Understanding Inflation as Class Conflict w/ Dr. Rohit Azad
This episode of Guerrilla Radio is a clear explanation of inflation with a pro-worker economist. A lecture by Partisan Brigade member Matt Deitsch on Keynes profit inflation, its relation to the mass death by policy and why it’s relevant is followed by an interview w/ JNU economics professor Dr. Rohit Azad. The lecture includes a short conversation with Prabhat Patnaik and Rohit.
Rohit Azad teaches economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. He has published a book, It’s Not Over (OUP), on the global economic crisis and has recently co-edited a book A Quantum Leap in the Wrong Direction on the political economy of the Modi government.
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Fund People's Needs - Not the War Machine!
On March 18, the anti-war movement is mobilizing for a national march in Washington D.C. On this episode, co-hosts Amanda Yee of ANSWER Coalition and Gerard Dalbon of DSA International Committee—two organizations endorsing the march—speak to Marcy Winograd of CodePink and Yasemin Zahra of U.S. Labor Against Racism and War about anti-war organizing in light of the war in Ukraine, the imperative to build a movement capable of confronting the U.S. war machine, and why their organizations are also supporting the rally.
Be sure to join us in D.C. on Saturday, March 18 at 1pm in front of the White House to say NO to endless U.S. wars! For more information, or to check bus transportation centers in your city, visit answercoalition.org.
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How to Shut Down an Arms Factory w/ Palestine Action
On this exciting episode of Guerrilla Radio, Partisan Brigade members James and Shatha are joined by the two founders of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard.
Palestine Action is an organization engaged in direct action to materially disrupt the supply chain of of Israel’s largest arms, drones, and security manufacturer: Elbit Systems. In this episode we breakdown direct action, the important role Palestine Action plays in the Palestinian solidarity struggle and how it connects to a larger global internationalist struggle against Zionist colonial expansion and imperialism.
To connect with Palestine Action they are on Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok as Pal_Action and by email: info@palestineaction.org
The intro/outro song is Model Home by snny ft. Topaz Jones
Temple University Grad Workers Strike! w/ Raegan Davis & Kyler Lehrbach
Partisan Brigade members James Ray and Henry Hakamaki talk to striking Temple University Graduate Student Association members Raegan Davis and Kyler Lehrbach. Here, we talk about what precipitated the strike, the unprecedented retaliation the university has taken against the union, how to aid TUGSA in their struggle, and more! You can read Raegan's article in People's World summarizing what has been going on by clicking here, and you can donate to the TUGSA strike fund here.
Raegan Davis is an organizer with the Temple University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA) and the Philadelphia YCL. She is presently completing her MA in Political Science at Temple, and all of her writings can be found on twitter @RaeReadsTheory.
Kyler Lehrbach is an organizer and strike captain with the Temple University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA). He studies in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Temple University and can be found on twitter @KylerLehrbach.
The intro/outro song is Model Home by snny ft. Topaz Jones
Introducing Guerrilla Radio!
Hello and welcome to Guerrilla Radio, a companion to, and spin-off from, the Guerrilla History Podcast!
In this episode, several members of the hosting collective The Partisan Brigade introduce themselves, discuss what they hope to accomplish with the show, their entries into political engagement, and more! We look forward to many more episodes coming soon!
In this episode, you will hear from Sam (@zukosmama), Matt(@MattxRed), Mikey (@karaokecomputer), Mirah (@snackvampire), Shatha (@shathawhat), James (@GoodVibePolitik), and Henry (@huck1995). You can also get updated on new Guerrilla Radio episodes by following Guerrilla History on twitter @guerrilla_pod.
The intro/outro song is Model Home by snny ft. Topaz Jones