Quick note - this is a preview, the full interview will be released shortly Dr Sinanan and I get into her background and connect these heritages back to the ongoing genocide (and revolution) happening in Gaza. Dr Sinanan is currently working to produce a new edition of The History of Mary Prince (1831) https://ageofrevolutions.com/2020/06/10/blm-2020-breathing-resistance-and-the-war-against-enslavement/ Calls to defund or abolish the police at this level during BLM 2020, represented a...

With the war on Gaza now in its 10th month, we speak with journalist Jeremy Scahill about the state of negotiations for a possible ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Scahill recently spoke to senior Hamas officials about the ongoing ceasefire negotiations and the group’s broader goals. He is a co-founder of The Intercept, and he recently announced he was leaving after more than a decade to launch a new investigative journalism outlet, Drop Site News, alongside colleague Ryan...

Co-founder Omar Barghouti makes the case for the global BDS campaign Omar Barghouti, a human rights activist and co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel http://www.pacbi.org/ , said on a Canadian speaking tour, that he is among the most optimistic in the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israeli apartheid, but is himself surprised at the rapidity of its growth. The support for BDS / PACBI campaign, launched in 2005...

Nada Elia - professor at Antioch University, Seattle, organizing committee member of USACBI and founding member of Arab women's activist groups gives the keynote address at Israeli Apartheid Week, Vancouver, BC 2012. Nada Elia is a diaspora Palestinian writer, grassroots organizer, and university professor. She is the author of Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Narratives, and has contributed chapters to Palestine: A Socialist Introduction and The...

This title is taken from Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country. In South Africa, racial problems have often been solved by government police. Dr. Pettigrew discussed the history of South Africa which led to the apartheid (separation of races) and then delves into that country's similarity with the American South. Jeffrey E. Butler, an English South African, who is a research associate in the African Studies Program, Boston University, is a guest participant. Dynamics of Desegregation is an...

An Israeli historian, Dr. Pappé is currently a professor at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK. He is also director of the university's European Center for Palestine Studies and co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies. He obtained his PhD in history from the University of Oxford. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our...

Note: This has been updated with an additional few pieces of audio and the original audio has been corrected for mistakes. 1st: Sherif Fam speaks to Greta Berlin on launch day. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla consists of six ocean vessels bearing about 10,000 tons of vital building and living materials and 700 unarmed civilians, pledged to nonviolent defiance of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, the only land in the world being denied access to its own sea. The passenger list includes prominent...

Attorney and activist Ahmad Abuznaid, Esq. discusses his experiences working for social justice for Black Americans in the U.S. and Palestinians in the occupied territories and in the diaspora. As the first event in our 2018 Palestine Center Summer Intern Lecture Series, this talk focuses on the broad theme of intersectionality between the Palestinian struggle and other contemporary social movements in America. Titled "Palestine and Us: Contextualizing Palestine in American Political...

At a recent Palestine Center briefing, John Voll, associate director of the Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding at Georgetown University, and Amjad Atallah, president of the Strategic Assessments Initiative, analyzed the historical and current political standing of Hamas. John Voll argued that Hamas represents crystallization of the Palestinian nationalist movement and political Islam as they have evolved respectively during the twentieth century. Amjad...

Recorded February 8, 2024 - Law enforcement officers from a joint task force that included the Atlanta Police Department, FBI, GBI and ATF executed one arrest warrant and three search warrants on two homes in the Lakewood Heights area and one in the Starlight Heights neighborhood that police say are associated with the Stop Cop City movement. At a press conference, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the search warrants were for evidence related to a series of arson and vandalism...

This ABC News special features the first interview granted by Nelson Mandela on his 1990 visit to the United States. Mr. Mandela speaks with Ted Koppel for 71 minutes and answers questions from the studio audience. Topics covered include his 27 years in South Africa's prisons, the struggle against apartheid and its eventual collapse, and the future of a united South Africa. News footage and analysis bookend the interview and place the viewer unfamiliar with events in context. Note: A good...

Dr. Roy Casagranda is a political science professor in Austin, Texas. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected] We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

Professor Salaita is at the centre of an international protest against academic censorship. Author of six books and many articles, he was “unhired” from a tenured position in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois when donors pressured the university because of Salaita’s tweets on his personal Twitter account about the Gaza massacre this past summer. Because this action is widely recognized as part of a broad effort to silence voices for Palestinian rights and justice, and as...

The “brutality of the occupation is getting worse and worse,” said Dr. Jumana Odeh, director of the Palestinian Happy Child Center, at an 11 June 2001 Center briefing. She addressed the psychological dimensions of Israel’s occupation and the intifada, followed by Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, director of the Health, Development, Information, and Policy Institute, who challenged the common myths about the origin and nature of the uprising. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with...

1: Clip from Liberation/Stop the War Coalition online event on March 26 2022: Yemen: A 7-Year-Long Crime – End the Conflict Now! https://liberationorg.co.uk/events/ye... Shireen refers to a video in her speech Hunger War - you can watch it here: https://www.hungerward.org/ More about Liberation: liberationorg.co.uk More about Stop the War Coalition: https://www.stopwar.org.uk/ (2022) 2: Professor Shireen Al-Adeimi explains the US-Saudi war on the Yemen people including why it’s happening,...

Despite being the Arab world’s poorest country, Yemen has been one of the most active in confronting the Zionist Israeli regime in the al-Aqsa Flood operation. In an exclusive sit-down interview, Radio 786 explores the motivation for the action by Yemen’s Ansarullah (Helpers of Allah) Movement and the long-term plan as the struggle to liberate al-Aqsa continues. Guest: Hamid Rezk – Ansarullah Movement (Yemen) As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit...

1: Jon Elmer reports from Palestine on the Gaza Pullout (CKDU, 2005) 2: After six months in the Middle East, photojournalist Jon Elmer discusses the Gaza 'disengagement' and the shifting dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict with original reportage from on the ground in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jerusalem. (Speech, 2006) As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media...

Violence and resistance in the struggle for Palestine is a lecture by Palestinian refugee Fawaz Turki, who defends Palestinian use of violence as necessary opposition to a series of violent incidents incited by Zionists. Turki argues that an act of occupying power is always violent when directed against occupied people As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our...

Marwa Osman, 'Transformation of the Axis of Resistance at the Syrian Crossroad', Syrian Conflict Conference. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected] We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to...

CAIR Florida conducted an interview with Dr Al-Arian in 2020 while he is/was living in Turkey. It is part of their EXPOSED video series - the description is as follows: EXPOSED series highlights Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian activist who was silenced by the US government through imprisonment and “secret evidence.” He joined us from exile in Turkey. This video series was produced to further CAIR-FL’s mission by exposing Civil Rights abuses from political prisoners to police brutality....

1: Sami Al-Arian interview (2002) 2: Press Conference at the Shabazz Center in Harlem for Sami Al-Arian. His daughter asks for his release and right to return to his family. (2008) 3: If Americans Knew collaboration with the Al-Arian family / collective for his freedom (2008) 4: Democracy Now Interview with Sami - Sami Al-Arian Released After 5.5 Years in Prison After more than five-and-a-half years behind bars, Palestinian professor and activist, Sami Al-Arian, has been released from...

The Beatings of Palestinians (1988): This Week Thames Television Peter Gill Gaza in 1988: Report follows how Israeli occupation forces beat to death two Palestinian teenagers, including a Christian, following Israel's dove Rabin's orders to smash the bones of native Palestinians. Bernard Mills, Director of UN Operations in Gaza in 1988: They come to people's homes ... and [Israeli soldiers] beat the people inside... The vast bulk of the cases there has been no arrest. They have gone in. They...

A national speaking tour featuring a South African reverend and Palestinian lawyer started off at the Palestine Center on Monday, 10 November 2008. The tour, sponsored by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org), draws on the parallels between the South African and Israeli systems of apartheid. Apartheid, according to the International Criminal Court, refers to “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any...

Documentary featuring commentary from Walid Khalidi, amongst other historians on the era leading up to the Nakba. Notes: This is missing the 6th track, so continuity does not totally track midway (35:35) timestamp, jumps from part 5 to part 7.  As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out...

Leila Khaled put out a statement with the PFLP - it does come with a backing audio track that we could not totally isolate away from the speaking. Khaled is part of the PFLP international leadership council currently and resides in Jordan, released from Israeli prisons as part of a prisoner exchange. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence...