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Today we’re joined by Bill Fletcher Jr. Over 2 years ago, this longtime USA-based labor and social justice activist was on TFTT to talk about the threats of what was then a theoretical disaster: a second Trump administration. I’m sorry to say that our predictions came true, and I ...  Show more

Early this year, I had Nicole Bedera, Aydin and Ed on to talk about the resistance against ICE that was happening in their town of Minneapolis and that was making headlines all around the world. Since then, enough time has passed for today’s guest, mags, to have written a powerfu ...  Show more

Leila is joined by two Sweida-based activists, Khuzama and Ian from the Interstices-Fajawat grassroots initiative, to talk about the recent unrest in Syria in which members of the Druze community were targeted. In the first part, they got into what happened, the fault lines, the ...  Show more

Welcome to Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution (STIR)! In this episode, ⁠Leila Al-Shami⁠ (⁠Burning Country⁠) and Elia Ayoub (⁠The Fire These Times⁠, ⁠Hauntologies⁠) introduce themselves and the podcast.What is STIR about? From the Assad regime to the Arab Spring and beyond, we wil ...  Show more

Critical connections and interdependence are key for any liberation movement. Aline Batarseh of Visualizing Palestine and Tamara Ben-Halim of Makan join host Yara Hawari to explore how the work of their organizations intersects with that of Al-Shabaka, and how we can collectiv ...