Episodios

  • Downstream: This Is the Reality for Palestinian Christians w/ Dr. Munther Isaac

    Downstream: This Is the Reality for Palestinian Christians w/ Dr. Munther Isaac
    Sep 16 2024
    Dr. Munther Isaac is the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, serving a community of Christians that dates back to the time of Jesus. He joins Ash to discuss Israel’s continuing annexation of the West Bank, the role of Christian Zionists, and the origins of western hypocrisy.
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    59 m
  • ACFM Microdose: The Joy Of Fascism

    ACFM Microdose: The Joy Of Fascism
    Sep 15 2024
    A month after racist riots engulfed the country, the ACFM crew ask what fascism – and antifascism – look like in Britain today. Do the riots and counter-protests mark a return to “street politics”? Why didn’t the Labour party align itself with opponents of the pogroms? And how popular are extreme rightwing views among Britain’s frustrated […]
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    1 h y 27 m
  • Novara FM: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living w/ Sarah Jaffe

    Novara FM: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living w/ Sarah Jaffe
    Sep 12 2024
    “Don’t mourn, organise” were the final words of American labour activist Joe Hill before his execution in 1915. But sometimes our feelings of grief don’t lend themselves to good organising – sometimes we might just want revenge. In her forthcoming book, critic and journalist Sarah Jaffe looks at the many kinds of grief that shape our […]
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    1 h y 14 m
  • Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum

    Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum
    Sep 10 2024
    Political scientists agree that we are now living in a “multipolar” world, with power contested by multiple states and blocs. But how we arrived at this formation, and whether the newly powerful actors on the global stage are inherently problematic, remain areas of disagreement. Someone with has a distinct perspective on this new world order […]
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    1 h
  • Novara FM: Motherhood In and Against the State w/ Helen Charman

    Novara FM: Motherhood In and Against the State w/ Helen Charman
    Aug 29 2024
    Motherhood was once at the centre of the feminist movement’s demands, from campaigns for reproductive rights to the mobilisation of anti-nuclear mums at Greenham Common. But in the 21st century, the politicisation of mothering seems to have shrunk in its ambition. In her new book Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood, literary scholar and […]
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    1 h y 19 m
  • ACFM Trip 45: Holidays

    ACFM Trip 45: Holidays
    Aug 25 2024
    Everybody hates a tourist, as Jarvis Cocker once pointed out, and the ACFM gang are no exception in this ACFM Trip exploring the allure of holidays. Keir, Jem and Nadia consider all the different ways we avoid work, from holy days and vay-cays to grand tours and gap yahs. Does travel make fools of us all, or […]
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    1 h y 49 m
  • Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth w/ Thea Riofrancos

    Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth w/ Thea Riofrancos
    Aug 22 2024
    In 2019, mines expelled 100 billion tonnes of solid waste. Vast and destructive almost beyond imagination, mining is nevertheless essential to the green transition: without the minerals that we pull from the Earth, we cannot wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Thea Riofrancos is associate professor of political science at Providence College and an expert on […]
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    1 h y 34 m
  • Downstream: Is Humanity Really Heading for Population Collapse?! w/ Paul Morland

    Downstream: Is Humanity Really Heading for Population Collapse?! w/ Paul Morland
    Aug 20 2024
    During 1960s, fears of planetary ‘overpopulation’ became widespread. And yet, in more recent years, an altogether different worry has emerged: future population decline. Fertility rates have fallen for decades – and in some places centuries – as humans live in cities, gender equality improves and access to birth control becomes widespread. But, according to some, […]
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    1 h y 52 m