Episodes

  • Angela Douglas: Practivist Democrat and Rising Progressive Superstar

    Angela Douglas: Practivist Democrat and Rising Progressive Superstar
    Sep 11 2024
    Sander interviews Angela Douglas, former Mayor (Pro Tempore) of Chester, SC, and former City Council member. They cover her new book: "Breonna Taylor and Me," and reflections on the recent highlights at the DNC.

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    44 mins
  • "I Refused to Load the Bombs for Gaza" - An Interview with Israeli Conscientious Objector Aharon Dardik

    "I Refused to Load the Bombs for Gaza" - An Interview with Israeli Conscientious Objector Aharon Dardik
    Jun 24 2024
    Aharon Akiva Dardik is a US/Israeli student leader on the American Left. He is founder of "Jews for Ceasefire," and is President of J Street, both at Columbia University. He was active in the encampments and recent struggles against genocide, at Columbia. In recent years, he was drafted into the Israeli military to help load bombs to drop on Gaza. He went through the court-martial process, and did hard time in a military prison. He tells us all about his experiences, struggling for justice. He will be speaking at our upcoming retreat, in the Catskills, "Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain." (More info on that at www.nonviolence.works.)

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    42 mins
  • The rise of a new left

    The rise of a new left
    Jun 9 2024
    Adventures with the (New) New Left: Sander Hicks speaks with author Raina Lipsitz about the new movements for serious social change. (Raina is author of the great new book, "The Rise of a New Left" from Verso.)

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    43 mins
  • Meet Lo Nathamundi, of Kaleidoscope Community Yoga, Guest Teacher at Peaceful Lake retreat, coming up soon!”

    Meet Lo Nathamundi, of Kaleidoscope Community Yoga, Guest Teacher at Peaceful Lake retreat, coming up soon!”
    May 9 2024
    Host Sander Hicks gets to talk to his old friend Logermund Nathamundi, who is founder of Kaleidoscope Community Yoga, an innovative group yoga practice. Lo will be the guest teacher at the “peaceful lake, powerful mountain” retreat happening this year in the Catskill Mountains. www.nonviolence.works.

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    29 mins
  • Gospel of Peace LIVE EVENT with John Dear

    Gospel of Peace LIVE EVENT with John Dear
    May 4 2024
    Recorded live at a book event for Gospel of Peace, author John Dear, a Catholic priest and nonviolent creative resistor, speaks about his long career doing civil disobedience and Gospel studies, focussed on the nonviolence of Jesus. The new book, Gospel of Peace, is an intense reading and commentary on the traditional Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • White Collar Crime:

    White Collar Crime:
    Mar 7 2024

    Sander Hicks takes a look back at some of the songs he has written and performed with White Collar Crime, Subterfuge Corporation, and his solo work. An overview of a creative, theatrical side of punk rock.




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    38 mins
  • Shawna Kenney at the PUNK ROCK MUSEUM

    Shawna Kenney at the PUNK ROCK MUSEUM
    Jan 27 2024

    Shawna Kenney, punk rock writer and publisher, catches up with her old friend Sander about various adventures in punk, book writing, & indie media. Includes memories of old friends, including Ian MacKaye, Fugazi, and the new news of Shawna's upcoming event at the Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, NV.



    biographical info:


    Shawna Kenney was raised in the Washington, DC area on a steady diet of Fugazi. She is the author of the award-winning memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Last Gasp), editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers (Seal Press), co-author of Imposters (Mark Batty Publisher), and co-author of the oral history Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998 (Rare Bird Books).

    Kenney is a Contributing Editor with Narratively and her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, Creative Nonfiction, Vice, The Rumpus, Bust, Salon and more.


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    42 mins
  • Combatants for Peace!

    Combatants for Peace!
    Jan 15 2024

    There’s a group in the Middle East that brings together Israelis and Palestinians who refuse to keep engaging in violence.


    They are called Combatants for Peace. They are Israeli veterans and former Palestinian fighters, who have realized that war is a real dead end. They engage in dialogue and meetings, and get connected rather than engage in more bloodshed.


    With all the new evidence of Gaza genocide, it seems more and more important that we as a global society take a new look at nonviolence and how to create dialogue rather than war.


    Monks and Punks' Sander Hicks interviews Palestinian activist in the West Bank who speaks for Combatants for Peace. Her name is Mai Shahin. this is our interview. she is a dedicated activist, and from her words, you will learn a hell of a lot of new information about what it’s like to be a Palestinian today, in a world oppressed by war, but holding onto the light, working for peace.


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    47 mins