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  • 1

    Palestinian Political Prisoners Part 1

    This Is Palestine

    15:06 | Apr 27th, 2023

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    This is Part 1 of our Palestinian political prisoners episode. We hear from former Palestinian political prisoners, Khader Adnan and Qadura Fares, as we try to understand the physical and psychologica...Show More

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    20% of women and 40% of men in Palestine have been incarcerated in Israeli jails Food strikes started in defiance of calling Israeli prison officials a term that means “my lord,” and asking for penci...Show More

  • 2

    On his 86th day of hunger strike, Sheikh Khader Adnan died in Ramle Prison, where he has been held since February 5th, 2023. On that same day, Adnan declared his hunger strike in protest of his detent...Show More

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    We aren’t meant to be imprisoned — neither in jails or in society. In martyrdom we have the right to write our own will. Khader Adnan knew he would be assassinated by Israel. Nothing has kept me a...Show More

  • 3

    Clearing the air for a healthy future

    Global Health Matters

    36:23 | Jun 13th, 2023

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    This episode brings together two grassroots advocates for clean air who share country case studies from India and South Africa, explaining why it is impossible to have healthy people living on a sick ...Show More

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    There can’t be healthy people on a sick planet.

  • 4

    The Infrastructure of Community

    How to Build a Happy Life

    40:39 | May 29th, 2023

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    Coffee shops, churches, libraries, and concert venues are all shared spaces where mingling can take place. Yet the hustle and bustle of modern social life can pose challenges to relationship-building—...Show More

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    Physical isolation versus social isolation Perhaps we have replaced social services with social media Other countries have higher rates of people living alone: when you have social services provided ...Show More

  • 5

    How to fight a patent pirate

    Planet Money

    25:18 | Sep 1st, 2023

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    Back in the 1990s, Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar was in his office in New Delhi when he came across a puzzling story in the newspaper. Some university scientists in the U.S. had apparently filed a patent fo...Show More

  • 6

    The Oslo Accords Part 1

    This Is Palestine

    22:03 | Sep 18th, 2023

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    It's been 30 years since the Oslo Accords, and Palestinians have received nothing but fewer rights, increased settler land theft, and more Israeli violence. The "peace process" was a sham. Host Diana ...Show More

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    Oslo accords created the checkpoints that exist today. It recognized israel but not Palestine. Checkpoint A was organized by the PA, B by both PA and Israel, and C by Israel only. Palestinians were co...Show More

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    The Oslo Accords Part 2

    This Is Palestine

    15:00 | Sep 19th, 2023

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    It's been 30 years since the #OsloAccords, and Palestinians have received nothing but fewer rights, increased settler land theft, and more Israeli violence. The "peace process" was a sham. Host Diana ...Show More

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    Prisons are not natural, someone dreamed them up and they came into being. We can also dream of a free Palestine. And not just dream but work towards it. We have to recenter and rethink what liberat...Show More

  • 8

    The Panama Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It's also (perhaps less favorably) been called the greatest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. But due ...Show More

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    - France and other countries had tried before the US. It then took 10 years to built and over 5000 (though some estimates put it closer to 25000) people died in the process of digging a ditch through ...Show More

  • 9

    In his first week in office, U.S. President Donald Trump has implemented several executive orders, including a 90-day freeze on U.S. foreign assistance funding. The executive order states that the “fo...Show More

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    - Two different approaches: do we try to be quieter and hide or do we swap our language and audience to focus on return on investment, support for private industry, etc (e.g., instead of talking about...Show More

  • 10

    The world is not your oyster

    Code Switch

    31:46 | Nov 29th, 2023

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    Traveling is supposed to open your mind and expand your horizons — but what if it doesn't? In her new book Airplane Mode, author Shahnaz Habib suggests that sometimes, traveling does more to enforce o...Show More

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    - Being a developed country means being carbon dependent - Distinction between tourism (superficial) and travel (more conscious) is artificial. Just embrace being a tourist. As a stranger in a place ...Show More

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