Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers Podcast
1) The Ghost of White Supremacy with Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
The speed at which a fascist government can disrupt, dismantle, and destroy on its way to building a full-blown fascist society is breathtaking. Resistance is scattered, and anyone looking to the Demo...Show More
2) Family Policing with Erin Miles Cloud
Just as the US Department of Defense should change its name back to the more accurate and honest War Department—its true function and its title from 1789 until 1947 when it morphed into the National M...Show More
3) Trapped in Reality, Walking Toward Freedom with Vijay Prashad
The severe challenges and unforeseen possibilities facing humanity today cry out for clarity. We need it all: poetry and politics, art and the people’s army, agitation and organization, theory and pra...Show More
4) Remembering Red Summer with Franklin Cosey Gay and Peter Cole
In 1922 a commission made up of prominent citizens—six Black men and six white men appointed by the governor of Illinois—issued a report about the 1919 Race Riot entitled The Negro in Chicago: A ...Show More
5) Lost and Found, in Translation with Frank Wynne
If you were ever an enthusiastic reader of “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Peanuts,” “Blondie,” “Doonesbury,” or the “Boondocks,” you have a treat coming your way: “Mafalda,” a six-year-old comic book character...Show More
6) Big Time with Rus Bradburd
Big time college sports have distorted the intellectual mission of colleges and universities for decades—and we’re in a particularly volatile period as athletes organize themselves into unions and dem...Show More
7) Friends Helping Friends with Patrick Hoffman
The mass incarceration system has been dubbed “the new Jim Crow”—there are now more Black men in prison or on probation or parole than there were living in bondage as chattel slaves in 1850. There are...Show More
8) More Beautiful, More Terrible: Teaching Truth with Jesse Hogapian
Thomas Jefferson was the masterly author of the ringing and rousing Declaration of Independence as well as a human trafficker and serial rapist. The second president embodies James Baldwin’...Show More
9) Common Good Organizing with Elizabeth Todd-Breland
The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) led by Karen Lewis, a charismatic high school chemistry teacher, was elected to lead the Chicago Teachers Union in 2010. Lewis was a brilliant, ...Show More
10) Solidarity through Design with Lani Hanna and Josh MacPhee
Solidarity takes on many forms but for over four decades one vivid example rose out of a design and print studio in Havana, Cuba. Born in 1966 out of the Tricontinental Conference the Organization of ...Show More