Best Unfinished Demos Podcasts (2025)

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From a Cup of Catastrophe to a Better Brew 1:02:11

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Environmental and Labor Exploitation in the Coffee Industry and How Coffee Can Turn a New Shade with Agroforestry Discussion with Etelle Higonnet on the environmental impacts of commercial monoculture coffee, including deforestation, loss of critical habitat, loss of biodiversity and amplification of climate change. We also discuss the structural i…

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No Party on the Rooftop: Rapacity, Repression and Resistance in Tibet 1:00:00

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Cultural Genocide, Ecocide and the Geopolitics of the CCP’s Water Industrial Complex Discussion with Dr. Lobsang Sangay on the repressive occupation of the CCP in Tibet and the utilization of tightly controlled tourism to obfuscate it. We discuss the cultural genocide that has and is taking place, including the destruction of religious sites and co…

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Colonialism’s New Clothes: The Age of Green Imperialism 1:49:29

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Extraction and Exploitation in the Global South under the Decarbonization Consensus and Theories and Praxis for a Just Transition Discussion with Professor Miriam Lang and Mary Ann Manahan on how current energy transition efforts are framed under a colonialist narrative that continues and entrenches extraction, exploitation and interference in the …

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Silver Intervention: Art, Activism and Disaster Capitalism in the Philippines 1:24:04

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How a Community on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis Took its Story to the Screen and Forced a Land-Grabbing Corporation to Go Off Script Discussion with writer and director Seán Devlin on his recent genre-busting films, which were made in partnership with typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) survivors, who participated and ad-libbed in his films. We discus…

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In Deep Trouble: Battering the Seabed for Batteries 1:35:39

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Perils to the Deep Sea From Bottom Trawling, Climate Change and Mining and the Need to Protect Its Stunning Biodiversity Discussion with Matt Gianni from the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition on the critical importance of the deep sea to our air, climate, the marine food web, our food security and health. We discuss the biodiversity of the deep sea a…

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A Rhyme in Time: Power, Protest and Polarity in America 1:48:03

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American Resistance and Repression, Identity and Intersectionality and the LGBTQI+ Rights Movement Discussion with Professor Timothy Patrick McCarthy on American radicalism and the need for multivocality rather than metanarratives in analyzing history. We discuss the construction and interpellation of identities, their historical contingencies and …

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Unfinished Business: Sufferance for the Suffrage and the Need to Put the Demos Back in Democracy 1:11:54

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The History of Voting Rights in the United States, the Electoral College and the Value of the Vote Discussion with Professor Alex Keyssar on the origins of democracy and the history of the right to vote in the United States. We discuss the lack of an affirmative right to vote under the U.S. Constitution, amendments prohibiting abridgement and voter…

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The Future Is Circular: Tiny Tilos Making Titanic Strides 1:11:06

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Circular Economy, Community Buy-In and Compassionate Leadership Discussion with Hon. Maria Kamma-Aliferi, Mayor of Tilos and Jenny Giannopoulou on the need for and implementation of a circular economy. We also discuss renewable energy infrastructure, the Greek energy pricing system, sewerage infrastructure, freshwater conservation and navigating di…

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Our Tattered Tapestry: Hate and Extremism Across America 1:20:13

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Exposing, Investigating and Inoculating Against Hate Discussion with Lisa Borden and Susan Corke from the Southern Poverty Law Center on hate and extremism groups throughout the United States. We discuss rising right radicalism, including religious and white nationalist groups and their means and methods. We also discuss "parental right groups" and…

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Letters of Leadership 1:21:06

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A Celebration of Civics and Connection Amidst Crises and Consternation Discussion with Shannon A. Mullen on her recent book In Other Words, Leadership: How a Young Mother’s Weekly Letters to Her Governor Helped Both Women Brave the First Pandemic Year which looks at agency, representative democracy, socioeconomic and environmental crises within a p…

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From the Courtroom to the Community: Revitalizing Law to Empower Frontline Communities 1:11:53

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How Grassroots Movements for Climate and Environmental Justice Are Critical to Surviving the Climate Crisis Discussion with Vivek Maru on the importance of community paralegals in extending access to the law, enforcing rights and aiding in structural change. We discuss the Customary Land Rights Act in Sierra Leone, the Community Land Act in Kenya a…

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Deflection, Deceit and Division in the Time of Climate Crisis 45:17

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Climate Change, Subterfuge and Building a Broad Climate Coalition Discussion with Dr. Michael Mann on the subterfuge tactics by the fossil industry to prevent systemic and structural decarbonization. We discuss how the fossil fuel industry promotes doomsday theories to engender apathy and deny agency. We also discuss how the fossil fuel industry fo…

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Our Immolated Heart: Deforestation and Land Grabbing in Brazil's Amazon 1:10:54

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Cattle Ranching, Palm Oil Plantations and Other Agrobusiness Drivers of Deforestation, Fraud and Violence Against Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples, Bolsonaro's Crimes and the Need for Due Diligence and Accountability in Financing and Supply Chains Discussion with Gabriella Bianchini on the importance of the Amazonian biome to the local envi…

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ISDS: Clandestine Corporate Courts that Entrench Colonialism and Exacerbate the Climate Crisis 1:15:02

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Neocolonialism, Democratic Deficits and Regulatory Chill of the Investor State Dispute Settlement Mechanism Discussion with Lisa Sachs on the regulatory chill and democratic deficit of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS). We discuss the structural issues of ISDS, including conflict of interest, lack of transparency and lack of ac…

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Of Olives and Tears: Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the First Amendment 1:20:05

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Palestinian Human Rights Defenders, SLAPP Suits, Anti-Boycott Laws and Human Rights Abuses in Israel and the OPT Discussion with Maria LaHood on the curtailment and criminalization of advocacy on behalf of Palestinian human rights and criticism of Israeli government policies and their conflation with antisemitism. We discuss SLAPP suits, prevention…

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Unfinished Demo 2023 - Title Anybody? 2:00

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1st track of 2023By DJ=AJ Experimental

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The United States of Waste and Woe: Conserving Toxicity at the Santa Susana Field Lab 1:28:26

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Regulatory Capture, Lobbying, Astroturfing, Greenwashing and the Failure to Clean up LA’s Toxic Secret Discussion with Daniel Hirsch, Denise Duffield and Melissa Bumstead on the history and current contamination of the nuclear experiment and rocket testing site, Santa Susana Field Lab, above Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. We discuss how the resp…

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Toxic Tastes: How Industry Seeds Doubt, Fights Regulation and Hurts Our Health 1:11:04

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The Nexus Between Environmental Health and Social Justice Discussion with Dr. Jimena Díaz Leiva on the health and environmental impact of fracking, forever chemicals, flame retardants and glyphosate. We discuss how trade secrets are being utilized to protect against disclosure of all toxic chemicals in fracking, the exemptions the industry obtained…

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Ecocide: An Egregious Crime Causing Collective Calamity 1:15:22

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Drafting and Establishing the 5th International Crime Against Peace Discussion with Darryl Robinson and Kate Mackintosh on the history of ecocide and the gravity and culpability elements necessary for it to be the fifth international crime against peace. We also discuss the process of establishing ecocide as an international crime, including the pr…

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A Tapestry of Humanity: Adam Hochschild's Ghosts of Rapacity and Resistance 1:45:03

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Adam Hochschild's Ghosts of Rapacity and Resistance Discussion with Adam Hochschild on the historical movements and moments throughout Adam’s books. We discuss the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the turmoil and anti-immigrant and anti-labour purges in the United States during and after the First World War, apartheid, the Stalinist purges a…

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Total Extraction: Brutality and Blindness in Business and Banking 1:16:13

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The Noxious Nexus of Environmental Destruction, Corruption, Conflict and Human Rights Abuse Discussion with Patrick Alley on the intersectionality of environmental destruction, human rights abuse, conflict and corruption. We discuss how our banks and institutional funds finance deforestation while concomitantly publicly rallying against it. We disc…

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Light Departing: Umbrellas v. Gas Canisters 1:34:29

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Democratic Resistance in Hong Kong Discussion with Alex Yong-Kang Chow and Brian Leung on China’s increasing control over Hong Kong and its breaches of the Sino-British Declaration. We discuss the student democratic protests in 2014 and 2019 and the arrest and trials of the protestors. We discuss the enactment and use of the National Security Law t…

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Videogame Music 2:34

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UnfinishedBy Jordan Wright

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A Sun-Stroked Country: Fortress Australia and its Need for a Bill of Rights 1:22:24

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Abandoned Australians, Cultural Restitution and Human Rights Accountability Discussion with Geoffrey Robertson QC on how Australia’s COVID response, including its border closure to citizens abroad, has violated human rights and Geoffrey’s petition on behalf of abandoned Australians before the Human Rights Committee. We also discuss the lack of cons…

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Cobbled by Cobalt: Forced Child Labor in Cobalt Mines in the DRC 1:30:43

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Cobalt, Chocolate, Blood and Corporate Impunity Discussion with Terry Collingsworth on forced child labor in cobalt mines in the DRC and his Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) case against American tech companies which knowingly benefit from the cheap cobalt mined by children. We discuss the legal issues in the case as well …

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subdue that dancer 1:38

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only uploading this here so i have it on my phone lolBy Jordan Wright

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Revamping Rights for the 21st Century 58:33

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Expanding the Rights Rubric: Adding Rights and Rights Holders for a Good Society Discussion with Sushma Raman on The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights, her book with William F. Schulz. We discuss the need for specific rights to redress the needs of LGBTQIA+ communities and why adding new rights reinforces rather than dilutes …

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Long Way To Seattle (Remastered) 3:36

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"The Last of Us 2's menu screen is haunting, and I decided to write some music inspired by it. It's essentially the sound of a boat floating in water, so I sampled it and tried to get a guitar tone reminiscent of Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, this is the result. I think it's quite peaceful, albeit somber."The initial version vas very uncompressed and …

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Oiling the Courts: How the Fossil Fuels Industry Attacks Activists and Advocates and How to Fight Back Against their Sticks and SLAPPS 1:06:45

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Chevron’s Carious Crusade Against Steven Donziger, SLAPP Suits and the Defense of Climate Necessity Discussion with Lauren Regan on corporate SLAPP suits and in particular the oil and gas industry’s utilization of RICO against grassroots environmental activists. We also discuss the miscarriages of justice in Chevron’s RICO action against attorney S…

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It's All Me 2:44

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the lead guitar didn't sound like this in ableton, god damn exporting cba to fix it, it's ten to oneBy Jordan Wright

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It Happened Again 2:36

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We're in lockdown again.By Jordan Wright

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All You Can Do Is Laugh 3:43

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After many drafts and edits and re-writes and stuff, this is about as close as I can get to calling a song done. And by done, I obviously mean not done. I still like it.By Jordan Wright

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Long Way To Seattle (demo version) 3:36

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The Last of Us 2's menu screen is haunting, and I decided to write some music inspired by it. It's essentially the sound of a boat floating in water, so I sampled it and tried to get a guitar tone reminiscent of Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, this is the result. I think it's quite peaceful, albeit somber.…

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Physical 2:12

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I like IDLESBy Jordan Wright

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Drenched In Roses 4:03

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Drenched In Roses by Jordan WrightBy Jordan Wright

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Shimmer 3:05

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These are my favourite tracks that I've made. Obviously they're without any vocals, but I'm proud of some of them. All are open to being altered and tweaked (or completely scrapped) until finished.By Jordan Wright

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Faster Than Usual 2:07

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These are my favourite tracks that I've made. Obviously they're without any vocals, but I'm proud of some of them. All are open to being altered and tweaked (or completely scrapped) until finished.By Jordan Wright

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One World, One Health: How Pathogenic Policies Contribute to Pandemics 54:01

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The Need for a Unified, Holistic Approach to Environmental, Animal and Human Health Discussion with Professor Dr. Christine Kreuder Johnson on anthropogenic ecosystem drivers of disease emergence in wildlife and spillover into the human population. We discuss how habitat destruction, including from changing land use patterns and industrial and agri…

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When the Boardroom Enters the Bedroom: The Art of Profit and Predation in the ART Industry 1:24:22

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Regulatory Gaps and Conflicts in the Fertility Industry Discussion on regulatory gaps and issues in the fertility industry with Professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbone. We discuss the marketing of egg freezing, brokerage of egg donation and surrogacy and issues surrounding informed consent, vulnerability and inequality in the fertility industry. Add…

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Falling 3:32

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Falling by Jordan WrightBy Jordan Wright

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Switch 2:30

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Switch by Jordan WrightBy Jordan Wright

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Stifling Dissent: Activism Between the Stick and Slap 1:24:54

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The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Little Gitmo and Corporate SLAPP Suits Discussion on the terrorization of activists and the criminalization of dissent with Rachel Meeropol. We discuss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, how it may operate to violate the First Amendment and its chilling effect on activism. We also discuss corporate SLAPP suits…

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The Slaughterhouse Straitjacket: How Big Ag Gags and Guts Our Speech 1:16:05

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Ag-Gag Laws and the First Amendment, Carious CAFOS and the Endangerment of the Endangered Species Act Discussion with Cristina Stella on the advent and continuance of Ag-gag laws that criminalize undercover reporting at animal enterprises and their violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. We also discuss the First Amendment violation of …

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Grit and Gravity in International Law 1:27:48

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Democratizing the Colonial Space of International Law Discussion with Rachel López on the colonial development of international law and its continuing hierarchical structure. We also discuss the duty to refrain from assisting states in committing grave crimes and its interrelation with the responsibility to protect people from grave crimes under in…

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A People Fractured: Shells, Strikes and Starvation in Yemen 1:16:05

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U.S. and European Complicity in the Yemeni Conflict Discussion with Radhya Al-Mutawakel on the war crimes committed in Yemen by all parties, including the indiscriminate bombing and shelling of civilian sites and civilians and the destruction of religious and cultural heritage. We discuss U.S., U.K. and other Western countries’ participation in the…

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Bars to Chance: A Nation Caged Under a Criminal Justice System Without Any Justice 1:11:39

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Incarceration Rates and Sentencing Policies Throughout the United States Discussion with Nazgol Ghandnoosh on the high rates of incarceration and state differentials of incarceration throughout the United States and their causes, including the “war on drugs”. We discuss racial disparity in arrests and sentences, private prisons and legislative and …

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The Rest Is Silence: How Commodity Agriculture Turns Forests into Cemeteries 1:16:04

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Loss of Biodiversity, Pollution, Climate Change and Human Rights Abuses from Deforestation Discussion with Etelle Higonnet on the state of deforestation around the world with a particular focus on commodity agriculture and soy and palm oil in particular. We discuss the contribution to climate change and the loss of biodiversity from clearing wild f…

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An Open Golden Door No More Part II: The Criminalization of Migration 1:21:06

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Family Separation, Mandatory Detention and Denaturalization Discussion with Paromita Shah on the effective criminalization of immigration and the right to asylum through mandatory detention and unlawful entry and unlawful re-entry prosecutions. We discuss family detainment and separation at the border and the deportation of undocumented parents of …

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An Open Golden Door No More: Incarcerating and Ostracizing Immigrants in America 37:06

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Religious and Racial Discrimination in the American South and the Escalation of Immigration Detention Discussion with Azadeh Shahshahani on the work of Project South, which cultivates strong social movements in the Southern United States and supports social justice movements in the Global South. We discuss religious and racial discrimination as wel…

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The American Illusion: Chained to Poverty in the Land of the Free 58:25

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The U.S. Visit by the Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Discussion with Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, on the observations and conclusions from his country visit to the United States in December 2017. We discuss the political nature of poverty, its inextricable link to r…