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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by Rasha Abdulhadi, writer, organizer, poet and author of several books including  The Countermonuments (2024). Rasha discusses a few of their poems including “Your Oysters,” “Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory” and “The Dead Palestinian Father”, the implications of the US election for Palestinians and solidarity activists, and why left-wing organizers resist disability accommodations. 

Rasha is on Twitter @rashaabdulhadi. If you are in NYC, you can join Rasha at launch events for their new book The Countermonuments this Thursday and Friday! A full list of links referenced during the show can be found below.

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Podcasts mentioned:

Kali on MAKC podcast: https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/where-do-we-go-from-here-featuring-kali-akuno

Ordinary Unhappiness gerontophallocracy series: https://pod.link/1680330412

RFK DP episode: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/teaser-rfk-health-capitalism-and-the-myths-of-wellness-111824

Danya's DP episode: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/public-health-and-palestine-w-danya-qato

Citations Needed December 2020: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-125-obama-era-media-failures-we-shouldnt-rehash-under-biden-part-i

Socialism con death panel: Political economy of Covid: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/the-political-economy-of-covid-dp-x-s24-091224

Refusing Genocide (15min guided writing/planning/organizing reflection at ~44min mark): https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/refusing-genocide-from-palestine-to-pandemic-w-rasha-abdulhadi-dp-x-s24-092624

Poetry stuff:

Fargo's essay on craft: https://proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/notes-on-craft-writing-in-the-hour-of-genocide/

Palestinian roundtable on writing in a time of genocide: https://electricliterature.com/palestinian-poets-on-the-role-of-art-in-fighting-genocide-gaza-palestine/

Dead Palestinian Father: http://www.anathemamag.com/the-dead-palestinian-father

Thyme Travelers (Gaza benefit link if you purchase here): https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/workshops-4-gaza-bookstore/products/w4g-10-29-24-sulaiman-sonia-thyme-travellers-copy

Free download of Shell Houses: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VkeMZjonb0geoh0UyD6F0JU8ePAxrp0C/view

Covid stuff:

Gym fascism article: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/gym-fascism

BIRCH health graphics for Covid safety/Long Covid: https://x.com/BIRcovidhealth/status/1638939476759019524

Long Covid Physio: https://longcovid.physio/quick-access

ME Action Long Covid pacing guide: https://www.meaction.net/long-covid-me-understanding-the-connection/

Organizing stuff:

Just Practice, great monthly sessions and TJ helpdesk: https://just-practice.org/the-help-desk

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This week, Roqayah has the latest on Israel’s failed invasion of Lebanon, the IDF’s “final solution” for northern Gaza, and US attempts at regime change in Beirut. Roqayah and Kumars debate the stakes of the US election and how people who stand in solidarity with Palestine should approach the next four years of US-led imperialism.

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Los Angeles Tenants Union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis to discuss their new book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis, which documents their experiences on the front lines of the resurgent tenant movement in California and the lessons that organizers everywhere can draw from the movement’s early successes. 

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis is out now from Haymarket Books. Follow Leonardo on Twitter @VilchisLeonardo and  Tracy @tracyrosenthal_.

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This week, Roqayah is once again reporting from Lebanon. She and Kumars discuss Israel's latest wave of attacks across Lebanon, including its targeting of communications devices. Roqayah also described witnessing two incidents, one of which she discusses in her latest article for Splinter, as well as the aftermath of the latest attack on the Dahye, which resulted in the deaths of at least 40 people across two residential buildings.

Roqayah and Kumars also discuss Hezbollah’s retaliation, the unlikely emergence of Lebanese unity, and how the Axis of Resistance will respond. 

This week, Roqayah is back and reporting from Lebanon. She and Kumars discuss Hezbollah’s latest military response to Israel’s killing of Hezbollah's Senior Commander Sayyed Fouad Ali Shokr in Beirut's southern suburbs, and her latest article for Splinter on the Israeli attack on Haret Hreik. They also discuss Israel's response—its biggest since the 2006 July War—the potential impact on the region, which many speculate is building towards a larger confrontation with the Lebanese resistance, as well as the role of the axis of resistance.

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This week, Roqayah is back and reporting from Lebanon. She and Kumars discuss Hezbollah’s military capabilities, the strategic depth of the Axis of Resistance and more of the latest developments as Israel ramps up airstrikes on civilians across its northern border. 

As mentioned, you can follow Ahmed Hassan @ahmed_hassan_za.

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by geopolitical analyst, editor and activist Rune Agerhus.

Rune, founder of the new publishing house Hamra Books and a member of the International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen whose work has appeared on Al Mayadeen, takes us on a deep dive into the contemporary Ansarullah movement and the legacy of Yemeni resistance to imperialism, including developments since Oct. 7. 

Follow Rune and Hamra Books on Twitter @AlDanmarki and @hamrabooks.

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined by an all-star team of football fans to review the club soccer season that was and preview this summer’s Euro and Copa America tournaments. Veterans of Delete Your Account soccer coverage Sam Knight and Sam Sacks, founders of the District Sentinel News Co-op, return alongside the hosts of the We Made It podcast on YouTube, sophomore slugger Bam and our #1 draft pick Caesar Souza. 

Hijinks ensue as Bam, Ceez, Sams Knight and Sacks, and Kumars all predict different winners for the Euros before the guests go head-to-head in an all-new football trivia game. 

Follow Bam on Twitter at @WeMadeItPodcast, Ceez at @WeMadeItCeez and Sam Sacks @SamSacks. Watch and subscribe to Means Morning News on Means TV and the We Made It podcast on YouTube!

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This week on After Hours, Roqayah and Kumars discuss personal news, a brief update on the current situation in Gaza and how you can help, the latest ICC court ruling and the resulting political shockwaves it’s caused, along with the tragic event surrounding the death of Iranian President Raisi and its implications for Iran.

As mentioned during the episode, for ways to support fundraising campaigns in Gaza please follow @GazaFunds.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by professor and academic, Mohamed Abdou, for a discussion of decolonial theory and a reflection on how the framework of decolonization benefits pro-Palestine solidarity and organizing.

Mohamed, one of three faculty members targeted and smeared during congressional testimony by House Republicans and the president of Columbia University, discusses the explosion of student encampments around the United States in support of Gaza, and the lessons we can learn not only about the farce of academic freedom but the impressive tenacity of students and what they are sacrificing. 

We also learn more about the smeared campaign facing Mohamed, as well as the significance of Columbia University's connection to Israel which makes it a legitimate target of BDS.

Follow Mohamed on Twitter @minuetinGmajor and Instagram @slightlydrifting, and sign the petition in support of Mohamed here.

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined by two of the biggest and brightest Star Wars fans we know, artist and Delete Your Account debutante @hayleyglyphs along with president of the Campaign Workers Guild and returning guest Marvin Gonzalez.

Hayley, Marvin and Kumars discuss the highs and lows of the prequels, the sequels and (almost) everything in between, from Ben Shapiro’s definitive ranking of the movies to who the best funny little guy is, before ending by playing an all-new Star Wars trivia game.

Follow Hayley on Twitter @hayleyglyphs and Instagram, also @hayleyglyphs. Follow Marvin @sulliedsubjects. You can also keep up with Marvin’s organizing with the Campaign Workers Guild @CWG_Workers as well as his work around Puerto Rico by following his organization Repatriotas @repatriotasPR.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by two Boston-based student organizers for an update on the Palestine solidarity movement on US college campuses. Lea Kayali is a law student and activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine, and Mohamed Mohamed is a graduate student and activist with the Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Lea and Mohamed discuss their personal paths to organizing, the repression they’ve faced on their campuses since Oct. 7th from their university administrations and beyond, and how Palestine solidarity became the defining political issue for a generation of student activists.

Follow Lea on Twitter @huriya_lea as well as orgs like @MIT_CAA and the undergraduate Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (HarvardPSC) to keep up with the latest campaigns and actions on their campuses. 

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Bam and Dan, cohosts of The Power Report on Twitch and YouTube. Bam also cohosts the soccer podcast We Made It, and Dan reviews music on Audioface. 

Bam and Dan share their thoughts on the 2024 presidential election, Dan’s experience working at The Young Turks, why left media figures turn to cultural conservatism, and who will win the English Premier League. 

Follow Bam on Twitter @WeMadeItPodcast and Dan @danfromtheweb, and stream The Power Report every Thursday 9 ET to midnight on YouTube and Twitch.

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars share their thoughts on Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza, including escalating violence and displacement of its population. 

They also discuss the Northern front, i.e. Lebanon, where since October 8th Hezballah and Israel have been engaging in a mounting offensive that has achieved a number of objectives for the Lebanese resistance faction while also directing Israel away from engaging to the fullest of its military capabilities in Gaza.

They also highlight the shared history between South Lebanon and Palestine, and why there remains a fervent and unshakeable bond between the two peoples until today.

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by renowned cartoonist and returning guest Mattie Lubchansky to discuss their 2023 graphic novel Boys Weekend.

Follow Mattie on Twitter @lubchansky, pick up a copy of the book from Penguin Random House and get awesome rewards from Mattie and other creators when you donate to the Cartoonists’ Collective E-SIMs for Gaza drive. 

In tribute to Palestinian poet, activist, academic, and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, Refaat Alareer, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by his colleague at the Electronic Intifada, Nora Barrows-Friedman, to discuss Israel's deliberate assassination of Refaat, and his legacy. 

Nora discusses the impact of Refaat's targeted execution by Israel, and the impressions he left upon thousands of students who he helped mentor during his life. The crew also weighs the significance of the written word, its role in resisting occupation in Palestine, and Israel's historic fear of the Palestinian pen.

Follow Nora on Twitter @norabf and find all of her reporting at electronicintifada.net. 

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars welcome back returning guests Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer, cofounders of the outstanding resource hub and archive decolonizepalestine.com. Rawan is a writer and translator working at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, and Fathi is currently Palestine Policy Fellow at Al Shabaka, the only independent, transnational Palestinian thinktank. 

After sharing their thoughts on some of the ways Palestine advocates in the US have relied on their website as an important resource in this moment, Rawan and Fathi discuss Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza as well as the intensifying situation for themselves and their families across the West Bank, including the growing resistance to escalating soldier and settler violence. The gang also break down what has changed since October 7th, from perceptions of the IDF’s military capacity to the broader regional war already underway.

Follow Rawan on @RiverToSea48, and Fathi @AManInTheSun. You can find Rawan’s article on Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and decolonization on Mondoweiss, and for your go-to resource on all things Palestine, make sure to visit decolonizepalestine.com.

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This week, in a preview of our upcoming series of interviews with Palestinian activists and journalists, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the ongoing situation in Palestine, including the events of October 7th, current conditions in Gaza, the impact of BDS, and what’s different this time.

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars follow up their After Hours episode on the best and worst cop shows with a rundown of the most celebrated cop movies of all time, tracing the evolution of the genre from Orson Welles’s film noir “Touch of Evil” and the tragically influential “Dirty Harry” to “Heat” and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” touching on ‘80s classics like “Die Hard” and “RoboCop” along the way.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Nick Estes and former guest host Shanti Singh for a deep dive into the past, present and future of extraterrestrial visitation. 

Nick is a member of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate nation, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, a cofounder of The Red Nation, and cohost of TRN’s flagship podcast. He is also lead editor at Red Media, the author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, and coauthor of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation.

Shanti is an organizer with the San Francisco chapter of Democratic Socialists of America and previously served as deputy data director for the 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign in California. She is currently the Legislative and Communications Director for Tenants Together, the first and only statewide tenant advocacy organization in California.

After catching listeners up on some of their recent adventures, Nick and Shanti share their takes on Posadism, going to Mars, Blink-182, Stonehenge, Alien vs. Predator, Scully vs. Mulder, as well as the gold standard of problematic UFO lore, History Channel’s Ancient Aliens. 

The gang also discuss well-known UFO reports pre- and post-Roswell, the US national security state’s history of manipulating alien conspiracy theories to cover up its own black operations, and whether this explains the revelations since 2017 of the military’s close encounters.

Follow Nick on that one website @nickwestes and Shanti @uhshanti. 

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by returning guest and editor of Workday Magazine Sarah Lazare to discuss her latest reporting for Workday and In These Times. 

After introducing listeners to Workday Magazine and its long history in Minnesota and beyond, Sarah shares the story of Amazon warehouse worker Roger Kieca, whose tragic death due to brutal working conditions was dismissed as “not work-related” by both Amazon and OSHA before the revelation of new, incontrovertible evidence obtained by Workday and In These Times.

Follow Sarah on Twitter or X or whatever @SarahLazare, and keep up with her reporting at In These Times and Workday Magazine (you can also still order Testimony from Strong Arm Press!).

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by independent journalist Bryce Covert to discuss her latest for In These Times about the impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization one year after the Supreme Court’s decision overturned the limited constitutional protections for abortion in the United States. Bryce is a reporter in residence at the Omidyar Network and a contributing writer at The Nation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, Wired, the New Republic, Slate and many other outlets. 

After briefly sharing her own political origin story, Bryce relates the ongoing struggles of Lationna Halbert and her family after Mississippi’s trigger abortion ban forced her to carry her pregnancy to term. Bryce and Kumars discuss the legal and economic barriers Lationna and people in her position face when seeking abortions in the even more repressive landscape of reproductive care post-Dobbs, as well as the failure of states like Mississippi to address the increased financial and infrastructure needs of parents and families robbed of their reproductive autonomy.

Make sure to read Bryce’s full report at In These Times. You can also follow Bryce on Twitter @brycecovert and find more of her work at her website, brycecovert.com.

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This week, Roqayah returns to try her hand at the new sensation sweeping the nation and play our game “Overrated or Overhated”. 

Over the course of one hour she must share her hottest takes on dinosaurs, Mark Ruffalo, country music, New York City, pickleball, “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1995) and eating Doritos with cream cheese. What happens next may shock you!

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by the DSA International Committee’s Marvin Gonzalez, Mirah and Jorge Rocha.

Marvin Gonzalez is president of the Campaign Workers Guild, founder of Repatriotas and a member of the National Political Committee of DSA, as well as the NPC’s liaison to the IC. Mirah is co-chair of the IC’s Middle East & Africa Subcommittee. Jorge sits on the Steering Committee for DSA’s International Committee and is currently on NYC-DSA’s Citywide Leadership Committee. He is also the cohost, along with friends of the show Jamie Peck and Aaron Thorpe, of the podcast Everybody Loves Communism.

After welcoming Marvin and Mirah to the Delete Your Account family, the gang discusses the IC’s organizing and role within DSA. Marvin, Mirah and Jorge clarify their positions on some of the most complex and divisive questions facing the left today, including the war in Ukraine, China’s global influence, “anti -war” conservatives, and what socialist internationalism means today.  

Follow Marvin on Twitter @Sulliedsubjects, Mirah @snackvampire and Jorge @LineGoesDown (you can also follow the Everybody Loves Communism show account @ELCPod). Learn how you can support Marvin’s organizing around Puerto Rico here and follow his new organization Repatriotas @repatriotasPR. And most importantly, if you are a DSA member, get involved with the IC from wherever you are by visiting international.dsausa.org and find out more about the IC’s Cuba Solidarity campaign here. 

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