With the deployment of the National Guard occupying Washington DC, the LMC spends the hour with James Early and Alberto Medina to break down the parallels between the battle for DC statehood and Puerto Rican independence against the rise of authoritariansm.
James Early is a former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service. Alberto C. Medina is the president of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR), a national organization of Puerto Ricans in the United States who educate and organize for decolonization.
The forgotten colony. The other Palestine. Africa’s last colony. In this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes to compare and contrast the Sahrawi struggle for independence in occupied Western Sahara under the Moroccan monarchy and its growing police apparatus.
Jacob Mundy is an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University in New York.
Stephen Zunes is an Professor of Politics & Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies @ the University of San Francisco.
As pressure mounts throughout the world to boycott and block resources going to Israel because of the genocide in Gaza, the LMC spends the hour with writers Abigail Kret and Gabe Levine-Drizin on Colombia is leading the way for the South Global by both Colombian president Gustavo Petro and the grassroots organizations that keep his administration in check.
Abigail Kret is an artist and writer living in Colombia whose work focuses on the history of left-wing movements in the late 20th century.
Gabe Levine-Drizin is NACLA’s Web Editor and a PhD student in History at New York University focusing on Colombian agrarian reform and land occupations in the 1960s and 70s.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.
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