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Slam the GavelThe Advocacy Of PA Bikers For Justice; With Bill Ayers Slam The Gavel welcomes Bill Ayers, President of PA Bikers For Justice. Bill Ayers and others had gotten involved in helping victims of Parental Alienation through their work helping crime victims. They found a connection where many victims of child abuse and crimes against children had a connection to those children also being victims of Parental Alienation. This led to the changes in laws and policies and creating awareness of Parental Alienation. PA Bikers for Justice do rallies once a year during around the weekend of Parental Alienation. This year they will be having a rally in Lackawa...
2026-02-1628 min
AirGoEp 386 - Bill Ayers, Legendary Leftist and Teacher for Liberation, ReturnsThe guys are in a new studio with an old friend and mentor, the legendary Bill Ayers! A lifelong force for collective liberation, Bill was a cofounder of militant leftist group the Weather Underground, which was formed in opposition to U.S. imperialism in Vietnam and racial injustice. After living underground for years to avoid FBI arrest, he has been an engaged scholar and a peace and social justice activist who has written extensively about social justice and freedom, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He's also the...
2026-02-121h 12
SOUNDS OF FILM with Tom NeedhamThe Weather Underground’s Bill Ayers on a CLASSIC SOUNDS OF FILM with Tom NeedhamOn the next Classic SOUNDS OF FILM, Tom Needham speaks with Bill Ayers, a former community organizer and education professor whose early notoriety came as a co-founder of the Weather Underground, the radical antiwar group that emerged from the late-1960s student movement and was later labeled a domestic terrorist organization by the FBI. His past has remained a subject of debate, but it marks just one chapter in a long public career devoted to questions of democracy, schooling, and civic life.Ayers went on to become a prominent voice in progressive education, serving...
2026-02-0537 min
CounterPunch RadioCitizen Printer, Bill Ayers w/ Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Monica Trinidad, and Chi NwosuIn this special episode of CounterPunch Radio, Bill Ayers, friend of Pilsen Community Books and fellow podcaster at Under the Tree, introduces Amos Kennedy and fellow artists and activists Monica Trinidad and Chi Nwosu. This evening at Pilsen Community Books in Chicago included a packed-house crowd for a celebration for the release of Citizen Printer by renowned letterpress printer Amos P. Kennedy, Jr.
A self-described “humble negro printer,” Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., is internationally recognized for his type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, emblazoned in rhythmically layered and boldly inked prints made for the masses. Borrowing wor...
2026-01-171h 01
Haymarket Books LiveFire in Every Direction: Tareq Baconi in conversation with Bill AyersJoin Tareq Baconi in conversation with Bill Ayers about his new book Fire in Every Direction, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home. One of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Fire in Every Direction is an account of finding oneself through histories of dispossession and reclaiming what has been silenced. Speakers: Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He is the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa and grew up between Amman and Beirut. His wo...
2026-01-061h 02
Now I've Heard EverythingConfessions Of An American Dissident: ’60s Leftist Leader Bill AyersWhen Donald Trump throws around the term “leftist radicals” he’s talking about Democrats. But a few years ago a genuine leftist radical started a group aimed at overthrowing the government. In this 2013 interview, Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers talks about his book Public Enemy. Get your copy of Public Enemy by Bill AyersAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases.You may also enjoy my interviews with Cathy Wilkerson and Elaine Brown For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and influencers, subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spo...
2025-11-1022 min
Best of Financial SanityEpisode 88: One Big Beautiful BillAny financial plan you made before July might need an update. Today, we’ll share what you need to know about the sweeping changes to tax policy under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law in July and why it might be time to take another look at your financial plan and your accounts.Welcome to Financial Sanity with Patrick AyersWith so much financial noise, it's understandable why so many people are going financially insane. Taxes, Social Security, Wall Street, Healthcare...there is so much uncertainty about the modern retirement. Local, independent, reliable...Pa...
2025-09-0813 min
Rooted2Thrive:Conversations That Elevate Our HumanityAbolition, Freedom, and Liberation with Dr. Bill AyersOverviewIn this episode of "Rooted2Thrive," host Rochelle Peterson-Ansari speaks with Dr. Bill Ayers, a retired distinguished Professor of Education, about the concepts of freedom, abolition, and collective liberation from his latest book. Dr. Ayers explains that freedom is a contested term, often meaning cruelty for the conquered when claimed by the conqueror, and is best understood by examining its opposite—unfreedom. He argues that true liberation is a collective "world-building" process that balances individual worth with community, moving beyond simply erasing oppressive systems to creating a society where they are unthinkable. The conversation emphasizes that te...
2025-08-081h 04Best of Financial SanityEpisode 83: Big Beautiful BillToday, we're diving into what the Big Beautiful Bill could mean for your taxes, your future, and your retirement plans.For more information on retirement planning, visit ayersfinancial.com!Looking for specific information about today's topic? Check out our resources page!Welcome to Financial Sanity with Patrick AyersWith so much financial noise, it's understandable why so many people are going financially insane. Taxes, Social Security, Wall Street, Healthcare...there is so much uncertainty about the modern retirement. Local, independent, reliable...Patrick Ayers, President...
2025-08-0413 minBest of Financial SanityEpisode 79: One Big, Beautiful BillBig changes to your retirement could be coming. Will the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ help protect your savings, or will it bring new risks? Stay tuned to find out. Today we’re breaking it all down and helping show you ways to stay ahead.For more information on retirement planning, visit ayersfinancial.com!Looking for specific information about today's topic? Check out our resources page!Welcome to Financial Sanity with Patrick AyersWith so much financial noise, it's understandable why so many people are going financially insane. Taxes...
2025-07-0714 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersHow We Get Free with Barbara SmithBarbara Smith is a Movement legend— the kind of courageous activist, powerful thinker, persistent organizer and whole-hearted doer who keeps the Movement moving. She is co-founder of the Combahee River Collective and co-author of the acclaimed 1977 statement that has been one of the most influential Black feminist documents of the twentieth century—“Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sisters, and our community, which allows us to continue our struggle and work.” She’s been a freedom fighter for over half a century—a long time in the life of a person, but, as she knows, the blink of...
2025-03-051h 24
The Michael Decon ProgramBill Ayers ExclusiveFull interview only available on patreon.com/michaeldeconBill Ayers is an American education theorist and activist. He is most widely known for being a co-founder and leader of the Weather Underground, a radical left-wing organization active during the 1960s and 1970s. The group opposed the Vietnam War and engaged in controversial activities, including bombings of government buildings. Ayers was a fugitive for a time but eventually turned himself in, though many charges against him were dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct.Later, Ayers became a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, focusing on education reform and...
2025-02-1221 min
The Michael Decon ProgramBill Ayers ExclusiveFull interview only available on patreon.com/michaeldeconBill Ayers is an American education theorist and activist. He is most widely known for being a co-founder and leader of the Weather Underground, a radical left-wing organization active during the 1960s and 1970s. The group opposed the Vietnam War and engaged in controversial activities, including bombings of government buildings. Ayers was a fugitive for a time but eventually turned himself in, though many charges against him were dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct.Later, Ayers became a professor at...
2025-02-1221 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersGoodbye to All That—Let’s Begin Again with Bill AyersWhen Freedom is the Question… was published on September 10, and we had a book launch that night at our home-away-from-home, Pilsen Community Books, in conversation with Eve Ewing. We traveled to Women and Children First, Seminary Coop, The Wooden Shoe in Philadelphia, Book and Puppet in Easton, PA, Riff Raff in Providence, Firestorm in Asheville, NC, Red Emma’s in Baltimore, Busboys and Poets in DC, the PIT (Property is Theft!!) in Brooklyn, and more. I read at public libraries, coffee shops, and Movement venues like Haymarket House, Hasta Muerte, and The James Connelly Social Club. A couple of the ev...
2025-01-0835 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersCitizen Printer with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.Amos Kennedy, self-described “humble negro printer” and author of Citizen Printer, is a visionary treasure, an imaginative freedom-fighter, and the creator of type-driven messages of justice, freedom, and Black Power. He understands that freedom comes to life in action, and that we are most truly (and paradoxically) free when we name the obstacles to our humanity, and then throw ourselves against the imposing wall of unfreedom. His weapon of choice, the sledgehammer with which he bangs away day by day, is letterpress printing, and every image he brings to life urges voyages—wobbly rambles away from the cold reality of the...
2024-10-0353 min
Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsWhen Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation by Bill AyersPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation Author: Bill Ayers Narrator: Bill Ayers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An esteemed activist invites us to consider the complex idea of abolition as much more than a strategy or a set of tactics—at a deeper level, abolition is an entire political framework, culture, and orientation Blending history and political theory and weaving in examples from literature, social movements, and his personal life, th...
2024-09-1010 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersWhen Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberationwith Guest Hosts Lisa Lee and Adam Bush interviewing Bill Ayers, and with surprise interventions from Light Ayli, Barbara Ransby, and Tom Morello.What is freedom? What are the "freedom dreams" that encourage us and move us forward? How do we get free? Join our brilliant guest hosts as they chop these questions up in dialogue with Bill Ayers.
2024-09-051h 13
Hitting LeftWith Peter Kutner, Susan Klonsky, Mike James and Bill AyersOn day two of the Democratic National Convention Mike is joined by long-time activists Peter Kuttner, Susan Klonsky, Mike James and Bill Ayers. All five were student and community activists at the time of the 1968 Democratic Convention. On this edition of Hitting Left Mike, Peter, Susan, Mike James and Bill recall the historic protests.
2024-08-2758 min
A Public AffairBill Ayers and the Way Forward for Abolition and Liberation
The DNC is wrapping up this week in a celebratory mood, but with the Gaza War hanging over the convention. Guest Bill Ayers joins the show to talk about the state of left activism and protest in the light of the current moment. He points out that the situation is similar to the famous Democratic Convention of ’68, but has several key differences, including the speed and power of the peace movement in making its demands heard. The conversation also touches on the contradiction of movement making when it comes into contact with electoral politics, and ho...
2024-08-2252 min
Bourbon 'n BrownTownEp. 110 - Democratic National Convention: From 1968 to 2024, Pt. 1 ft. Bill AyersBrownTown is honored to be joined by an OG in the game -- activist, organizer, and professor Bill Ayers. The gang discusses the similarities, differences, and peculiarities of Chicago hosting the Democratic National Convention in 1968 and in 2024. Bill bears witness to the socio-political context leading up to the 1968 Convention while they analyzes the role of grassroots movement-building (or the "fire from below") on electoral politics, anti-war/genocide activism, and building towards revolution. Originally recorded August 12, 2024, a week before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Full Transcriptions Here! "Two things that ar...
2024-08-181h 21
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersThe Whole World is Watching with Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, and Eleanor SteinThe activists from the militant peace organization Code Pink—in conjunction with the Dissenters, Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine, and a host of others—are calling for mass mobilizations in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, which will be held from August 19-22, 2024. Their goal is to issue a thundering response to the US-sponsored, Israeli-led and preannounced genocide in Gaza, and to shine an illuminating light on US complicity with Israel in destroying Palestinian lives and communities. This episode is a broadcast of a webinar with Eleanor Stein, Medea Benjamin, and Bill Ayers organized by Code P...
2024-08-161h 06
The Dispatch PodcastHow the Far Left Thinks About Israel | Interview: Bill AyersJamie is joined by Bill Ayers—former professor and co-founder of The Weather Underground, a far-left militant organization—to provide a far-left perspective on the merits of the anti-Israel encampments and Israel’s response to October 7.The Agenda:—The safety of Jews on college campuses—Do the encampment protesters care about the hostages?—Condemning Hamas—How Israel should’ve responded to October 7—Is Israel an apartheid state?—Is Israel a free and open society?—Debating a two-state solution—Monolithic thought on college campusesSh...
2024-05-131h 05
AADL Talks To | Ann Arbor District LibraryAADL Talks To: Bill AyersBill Ayers is a retired Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During his time in Ann Arbor during the 1960s, he served as director of Ann Arbor's experimental Children's Community School; Education Secretary for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and co-founder of the militant Weather Underground organization, which originated in Ann Arbor in 1969 as a far left-wing revolutionary party. Ayers traces the path of his political awakening from wide-eyed college freshman to seasoned student organizer and educator. He reflects on the tumultuous moral dilemma he and many activists faced as the Vietnam War...
2024-04-0330 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersCommunity as Resistance with Rashid KhalidiChicagoland area is home to more Palestinians than anywhere else in the U.S., with over 18,000 living in Cook County alone. The Palestinian community has led powerful protests that have led to Chicago becoming the largest city in the country to endorse a ceasefire resolution. It is in the midst of this atmosphere that we gathered for an urgent exchange with Rashid Khalidi, the preeminent historian of the Palestinian national struggle, and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in conversation with activists Ricardo Gamboa of the Hoodoisie and Latinxs for Palestine, and Bill Ayers f...
2024-03-071h 06
Just A Few Questions PodcastTransform The System: Bill AyersMarc Sims talks with Bill Ayers about public education for struggling lower income students.
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired).
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2024-03-0522 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersStranger in My Own Land with Fida JiryisThe Palestinian people’s ongoing struggle for self-determination and basic human rights has appropriately drawn the attention and support of freedom lovers the world around. Invasion and occupation, ethnic cleansing and segregation as both policy and law are all part of the continuing and everyday catastrophe. Rick Ayers co-hosts this episode, and we’re both grateful to be joined from her home in the Galilee by an inspiring writer, Fida Jiryis, as she tells the story of Palestine through a beautiful and haunting memoir of her family's journey—Stranger in my own Land.
2023-07-121h 09
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersThe Long Haul with Rick AyersYoung people in many parts of the country are denied decent school facilities, honest and forward-looking curriculum, and fully qualified teachers, but the fundamental injury they face is the deliberate and systematic suppression of freedom. They have endured institutions—not only schools, but the cops and La Migra, the courts and the hospitals—that routinely disregard their humanity. These are First Nations students or the descendants of formerly enslaved and African-ancestored people or recent immigrants from poor countries; they’re from working-class families and they’ve attended schools of poverty; many have participated in a sort of general strike and run...
2023-06-281h 28
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersMother Country RadicalsWe are impatient with radicals who summon up the imagined “good old days” when every campaign was inspired and every action a success—all of it wrapped in the gauzy glow of nostalgia. What could be more depressing than longing for a ship that’s already left the shore. But there are occasions when a long and deep look backward can give us courage and vision to face forward, perhaps most productively when our guide is a talented artist. Zayd Ayers Dohrn is the creator and host of one of the most listened to podcasts of 2022, Mother Country Radicals, a 10-epis...
2022-08-1046 min
The Marc Steiner ShowLessons from the Weather Underground with Bill Ayers and Bernardine DohrnThe Weather Underground spent nearly a decade combating the US government. From prison breaks to bombings of the Pentagon and the US Capitol, the 'Weathermen' used any means necessary to fight capitalism, end the Vietnam War, and struggle in solidarity with the Black Panthers and other organizations. A new podcast series created by Zayd Ayers-Dohrn, a child of the Weather Underground, looks back on the stories of the Weathermen and the history that made them. Zayd's parents, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, join the Marc Steiner Show along with their son to discuss the podcast, their lifelong journeys as radicals, and...
2022-08-0849 min
Nine Questions with Eric OliverThe Revolutionary - Bill AyersBill Ayers is an educator, political activist, and writer. He is most famous for being one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a cadre of leftist revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the US government in the late 1960s and 1970s by bombing government buildings and military installations. He is the host of the podcast Under the Tree and is featured in the upcoming podcast Mother Country Radicals.If you want to hear more from Bill, and all of our wonderful guests, head over to our Patreon page to become a supporter where you will have acces...
2022-05-3140 min
Tell Me What HappenedBill Ayers, educator & author, recalls being a 10 year old and having his idyllic suburban childhood profoundly shaken by the suicide of an 18 year old neighbor.Bill Ayers, renowned peace activist and social justice advocate, grew up during the idyllic '50's America, immediately after the end of World War II. A lover of movies, Bill spent his childhood weekends at the local cinema, admiring the characters portrayed by John Wayne and other American war "heroes." One day, while playing "war" in the streets with his friends, the police and firefighters of his town arrive in front of his house. Initially intrigued and excited by the commotion, Bill is transformed when "Jimmy," his eighteen year old neighbor, is brought out into the street on a...
2022-03-0517 min
The Real Estate Way to Wealth and FreedomCREATIVE SELLER FINANCING WITH BILL HAMBill is a real estate entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and mentor, and author of the book, “Creative Cash”, Chief Operating Officer at Broadwell Property Group, and owner and Senior Manager of Phoenix Residential Management, LLC, a company that has been operated a portfolio of over 1500residential units and has been in business since 2009.He did not come from a family of real estate people. However, for over 20 years of experience in it, he had a proven track record as he had built a massive portfolio on real estate multifamily with over a thousand units. KEY POINTS1. ...
2021-08-0245 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersEducating for Insurgency ft. Jay GillenEach of us—and every human being—should expect and demand decent standards of action concerning freedom and justice from all institutions, including schools, and from all earthly powers. It’s our duty to testify against, to disrupt, to undermine, and, when possible, to overthrow cruel systems in the interest of creating something better. We’re joined by Jay Gillen, a visionary, loving, and courageous teacher, author of Educating for Insurgency and The Power in the Room, to explore the many ways we might create the crawl spaces and insurrectionary infrastructure for the struggles ahead.In the interview, Jay...
2021-07-2748 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersHaiti On My Mind ft. Walter RileyThe Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)— the largest slave revolt since Spartacus’ unsuccessful insurrection against the Romans in 72 BC—was one of the greatest revolutions in world history, and the only successful slave uprising leading to the establishment of a free state governed by non-whites and formerly captive workers. Led by Toussaint Louverture, formerly enslaved himself, the Haitian Revolution struck fear and rage among the slavers, white supremacists, and imperial masters, even as it heartened and inspired freedom-loving peoples everywhere. The counter revolution continues, and we are honored to be joined in a wide-ranging conversation by Walter Riley, a civil rights attorney...
2021-07-1742 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersPoet, Teacher, Prophet: Rhythms of Revolution ft. Tongo Eisen-MartinTeachers live each day stretched in tension and suspended in contention: being and becoming, here and elsewhere; one foot planted firmly in the mud and muck of the world as it is, the other foot striding toward a world that could be or should be, but is not yet. Students arrive with questions: Who am I in the world? What are my choices and my chances? What does it mean to be human in the 21st Century? Good teachers dive into the contradictions, and make their classrooms generative sites of authentic engagement. Our guest today is the brilliant teaching...
2021-07-0457 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersResist Curation/Curate Resistance ft. Therese QuinnNone of us wants to be labeled as one-dimensional and shunted off to a musty museum to be put on a shelf, and so we resist curation. On the other hand, we are each the collector of our own memories, our own struggles, our own lives, our own rebellions and resistances—we can and should curate resistance. We are joined in conversation by the intrepid educator, activist, and radical social critic Therese Quinn, Director of Museum and Exhibition Studies, and Affiliated Faculty with Gender and Women’s Studies and Curriculum Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She coed...
2021-06-2555 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersLove Your Mother ft. Peggy ShepardWe have a choice: we can save the planet, and life on Earth, or we can save racial capitalism, white supremacy, extraction and exploitation. Which will it be? We’re joined in conversation with Peggy Shepard, an activist and organizer, a community educator and a leading figure in the fight for environmental justice. She is the founder and director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a nonprofit environmental justice organization based in Harlem.
2021-06-2239 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersUnder the Knife ft. Howard WaitzkinThe US is a rich country with a shitty health care system. What went wrong? The short answer: capitalism. Good medicine at its heart requires trust and an assumption of honesty and good intentions; the market requires nothing more nor less than profits for shareholders. The corporate capitalist capture of health care destroys the natural underpinnings of care and compassion. We’re joined today by Howard Waitzkin, a primary care physician and sociologist who has taught social medicine at a wide range of clinics, colleges, and universities, including the United Farm Workers Clinic in Salinas, California; La Clínica de l...
2021-06-0948 min
dunc tankBill Ayers - Weather UndergroundBill Ayers is a former leader of the Weather Underground and professor of education at University of Illinois at Chicago.
2021-06-061h 27
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersWhat’s the Problem, the Vision, and the Next Step Forward? ft. Ash-Lee Woodard HendersonWe’re excited to be joined in conversation with Ash-Lee Woodard-Henderson, an activist and organizer, extraordinarily innovative educator, an intensely forward thinker and a powerful doer, and for several years now, co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center, one of the most storied social justice and activist centers in the country. The pedagogy employed at Highlander is the classic Freedom School approach: problem-posing and question-asking, from the people and to the people.
2021-05-281h 14
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers"Exterminate All The Brutes!" ft. Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizThe Indian novelist Arundhati Roy says, “The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t un-see it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing becomes as political an act as speaking out. Either way, you’re accountable.” And implicated. Our guest today is Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of the classic An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, whose lifework has been an ongoing project to shake us awake, to rouse us from the deep, deep American sleep of denial, to invite us to face history in all its glory and horror.
2021-05-1350 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersLove the People, Defend the Earth ft. Eleanor Stein & Jeff JonesThe predatory heart of capitalism is the rage to accumulate, to expand, and to overrun all boundaries. Racial capitalism demands growth— unleashed and unchecked—but the Earth objects. Violence and aggression are the inevitable accomplices of predation, and when the casualties of cataclysmic capitalist climate collapse resist—as they inevitably will—they are labeled “illegal aliens,” “lawbreakers,” “terrorists,” and “fanatics.” We’re joined today by Eleanor Stein and Jeff Jones, two brilliant freedom fighters and anti-racist organizers whose central work focuses on environmental justice.
2021-05-061h 32
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersHearing the Voices of Witness ft. Cliff Mayotte & Claire KieferThere’s a vast delusional gulf between the world as it is, and the world as each one of us thinks it is. I’m not being negative or accusatory, but simply stating the obvious: here we go, mistaking our self-constructed little world for the whole wide world. If you believe emphatically enough that the world of your perception and mental construction is in fact the whole wide world, and if you’re willing to act with full force upon that misperception—well, god help us all. Arrogance and self-righteousness, bossiness and obnoxiousness, authoritarianism, autocracy, fascism, and more. What to do? We s...
2021-04-2952 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersA Jailbreak of the Imagination ft. adrienne maree brownThe capacity to see the world as if it could be otherwise unleashes yearning and liberates desire—we are freed (or condemned) to run riot. Our lively imaginations can be rowdy, and can tend toward disruption and subversion—opening up alternatives always calls the status quo into question. Suddenly the taken-for-granted becomes a choice and not an echo, an option and no longer a habit or a life (death) sentence. The seeds of discontent are sown. I’m delighted to be joined today by adrienne maree brown, women's rights activist and black feminist based in Detroit. adrienne is the author of Eme...
2021-04-2054 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersMake Your Life a Constellation ft. Mariame KabaSometimes we ask, What can one person do? The first step is to stop being one person. Move away from “me,” and take steps toward creating a “we.” From one to two, from two to three, step-by-step toward an irresistible movement for justice and peace, powered by love—the organizer’s credo. We’re honored to be joined by Mariame Kaba, educator and legendary abolitionist organizer who’s been building social movements for racial, gender and transformative justice for years. The founder of Project Nia, author of Prison Culture, the popular blog that shines a bright light into the carceral state and the pu...
2021-04-1257 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersEvery Human is a Philosopher ft. Adam BushThe stories people tell and share can become powerful tools against propaganda, political dogma, and all manner of impositions and stereotypes. Seeking honesty and authenticity in stories means oral historians become attuned, to contradiction—to disagreements, silences, negation, denials, inconsistencies, confusion, challenges, turmoil, puzzlement, commotion, ambiguities, paradoxes, disputes, and uncertainty. Oral historians (like teachers) dive head-first into every kind of muddle, the wide, wild world of human experience. We’re profoundly pleased to be joined in dialogue with Adam Bush, activist and organizer, oral historian and teacher extraordinaire, co-founder and provost of an innovative college that works both inside and outs...
2021-03-3150 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersThe Schools We Want, The Schools We Deserve ft. Raynard SandersEducation is a fundamental human right and a basic community responsibility. We want schools that prepare free people to participate fully in a free society—schools that young people don’t have to recover from, but rather that act as the hopeful launch pads for the dreams of youth. We’re honored to be joined by Raynard Sanders, an old friend and a legendary New Orleans educator and freedom fighter, author of The Coup D’etat of the New Orleans Public School District: Money, Power, and the Illegal of a Public School System. We talk about the centuries-long struggle of Black pa...
2021-03-2100 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersTo Be Truly Free! ft. Maya Schenwar & Victoria LawWe dive once more into the wreckage, and swim as hard as we can toward a distant and hazy horizon—a place of hope and possibility. To begin, Malik Alim offers another installment in his growing Freedom Chronicle, and lifts up a remarkable Chicago moment when activist organizers built Freedom Square, a brave space brought to life in the spirit of love and abundance. We are then delighted to invite Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law to join us Under the Tree. Abolitionists and freedom fighters, co-authors of a remarkable and essential text, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of...
2021-03-151h 25
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersWhat Counts? ft. Rochelle GutierrezWhat counts? And who’s counting? For what purpose, and toward what social end? Some years ago the Business Roundtable and their Education and Workforce Taskforce issued an influential challenge: “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” it instructed. “No executive can run a business without accurate, granular data that explains what’s working and what’s not. Our school system should be no different.” And yet, any third grade teacher will tell you that each child is unique—the one of one. Mention that to the Business Roundtable and they’ll tell you that teachers can’t be trusted because they’...
2021-03-061h 03
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersFree. Free Palestine! ft. Rashid KhalidiFifty years ago, Americans who understood and acted upon their responsibility to rise up in solidarity with the oppressed people of the world, stood with the Vietnamese against the US invasion, occupation, and genocidal assault. Through the years internationalist consciousness and activism here has focused on defending the Cuban revolution against the US boot, and supporting anti-imperialist struggles around the globe from South Africa and Mozambique and Angola to Chile and Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Today anyone who stands in solidarity with the oppressed against imperialism recognizes the urgency of fighting for the liberation of Palestine. We’re joined today by...
2021-02-271h 13
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersWhat history do you stand on? What future do you stand for? ft. Flint TaylorLife can only be lived leaning forward, of course, even as its shifting and dynamic meanings can only be sorted out looking backward. Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, in effect, that you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you—and so it is with history. With no impulse toward nostalgia, we struggle to understand this moment more clearly by glancing back: First, Malik Alim brings us up-to-date on a victory for justice that we mentioned earlier, the unprecedented and many-sided struggle against money bail; we’re then joined by Flint Taylor, a human rights lawyer whose dogged purs...
2021-02-1856 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersInsurrection for Whom, and Toward What Social Order? ft. Daphne MuseI’m no tactician, but I know that tactics are neutral in themselves—Nazi soldiers blowing up a bridge in occupied France to stop an Allied advance is despicable; partisans blowing up the bridge to prevent the Nazis from overwhelming a village and slaughtering its inhabitants is both defensible and righteous. So it is with insurrections: the goals and purposes matter. January 6, 2021 was a white supremacist insurrection against state power—part of a long American tradition that includes the secessionist insurrection of 1861, the uprising by the White League seeking to overthrow the biracial Reconstruction government of Louisiana in 1894, the violent toppli...
2021-01-3054 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersGoodbye to All That!A new year provides a formal opportunity for a practice we ought to engage in every day: looking backward and leaping forward. Rather than make hollow resolutions that we will likely break soon enough, we encourage sustained reflection as we walk on two legs toward a new multi-racial and participatory democracy. We’re reminded of the words of the Italian revolutionary Antonio Gramsci: “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Malik Alim and Bill Ayers begin the new year in dialogue about learning, growing, and dreaming big.
2021-01-1919 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersA Word on Statistics ft. Kari KokkaThe idea of a “seminar” provides us a vast metaphor, offering infinite roads to travel and pathways to pursue: Poems and Free-writes, Language Arts and Current Events, History and Geography, and much much more. Today, we’ll get to something we’ve been missing up until now: the wide and wonderful world of Mathematics. Of course, everything we humans produce is created in context, and the stuttering cliche that math is just the objective truth neither explains nor justifies the manipulation, deception, damage, and fraud as well as the beauty and power that flies at us from every direction in the n...
2021-01-071h 08
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersViolence is as American as Cherry PieAmerica’s hyper-violent history of generational slavery based on African ancestry, of genocide, ethnic cleansing and land theft rolls seamlessly into the ongoing crisis of white supremacy, militarism and militarized police forces, the massive prison-industrial complex, and more. Bullets and bombs aren't the only ways to kill people—bad hospitals and a predatory health care system kill people; government sponsored enclosures kill people; decomposing schools and brainwashing curriculums kill people. In this episode Bill meditates on the word “violence,” and pays attention, not only to the violence that’s visible and overt, but also to the violence that’s cloaked and hidden...
2020-12-2317 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersAligning our Practices with our Values ft. Eve EwingMartin Luther King, Jr famously said that “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” From the Birmingham jail he exhorted us to open our eyes, link arms, and get firmly on the freedom side: “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” We explore an expanding vision of justice and freedom—and responsibility—with Eve Ewing, poet, playwright, academic researcher and teacher, institution builder, and Marvel Comics creator.
2020-12-1059 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersThe Work of the World ft. Bill Fletcher Jr.Joblessness is sky-rocketing, unnecessary suffering on the rise, even as we see plainly that there’s an endless amount of real work to be done: repairing the infrastructure, creating livable housing, improving the parks and public spaces, caring for the children and the elders, cleaning the environment, growing our food, and more. The “jobs economy” enthrones profit as it disconnects work from basic human needs—it’s called capitalism. Our guest today is the preeminent labor organizer, trade unionist, racial and economic justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of “They’re Bankrupting Us” and Twenty Other Myths about Unions.
2020-12-031h 01
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersLiberation is a Curatorial Act ft. Kristiana Rae ColónThe road to deep structural change—to revolution—is built on seeing the world as it is, and then imagining a world that could be or should be, but is not yet. Organizing and mobilizing are essential, yes, igniting a far-reaching wildfire from below, but without deploying our vital imaginations, we remain stuck. We’re joined by the transcendent artist and activist, Kristiana Rae Colon, as we explore the central role of creatives as we join in the work of imagining, rehearsing, mapping, inventing, and embodying that possible world.
2020-11-2657 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersBack to Work ft. Aislinn PulleyThe sparkly quadrennial carnival known as our “national election” is like a magnetic hole in space, sucking light and energy into its powerful jaws, energy and effort disappearing into a gloomy, starless void. Sensible folks can be found staring at the glittering sites of power we have no access to, taking our eyes off the sites of power we’re a natural part of—the workplace and the community, the classroom and the house of worship. Now that the carnival is packing up and leaving town—and not a moment too soon—we turn our attention to getting back to work. We’...
2020-11-1940 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersKnow What Time It Is ft. Barbara RansbyVoter suppression may be the only strategy left for the reactionaries, but, truth-be-told, voter suppression is as American as cherry pie, baked deep in the national DNA. Founded on war and conquest, land theft and forced removal, ethnic cleansing and genocide, kidnapping and a complex system of generational slavery based on African ancestry, the US is hardly innocent in spite of the noisy protestations of the White Nationalists. It’s a settler-colonial, racial capitalist system, and the founding documents are crystal clear: power will be exercised by and for the few. A fundamental revolutionary duty—and really the responsibility of anyo...
2020-11-1240 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers“A Vision of the Sea,” and of Freedom ft. Kathy BoudinWe have taken up the question and the problem of freedom from various angles of regard, and today we move from an expansive metaphor—freedom as the wide, wide sea—to a material reality—freedom as the concrete act of unlocking the prison gate and walking out, free. We visit with Kathy Boudin, a social justice activist who spent 22 years in a New York State prison, and has, since her release in 2003, helped to organize a remarkable network and a wide range of projects to dismantle the system of mass incarceration.
2020-10-2253 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersInterludeWe’re altering the framework for Episode Eleven because we’ve reached a milestone of sorts—a small milestone, to be sure, but a milestone nonetheless—and, therefore, this offering represents a kind of interlude, a time to reflect and recap, reimagine and rebuild. With ten episodes of Under the Tree live—a decathlon run—and a zillion episodes up ahead, let’s look back at where we’ve been, listen to a few excerpts, and then plunge ahead into a brief dialogue between Ayers, Alim, and Professor Stovall as we prepare for the road ahead.
2020-10-141h 04
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelRadical Stories from the Weather Underground w/ Bill Ayers
On this edition of Parallax Views, the Weather Underground have been variously described, depending on one's perspective, as radical activists who opposed the Vietnam War or, more pejoratively, terrorists. Bill Ayers was one of the leaders of the Weather Underground in those tumultuous days and has written about his experiences in his memoir Fugitive Days. He joins us on this edition of Parallax Views to discuss his time with the Weather Underground, why certain factions of the antiwar movement that came to be associated with the Weather Underground in the 1970s became more radicalized as the Vietnam...
2020-10-101h 09
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersHistory Matters ft. Aaron DixonThe conquerors and the occupiers—the victors—are always the ones who write the history, and so we’re left with stories of the glorious conquest of the American west against “savage Indians,” the “Lost Cause” of the “valiant” Confederacy, or the acclaimed creation of “a fragile democracy” in the backward Middle East—“a chosen land for a chosen people.” Each of these accounts is sharply contested, and in that narrative battle we see a protest and hear an appeal: look more deeply, uncover the silenced voices—flawed and partial, contingent and fragmentary—discover a larger and more honest understanding of events. We’re joined today by...
2020-09-2447 min
The Jamie Weinstein ShowEpisode 99: Bill AyersBill Ayers is back. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein, the founder of The Weather Underground opens up about the current protest movement in the U.S., his thoughts on Defund the Police, his son becoming the DA of San Francisco, the 2020 election and much more.
2020-09-231h 41
IXNAYBill Ayers and the Seven Not-So-Dirty Words - IXNAY - Ep 11In this episode: We pay tribute to RBG with a pledge to defeat Donald Trump by becoming what he most fears; IXNAY co-conspirator Tim Kinsella talks to us about how taking action this election season is the greatest anti-anxiety medication he's found; and we discuss freedom, social justice, and other terms that make up IXNAY's Seven Not-So-Dirty Words with the man who puts the "active" in activism: Bill Ayers. Bill also just started a highly educational and inspirational new podcast you'll want to check out, called Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom.
The election is upon...
2020-09-2157 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers"Artists Can Help to Make the Revolution Irresistible" ft. Lisa Yun LeeLife begins in wonder, and so does art—authentic education, too, begins in curiosity, and proceeds through discovery and surprise. Emily Dickinson wrote that “Art lights the slow fuse of possibility,” reminding us that every human being is endowed with the powerful and unique capacity to imagine, and that the arts can help us unleash our deepest human hopes and aspirations, our wildest dreams. We begin to explore the arts and the serious work of making justice with our friend and comrade Lisa Yun Lee, Director of the National Public Housing Museum, Associate Professor of Art History and Gender and Wo...
2020-09-171h 12
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersReparations Now! ft. Katherine FrankeReparations for America’s “original sin”—generational slavery—as well as the long and abiding afterlife of chattel slavery, including Black Codes, poll taxes, Jim Crow, the regime of lynching and white terror, pogroms, red-lining, segregation, voter suppression, and mass incarceration, has moved urgently into the forefront of the national agenda. Malik Alim and Bill Ayers focus their conversation on reparations as both a moral imperative and a multi-dimensional practical necessity before turning to Katherine Franke, a leading scholar on law and racial justice and chair of the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her most recent book, Repair: Re...
2020-09-1256 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersAn Education for Freedom ft. Kevin KumashiroSocieties organize and build schools which are, of course, set up to serve the goals and interests of their hosts. Schools are both mirror and window: authoritarian schools serve authoritarian societies, and authoritarian nations create autocratic schools. We start this episode with a conversation between Malik Alim and Bill Ayers about the schools we need and the schools we deserve. We then welcome Kevin Kumashiro, author of The Seduction of Common Sense, Against Common Sense, and the forthcoming Surrendered, to help us explore the essential dimensions of an education for free people.
2020-09-031h 06
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersWhere in the World Are We? ft. Prexy NesbittAmericans are known across the globe for a singular lack of knowledge about who we are and where we’re located; we collectively have a thin knowledge of both history and geography. Making up less than 5% of the world’s people, we tend toward an exaggerated and narcissistic sense of our place in the larger scheme of things. In this episode we take a closer look at the link between freedom and patriotism, and note the retarding quality of an anemic flag-waving nationalistic loyalty. We’re joined by Prexy Nesbitt, a spirited internationalist and freedom fighter whose efforts over many d...
2020-08-261h 03
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersDefund the Police ft. Alec KarakatsanisMalik Alim and Bill Ayers open with a spirited dialogue on the link between defunding the police, abolition, and a vision of a society free of prisons and armed agents of the state. We then turn to a conversation with Alec Karakatsanis, author of Usual Cruelty, a powerful unmasking and reframing of the myths of “the rule of law” and “law enforcement.”
2020-08-121h 18
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersImagine the Angels of Bread ft. Bernardine DohrnWhen Alice asks the Cheshire Cat which way she ought to go, the Cat responds, “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” Alice says she doesn’t much care where she goes, to which the Cat says, “Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.” We spend this episode exploring our radical dreams, and imagining where we’d like to go, accompanied by the music words of the radical poet, Martin Espada, and a conversation with the legendary activist, Bernardine Dohrn.
2020-08-0557 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersIn Your Dream of Dreams, What Would Schools for Free People Look Like? ft. David StovallSchools are both window and mirror into any society: authoritarian schools serve repressive regimes; segregated schools mirror severed societies; a free society builds schools anchored in enlightenment and liberation. David Omotoso Stovall lights up this episode with a conversation about the school to prison nexus, and the provocative possibility that the call for prison abolition link up with a demand to abolish the schools we have in favor of an education for freedom. Professor Stovall is an activist, a scholar, and the author or editor of several texts, including Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School...
2020-07-2948 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersA Pedagogy of Love, Justice and Joy ft. Crystal LauraFreedom is a layered, complex, and dynamic concept that defies a Webster’s Dictionary-type definition, and so we continue to explore the meaning of freedom, and we follow it as it makes its twisty way through our lives and our consciousness.We’re joined by Crystal Laura, author of Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School to Prison Pipeline, and we explore in detail how educators can disrupt the march toward mass incarceration by deploying a pedagogy joy, love, and justice.
2020-07-2350 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersLet's Talk About Freedom ft. Chesa BoudinThis inaugural episode dives directly into the wreckage: What do we talk about when we talk about freedom? “Under the Tree” references the Freedom Schools created in Mississippi and throughout the South during the Black Freedom Movement of the 1950s and 1960’s—fugitive spaces where folks gathered to organize an insurgency against Jim Crow and white supremacy.
We begin our ongoing reflection on the challenge, the demand, and the meaning of freedom, and then we’re joined by Chesa Boudin, long-time public defender and recently elected District Attorney of San Francisco.
2020-07-2355 min
AirGoIntroducing Under the Tree, a new podcast hosted by Bill AyersWe want to introduce y'all to “Under the Tree,” a new podcast hosted by the legendary Bill Ayers that focuses on freedom—a complex, layered, dynamic, and often contradictory idea—and takes you on a journey each week to fundamentally reimagine how we can bring freedom and liberation to life in relation to schools and schooling, equality and justice, and learning to live together in peace. Make sure you subscribe to Under the Tree on your preferred podcast app!Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to yo...
2020-07-2102 min
For The Defense With Brad KoffelFor The Defense- The Story of Bill AyersFor The Defense- The Story of Bill Ayers- The guys discuss education and Bill Ayers' opinion of how learning should be in schools. Plus, Brad's opinion on what kids should really be learning about.
2020-07-1937 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersIntroducing Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersIntroducing Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers by Bill Ayers
2020-07-0102 min
Bill BrewsterDJ History Podcast #541 | Bill BrewsterWeekly podcast presented by Bill Brewster, wit, DJ, raconteur, idiot. Featuring a mixture of brand new dance music, mixed with classics of all styles, put together in Brewster's inimitably incompetent style. This week's show is includes music from Detroit Swindle, Cowboy Rhythmbox, Jonas Rathsman, Ethimm, Roy Ayers and more more more!
YADAVA - Heart Strings (Hermanito Remix)
THE MAUSKOVIC DANCE BAND - Space Drum Machine (Detroit Swindle's Flute Mix)
ETHIMM - Over & Out
JONAS RATHSMAN - Ready To Dream
SKINSHAPE FT D'ALMA - Sua Alma
COWBOY RHYTHMBOX - 6AM Cowboy (Sharif Laffrey Deviation)
YAKUL - Streetlight
ROY AYERS - Reaching...
2020-03-2048 min
Lock N Load with Bill Frady podcastLock N Load with Bill Frady Ep 1614 Hr 2Be A Rooftop Korean, Kamala Harris Claims A Million Women Shot, But Have They?, Sri Lanka's very own Bill Ayers imitators, In poop-covered San Francisco, the super-rich prey on the Left's merely wealthy. Lock N Load is...
2019-05-0254 min
Microsoft 365 Developer PodcastDeveloping for Office and Microsoft Graph with Bill AyersPaul catches up with Bill Ayers about the Live!360 conference, developing for Office and Microsoft Graph and a little discussion about mobile development.
Microsoft News
Subscription lifetime changes for Outlook resources
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Alexa + Azure Functions + Microsoft Graph = a smarter assistant!
Same-site cookies, ASP.NET Core, and external authentication providers
New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
Microsoft Teams community call Jan
Microsoft Graph SDKs - Requirements and Design
Microsoft Graph .Net Client Library 1.13
New Habits podcast
2019-01-2052 min
Open StacksPeaceable Kingdoms of Books: Liam Heneghan, Bill Ayers & The Diary of a BooksellerOur journey into other worlds continues on this episode of Open Stacks in preparation for the after and before-lives of great books, with lions, bears, and very hungry caterpillars (oh my!) that makeup and reveal the environmental wisdom of children's literature in scientist and poet Liam Heneghan's Beasts at Bedtime. Then eavesdrop on the great indoors of the neighborhood bookstore, with educator and activist Bill Ayers and Co-op Booksellers on Shaun Bythell's The Diary of a Bookseller.
2018-11-2645 min
Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer – VT Foreign PolicyRAG RADIO: Legendary ’60s Radicals Bernardine Dohrn and Bill AyersLegendary activists and educators Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, leaders of the ’60s Weather Underground, are interviewed by Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer and co-host Alice Embree. Among topics discussed: Police murder and the verdict in the LaQuan McDonald case in Chicago. War and Peace. Women and girls. Resistance. Mass incarceration and youth. Schools and educational policy. […]
2018-10-2400 min
Knowledge Fight#168: Alex Vs. Bill AyersToday, Dan tells Jordan about the inexplicable time that former member of the Weather Underground Bill Ayers decided to stop by the Alex Jones Show for an interview. The year was 2015, and the theme of the day was "Alex getting dunked on left and right." This is a very embarrassing moment in Alex's career.
2018-06-082h 34
Open Stacks#43 Institutions: Toussaint Losier, Michael C. Dawson, Crystal Laura, & Bill AyersThis week on Open Stacks, discussions about two of the most fervently debated and scrutinized institutions: prisons and public schools. First, Touissant Losier sits down with Michael C. Dawson to discuss the book Losier and Dan Berger co-authored, Rethinking the American Prison Movement. Then, Bill Ayers and Crystal Laura talk about Laura’s book, "You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!": And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education, co-authored with Rick Ayers.
2018-03-1949 min
Open Stacks#41 History from Below: William Pelz, Lisa Lee, David Stovall, Bill Ayers, Nate Marshall, and Jeremy McCarterThis week's episode of Open Stacks features William Pelz discussing history from below; Lisa Lee, David Stovall, and Bill Ayers in conversation from the Singing In Dark Times series; and a discussion with Nate Marshall and Jeremy McCarter, about activists and art. Open Stacks is the official podcast of the Seminary Co-operative Bookstores.
2018-03-041h 07
Liberation RadioBill Ayers on education, Black Lives Matter and the struggle todayBill Ayers on education, Black Lives Matter and the struggle today Listen now: Bill Ayers, retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lifelong activist against racism and...
2017-11-2700 minLock N Load with Bill Frady podcastLock N Load with Bill Frady Ep 1234 Hr 1 Mixdown 1The other DiMaggio got lots of hits...also served in World War II, Throwing the game, Boston Globe Calls For Gun Confiscation, The triumph of Bill Ayers, The GOP Establishment Wants To Burn Down The Village To Save It...For Itself.
2017-11-1354 min
The Lit Review PodcastEpisode 28: Demand the Impossible with Bill AyersA manifesto for movement-makers in extraordinary times, Demand the Impossible! urges us to imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible.
Monica and Page sat down with insurgent educator and activist Bill Ayers to talk about his book and envision strategies for building the movement we need to make a world worth living in.
2017-10-0248 min
The Jamie Weinstein ShowEpisode 35: Bill AyersBill Ayers is a co-founder of the radical left-wing organization, the Weather Underground. He is a self-described "small-C" communist, an activist, and a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Bill and Jamie discuss a wide range of topics, including Bill's political views, Bill's dinners with Barack Obama before his presidency, and Jamie's own dinner with Bill in 2012. Show Notes About Bill Ayers' political alignment, his views on voting, and who he has voted for in the past On Donald Trump's appeal as a leader and his authoritarian tendencies...
2017-09-121h 19
American Monetary AssociationAMA 172 - A Radical Manifesto with Bill AyersJust before the election, Jason Hartman talked with Bill Ayers, a retired Professor of Education, contributor to academic journals, and an original member of the Weather Underground. Bill has written several books, including his newest, Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto. Jason and Bill discuss eight major points from his book, and look into what the US can do to right itself. Key Takeaways: [1:28] Demand the Impossible calls for Americans to release their imaginations and consider the impossible. [3:51] The eight issues addressed in Bill Ayers' Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto. [5:06...
2017-05-1226 min
Love in a Dangerous TimeDEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE – Imagine a New World, with Author, Activist, Bill Ayers. #Church2B [LDT079]We Are Batman!!!
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Hi, Lovers – Well, if we didn’t think we were living in Dangerous Times, I guess we all get it now! Aye? The future that looked so inevitable on the morning of November 8 is gone. Simply gone. Well, I hope we all agree that it’s time to create a new one.
A friend of mine tells of how on Tuesday night, at about 1am, he became weary of the election returns and decided to watch an episode of “Gotham”, just for fun. Turns out when you’re living in a nightmare...
2016-11-1447 min
Creating Wealth Real Estate InvestingCW 747 - Bill Ayers - Demand the Impossible! A Radical ManifestoSurvive and thrive in today's economy! With over 400 episodes produced, business and investment guru Jason Hartman interviews top-tier guests, bestselling authors and financial experts including; Steve Forbes (Freedom Manifesto), Tomas Sowell (Housing Boom and Bust), Noam Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent), Jenny Craig (Health & Fitness CEO), Jim Cramer (Mad Money), Harvey Mackay (Swim With The Sharks & Get Your Foot in the Door), Todd Akin (Former US Congressman), William D. Cohan ( The Price of Silence, The Last Tycoon, & House of Cards), G. Edward Griffin (The Creature from Jekyll Island), Daniel Pink (National Geographic). Jason Hartman is the Founder and CEO of Platinum Properties...
2016-11-0333 min
FreeLunch PodcastEpisode 69: Fugitive Days - The Bill Ayers EpisodeDuring the late 1960s into the 70s, the Weather Underground organization was labeled by many as a Domestic terrorist group in the U.S., largely in part to its role in numerous bombings, riots, and jailbreaks. Founded by long time social activist/revolutionary, Bill Ayers, the organization was in strong opposition to the Vietnam war, but was in heavy support of the Black Freedom Movement. However it was the tactics used to get the attention of the U.S. power structure that ultimately led to Bill and other members becoming targets for the FBI. But, today he comes to set th...
2015-10-221h 27
The Iconocastthe Iconocast: Bill Ayers (episode 53)In this episode Joanna and Mark interview Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is an author, including the books, Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident;To Teach: The Journey in Comics with Ryan Alexander-Tanner; Race Course: Against White Supremacy, with Bernardine Dohrn. He co-founded the revolutionary group, Weather Underground, in 1969, a radical left-wing organization aimed at supported Black liberation movements and protesting US imperialism through the use of targeted bombing of government and bank property.Before retiring Bill served as distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is an...
2015-05-1743 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksBill Ayers on ThirtyFour-50William Charles "Bill" Ayers retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a former Chicago community organizer and voice for urban educational reform A former leader in the counterculture movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Known for his 1960s radical activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly...
2014-04-1827 min