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Forward Radio podcastsSolutions To Violence | Zoharah Simmons & Frank Joyce | October 7, 2024Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D. is a retired Professor Emerita in African American and Religious Studies and affiliated Faculty in Women Studies at the University of Florida. She obtained her BA from Antioch University in Human Service, her MA in Religious Studies & her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Temple University. Zoharah Simmons became a SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) field secretary in the summer of 1964 when she joined hundreds of other college age volunteers who traveled to Mississippi to work in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Dr. Simmons worked in the NY Office of SNCC organizing High School and...2024-10-071h 00
New NarrativesEpisode 09: Truth Dishonors No One (Part 02)Two plaques hang in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol, one that memorializes Minnesota's participation in a forgotten war and another that claims the first plaque told is full of lies. Today on New Narratives, we start to tell the story of the second plaque and the Filipinx Minnesotans who were behind it. We'll tell the story of their relentless activism to tell the story of the Philippine American War the way their ancestors saw and experienced it. This episode is part 2 of a 2-part series on the Philippine-American War.
Guests include: Meg Layese (she/her...2021-04-1921 minNew NarrativesEpisode 08: Truth Dishonors No One (Part 01)A plaque hangs in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol, memorializing Minnesota's participation in a forgotten war. Today on New Narratives, we start to tell the story of that plaque--all the way from the beginning, hundreds of years ago. We'll tell the story of the Philippine-American War, talk about why it's a war nobody remembers, and explore what effects the war has today on the Philippines. This episode is part 1 of a 2-part series on the Philippine-American War.
Guests include: Professor Lisandro Claudio (he/him, University of California Berkeley), Dr. Theodore Gonzalves (he/him, Smithsonian National...2021-04-1042 minNew NarrativesEpisode 06: What a Messy Story (Part 1)Today, we'll be taking a deep dive into the U.S. war in Vietnam to tell the complicated story of the wars in Vietnam & the "secret wars" in Cambodia and Laos. We’re going to discuss why the wars happened and what made them so devastating. This episode is part 1 of a 2-part series on the U.S war in Vietnam.
Guests include: Professor Karin Aguilar-San Juan (she/they/siya, Macalester College).
Madeline Duckles interviews Madame Binh in 1968, courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives.2020-12-0238 min
Just World PodcastsFrank Joyce discusses issues in the antiwar movement with Helena CobbanThis episode is an inter-season special: an interview Just World Educational President Helena Cobban conducted with Frank Joyce, a veteran antiwar and workers-rights organizer who was the co-editor, along with Dr. Karin Aguilar-San Juan, of the 2015 anthology The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.In July this year, Frank Joyce and four other American antiwar activists went back to Ha Noi again: this time, to celebrate the launching of the Vietnamese edition of The People Make the Peace. You can read more about their latest visit to Vietnam in this blog post on...2019-08-1142 min
KPFA - Making ContactThe Spirit of Viet Nam is Stronger Than U.S. BombsFifty years ago, the American War in Viet Nam was at its height. There, people had fought against Japanese and French colonial rule, and now, the U.S. attempt at domination was once again, turning family members, friends, and neighbors against each another.
For the U.S. government, this was just another Cold War battleground, and deaths of 2.1 – 3.8 million Vietnamese people were seen as collateral damage to establishing U.S. rule over the region. But people of color around the world saw the resistance in Vietnam as a source of inspiration.
On today’s Making Contac...2018-03-1616 min
Just World PodcastsThe Ken Burns effect on the Vietnam War: an interview with Karín Aguilar-San JuanAn interview recorded in early August 2017 with Karín Aguilar-San Juan. The interview covers the book she coedited with Frank Joyce called "The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement" (Just World Books 2015) on U.S. antiwar activists and combat veterans against the Vietnam War and their efforts at citizen diplomacy through travel to Vietnam. The interview touches upon the new Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War and what Aguilar-San Juan calls America's "Forrest Gump-ified" memory of the Vietnam War.Support the show2017-10-2324 min