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Radio InquilabEp 27 - The Politics of Everything (Part 1) - Yasmin Nair Radio Inquilab speaks with Yasmin Nair a fierce activist, media and cultural critic, and academic. We talk about the November 2024 election looking into the principal reasons why Kamala Harris lost despite raising the most amount of money ever raised for a Presidential race. Yasmin delves into how Harris was never a good candidate and had no experience to run such a competitive and important race. Her very important and prescient article, written on August 23 2024, is worth a read: https://yasminnair.com/kamala-harris-will-lose/We talk about immigration, and how neither the left nor the right...2025-06-201h 00Radio InquilabEp 26 - The Question of International Law - Nora Jaber Dr. Nora Jaber joins Radio Inquilab to talk about her research and work as it pertains to the question of international law. As a Palestinian with Saudi nationality, Dr. Jaber has focused her research on the rights of Islamic women in Saudi and the framework they have used -- barring Western ideas and concepts -- to achieve freedom. She explains how when Saudi women were fighting for the right to drive and travel without an accomplice, the concept of Western feminism was viewed by the women as anathema. Instead they used their own methods...2025-05-2253 minRadio InquilabEp 25 - The Glaciers of Gilgit Baltistan - Tehzeeb Bano In this episode, Tehzeeb Bano joins the podcast to explore the glaciers of Gilgit-Baltistan. She sheds light on the region’s 7,000 glaciers and how climate change is rapidly accelerating their decline, threatening both the local environment and Pakistan’s fresh water supply.Tehzeeb introduces the concept of glacier grafting—a practice long known to the indigenous communities in the area. She emphasizes the importance of leaning into indigenous knowledge to bridge gaps in our understanding of nature. By revisiting and revitalizing these ancient practices, we may find new ways to rejuvenate our environment and secure...2025-05-0152 minRadio InquilabEp 24 - Indigenous Learnings - Clint Carroll In this episode, Prof Clint Carroll from UC Boulder talks about the connection Natives have to their land and how despite overwhelming change in the world, have been able to maintain it. He specifically refers to how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States despite devastating consequences and how we have so much to learn from that. He also talks about the role of Medicine Keepers and how women are central...2025-03-271h 17Radio InquilabEp 23 - Solh Resolutions International - Rangineh Azimzadeh Tehrani Rangineh joins Radio Inquilab to talk about her childhood experiences in Tehran that inevitably shaped the rest of her life. She talks about how the Iran/Iraq war left deep impressions on her and led to the formation of Solh Resolutions International, an organization that guides and empowers us to expand our awareness and understanding of ourselves and others through human-centered facilitation, conflict transformation, and circular curations.She talks about her work with The Circle Way (TCW), a circle methodology that offers a counter-cultural, equity-centered approach to working with groups while shifting organizations from...2025-02-1359 minRadio InquilabEp 22 - Colonial Collateral GBV - Global Dev 4 Pal Colonialism is a major driver of gender-based violence (GBV) today. Former colonies often experience higher rates of intimate partner violence. Research increasingly links political conflict and GBV, indicating that colonial and imperialist interventions contribute directly to systemic violence against marginalized communities like Palestine, Haiti, the DRC, Kashmir, West Papua, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Sudan. In this episode, moderated by Global Dev 4 Palestine, several experts get together to discuss how colonization and GBV are intricately linked. Experts, in order of appearance:Dr Michelle Lokot is a practitioner, Assistant Professor, and Co-Director of the Health in Hum...2025-01-301h 05Radio InquilabEp 21 - Ceasefire in Gaza - Abubaker Abed Abubaker Abed, a 22-year old war correspondent from Palestine, currently living in Gaza joins Radio Inquilab to talk about the ceasefire deal. Due to a lack of stable internet connection, Abubaker called me from the Al-Aqsa hospital and despite audio challenges, background noises we were able to talk. Abubaker describes the situation on the ground as total annihilation of Gaza, Rafah and the surrounding areas. People making their way back to their homes are finding nothing except rubble and amidst all this there is growing fear that Israel might...2025-01-2316 minRadio InquilabEp 20 - Student Protests - Soraya Beheshti In this episode, Soraya Beheshti talks to Radio Inquilab about the massive student protest movement taking place throughout the country. She talks about her experience as student and subsequently as Vice Chair of the Columbia Alumni Association of the UAE, a post she stepped down from after Columbia's President had the student protestors arrested and the military and police marched against them. Soraya talks about what an education at Columbia meant for her and how the school prepared her to stand up against atrocities and be her true honest self. The current stance of...2024-12-171h 10Radio InquilabEp 19 - The Kashmir Question - Ather Zia Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Ather Zia talks about Kashmir and the fraught nature of life there.Ather explains the deep, long, fraught history of Kashmir - how the many rulers exploited Kashmir through the ages with little to no regard for the people, how indigenous knowledge and people were harmed to make Kashmir a part of India and how the government of India harasses, kidnaps, rapes, pillages and kills with total impunity.Ather was born in Kashmir and lived there for several years so...2024-11-271h 20Radio InquilabEp 18 - Rematriation - Corrina Gould This episode features Corrina Gould, the Co-Director for The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area that works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Corrina talks about rematriation, why it is important and how someone can be a good guest on land that does not belong to them/they are not native to. She discusses how our present lifestyles are harming our Mother Earth and what we need to do to reconnect and reclaim our relationship with the land. ...2024-11-051h 07Radio InquilabEp 17 - Defense for Children International Palestine - Ayed Abu Eqtaish In this episode, Ayed Eqtaish joins the podcast to talk about the state of children in Palestine. While it is impossible to get any kind of estimates in Gaza, Ayed talks about how the situation in the West Bank is also precarious with many children being imprisoned by Israel. Ayed talks about the harm the occupation has been doing to children's mental, physical and psychological state including holding children indefinitely under administrative detention. Children eventually released experience deep harm and lasting effects as a result of the imprisonment where they are held in solitary...2024-10-2255 minRadio InquilabEp 16 - Is Genocide a Red Line for You - Madelyn Hoffman In this episode, Rupande discusses the upcoming Presidential election with former Green Party candidate, Madelyn Hoffman. They talk about the genocide taking place in Gaza, as well as the Democratic party's changing policies and platforms. Madelyn talks about how "voting for lesser evil is still evil" and how if we want systemic change - free healthcare, cut in defense spending, end to genocides and funding wars abroad, a stronger middle class, subsidized education, etc. our priorities need to fundamentally change and we need a different crop of leaders in charge. 2024-09-1455 min
Radio InquilabEp 15 - Global Dev 4 Palestine - Aid Washing in the Context of Palestine In this episode, Rupande speaks with members of Global Development for Palestine about their tireless work to raise awareness about the ongoing conflict. Bringing in their extensive experience, the group talks about Palestine in context with decolonization, how global assistance organizations need to show up vs. their total lack of concern, the double standard & sense of white saviorism in the US - aid world and how aid washing is happening in Palestine. The group talks about how the general public can help and how those who work in this sector can collectively organize through...2024-06-271h 13Radio InquilabEp 14 - The State of Women & Girls in Palestine - Kifaya Khraim TW: violence, rapeKifaya Khraim, the International Advocacy Coordinator at Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling talks to Rupande about the unrealistic situation in Palestine for women and girls. She shares the unbelievably harrowing stories of women documented first hand by WCLAC, as well as the unprecedented level of trauma experienced by women living under occupation. She explains how violence against women and girls has been ongoing long before October 7, 2023. Kifaya shares grim details about crimes committed against women - harassment, violence, abductions, theft, assault, administrative detention...2024-06-0655 minRadio InquilabEp 13 - Decolonizing Communication - Farah Mahesri Farah Mahesri sits down with Rupande to talk about the very important nuance of decolonizing communication - what does it mean, why is it so important and what place it holds in our world as we move to a more awakened society that seeks to place diversity, equality and decolonization. Farah explains how aid organizations can decolonize communication and shift the balance of power, furthering development and internationalization. She talks about what decolonization means in the context of the current conflict in Palestine as well as the universal importance of stories and narratives. 2024-05-091h 06Radio InquilabEp 12 - Palestine Children's Day - DCIP On April 5, 2024 to commemorate Palestine Children's Day, Kalpvraksh teamed up with Global Development For Palestine to host Defense for Children International Palestine, along with some of the youth they support. This episode is a recording of the live conversation that took place that day. Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP) is an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Since 1991, they have investigated, documented, and exposed grave human rights violations against children; provided le...2024-04-2544 minRadio InquilabEp 11 - Kula Nursery - Zee Lilani In this episode, Rupande speaks with Zee Lilani, the founder of Kula Nursery. Zee talks about her career trajectory - starting as a food researcher and how COVID changed her life plans to turn her into a full-time farmer growing ancestral and heritage foods that her mother and grandmother ate in Pakistan. Zee talks about her hopes and dreams with Kula and the importance of food sovereignty for communities of color.Resources Recommended:Kula Nursery care guides: https://www.kulanursery.com/Mother/Grandmother/Extended families to learn what foods they grewLocal gardening centers...2024-04-0539 minRadio InquilabEp 10 - The State of Worker & Immigrant Rights - Dr. Patricia Campos Medina Rupande speaks with the labor & immigrant leader, Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina about her immigrant story and her lifelong fight for workers rights. They talk about the affirmative action decision by SCOTUS in the United States, and what the harmful effects of that can be for immigrants and children of color. Dr. Campos-Medina sheds light on the real "immigrant" problem and how decades of interference and harmful policies by the US has led to a crisis at our border. She talks about the importance of bringing more voices - primarily that of WoC - into our electoral...2024-03-151h 00Radio InquilabEp 9 - The Art of Druidry - Eimear Burke Rupande speaks with Eimear Burke, the the Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids about the meaning of druidry and what it means to be a druid. They talk about how druidry can help in this time of conflict and despair and how nature can help lessen the burden that our everyday life places on us. Eimear explains her work - her day time job as a psychologist - and how it closely aligns with her work as the Chosen Chief and Priestess of Isis. She also talks about the importance...2024-03-0453 minRadio InquilabEp 8 - Decolonizing Justice - Kirthi Jayakumar Rupande speaks with Kirthi Jayakumar, founder of Gender Security Project, about her reasons for getting involved in this work, how her past has shaped her outlook towards healing justice and the forms of work GSP undertakes. They discuss how the justice system needs to evolve from incarceration and retributive justice to healing justice for all.Kirthi discusses her paper: Redrawing the Galtung Triangle - Finding Place for Healing Trauma in Peace Work, and specifically talks about the idea of how trauma is not only limited to people but also extends to countries, citing the...2024-02-151h 10Radio InquilabEp 7 - Earth Medicines - Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz In this episode, Rupande speaks with Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, the owner of Kitchen Curandera. They talk about her work, what it means to be a curandera and the healing power of plants. Rupande asks Felicia about her book, Earth Medicines and how we can all start small by incorporating meaningful doses of ancestral wisdom in our daily lives. They talk about corn, how the sacred plant came to be vilified by colonialists and today is causing more harm than good. Felicia offers her thoughts on how being aware of where we source our food from...2024-02-0141 minRadio InquilabEp 6 - The Vegetarian Reset - Vasudha Viswanath In this episode, Rupande speaks with Vasudha Viswanath, author of The Vegetarian Reset. They talk about Vasudha's journey with food - how despite being a vegetarian all her life, Vasudha was shocked when she received a pre-diabetes diagnosis. That led her to study and research more about the food we eat and how to eat more healthy everyday. They talk about the food movement, how to make healthy substitutions in your diet, train your diet to like new/healthier foods and lead an overall life that encompasses good food, exercise, sleep and a sound being.2024-01-1854 minRadio InquilabEp 5 - The Return of the Wolves - Michelle Harris & Amaroq Weiss In this episode, Rupande speaks with Michelle Harris from Colibri Ecological Consulting and Amaroq Weiss from the Center for Biological Diversity about the return of wolves in Tulare County, CA. Michelle and her colleague, Samantha Winiecki-Love, first spotted a gray wolf in Sequoia National Forest in August 2023. Michelle talks about her experience spotting the wolf and her work in Sequoia National Forest restoring the giant sequoias and how climate change is affecting them and the entire ecosystem. Amaroq Weiss is a Senior Wolf Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. In this episode, she s...2024-01-041h 07Radio InquilabEp 4 - The Truth About Islam - Sofia Rehman In this episode, Rupande talks to Dr. Sofia Rehman about the beauty of Islam. They talk about the unflinching faith of the Palestinians, strengthened during these trying times, and how so much of the world is turning to Islam to understand its true nature. Sofia sheds light on the meaning of the hijab and what the West gets so terribly wrong about Islam. Resources suggested by Sofia: The Clear Quran by Dr. Mustafa Khattab or The Qu'ran by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem Mohammed by Martin LingsA Treasury of 'A'ishah by Sofia Rehman 2023-12-211h 11Radio InquilabEp 3 - Palestine - Nahed Habiballah TW: violenceIn this episode, Rupande speaks with Prof. Nahed Habiballah from the Arab American University of Palestine about the current humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. Prof. Habiballah gives context on the conflict, including the history of Palestine and how Israel came into existence. They discuss the formation of Hamas and the acute double standards shown by the West while dealing with the violence perpetrated by Israel. Resources suggested by Prof. Habiballah: The Holocaust & the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma & History by Bashir Bashir & Amos Goldberg100 Years...2023-12-1556 minRadio InquilabEp 2 - We Are Marigolde: Roshni Kavate & Rebecca Servoss In this episode, Rupande speaks with Roshni Kavate and Rebecca Servoss, founders of Marigolde to bring warm, nourishing care and support to your grief journey. They talk about the grief crisis enveloping our worlds and how we can better manage it using the Marigolde framework.You can find Marigolde at: www.wearemarigolde.com or on Instagram @wearemarigolde.Resources suggested by Roshni and Rebecca:Mango and Gnocchi podcastMarigolde grief journalGrief support groups/peer groups 2023-12-0147 minRadio InquilabEp 1 - Intro to Kalpvraksh In this episode, Rupande provides an intro to the podcast and its purpose. She talks about her life, her past experiences, what led her to this path and the type of conversations/interviews Kalpvraksh will be conducting. 2023-11-2906 min