This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Historians on Call with Margaret Power, who is co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy. See historiansforpeace.org She is a professor of history emeritus from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author or co-editor of seven books including Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973 and Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism.  See: https://www.historiansforpeace.org

Talk World Radio: Who You Gonna Call? Historians!

Pitasanna Shanmugathas has produced a series of videos exposing the little-known horrors of Canadian foreign policy. See https://www.truthtothepowerless.com

Pitasanna Shanmugathas holds a master’s degree in global affairs from the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs—he has worked in multiple organizations advocating for peace and disarmament such as Save the Children, Science for Peace, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, and STAND Canada. While completing his post-graduate education at the University of Toronto, Pitasanna decided to embark on a three year documentary journey starting in 2019 to explore the role of Canada's foreign policy in the international arena.

Talk World Radio: Everything You've Heard About Canada Is Wrong

This week on Talk World Radio, we're planning for a big peace rally in Washington, D.C., on March 18th. We have two guests. Jodie Evans is Cofounder of CODE PINK. See https://codepink.org And Jodie is Founder of China Is Not Our Enemy. Joe Lombardo is Coordinator of UNAC, United National Antiwar Coalition. See https://unacpeace.org For more on the upcoming event in DC and sister events elsewhere, see any of these websites:
https://www.codepink.org/march18
https://www.answercoalition.org/protest_march_18_19_peace_in_ukraine_say_no_to_endless_u_s_wars
https://peoplesforum.org/events/peace-in-ukraine-say-no-to-endless-u-s-wars

Talk World Radio: Jodie Evans and Joe Lombardo: All Out for Peace on March 18

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace, and not in your heart, and not as "more than just the absence of war," but in fact as the absence of war, in Ukraine in particular.

Talk World Radio: Make Peace in Ukraine

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about campus protests, accusations of anti-Semitism, and media malpractice with Richard (RJ) Eskow, who has served as a chief writer and editor for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign; a Fortune 500 healthcare executive (those two things make an odd combination); a student activist; an economic consultant in more than 20 countries; a songwriter; and a musician. He is the host of The Zero Hour found at https://ThisIsTheZeroHour.com and his articles can be found at https://ZeroHourReport.com

Talk World Radio: Richard Eskow on the Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about poverty with Karen Dolan who is Project Director of the Criminalization of Race and Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Karen has been on before but it's been a long time. We're happy to welcome her back.
See https://ips-dc.org/project/criminalization-of-race-and-poverty

Talk World Radio: Karen Dolan on Poverty and How We Could End It

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the crime of war in Palestine with Raed Jarrar, advocacy director for DAWN -- the organization founded by slain writer Jamal Khashoggi and found at dawnmena.org.

Talk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about a successful lawsuit and impactful campus activism against genocide. Daniela Colombi is with Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization at the University of Maryland that views itself as part of the international movement for a free Palestine, working for collective liberation, justice, and equality. Daniela was delegated by the board to work on outreach and to testify on behalf of the organization in court. On August 6, civil rights groups Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced a historic $100,000 settlement agreement for their clients, University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine (UMD SJP), paid by the University of Maryland.

Further reading:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNBVeFpOinv
https://palestinelegal.org/news/umd-settlement
https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1954670507128914219

Talk World Radio: A Victory for Students for Justice in Palestine

This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about a new film called Neelan: Unsilenced. Our guest, Pitasanna Shanmugathas, is the director, writer, and producer. Shanmugathas was previously a guest on this program regarding his co-directed six-part documentary series titled "Truth to the Powerless: An Investigation into Canada's Foreign Policy," which interviewed Canadian politicians, academics, and activists to examine Canada’s colonial history, its role in international conflicts, and the impact of its foreign policy on global communities.

See: https://neelanunsilenced.com

Talk World Radio: Neelan: Unsilenced. Tragedy and Hope in Sri Lanka.

Kathy Kelly on Frontline Voices on WBAI Pacifica Radio

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about opening borders with John Washington, author of a terrific book called The Case for Open Borders. John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, and The Intercept.

Talk World Radio: The Case for Open Borders

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Guy Feugap who is Africa Organizer for World BEYOND War. He is a secondary school teacher, writer, and peace activist, based in Cameroon. He has long worked to educate youths for peace and non-violence. His work has put young girls in particular at the heart of crisis resolution and awareness raising on several issues in their communities. He joined WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) in 2014 and founded the Cameroon Chapter of World BEYOND War in 2020.

The upcoming Imagine Africa Beyond War conference is here
https://worldbeyondwar.org/africa2025

Talk World Radio: Rising Violence in Cameroon

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about the collapse of societies with the author of one of the best books I've read in a long time. The book is called Goliath's Curse. The author is Luke Kemp, who is also a Research Affiliate & Former Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.

Talk World Radio: Luke Kemp on Goliath's Curse

This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking about Western Asia with Mouin Rabbani. He is a Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. He is the co-editor of the book Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures. He has written for numerous publications and regularly posts writing and videos on Substack.

See: https://mouinrabbani.substack.com

Talk World Radio: Mouin Rabbani on What's Happening Now in Palestine

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Iran, the world, and the problem of war. Our guest Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network. He serves on the advisory boards of many peace organizations, including Veterans For Peace and World BEYOND War, and is an associate member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Talk World Radio: Matthew Hoh on War on Iran

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about community and workplace organizing. Our guest Keith Kelleher was the founder of United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 880 (1983-5), then Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 (1985-2008) and then president (2008-2017) of SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas (HCIIMK). Once the smallest local union, it is now the largest local union in Chicago, Cook County, the state of Illinois, and the Midwest, as well as the 7th largest local of the 2 million member Service Employees International Union. Keith has also served as an International Vice President of SEIU.

How Black and Brown Women in Chicago Helped Build Jesse Jackson’s Campaigns
https://convergencemag.com/articles/how-black-and-brown-women-in-chicago-helped-build-jesse-jacksons-campaigns


How Mass-Based Community Unions Could Transform the Country
https://forgeorganizing.org/article/how-mass-based-community-unions-could-transform-the-country


The Coming Storm In New York
https://forgeorganizing.org/article/the-coming-storm-in-new-york

Talk World Radio: Keith Kelleher on Organizing Workers

This week on Talk World Radio, we have the great privilege of speaking with John Sayles. John Sayles is an independent filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and once for the National Book Award. He has written eight novels, including, most recently, Jamie MacGillivray and To Save the Man, and his latest which we will be discussing: Crucible.

Talk World Radio: John Sayles on Crucible

This week on Talk World Radio we speak with John Reuwer, just freed after having been kidnapped at sea by the Israeli military. John Reuwer is Treasurer and a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is a retired emergency physician whose practice convinced him of a crying need for alternatives to violence for resolving tough conflicts. This led him to the informal study and teaching of nonviolence for the last 35 years, with peace team field experience in Haiti, Colombia, Central America, Palestine/Israel, and several US inner cities. He worked in South Sudan with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, one of the few organizations practicing professional unarmed civilian peacekeeping. He also serves on the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons with Physicians for Social Responsibility educating the public and politicians about the threat from nuclear weapons, which he sees as the ultimate expression of the insanity of modern warfare, so blatantly displayed in the current war in Ukraine. John has been a facilitator for World BEYOND War’s online courses “War Abolition 201” and “Leaving World War II Behind.”

Talk World Radio: John Reuwer on Being Kidnapped at Sea by Israel

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about ending the death penalty with Scott Langley, co-founder of Death Penalty Action. See:

https://deathpenaltyaction.org


https://abolition.org


https://forwhomthebelltolls.org

Talk World Radio: Scott Langley on Abolishing the Death Penalty

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about abolishing the police. Our guest, brian bean, is the author of Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, which I've just read and highly recommend. brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist organizer, writer, and agitator originally from North Carolina. They are one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. Their work has been published in Truthout, Jacobin, Tempest, Spectre, Red Flag, New Politics, Socialist Worker, International Viewpoint, and more. They coedited and contributed to the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.

Talk World Radio: Abolish the Police

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Iran and how we got to this point. Our guest Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and program director for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco.

Talk World Radio: Stephen Zunes on Iran

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Bolivia and people who refuse to put up with outrages that people in the United States sit back and accept. Our guest Kathryn Ledebur is director of the Andean Information Network which is online at https://ain-bolivia.org/about/

Talk World Radio: Bolivia and People Who Don't Sit Back and Take It

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about campus activism. Our guest, Francis Burns, is a student organizer at Cornell University and a native of Ithaca, New York. He grew up in a family of Catholic Workers who were deeply involved in the anti-war movement throughout the early 2000s. His father was one of the Saint Patrick’s Four. At Cornell, he is vice president of the Cornell progressives and students for justice in Palestine, which are focused on direct action and education surrounding Palestine and other leftist causes on campus. He is currently working on Graham Platner's campaign in Maine for the U.S. Senate.

Talk World Radio: Francis Burns on Campus Activism

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about what the U.S. military does to Hawaii and what Hawaii could be without a massive military occupation. Our guest, Christine Ahn, is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is the Founder and former Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War and ensure women’s leadership in peace building. In 2015, she led 30 international women peacemakers across the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) from North Korea, which was the subject of the award-winning 2023 PBS documentary, Crossings. IPS and a number of partners have released a new report called "The True Cost Of The U.S. Military In Hawaiʻi: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Economic, Environmental, Strategic, and Social Impacts of the U.S. Military Presence in Hawai'i." See: https://www.ips-dc.org/report-true-cost-of-u-s-military-bases-in-hawaii

Talk World Radio: What Could Hawaii Be Without the U.S. Military?

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about U.S. military spending. Greg Williams is the director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. The Project on Government Oversight has worked with a number of friends of this program to put out a report called The True Total U.S. Military Budget. See:
https://www.pogo.org/reports/the-true-total-u-s-military-budget

Talk World Radio: U.S. Military Spending Is About Double What They Tell Us

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about whether opposing genocide in the UK is now a serious criminal offense and perhaps terrorism. Our guest, Tony Greenstein, is a leading Jewish anti-Zionist in Britain and founding member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods. His books include Zionism During the Holocaust and A History of Fighting Fascism in Brighton and the South Coast. He has written for numerous outlets, including a recent article in Al Jazeera called "The anti-Semitism smear that ruined Corbyn’s Labour now targets the Greens".

Talk World Radio: Is Opposing Genocide a Crime in the UK?

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Venezuela after the earthquakes. Our guest Gabriel Aguirre is Latin America Organizer for World BEYOND War, is from Venezuela, and is currently based in Caracas. He has been an activist and advocate for peace, social justice, international solidarity and human rights, and has more than 13 years of experience in social and community work. He has participated in multiple international events and activities on five continents, always in defense of a stable and lasting peace. He has been a representative to the United Nations to defend the foundations of a more just world without wars or sanctions. His work experience includes participation in several international missions of solidarity to countries that have had military, economic, political, and social conflicts. He has also been an organizer of various campaigns for the closure of military bases, and the lifting of sanctions on countries that suffer their consequences. He holds a degree in Political Science, with a specialization in International Relations, and a master’s degree in Public Policy. He can be contacted through his email: gabriel @ worldbeyondwar.org

Talk World Radio: Gabriel Aguirre Reporting from Venezuela

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about nuclear insanity with Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (see https://wagingpeace.org ) and a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry at Columbia University. You can find her at https://nuclearinsanity.substack.com


Talk World Radio: Ivana Hughes on Nuclear Insanity

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a new documentary called An Ordinary Insanity (which you can see at https://www.anordinaryinsanity.com ) which focuses on Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg’s calls to action about the global threat posed by nuclear weapons. Our guest, the maker of this and a number of other wornderful films is Judith Ehrich, film director, writer, and producer. Her 2009 film The Most Dangerous Man in America, also about Daniel Ellsberg, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won a Peabody Award.

Talk World Radio: An Ordinary Insanity

This week on Talk Nation Radio, putting your body in front of weapons shipments and organizing for peace. Our guest is Rachel Small, Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War, an organization of which I'm the executive director. Rachel Small is a community organizer based in Toronto, Canada, on Dish with One Spoon and Treaty 13 Indigenous territory. She has organized within local and international social/environmental justice movements for over a decade, with a special focus on working in solidarity with communities harmed by Canadian extractive industry projects in Latin America. She has a background in art-based activism and has facilitated projects in community mural-making, independent publishing and media, spoken word, guerilla theatre, and communal cooking with people of all ages across Canada.

On the January 25th global day of action to end the war on Yemen one of the most dramatic actions that moved the demand for peace into the most media stories was taken by members of World BEYOND War and our allies, including Labour Against the Arms Trade in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. READ MORE: https://worldbeyondwar.org/how-we-blocked-weapons-trucks-in-canada-how-you-can-do-the-same

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