A few hours before going on stage at the "festival des libertés" on October 25th 2019, in Brussels, author, compositor, poet Kate Tempest spoke to Frank Barat about what it meant to create art, to go on stage in front of 20 or 2000 people, and how love was the frontline, where the battle was.

Picture by Olivier Donnet.

KATE TEMPEST : "Somewhere all the things are linked up"

US dissident, philosopher, author Noam Chomsky talks to Frank Barat about the current US protest spreading like fire across the country following the killing of George Floyd in the hands of the police, the forthcoming US elections and why it is crucial to vote not for someone in this case, but against someone and finally how manufacturing consent manifest itself in 2020. 

Chomsky and Barat have worked on 2 books together. "On Palestine" and "Gaza in Crisis". Both published at Haymarket Books. 

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NOAM CHOMSKY : "Trump's ideology consists of two letters : me"

Lawyers and activists Derecka Purnell and Andrea Ritchie discuss the current US protests, police killings, prison abolition and defunding the police to build a different society with Frank Barat.

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Illustration by Maya Mihindou: https://www.facebook.com/mihindoumaya/

Andrea Ritchie & Derecka Purnell : "Policing as an institution is violent".

Are riots a gift to the right? Should property destruction be condemned by social movement leaders? OR is non-violence based on a falsified histories of struggle? Are riots the language of the unheard?

Peter Gelderloos, author of "How Nonviolence protects the state" spoke to me earlier on today about all this. 

You can check out Peter's book here: https://www.akpress.org/how-nonviolen...

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Illustrations by Maya Mihindou: https://www.facebook.com/mihindoumaya/

With the support of the Guerrilla Foundation: https://guerrillafoundation.org/

PETER GELDERLOOS : "Looting is wealth re-distribution."

Keeanga-Yamahtta is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018.

Her third book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press, was a finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction.

She talks to Frank Barat about the current uprising in the US, defunding the police, prison abolition and much more.