Moccasin Tracks interviews with Michelle Cook who has released a music video called "Garden of Eden." We play the music just after a brief intro that includes a Welcome Song by Black Hawk Singers.  Michelle (Dine) is an Indigenous and human rights advocate who founded Divest Invest Protect (DIP), (https://www.divestinvestprotect.com/) and continues her advocacy work.  She tells us about projects DIP is working on and shares how her personal work stories that keep her intentions clear and moving forward.  She shares her thoughts about protecting Earth and Water.We are inspired to hear about her work.  Thank-you for listening.

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Bridging With Music Indigenous Human Rights and  Protecting

These students have taken the passion of the 60’s and added the layered learnings of indigenous struggle, nonviolent actions, and the unnerving confidence of people who know they’re on the right side of history.

The Needle is Moving Towards Peace

We continue our host shuffle this week as Dan is back, but John is away. We do run through a bunch of headlines but our focus this week is on a few stories. The biggest story in the country, the fight by college students against the genocide waged by our government in Palestine, is also a labor story. The attack on these students is an assault on any concept of rights but also on the labor movement, because ultimately solidarity is both our greatest weapon and the ruling class's greatest fear. We discuss the fascist crackdown on dissent across the country and the ways workers are fighting back. Also this week, we discuss a new piece by Alex Press at Jacobin on the union busting at PEN America, where bosses have been slow rolling contract negotiations for over a year and a half.  The UAW continues to make huge gains, with nearly 4000 workers at Penn finally winning a grad student union, and another potentially historic vote upcoming next week at Mercedes in Alabama.  Finally, we close out celebrating the first win of many by the new Pharmacy Guild at CVS.

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Ep 206 - No Time Like Today

Continuing our coverage of the campus protests for Palestinian freedom, Columbia Journalism Professor Helen Benedict joins us to discuss her Tom Dispatch piece, "The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza: How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's War." "Rotten History" follows the interview.

Check out Helen's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/

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Columbia Professor Corrects Distorted Media Coverage of Campus Protests / Helen Benedict

Historian Erik Baker on his Boston Review article, "The Real Scandal of Campus Protest: It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it." Jeff Dorchen joins us with "The Moment of Truth" after the interview.

Check out Erik's piece here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-real-scandal-of-campus-protest/

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We Have Not Had Enough Campus Protest in the US / Erik Baker

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Beatrice and Jules are joined by Sophie Lewis to discuss how last month NYU disciplined students involved in Palestine solidarity encampments by compelling them to write confessional “reflection papers” and complete so-called “Integrity Modules,” a series of exercises designed by “behavioral intervention management” company Symplicity. We look at how the documents form a perfect storm of pop psych, management consulting speak, and hegemonic repression, and attempt to complete one of the modules ourselves.

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On May 1, International Workers Day, several hundred students, workers and other community activists marched from the SUNY Central Administration buildings in downtown Albany to the State Controller’s office and then to the state capitol. The protestors called for the SUNY Administration to support the free speech rights of all students, including those supporting Palestinians and called for SUNY to divest from Israel. They also called for State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli not to renew $50 million in Israeli bonds that just expired. We here from Eyad Alkarubi of the Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network, Jamaica Miles of All of Us, Jim McCabe of Columbia County for Palestine, UAlbany student activist Jess, David Banks of UUP, labor leader Doug Bullock, and Julian Mostachetti of DSA. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Students, Labor rally for Worker Rights, Palestinian Rights on May Day

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