Best Asha Project Podcasts (2024)

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“A” is for Abortion with Alicia Hurtado 1:18:26

4h ago1:18:26

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At a time when women’s bodily integrity is under sustained assault, and simultaneously huge numbers of women across a wide political spectrum have rallied, mobilized, ands refused to accept a medieval definition of their rights, we sit down with Alicia Hurtado, a Chicago-based grass-roots organizer, activist, and advocate to discuss the state of th…

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When Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation 1:13:37

8d ago1:13:37

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with Guest Hosts Lisa Lee and Adam Bush interviewing Bill Ayers, and with surprise interventions from Light Ayli, Barbara Ransby, and Tom Morello. What is freedom? What are the "freedom dreams" that encourage us and move us forward? How do we get free? Join our brilliant guest hosts as they chop these questions up in dialogue with Bill Ayers.…

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The Whole World is Watching with Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, and Eleanor Stein 1:06:02

29d ago1:06:02

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The activists from the militant peace organization Code Pink—in conjunction with the Dissenters, Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine, and a host of others—are calling for mass mobilizations in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, which will be held from August 19-22, 2024. Their goal is to issue a thundering response…

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Project 2025 with Kevin Kumashir 1:15:30

1M ago1:15:30

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Years of coordinated effort by the reactionary Heritage Foundation has culminated in a frighteningly dystopian document describing the future society they hope to build: Project 2025. At 900-plus pages, it’s been described as a blueprint for a second Trump presidential term, but it's so much more than that. It is in fact a sweeping manifesto, and a…

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Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power with Say Burgin 1:02:35

2M ago1:02:35

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The centuries-old struggle for Black Freedom is filled with victories and defeats, tragedy and triumph, forward motion and backlash. Today we sit down with historian and engaged scholar Say Burgin to uncover some of the myths that pass as history, focusing particularly on the historic turn toward Black Power and the resulting strategy of “racially …

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Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement with Barbara Ransby and Asha Ransby-Sporn 1:27:47

3M ago1:27:47

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The dynamic and engaging Socialism 2024 conference will meet in Chicago from August 30 through September 2, shortly after the sure-to-be chaotic Democratic National Convention, bringing together thousands of socialists, activists, abolitionists, and organizers from across the country and around the world to name this political moment, build communi…

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Road Trip! This is My Life I’m Talking About with Danny Lyon 58:05

3M ago58:05

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Join me for a classic American road trip with the legendary photographer, photo-journalist, writer, and film-maker Danny Lyon. Danny left the University of Chicago in the 1960s and headed South to join the great Civil Rights Movement, where he became the official photographer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We will visit the Black…

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Tea and Reparations with Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg 51:50

3M ago51:50

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Patriotism can never express a common human aspiration nor a universal moral code—if everyone on earth claimed to be a fierce and focused patriot today, 20 % of the world’s people would be Chinese patriots, and only 4.4 % patriotic Americans. Patriotism promises a steady anchor, but it is, in reality, entirely unstable. We note that every human bei…

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The Real Dragon with Stanley Howard 1:03:14

4M ago1:03:14

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This centennial episode of Under the Tree features an enlightening conversation with Stanley Howard, the legendary jailhouse lawyer and founder of the Death Row 10, a group of African American men on Illinois' death row who organized a powerful campaign from their prison cells to save their lives and to spark a new abolitionist movement decades ago…

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Breathe, Now Push with Jennifer Dohrn 58:56

4M ago58:56

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Every aspect of life in our society is lived on the hard-edge of racial hierarchy and class division—and the American way of birth is no exception. Black maternal mortality is 69.9 per 100,000 live births, nearly 3 times the rate of white women—and that’s only part of the story. We’re delighted to be meeting up at Pilsen Community Books with my mag…

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American Precariat with Zeke Caligiuri 1:05:03

5M ago1:05:03

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Precarious times, phenomenal times. As protests for peace and freedom explode across the country and around the world, we’re searching for and finding democracy in the streets and in the campus encampments, in prison study groups and collectives of artists and writers. We’re honored tonight to be meeting up at our beloved Pilsen Community Books wit…

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Shivaram Rajgopal - Professor of Accounting at Columbia Business School 58:32

5M ago58:32

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Shivaram Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has previously held professorship positions at Duke University, Emory University, and the University of Washington. Dr. Rajgopal´s research is focused on ESG, Governance,…

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Tribute to Survivors 9:26

5M ago9:26

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Our eighth and final episode of “The Missing Peace" is a celebration of survival. Listen in as survivors share intimately penned letters of overcoming, healing and triumph dedicated to those that may currently be struggling in a domestic or intimate partner violence situation. This story includes reporting supported by the International Women's Med…

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Building Men Back Up 17:06

5M ago17:06

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On this episode of “The Missing Peace,” we talk to male advocates working to reform men with a history of battering. Will Singleton of The Alma Center and Shawn Muhammad of the Asha Project break down their approaches to anti-violence work, healing from the inside out. This story includes reporting supported by the International Women's Media Found…

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Again, Winter with Mark Nowak 59:18

5M ago59:18

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You may already know that 15 US governors recently rejected federal funds available for families who qualify for free school lunches that would provide $120 per child per month through the summer. If you forgot, I get it—your cruelty/stupidity quotient may have reached capacity, and your brain simply couldn’t accommodate one more item. We’re joined…

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Six Years, 5,000 Cases, Two Deaths 22:18

5M ago22:18

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On this episode of “The Missing Peace,” we introduce you to Milwaukee's Domestic Violence High Risk Team, a group of individuals across law enforcement, advocacy organizations and other agencies looking to prevent the most volatile of domestic violence cases from becoming fatal. This story includes reporting supported by the International Women's M…

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We Are Here MKE 29:25

6M ago29:25

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Every community experiences domestic violence and needs a safe place to turn for help. On this episode of “The Missing Peace,” we introduce you to We Are Here MKE, a diverse coalition of culturally-sensitive organizations throughout Milwaukee that are on the frontlines of this crisis. They serve the city’s Black, Hispanic, indigenous, Muslim, Hmong…

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Rattling the Cages with Eric King and Josh Davidson 54:33

6M ago54:33

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Prison and police abolitionists, rebels and radicals, peace activists and environmental warriors, freedom fighters and dissidents, political prisoners of every type—the voices of dissent and defiance—are gathered together in a dazzling collection from AK Press called Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners. Join us …

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BONUS: Gwen Moore on DV and Guns Ahead of SCOTUS Decision 10:17

6M ago10:17

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In October of 2023, U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore introduced a resolution in Congress to address the alarming correlation between firearm possession and deadly domestic violence incidents. The timing of Congresswoman Moore’s resolution was no coincidence. In early November, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case that will likely decide if it’s legal to take aw…

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Surviving the Paper Trail 31:01

6M ago31:01

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What happens when a legal paper trail becomes less about a victim's justice and more so a record of failures by those in position to uphold safety? Join us for episode four as we take a look at women seeking defense from their abusers met with deflating responses from law enforcement. This story includes reporting supported by the International Wom…

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Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy with Nathan Thrall 58:07

6M ago58:07

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As the savagery in Gaza continues unabated, we’re deeply honored to be joined from Jerusalem by the brilliant writer Nathan Thrall for a conversation about his latest book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. Here in one family facing one heartbreaking moment, we experience Israeli apartheid up-close and personal—its e…

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SPECIAL EDITION: Primary Election Voting with Girl, I Guess & InJustice Watch 36:06

6M ago36:06

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For voters in Chicago it’s been a strenuous non-stop election cycle for the last couple of years. We're all tired and burned out – but as always, we must carry on! So as we head into the last weekend before the election, we offer up this incentive to get those among us motivated and informed about why this election, while not changing the world - d…

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Risking It All 24:47

6M ago24:47

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Studies show that 75 percent of domestic violence homicides happen when the victim attempts to leave the relationship. These numbers make for hard decisions — victims questioning what’s on the other side of “It’s over. I’m leaving.” In this episode of “The Missing Peace,” we take a look at the increased danger that comes with saying goodbye. Thank …

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The COVID Effect 20:16

6M ago20:16

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In 2020, as governments around the world closed the doors of offices, schools and businesses in efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19, these "safer-at-home" orders consequently created a "shadow pandemic" of domestic violence. Join us for episode two as we break down how factors of financial instability, isolation and restricted access to vital s…

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Community as Resistance with Rashid Khalidi 1:06:55

7M ago1:06:55

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Chicagoland area is home to more Palestinians than anywhere else in the U.S., with over 18,000 living in Cook County alone. The Palestinian community has led powerful protests that have led to Chicago becoming the largest city in the country to endorse a ceasefire resolution. It is in the midst of this atmosphere that we gathered for an urgent exch…

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Unprecedented Numbers 17:48

7M ago17:48

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In July of 2022, across a three week span, eight women in Milwaukee County were killed in domestic or intimate partner-related incidents. Women across the spectrums of age, race, and ethnicity. Almost all of them mothers. Join us for episode one, as we hear from those on the frontlines about the current state of domestic violence plaguing the city …

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Guilty of Journalism with Kevin Gosztola 54:35

7M ago54:35

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Julian Assange who founded WikiLeaks in 2006 went on to win multiple awards for his investigative journalism covering, among other stories, political killings in Kenya and social unrest in Tibet. Assange came to wide international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, includi…

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Speaking of... The Missing Peace 3:07

7M ago3:07

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One in six homicides in Milwaukee are rooted in domestic violence. Unprecedented numbers of people, mainly women, losing their lives. "Speaking of...The Missing Peace" takes a deep dive on Milwaukee's domestic violence crisis, and what is being done to save lives and restore peace. Hosted and produced by Alexandria Mack and Scottie Lee Meyers, with…

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Care with Premilla Nadasen 59:01

8M ago59:01

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The brutality of capitalism is apparent in every direction: war, invasion, and occupation throughout the world; militarized police forces at home; super-exploitation at the point of production; the looming catastrophic climate collapse; the banality of evil in the increasingly pervasive carceral state. Capitalism willfully and skillfully nurtures o…

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Lisa Mandle - Lead Scientist at Stanford University’s Natural Capital Project and Lead Author of Green Growth That Works. 20:34

8M ago20:34

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Dr. Lisa Mandle is a Lead Scientist and the Director of Science-Software Integration at Stanford University’s Natural Capital (NatCap) Project. She is the lead author/editor of Green Growth That Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms From Around The World. Dr. Mandle …

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Investigating Apartheid with Omar Shaktir 1:00:44

8M ago1:00:44

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As Israel’s crimes against humanity multiply and mass death and indiscriminate destruction escalates, as the world unites around a near-universal call to stop the genocide against the Palestinian people and militant resistance to US complicity deepens here at home, we are fortunate to be joined by Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human…

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SPECIAL: All Eyes on Palestine 1:17:22

9M ago1:17:22

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As Israel continues to execute its pre-announced genocide of the Palestinian people, ethnically cleanses Gaza, and attempts to liquidate an enclosure that they themselves created, everyone of goodwill around the world is calling for a ceasefire. As of now 22,000 Palestinians have been murdered, close to 2,000,000 displaced in Gaza, countless hospit…

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Survival and Resistance with Janie Paul 1:12:49

9M ago1:12:49

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In this episode we’ll be heading over to the dazzling Pilsen Community Books, a regular stop on our freedom tour, for a conversation with Janie Paul, Professor Emerita at the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, and curator and co-founder with her late husband, Buzz Alexander, of the Exhibitions of Artists in Michigan Prisons, a …

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Palestine on my Mind 35:31

10M ago35:31

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Images from Gaza crowd into the available space, disrupting sleep, shattering the calm, demanding to be taken into account. Dead children and babies piled upon one another, body parts littering a hell-scape of demolished homes and apartment buildings, collapsed bridges and towers, refugee centers burned to the ground, hospitals in utter ruin. This …

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Coming Together as Things Fall Apart with Astra Taylor 48:57

10M ago48:57

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Charles Dickens would recognize our predicament at once: the winter of despair and the spring of hope; an age of foolishness and an age of wisdom; Darkness in combat with Light. Life is never one thing isolated from every other thing; a lot of things can be—and are—happening at once. Contradiction—the dynamic, noisy, frenetic magnificence of life a…

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Stop the Genocide of the Palestinian People! Stop Cop City! 1:14:19

11M ago1:14:19

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A group of Chicago writers brought together by the worker/owners of Pilsen Community Books gathered to support and raise resources for our comrades in Atlanta fighting to Stop Cop City. But events ran ahead of us, as they often do, and by the time we gathered, the preannounced genocide against the Palestinian people was in full swing. The connectio…

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Indigenous Language Politics and Resistance with Mneesha Gellman 1:02:58

11M ago1:02:58

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A favorite political poster hangs on a wall in my office: “Homeland Security” it proclaims in bold letters above a photo of a group of Indigenous elders holding rifles; below it reads, “Fighting Terrorism Since 1492.” It’s a reminder of the centuries of settler colonial policy and genocidal terror carried out by the US government against Indigenous…

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Mass Supervision with Vincent Schiraldi and special guest Renaldo Hudson 1:13:20

12M ago1:13:20

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Listeners of Under the Tree are well aware of the fact that the US is a Prison Nation, with over 2,000,000 people locked inside cages every day, aware, as well, that we are abolitionists involved in the movement-making and world-building work that will one day make prisons obsolete. But the carceral state is a many-legged monster with dangerous ten…

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Alicia Seiger - Managing Director of Stanford University’s Sustainable Finance Initiative 50:42

11M ago50:42

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Alicia Seiger is a Managing Director of Stanford University’s Sustainable Finance Initiative at Precourt Institute for Energy and a Managing Director of Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy, Policy, and Finance. She conducts her teaching and research activities at Stanford Law …

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Voices of the Movement with Anthony Arnove & Haley Pessin 1:35:32

12M ago1:35:32

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These are terrible times—escalating wars, racialized police violence, environmental collapse on full display, democratic institutions on life support, bodily integrity under assault. On the other hand—26 million people poured into the streets in response to the police murder of George Floyd, women across a wide political spectrum have refused to ac…

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Daniel Esty - Professor at Yale Law School and School of Environment; Creator of the Connecticut Green Bank 42:29

12M ago42:29

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Daniel Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University’s Environment, Law, and Management Schools. He also serves as director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Y…

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Monsters! with Claire Dederer 1:05:40

1y ago1:05:40

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These are terrible times—an escalating cold war with China, a proxy war in Europe, racialized police violence unchecked, environmental collapse on full display, fragile and often anemic democratic institutions on life support, religious authoritarianism on the rise, women’s bodily integrity under sustained assault. On the other hand—26 million peop…

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Gernot Wagner - Climate Economist at Columbia Business School 59:55

1y ago59:55

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Dr. Gernot Wagner is a Climate Economist at Columbia Business School. He is the author of Geoengineering: The Gamble (2021), Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet (2016; Co-Authored with Dr. Martin Weitzman), and But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economic…

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Todd Cort - Yale University’s Initiative on Sustainable Finance 49:14

1y ago49:14

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Dr. Todd Cort holds Faculty Co-Director positions at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, which are located in the Yale School of Management and Yale School of Environment. Todd Cort is the co-editor of two books: Values a…

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From the River to the Sea- Journeys in Solidarity 1:08:58

1y ago1:08:58

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We’re bombarded with relentless and punishing propaganda that places the US at the epicenter of the whole wide world. We are the exceptional nation, it says, the indispensable nation, the most remarkable people who ever lived, a shining beacon on a hill to the lesser nations. The propaganda is so unremitting that it can take on the color of common …

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Vikram Gandhi - Academic and Investor at Harvard Business School, Asha Ventures, and Growth for Good SPAC 46:45

1y ago46:45

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Vikram Gandhi is a Professor at Harvard Business School, where he co-pioneered their Sustainable Investing Course, “Investing: Risk, Return & Impact.” The course won the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial Times. He is …

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Bruce Usher - Professor at Columbia Business School and Author of Investing in the Era of Climate Change 42:44

1y ago42:44

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Bruce Usher is a Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching the intersection between finance, social, and environmental issues. He is the author of “Investing in the Era of Climate Change” (2022) and “Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century” (2019). Apart from …

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Help This Garden Grow with Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of AirGo 48:46

1y ago48:46

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We were at the Winter Garden of the Harold Washington Library this month for the launch of “Help This Garden Grow,” a new docuseries that tells the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. “Help This Garden Grow” is a project of Respai…

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Simmi Sareen - State of Indian Climate Finance - Co-Founder of Climake and Director at Unitus Investment Bank 41:28

1y ago41:28

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Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Simmi Sareen is the Director of Unitus Capital, an Indian Impact-focused Investment Bank. She is the Co-Founder of Climake, along with Shravan Shankar, a Climate Venture Studio supporting the growth of Early-Stage Indian startups. Climake publishes an annual report on the “State of…

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Fire and Freedom with Will Harling and Leif Carlson 58:26

1y ago58:26

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For millennia and all over the world fire was a powerful tool in the hands of Indigenous peoples. As they stewarded the land generation after generation, fire was understood to be a natural and necessary element for an abundant world—fire was regeneration and revitalization. But fire was taken away from Native people and handed over to agencies and…

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