The East is a Podcast

***I've been in conversation with Alex for some time about launching his own podcast.  you can check out his YouTube channel linked below or Subscribe to the audio feed here***
Join us for a lighthearted introduction to this new podcast offering an anti-imperialist analysis of all things culture and reproductive labor. We chat with the tankie-verse podcast godfather Sina Rahmani about his role in the origins of the podcast and some of the themes the project plans to cover this season.
Watch the video edition on the Redproducing Radicals YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSnFpr9PYk
Please consider donating to Mohammed and his family in Gaza:
https://chuffed.org/project/120676-mohammed-from-gaza
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
05:42 Care Work, Disability, and Sustaining Movements
08:19 Medicine, Academia, and Turning Ideas Into Practice
14:44 Building Alternative Communities and Living Ethically
19:45 Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Fascism
26:00 Parenting, Identity, and the Contradictions of American Life
35:00 America, Empire, and Settler Colonialism
42:00 Indigenous Radical Thought and Nick Estes
48:00 Organic Intellectuals and Class Struggle
54:00 Solidarity, Charity, and the Limits of Liberalism
01:03:00 Reclaiming Community and Collective Power
01:12:00 The Personal Costs of Political Commitment
01:18:00 Relationality, Culture & Kinship
01:25:00 Gaza Solidarity
01:30:50 Closing Reflections
We will release an additional episode each week over the next 5 weeks with the following schedule.
Season 1 Schedule:
E1 - All My Homies Hate Zionism w/ Steve Salaita
E2 - A School for Revolution w/ Ndindi Kitonga
E3 - Parenting Against Capitalism w/ Della Duncan
E4 - Community is a Verb w/ Leslie W. Bray
E5 - Self-Sabotage for Revolution w/ Todd McGowan
E6 - Living the FIlipino Ancestral w/ Leny Strobel
 
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***Adnan and I are developing a new online course and we disscuss it in the episode.  Sign up soon as the seminar is filling up quickly***
 
Adnan announces the new course and discusses it with producer extraordinaire Sina Rahmani. We will talk about the plans for the channel, the current media environment, and the future for left media and political education. Join us for an impromtu discussion about the upcming course and other media matters!
Starting Nov 15, 1pmET, the seminar discussion component of the bi-monthly 8 session course begins. 
You can join the course by becoming a $5/month member or subscriber on patreon.com/ or substack.com/@adnanahusain or make a one-time payment of $20 via buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain  
If you cannot afford this nominal course fee to cover video editing costs of the free and publicly available lecture component, no worries! Contact me by dm on socials or at info@adnanhusain.org. We have already had generous offers of sponsorship for just this situation. If you want to sponsor someone indicate on the platform by adding an extra $5 on Patreon or Substack or an additional $20 on buymeacoffee.com. No one who is serious about learning and participating will ever be prevented from knowedge on this channel!
Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes)! 
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***I did another edition of Inside the Podcaster's Studio with friend of the show Jay Ware. This is the first half of the conversation.  We continued for another hour!  You can watch the full episode on YouTube (linked below) or sign up for Patreon to listen to the audio edition***
Sina Rahmani and I have decided it's time for a third episode of our "Inside the Podcaster's Studio" conversations.

Support Jay on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism
Consider supporting Mohammed and his family
https://chuffed.org/project/168100-mohammed-and-siblings-need-our-help
Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube
https://youtube.com/live/sX3ud2ua7-Q
Consider supporting the show
www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Longtime friend of the show Navid Zarrinal returns to guesthost an interview with Shirin Saeidi, who was fired from her position at the University of Arkansas for her political positions. 
They discuss the failure of Iranian Studies scholars to produce work related to modern Iran, defend their colleagues against Zionist repression, and adequately confronting US imperialism.
Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/SWX4nHY5Bx0
Follow Shirin on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/drshirinsaeidi/
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In this special bonus episode co-published with Red Scare, I'm joined by longtime collaborator Nick Estes to discuss the strange career trajectory of Ward Churchill and the violence of pretendianism.
Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/_D_tlo5gZsA

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https://nickestes.substack.com
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