Will The People Accept The Jim Crow 2.0?
Listen on YouTube Episode 291 Sam and Coco discuss the recent SCOTUS ruling that essentially overturned the Voting Rights Act and re-disenfranchised Black voters, the latest step in nailing together a form of fascist rule in this country. Then they chat about the right way to respond to this crisis. Is it by somehow “voting […]
Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America with Omer Aziz
Listen on YouTube Read the Transcript Episode 290 Sam speaks with Omer Aziz, journalist, lawyer, and former foreign policy advisor. His latest book (published April 28) is Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America and How to Defeat It for Good. Stephen King wrote, “Omer Aziz has written a book that should […]
“Conversion Therapy,” “Free Speech,” & Rising Aggression
Listen on YouTube Episode 289 This week Sam speaks with Wayne Besen, longtime activist with Truth Wins Out, the pioneering LGBTQ rights organization that has led the fight against so-called “conversion therapy.” They talk about the recent (terrible) Supreme Court ruling on this cruel and anti-scientific quackery and the movement that is needed to stop […]
All Out for May Day: Trump Must Go Now!
Watch on YouTube Episode 288 This week we’re sharing the recording of the organizing webinar held April 19, hosted by Sam Goldman featuring Refuse Fascism leaders Coco Das and Andy Zee. From the statement posted to refusefascism.org on April 19: This May Day must be a day of no business as usual—walking out of work and […]
The Dangerous Precedent of the Prairieland “Antifa” Trial
Listen on YouTube Episode 287 Sam recaps the moral challenge before all of us living in a country led by a president who just this week explicitly threatened to unleash genocide against a whole people, saying he would “end the whole [Iranian] civilization” unless they bow to his demands. Join the Refuse Fascism webinar next […]
A Short History of American Fascism: From the KKK to the Trump Era
Listen on YouTube Read the Transcript Episode 286 Dr. John Donoghue discusses how the Trump regime’s fascism is rooted in deep white supremacist historical currents running from colonial North America through the present. Confronting this history is essential if we are going to determine what it will take to defeat MAGA fascism, which poses a […]
Get Ready for No Kings: What Will It Take to Stop Trump?
Listen on YouTube Read the Transcript Episode 285 Trump’s war on Iran is illegal, illegitimate and immoral. It has already killed thousands. It isthreatening to spiral into a far wider catastrophe. At home: ICE terror continues. New camps are being built. More people are dying in detention.Trans rights are being erased. Voices and media that […]
From Minab to Armageddon
admin/ Listen on YouTube Read the Transcript Episode 284 To better understand the impact of the US/Israel War on Iran this week, Sam talks with Sussan Tahmasebi, Executive Director and the Co-founder of Femena, the support organization for women human rights defenders in MENA/Asia. Then, she talks with journalist Jonathan Larsen about the influence of […]
Christian Nationalism, War on Iran, and Trump’s Concentration Camps
Listen on YouTube Episode 283 This week, Sam speaks with Matthew D. Taylor, about the religious undercurrents underpinning this incredibly dangerous new war against Iran. Dr. Taylor is a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice. His latest book The Violent Take It by Force offers a history of the New Apostolic Reformation movement […]
The State of Fascism and The New War of Aggression Against Iran
Listen on YouTube Read the Transcript Episode 282 “Donald Trump, in onjunction with Israel, has launched a murderous, illegitimate, and illegal war against the sovereign country of Iran—openly aimed at regime change. This is an unprovoked war of aggression, the supreme war crime, and it must be stopped now.” -from the new statement posted to RefuseFascism.org Friday afternoon, […]