Episodes

  • Talk World Radio: Al Mytty on Acting for Peace

    Talk World Radio: Al Mytty on Acting for Peace
    Dec 24 2024
    This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about peace activism in the United States with Al Mytty who has been involved in a variety of social justice and peace programs including Pax Christi, Just Faith, Veterans For Peace, and World BEYOND War. He has been an active supporter of World BEYOND War since 2015 and now serves as the Co-Coordinator for the Illinois chapter. Previously, when he resided in Florida, he served as Co-Coordinator for the WBW Florida chapter. Upcoming Zoom on starting a World BEYOND War chapter: https://actionnetwork.org/events/online-info-session-starting-a-world-beyond-war-chapter?clear_id=true
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: The Green New Deal From Below

    Talk World Radio: The Green New Deal From Below
    Dec 17 2024
    This week on Talk World Radio, we welcome back Jeremy Brecher whose latest book is called The Green New Deal From Below.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Ending Wars in Western Asia

    Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Ending Wars in Western Asia
    Dec 10 2024
    Kathy Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War. From 2022 to the present, she has co-coordinated the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she has co-coordinated an international network to assist young Afghans forced to flee their country. She made over two dozen trips to Afghanistan from 2010 – 2019, living with young Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working-class neighborhood in Kabul. With Voices in the Wilderness companions, from 1996 – 2003, she traveled twenty-seven times to Iraq, defying the economic sanctions and remaining in Iraq throughout the Shock and Awe bombing and the initial weeks of the invasion. She joined subsequent delegations to the West Bank’s Jenin Camp in 2002 during and after Israeli attacks, to Lebanon during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah and to Gaza, in 2009, during Operation Cast Lead and following the 2013 Operation Pillar of Defense. Kathy has been an educator for most of her life, but she believes children of war and those who are victims of violence have been her most important teachers.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: The Korean Victims of the U.S. Nuclear Bombings of Japan

    Talk World Radio: The Korean Victims of the U.S. Nuclear Bombings of Japan
    Dec 3 2024
    This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about the 70,000 Korean victims of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Japan. Our guest Brad Wolf is a lawyer and former prosecutor, director of Peace Action Network of Lancaster, PA, and co-coordinator of the Merchants Of Death War Crimes Tribunal. He is also co-coordinator of the International People's Tribunal on the 1945 Atomic Bombings for the Redress of Korean Victims. His new book on the writings of Philip Berrigan was published by Fordham University Press and is entitled “A Ministry Of Risk.” http://abombtribunal.org https://philipberrigan.com
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development Organizations

    Talk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development Organizations
    Nov 27 2024
    This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Emiliana Vegas, author of the new book Let’s Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference. Emiliana Vegas has been highly recognized for her career working to inform education policy in the so-called Global South. She has been a leading economist at the World Bank, division chief of education at the Inter-American Bank, and codirector of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine

    Talk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine
    Nov 19 2024
    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the crime of war in Palestine with Raed Jarrar, advocacy director for DAWN -- the organization founded by slain writer Jamal Khashoggi and found at dawnmena.org.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Tore Naerland on Biking for Peace

    Talk World Radio: Tore Naerland on Biking for Peace
    Nov 6 2024
    This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Tore Naerland who is the founder and since 1977 has been the president of Bike For Peace, a Norwegian-based peace organization that works to organize peace rides on bicycles all over the world. They collaborate with various peace organizations, schools, and universities to promote and focus on the work in the struggle against nuclear weapons. See https://bikeforpeace.no
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Why Some States Lock Up So Many People

    Talk World Radio: Why Some States Lock Up So Many People
    Nov 4 2024
    This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Kevin B. Smith who is the author of the brand new book The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America. Smith is also the Leland and Dorothy H. Olson Chair of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The book shows that incarceration rates vary dramatically by state, within the United States, and that several factors correlate significantly with variations in those rates.
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    29 mins