"Resistant Communiqués: Alana Lentin on the Racial Regime: Race, Fascism, and the Limits of Liberal Anti-Racism.” (S2, E3)

"Resistant Communiqués: Alana Lentin on the Racial Regime: Race, Fascism, and the Limits of Liberal Anti-Racism.” (S2, E3)

We are pleased to return after a brief spring break as we transition to bring on more Co-Collaborators and Collective Members as we continue to grow. We appreciate our co-learners’ patience as we continue to architect the critical, sustainable infrastructure to maintain the analysis of the Resistant Communiqués Collective and Podcast, ensuring rich and robust decolonial interviewing, research, and practice. Due to our brief April absence, we are pleased to bring you an extended May episode. The Resistant Communiqués Collective is incredibly honored to present Season II, Episode III, with teacher and writer Alana Lentin [https://substack.com/profile/15920255-alana-lentin], and the author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto, 2025). In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, there was a short-lived boom in highly visible corporate DEI. But as soon as it entered public awareness, it sparked a vicious backlash from conservatives, including Christopher Rufo. What was DEI “worth” in a real sense, and how did attacks on critical race theory prefigure the Trump Administration’s current behavior? Our guest this month, Alana Lentin, has studied this phenomenon and discusses a global perspective on racism, white supremacy, zionism, and the direction that settler-colonial states are headed in. Teacher and writer, Alana Lentin [http://www.alanalentin.net], is a Jewish anti-Zionist European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racial capitalism, and antiracism and is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is the author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto 2025) and Why Race Still Matters (Polity 2020). Previously, she published The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age with Gavan Titley (Zed, 2011), Racism: A beginner’s guide (2008), and Racism and Antiracism in Europe (Pluto, 2004). She co-edits the Lexington Books ‘Challenging Migration Studies’ books series and the ‘Decolonization and Social Worlds’ series at Bristol University Press. She is a member of the Founding Collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) [https://criticalzionismstudies.org/]. Her academic and media articles, as well as videos, podcasts, and teaching materials, are free to be used and available at www.alanalentin.net [http://www.alanalentin.net] Here is our interview with Alana… Listen, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below. Luta,Resistant Communiqués Collective [https://substack.com/redirect/73c4c29e-cd2f-455a-be66-1ecd52ee24e8?j=eyJ1IjoiMmtvNGJvIn0.srF_f4BamYr5bR9oTrGG1nWDbgQR4Le_5BYvwFwU8Cw] Want more Resistant Communiqués? 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The Resistant Communiqués Podcast is a grassroots project, self-funded by the Resistant Communiqués Collective and funded by our co-learners/listeners, like you. Your support helps foster an accessible, independent podcast focusing on People’s and Resistance History. You can help support and sustain this grassroots project by becoming a paid subscriber today. The Multimedia Syllabus below is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point for further research. Please note: Due to Substack’s interface, some of the bibliography items below are linked directly rather than correctly formatted with hyperlinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. The War on Critical Race Theory 99 ZU EINS. (2021, September 19). [ENG] The War on Anti-Semitism with Anna-Esther Younes—99 ZU EINS - Ep. 54 [Video]. YouTube. Rodríguez, D. (2024, April 10). How the Stop Asian Hate Movement Became Entwined with Zionism, Policing, and Counterinsurgency. University of Minnesota Press. Critical Ethnic Studies. http://www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2024/4/10/how-the-stop-asian-hate-movement-became-entwined-with-zionism-policing-and-counterinsurgency [http://www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2024/4/10/how-the-stop-asian-hate-movement-became-entwined-with-zionism-policing-and-counterinsurgency] Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live! (2025, June 13). Dylan Rodríguez on Lexical Warfare & Counterinsurgency [Video]. YouTube. Foundations: History, Race, White Supremacy & the Black Radical Tradition Morse, C. (2014, June 20). Capitalism, Marxism, and the Black Radical Tradition: An Interview with Cedric Robinson | Chuck Morse. https://www.cwmorse.org/capitalism-marxism-and-the-black-radical-tradition-an-interview-with-cedric-robinson/ [https://www.cwmorse.org/capitalism-marxism-and-the-black-radical-tradition-an-interview-with-cedric-robinson/] Myers, J., & McNeil, A. (Hosts). (2022, March 9). Joshua Myers, “Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition” (Polity, 2021) - New Book Network [Broadcast]. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/cedric-robinson [https://newbooksnetwork.com/cedric-robinson] Pluto Press. (2025, May 19). Democratic Living in Times of Fascism [Video]. YouTube. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live! (2024, June 4). Cedric J. Robinson & Elizabeth P. Robinson’s Archives Unbound: Initial Reflections [Video]. YouTube. Trinity Social Justice Institute. (2022, August 22). Conjuncture: Against Pessimism | S2 Ep 1 [Conjuncture]. [Video]. YouTube. Globalization of white supremacy Lentin, A. (2026, January 13). Understanding the relationship between Zionism and Fascism. Alana Lentin. https://www.alanalentin.net/2026/01/13/understanding-the-relationship-between-zionism-and-fascism/ [https://www.alanalentin.net/2026/01/13/understanding-the-relationship-between-zionism-and-fascism/] Zionism and the WEB Du Bois “Color line” Seriff-Cullick, M. (2025, December 29). How White Folks Became Jews: The War on Black Antisemitism and the Recalibration of Racial Regimes - Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism [Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism]. https://criticalzionismstudies.org/jcsz-how-white-folks-became-jews/ [https://criticalzionismstudies.org/jcsz-how-white-folks-became-jews/] Zionist cooptation of Indigeneity Brager, S. (2021, October 13). When Settler Becomes Native. Jewish Currents. Jewish Currents. https://jewishcurrents.org/when-settler-becomes-native [https://jewishcurrents.org/when-settler-becomes-native] Ali, S. (2026, January 29). Weaponizing Indigeneity: Zionist Media Discourse on Possessing Palestine. Contending Modernities.https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/weaponizing-indigeneity-palestine/ [https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/weaponizing-indigeneity-palestine/] Resisting liberal formations of anti-racism Lentin, A. (2021, November 2). Introduction to Racial Capitalism. Alana Lentin. https://www.alanalentin.net/2021/11/02/introduction-to-racial-capitalism/ [https://www.alanalentin.net/2021/11/02/introduction-to-racial-capitalism/] Burden-Stelly, C. (2020). Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights. Monthly Review, Vol. 72(No. 03 (July-August 2020). https://monthlyreview.org/articles/modern-u-s-racial-capitalism/ [https://monthlyreview.org/articles/modern-u-s-racial-capitalism/] Yancy, G. (2021, February 1). Reaching Beyond “Black Faces in High Places”: An Interview With Joy James. Truthout. Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/reaching-beyond-black-faces-in-high-places-an-interview-with-joy-james/ [https://truthout.org/articles/reaching-beyond-black-faces-in-high-places-an-interview-with-joy-james/] Briond, J. (2021, June 19). Rock-A-Bye Baby: On the State’s Legitimation of Juneteenth and Liberal Concessions as Political Anesthetization In Slavery’s Afterlives. Hampton Institute.https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/rock-a-bye-baby-on-the-states-legitimation-of-juneteenth-and-liberal-concessions-as-political-anesthetization-in-slaverys-afterlives [https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/rock-a-bye-baby-on-the-states-legitimation-of-juneteenth-and-liberal-concessions-as-political-anesthetization-in-slaverys-afterlives] Liberal Anti-Racism and Fascism Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (Host). (2023, September 9). Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: “Attica Is an Ongoing Structure of Revolt” - Orisanmi Burton on Tip of the Spear, Black Radicalism, Prison Rebellion, and the Long Attica Revolt [Broadcast]. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/attica-is-an-ongoing-structure-of-revolt-orisanmi-burton-on-tip-of-the-spear-black-radicalism-prison-rebellion-and-the-long-attica-revolt [https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/attica-is-an-ongoing-structure-of-revolt-orisanmi-burton-on-tip-of-the-spear-black-radicalism-prison-rebellion-and-the-long-attica-revolt] Additional Topics, Themes, and Works Discussed: Anderson, S. E. (with Holley, V.). (1995). The Black Holocaust for Beginners. Writers and Readers. Equal Justice Initiative. (2022). The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Equal Justice Initiative Reports. https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/ [https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/] Jackson, G. (1996). Blood in My Eye. Black Classic Press. (Original work published 1971) Kadi, A. (2016, September 10). Palestinians back Standing Rock Sioux in “struggle for all humanity” [Text]. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/andrew-kadi/palestinians-back-standing-rock-sioux-struggle-all-humanity [https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/andrew-kadi/palestinians-back-standing-rock-sioux-struggle-all-humanity] Parrish, W. (2019, August 25). The U.S. Border Patrol and an Israeli Military Contractor Are Putting a Native American Reservation Under “Persistent Surveillance.” The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2019/08/25/border-patrol-israel-elbit-surveillance/ [https://theintercept.com/2019/08/25/border-patrol-israel-elbit-surveillance/] Listen to the Music of the Movement. Collaborator’s Choices: kooriland4eva. (2009, January 15). Aboriginal Land by Nadine Dixon [Video]. [YouTube]. Gil Scott-Heron - Topic. (2015, October 24). Black History/ The World [Video}. [Youtube]. In this episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast: Podcast Coordinators: Jamila Hammami Project Co-Coordinators: Jamila Hammami Production * Production Coordinator: Jamila Hammami * Co-Producers: Jamila Hammami * Recording: Jamila Hammami * Post-Production: Jamila Hammami * Editing: Jamila Hammami * Sound Design/Mixing: Jamila Hammami * Mastering: Jamila Hammami * Transcript Cleaning: Jamila Hammami * Writers: Jamila Hammami * Script Development: Jamila Hammami * Researchers: Jamila Hammami * Fact-Check: Jamila Hammami Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: * Alana Lentin and Jamila Hammami Episode Featuring: * Resistant Communiqués Podcast Collaborator (“Guest”): Alana Lentin * Resistant Communiqués Podcast Host: Jamila Hammami * Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami * Resistant Communiqués Podcast Episode Introduction: Jamila Hammami * Resistant Communiqués Podcast Outro: Jamila Hammami Communications: * Communications Coordinator: Jamila Hammami * Designer: Jamila Hammami * Video & Content Clipping: Jamila Hammami * Video Editing: Jamila Hammami * Content Creation: Jamila Hammami * Content Copy: Jamila Hammami MUSIC CREDITS Royalty-Free Music for the Podcast and Episode: * Music Clipping: Jamila Hammami * Music Editing & Mixing: Jamila Hammami Royalty-Free Music Artists/ Composers: * Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling * Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection * Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn * Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling This is a public episode. 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"Resistant Communiqués: Ijeoma Oluo on General Strikes, Abolition & Building Community Power to Resist State Repression" (S2, E2)

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is incredibly honored to present Season II, Episode II, with Award-Winning New York Times Best-Selling Author and movement worker, Ijeoma Oluo, entitled, “Resistant Communiqués: General Strikes, Abolition & Building Community Power to Resist State Repression with Ijeoma Oluo”. The term “General strike” has surged in prominence in 2026, particularly in the wake of the ICE occupation of Minneapolis and the general strike and walkout on January 23 this year. But it’s also a widely misused term because of the difficulty of organizing and coordinating such a widespread labor action. How do you coordinate among so many different groups? It’s not something that you can immediately leap into, especially when people are often so disconnected even from their neighbors. Our guest this month, Ijeoma Oluo, offers valuable insights into the history of labor actions and strategies for making a General Strike feasible. To make mass labor activism possible, we must effectively organize multiracial coalitions in a society where systemic racism, patriarchy, ableism, queerphobia, and more are the norm. This means learning about solidarity and how to practice it. It also necessitates adopting a truly abolitionist perspective: encouraging communities to move beyond carceral approaches, behaviors, and logics. It ensures communities can move beyond relying on carceral entities, while also offering grace, support, and understanding to people as they learn and grow. SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK NOW [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/subscribe] Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker, and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, New York Times, and more. She has been featured on programs like The Daily Show, All Things Considered, and BBC News. She is the author of three bestselling books: So You Want To Talk About Race, MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, and Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can Too. Ijeoma was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 & 2018, and is the recipient of the Feminist Humanist Award 2018 by the American Humanist Association, the Harvard Humanist of the year 2020, the Media Justice Award by the Gender Justice League, the 2018 Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award by the Equal Opportunity Institute and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2020. Resistant Communiqués is a grassroots project, self-funded by the Resistant Communiqués Collective and funded in part by our listeners and co-learners, like you. Your support helps foster an accessible, independent podcast focusing on People’s and Resistance History. 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Resistant Commuiqués is a grassroots project, self-funded by the Resistant Communiqués Collective and funded in part by our listeners and co-learners, like you. Your support helps foster an accessible, independent podcast focusing on People’s and Resistance History. You can help support and sustain this grassroots project by becoming a paid subscriber today. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER TO SUPPORT THIS GRASSROOTS WORK ON SUBSTACK NOW [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/subscribe] ------ Multimedia Syllabus Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point for further research. Please note: Due to Substack’s interface, some of the bibliography items below are directly linked to the items instead of being correctly formatted with a hyperlink. We apologize for the inconvenience. Abolitionist Organizing Critical Resistance. (2025, August 13). Critical Resistance. Critical Resistance. https://criticalresistance.org Davis, A. Y., Dent, G., Meiners, E. R., & Richie, B. E. (2022). Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket Books. Hayes, K., & Kaba, M. (2023). Let this radicalize you: Organizing and the revolution of reciprocal care. Haymarket Books. Kaba, M., & Nopper, T. K. (2021). We do this ’til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Haymarket Books. Anti-ICE & Community Defense Organizing Defend and Recruit (D&R). (n.d.). ✊ D&R Community Defense Resource Hub. Google Docs. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ov-O3EGMmaBh-SELgtmYopVCo1mfJUZFWNOHfLa5ADc/edit?tab=t.0&usp=embed_facebook [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ov-O3EGMmaBh-SELgtmYopVCo1mfJUZFWNOHfLa5ADc/edit?tab=t.0&usp=embed_facebook] Lekas Miller, A. (2026, February 9). A Guide to Meaningful Action Against ICE. Truthdig. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-guide-to-taking-meaningful-action/ [https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-guide-to-taking-meaningful-action/] Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. (2022). Beginner’s Guide & Interactive Workbook. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Community-Defense.pdf [https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Community-Defense.pdf] Newman, L. H., Varner, M., & Burgess, M. (2026, January 13). What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/what-to-do-if-ice-invades-your-neighborhood/ [https://www.wired.com/story/what-to-do-if-ice-invades-your-neighborhood/] Red-Winged Blackbird collective. (2026). “Dispatch, Please Advise!” Tactics for fighting the federal occupation of Minnesota by ICE: “Let the world know that when the fascists come to town, we will run them out.” [Zine]. Antidote Zine. https://antidotezine.com/2026/01/27/dispatch-please-advise/ [https://antidotezine.com/2026/01/27/dispatch-please-advise/] Building to General Strikes Demby, et al. (Host). (2024, January 17). The women who masterminded the Montgomery Bus Boycott. [Audio podcast episode]. In CodeSwitch. National Public Radio (NPR). https://www.npr.org/2024/01/17/1197954608/the-women-who-masterminded-the-montgomery-bus-boycott [https://www.npr.org/2024/01/17/1197954608/the-women-who-masterminded-the-montgomery-bus-boycot] Shvangiradze, T. (2023, November 7). Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968. The Collector. https://www.thecollector.com/may-1968-french-student-protests/ [https://www.thecollector.com/may-1968-french-student-protests/] Winslow, C. (2019, July 3). When Workers Stopped Seattle. Jacobin. Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2019/07/seattle-general-strike-1919-union-organizing [https://jacobin.com/2019/07/seattle-general-strike-1919-union-organizing] Mapping Seattle General Strike Project. (2009). Mapping the General Strike. Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium, University of Washington. Seattle General Strike Project. https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/map.shtml [https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/map.shtml] Multiracial Coalitions & Organizing Fowler, R. (2017, January 26). My Time at Standing Rock Taught Me What We Need to Do to Resist | Dame Magazine. https://www.damemagazine.com/2017/01/26/my-time-standing-rock-taught-me-what-we-need-do-resist/ [https://www.damemagazine.com/2017/01/26/my-time-standing-rock-taught-me-what-we-need-do-resist/] Isaacs, E. (2018, August 5). THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN: LABOR STRUGGLES AND THE BOSSES’ STATE. The Multiracial Unity Blog. https://multiracialunity.org/2018/08/05/the-battle-of-blair-mountain-labor-struggles-and-the-bosses-state/ [https://multiracialunity.org/2018/08/05/the-battle-of-blair-mountain-labor-struggles-and-the-bosses-state/] The Valley Labor Report. (2024, March 1). How Black and White Alabama Coal Miners Organized in the Depths of Jim Crow [Video]. YouTube. ZinnEdProject. (2024, February 8). Everyday Solidarity Interracial Organizing Stories from “The Sum of Us” [Video]. YouTube. U.S. Union Solidarity Models Cole, P. (2024, November 24). How American Dockworkers Fought Apartheid in South Africa. Jacobin. Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2024/11/ilwu-apartheid-south-africa-boycott [https://jacobin.com/2024/11/ilwu-apartheid-south-africa-boycott] Prescod, P. (2023, October 23). How the UAW Broke Ford’s Stranglehold Over Black Detroit. Jacobin. Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2023/10/united-autoworker-ford-black-detroit-race-labor [https://jacobin.com/2023/10/united-autoworker-ford-black-detroit-race-labor] Press, A. N. (2024, July 8). We’re in a Class War. Jane McAlevey Actually Acted Like It. Jacobin. Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2024/07/jane-mcalevey-labor-movement-obituary [https://jacobin.com/2024/07/jane-mcalevey-labor-movement-obituary] Additional Works and Themes Discussed in the Episode Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium. (2009). Segregated Seattle: Home—Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. University of Washington. Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, University of Washington. Retrieved https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm [https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm] Horton, K. (2022, March 14). A look back at how white supremacists sowed seeds of hate in Oregon in the 20th century—OPB. Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/14/rise-of-klan-white-nationalism-hate-racism-oregon/ [https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/14/rise-of-klan-white-nationalism-hate-racism-oregon/] Kelley, R. D. G. (1996). Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class. Free Press. Oluo, I. (2019). So you want to talk about race (First trade paperback edition). Seal Press. Oluo, I. (2020). Mediocre: The dangerous legacy of white male power. Basic Books. Oluo, I. (2024). Be a Revolution: How everyday people are fighting oppression and changing the world - and how you can, too (First edition). HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Listen to the Music of the movement, Guest's choice: POW from POW [https://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/album/pow] by Gabriel Teodros [https://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/] ------ Episode Credits In this episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast: Podcast Coordinators: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Project Co-Coordinators: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Production Production Coordinator: Jamila Hammami Co-Producers: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Recording: Zeb Larson Post-Production: Jamila Hammami Editing: Jamila Hammami Sound Design/Mixing: Jamila Hammami Mastering: Jamila Hammami Transcript Cleaning: Justin Fowler Writers: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Script Development: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Researchers: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Fact-Check: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Episode Featuring: Resistant Communiqués Podcast Guest: Ijeoma Oluo Resistant Communiqués Podcast Co-Hosts: Jamila Hammami & Justin Fowler Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami Resistant Communiqués Podcast Episode Introduction: Jamila Hammami Resistant Communiqués Podcast Outro: Zeb Larson Communications: Communications Coordinator: Jamila Hammami Designer: Jamila Hammami & pxld Creative [https://pxldcreative.com/] Video & Content Clipping: Justin Fowler & Zeb Larson Video Editing: Jamila Hammami Content Creation: Jamila Hammami Content Copy: Zeb Larson Resistant Communiqués Podcast (and Collective) Administrative Coordinator: Justin Fowler MUSIC CREDITS Royalty-Free Music for the Podcast and Episode: Music Clipping: Zeb Larson Music Editing & Mixing: Jamila Hammami Royalty-Free Music Artists/ Composers: Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK NOW [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/subscribe] This is a public episode. 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Resistant Communiqués: Journalism, Social Media, and the Age of Disinformation with Anna Lekas Miller

Welcome to Season 2 of Resistant Communiqués! First, we want to thank our incredible listeners and co-learners. The Resistant Communiqués Podcast hit Substack’s top 100 Rising in Education the first week of January 2026! Thank you. We are forever grateful to our listeners for their support. Now, onto our first episode of our second season… As we end February, the Resistant Communiqués Collective is honored to present Season II, Episode I of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast, “Resistant Communiqués: Journalism, Social Media, and the Age of Disinformation with Anna Lekas Miller”, featuring Anna Lekas Miller [https://substack.com/profile/7013131-anna-lekas-miller], an award-winning author and journalist who tells intimate stories of love, migration, and resistance across borders. Our first episode of the second season comes at a critical time. The information ecosystem of the 21st century is overwhelming. The internet makes it possible to receive more information than ever before, but it also amplifies sources of disinformation and rumor. Social media makes connections easier, but it also rewards inflammatory content and creates feedback loops that can distort audiences’ grasp of reality. Even as it boosts the reach of traditional journalism and news, those sources have been undermined by the Internet’s business model and other socioeconomic forces. The result is akin to trying to drink from a fire hose. Our incredible guest this month is Journalist and award-winning author of Love Across Borders, Anna Lekas Miller. Anna discusses the historical and contemporary impact of disinformation and misinformation in today’s political landscape, the impact on the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, and the state of journalism and social media. We will learn about some of the limitations placed on journalists in this environment, the sometimes-toxic role of social media and artificial intelligence (AI), the possibilities inherent in new forms of citizen journalism, and how we can build better, more ethical information ecosystems. Anna Lekas Miller is an award-winning author and journalist who tells intimate stories of love, migration, and resistance across borders. As a journalist, she has lived in and reported from Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq, where she covered the stories of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and Syrians fleeing Assad’s regime. She chronicled the fall of ISIS in Iraq and the great migration of refugees to Europe. While conflict reporters often report from a distance from their stories, Anna’s life was shaped by it--her partner, Syrian journalist Salem Rizk, was kicked out of Turkey and needed to seek asylum in the United Kingdom. This journey inspired Anna to explore how people’s love lives are shaped by borders and migration, culminating in her first book, Love Across Borders, which weaves together the real-life love stories of refugees and immigrants who have stood up to border regimes to be together. The book won the 2024 Arab American Book Award and has galvanized countless discussions about border policies and their impact on ordinary people across the United States. Since October 7th, Anna has returned to her roots, reporting on Palestine and drawing on her Middle East reporting to dispel disinformation while developing a novel that satirizes Western media coverage of the Middle East. At this moment, she is focused on dispelling the Trump administration’s narratives on migrant communities and giving people the tools they need to resist ICE and advocate for their neighbors. 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Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point for further research. Please note: Due to Substack’s interface, some of the bibliography items below are directly linked to the items instead of being correctly formatted with a hyperlink. We apologize for the inconvenience. Media Literacy Ayala Rios, A. J. (2024, November 22). The Decline of Media Literacy and How to Navigate the Ocean of Information. The Student Movement, 109(9). https://www.andrews.edu/life/student-movement/issues/2024-11-22/id_medialiteracy.html [https://www.andrews.edu/life/student-movement/issues/2024-11-22/id_medialiteracy.html] Disinformation and Immigrant Communities Butcher, A.-H. N. and P. (2022, August 29). Disinformation on Migration: How Lies, Half-Truths, and Mischaracterizations Spread. Migrationpolicy.Org. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/how-disinformation-fake-news-migration-spreads [https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/how-disinformation-fake-news-migration-spreads] Capodice, N. (2021, June 29). Japanese American Internment. Civics 101: A Podcast. https://www.civics101podcast.org/civics-101-episodes/japaneseamericaninternment [https://www.civics101podcast.org/civics-101-episodes/japaneseamericaninternment] McKanders, K., & Harvard Law Review. (2024, November 18). Politics of Belonging: Anti-Black Racism, Xenophobia, and Disinformation. Harvard Law Review. https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2024/11/politics-of-belonging-anti-black-racism-xenophobia-and-disinformation/ [https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2024/11/politics-of-belonging-anti-black-racism-xenophobia-and-disinformation/] The State of Journalism in the 21st Century Northwestern University-Medill. (2024, October 23). Medill report shows local news deserts expanding—Medill—Northwestern University. Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2024/medill-report-shows-local-news-deserts-expanding.html [https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2024/medill-report-shows-local-news-deserts-expanding.html] Setty, R. (2026, February 3). The Fog of Content. Columbia Journalism Review. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-fog-of-content-georgia-fort-don-lemon-arrests-streamers-minnesota-minneapolis-ice-trump.php [https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-fog-of-content-georgia-fort-don-lemon-arrests-streamers-minnesota-minneapolis-ice-trump.php] Tameez, H. (2026, February 13). Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows. Nieman Lab.https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/washington-post-layoffs-disproportionately-affected-union-members-of-color-preliminary-guild-data-shows/ [https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/washington-post-layoffs-disproportionately-affected-union-members-of-color-preliminary-guild-data-shows/] Social Media and Disinformation Miller, A. L. (2025, May 13). Countering the Zionist disinformation campaign. Prism. https://prismreports.org/2025/05/13/canary-mission-zionist-disinformation/ [https://prismreports.org/2025/05/13/canary-mission-zionist-disinformation/] Oladipo, G. (2024, September 18). ‘Racism is embedded in our society’: How attacks on immigrants in Ohio highlight US disinformation crisis. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/trump-republicans-springfield-aurora-political-disinformation [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/trump-republicans-springfield-aurora-political-disinformation] Thuy Vo, L. (2025, August 4). Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms. Global Investigative Journalism Network. Global Investigative Journalism Network. https://gijn.org/resource/guide-investigating-social-media-algorithms/ [https://gijn.org/resource/guide-investigating-social-media-algorithms/] van Ess, H. (2025, September 1). Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content. Global Investigative Journalism Network. Global Investigative Journalism Network. https://gijn.org/resource/guide-detecting-ai-generated-content/ [https://gijn.org/resource/guide-detecting-ai-generated-content/] Citizen-Journalism Eaton, K. (2021, January 22). A citizen journalist’s legacy lives on: Telling Tulsa’s hidden secrets. International Journalists’ Network, International Center for Journalists. International Journalists’ Network. https://ijnet.org/en/story/citizen-journalists-legacy-lives-telling-tulsas-hidden-secrets [https://ijnet.org/en/story/citizen-journalists-legacy-lives-telling-tulsas-hidden-secrets] Traub, L. (n.d.). Citizen Journalism is Not Yet Credible Enough to Carry Out Its Goals | Department of English. Interpolations, University of Maryland, (Fall 2013/Spring 2014). https://english.umd.edu/research-innovation/journals/interpolations/interpolations-fall-2013spring-2014/citizen-journalism [https://english.umd.edu/research-innovation/journals/interpolations/interpolations-fall-2013spring-2014/citizen-journalism] Additional Works and Themes Discussed in the Episode Lekas Miller, A. (2023). Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World (First Edition). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Miller, A. L. (2026, February 9). A Guide to Meaningful Action Against ICE. Truthdig. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-guide-to-taking-meaningful-action/ [https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-guide-to-taking-meaningful-action/] Additional Research Resources Mentioned in the Episode 404 Media. (2026, February 26). 404 Media. 404 Media. 404 Media. https://www.404media.co/ Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). (n.d.). Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://www.eff.org/ Sahan Journal. (2026). Minnesota News for Immigrants and Communities of Color. Sahan Journal. Sahan Journal. https://sahanjournal.com/ WIRED. (2026). WIRED. WIRED. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/ Listen to the Music of the Movement Cain Culto. (2025, July 2). Cain Culto—KFC Santería feat. Sudan Archives (Official Music Video) [Video]. YouTube. 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“Resistant Communiqués: Prexy Nesbitt on Bringing Liberation Activism Home By Working Abroad”

As we conclude our first season of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast, the Resistant Communiqués Collective wants to thank you for your listenership and learning with us. Along with you, we have learned a great deal from a set of incredible guests. And as a Collective, behind the scenes, we also learned a lot about making a podcast, from episode concept development, production, post-production, and communications, to every other piece that goes into producing a People’s and Resistance History podcast. We learned a lot as a collective this season, and we appreciate having our audience as participants in this process. We are so fortunate to have received incredible feedback individually from many of our co-learners and listeners. If you have enjoyed the podcast this season, one of the easiest ways to support our work is to rate the podcast on whatever platform you use to listen and to rate the individual episodes you loved. Like the Substack post and repost, if so desired. 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Your support helps foster an accessible, independent podcast focusing on People’s and Resistance History. You can help support and sustain this grassroots project by becoming a paid subscriber today [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/subscribe]. Now, onto our Special End-of-Season December episode. The Resistant Communiqués Collective is incredibly honored to present our first special end-of-season episode, “Special End-of-Season Episode! Resistant Communiqués: Bringing Liberation Activism Home By Working Abroad with Prexy Nesbitt” (Season I, Episode VII), featuring Prexy Nesbitt, an activist and teacher who has spent his life involved in Transnational Liberation struggles. December is a vitally important month in the history of people of African descent. In the United States, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to yield her bus seat on December 1, 1955; Martin Luther King, Jr. inaugurated the Poor People’s Campaign on December 4, 1967; and the 13th Amendment that ended chattel slavery was ratified on December 6, 1865. In Africa, the Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Kenya all received their independence in December, and December 16 is South Africa’s National Day of Reconciliation. This significance runs right up to the present: the Jasmine Revolution began in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, when Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, self-immolated outside a government building, in an act of despair in protest against widespread unemployment and poverty, government corruption, and state repression. The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia was the first, sparking a series of revolutions culminating in the Arab Spring against authoritarian regimes across the region. SUBSCRIBE [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/subscribe] Today, we are witnessing a global reactionary movement in support of white supremacy, from North America to Europe. Donald Trump’s naked, crude racism has come to dominate both domestic and foreign policy, with Trump suggesting that Somalis in this country should be denaturalized and deported, and on the other hand, engaging in violence against people of color. On Christmas Day, the U.S. military carried out strikes in Nigeria, allegedly to support Christians being attacked by Nigerian Muslims. Our guest this month is Prexy Nesbitt, a longtime Chicago activist who spent decades working to support the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the fight for freedom in Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Zimbabwe. Nesbitt’s history and experience illustrate that the struggles for liberation and dignity cannot be separated, and that, moreover, we strengthen our own movement by supporting others. Prexy Nesbitt grew up on Chicago’s West Side. After graduating from Francis Parker School, he went to Antioch College in Ohio and earned his degree in 1967. He then continued his studies at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Northwestern University, and Columbia University. Nesbitt was highly active in labor and equality movements. In 1976, he became national coordinator and field organizer for the Bank Withdrawal Campaign of the American Committee on Africa. In 1978, he was named director of the Africa Project at the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. The following year, he was appointed program director and secretary for research at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1986, Mayor Harold Washington appointed him a special assistant. The following year, Mozambique’s government chose him as a consultant to represent its interests in the United States, Canada, and Europe, a role he held until 1992. In 1993, he was appointed senior program officer for the Program on Peace and International Cooperation at the MacArthur Foundation, where he remained until 1996, when he was named dean of community engagement and diversity. During this time, Nesbitt also taught African and American history at Francis W. Parker School and African history at Columbia College. He continued to teach until 2023. Here is our interview with Prexy Nesbitt… Listen, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below. Luta,Resistant Communiqués Collective [https://substack.com/redirect/73c4c29e-cd2f-455a-be66-1ecd52ee24e8?j=eyJ1IjoiMmtvNGJvIn0.srF_f4BamYr5bR9oTrGG1nWDbgQR4Le_5BYvwFwU8Cw]Learn more about Resistant Communiqués on the About page (here) [https://substack.com/redirect/64b3b454-ca35-4b13-968e-a311e8b32174?j=eyJ1IjoiMmtvNGJvIn0.srF_f4BamYr5bR9oTrGG1nWDbgQR4Le_5BYvwFwU8Cw].Accessibility: The transcript for this episode is available. 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Resistant Communiqués is a grassroots project, self-funded by the Resistant Communiqués Collective and funded in part by our listeners and co-learners, like you. Your support helps foster an accessible, independent podcast focusing on People’s and Resistance History. You can help support and sustain this grassroots project by becoming a paid subscriber today [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/subscribe]. Multimedia Syllabus Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point for further research. African & U.S. Perspectives: Race, Racism & Capitalism Aiken, J. (2022, August 9). What the Panthers Meant By Self-Defense: Race, Violence, and Gun Control. Duke Center for Firearms Law. https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2022/08/what-the-panthers-meant-by-self-defense-race-violence-and-gun-control [https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2022/08/what-the-panthers-meant-by-self-defense-race-violence-and-gun-control] Books & Books (Director). (2020, August 6). Charlie Cobb This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible [Video]. YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y16iarVrpes] Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (Director). (2021, March 12). Degrees of Separation: Working Toward Racial Justice in the U.S. and South Africa – In Conversation with Rozell “Prexy” Nesbitt and Marissa Moorman [Video]. Youtube. Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). (2018, September 13). Black Consciousness and Anti-Capitalism: The Legacy of Steve Biko. Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) Publications. https://roape.net/2018/09/13/black-consciousness-and-anti-capitalism-the-legacy-of-steve-biko/ [https://roape.net/2018/09/13/black-consciousness-and-anti-capitalism-the-legacy-of-steve-biko/] Robinson, C. J. (2000). Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. University of North Carolina Press. Schmidt, E. (2024, September 12). The dangers of white totalitarianism. Africa Is a Country. https://africasacountry.com/2024/09/the-dangers-of-white-totalitarianism [https://africasacountry.com/2024/09/the-dangers-of-white-totalitarianism] Colonialism, Neocolonialism, & Resistance African National Congress (ANC). (1955, June 26). The Freedom Charter – ANC. African National Congress (ANC). https://www.anc1912.org.za/the-freedom-charter-2/ [https://www.anc1912.org.za/the-freedom-charter-2/] Apata, G. O. (2022, September 29). Review: Walter Rodney, ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.’ Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life. https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-walter-rodney-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa [https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-walter-rodney-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa] Hammami, J. (2019, January 31). Austerity Measures in Tunisia Result in Nationwide Strike of Public Sector Workers. Left Voice. https://www.leftvoice.org/austerity-measures-in-tunisia-result-in-nationwide-strike-of-public-sector-workers/ [https://www.leftvoice.org/austerity-measures-in-tunisia-result-in-nationwide-strike-of-public-sector-workers/] Harsch, E. (2014). Thomas Sankara: An African revolutionary. Ohio University Press. HistoryVille (Director). (2022, May 30). 1884 Berlin Conference: How Europe Shared Africa Like a Piece of Cake [Video]. YouTube. Middle East Eye (Director). (2020, December 20). Tunisia’s Revolution: How Mohammed Bouazizi sparked the Arab Spring—YouTube [Video]. YouTube. Rodney, W. (with Davis, A. Y.). (2018). How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Verso. Sankara, T. (1987). Thomas Sankara: A United Front Against Debt. Progressive International. https://progressive.international/wire/2021-02-26-thomas-sankara-a-united-front-against-debt/en [https://progressive.international/wire/2021-02-26-thomas-sankara-a-united-front-against-debt/en] Visionary Africans (Director). (2020, December 31). What is Neo-Colonialism? [Video]. YouTube. Settler Colonialism Horne, G. (2021, May 17). ‘The White Republic’: Response by Gerald Horne. Convergence Magazine, The White Republic. https://convergencemag.com/articles/the-white-republic-response-by-gerald-horne/ [https://convergencemag.com/articles/the-white-republic-response-by-gerald-horne/] Letters and Politics, & KPFA.org (Directors). (2021, September 13). A History of Settler Colonialism with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz [Video]. Youtube. Wills, M. (2025, May 21). A Primer on Settler Colonialism. JSTOR Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/a-primer-on-settler-colonialism/ [https://daily.jstor.org/a-primer-on-settler-colonialism/] Southern Africa Badat, S., & Reddy, V. (2025, July 3). Ruth First and activist research: The legacy of a South African freedom fighter. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAJ.wejqvsqrc [https://doi.org/10.64628/AAJ.wejqvsqrc] BlackPast. (2009, August 10). (1966) Amilcar Cabral, “The Weapon of Theory.” BlackPast. https://blackpast.org/global-african-history/1966-amilcar-cabral-weapon-theory/ [https://blackpast.org/global-african-history/1966-amilcar-cabral-weapon-theory/] Cawthorne, E. (Host). (2021, October 17) Apartheid: Everything you wanted to know | [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/apartheid-everything-you-wanted-to-know/id256580326?i=1000538820886]Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/apartheid-everything-you-wanted-to-know/id256580326?i=1000538820886] (No. 1.2k) [Audio Podcast Episode]. In History Extra Podcast. Larson, Z. (2019, August 15). South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid | Origins. 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"Resistant Communiqués: Indigenous Geographies and A More Just Future with Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles"

As we end November, the Resistant Communiqués Collective is honored to present Season I, Episode VI of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast, “Resistant Communiqués: Indigenous Geographies and A More Just Future with Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles”, featuring Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, an Indigenous geographer whose current work focuses on Indigenous land relations and Indigenous cultural resurgence in an era of climate crisis. November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States, and it comes at a particularly critical time for Indigenous communities globally. The Trump Administration is no supporter of Native Americans: its policies thus far are a mix of heavy budget cuts to health services and education, and attempts to open up land for resource extraction. This is in conjunction with an assault on climate policies and renewed support for fossil fuels. Taken to their logical ends, these policies disproportionately threaten Indigenous communities. However, doomerism is not the path forward. Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles is a professor of geography at the University of British Columbia who studies geography with the benefit of Indigenous knowledge systems and perspectives. He works to decolonize a perspective and a science that were very much products of an imperialist worldview, and in so doing showcases how, collectively, we can break out of the cycles of destruction and harm we inhabit by studying indigenous ways of understanding the world. Our phenomenal guest, Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe), is an adjunct professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Smiles is an Indigenous geographer whose current work focuses on Indigenous land relations and Indigenous cultural resurgence in an era of climate crisis. They direct the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory, one of Western Canada’s first Indigenous geographies-focused research groups. You can learn more about Dr. Smiles’ work at his website deondresmiles.com [http://deondresmiles.com] and the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory at geographicindigenousfutures.ca [http://geographicindigenousfutures.ca]. Here is our interview with Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles. Listen, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below. Luta, Resistant Communiqués Collective [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/p/collective] Learn more about Resistant Communiqués on the About page (here) [https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/about].Accessibility: The transcript for this episode is available. Want more Resistant Communiqués? Follow @ResistantCommPod across all social media platforms: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/resistantcommpod/] | TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@resistantcommpod/] | Mastodon [https://kolektiva.social/@ResistantCommPod] | Bluesky [https://resistantcommpod.bsky.social/] | Threads [https://www.threads.com/@resistantcommpod] | Facebook [http://facebook.com/resistantcommpod] Resistant Communiqués is a grassroots project, self-funded by the Resistant Communiqués collective and funded in part by our listeners. Your support helps foster an independent, creator-owned podcast of People’s and Resistance History. You can help support the grassroots project and keep the episodes coming by becoming a paid subscriber. Multimedia Syllabus: “Resistant Communiqués: Indigenous Geographies and A More Just Future with Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles” Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography; it serves as a starting point for further research. Please note: Due to Substack’s interface, some of the bibliography items below are directly linked to the items instead of being correctly formatted with a hyperlink. We apologize for the inconvenience. Indigeneity Gomez, A. (2023, January 3). Indigeneity [Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0]. Political Theology Network. https://politicaltheology.com/indigeneity/ [https://politicaltheology.com/indigeneity/] Nowell, C. (2020, September 25). In the Navajo Nation, Anarchism Has Indigenous Roots. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/anarchism-navajo-aid/ [https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/anarchism-navajo-aid/] United Nations. (n.d.). Factsheet: Who are Indigenous peoples?. Indigenous People, Indigenous Voices. https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/5session_factsheet1.pdf [https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/5session_factsheet1.pdf] Land Back Movements Abou-Ghalioum, V. (2022, December 30). The Land Back Movement Takes Root in Ohio | Sierra Club. Sierra Club. https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/land-back-movement-takes-root-ohio [https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/land-back-movement-takes-root-ohio] Diaz, J. (2021, October 5). A historic rainforest and other lands have been returned to Indigenous Australians. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043256101/indigenous-australians-get-land-back-queensland [https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043256101/indigenous-australians-get-land-back-queensland] Yesno, R., & Maher Lopez, X. (2020, September 10). Four Case Studies of Land Back in Action. Briarpatch Magazine. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/four-case-studies-land-back-in-action [https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/four-case-studies-land-back-in-action] Geography and Land Fradin, L. (2015, October 15). Colonial legacies in geography. The McGill Daily. https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2015/10/colonial-legacies-in-geography/ [https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2015/10/colonial-legacies-in-geography/] Singleton, S. (2008). ‘Not our borders’: Indigenous people and the struggle to maintain shared cultures and polities in the post‐9/11 united states. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 23(3), 39–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2008.9695707 [https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2008.9695707] https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=bpri_publications [https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=bpri_publications] Smiles, N. D. (2023). Reflections on the (continued and future) importance of Indigenous geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2), 217-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231179229 [https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231179229] (Original work published 2024) Indigenous rights in the U.S Baer, S. (Director). (1992). WARRIOR The Life of Leonard Peltier—YouTube [Video recording]. BackStory. (2019, September 6). Standing Rock and the History of Indigenous Resistance in the United States (No. 293) [Broadcast]. Helmore, E. (2025, November 28). Native American actor says she was detained by ICE officers who said tribal ID ‘looked fake.’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/elaine-miles-actor-ice-detained-id-fake [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/elaine-miles-actor-ice-detained-id-fake] This Day. (2023, May 6). [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wounded-knee-73-1973/id1502728938?i=1000613237832]Wounded Knee ’73 (1973) [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wounded-knee-73-1973/id1502728938?i=1000613237832] [Broadcast]. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wounded-knee-73-1973/id1502728938?i=1000613237832] Wilson, B., & MNopedia. (2025, November 3). How the American Indian Movement Patrol combated police brutality in Minneapolis. MinnPost. https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2025/11/american-indian-movement-patrol-minneapolis-against-police-brutality/ [https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2025/11/american-indian-movement-patrol-minneapolis-against-police-brutality/] Indigenous rights in Canada Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. (n.d.). Communities: Atlas / Métis. Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. Retrieved November 30, 2025, from https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/communities/ [https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/communities/] Michael and Us, & Jacobin Radio. (2021, December 13). [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-and-us-the-kanehsatake-resistance/id791564318?i=1000544848692]Michael and Us: The Kanehsatake Resistance [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-and-us-the-kanehsatake-resistance/id791564318?i=1000544848692] [Broadcast]. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-and-us-the-kanehsatake-resistance/id791564318?i=1000544848692] Morin, B. (2021, November 29). ‘Hunted’: How Indigenous women are disappearing in Canada. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2021/11/29/hunted-how-indigenous-women-are-disappearing-in-canada [https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2021/11/29/hunted-how-indigenous-women-are-disappearing-in-canada] Mosby, I., & Millions, E. (2021, August 1). Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/canadas-residential-schools-were-a-horror/ [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/canadas-residential-schools-were-a-horror/] Mapping Native Land Digital. (n.d.). Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land: Reciprocity. Native Land Digital. Retrieved November 30, 2025, from https://native-land.ca/maps/reciprocity [https://native-land.ca/maps/reciprocity] Listen to the Music of the movement. The Halluci Nation (Director). (2011, January 2). Electric Pow Wow Drum (Official Video)—YouTube [Video recording]. The Halluci Nation (Director). (2016, July 12). The Halluci Nation—We Are The Halluci Nation Ft. John Trudell & Northern Voice (Official video) —YouTube [Video recording]. Guest’s Choice System Of A Down (Director). (2009, October 3). System Of A Down—B.Y.O.B. (Official HD Video) —YouTube [Video recording]. [CREDITS] Resistant Communiqués Podcast Season I, Episode V - Resistance at Home and Abroad: Palestinian Solidarity with Dr. Eman Abdelhadi. This episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast: * Podcast Episode Writers: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson * Podcast Episode Question and Script Development: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson * Podcast Episode Researcher: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson * Podcast Episode Fact-Checking: Jamila Hammami, Zeb Larson, & Justin Fowler * Podcast Episode Recording: Zeb Larson * Podcast Episode Production: Jamila Hammami * Podcast Episode Editing: Jamila Hammami Podcast Multimedia Syllabus Development: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson Episode Featuring: * Resistant Communiqués Podcast Introduction: Jamila Hammami * Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Host: Jamila Hammami & Zeb Larson * Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode Guest: Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles * Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode outro: Zeb Larson [MUSIC] Royalty-Free Music Artists/ Composers: * Podcast Intro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling * Episode Intro Music: Wayne Jones - Connection * Episode Music: Karl Casey - New Dawn * Episode Outro Music: Cheel - Soft Feeling Royalty-Free Music for the Podcast and Episode: * Music Editing: Zeb Larson * Music Mixing: Jamila Hammami This is a public episode. 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