Aida Touma-Sliman is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of the Knesset for Hadash, a political coalition founded by the Communist Party of Israel.

In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a ...

Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous leader from the Waorani Nation in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador. In 2023, she helped win passage of a referendum in Ecuador to block oil drilling in the Amazon ...

Julia Eccles is the national coordinator of Save Our Sacred Lands, a grassroots campaign protecting sacred Indigenous land in South Africa.

Mohammad Abu Hawash is a Senior Research Assistant in the governance and development program at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. Previously, he was a research and communications officer at ...

We’re joined by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy as we continue our conversation on the Israeli-Lebanon ceasefire. We take a ...

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This history … is a continuing ...

Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works… Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the ...

Megan McGee is a freelance solutions journalist and activist based in New York City, focusing on mutual aid, the cooperative movement, and community-based mental health. Her writing has been included ...

The latest VA podcast episode dives into the recent Congress on Communal Democracy, exploring its history, participants, and its mission to build grassroots alternatives to “liberal democracy.” Host ...