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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, May 24, 2026 10:00 am
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0:59:41
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| Suzi Weissman
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| David Ost, discussing his new book 'Red Pill Politics: Demystifying the Far Right.'
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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:00 am
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| Simon Pirani, Aleksandra Zapolskaya
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| Try Me for Treason: Russia's Anti-War Political Prisoners
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Simon Pirani and Aleksandra Zapolskaya on Putin’s political prisoners and the film "Try Me for Treason," which premieres on YouTube May 17 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHacVH8tK8 Full info, trailers and links: www.trymefortreason.org
What does it mean to speak truth to power in a courtroom where the judge has already been told the verdict? In Russia today, the “final word” — poslednee slovo — is one of the last constitutional rights available to defendants: a chance to speak, on the record, before sentencing. Simon Pirani has collected their last words in this new book, "Voices Against Putin’s War: Protesters’ Defiant Speeches in Russian Courts " available for a $125 contribution to KPFK. Simon is also co-creator of the film "Try Me for Treason." Simon joins me along with Aleksandra Zapolskaya, Russian exile activist and member of Solidarité FreeAzat. They discuss the people behind the speeches, including the 68-year-old Soviet-era dissident Aleksandr Skobov, first jailed under Brezhnev, who told the young people taking blows now that “the last guy standing -- stood with them”; Azat Miftakhov, the mathematician and anarchist sentenced first for having “interesting eyebrows,” then for “justifying terrorism” by watching television in his cell — now being tortured at an Arctic penal colony down the road from where Navalny was killed. Sasha Zapolskaya brings her warning from the Russian experience to Western listeners: “It changes very slowly, and then it happens very fast.” And her hard-won lesson from the FreeAzat campaign: “Being silent doesn’t help. Being loud helps.” The film Try Me for Treason is available free on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=7FHacVH8tK8. All background at trymefortreason.org.
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