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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, October 25, 2026 10:00 am
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| Angela Gonzales-Torres, Tanya Vyhovsky
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| CA-34 Congressional race; Report from Ukraine
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We look at two wars: the one carried out by masked federal agents in our neighborhoods, and the one Trump has decided to stop opposing abroad.
First, Angela Gonzales-Torres — democratic socialist, daughter of a deportee, running against ethics-challenged incumbent Rep. Jimmy Gomez in California’s 34th District. She takes no corporate or super PAC money, calls for abolishing ICE, taxing billionaires to save health care, and has organized alongside undocumented students and rapid-response networks through the raids. Angela’s campaign is at angela4congress.com.
Then Tanya Vyhovsky, Vermont State Senator -- just back from driving across Ukraine because the trains are targets, recounts witnessing a power station bombed across the street from dinner in Kyiv. Russian attacks on the energy grid are leaving people without electricity and water as winter approaches. Tanya describes what she witnessed, the determination of Ukrainians to determine their own future, the dangers of Trump's concessions to Putin -- she calls the diesel deal “blood money” that will fund Putin’s war machine without lowering prices at the pump, and the continuing struggle of Ukraine's democratic left, who draw a distinction between opposing Zelensky’s neoliberal policies and defending Ukraine’s sovereignty, insisting "Nothing about us without us." We also discuss solidarity with Russian antiwar dissidents, and a new International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine that Tanya will join next month, bringing desperately needed generators to Ukraine before winter.
Want to help? Find out more at solidarityconvoyukraine.com
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Sunday, September 27, 2026 10:00 am
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| Benjamin Moser
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| Anti Zionism: A Jewish History.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser joins me in conversation about his new book, Anti Zionism: A Jewish History. Moser recovers more than a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism, told through twelve lives: an Orthodox rabbi who argued Jewish statelessness was itself a moral achievement; Edwin Montagu, the only Jew in the British Cabinet when it adopted the Balfour Declaration, who warned the policy existed because Britain "wanted to get rid of" its Jews; Jacob Israël de Haan, assassinated in Jerusalem in 1924 on the order of a future Israeli president; the Egyptian Communist Ahmad Sadiq Saad, tortured for five years in prison; the Iraqi historian Avi Shlaim, whose own family was driven out of Baghdad that was, at the time, nearly forty percent Jewish; Hannah Arendt, smeared for a decade after Eichmann in Jerusalem; the South African anti-apartheid leader Ronnie Kasrils, who argues Israeli apartheid outstrips even what he fought at home; and the photographer Nan Goldin, whose closing chapter gives the book its title for the present moment: "the Holocaust on our phones."
It's also deeply personal: Moser begins with his grandfather's copy of Herzl, the one object the family carried out of Nazi Germany, and traces his own break with Zionism to a 2016 trip to Hebron. "It's not that Israel is doing things that are wrong," he told me. "It's that Israel itself is wrong."
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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, September 13, 2026 10:00 am
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| John Washington, David Cobb
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| How to Close a Camp; remembrance of David Cobb
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“The opposite of a camp is community. Closing one, and keeping it closed, depends on exactly that.”
John Washington on the urgent fight against ICE detention. He has reported from inside the immigration enforcement machine for years, and his new book, "How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention" makes the case that detention camps, for all their federal funding and federal cover, are actually built out of thousands of local, mundane, and breakable transactions: county contracts, zoning permits, water hookups, medical licenses. Which means they can be broken. We talk about the history that got us here — a bipartisan history, running from Japanese American internment back through the Geary Act of 1892 — and the campaigns, from Illinois to Vermont to Arizona, that have actually shut camps down.
Plus Meleiza Figueroa remembers David Cobb, who died on Labor Day.
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