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"Freedom Has Always Been the Horizon." Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
Authentic learning requires free thought—curiosity, inquiry, imagination, initiative, problem-posing, question-asking. Learning is undermined when st…
3 years, 9 months ago
Education for Liberation with Brian Jones
An authentic education rests on the twin pillars of enlightenment and liberation—it’s about opening doors, opening minds, and opening possibilities; …
3 years, 10 months ago
BONUS Episode: Talking Judges and Elections with Injustice Watch
We are a few days away from election day across the country and many of us here in Chicago are looking at our mail-in or early ballots, and are overw…
3 years, 10 months ago
Peace Now! with Medea Benjamin and Code Pink
Americans want to think of ourselves as peace-loving people, but the facts contradict the myth: US military bases stretch around the globe; nuclear w…
3 years, 10 months ago
Teach the Children Well: Ordinary Terrible Things with Anastasia Higginbotham
We want our children to face the world fearlessly, but we also want them to be careful. We want them to embrace all the joy and ecstasy life has to o…
3 years, 11 months ago
Playing Through Fire with Dave Zirin
We’re joined in conversation with Dave Zirin, the sports editor for the Nation magazine and the creator of the blog, the Edge of Sports. Dave is a gr…
3 years, 11 months ago
Freedom Dreams
Love and imagination, potentially the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of the oppressed, the marginalized, and the exploited, are frequently unap…
4 years ago
Portraits of Freedom
What history do you stand on? What future do you stand for? Robert Shetterly’s dazzling series of portraits—“Americans Who Tell the Truth”—cuts throu…
4 years ago
With Love at the Center
More than a destination, freedom is a constant struggle, a verb as well as a noun. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous assertion that the arc of the mora…
4 years ago
Mother Country Radicals
We are impatient with radicals who summon up the imagined “good old days” when every campaign was inspired and every action a success—all of it wrapp…
4 years, 1 month ago