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Jaundiced Justice: Systemic Biases and Structural Violence in the Criminal System and the Need for Restorative Justice
Apr 14, 2026
1h 28m 21s
Sartorial Walls and Silent Screams: Gender Apartheid and the Global Rollback of Women’s Rights
Dec 31, 2025
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: The Politics of Comedy and the Comedy of Politics in the Disunion
Nov 12, 2025
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From a Cup of Catastrophe to a Better Brew
Sep 27, 2025
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No Party on the Rooftop: Rapacity, Repression and Resistance in Tibet
Jul 25, 2025
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 4/14/26 | Jaundiced Justice: Systemic Biases and Structural Violence in the Criminal System and the Need for Restorative Justice✨ | wrongful convictionsrestorative justice+4 | Jennifer Thompson | Healing JusticeGravity FM | — | wrongful convictionsrestorative justice+5 | — | 1h 28m 21s | |
| 12/31/25 | Sartorial Walls and Silent Screams: Gender Apartheid and the Global Rollback of Women’s Rights | The Codification of Gender Apartheid, the Afghan and Iranian Resistance Movements and Global Gender-Based Violence Online and OfflineDiscussion with Heather Barr on gender apartheid in Afghanistan and Iran and efforts to codify it as a crime against humanity in international law. We explore why codification matters, how to support these efforts, and why challenging gender apartheid is critical. We discuss the concerning normalization of the Taliban regime and the Afghan and Iranian resistance movements. We also discuss gender-based violence, including acid attacks, rape during war, and digital abuse. Finally, we discuss the global rollback of women’s rights, from attacks on reproductive healthcare to leadership disparities and discrimination against female leaders.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/69 | — | ||||||
| 11/12/25 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: The Politics of Comedy and the Comedy of Politics in the Disunion | Kamikaze Dolphins, Lettuce Triathlons and Calling the Right PlaceDiscussion with comedian and activist Jimmy Tingle on the political utility of comedy and its service in exposing hypocrisy, bringing people together but its insufficiency in bringing change without grassroots organization and movement building. We discuss Jimmy’s political campaign for Lt. Governor of Massachusetts, the pernicious problem of money in politics and the need for campaign finance reform. We discuss climate change and the need not only for mitigation but designing microgrids alongside existing infrastructure to limit land prints. We discuss the opioid crisis and the need for universal healthcare and a strong public education system. We discuss the executive encroachment of the Trump administration, its inhumane attacks on immigrants and the need for immigration reform. We also discuss how access and digestion of media is increasingly segmented and contributing to increased polarization and extremism and the need for compassion, community and coming to the table. For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/68 | — | ||||||
| 9/27/25 | From a Cup of Catastrophe to a Better Brew | Environmental and Labor Exploitation in the Coffee Industry and How Coffee Can Turn a New Shade with AgroforestryDiscussion with Etelle Higonnet on the environmental impacts of commercial monoculture coffee, including deforestation, loss of critical habitat, loss of biodiversity and amplification of climate change. We also discuss the structural inequities of the industry, with farmers earning the least in the value chain and the prevalence of child labor and forced labor in the industry. Additionally, we discuss the gaps in voluntary certification schemes and the need for both consumer activism, the EUDR and the Forest Act and the need for more regulatory oversight. We also discuss agroforestry and how coffee can be grown to provide food security to farmers as well as retain biodiversity and regenerate soil.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/67 | — | ||||||
| 7/25/25 | No Party on the Rooftop: Rapacity, Repression and Resistance in Tibet | Cultural Genocide, Ecocide and the Geopolitics of the CCP’s Water Industrial ComplexDiscussion with Dr. Lobsang Sangay on the repressive occupation of the CCP in Tibet and the utilization of tightly controlled tourism to obfuscate it. We discuss the cultural genocide that has and is taking place, including the destruction of religious sites and compelling children to go to boarding school to Sinicize the next generation of Tibetans. We also discuss the CCP’s commission of ecocide in Tibet from its rapacious extraction of critical minerals and other elements. Additionally, we discuss the environmental, human rights and geopolitical issues concerning the CCP’s dams in Tibet, including building the world’s largest dam. We also discuss the impact of climate change on the Tibetan plateau, the Tibetan government in exile and how governments in exile can retain democratic structures.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/66 | — | ||||||
| 6/13/25 | Colonialism’s New Clothes: The Age of Green Imperialism | Extraction and Exploitation in the Global South under the Decarbonization Consensus and Theories and Praxis for a Just TransitionDiscussion with Professor Miriam Lang and Mary Ann Manahan on how current energy transition efforts are framed under a colonialist narrative that continues and entrenches extraction, exploitation and interference in the Global South. We discuss how the Global North is utilizing emergency framing to create sacrifice zones across the Global South, rife with environmental destruction, resource depletion, land grabbing and human rights violations. We also discuss how renewable energy infrastructure mega projects in the Global South impede local resources while failing to alleviate energy poverty, and the deception and detrimental impact of creative carbon offset accounting. Additionally, we look at the continued internalization of externalities in the Global South, saddled with odious debt and subject to the corrupt ISDS system, creating economic vulnerability and democratic deficits. We also discuss grassroots ecological movements and how we can move from green colonialism to create an equitable and ecological transition.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/65 | — | ||||||
| 4/24/25 | Silver Intervention: Art, Activism and Disaster Capitalism in the Philippines | How a Community on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis Took its Story to the Screen and Forced a Land-Grabbing Corporation to Go Off ScriptDiscussion with writer and director Seán Devlin on his recent genre-busting films, which were made in partnership with typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) survivors, who participated and ad-libbed in his films. We discuss how art can be interventionist and serve a frontline community’s needs, by allowing a community to direct the narrative. Additionally, we discuss how efforts to aid frontline communities, without buy-in or leadership from such communities can be exploitative and harmful. We also discuss climate change vulnerability, disaster capitalism, red-tagging and transgender rights in the Philippines.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/64 | — | ||||||
| 1/12/25 | In Deep Trouble: Battering the Seabed for Batteries | Perils to the Deep Sea From Bottom Trawling, Climate Change and Mining and the Need to Protect Its Stunning BiodiversityDiscussion with Matt Gianni from the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition on the critical importance of the deep sea to our air, climate, the marine food web, our food security and health. We discuss the biodiversity of the deep sea and our continual discovery of new extremophiles. We discuss the threat of bottom trawling, which indiscriminately catches a multitude of bycatch and disrupts nutrient flow. We discuss the looming threat of deep sea mining for critical minerals for the energy transition and the International Seabed Authority’s conflicting mandate to establish the industry while protecting the deep sea. We also discuss how mining companies are exploiting Pacific Island nations, which are the most vulnerable to climate change. Additionally, we discuss the growing schism between climate mitigation and biodiversity protection and the need to view these as one problem that demands an integrated, holistic solution.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/63 | — | ||||||
| 11/20/24 | A Rhyme in Time: Power, Protest and Polarity in America | American Resistance and Repression, Identity and Intersectionality and the LGBTQI+ Rights MovementDiscussion with Professor Timothy Patrick McCarthy on American radicalism and the need for multivocality rather than metanarratives in analyzing history. We discuss the construction and interpellation of identities, their historical contingencies and intersectionality. We discuss the power dynamics of identity construction, in entrenching the status quo and serving to cleave mass mobilization and conversely in empowering marginalized groups. We discuss the need for origin myths in the context of the Stonewall uprising and its significance to the LGBTQI+ rights movement. We also discuss the AIDS epidemic as a health and housing crisis, the callousness and myopia of the Reagan administration’s lack of response and how the epidemic also led to solidarity and fostered community. Additionally, we discuss the movements for marriage equality and transgender rights. We also discuss polarization, disassociation, the need for active listening and brave communication. For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/62 | — | ||||||
| 10/16/24 | Unfinished Business: Sufferance for the Suffrage and the Need to Put the Demos Back in Democracy | The History of Voting Rights in the United States, the Electoral College and the Value of the Vote Discussion with Professor Alex Keyssar on the origins of democracy and the history of the right to vote in the United States. We discuss the lack of an affirmative right to vote under the U.S. Constitution, amendments prohibiting abridgement and voter suppression. We also discuss the value of the vote in the context of gerrymandering, party mechanics, the impact of different voting systems and the influence of money in politics. Additionally, we discuss the history and distortive impact of the Electoral College in Presidential elections.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/61 | — | ||||||
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| 9/15/24 | The Future Is Circular: Tiny Tilos Making Titanic Strides | Circular Economy, Community Buy-In and Compassionate LeadershipDiscussion with Hon. Maria Kamma-Aliferi, Mayor of Tilos and Jenny Giannopoulou on the need for and implementation of a circular economy. We also discuss renewable energy infrastructure, the Greek energy pricing system, sewerage infrastructure, freshwater conservation and navigating different levels of government bureaucracy. Additionally, we discuss the need for environmental literacy and community buy-in. We also discuss refugees, the need for compassionate leadership and how immigration can be a revitalization for the community.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/60 | — | ||||||
| 2/29/24 | Our Tattered Tapestry: Hate and Extremism Across America | Exposing, Investigating and Inoculating Against HateDiscussion with Lisa Borden and Susan Corke from the Southern Poverty Law Center on hate and extremism groups throughout the United States. We discuss rising right radicalism, including religious and white nationalist groups and their means and methods. We also discuss "parental right groups" and their anti-inclusive stance and disruption of public school governance. Additionally, we discuss the school-to-prison pipeline, continuing systemic racism and disenfranchisement and how to help inoculate youth against radicalization. We also discuss the benefits of establishing a national human rights institution. For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/59 | — | ||||||
| 1/29/24 | Letters of Leadership | A Celebration of Civics and Connection Amidst Crises and ConsternationDiscussion with Shannon A. Mullen on her recent book In Other Words, Leadership: How a Young Mother’s Weekly Letters to Her Governor Helped Both Women Brave the First Pandemic Year which looks at agency, representative democracy, socioeconomic and environmental crises within a portrait of leadership. The book is based on the true story of Ashira Knapp’s exchange of letters with Maine Governor Janet Mills during the pandemic. We discuss civics, representative democracy, leadership, reigniting our agency, reconnecting over polarity, what defines a crisis and media responsibility.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/58 | — | ||||||
| 11/12/23 | From the Courtroom to the Community: Revitalizing Law to Empower Frontline Communities | How Grassroots Movements for Climate and Environmental Justice Are Critical to Surviving the Climate CrisisDiscussion with Vivek Maru on the importance of community paralegals in extending access to the law, enforcing rights and aiding in structural change. We discuss the Customary Land Rights Act in Sierra Leone, the Community Land Act in Kenya and environmental justice action in Myanmar. We also discuss environmental injustice within the United States, the need for cumulative impact in any environmental assessment and the importance of having both expert input on legislation as well as the lived experience of affected communities. Additionally, we discuss the importance of prior informed consent and moving from extractive to regenerative practices. We also discuss climate justice as an integral pathway toward climate mitigation and adaptation.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/57 | — | ||||||
| 9/16/23 | Deflection, Deceit and Division in the Time of Climate Crisis | Climate Change, Subterfuge and Building a Broad Climate CoalitionDiscussion with Dr. Michael Mann on the subterfuge tactics by the fossil industry to prevent systemic and structural decarbonization. We discuss how the fossil fuel industry promotes doomsday theories to engender apathy and deny agency. We also discuss how the fossil fuel industry fosters division between different social groups to prevent a climate alliance and needed structural change. Additionally, we discuss how the focus on individual accountability and hypocrisy shaming can impede and deflect from needed structural change. We also discuss pertinent issues in carbon offset accounting, the circular economy and what the paleoclimate record can tell us about the state of and projections for climate change. For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/56 | — | ||||||
| 8/7/23 | Our Immolated Heart: Deforestation and Land Grabbing in Brazil's Amazon | Cattle Ranching, Palm Oil Plantations and Other Agrobusiness Drivers of Deforestation, Fraud and Violence Against Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples, Bolsonaro's Crimes and the Need for Due Diligence and Accountability in Financing and Supply ChainsDiscussion with Gabriella Bianchini on the importance of the Amazonian biome to the local environment and our planet and the current threats to the rainforest. We discuss the history of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, including the ecocide under Bolsonaro and the current agrobusiness drivers, with a focus on cattle ranching and palm oil plantations. We also discuss land grabbing and violence against local communities and indigenous peoples and threats to and murder of environmental defenders. Additionally, we discuss how companies and financial institutions in the Global North are trading with and financing Amazonian destruction and violent land grabbing and legislative efforts to require accountability for failing to undertake due diligence in supply chains and investment. For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/55 | — | ||||||
| 6/9/23 | ISDS: Clandestine Corporate Courts that Entrench Colonialism and Exacerbate the Climate Crisis | Neocolonialism, Democratic Deficits and Regulatory Chill of the Investor State Dispute Settlement MechanismDiscussion with Lisa Sachs on the regulatory chill and democratic deficit of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS). We discuss the structural issues of ISDS, including conflict of interest, lack of transparency and lack of accountability as well as its neocolonial origins and entrenchment. We also discuss the proliferation of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, the expanding investor protections of international investment law, treaty shopping and how ISDS is distorting the investment climate in favor of fossil fuels. Additionally, we discuss the fragmentation of international law and the need to have holistic international jurisprudence and governance.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/54 | — | ||||||
| 4/23/23 | Of Olives and Tears: Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the First Amendment | Palestinian Human Rights Defenders, SLAPP Suits, Anti-Boycott Laws and Human Rights Abuses in Israel and the OPTDiscussion with Maria LaHood on the curtailment and criminalization of advocacy on behalf of Palestinian human rights and criticism of Israeli government policies and their conflation with antisemitism. We discuss SLAPP suits, prevention of academic freedom and debate and anti-boycott laws and their effect on chilling speech. We also discuss the importance of the right to boycott for our democracy and the increasing criminalization of dissent in the U.S. Additionally, we discuss human rights abuses and war crimes in the OPT.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/53 | — | ||||||
| 11/11/22 | The United States of Waste and Woe: Conserving Toxicity at the Santa Susana Field Lab | Regulatory Capture, Lobbying, Astroturfing, Greenwashing and the Failure to Clean up LA’s Toxic SecretDiscussion with Daniel Hirsch, Denise Duffield and Melissa Bumstead on the history and current contamination of the nuclear experiment and rocket testing site, Santa Susana Field Lab, above Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. We discuss how the responsible parties- NASA, the Department of Energy (DOE) and Boeing have failed to clean up the site, the tactics they have utilized to not do so and the current status of the cleanup. We discuss Boeing’s litigation against cleaning up to background levels, Boeing’s greenwashing campaign to limit its clean up by restricting the land use to a conservation zone and its astroturfing efforts to legitimize its greenwashing campaign. We also discuss the Department of Toxic Substances Control, its failure to hold polluters to account and the wider problems regulatory capture and lobbying present to our democracy. For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/52 | — | ||||||
| 9/12/22 | Toxic Tastes: How Industry Seeds Doubt, Fights Regulation and Hurts Our Health | The Nexus Between Environmental Health and Social JusticeDiscussion with Dr. Jimena Díaz Leiva on the health and environmental impact of fracking, forever chemicals, flame retardants and glyphosate. We discuss how trade secrets are being utilized to protect against disclosure of all toxic chemicals in fracking, the exemptions the industry obtained from environmental laws and how the First Amendment is being utilized against mandated government health warnings for glyphosate. We also discuss the tobacco and chemical industries’ deception respecting flame retardants and how CEH worked to ban flame retardants in children’s products, mattresses and upholstered furniture in CA. Additionally, we discuss the nexus between environmental health and social justice and the importance of fostering community partnerships and citizen science. For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/51 | — | ||||||
| 5/19/22 | Ecocide: An Egregious Crime Causing Collective Calamity | Drafting and Establishing the 5th International Crime Against PeaceDiscussion with Darryl Robinson and Kate Mackintosh on the history of ecocide and the gravity and culpability elements necessary for it to be the fifth international crime against peace. We also discuss the process of establishing ecocide as an international crime, including the process of its adoption by the International Criminal Court. We discuss the differences between the definitions of the independent expert panel of international criminal and environmental jurists and the Promise Institute’s expert working group, which advised the panel. We also discuss the problem of intersecting international criminal and environmental law. Additionally, we discuss salient issues of the ICC, including lack of jurisdiction over corporate actors, lack of dominant state parties and selectivity.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/50 | — | ||||||
| 3/21/22 | A Tapestry of Humanity: Adam Hochschild's Ghosts of Rapacity and Resistance | Adam Hochschild's Ghosts of Rapacity and ResistanceDiscussion with Adam Hochschild on the historical movements and moments throughout Adam’s books. We discuss the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the turmoil and anti-immigrant and anti-labour purges in the United States during and after the First World War, apartheid, the Stalinist purges and the Russian people’s attempt to reconcile with this rapacity, the British emancipation movement and King Leopold II’s genocide in the Congo.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/49 | — | ||||||
| 12/12/21 | Total Extraction: Brutality and Blindness in Business and Banking | The Noxious Nexus of Environmental Destruction, Corruption, Conflict and Human Rights AbuseDiscussion with Patrick Alley on the intersectionality of environmental destruction, human rights abuse, conflict and corruption. We discuss how our banks and institutional funds finance deforestation while concomitantly publicly rallying against it. We discuss greenwashing by the fossil fuels industry and its influence on COP26. We also discuss the intimidation, attacks and murder of frontline environmental defenders. Additionally, we discuss the environmental destruction, corruption and human rights abuses of the palm oil industry in Papa New Guinea.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/48 | — | ||||||
| 11/1/21 | Light Departing: Umbrellas v. Gas Canisters | Democratic Resistance in Hong KongDiscussion with Alex Yong-Kang Chow and Brian Leung on China’s increasing control over Hong Kong and its breaches of the Sino-British Declaration. We discuss the student democratic protests in 2014 and 2019 and the arrest and trials of the protestors. We discuss the enactment and use of the National Security Law to target free speech and the free press. We discuss the ransacking and closure of the June 4th Museum and the prohibition of the Tiananmen Square vigil and attendant arrest of its organizers. We also discuss the Greater Bay Area initiative and the integration of Hong Kong into the mainland, the recent “elections” of the Legislative Council, the utility of Magnitsky sanctions and China’s use of soft power.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/47 | — | ||||||
| 9/16/21 | A Sun-Stroked Country: Fortress Australia and its Need for a Bill of Rights | Abandoned Australians, Cultural Restitution and Human Rights AccountabilityDiscussion with Geoffrey Robertson QC on how Australia’s COVID response, including its border closure to citizens abroad, has violated human rights and Geoffrey’s petition on behalf of abandoned Australians before the Human Rights Committee. We also discuss the lack of constitutional rights in Australia and the need for a bill of rights. Additionally, we discuss the secret, political trial of barrister Bernard Collaery. We also discuss cultural restitution and the case of the British Museum’s refusal to return the Parthenon sculptures to Greece. Additionally, we discuss the importance of social and economic rights, corporate accountability for human rights, the Magnitsky Act and its adoption by numerous states as a way to target human rights violators.For More Info: https://thegravity.fm/#/episode/46 | — | ||||||
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