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Serbia's students have sparked the country's largest mass mobilisation in the country's history - and they're not stopping at protests. Zoe and Larissa are joined by Kata from Extinction Rebellion Serbia to break down how radical solidarity between students and workers turned campus anger into nationwide power. From occupied universities to decentralised rural organising, this revolution is writing the figuring out a way of organising that genuinely builds alternative systems while tearing down the old ones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about the role of art and cultural production in resistance? Listen to this episode to find out about a book that is for you.In another guest episode with the inimitable Isabella Kajiwara, we are discussing ‘I, Rigoberta Menchú’, the autobiographical account of Rigoberta Menchú, a Mayan Indigenous K’iche woman. Rigoberta tells the story of her community’s resistance to the Guatemala government in the 1970s and their army-led repression of revolutionary movements. Rigoberta describes the violence and brutality faced by Indigenous Guatemalans during this repression.‘I, Rigoberta Menchú’ is an account that she calls the testimony of her people and this legacy has continued to inspire indigenous peoples in struggle throughout Central America.This is the final book of the last bookshelf series ‘Literature for Liberation’ which has traversed revolutionary autobiographies, exploring the role of storytelling in political education and movement ecosystems. In this episode, we discuss the threads of shared experience between these accounts – in repression, resistance, community building and worldmaking. From these stories, we learn lessons about how to build the future we are dreaming of. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does it really mean to live a revolutionary life? Assata Shakur’s autobiography offers deeply personal – and candid – reflections on struggle, survival, and liberation. This is why it is such a must-read for organisers across the world.Led by Isabella Kajiwara, the latest bookshelf season – Literature for Liberation – is exploring seminal autobiographies from revolutionaries across various struggles, inviting readers to reflect on the role of storytelling in our collective political education and movement ecosystems.Isabella explains that the aim of the season is not to individualise struggle or put people on pedestals, but to study revolutionary lives as a lens through which to understand the wider struggle they are part of. By understanding how Assata Shakur understood political education, resisted carceral repression, and leaned on kinship throughout her organising, we can learn important lessons about what it means for each of us to live a revolutionary life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How is our energy system intertwined with the Israeli occupation of Palestine? Mariam and Felix, members of Energy Embargo for Palestine—an anti-imperialist climate collective—join us to explain how the fossil fuel industry sustains the Zionist project.After months of investigating BP, they discuss the company's involvement in historical repressive regimes, political maneuvering, pipeline construction, and the swindling of the British public, all in pursuit of controlling Middle Eastern oil.References:Pipeline to genocide: BP's oil route to IsraelA People’s Green New Deal, Max AjlThe Oil Road, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we - which is why we’re bringing you this 3 part mini-series: World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free UsOur bookclub - shado’s bookshelf - ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear. We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation!  This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it. Our second book in the series, Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun, is a revolutionary counterfactual novel about the US Founders’ greatest fear —that Black and Indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States of America— coming true. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Contributing SHADO editor Samara Almonte is back to discuss the power of storytelling through a First Nations worldview with distinguished professor Larissa Behrendt AO. Larissa has a legal background with a strong track record in the areas of Indigenous law, policy, creative arts, education and research. She is a Native Title holder and member of the Yuwaalaraay (yuwalarai) Euahlayi Aboriginal Corporation and is also a member of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. Larissa is also an award-winning author, filmmaker and host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio. In this episode, Larissa shares about her upbringing as an Aboriginal woman and how storytelling has been a practice for cultural preservation, healing and advocacy for her. Additional Resources:If Not Us Then Who?Twenty-Four Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right NowVision Maker Media – The Premiere Source of Media By and About Native Americans Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We always come back to how everyone deserves a right to home: somewhere safe and dignified to live. And over this season, shado-lite has traversed histories and geographies to understand how people have and still are fighting for that basic right: from Indigenous communities reclaiming their land, to the fight for Caribbean communities to access their beaches, to squatters in Brixton housing the homeless in unused buildings. Inspired Amarha Spence’s use of her ‘Grandads house’ to guide her work on building life-affirming infrastructures for her community and beyond, Zoe and Larissa are asking how expanding our concept of homes can build healthier and happier movements and imagine warm, kind and fair futures.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re talking about the importance of home this season, and it’s crucial we understand the impact of homeless and landless peoples on the world. This week we’re sitting down with Dandara, representing the MST or Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement - one of the largest peoples movement in Latin America, celebrating 40 years of action.Since 1984, the movement has lead more than 2,500 land occupations with 370000 families that are today settled on 7.5 million hectares of land they won as a result. The impact on Brazilian land and agrarian policy is unparalleled - and we have to ask Dandara, what can the rest of the world learn?References:People's Agrarian Reform: An Alternative to the Capitalist Model, João Pedro Stedile and Osvaldo LeónHistory of the MSTPopular Agrarian Reform and the Struggle for Land in Brazil Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.