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Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent U.S. policies in the Americas — militarism, economic warfare, political subversion and the denial of national sovereignty — have intensified and are becoming even more reckless. It is important that anti-war and anti-imperialist forces in the Americas remain especially vigilant. This webinar will highlight the popular struggles being waged for national liberation and the efforts being made by the U.S. imperialism and other colonial powers to subvert those efforts. ORGANZED BY: U.S. Peace Council SPONSORED BY: Black Alliance for Peace; World Peace Council (WPC) MODERATOR: Bahman Azad, U.S. Peace Council PANEL (In order of appearance): Alfred L. Marder, President, U.S. Peace Council Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research / USPC Executive Committee Margaret Flowers, Director, Popular Resistance / USPC Executive Committee Jemima Pierre, Haiti/Americas Coordinator, Black Alliance for Peace Monisha Ríos, USPC Executive Committee Netfa Freeman, Black Alliance for Peace / Pan-African Community Action Iraklis Tsavaridis, Executive Secretary, World Peace Council (WPC) Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent

Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party: workers.org Rather than change course from the disastrous policies of former President Donald J. Trump, the Biden administration has doubled down on the deadliest failures of the U.S. COVID response. The U.S. capitalist state is refusing to put modest safety protocols and lockdown procedures in place despite the skyrocketing infection rate of the even more deadly and contagious Delta variant. Meanwhile, President Biden and other U.S. lawmakers are hell bent on blaming the COVID catastrophe on China. The U.S. deliberately sabotaged a collective effort to learn more about the origins of the novel coronavirus by calling for the World Health Organization to focus solely on the laboratory in Wuhan, China. China has asked, why not also look at Fort Dietrich and 200 other U.S. labs? Why not investigate the earlier outbreaks before Wuhan in Italy, Spain, and France? Why is the U.S. choosing competition and protecting patents over global cooperation? What is billionaire Bill Gates' role in all of this? Join revolutionaries in the U.S. and China for this necessary pushback on "lab leak theory" and the Cold War being waged against China and the entire global working class. With Sara Flounders and Siu Hin Lee, co-editors of "Capitalism on a Ventilator: the Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S." Get your copy here: https://world-view-forum.myshopify.com/products/capitalism-on-a-ventilator Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent

Donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Audio of Professor Jason W. Moore's talk at the 2021 Real Abstractions web conference, hosted by Foreign Objekt. In this talk, Jason W. Moore argues that Man and Nature – operationalized through successive Christianizing, Civilizing, and Developmentalist Projects – are ruling abstractions constitutive of the capitalist world-ecology. In this light, Man and Nature are not only fundamental epistemological categories, but also instruments of bourgeois hegemony on a world-scale. (Hence, successive world hegemonies shape and are shaped by successive Civilizing Projects, with distinctive renderings of Man and Nature.) In this light, civilizational fetishism – embodying an ethos of planetary management – appears as the logical and historical precondition for commodity fetishism, not least through the Naturalization of imperialism, racism, and sexism, beginning in the long sixteenth century. Giving special attention to the post-1968 New Environmental Imaginary, Moore shows how the ruling abstraction Nature has been pivotal to the success of neoliberal rule and the climate crisis. Link to the conference page: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/real-abstraction--the-conference Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Daniel Hale is facing sentencing on July 27, 2021 that could bring him 10 years in federal prison after he pled guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act for releasing government documents that revealed the gross human rights violations and war crimes of the U.S. killer drone program. More information on Daniel's case can be found at Stand with Daniel Hale: https://standwithdanielhale.org/ Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Audio from a webinar organized by Worker's World Party: workers.org Statement from Worker's World Party: As the Communist Party of China approaches its 100th anniversary, Workers World Party looks to the CPC's accomplishments: eliminating absolute poverty for 800 million people, leading the world in pandemic response and vaccine distribution, and supporting the construction of 21st century infrastructure through its Belt and Road Initiative. Join WWP members Makasi Motema, Sara Flounders, Joshua Hanks, and Ted Kelly for a roundtable discussion on how the CPC was able to achieve these accomplishments – and why the US empire is so threatened by the success of socialist revolution Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Audio from a webinar organized by No Cold War Britain: nocoldwar.org Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent From the Organizers: Join a range of high-profile speakers at the launch meeting of the No Cold War Britain campaign. This event comes as Britain sends its largest ever warship to the South China Sea in a deliberately aggressive and provocative move. Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Audio from a webinar organized by U.S. Peace Council: https://uspeacecouncil.org/ You can watch the webinar at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKjDgYP1dw Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent At the end of the 18th century, two profound political processes unfolded. One, in 1776, led to the formation of the USA, which went on to dominate the African Slave Trade. The other, ignited in 1791, led to the Haitian Revolution, which precipitated a general crisis of the entire slave system that could be resolved only with its collapse — not least in the U.S. itself in 1865. Unfortunately, those who feasted on free labor have not forgotten and will never forgive Haiti, including today when the USA, Canada and the European Union (especially France) continue to interfere maliciously in Haiti's internal affairs. Moderator: Henry Lowendorf Speakers: Professor Gerald Horne, University of Houston Professor Jemima Pierre, University of California Los Angeles Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

This event was organized by Stand with Assange NY and the Assange Defense Committee and was held at the People's Forum in NYC on June 10, 2021. Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Speakers: Patricia Dahl, Jocelyn Gay, Randy Credico, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Roger Waters, Gabriel Shipton, John Shipton Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Audio from a webinar convened by the International Action Center: iacenter.org Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent A delegation from the International #FreeAlexSaab Solidarity Committee traveled to Cabo Verde attempting to meet with Alex Saab, who is imprisoned on orders from the U.S, and to document the conditions of his confinement and demand his release. Bishop Filipe Teixeira OFSJC, from Cabo Verde community in Boston Sara Flounders, International Action Center Roger Harris, Task Force on the Americas Moderator: Ted Kelly, Philadelphia branch of the Worker World Party Sign the petition now to demand Alex Saab's freedom! bit.ly/FreeAlexSaabVZ Read more about the delegation here: https://orinocotribune.com/freealexsaab-delegation-first-day-in-cabo-verde-access-denied-to-alex-saab/

Audio from a webinar produced by the International Action Center (IAC): iacenter.org Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent On May 26, 2021 14 million Syrians voted in Presidential elections, overwhelmingly reelecting President Bashar al-Assad. An independent, international delegation of observers called the election "the legitimate, democratic expression of the Syrian people" and noted that "for many Syrians, the election represents the imminent ending of the war, the defeat of foreign plots, and hope for the future." Join 4 participants from the delegation for an eyewitness account of the situation in Syria as the country continues to push back U.S. intervention, reassert its sovereignty, and rebuild after years of imperialist war. Panelists: Johnny Achi, E.E. Co-founder, Arab Americans for Syria Kobi Guillory Co-Chair, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Wyatt Miller Minnesota Anti-War Committee Ted Kelly International Action Center Co-Editor, Tear Down the Walls! Hosted by Scott Williams  International Action Center, Participant in 2014 Delegation to Syria Essential Dissent Online: iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: @e_Dissent

A talk by Ike Nahem at the People's Forum in NYC Audio from a 3-part video produced by Joe Friendly: https://youtu.be/CZwprN4zvVU Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Essential Dissent Online: iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: @e_Dissent

A webinar sponsored by Workers World Party, featuring WWP First Secretary Larry Holmes : www.workers.org Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent The past few weeks have seen the extraordinary resistance of the Palestinian people against Zionist occupation and genocide greeted by an unprecedented outpouring of global solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. In addition to mass demonstrations, and rockets fired in response to Zionist bombings in Gaza, Palestinians organized a general strike on May 18, 2021. Thousands of miles away in Bessemer, AL, Amazon workers experienced a temporary setback when a vote to unionize was defeated after Amazon employed outrageous union-busting tactics. Despite the setback, workers continue to organize in Bessemer, and the outcome of the vote is being challenged at the NLRB in response to Amazon's manipulations. Amazon workers are also organizing elsewhere across the country, including in Staten Island, NY. What is the relationship between these developments? What do they signify for the development or global resistance of working and oppressed people against the ruling class? Join a conversation with Workers World Party 1st Secretary Larry Holmes this as we explore these questions Essential Dissent Online: iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: @e_Dissent

Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party: www.workers.org/ Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent 87% of COVID-19 vaccines have gone to the wealthiest countries, while low-income countries received just 0.2%. This vaccine apartheid will continue to cause hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths of people across the world. A prime example of this capitalist-produced vaccine apartheid is in India, which has set world records for daily COVID infections in the past several weeks, despite the existence of billions of doses of vaccines across the world. India is one of the world’s top pharmaceutical producers, yet without key imports from the U.S., it cannot produce what is needed to vaccinate its 1.3 billion people. Meanwhile, over 220,000 people in India have died and the death rate continues to soar. Vaccine inequality is perhaps most stark in occupied Palestine. Israel has fully vaccinated almost 60% of its population, giving it the world’s highest vaccination rate, yet the Palestinian Health Authority reported that less than 3% of Palestinians are immunized due to vaccine shortages.The Biden Administration and other imperialist countries promise to share their vaccines. The US alone controls over quarter of the world’s short-term supply of vaccines. Yet the US and others continue a policy of vaccine nationalism, prioritizing the lives of those inside the imperialist countries over those in oppressed nations.A few pharmaceutical monopolies limit the means for making more vaccines, while taking in billions of dollars of public subsidies. Property rights are in direct conflict with human rights to health care. Join Vijay Prashad, an Indian historian, editor and journalist who writes on vaccine nationalism and the need for a people’s vaccine as we discuss how to fight vaccine apartheid. Vijay is the author of Red Star Over the Third World (LeftWord, 2017) and the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma. Essential Dissent Online: YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Audio from a webinar sponsored by the United National AntiWar Coalition Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Speakers are (in order of appearance) James Jordan of the Alliance for Global Justice, Charo Mina-Rojas (a Colombian human rights organized and activist in the Colombia Black community), William Camacaro of the Bolivarian Circle of New York, and Ajamu Baraka (speaking from Colombia) of Black Alliance for Peace and the UNAC Administrative Committee. The webinar is moderated by Margaret Kimberley of BAP, The Black Agenda Report and the UNAC Administrative Committee. United National AntiWar Coalition: https://www.unacpeace.org Essential Dissent Online: YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party. Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Part of the globally coordinated actions from September 18-26 defending Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homes and lands throughout Palestine, reclaim their properties and ensure restitution and reparations. These days of action will mark the commemoration of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, the September 1970 massacres in Jordan, the signing of the Oslo agreements and the continuing attacks, including the current farce touted as a “peace initiative”, against the rights and struggle of Palestinian refugees for return and liberation. All of these U.S. supported efforts promote militarism and delay the potential for true peace in the region–peace based on justice and human dignity. A statement signed by more than 50 organizations raised international solidarity with the demand: No Normalization with Occupation and Colonization. This webinar will discuss the ongoing struggles of the Palestinian people and how we can build solidarity together for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. Featuring (In order of first appearance): Ted Kelly - An organizer with Workers World Party and active in Solidarity with the Palestinian Struggle Charlotte Kates - International Coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and organizer with the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition Susan Abulhawa - Palestinian novelist, poet, and member of WWP and US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel Khaled Barakat - Palestinian writer and activist whose work in Arabic and English has been widely published in a number of outlets, International Coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat Essential Dissent Online: YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Audio from a webinar called No to the New Cold War, The organizers describe the webinar as “an international meeting in opposition to the US-led New Cold War on China.” www.NoColdWar.org. Speakers: Jenny Clegg, Sean Haoqin Kang, Martin Jacques, Yang Hanyi, Carlos Ron, Yuri Tavrovsky, Radhika Desai, Elias Jabbour, Kate Hudson YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Audio from a webinar called No to the New Cold War, The organizers describe the webinar as “an international meeting in opposition to the US-led New Cold War on China.” www.NoColdWar.org. Speakers: Jenny Clegg, Carlos Martinez, John Ross, Medea Benjamin, Margaret Kimberley, Wang Wen, Vijay Prashad, Max Blumenthal YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party, a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist political party that supports the struggles of all oppressed peoples. www.workers.org. Panelists: Sara Flounders, Monica Moorehead, Siu Hin Lee, Calvin Deutschbein, Dr. Sharat G. Lin, Dave Welsh Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City (Feb 21 - 23). https://www.unacpeace.org/ Panelists: Frank Chapman, Michael Smith, Kevin Zeese With intro and commentary by moderator Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance: https://popularresistance.org/ Also includes a guest appearance by Nancy Hollander, who was the attorney for the Holy Land Five, and lead defense counsel for Chelsea Manning. Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Audio from the first in a planned weekly series of webinars sponsored by Workers World Party, a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist political party that supports the struggles of all oppressed peoples. https://www.workers.org/ Featured Presenters (in order of appearance): Sara Flounders, Nate Chase, Makasi Motema, Larry Holmes, Taryn Fivek, Monica Moorehead Many thanks to Scott Williams for setting up the webinar and handling the technical details. Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City (Feb 21 - 23). Featuring talks by Nuri Ronaghy (Iran), Maria Zaharenko (Ukraine), and Jill Clark-Gollub (Nicaragua), with an intro and outro by Kevin Zeese https://www.unacpeace.org/ Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City (Feb 21 - 23). https://www.unacpeace.org/ Moderator: Sara Flounders Panelists: Juyeon Rhee, Roger Wareham, Medea Benjamin Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City (Feb 21 - 23). https://www.unacpeace.org/ Moderator: Cassia Laham Panelists: Jean Luc Pierite, Makasi Motema, Diane Moxley, Jeff Mackler Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City. Featured presenters: Bahman Azad, Bernadette Ellorin, Camilo Mejia, Joe Lombardo Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Thomas Jefferson called the U.S. an “Empire of Liberty.” Barack Obama called the U.S. an “Indispensable nation.” These manifestations of American exceptionalism and American innocence provide the doctrine of U.S. empire building at home and abroad. Danny Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent’s new book, "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence - a People’s History of the United States from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror" not only exposes this doctrine as myth but also analyzes its impact on the class struggle to develop a world free of U.S. capitalism, war, and white supremacy. Join anti-imperialist activists and journalists in a discussion about the book and its relevance as a tool toward dismantling the actually-existing fake news of U.S. Empire. Panel sponsored by Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/ Watch the full livestream: https://youtu.be/AV_IZ1OFKCE Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Watch the full livestream: https://youtu.be/x5o_5y5Rm7o Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy --- January 24, 2020 The four arrested Venezuelan Embassy Protectors - Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Adrienne Pine and David Paul - were on an East Coast speaking and fundraising tour from January 24 to January 28, 2020. They are facing trials on the trumped-up charge of "interfering with certain protective functions" of the government for their heroic effort to prevent the transfer of the Venezuelan Embassy to a minority leader illegally appointed by the U.S. government as President of Venezuela. This is a misdemeanor charge that carries a maximum of one-year imprisonment and a $100,000 fine each. The judge has already denied them the ability to present vital evidence in their defense. During the hearing, she referred to the embassy protectors as a "gang," and stated that the facts supported their guilt. She made it clear a trial will result in their conviction, and promptly made rulings that will ensure that outcome. Embassy Protection Collective: https://www.facebook.com/ColectivosporlaPaz/ Popular Resistance: https://popularresistance.org/ Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent 00:00 Intro by Margaret Kimberley 02:32 Margaret Flowers 11:22 Margaret Kimberley introduces Sara Flounders 13:17 Sara Flounders introduces David Paul 15:38 David Paul 23:59 Margaret Kimberley introduces Adrienne Pine 25:07 Adrienne Pine 31:55 Sara Flounders introduces Kevin Zeese 34:28 Kevin Zeese 58:59 End

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Follow on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent This panel took place on 6/28/19 at Left Forum 2019. Abstract: Speakers will address the present day US campaigns to overthrow the governments in these countries. They will focus on US disinformation campaigns against these countries, the present US anti-war movement in defense of Iran's, Venezuela's, and Cuba's sovereignty, and how the peoples in these countries are organizing to combat US threats. 0:00 Dan Kovalik (United Steel Workers) 20:37 Moderator William Camacaro (co-founder and coordinator of the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York; artist, radio host, and activist in New York City) 26:56 Bahman Azad (U.S. Peace Council) 43:44 Q&A (Questions have been omitted due to poor audio quality) Event Organizer: Stansfield Smith Daniel Kovalik is Senior Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). He has worked for the USW since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. While with the USW, he has served as lead counsel on cutting-edge labor law litigation, including the landmark NLRB cases of Lamons Gasket and Specialty Health Care. He has also worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, recently described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. Dr. Bahman Azad is an Iranian-American peace and justice activist living in the United States. He has been active in the peace and justice movement since his arrival in the United States in 1973, first as a student activist against the Shah's regime in Iran and then as a member of the Executive Board of the U.S. Peace Council. He joined the Veterans for Peace in the early 1990s and has been serving as Chair of VFP’s Iran Working Group. He is currently the Organizational Secretary of the U.S. Peace Council, Coordinator of the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases and the Global Campaign Against US/NATO Military Bases, and the representative of the World Peace Council at the United Nations. He was the organizer of USPC’s Peace and Solidarity Delegation to Venezuela which traveled to Caracas in March 2019. Bahman has a Master's degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. He is a retired Professor and former Acting Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Please visit these Left Forum links: Website: http://www.leftforum.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theleftforum/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/leftforum YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLeftforum

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Award-winning war journalist turned climate crisis reporter Dahr Jamail reads from his new book The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, and discusses living on a planet that has been irrevocably changed. Jamail reported from Iraq for more than a year, as well as from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey over the last 10 years, and has won the Izzy Award and the Martha Gellhorn Award for Investigative Journalism, among other awards. Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Sponsored by Beyond War and Militarism, a joint committee of the Syracuse Peace Council (SPC) and the CNY Solidarity Coalition. http://www.peacecouncil.net/ ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse NY http://artragegallery.org/

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent US vs. USSR, US vs. Russian Federation How the US tried to undermine the Soviet Union when it existed and how it is trying to undermine the Russian Federation today. The panelists will discuss and critique political and ideological falsehoods and fabrications in the continuing Cold War waged by the U.S. and NATO against Russia--both historical anti-communism and the more intense lies in the current antagonism in the US drive for global hegemony. Moderator: Martin J. Sawma Panelists: Grover Furr, Maria Zakharova, Angelo D'Angelo, Joe Lombardo Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent This Left Forum 2019 panel includes three people who recently visited Odessa to memorialize those killed in a right-wing massacre in 2014. It also includes a Ukrainian national. Panelists discuss the situation with the war in Donbass, the recent elections, the growth of Fascism and more. Moderator: Joe Lombardo 00:00:00 Moderator's intro 00:00:22 Maria Zakharova 00:05:15 Jeff Mackler 00:16:01 Joe Lombardo 00:27:56 Pippa Bartolotti 00:41:16 Moss Robeson 00:52:24 Phil Wilayto 01:04:18 Q&A Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Moderator: Nellie Hester Bailey Panelists: Raymond Nat Turner, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford The Black Agenda Report team discusses "late stage" capitalism, the shrinking U.S. empire, and the dangers of a desperate ruling class on the wane. --- Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Never believe anything until you hear the official denial. Left Forum: http://www.leftforum.org/

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Panelists: Max Ajl, Kali Akuno The Green New Deal proposal has reframed social issues as ecological issues, and ecological issues as political issues. This panel explores the Green New Deal as a political battlefield, a space within which different ideas, proposals, and possibilities for managing the future come into play. We explore the role of agriculture, the global south, resource extraction, and paths to a sustainable and just future in light of the reshaping of the political battlefield through the Green New Deal proposals. Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Moderator: Joe Lombardo Panelists: Sara Flounders, Kevin Zeese, William Camacaro, Bahman Azad Guest Appearances by: Daniella Rodriguez and Margaret Flowers From the Organizers: The panel is made up of members of the peace and solidarity delegation that recently returned from Venezuela. They speak on the Bolivarian Revolution, the US attempts to overturn it and the mobilization of the population to defend their process. The Q&A starts at 01:12:15. As is common when audience questions are not spoken into a microphone, the Q&A audio quality is less than ideal. https://www.unacpeace.org/ Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Crises in Economic Life and in Relationships in the U.S. Today Moderator: Robert K. Drinan Panelists: Richard D. Wolff, Harriet Fraad, Kimberly Westcott This panel will explore the crises that have transformed the daily lives of Americans both economically and personally. Existence is now precarious on every level. We will use New Marxian analyses to explore where the crises originated, how they function and how they can be a force in transforming America. Left Forum: http://www.leftforum.org/ Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Panelists: Eli J. Campbell, Daniella Medina, Jill Stein, David Oks With the objective of sparking public debate before the 2020 presidential election, this panel will consider a direct action solution to the student debt crisis: Activists from four generations will discuss and envision the strategy of an organized student debt boycott, using our collective burden as leverage against the American ruling class, and global capitalism itself. Every day that we continue to perform the status quo is time that cannot be recovered; the struggle for human survival past this century demands that we act now, and when all else has failed, we must consider revolutionary action. Throughout history, there have been countless movements of working class people demanding the cancellation of usurious, unpayable debts to the ruling class, often accompanied by general strikes that disrupt everyday life. A movement of American students, graduates, and teachers, engaging in civil disobedience and honoring the ancient tactic of an organized debt strike, could change the power dynamics in the fights for student debt cancellation and universal free higher education, at the national and state levels. A student debt boycott could also help unite the multitude of intersecting movements for social justice in an intergenerational coalition that is not dependent on electoral politics to build power. For this strategy to be fairly considered, the American public must be made aware of what has been hidden in plain sight: For many years, the largest student loan servicing companies (Navient, Nelnet/Great Lakes, PHEAA) have been legally gambling with federal student loan debt, despite being under contract with the Department of Education. Just in the decade since 2009, a trillion dollars worth of federal student debt has accumulated; in the same time, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose from roughly 390 to 410 ppm (parts per million), a trend that will define the remainder of our lives. All the while, this immoral and unregulated loan servicing industry has issued billions of dollars in Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities (SLABS) every year, which are sold to investors and traded in speculative financial markets. Generations of Americans are being stifled by permanent indebtedness and a declining standard of living, but a small number of corporations and their CEOs are making extraordinary profits capitalizing on the high interest rates paid by student borrowers. Obscured by fake economics and bipartisan political corruption, a student loan default crisis looms in the near future, which will inevitably cause the collapse of the SLABS market, decades before these assets will reach their final maturity. In the pursuit of infinite wealth regardless of the human cost, capitalism has burdened students with unpayable debt, but also provided them the means to crash the system and disrupt business as usual. This panel will consider the notion that accelerating the default crisis to put direct financial pressure on the student loan industry may be both justified and necessary in order to force Congress to solve this crisis, liberate 44 million Americans from debt and empower them to transform society, and provide for the future security of American students. Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent. https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Frida Berrigan, daughter of civil resisters Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister, is an author, columnist, and activist. She spoke at Burning Books on April 11, 2019. Burning Books is a radical bookstore in Buffalo, NY, specializing in activism, social justice, and liberation struggles. For more information visit burningbooks.com Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent