Facing Reality 4 Social Justice

This is the last of a three part interview with Sudanese trade unionist - now in Britain - Khalid Sudahmed. He is a member of MENA Solidarity Network which covers issues of political and economic struggle throughout the Middle East North Africa region. More information on his organization can be found at the website https://menasolidaritynetwork.com. In this interview, produced by Lennox Apudo for Hudson Mohawk Magazine Radio, Khalid Sudahmed discusses the role of women in the Sudanese communities who are protecting those communities during this very difficult time when the country is ravaged by waring armies. They are also part of the building of resistance committees throughout their communities as well.After the interview, we will hear some traditional Sudanese music.

This is the second of a three part interview with Khalid Sidahmed, a leading member of the MENA Solidarity Network. It's website is menasolidaritynetwork.com. The interview was originally produced and broadcast by Hudson Mohawk Magazine Radio in Troy, New York.In this episode, Sidahmed discusses the international players who have interfered in the Sudanese situation - why are they doing this and what do they gain. It's a sad story that has led to a major crisis of monumental proportions for the Sudanese people.After the interview we will have two musical pieces of traditional Sudanese music.

This is the first of three parts of an interview with Khalid Sidahmed on Hudson Mohawk Magazine Radio in Troy, New York at WOOC 105.3 FM. Khalid Sidahmed is from the MENA (Middle East North Africa) Solidarity Network. Here he gives us a radical perspective on the crisis in Sudan.Stick around after the interview for some Sudanese music which we took from Internet Archive.

This is part 2 of a conversation with Nagesh Rao on the ongoing political crisis in Bangladesh. The Prime Minister has fled the country and a Board of Advisors is governing the country as various factions vie for support and try to find direction. This is a complicated and potentially very unstable situation. After the conversation, we will hear a song formed during the student rebellion that has become a national voice of the struggle for freedom. Raised Voice Bangladesh is its name and the refrain that remembers the deaths during the struggle and looks to a new beginning.

Facing Reality 4 Social Justice interviews Nagesh Rao on the extraordinary flight from power of Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina. Rao is from India and a professor of English who taught in the U.S. for several years before moving to Dhaka, Bangladesh. He will help us understand how student demonstrations exposed the political weakness of Hasina's long term rule in government. This episode is the first of two on this issue. Rao was also interviewed by Tempestmag.org in their September 13 edition - which is where I originally saw his insights. The interview will be followed by a one minute sound piece on the demonstrations that led to Hasina being forced from power - and from the country.

The Asian Labour Review has done excellent work discussing the situation of working people in Asia - from the ground up. Their podcast series - Continent of Resistance (https://rss.com/podcasts/continentofresistance/) - gives us the sounds of organizing and struggle. Now they move to work with people to develop a program of training and learning to build a network of communicators who can build on this beginning.This episode of Facing Reality 4 Social Justice talks to Kevin Lin, Managing Editor of Asian Labour Review, on why and how the Review is taking this step to develop a school for people to more deeply understand the conditions of working people in Asia and how to communicate this story.The interview with Kevin will be followed by a short poem from a member of the Myanmar Rohingya community now living in Bangladesh as a refugee.

This episode of Facing Reality 4 Social Justice is a wide-ranging interview with Kyaw Kyaw, a guitarist and lyricist and member of the Myanmar Punk Rock group, Rebel Riot. Their music is part of the culture of resistance to the country's military government as we'll hear with three selections from their newly released album - to...Dear Comrade. You can find their music at https://bandcamp.com. Rebel Riot is also part of an international punk rock network using music as a beacon of anti-establishment thought - most often in a progressive direction.

The official labor movement in the United States has traditionally been a friend of the state of Israel. But things are starting to change. A new generation of labor leaders and the horrendous attacks on the people and geography of Gaza have started to change the relationship.In today's episode of Facing Reality 4 Social Justice we talk to Sophia Gurule, a spokesperson for Labor for Palestine, a rank-and-file group that has been working on its issues since 2004. She is a member of the United Auto Workers Union and a member of UAW Labor for Palestine and New York Labor for Palestine. After the conversation with Sophia, we'll have a short excerpt from an 18-hour radio series produced by a coalition called Radio Free Palestine 2008 - Commemorating 60 Years of the Palestinian Nakba. That will be followed by a song - The Unknown War Criminal.

I’ll be talking to Peter Werbe about his book – Summer on Fire – a Detroit Novel. This novel details how a group of people around the alternative newspaper – Fifth Estate – reacted to the reality of an urban uprising happening around them.Summer in Detroit was hot in 1967. And people were anxious. War was raging in Vietnam and the body count was growing – and opposition to the war was growing right along with the count.  John Kennedy has been assassinated in 1963 and Malcolm X had also been killed two years after that. Dr. King and SNCC had been leading some very vocal civil rights actions but have only had some important but often only symbolic victories. For most people – especially for African-Americans – life went on as usual. The status quo held. We’d like to thank you for joining us in Facing Reality 4 Social Justice as we look at a fictional account of what happened in Detroit during the summer of 1967.