This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Asa Winstanley, associate editor with The Electronic Intifada and author of "Weaponising Anti...
Dec 18, 2024•17 min
A transcript for this episode is now available to download for free as a pdf on our Patreon . Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by Rasha Abdulhadi, writer, organizer, poet and author of several books including The Countermonuments (2024). Rasha discusses a few of their poems including " Your Oysters ," " Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory " and " The Dead Palestinian Father ", the implications of the US election for Palestinians and solida...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 52 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week, Roqayah has the latest on Israel's failed invasion of Lebanon, the IDF's "final solution" for northern Gaza, and US attempts a...
Nov 04, 2024•15 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Los Angeles Tenants Union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis to discuss their new book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis, which documents their experiences on the front lines of the resurgent tenant movement in California and the lessons that organizers everywhere can draw from the movement's early successes. Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis is out now from Haymarket...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 20 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week, Roqayah is once again reporting from Lebanon. She and Kumars discuss Israel's latest wave of attacks across Lebanon, including...
Sep 24, 2024•14 min
This week, Roqayah is back and reporting from Lebanon. She and Kumars discuss Hezbollah's latest military response to Israel's killing of Hezbollah's Senior Commander Sayyed Fouad Ali Shokr in Beirut's southern suburbs, and her latest article for Splinter on the Israeli attack on Haret Hreik. They also discuss Israel's response—its biggest since the 2006 July War—the potential impact on the region, which many speculate is building towards a larger confrontation with the Lebanese resistance, as w...
Aug 30, 2024•43 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week, Roqayah is back and reporting from Lebanon. She and Kumars discuss Hezbollah's military capabilities, the strategic depth of t...
Jul 24, 2024•6 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by geopolitical analyst, editor and activist Rune Agerhus. Rune, founder of the new publishing house Hamra Books and a member of the International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen whose work has appeared on Al Mayadeen , takes us on a deep dive into the contemporary Ansarullah movement and the legacy of Yemeni resistance to imperialism, including developments since Oct. 7. Follow Rune and Hamra Books on Twitter @AlDanmark...
Jul 07, 2024•58 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined by an all-star team of football fans to review the club soccer season that was and preview this summer's Euro and Copa America tournaments. Veterans of Delete Your Account soccer coverage Sam Knight and Sam Sacks, founders of the District Sentinel News Co-op, return alongside the hosts of the We Made It podcast on YouTube, sophomore slugger Bam and our #1 draft pick Caesar Souza. Hijinks ensue as Bam, Ceez, Sams Knight and Sacks, and Kumars all predi...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 19 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week on After Hours, Roqayah and Kumars discuss personal news, a brief update on the current situation in Gaza and how you can help,...
May 24, 2024•12 min
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by professor and academic, Mohamed Abdou, for a discussion of decolonial theory and a reflection on how the framework of decolonization benefits pro-Palestine solidarity and organizing. Mohamed, one of three faculty members targeted and smeared during congressional testimony by House Republicans and the president of Columbia University, discusses the explosion of student encampments around the United States in support of Gaza, and the lessons we can learn...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 27 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined by two of the biggest and brightest Star Wars fans we know, artist and Delete Your Account ...
Apr 15, 2024•18 min
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by two Boston-based student organizers for an update on the Palestine solidarity movement on US college campuses. Lea Kayali is a law student and activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement ( PYM ) and Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine, and Mohamed Mohamed is a graduate student and activist with the Coalition Against Apartheid ( CAA ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lea and Mohamed discuss their personal paths to organizing, the repr...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Bam and Dan, cohosts of The Power Report on Twitch and YouTube. Bam also cohosts the soccer podcast We Made It , and Dan reviews music on Audioface . Bam and Dan share their thoughts on the 2024 presidential election, Dan's experience working at The Young Turks, why left media figures turn to cultural conservatism, and who will win the English Premier League. Follow Bam on Twitter @WeMadeItPodcast and Dan @danfromtheweb , ...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 31 min
This week, Roqayah and Kumars share their thoughts on Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza, including escalating violence and displacement of its population. They also discuss the Northern front, i.e. Lebanon, where since October 8th Hezballah and Israel have been engaging in a mounting offensive that has achieved a number of objectives for the Lebanese resistance faction while also directing Israel away from engaging to the fullest of its military capabilities in Gaza. They also highlight ...
Feb 21, 2024•28 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by renowned cartoonist and returning guest Mattie Lubchansky to di...
Jan 08, 2024•25 min
In tribute to Palestinian poet, activist, academic, and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, Refaat Alareer, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by his colleague at the Electronic Intifada, Nora Barrows-Friedman, to discuss Israel's deliberate assassination of Refaat, and his legacy. Nora discusses the impact of Refaat's targeted execution by Israel , and the impressions he left upon thousands of students who he helped mentor during his life. The crew also weighs the significance of the written word, its...
Dec 09, 2023•41 min
This week, Roqayah and Kumars welcome back returning guests Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer, cofounders of the outstanding resource hub and archive decolonizepalestine.com . Rawan is a writer and translator working at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, and Fathi is currently Palestine Policy Fellow at Al Shabaka, the only independent, transnational Palestinian thinktank. After sharing their thoughts on some of the ways Palestine advocates in the US have relied on their website as an important resour...
Nov 25, 2023•1 hr 51 min
This week, in a preview of our upcoming series of interviews with Palestinian activists and journalists, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the ongoing situation in Palestine, including the events of October 7th, current conditions in Gaza, the impact of BDS, and what's different this time. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes . We can't ...
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 12 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week, Roqayah and Kumars follow up their After Hours episode on the best and worst cop shows with a rundown of the most celebrated c...
Sep 28, 2023•17 min
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Nick Estes and former guest host Shanti Singh for a deep dive into the past, present and future of extraterrestrial visitation. Nick is a member of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate nation, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, a cofounder of The Red Nation , and cohost of TRN's flagship podcast . He is also lead editor at Red Media , the author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota...
Aug 30, 2023•2 hr 30 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined from the top of the hour by longtime friend of the show Bryan Quinby. Bryan, Roqayah and Kumars ...
Aug 01, 2023•11 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by returning guest and editor of Workday Magazine Sarah Lazare to discuss her latest reporting for Workday and In These Times. After introducing listeners to Workday Magazine and its long history in Minnesota and beyond, Sarah shares the story of Amazon warehouse worker Roger Kieca, whose tragic death due to brutal working conditions was dismissed as "not work-related" by both Amazon and OSHA before the revelation of new, inc...
Jul 25, 2023•45 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by independent journalist Bryce Covert to discuss her latest for In These Times about the impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization one year after the Supreme Court's decision overturned the limited constitutional protections for abortion in the United States. Bryce is a reporter in residence at the Omidyar Network and a contributing writer at The Nation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York M...
Jul 07, 2023•49 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . This week, Roqayah returns to try her hand at the new sensation sweeping the nation and play our game "Overrated or Overhated". Over the ...
May 28, 2023•26 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by the DSA International Committee's Marvin Gonzalez, Mirah and Jorge Rocha. Marvin Gonzalez is president of the Campaign Workers Guild, founder of Repatriotas and a member of the National Political Committee of DSA, as well as the NPC's liaison to the IC. Mirah is co-chair of the IC's Middle East & Africa Subcommittee. Jorge sits on the Steering Committee for DSA's International Committee and is currently on NYC-DSA's Ci...
Apr 12, 2023•2 hr 4 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by fan favorite clinical psychologist Megan the Meme Witch and first-time guest Sam, also known as @Mardirooster on Twitter. After Sam introduces himself to the Delete Your Account family, the gang talks about some of their favorite movies of 2022, then spends more time than you ever expected dissecting their favorite episodes, characters, and character deaths from the NBC television adaptation of Hannibal, debating key quest...
Mar 19, 2023•2 hr 6 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Chicago-based journalist and author Kari Lydersen to discuss the cover story of the March edition of In These Times, her article on "The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads" . Kari and Kumars begin by touching on her earlier work, including her run-in with Rahm Emanuel after making him the subject of her first book. Kari then takes us through the case for nationalizing railroads in the United States with reference to the ...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min
This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts . Roqayah is off this week, but Kumars is joined for a very special After Hours interview with director, cinematographer, teacher and activ...
Feb 28, 2023•19 min
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Audrey Brehm and Donovan Eyre, cohosts of the lefty relationship advice podcast Radio Free Tote Bag, for a very intimate Valentine's Day special. The gang trade embarrassing dating stories and discuss gender, mental health, neoliberalism, Nashville, polyamory, Digimon (Pokemon), Digimon (Digimon), Ron Paul, and what leftist relationship advice means to them. Finally, Audrey and Dono play our new and improved game, "Overrat...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 21 min
