We have been wanting to bring you voices from inside Gaza since the very start of the current atrocities, but for what are obvious reasons this has proven to be extremely difficult, especially after Israel cut all communication lines and mobile phone networks in Gaza, in the prelude to their ground invasion. However, a student from our Palestine Podcast Academy, Shahd Safi, has managed to send me a series of daily audio diary entries detailing her experiences and her feelings in recent days. Sha...
Nov 12, 2023•47 min
Why don’t we see more African researchers presenting at global Public Health conferences and in US and European research journals? Who determines which public health issues are prioritized in Africa? What is Public Health and “Vaccine Apartheid”? What do these insights reveal about the current state of our Public Health discourse on the global scale? It’s impossible to isolate the conversation around public health in the Global South from the topic of colonialism and anti-Blackness more generall...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min
While the global arms industry may only account for about one percent of global trade, it’s important to note what that one percent actually buys. Beyond the price tags on the weapons themselves, arms and arms sales have a tremendous impact on all other aspects of global trade, and on relations between trade partners and competitors. This week's episode is a collaboration between journalist Paul Cochrane and Latitude Adjustment Podcast. Our guest, Andrew Feinstein, is the author of the best-sell...
Jul 30, 2023•1 hr 29 min
In 1975 Spain formally ended its colonization of "Spanish Sahara", but instead of ceding control to the indigenous Sahrawi population Spain instead handed the keys to its former colony to the Moroccan regime. For nearly 50 years the Sahrawi people of illegally occupied Western Sahara have been subjected to a brutal regime of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, resource-theft, and the violent suppression of all dissent including the systematic use of rape and torture by the Moroccan authoritie...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Where is Western Sahara? What is Western Sahara? Is it a country? Who lives there? If you find yourself unable to answer any of these questions, or if you want a resource that will help you to quickly explain the history and the current political realities around Africa's last colony to your friends and to your community, this short episode was created for you. Latitude Adjustment Podcast is also working on plans to complete a multimedia documentary series, working on the ground with Sahrawi ref...
Jul 20, 2023•16 min
What we are seeing now in the US, with the rollback of so many progressive victories, and with the passage of bigoted legislation towards sexual minorities, is in many ways the final stage of a decades-long strategy by violent strains of American Christian Evangelism. That strategy has seen Africa used as a testing ground in an ideological war against sexual minorities. And that war has returned home with a vengeance; newly emboldened, with more support, and with a more focused strategic vision....
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Omar Alshogre is currently 28 years old. He was first arrested at 15 for attending a protest against the Al Assad regime, and was arrested a total of 11 times between 2011 and 2013. His last arrest, in 2012, along with the arrests of two of his cousins, led to his incarceration in the Branch 215 military intelligence detention center for 21 months, where he experienced torture on a daily basis. In 2014 he was transferred to Sednaya prison, where he experienced even more brutal forms of torture, ...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min
On April 15th war broke out in Sudan. The fighting between the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group and the Sudanese army has devastated Khartoum, spread across the country, and an estimated 1,800 people have lost their lives, with hundreds of thousands displaced. Dalia AbdelMoniem joins us from the UK, where she has been living since fleeing the war in April, after a missile struck her home. Dalia is a former journalist who moved back to Sudan in 2013 after living in Egypt for more than two ...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 107
This is the second of a two-part series about Basir Bita’s escape from Afghanistan after the US withdrawal in August, 2021. In this second half of his story, Basir shares his experiences getting from Pakistan to Canada, the challenges of adjusting to a new culture, the double-standards in Western moralizing, and navigating the prejudices and stereotypes that refugees often face. Be sure to listen to part one, about the fall of Kabul and about his family’s escape from Afghanistan after the US wit...
May 30, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 106
On August 30th 2021, the US and its coalition partners ended their nearly twenty-year occupation of Afghanistan. Two weeks before they left, the Taliban swept across the country taking major urban centers, including Kabul. As embassies were abandoned, and as Afghans government officials fled the country, those Afghan citizens who had worked with the occupying forces faced the very real prospect of execution by the Taliban as collaborators. Yet, just Afghan interpreters had been abandoned in year...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 30 min
On September 13th of last year 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family, having traveled from Irans’ Kurdish region. While in Tehran she was stopped by Iran’s morality police for improperly wearing her hijab, or head covering. Three days after her arrest she was dead. In the days, weeks, and months following her death Iran has seen nationwide protests, and while protests are not a particularly new thing in Iran, what’s unprecedented about these protests are the calls not simpl...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 20 min
While there have been different strains of Christian Zionism dating back to the Sixteenth Century, the most politicized, powerful, and violent iteration of the movement has its roots in the contemporary Christian Evangelical Church. Modern Christian Zionists hold that the ethnic cleansing of roughly 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in historic Palestine in 1948, by Jewish Zionists, was the fulfillment of a Biblical prophecy in which the so-called Holy Land must be resettled by the Jewish pe...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 47 min
The US military industrial complex describes the relationship between the US armed forces, weapons and military systems corporations and, though they are often omitted from the phrasing, the Legislative and Executive branches of the US government. This episode is dedicated to examining the interests at play in maintaining the US military budget as an unquestionable and sacred burden on the US taxpayer and its impact on democracy, even when our national infrastructure is in tatters, education and...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 9 min
For this episode we cover a wide range of issues related to Palestinian human rights and political autonomy, including the recent Israeli elections, the current state of Palestinian resistance, parallels and distinctions between Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, and the aims of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in Palestine . Dr. Haidar Eid is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature at Gaza's al-Aqsa University in Palestine, and completed his PhD in Sou...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 5 min
It's episode 100 of Latitude Adjustment Podcast, and what better way to celebrate the occasion than to bring back our guest from Episode 1? We catch up with Andrius Mažeika in Lithuania, and in the spirit of our very first episode we cover a wide range of topics, from the war in Ukraine to being a Leftist in a post-Soviet context, to lessons learned from photography, and addressing mental health while traveling. Thank you to everyone who has supported the show these past 4 years, and for those w...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 4 min
On September 13th, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family, having traveled from Irans’ Kurdish region. While in Tehran she was stopped by Iran’s morality police for improperly wearing her hijab, or head covering. Three days after her arrest she was dead. In the days and weeks following her death Iran has seen nationwide protests, and while protests are not a particularly new thing in Iran, what’s unprecedented about these protests are the calls not simply for reforms but for...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Yaari Toolie-Walker is a member of the Alaska-Native Yupik community, an activist, an educator, and a healer. Yaari is also a returning guest, and we highly encourage you to listen to our first conversation with her about the Yupik community, in episode 16 of Latitude Adjustment. The topic of today’s conversation is shamanism, or spiritually-guided healing practices. It might surprise you to learn who is able to be a shaman, its relationship to conventional/Western, healing practices, and how th...
Oct 14, 2022•37 min
Russia’s relationship with the African continent dates back to the Soviet era and Cold War proxy battles between Russia and the US. These days the Russian presence in Africa might be lighter, but it’s also growing and the dynamics are changing. From the deployment of Russian mercenaries like the Wagner Group, to the politics of soft power and investment, we focus on Russia’s past and present relationship with Africa, the likely impacts of the war in Ukraine on food security in Africa, as well as...
Sep 27, 2022•58 min
The recent Israeli assault on Gaza lasted three days, from August 5 through August 7th. Before a ceasefire was concluded on the 7th of August, 49 Palestinians lay dead, including 17 children, with more than 360 injured. Israeli occupation raids in the West Bank, in particular in Jenin, coincided with the attacks. And now, in all too predictable pattern, we see that the Western media has once again failed to ask difficult questions in the aftermath of the attacks, and instead resuming its deafeni...
Aug 19, 2022•42 min
Rosine Hounakey is from Togo but she was trafficked to the US at 13 years old. Forced to work for free on both coasts of the US, she was later coerced into an abusive marriage until she was freed with her two young sons as the result of an ICE raid when she was just 17 years old. She then had to go through foster care in various American cities, waking up at 5am every day to take her kids to school before completing high school herself, after years with no formal education, having taught herself...
Jul 14, 2022•2 hr 8 min
Santa Muerte (or “Saint Death”) is far more than a popular saint, she’s a framework for understanding Mexican history, Mexican politics (in particular the legacies of corruption, and the marginalization of women, the poor, the incarcerated, and those living on the fringes of “legitimate” society), and finally Santa Muerte is an entry point for examining the ongoing power and influence of Catholicism in Mexico, and its relationship to the Mexican state and to indigenous communities. We speak with...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 3 min
This is a re-broadcast of an episode first published November 25th, 2020. This episode is the second of a two-part conversation with Tity Agbahey . Tity is an attorney based in Senegal, her current work focuses on central Africa, though her previous work has focused elsewhere on the continent, and her life and travels have taken her to points beyond. This pair of episodes should appeal to two types of listeners, those who know what it feels like to be the only one who looks like you in your univ...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 29 min
This is a re-broadcast of a two-part series first published November 25th, 2020. This episode is the first of a two-part conversation with Tity Agbahey . Tity is an attorney based in Senegal, her current work focuses on central Africa, though her previous work has focused elsewhere on the continent, and her life and travels have taken her to points beyond. This pair of episodes should appeal to two types of listeners, those who know what it feels like to be the only one who looks like you in you...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 20 min
The global arms industry may only account for about one percent of global trade, but it’s important to note what that one percent is buying and the role that arms sales play in influencing other aspects of global trade and political relations. We speak with Frank Slijper in Groningen, The Netherlands, where Frank leads a project on the global arms trade for Pax , a global peace research and advocacy organization. Here are Frank’s Pax reports on the arms trade in Turkey and the UAE . This episode...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academyren lehen podcast-atalean, "Moria 2.0" pertsona errefuxiatuen kanpamentu berrian giltzapetuta bizi diren bost gizon afganiarrek aurre egin behar dieten borroka batzuei buruz hitz egiten entzungo duzu. Atalaren lehen erdia euskaraz dago eta bigarren erdia beraien ama-hizkuntzan: farsi/dari hizkuntzan. Podcast hau Erei Elkartasunerako Elkarteak itzuli eta grabatu du, Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundiaren dirulaguntzari esker eta Oñati Irratiaren babesarekin. Ahotsak: Egoit...
Jun 09, 2022•33 min
En el primer episodio de Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy escucharás a cinco hombres afganos hablar sobre algunas de las luchas a las que se enfrentan al vivir encerrados en el nuevo campo de personas refugiadas "Moria 2.0". La primera mitad del episodio está en español y la segunda mitad en su lengua materna: en farsi/dari. Este podcast ha sido traducido y grabado por Erei Elkartasunerako Elkartea , gracias a la financiación de la Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa y con el apoyo de Oñati Irratia....
Jun 09, 2022•32 min
Adrien Lawyer is the founder and director of the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico , an organization that “provides support, community, and connection to transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and gender variant people and their families through advocacy, education, and direct services.” For this conversation I wanted to avoid the trap of asking easy questions and settling for easy answers, and instead just let my confusion and my preconceptions hang out there to see what came bac...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Kenyon Zimmer is an associate professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Zimmer specializes in transatlantic migration, political radicalism, and labor history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His research centers on the connections between migration, race and ethnicity, and radical social movements. For today’s show we’ll be focusing on the history of Anarchism as a political philosophy, how Anarchism has manifested itself as a political movement in US history, and ...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Kikirentzat, "Alfa kapitaina" ezizenez ezaguna, ez zen berria pertsona errefuxiatu gisa bizitzea 2019ko urrian Moriako kanpamendura iritsi zenean. Ordurako bere bidaia luzeak Burundiko etxetik ihes egin, eta Ruandako pertsona errefuxiatuen kanpamendu batean urte batzuk pasatzera eraman zion. Duela urtebete Instagram-eko @the_humans_of_moria kontua sortu zuen, Lesboseko asilo-eskatzaileei beren istorioak partekatzen eta beren baldintzak ezagutarazten laguntzeko. Baina orain, bere lehen podcast at...
May 29, 2022•18 min
Para Kiki, alias el "capitán Alfa", no era nueva la vida como persona refugiada cuando llegó al campamento de Moria en octubre de 2019. Para entonces su largo viaje le había llevado a escapar de su casa de Burundi y pasar unos años en un campo de personas refugiadas en Ruanda. Hace un año creó la cuenta de Instagram @the_humans_of_moria , para ayudar a las personas solicitantes de asilo de Lesbos a compartir sus historias y dar a conocer sus condiciones. Pero ahora, para su primer episodio del p...
May 29, 2022•20 min
