For this bonus episode I’m going to be doing something I’ve rarely done on this show, I’m not going to interview anyone. This is me speaking with no notes or preparation, just off the cuff and from the heart about some issues that have weighed heavily on me for a long time, issues that I think a lot of people in my line of work are afraid to talk about, especially in the US. It deals with why we rarely see Western media and Western nonprofits representing the perspectives of Palestinian youth wi...
Apr 26, 2021•24 min
For this re-released episode we've included our original interview, completed in late 2018, and we catch up with Bruno for a detailed update about his current work with No Name Kitchen. If you want to skip to the new interview from April 2021 it starts at: 43:43 Bruno Morán is from Asturias, Spain, and is a co-founder of No Name Kitchen , an NGO that provides food, sleeping bags, basic necessities, and a community space for refugees in transit along the Serbian and Bosnian borders with Croatia. ...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Less than a week after the January 6th attack on the US Capital building attorneys Diala Shamas and Tarek Ismail co-authored a piece for the Washington Post titled, " Calling the Capital riot 'terrorism' will only hurt communities of color. " Our conversation explores some of the less publicized consequences of anti-terrorism legislation and law enforcement priorities going back decades, to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Diala Shamas is an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights i...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 77
We speak with Dr. Amanda Rogers about infiltration of the U.S. military and law enforcement by white supremacist and white nationalist groups, and provide a brief history and contemporary overview of white supremacist movements in the U.S. Be sure to check out Dr. Rogers’ recent article, “ Dismantling White Supremacist Infiltration of the Military and Law Enforcement ,” as well as our previous interview on the troubling history and application of “Terrorism”, in episode 70 of this podcast: “ The...
Apr 05, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 76
On February 1st, 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup in response to a sweeping electoral victory by Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD party. The past few weeks have seen mass protests across the country by a diverse range of groups, and the military regime’s response has grown increasingly bloody, with night raids and detentions, and live rounds being used to maim and kill protestors. We spoke to a young protestor in Yangon, Myanmar about what she has seen and to get her thoughts on the current...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Kiki a.k.a. “Captain Alpha” was not new to life as a refugee when he arrived in Moria Camp in October of 2019. By that time his long journey has already caused him to flee his home in Burundi, and to spend years in a refugee camp in Rwanda. One year ago he started @the_humans_of_moria Instagram account, to help asylum seekers on Lesvos share their stories and expose their conditions. But now, for his first podcast episode, it is Captain Alpha’s turn to tell his own story. After listening to this...
Feb 28, 2021•25 min
In observance of Black History Month we’ve re-edited the opening and closing thoughts to two episodes that were first published back in September of 2019. A lot has happened since then, but we the conversation and the history contained in these episodes remain as relevant as ever: In this second of a two-part conversation I talk to Major Joe Womack (USMC-retired) about AfricaTown. Now part of Mobile, Alabama, AfricaTown was founded by survivors of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the US....
Feb 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min
In observance of Black History Month we’ve re-edited opening and closing thoughts to these episodes that were first published back in September of 2019. A lot has happened since then, but we felt that the conversation and the history contained in these episodes is as relevant now as ever: Now part of Mobile, Alabama, AfricaTown was founded by survivors of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the US. The shipwreck was discovered in 2019. Joe Womack (USMC-ret) was born and raised there and is ...
Feb 21, 2021•49 min
In October of last year a brutal killing at the hands of Nigerian police was captured on video. It quickly went viral across the country, across, Africa, and then around the world. The police involved in the killing belonged to Nigeria’s SARS unit, short for “Special Anti Robbery Squad”. The notorious SARS unit has long been known for acts of extortion, abuse, sexual harassment and violence, torture, and murder, and as the #EndSARS hashtag started to trend on social media, young Nigerians poured...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 74
UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! In this third episode of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy four young Afghan women share their greatest hopes and fears since arriving to Lesvos and the borders of the European Union. Be sure to check out the other two episodes from the students, and the short preface...
Jan 22, 2021•25 min
UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! In this second episode of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy a young Afghan woman tries to find the perfect word to capture the essence of her journey to Lesvos to seek asylum, and her aspirations for the life ahead. Be sure to check out the other two episodes from the...
Jan 22, 2021•19 min
UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! In the first episode of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy you will hear four Afghan men open up about some of the unique struggles they face living under lockdown in the new “Moria 2.0” refugee camp. The first half of the episode is in English and the second half is i...
Jan 22, 2021•32 min
UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! Before you hear the episodes from the very first graduating class of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy , we’d like to take you behind the scenes to share some of the challenges and the lessons learned during the production of our shows with asylum seekers here on the ...
Jan 22, 2021•8 min
UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! Latitude Adjustment returns to Lesvos to launch a new phase of our programming, a podcast academy. Over the next several weeks Latitude Adjustment Podcast work with students and asylum seekers from the Refocus Media Labs team to help them produce their very own podcasts. Be...
Dec 20, 2020•20 min
This episode is the second of a two-part conversation with Tity Agbahey . Tity is an attorney and a staffer at Amnesty International. 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 university class, in your staff meetin...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 73
This episode is the first of a two-part conversation with Tity Agbahey . Tity is an attorney and a staffer at Amnesty International. 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 university class, in your staff meeting...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 72
This re-release episode closes with a short update interview with Abdul, completed in November, 2020. It starts at 59:18. The original show was published in December, 2018. Abdul Saboor worked with the US military in Afghanistan before having to flee the country after receiving death threats and having several friends and family members killed by the Taliban. What followed was an overland odyssey across Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, the Balkans, and back and forth across the EU, until he was able to c...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Being at a loss as to how to manage the political conflicts within my own social circle I reached out to my old professor, Tatsushi Arai , to learn how Americans might apply the principles of Conflict Transformation to our interactions at the personal, professional, and community levels, whatever the outcome of the US election. But it should be noted that this discussion is not specific to America, and that Dr. Arai has worked all over the US and all over the world as both an educator and as a f...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 71
For all of the movies, books, and policy debates on the topic, and given that the largest, most expensive, and longest hot war in US history is being waged in its name, why don’t we have a coherent and consistent definition for Terrorism? Get ready to rethink everything you think you know about this word and its application. Our guest is visual anthropologist Amanda Rogers , an expert on the propaganda of Islamic State.
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Since September 27th there has been a resurgence of armed conflict in the Caucasus between the small nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karbabakh, or Artsakh as it’s known in Armenian. The backstory to this decades-old conflict is complex, so be sure to check the documentary films linked to on our website if you would like to do a deeper dive into the historical context. And be sure to check out our previous two-part episode on Armenia, Armenians, and Armenian...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 69
For our first ever re-released episode we decided to commemorate Indigenous People’s Day with an audience favorite and one of our earliest shows. Yaari Walker is a member of the Yupik tribe, and originally from the town of Savoonga, on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. She now resides in Anchorage, Alaska, where, in addition to being an activist, author, and entrepreneur, she works at the Alaska Native Heritage Center . Yaari has been on a journey, as a survivor of physical abuse, substance abuse, an...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 53 min
David Shanks is the Chief Censor for New Zealand. As his title implies he is responsible for determining what is and what is not fit for public consumption, what ratings should be applied to various media, as well as other less obvious details that highlight the elusive line between protected speech and speech that constitutes a danger to public safety. We first reached out to David’s office after the BBC highlighted a series of videos from the government of New Zealand encouraging parents to di...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 68
This episode is the audio version of a live video broadcast that aired on Friday, August 7th, featuring guests on the ground in Beirut, Lebanon. Our guests are Mohammad Hamoud, a Lebanese activist and humanitarian relief worker, and Rita Kabalan, a Lebanese-American photojournalist based in Beirut. On Tuesday, August 4th, a massive explosion rocked Beirut's port when tons of improperly stored ammonium-nitrate was ignited by a fire in a storage facility. Now, more than a week on from the explosio...
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Ralph Nader is a five-time candidate for US president and a public servant who has improved the lives of Americans and of many people around the world through his 6 decades of work as a consumer advocate and civil liberties defender. We speak about the current status of civil rights protests, coronavirus, Palestine, corporate corruption, and about his new cookbook and the connection between our kitchens and the health of our communities. And we share a little about our own work on The Virtual Di...
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Idlib, in northern Syria, is one of the few parts of the country that have not been recaptured by the Assad regime but nearly a decade of war has taken an extreme toll on its inhabitants, with Coronavirus, continued fighting, and economic collapse creating a perfect humanitarian storm that has left Idlib in its most desperate circumstances of the war, with millions facing imminent risk of starvation, exposure to the elements, and perhaps another mass movement of people from the region like the w...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 65
This show is the audio-only version of a live chat hosted on July 10th, featuring guests Milena Zajović from Are You Syrious? , Douglas Herman from ReFocus Media Labs , and Carmen Dupont from Lesvos Solidarity - Pikpa . You can catch our weekly-(ish) live chat discussions most Fridays on the Latitude Adjustment FB page, or you can check our Live Video Chats archive to watch and share them later. Also, we’d like to formally introduce the show’s new co-host, Laila Mokhiber! Be sure to catch our fo...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 64
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. Intro: Eric Maddox Interview with Frank Slijper (9:02-1:13:10) Closing Remarks: Eri...
Jun 27, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 63
On May 25th George Floyd was detained and murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, making him only the most recent high profile case of an unarmed African American dying at the hands of law enforcement in the United States. The killing was captured on camera by witnesses and massive protests erupted almost immediately, starting in Minneapolis and quickly spreading to dozens of cities across the US, in what have become the largest civil rights protests in over half a century, since the assas...
Jun 05, 2020•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 62
We speak with Dr. Sadi Nkhala about the implications of a coronavirus outbreak in the Gaza Strip. Gaza has presently been spared from the worst case scenario, but like many poor communities, and like many communities containing large numbers of refugees, it is uniquely vulnerable. Like the rest of Gaza’s 2 million inhabitants, Sadi has been living under the Israeli-imposed siege on the coastal territory since 2007.
May 20, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 61
This is the final episode of a four-part series on the refugee crisis in Greece, undertaken in collaboration with Croation NGO, Are You Syrious . This episode features a range of perspectives from locals, internationals, volunteers, and founders on Lesvos and in Athens, including: Douglas Herman from Refocus Media Labs ; Lesvos (7:14) Eric Kempson from the Hope Project ; Lesvos (1:10:51) Salam Aldeen from Team Humanity ; Lesvos (1:36:44) Myrto Symeonidou from Migratory Birds ; Athens (2:01:49) M...
May 01, 2020•2 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 60
