The extreme Texas Abortion Ban caught most people by surprise. Next month, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a direct challenge to the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. This round table aims to sound the alarm on this assault on women’s fundamental rights, deepen understanding of the stakes, arouse people’s fighting spirit to not let this go down, and explore what kind of future is possible and worth fighting for. Hosted by Sunsara Taylor, writer for revcom.us , ho...
Sep 26, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Ankush Khardori talks about the Merrick Garland DOJ and the (dim) prospects of real accountability for the Trump regime. Articles discussed include Merrick Garland's Moderation to Excess and Who Will Answer For this Cruelty? Read more of his writings at khardori.com . Then, Tony Norman talks about his recent article Fugitive Slave Act Redux: On the run in Texas ... and America . Read more of his writings at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and follow him on Twitter at @Tony_NormanPG . LIVE FORUM: Tue...
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Anthropologist Dr. Nazia Kazi recently wrote What We Forget , a piece commemorating the global aftermath of 9/11 illustrated by Anuj Shrestha; Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Kazi about the US empire and related root causes of the fascist stew that is politics today. Follow Dr. Kazi on Twitter at @NaziaKaziTweets and read her book Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics . Send your comments about the Refuse Fascism podcast to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Or leave a voicemail at...
Sep 12, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 40
A few days after the Supreme Court refused to block the extreme Texas abortion ban, Sam Goldman ( @SamBGoldman ), Coco Das ( @Coco_Das ) and Sunsara Taylor ( @SunsaraTaylor ) discuss the roots and ramifications of this dangerous new law. All abortions, without exception for rape or incest, are now illegal just two weeks after a first missed period; plus vigilantes are incentivized to hunt down not only those who seek abortions but anyone who assists, down to the taxi driver who may have given a ...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Sam Goldman interviews Khaled Beydoun, law professor and author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear . Order the book at khaledbeydoun.com and follow him on Twitter at @KhaledBeydoun . Then, Sam speaks to Coco Das about her latest article on RefuseFascism.org: Genocidal and Deadly Serious: Dan Patrick, Texas Fascist Lunatic Scapegoats Black People for the Pandemic . Follow Coco Das on Twitter at @Coco_Das . Send your comments about the Refuse Fascism podcast to sama...
Aug 29, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Sam Goldman interviews Matthew Hoh, former Marine and State Department official who served in and then was the first to resign over the unjust war in Afghanistan all the way back in 2009. Then, we're sharing an interview with educator Tamara Anderson about the upcoming Teach Truth Days of Action, a project of the Zinn Education Project happening August 27 - 29. Follow Matthew Hoh at matthewhoh.com and on Twitter at @MatthewPHoh . Follow Tamara on Twitter at @andersontamara . Get involved with th...
Aug 23, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Sam Goldman interviews writer Paul Mason about his new book: How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance . From the publisher: The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it. In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the...
Aug 15, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Coco Das ( @Coco_Das ) guest hosts; Sam Goldman interviews Wajahat Ali, author of the new book Go Back to Where You Came From . Pre-order the book at wajali.com . Read his columns for the Daily Beast here and follow him on Twitter at @WajahatAli . Mentioned by Coco Das at the start of the episode: The Big Money Behind the Big Lie and Andy Zee on The RNL Show . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on https://anchor.fm/re...
Aug 08, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Trigger warning: this episode contains Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn’s testimony regarding what he encountered as a Black officer defending the Capitol during the January 6 failed fascist coup attempt. His testimony contains racial slurs which he was subjected to that are disturbing/triggering. Sam Goldman interviews Tim Wise, anti-racism educator and author of Dispatches from the Race War . Follow him on Twitter @timjacobwise and read more of his writings at timjwise.medium.com . The articl...
Aug 01, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Sam interviews Teri Kanefield, lawyer and author of multiple books and articles which you can read about at terikanefield.com . Follow Teri on Twitter at @Teri_Kanefield . Then, Sunsara Taylor interviews Derenda Hancock, abortion rights activist and defender of the one abortion clinic in the entire state of Mississippi (this interview originally aired on The RNL Show ). Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on https://anc...
Jul 25, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Sam Goldman talks with Dr. Mia Bloom, member of the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group, professor of communication and Middle East studies at Georgia State University and a fellow with New America’s International Security program. Her new book, co-authored with Sophia Moskalenko is Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of Qanon . Follow her on Twitter at @MiaMBloom . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on ht...
Jul 18, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 32
David Atkins writes, "What will the institutions of liberal democracy do when Republican officials simply refuse to concede Democratic victories? The question isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem, and the reckoning may be coming far sooner than most expect." Sam Goldman interviews David about his recent article for Washington Monthly , talks about CPAC and Trump's inflammatory speech there, and introduces the updated mission statement for Refuse Fascism (as of July 2021). Follow David Atkins at @...
Jul 12, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Sam Goldman interviews Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor at Rewire News and co-host of the podcast Boom! Lawyered . Follow her on Twitter at @Hegemommy . Then, The RNL Show’s Sunsara Taylor interviews long-time abortion provider Dr. Warren Hern. Follow Sunsara at @SunsaraTaylor and watch The RNL Show on YouTube . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/mess...
Jul 04, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Sam Goldman interviews Dahlia Lithwick, columnist for Slate.com and host of the podcast Amicus about the Supreme Court: https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus Read her recent piece The Price of No Consequences for Trump: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/no-consequences-for-trump-garland-biden.html Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message . Connect with the movement at RefuseF...
Jun 27, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Sam Goldman interviews Chanelle Wilson, assistant professor of education and the director of the Africana Studies program at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Wilson has been vocally arguing for anti-racist approaches in education and uses critical race theory as a tool for identifying oppressive structures in the educational system and beyond. Read her profile in Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/chanelle-wilson-1587565 and follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrCEWilson . Send your comments to sa...
Jun 20, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Sam Goldman interviews Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, columnist for MSNBC and author of a new book, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America . Order her book here and follow Dr. Butler via her website antheabutler.com or on Twitter at @AntheaButler . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on anchor.fm/refuse-fascism. Conne...
Jun 13, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Sam Goldman talks to Caroline Duble, the Political Director of Avow Texas (https://avowtexas.org/) about the abortion ban set to go into effect September 1st and the larger fight for abortion rights. Avow Texas' slogan is "Unapologetic Abortion Advocacy" (cheers for that!). Then, we play the speech given by the valedictorian at Lake Highlands HS in Dallas. 18 yr. old Paxton Smith eloquently and courageously gave voice to all the millions of people affected by this fascist law. We should all take...
Jun 06, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Sam Goldman interviews long-time activist and voice of conscience Dr. Walden Bello about Trumpism and the global spread of fascism. Dr. Bello is currently International Adjunct Professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in Stockholm in 2003 for his work showing the negative impact of corporate-driven globalization. Read his article Fascism’s Global Spread is Real — As Real as the Spr...
May 30, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Sam Goldman interviews Brynn Tannehill ( @BrynnTannehill ) about her new book American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy . Then, Coco Das and Sam talk to a couple local organizers with Refuse Fascism chapters in Philadelphia and Texas, summing up their activism under Trump and going forward. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism C...
May 23, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Coco Das talks with historian Priya Satia about her recent article for the LA Review of Books: Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present . Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University, focusing on the history of Britain and its empire. She is the award-winning author of Spies in Arabia (2008) and Empire of Guns (2018). Her new book, Time's Monster: How History Makes History , is out now. Follow her on Twitter @PriyaSatia . ...
May 16, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Society wide repudiation of American fascism requires people from every corner of society speak up and take a stand. Coco Das (Contributing Editor of RefuseFascism.org) interviews Steve Hofstetter on getting loud in the face of fascist threats & noise. Hofstetter is an outspoken progressive comedian who unfortunately became the cover story of neo-Nazi publications and received hundreds of death threats after notoriously going off on an anti-Semitic heckler at one of his shows. Video: https:/...
May 09, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Sam Goldman interviews Brynn Tannehill ( @BrynnTannehill ) about the spate of anti-trans laws across the country and the larger fascist agenda it's a part of. Order her book American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy here. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism Cashapp: @RefuseFascism paypal.me/refusefascism donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Sn...
May 02, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history at New York University and the author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present talks with Sam Goldman about the continuing effects of Trump's lies and how the entire GOP has changed in the aftermath of the Trump years and Jan 6th coup attempt. Sign up for her new newsletter "Lucid," follow her on Twitter at @RuthBenGhiat , and check out her website ruthbenghiat.com . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Connect with the...
Apr 25, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Sam Goldman interviews Matthew Rozsa ( @MatthewRozsa ) about his recent article for Salon.com: Trump's Big Lie and Hitler's: Is this how America's slide into totalitarianism begins? which reads in part: "The Germans who 'believed' in Hitler's Big Lie did so not because he had any proof that Germany had been stabbed in the back, but because they hated Jews, hated leftists and wanted to restore the German Empire to its pre-World War I glory. The Republicans who 'believe' in Trump's Big Lie do so n...
Apr 18, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Sunsara Taylor interviews Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez ( @kkdumez ), author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation , about the rise of militant and militaristic patriarchy among Christian fascists as a major social force in this country (originally broadcast on The RNL Show ). Then, Sam Goldman ( @SamBGoldman ) and Coco Das @coco_das talk about how and why the call for continuous non-violent mass protests to drive out the Trump/Pence regime didn't ta...
Apr 11, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Sam Goldman talks to Talbert Swan (Bishop with the Church Of God In Christ and longtime fighter for justice, author of No More Cursing: Destroying The Roots Of Religious Racism ) about the spate of voter suppression bills being enacted across the country. Follow Bishop Swan at @talbertswan . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism Cashapp: @RefuseFascism paypal.me/refusefascism do...
Apr 05, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Maria Sanchez, a mental health professional and supporter of RefuseFascism.org, talks to Sam Goldman about the trauma of the Trump presidency and the enduring fascist movement on society, plus clips from the conversation between Sam and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee (editor of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”) from a few weeks ago. Since that interview was aired, Dr. Lee was targeted by former Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz and was fired from her position at Yale. Read her latest article...
Mar 28, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Sam Goldman interviews Andy Zee, host of The RNL Show on YouTube and a co-founder of RefuseFascism.org, to talk about the statement released this January by revolutionary leader Bob Avakian: A New Year, The Urgent Need For A Radically New World—For The Emancipation Of All Humanity . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism Cashapp: @RefuseFascism paypal.me/refusefascism donate.refus...
Mar 21, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 15
It's the 50th episode! We started the podcast this past summer; the week millions began to pour into the streets rebelling against white supremacy and demanding justice for George Floyd. When we began a fascist regime was tightening its grip on society; we called the podcast "Inside With #OutNow" as the movement to get these fascists out became all the more urgent. Since then, we've covered Trump's refusal to wear a mask as a signal to fascism and other forms of fascist propaganda, the white sup...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Sam Goldman interviews Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College and Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR. Dr. Finchelstein is the author of seven books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His latest book is A Brief History of Fascist Lies and you can follow him on Twitter @FinchelsteinF . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or...
Mar 07, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 14
