In Solidarity - by openDemocracy

Over 71,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the war began on Oct 7 2023, in what a UN inquiry has described as a “genocide”. When a US-brokered ceasefire was declared in October last year, the world's attention moved on to the next crisis. Since then at least 463 Palestinians had been killed by Israel as of Jan 21 this year, of whom 100 were children, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency.

Anywhere where else in the world, this would be an active conflict. In Palestine, this is what a ceasefire looks like.

In this episode, we speak to Jamil Sawalmeh, the Director of ActionAid Palestine on the situation on the ground in Gaza.

https://palestine.actionaid.org/

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Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:41 What is the situation on the ground like Gaza?
07:04 The 'Yellow Line'
10:40 A lack of fresh water
14:00 The great displacement
14:53 Returning to Palestine is impossible
20:08 Reality of the Board Of Peace
24:08 The local infrastructure
28:12 What should the world be doing to help?

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If the US once claimed it was “defending Democracy” to justify attacking countries without pretext, the current administration has made no such excuses.

Last week US security forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife from a compound in Caracas in an operation that killed 70 people.
Maduro was presented in a courtroom in Manhattan, on charges of supposedly “importing tons of cocaine into the United States”, and his deputy Delcy Rodriguez was installed in his place as acting President.
To make this all make sense, we speak with Laura Tedesco, a long time openDemocracy contributor and professor of political science and international relations at St. Louis university in Madrid. Prof. Tedesco is also the author of several books on democracy and politics in Latin America.

Read Laura's Book, Latin America's Leaders: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9781783601028

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In Solidarity is openDemocracy’s podcast about people, power, and politics. Support the show by visiting https://www.openDemocracy.net/donate/

Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Waring factions have dominated the headlines, but inside the Your Party conference the embers of hope for a different kind of politics were still burning.

Investigative reporter Ethan Shone tells what the mood was like among the party members following months of public spats and PR disasters.

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In Solidarity is openDemocracy’s podcast about people, power, and politics. Support the show by visiting https://www.openDemocracy.net/donate/
Credits:
Presented by James Battershill
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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We’ve normalised the idea that the world is ending, that society is tearing itself apart, that our countries — wherever we live — are falling apart. But what does that really look like? What does it feel like? What emerges in the aftermath?

In this episode host Aman Sethi speaks to Renata Salecl, a Slovenian philosopher, sociologist and political theorist to decode how the experiences of post-socialist countries can help us understand the crisis gripping the West.

A Passion For Ignorance - https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9780691240992
The Spoils of Freedom - https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9780415073585
On Anxiety - https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9780415312769
The Tyranny of Choice - https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9781846681868

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In Solidarity is openDemocracy’s podcast about people, power, and politics. Support the show by visiting https://www.openDemocracy.net/donate/
Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Story production by Ayodeji Rotinwa
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:30 Post socialist societies
07:22 The modern respect for cunning
08:45 Lessons from pop culture
10:16 The (mis)use of fake news
13:53 On accelerationism
16:11 The dissolution of societies
18:53 Times when nothing and everything changes
20:50 Those that enjoy life the wrong way
22:24 Neoliberal collapse

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Earlier this year, Labour overwhelmingly voted in favour of an amendment that would end the criminalisation of women and pregnant people seeking abortions outside the 1967 Abortion Act exemptions. As the debate went through the Lords, we sat down with MSI Reproductive Choices’ Louise McCudden to discuss why we need decriminalisation now - and what this win means amid a global backlash against abortion rights.

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In Solidarity is openDemocracy’s podcast about people, power, and politics. Support the show by visiting https://www.openDemocracy.net/donate/
Credits:
Presented by Sian Norris
Story production by Ayodeji Rotinwa
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:07 What is the current legal state of abortion across the UK?
05:13 The women being imprisoned for abortion
10:16 The late-term abortion argument
13:10 Imported tactics from the US
16:21 The case for optimism
19:02 Anti-abortion's international bankroll
23:17 The future of the pro-abortion movement
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