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  1. Talk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development Organizations

    5 DAYS AGO

    Talk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development Organizations

    This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Emiliana Vegas, author of the new book Let’s Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference. Emiliana Vegas has been highly recognized for her career working to inform education policy in the so-called Global South. She has been a leading economist at the World Bank, division chief of education at the Inter-American Bank, and codirector of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    29 min
  2. Talk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine

    19 NOV

    Talk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine

    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the crime of war in Palestine with Raed Jarrar, advocacy director for DAWN -- the organization founded by slain writer Jamal Khashoggi and found at dawnmena.org.

    29 min
  3. Talk World Radio: Tore Naerland on Biking for Peace

    6 NOV

    Talk World Radio: Tore Naerland on Biking for Peace

    This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Tore Naerland who is the founder and since 1977 has been the president of Bike For Peace, a Norwegian-based peace organization that works to organize peace rides on bicycles all over the world. They collaborate with various peace organizations, schools, and universities to promote and focus on the work in the struggle against nuclear weapons. See https://bikeforpeace.no

    29 min
  4. Talk World Radio: Why Some States Lock Up So Many People

    4 NOV

    Talk World Radio: Why Some States Lock Up So Many People

    This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Kevin B. Smith who is the author of the brand new book The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America. Smith is also the Leland and Dorothy H. Olson Chair of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The book shows that incarceration rates vary dramatically by state, within the United States, and that several factors correlate significantly with variations in those rates.

    29 min
  5. Talk World Radio: John Quigley on the Law and Stopping Genocide

    26 OCT

    Talk World Radio: John Quigley on the Law and Stopping Genocide

    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the illegality of the war in Gaza and the utility or lack thereof of international law. Our guest John Quigley is Professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University, Quigley's books include The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict (Cambridge University Press).

    29 min
  6. Talk World Radio: Robert Shetterly on Portraits of Peacemakers

    22 OCT

    Talk World Radio: Robert Shetterly on Portraits of Peacemakers

    This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with portrait painter Robert Shetterly whose website is americanswhotellthetruth.org. Robert’s paintings and prints are in collections all over the U.S. and Europe. For more than 20 years he has been painting the series of portraits Americans Who Tell the Truth. These portraits have been traveling around the country since 2003. Venues have included everything from university museums and grade school libraries to sandwich shops, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and the Superior Court in San Francisco. To date, the exhibits have visited 35 states. In 2005, Dutton published a book of the portraits by the same name. In 2006, the book won the top award of the International Reading Association for Intermediate non-fiction. New Village Press in New York City is currently publishing a series of themed books on the portraits. Each volume contains 50 portraits. The first two were Portraits of Racial Justice (2021) and Portraits of Earth Justice (2022). The new one is Portraits of Peacemakers: https://nyupress.org/9781613322567/portraits-of-peacemakers

    29 min
  7. Talk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa on Israel Shooting Children in Head

    14 OCT

    Talk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa on Israel Shooting Children in Head

    This week on Talk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who volunteered for two weeks in March and April at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. He is one of 99 doctors who recently signed an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris that estimated Palestinian war deaths in Gaza at no less than 118,908. He is also the author of an October 9th article in the New York Times based on his surveying of 65 healthcare workers, documenting -- among much else -- that Israeli soldiers are regularly shooting children in the head and chest. The New York Times article discussed: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html The letter discussed: https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024

    29 min
  8. Talk World Radio: Aran Shetterly on the Greensboro Massacre

    8 OCT

    Talk World Radio: Aran Shetterly on the Greensboro Massacre

    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the November 3rd 1979 Greensboro Massacre in Greensboro, North Carolina, with Aran Shetterly, the author of a brand new book on the topic, titled MORNINGSIDE: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul. To join an online bookclub with Aran Shetterly, go to: https://worldbeyondwar.org/book-club-aran-shetterly-with-morningside-the-1979-greensboro-massacre-and-the-struggle-for-an-american-citys-soul/?clear_id=true

    29 min
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