“Hunger” by Adrienne Rich is about the persistence of desire in a world brutalized by heteropatriarchal militaristic imperialism. It is about resisting the Western mythology of independence in an attempt to find one another. [Download Link] Transcript: 1. A fogged hill-scene on an enormous continent, intimacy rigged with terrors, a sequence of blurs the Chinese… Continue reading The Decision to Feed the World

Eduardo Galeano had much to say about this world. [Download Link] Transcript: Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them – will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good… Continue reading The Nobodies

We don’t know what revolution is. But someone does. And that someone was Bhagat Singh. Here is an enhanced excerpt from the Joint Statement he made with B.K. Dutt, which was read by Asaf Ali in court in June 1929. [Download Link] Transcript: “Revolution” does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place… Continue reading The Meaning of Revolution