Essential Dissent

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - An Afternoon with Rashid Khalidi 12.05.2026 1:07:16 ↓

Professor Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East, and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Colombia University. The event was recorded on March 29, 2026 at the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn. and was co-sponsored by First Unitarian Brooklyn’s chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, New York City DSA Anti...

Gabriel Rockhill - Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? 24.02.2026 56:44 ↓

This episode is a talk by Gabriel Rockhill to mark the publication of his new book, titled “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” For Rockhill, an American philosopher, writer, cultural critic, and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, the term "Western Marxism" is not simply a geographic label or a neutral academic category. IInstead it denotes an ideological formation that depoliti...

Aly Wane - Abolitionist Immigration Activist 16.02.2026 58:43 ↓

Aly Wane is an undocumented alien who has been organizing around immigration issues for over 20 years. An abolitionist immigration activist is someone who believes the current U.S. immigration enforcement system—ICE, Border Patrol, detention centers, deportation courts, and the laws that empower them—is fundamentally harmful and should be dismantled rather than reformed. The term “abolitionist” si...