Latitude Adjustment

This episode marks the second of a two-part series featuring interviews with Rabbis on the subjects of Antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and the problems that arise when the two topics are conflated, either through misunderstanding or to serve political interests. Rabbi Brant Rosen founded the Tzedek congregation in Chicago. Like Rabbi Lynn, Rabbi Brant is also a member of Jewish Voice for Peace. You...

This episode marks the first of a two-part series featuring interviews with Rabbis on the subjects of Antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and the problems that arise when the two topics are conflated, either through misunderstanding or to serve political interests. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb has the distinction of being one of the first female rabbis in the world, and her outspoken positions on Palestinian hu...

As the formal US occupation of Afghanistan comes to an ignominious close, human rights defender Basir Bita joins us again from Kabul. We discuss the recent offensive by the Taliban that has seen it taking large swathes of the country, the varied interests and involvement of the key international players in Afghanistan's present and future, and perhaps most critically, the legacy of US abandonment...

The IWW, or Industrial Workers of the World , was founded in Chicago in 1905, in part as a response to the traditional craft based structure of organizations like the American Federation of Labor, which organized laborers into unions according to their respective trades. If you go to their website today you'll note that the IWW still proudly promotes itself as "one big union", that is one union fo...

This episode is the second part of a two part series. In part two we focus on the work of the Allamin Foundation , and of Hamsatu Allamin the organization's founder. The Allamin Foundation works on the ground in Northeastern Nigeria with survivors of Boko Haram. Episode one is focused on the origins of Boko Haram, its framing in the media, and some of the problems that have arisen in the national...

Today's show is the first of a two-part series on Boko Haram. For this episode we speak to Mercy Ette. Mercy is a Nigerian journalist and a visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds. Where she is working to establish a survivor group to tackle stigmatization and isolation among survivors of Boko Haram. Allamin Foundation , which is featured in the second part of this two part series, is...

On May 8th, 85 people were killed in a bomb attack near a school in Kabul. Many of those killed were young women. The bomb was detonated in a part of Kabul that is home to the Hazara, an Afghan minority group that has been a frequent target of attacks, including a massacre in a maternity war last year that killed 24 people. The Hazara are a predominantly Shia-Muslim ethnic minority in Afghanistan,...

For this second of two episodes about current events in Palestine we will be focusing specifically on the situation in East Jerusalem, and in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. East Jerusalem, which contains the old city, has been illegally occupied by Israel since the Israeli military captured it, along with the rest of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights, in the "Six Day Wa...

This episode is the first of a two part series we are doing on Palestine. This episode focuses on voices from Gaza, while the next episode highlights voices from east Jerusalem. You don't need to listen to them in any particular order, but we strongly recommend that you listen to both in their entirety.  You will hear a lot today about the psychological toll that repeated wars, devastation, povert...

For this episode we catch up with Indian journalist, and previous guest, Meena Menon to discuss the current status of press freedom in India, and in particular how the subject relates to reporting on the COVID pandemic. According to RSF (Reporters Without Borders) 2021 Global Press Freedom Index , India holds a rank of 142nd. Be sure to catch part one of this two-part discussion (Episode 79) about...

This episode is the first of a two-part discussion about the erupting COVID crisis in India. Be sure to catch episode 80 as well, which deals with the status of press freedom in India and how it relates to reporting on the pandemic.  Those following the world news headlines for the past few days will be aware that that Mumbai and its surrounding state of Maharashtra are at the epicenter of a massi...

Perhaps one of the least represented perspectives we've covered on this show is that of the forests that feed and shelter us, provide our medicines, replenish our soil, sustain our wildlife, color our landscapes, and which address the most basic of all human needs, the need to breathe.  Originally from Chile, Nicolas Salazar Sutil currently resides in the UK where he's a professor at the Universit...

For this bonus episode I'm going to be doing something I've rarely done on this show, I'm not going to interview anyone. This is me speaking with no notes or preparation, just off the cuff and from the heart about some issues that have weighed heavily on me for a long time, issues that I think a lot of people in my line of work are afraid to talk about, especially in the US. It deals with why we r...

For this re-released episode we've included our original interview, completed in late 2018, and we catch up with Bruno for a detailed update about his current work with No Name Kitchen. If you want to skip to the new interview from April 2021 it starts at: 43:43  Bruno Morán is from Asturias, Spain, and is a co-founder of No Name Kitchen , an NGO that provides food, sleeping bags, basic necessitie...

Less than a week after the January 6th attack on the US Capital building attorneys Diala Shamas and Tarek Ismail co-authored a piece for the Washington Post titled, " Calling the Capital riot 'terrorism' will only hurt communities of color. "  Our conversation explores some of the less publicized consequences of anti-terrorism legislation and law enforcement priorities going back decades, to the O...

We speak with Dr. Amanda Rogers about infiltration of the U.S. military and law enforcement by white supremacist and white nationalist groups, and provide a brief history and contemporary overview of white supremacist movements in the U.S. Be sure to check out Dr. Rogers' recent article, " Dismantling White Supremacist Infiltration of the Military and Law Enforcement ," as well as our previous int...

On February 1st, 2021, Myanmar's military seized power in a coup in response to a sweeping electoral victory by Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party. The past few weeks have seen mass protests across the country by a diverse range of groups, and the military regime's response has grown increasingly bloody, with night raids and detentions, and live rounds being used to maim and kill protestors. We spoke to...

Kiki a.k.a. "Captain Alpha" was not new to life as a refugee when he arrived in Moria Camp in October of 2019. By that time his long journey has already caused him to flee his home in Burundi, and to spend years in a refugee camp in Rwanda. One year ago he started @the_humans_of_moria  Instagram account, to help asylum seekers on Lesvos share their stories and expose their conditions. But now, for...

In observance of Black History Month we've re-edited the opening and closing thoughts to two episodes that were first published back in September of 2019. A lot has happened since then, but we the conversation and the history contained in these episodes remain as relevant as ever: In this second of a two-part conversation I talk to Major Joe Womack (USMC-retired) about AfricaTown. Now part of Mobi...

In observance of Black History Month we've re-edited opening and closing thoughts to these episodes that were first published back in September of 2019. A lot has happened since then, but we felt that the conversation and the history contained in these episodes is as relevant now as ever: Now part of Mobile, Alabama, AfricaTown was founded by survivors of the last slave ship to bring Africans to t...

In October of last year a brutal killing at the hands of Nigerian police was captured on video. It quickly went viral across the country, across, Africa, and then around the world. The police involved in the killing belonged to Nigeria's SARS unit, short for "Special Anti Robbery Squad". The notorious SARS unit has long been known for acts of extortion, abuse, sexual harassment and violence, tortu...

UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! In this third episode of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy four young Afghan women share their greatest hopes and fears since arriving to Lesvos and the borders of the...

UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! In this second episode of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy a young Afghan woman tries to find the perfect word to capture the essence of her journey to Lesvos to seek...

UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! In the first episode of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy you will hear four Afghan men open up about some of the unique struggles they face living under lockdown in th...

UPDATE: you can now support the growth and sustainability of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy by contributing to our GoFundMe campaign . Help to elevate the voices of displaced peoples by making them podcast producers! Before you hear the episodes from the very first graduating class of the Latitude Adjustment Podcast Academy , we'd like to take you behind the scenes to share some of the ch...