Shahid Buttar: “Nancy Pelosi stands, as she always has, on the side of the past”
Shahid Buttar is running to represent California's 12th congressional district. He is challenging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has not faced a Democratic opponent in 30 years. In March, Buttar came...
6 Maj 202033min
Raj Patel: "The New Deal emerged from a decade of worker struggle"
In the second part of our series on the US election, we had the pleasure of speaking with Raj Patel: the award winning author, film-maker and academic, who is currently a research professor at the Lyn...
1 Maj 202027min
US election special #2: The Green New Deal
The US economy is currently facing its greatest crisis in a generation. Due to the coronavirus, the Federal Reserve has warned that unemployment could reach 30% and the economy could experience a down...
28 Apr 202047min
Wilfred Chan on the Hong Kong protests and the US-China relationship
Aaron White and Freddie Stuart speak with Wilfred Chan, a writer and organizer living in New York. He previously worked as a journalist in Hong Kong. Chan has been featured in The Nation, Dissent Maga...
27 Mars 202032min
US election special #1: The military industrial complex
The US government spends nearly $1 trillion on defense annually, more than the next eight countries combined. This spending fuels a military industrial complex with a network of nearly 800 bases aroun...
19 Mars 202040min
Whose data? Our data!
In the first episode of ourVoices we explore the rise of big tech, and imagine a future where our data is used to benefit the collective – not the private few. Published by openDemocracy Narrated by ...
12 Nov 201924min
ourVoices - Introduction
ourVoices is a new podcast from openDemocracy which aims to explore the ongoing crisis of our economic system – and promote intelligent debate about what should replace it.
6 Nov 20192min
