Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom
@underthetreepod.bsky.social
A podcast that takes you on a journey to reimagine how we can bring freedom & liberation to life.
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https://linktr.ee/underthetree
NEW EPISODE!
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Episode #140: Teaching in Dark Times with Kathryn Zamarron
We’re joined by Kathryn (Kat) Zamarron, a Chicago Public School teacher, in a wide-ranging conversation focused on the complex reality of supporting children and youth and their families in dark times.
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Episode #140: Teaching in Dark Times with Kathryn Zamarron
We’re joined by Kathryn (Kat) Zamarron, a Chicago Public School teacher, in a wide-ranging conversation focused on the complex reality of supporting children and youth and their families in dark times.
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
NEW EPISODE!
bit.ly/4nP2xuR
Episode #140: Teaching in Dark Times with Kathryn Zamarron
We’re joined by Kathryn (Kat) Zamarron, a Chicago Public School teacher, in a wide-ranging conversation focused on the complex reality of supporting children and youth and their families in dark times.
bit.ly/4nP2xuR
Episode #140: Teaching in Dark Times with Kathryn Zamarron
We’re joined by Kathryn (Kat) Zamarron, a Chicago Public School teacher, in a wide-ranging conversation focused on the complex reality of supporting children and youth and their families in dark times.
On Day of the Dead, we will honor the memory of Silverio Gonzalez who was murdered by ICE.
Download the b&w PDF at the link in our bio or visit @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for the color print available to those making a donation to ICIRR.
Remember the dead and fight like hell for the living!
Download the b&w PDF at the link in our bio or visit @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for the color print available to those making a donation to ICIRR.
Remember the dead and fight like hell for the living!
October 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
On Day of the Dead, we will honor the memory of Silverio Gonzalez who was murdered by ICE.
Download the b&w PDF at the link in our bio or visit @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for the color print available to those making a donation to ICIRR.
Remember the dead and fight like hell for the living!
Download the b&w PDF at the link in our bio or visit @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for the color print available to those making a donation to ICIRR.
Remember the dead and fight like hell for the living!
NEW EPISODE!
We met up at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with Aaron Hughes and @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social of
@vetsaboutface.bsky.social, a dynamic and powerful group involved in building an irresistible movement for peace and against war and fascism.
bit.ly/47ifHu6
We met up at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with Aaron Hughes and @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social of
@vetsaboutface.bsky.social, a dynamic and powerful group involved in building an irresistible movement for peace and against war and fascism.
bit.ly/47ifHu6
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
NEW EPISODE!
We met up at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with Aaron Hughes and @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social of
@vetsaboutface.bsky.social, a dynamic and powerful group involved in building an irresistible movement for peace and against war and fascism.
bit.ly/47ifHu6
We met up at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with Aaron Hughes and @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social of
@vetsaboutface.bsky.social, a dynamic and powerful group involved in building an irresistible movement for peace and against war and fascism.
bit.ly/47ifHu6
NEW EPISODE!
Listen now to a conversation between Lisa Lee and @zayddohrn.bsky.social examining how art, activism, and imagination shape movements for change.
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Listen now to a conversation between Lisa Lee and @zayddohrn.bsky.social examining how art, activism, and imagination shape movements for change.
bit.ly/4mZfwda
October 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NEW EPISODE!
Listen now to a conversation between Lisa Lee and @zayddohrn.bsky.social examining how art, activism, and imagination shape movements for change.
bit.ly/4mZfwda
Listen now to a conversation between Lisa Lee and @zayddohrn.bsky.social examining how art, activism, and imagination shape movements for change.
bit.ly/4mZfwda
Come out tonight!
Thursday October 2 2025 | 7:00 PM
Walls Turned Sideways | 2717 W. Madison, Chicago
Faheem Majeed will moderate a discussion on the Surviving the Long Wars book with co-editor Aaron Hughes and artists Dorothy Burge, Brittney Chantele, and Eric Perez.
Thursday October 2 2025 | 7:00 PM
Walls Turned Sideways | 2717 W. Madison, Chicago
Faheem Majeed will moderate a discussion on the Surviving the Long Wars book with co-editor Aaron Hughes and artists Dorothy Burge, Brittney Chantele, and Eric Perez.
October 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Come out tonight!
Thursday October 2 2025 | 7:00 PM
Walls Turned Sideways | 2717 W. Madison, Chicago
Faheem Majeed will moderate a discussion on the Surviving the Long Wars book with co-editor Aaron Hughes and artists Dorothy Burge, Brittney Chantele, and Eric Perez.
Thursday October 2 2025 | 7:00 PM
Walls Turned Sideways | 2717 W. Madison, Chicago
Faheem Majeed will moderate a discussion on the Surviving the Long Wars book with co-editor Aaron Hughes and artists Dorothy Burge, Brittney Chantele, and Eric Perez.
The trauma being inflicted on children and communities is intentional. They are trying to disappear entire communities not only thru physical deportation but thru psychological terror.
September 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The trauma being inflicted on children and communities is intentional. They are trying to disappear entire communities not only thru physical deportation but thru psychological terror.
Thanks to those who joined us last night at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for an engaging conversation on GI resistance in times of crisis. Our talk with Aaron Hughes & Arti Walker-Peddakotla was recorded for the pod to be released soon!
Be sure to grab the Resistance zine from PCB!
Be sure to grab the Resistance zine from PCB!
September 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thanks to those who joined us last night at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for an engaging conversation on GI resistance in times of crisis. Our talk with Aaron Hughes & Arti Walker-Peddakotla was recorded for the pod to be released soon!
Be sure to grab the Resistance zine from PCB!
Be sure to grab the Resistance zine from PCB!
Join us tonight at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for a powerful discussion with Aaron Hughes and Arti Walker-Peddakotla on GI Resistance and the political moment we are facing.
They will be sharing an updated version of their zine: “State Violence, Abolition, & GI Resistance.”
6PM @ 1102 W 18th St
They will be sharing an updated version of their zine: “State Violence, Abolition, & GI Resistance.”
6PM @ 1102 W 18th St
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Join us tonight at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for a powerful discussion with Aaron Hughes and Arti Walker-Peddakotla on GI Resistance and the political moment we are facing.
They will be sharing an updated version of their zine: “State Violence, Abolition, & GI Resistance.”
6PM @ 1102 W 18th St
They will be sharing an updated version of their zine: “State Violence, Abolition, & GI Resistance.”
6PM @ 1102 W 18th St
It is long past time to end the practice of solitary confinement in IL prisons!
Please take a moment to read the words of my friend and comrade, Stanley Howard, who survived 39 years unjustly imprisoned and continues to fight against the inhumane prison system.
bit.ly/48v66lM
Please take a moment to read the words of my friend and comrade, Stanley Howard, who survived 39 years unjustly imprisoned and continues to fight against the inhumane prison system.
bit.ly/48v66lM
September 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It is long past time to end the practice of solitary confinement in IL prisons!
Please take a moment to read the words of my friend and comrade, Stanley Howard, who survived 39 years unjustly imprisoned and continues to fight against the inhumane prison system.
bit.ly/48v66lM
Please take a moment to read the words of my friend and comrade, Stanley Howard, who survived 39 years unjustly imprisoned and continues to fight against the inhumane prison system.
bit.ly/48v66lM
See you tomorrow Omaha!
Look forward to meeting some of you soon and talking about freedom and abolition!
Talk & Book Signing
Thurs. Sept 25, 2025 @ 6:30PM
Green Line Cafe,
1540 N. Saddle Creek Rd., Omaha
Look forward to meeting some of you soon and talking about freedom and abolition!
Talk & Book Signing
Thurs. Sept 25, 2025 @ 6:30PM
Green Line Cafe,
1540 N. Saddle Creek Rd., Omaha
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
See you tomorrow Omaha!
Look forward to meeting some of you soon and talking about freedom and abolition!
Talk & Book Signing
Thurs. Sept 25, 2025 @ 6:30PM
Green Line Cafe,
1540 N. Saddle Creek Rd., Omaha
Look forward to meeting some of you soon and talking about freedom and abolition!
Talk & Book Signing
Thurs. Sept 25, 2025 @ 6:30PM
Green Line Cafe,
1540 N. Saddle Creek Rd., Omaha
Join us in Omaha, this Thursday 9/25 for an author event and signing for my latest book When Freedom is the Question, Abolition is the Answer.
Then back in Chicago on Saturday 9/27 for a timely discussion on GI resistance to militarism and fascism at Pilsen Community Books.
Then back in Chicago on Saturday 9/27 for a timely discussion on GI resistance to militarism and fascism at Pilsen Community Books.
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Join us in Omaha, this Thursday 9/25 for an author event and signing for my latest book When Freedom is the Question, Abolition is the Answer.
Then back in Chicago on Saturday 9/27 for a timely discussion on GI resistance to militarism and fascism at Pilsen Community Books.
Then back in Chicago on Saturday 9/27 for a timely discussion on GI resistance to militarism and fascism at Pilsen Community Books.
We received this message warning us about “ICE checkpoints” but upon careful examination of the image the message was debunked.
PLEASE be sure to check sources and double check info before sharing.
Don’t do the work of bad actors for them. Follow trusted local journalists and organizations.
PLEASE be sure to check sources and double check info before sharing.
Don’t do the work of bad actors for them. Follow trusted local journalists and organizations.
September 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We received this message warning us about “ICE checkpoints” but upon careful examination of the image the message was debunked.
PLEASE be sure to check sources and double check info before sharing.
Don’t do the work of bad actors for them. Follow trusted local journalists and organizations.
PLEASE be sure to check sources and double check info before sharing.
Don’t do the work of bad actors for them. Follow trusted local journalists and organizations.
NEW EPISODE!
We’re joined by Kristen Buras, an anti-racist activist & teacher who is the director of the Urban South Grass-roots Research Collective. She is the author of What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School.
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We’re joined by Kristen Buras, an anti-racist activist & teacher who is the director of the Urban South Grass-roots Research Collective. She is the author of What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School.
bit.ly/4npICTh
September 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
NEW EPISODE!
We’re joined by Kristen Buras, an anti-racist activist & teacher who is the director of the Urban South Grass-roots Research Collective. She is the author of What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School.
bit.ly/4npICTh
We’re joined by Kristen Buras, an anti-racist activist & teacher who is the director of the Urban South Grass-roots Research Collective. She is the author of What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School.
bit.ly/4npICTh
There were some real winners out there yesterday.
September 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There were some real winners out there yesterday.
NEW EPISODE!
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
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Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW EPISODE!
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
bit.ly/41qauOP
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
bit.ly/41qauOP
NEW EPISODE!
Ep 135: Family Policing
We’re joined in conversation today with Erin Miles Cloud, the mother of two, a civil rights attorney, and co-editor of a new book from @haymarketbooks.org called "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action."
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@movfamilypower.bsky.social
Ep 135: Family Policing
We’re joined in conversation today with Erin Miles Cloud, the mother of two, a civil rights attorney, and co-editor of a new book from @haymarketbooks.org called "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action."
bit.ly/4mfOuyv
@movfamilypower.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
NEW EPISODE!
Ep 135: Family Policing
We’re joined in conversation today with Erin Miles Cloud, the mother of two, a civil rights attorney, and co-editor of a new book from @haymarketbooks.org called "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action."
bit.ly/4mfOuyv
@movfamilypower.bsky.social
Ep 135: Family Policing
We’re joined in conversation today with Erin Miles Cloud, the mother of two, a civil rights attorney, and co-editor of a new book from @haymarketbooks.org called "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action."
bit.ly/4mfOuyv
@movfamilypower.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
We’re joined by Vijay Prashad, a theorist & activist intellectual. As exec. director of @tricontinental.bsky.social, @vijayprashad.bsky.social is refreshingly dialectical in his thinking & writing—witness a dangerous mind in ongoing argument with itself.
bit.ly/4ohhoj5
We’re joined by Vijay Prashad, a theorist & activist intellectual. As exec. director of @tricontinental.bsky.social, @vijayprashad.bsky.social is refreshingly dialectical in his thinking & writing—witness a dangerous mind in ongoing argument with itself.
bit.ly/4ohhoj5
August 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
We’re joined by Vijay Prashad, a theorist & activist intellectual. As exec. director of @tricontinental.bsky.social, @vijayprashad.bsky.social is refreshingly dialectical in his thinking & writing—witness a dangerous mind in ongoing argument with itself.
bit.ly/4ohhoj5
We’re joined by Vijay Prashad, a theorist & activist intellectual. As exec. director of @tricontinental.bsky.social, @vijayprashad.bsky.social is refreshingly dialectical in his thinking & writing—witness a dangerous mind in ongoing argument with itself.
bit.ly/4ohhoj5
Join us and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
tonight for a raucous and informative reenactment of the Battle of Halsted!
Meet up Cermak & Halsted, 7pm.
Part of subVersion Summer Camp ⛺️
More info:
www.chicagolaborhistory.org
tonight for a raucous and informative reenactment of the Battle of Halsted!
Meet up Cermak & Halsted, 7pm.
Part of subVersion Summer Camp ⛺️
More info:
www.chicagolaborhistory.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Join us and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
tonight for a raucous and informative reenactment of the Battle of Halsted!
Meet up Cermak & Halsted, 7pm.
Part of subVersion Summer Camp ⛺️
More info:
www.chicagolaborhistory.org
tonight for a raucous and informative reenactment of the Battle of Halsted!
Meet up Cermak & Halsted, 7pm.
Part of subVersion Summer Camp ⛺️
More info:
www.chicagolaborhistory.org
NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Ep #133: Remembering Red Summer
We’re joined by Franklin Cosey Gay and @profpetercole.bsky.social, co-directors of The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) on the eve of their annual commemoration and slow-rolling bike tour.
Ep #133: Remembering Red Summer
We’re joined by Franklin Cosey Gay and @profpetercole.bsky.social, co-directors of The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) on the eve of their annual commemoration and slow-rolling bike tour.
July 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Ep #133: Remembering Red Summer
We’re joined by Franklin Cosey Gay and @profpetercole.bsky.social, co-directors of The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) on the eve of their annual commemoration and slow-rolling bike tour.
Ep #133: Remembering Red Summer
We’re joined by Franklin Cosey Gay and @profpetercole.bsky.social, co-directors of The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) on the eve of their annual commemoration and slow-rolling bike tour.
NEW EPISODE!
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“Mafalda,” a six-year-old comic book character created by Argentinian artist Quino, is now available in English in a dazzling translation by Frank Wynne.
@terribleman.com
bit.ly/44r9Fax
“Mafalda,” a six-year-old comic book character created by Argentinian artist Quino, is now available in English in a dazzling translation by Frank Wynne.
@terribleman.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
NEW EPISODE!
bit.ly/44r9Fax
“Mafalda,” a six-year-old comic book character created by Argentinian artist Quino, is now available in English in a dazzling translation by Frank Wynne.
@terribleman.com
bit.ly/44r9Fax
“Mafalda,” a six-year-old comic book character created by Argentinian artist Quino, is now available in English in a dazzling translation by Frank Wynne.
@terribleman.com
Nothing like spending an afternoon in discussion with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social, Jenine Wahbe, & Damon Williams.
Thank you to @jvp-chicago.bsky.social for organizing and to those who joined us today.
Thank you to @jvp-chicago.bsky.social for organizing and to those who joined us today.
June 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Nothing like spending an afternoon in discussion with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social, Jenine Wahbe, & Damon Williams.
Thank you to @jvp-chicago.bsky.social for organizing and to those who joined us today.
Thank you to @jvp-chicago.bsky.social for organizing and to those who joined us today.
NEW EPISODE!
We’re joined by Patrick Hoffman, author of Friends Helping Friends, a portrait of two young men living on the edge of society. Their contact with a corrupt legal system drags them into a frightening brush with a white nationalist group that tests the power of friendship.
bit.ly/4krNhmC
We’re joined by Patrick Hoffman, author of Friends Helping Friends, a portrait of two young men living on the edge of society. Their contact with a corrupt legal system drags them into a frightening brush with a white nationalist group that tests the power of friendship.
bit.ly/4krNhmC
June 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
NEW EPISODE!
We’re joined by Patrick Hoffman, author of Friends Helping Friends, a portrait of two young men living on the edge of society. Their contact with a corrupt legal system drags them into a frightening brush with a white nationalist group that tests the power of friendship.
bit.ly/4krNhmC
We’re joined by Patrick Hoffman, author of Friends Helping Friends, a portrait of two young men living on the edge of society. Their contact with a corrupt legal system drags them into a frightening brush with a white nationalist group that tests the power of friendship.
bit.ly/4krNhmC
Radical Chicago and the Struggles for a Livable City: Jeanne Theoharis on the Kings of Chicago at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Radical Chicago and the Struggles for a Livable City: Jeanne Theoharis on the Kings of Chicago at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE!
Join us in conversation with Jesse Hagopian, one of the most brilliant contemporary voices in education, and author of Teach Truth : The Struggle for Antiracist Education, an essential text for these troubled times.
bit.ly/43BizjL
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
Join us in conversation with Jesse Hagopian, one of the most brilliant contemporary voices in education, and author of Teach Truth : The Struggle for Antiracist Education, an essential text for these troubled times.
bit.ly/43BizjL
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
NEW EPISODE!
Join us in conversation with Jesse Hagopian, one of the most brilliant contemporary voices in education, and author of Teach Truth : The Struggle for Antiracist Education, an essential text for these troubled times.
bit.ly/43BizjL
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
Join us in conversation with Jesse Hagopian, one of the most brilliant contemporary voices in education, and author of Teach Truth : The Struggle for Antiracist Education, an essential text for these troubled times.
bit.ly/43BizjL
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE!
Common Good Organizing w/ @etoddbreland.bsky.social
We’re joined by the author of the award winning "A Political Education: Black Politics & Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s" and the memoir, "I Didn’t Come Here to Lie," written w/the late Karen Lewis.
bit.ly/4mvDXzw
Common Good Organizing w/ @etoddbreland.bsky.social
We’re joined by the author of the award winning "A Political Education: Black Politics & Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s" and the memoir, "I Didn’t Come Here to Lie," written w/the late Karen Lewis.
bit.ly/4mvDXzw
May 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
NEW EPISODE!
Common Good Organizing w/ @etoddbreland.bsky.social
We’re joined by the author of the award winning "A Political Education: Black Politics & Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s" and the memoir, "I Didn’t Come Here to Lie," written w/the late Karen Lewis.
bit.ly/4mvDXzw
Common Good Organizing w/ @etoddbreland.bsky.social
We’re joined by the author of the award winning "A Political Education: Black Politics & Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s" and the memoir, "I Didn’t Come Here to Lie," written w/the late Karen Lewis.
bit.ly/4mvDXzw