Interweaving
What is Interweaving?
Join us for fresh, timely conversations about underreported stories from around the globe. We highlight the role of grassroots journalists, activists, and authors who are working to create a better information ecosystem and a more just world.
Interweaving #25 - Thinking Beyond Settler Systems
In this episode, Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo speaks with guests John Collins (Weave News), Blake Lavia (Talking Wings), and Emmett Smith (Northern Power & Light) about the intersection of settler colonialism, ecological responsibility, and the rights of nature in northern New York/Haudenosaunee territory and beyond. In addition to Smith’s unique perspective on dams and energy issues in the region, the conversation addresses broader ethical questions about how to move beyond our current system of extractive capitalism.
Interweaving #23 - Damon Berry on Christian Nationalism, Russia, and Ukraine
In this episode of Interweaving, host John Collins talks with religious studies scholar Damon Berry about Christian nationalism and its relevance to the war on Ukraine. They discuss how Christian nationalists in the US see the world through a lens of white nostalgia, where their views connect with Vladimir Putin’s agenda, and why it is politically necessary to look closely at these views even if we find them abhorrent.
Interweaving #21 - Mark Ayyash on Ukraine and Palestine
John Collins speaks with sociologist Mark Ayyash about the war on Ukraine and how it connects with the colonization of Palestine.