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The Activist Files Podcast

The Activist Files is a podcast by the Center for Constitutional Rights where we feature the stories of people on the front lines fighting for social justice, including activists, lawyers, and storyte... Read more

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Episode 12: Transformative justice in an era of mass criminalization, Mariame Kaba and Victoria Law.

Episode 12: Transformative justice in an era of mass criminalization, Mariame Kaba and Victoria Law.

On the twelfth episode of The Activist Files, Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks with educator, organizer, and director... Read more

14 Mar 2019

56mins

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Bonus Episode: Examining the History of Lynching through a Present-Day Lens with Pardiss Kebriaei

Bonus Episode: Examining the History of Lynching through a Present-Day Lens with Pardiss Kebriaei

On this bonus episode of The Activist Files, CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks to Senior Staff Attorney... Read more

23 May 2018

18mins

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Episode 5: Migrating through Immigration

Episode 5: Migrating through Immigration

Participatory artist Lizania Cruz, whose most recent art projects focus on immigration, joins Chandra M. Hayslett, Cente... Read more

17 Aug 2018

31mins

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Bonus Episode: The migrant caravan at the border

Bonus Episode: The migrant caravan at the border

On this bonus episode of The Activist Files, guest host and Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks to Bertha Justice Fellow... Read more

6 Dec 2018

20mins

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Episode 14: Combating corporate contamination in cancer alley

Episode 14: Combating corporate contamination in cancer alley

On the fourteenth episode of The Activist Files, Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees talks with Lydia Gerard and Sharon Lavi... Read more

9 May 2019

32mins

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Episode 6: The Legal Fight of Indigenous Bolivians Who Put Their President on Trial

Episode 6: The Legal Fight of Indigenous Bolivians Who Put Their President on Trial

On the sixth episode of The Activist Files, CCR Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks to attorneys Beth Stephens and Judit... Read more

13 Sep 2018

30mins

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Episode 20: Law, lawyering, and writing Palestine, with Noura Erakat

Episode 20: Law, lawyering, and writing Palestine, with Noura Erakat

On Episode 20 of “The Activist Files,” Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Diala Shamas talks with Noura Era... Read more

14 Nov 2019

44mins

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Episode 13: Justice for Abu Ghraib with Katherine Gallagher and Baher Azmy

Episode 13: Justice for Abu Ghraib with Katherine Gallagher and Baher Azmy

On the thirteenth episode of The Activist Files, Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain speaks with Center for Constitut... Read more

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Episode 9: Community Organizers Talk Shop

Episode 9: Community Organizers Talk Shop

We’re finally over the mid-term hump, so The Activist Files checked in with organizers on the east and west coasts to fi... Read more

13 Dec 2018

38mins

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Episode 11: Walidah Imarisha and Gabriel Teodros Talk Science Fiction as Social Justice Strategy

Episode 11: Walidah Imarisha and Gabriel Teodros Talk Science Fiction as Social Justice Strategy

On the eleventh episode of The Activist Files, host Ian Head talks with writer and educator Walidah Imarisha and musicia... Read more

14 Feb 2019

44mins

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Episode 10: Up close and personal with Guantanamo—with Center for Constitutional Rights lawyers Wells Dixon and Shayana Kadidal

Episode 10: Up close and personal with Guantanamo—with Center for Constitutional Rights lawyers Wells Dixon and Shayana Kadidal

It’s a question our legal team gets asked all the time: What is it like visiting Guantánamo? From the food options on th... Read more

10 Jan 2019

40mins

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Episode 7: Jaribu Hill: Activist, Lawyer, Storyteller

Episode 7: Jaribu Hill: Activist, Lawyer, Storyteller

On the seventh episode of The Activist Files, your frequent host Senior Legal Worker Ian Head is joined by CCR Communica... Read more

26 Oct 2018

36mins

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Episode 16: Occupation vacation: Diala Shamas and Ziad Alwan on Palestine, settlements, and Airbnb

Episode 16: Occupation vacation: Diala Shamas and Ziad Alwan on Palestine, settlements, and Airbnb

On the 16th episode of “The Activist Files,” Advocacy Director Nadia Ben-Youssef speaks to Staff Attorney Diala Shamas a... Read more

11 Jul 2019

32mins

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Episode 15: Brick by brick - 50 years after Stonewall with Dean Spade and Chinyere Ezie

Episode 15: Brick by brick - 50 years after Stonewall with Dean Spade and Chinyere Ezie

On the 15th episode of “The Activist Files,” Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie and author, activist, and Professor of Law at ... Read more

20 Jun 2019

38mins

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Episode 19: Pushed out - The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Episode 19: Pushed out - The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

On the 19th episode of “The Activist Files,” Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks with photographer Ariana Fay... Read more

10 Oct 2019

54mins

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