The Ossington Circle: Recent Episodes
Justin Podur
In this episode of the Ossington Circle podcast, I interview Nora Barrows-Friedman, a journalist whose book In Our Power: U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine, documents the movement on US campuses for justice in Palestine, the challenges faced by the movement, and the courageous students in it.
In this episode of The Ossington Circle, I interview Tom Slee, author of What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy, about the downside of sharing economy companies like Uber and AirBnB, and what is actually happening as they reshape cities in the name of sharing.
The second episode of the Ossington Circle Podcast is a lecture by Justin Podur on the Environment, War, and Refugees at York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies in January 2016. The talk connects climate change, war, and displacement with Western policy in the Syria.
Is the Syrian Civil War mainly a proxy war for regime change, or mainly a struggle against a tyranny? The Ossington Circle is a podcast on international politics. In Episode 1, host Justin Podur debates with Stephen Shalom about the Syrian Civil War, its causes, and possibilities for solidarity.