Episode 64:  Puerto Rican &  Palestinian Solidarity w/ Dr. Sara Awartani
Joshua Smyser-DeLeon Joshua Smyser-DeLeon

Episode 64: Puerto Rican & Palestinian Solidarity w/ Dr. Sara Awartani

On today’s show we welcome Dr. Sara Awartani. We're going to talk about settler colonialism and armed struggle within the context of Puerto Rico and Palestine, examples of Puerto Rican and Palestinian solidarity, and hear some of her literary suggestions on where people can begin to educate themselves on Puerto Rico and Palestine independence. She is a Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. An interdisciplinary U.S. social movement historian, her research, publications, and teaching interrogate twentieth century Latinx and Arab American radicalism, interracial solidarities, policing, and American global power.

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Episode 19: Creator of Shop La Maestra & CPS Teacher, Sabrina Alicea
Joshua Smyser-DeLeon Joshua Smyser-DeLeon

Episode 19: Creator of Shop La Maestra & CPS Teacher, Sabrina Alicea

On this week’s episode of the Paseo Podcast, I am joined by Sabrina Alicea. She is the creator of Shop La Maestra, is a 7th grade Chicago Public School Teacher, Member of the Chicago Teachers Union Local 1, and a Chicago Boricua with an Ivy League master's degree.

We are going to talk about Sabrina’s Shop La Maestra brand, life as a POC at Harvard University, the realities of being a Chicago Public School Teacher, the recent CTU strike and a whole lot more.

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