In Revolutionary Times, Are Art and Music Falling Short? With James Kennedy

Join “Behind The Headlines” host Lee Camp for a full hour interview with James Kennedy, a renowned Welsh singer, songwriter, and producer known for his political activism through music.

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
James Kennedy Lee Camp Feature photo

James Kennedy is a highly-regarded and accomplished Welsh singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who is best known for his political activism through his music. With a career spanning more than two decades, he has made a name for himself as a powerful voice in the music industry, using his platform to raise awareness about

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What Next for The Anti-War Movement, with Brian Becker

Brian Becker joins Behind The Headlines host Lee Camp to talk about the history of anti-war organizing in the United States and what is in store for the anti-war movement in 2023. 

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
Brian Becker Feature photo

Brian Becker's commitment to social and economic justice began at a young age, shaped by his religious upbringing and his desire for fairness and equality for all people. Throughout his career, he has been a vocal critic of U.S. imperialism and the capitalist system, which he sees as inherently exploitative and oppressive. His advocacy for

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Struggle Theater: Don’t Let Theatrics Shroud the Reality of Systemic Oppression

America’s power brokers are hoping murals, kente cloth, and a series of half-baked legislative reforms will appease activists into giving up the fight for real change.

Eleanor Goldfield
By Eleanor Goldfield
Black Lives Matter Feature photo

The crowd cheered. I hustled to slide the fresh battery into place, snap the latch closed, click on, and survey the scene. On their knees, protestors in front of the newly erected fence applauded as a cop on the other side took a knee. Around him, other cops seemed to take no notice, shifting in their riot gear as the sun slowly dipped behind the

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Justice is Indivisible: Placing Palestine Back at the Center of American Muslim Activism

In many mosques across the US, Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and other places of great and perpetual injustice are hardly mentioned. Perhaps, argues Ramzy Baroud, over fear that doing so would place them at the radar of the FBI or local enforcement agencies.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian American Muslims Feature photo

It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American Muslim political agenda. The point, which took many by surprise, was enunciated by a young American Pakistani Muslim academic, whose name is not important for my purpose

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Remembering Hisham Ahmed: Activist, Professor and Palestinian Powerhouse

Dr. Hisham Ahmed embodied the Palestinian cause: overcoming huge challenges, resilient, proud, undaunted and steadfast.

Rick Sterling
By Rick Sterling
Dr. Hisham Ahmed

Hisham Ahmed was born in Deheisheh refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem, Palestine in 1963.  Blind from birth, Hisham somehow surmounted all odds and ultimately earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He taught for many years at Birzeit University in Palestine, before coming to Saint Mary's College of California in

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Karl Marx: The Political Activist We Need More Than Ever

The lessons of Karl Marx show that our tasks are to heighten class conflict by exposing the reality of abhorrent inequality and create new systems to replace failing capitalism.

Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers
A bronze statue showing German philosopher Karl Marx is unveiled on occasion of the 200th birthday of Marx in Trier, Germany, Saturday, May 5, 2018. The statue was created by Chinese artist Wu Weishan and is a present of China. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

In 1848, Marx wrote, “philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” On this 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx we focus on Marx as a political activist, rather than what he is best known for, an economist and philosopher who wrote some of the most important analyses explaining

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