Abumrad, one of our most distinctive podcast-makers, is a natural guide to Fela Kuti's story. On "Radiolab," the public-radio science show that Abumrad founded, co-hosted, and dazzlingly sound-designed for almost two decades, he and his team excelled at making vast amounts of complex information palatable for a general audience, if occasionally overdoing the whizbang. Central to the show's brilliance and excess was Abumrad's zeal for playing with sound, layering and repeating clips to striking effect.
It is a rule of thumb that for every person who marches, there are 10 to 20 who sympathize. That would equate to 70 million to 140 million people, as a record 7 million participated. While some complain that these rallies don't do anything, they are an essential demonstration of the depth and breadth of popular sentiment and resistance, and they serve to hearten and motivate people to engage.
Americans have at least three tools to resist fascism: legal, legislative, and via political movement. A great many people have conflated legislative opposition with movement opposition.
For many young Kashmiris, tattoos once symbolizing resistance against Indian control are now seen as burdens; individuals like Sameer Wani are opting to erase them during escalating state scrutiny.
In this case, Harvard and its defenders act as if antisemitic campus rallies are a civil right for the school instead of a violation of Jewish students' civil rights!
