Gravity FM
A bimonthly podcast discussing international human rights and environmental issues around the world from public policy, legal, theoretical and ethical viewpoints with academics, lawyers, activists and community organizers on the ground. Our episodes discuss and dissect impediments to substantive democracy, equality, public health, reproductive, refugee, sexuality and free speech and protest rights and the proper intersection of competing rights. Our environmental episodes look at freshwater and food security, threats to biodiversity, climate change effects and mitigation strategies and the environmental consequence of impending large scale projects around the world.Podcasts
From the Courtroom to the Community: Revitalizing Law to Empower Frontline Communities
Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 53 seconds
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Deflection, Deceit and Division in the Time of Climate Crisis
Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 17 seconds
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Our Immolated Heart: Deforestation and Land Grabbing in Brazil's Amazon
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 54 seconds
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ISDS: Clandestine Corporate Courts that Entrench Colonialism and Exacerbate the Climate Crisis
Published: June 9, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 2 seconds
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Of Olives and Tears: Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the First Amendment
Published: April 23, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 5 seconds
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The United States of Waste and Woe: Conserving Toxicity at the Santa Susana Field Lab
Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 26 seconds
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Toxic Tastes: How Industry Seeds Doubt, Fights Regulation and Hurts Our Health
Published: Sept. 12, 2022, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 4 seconds
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Ecocide: An Egregious Crime Causing Collective Calamity
Published: May 19, 2022, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 22 seconds
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A Tapestry of Humanity: Adam Hochschild's Ghosts of Rapacity and Resistance
Published: March 21, 2022, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 3 seconds
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Total Extraction: Brutality and Blindness in Business and Banking
Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 13 seconds
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Light Departing: Umbrellas v. Gas Canisters
Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 29 seconds
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A Sun-Stroked Country: Fortress Australia and its Need for a Bill of Rights
Published: Sept. 16, 2021, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 24 seconds
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Cobbled by Cobalt: Forced Child Labor in Cobalt Mines in the DRC
Published: May 21, 2021, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 43 seconds
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Revamping Rights for the 21st Century
Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 8 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 33 seconds
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Oiling the Courts: How the Fossil Fuels Industry Attacks Activists and Advocates and How to Fight Back Against their Sticks and SLAPPS
Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 45 seconds
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One World, One Health: How Pathogenic Policies Contribute to Pandemics
Published: July 2, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 1 second
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When the Boardroom Enters the Bedroom: The Art of Profit and Predation in the ART Industry
Published: April 23, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 22 seconds
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Stifling Dissent: Activism Between the Stick and Slap
Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 54 seconds
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The Slaughterhouse Straitjacket: How Big Ag Gags and Guts Our Speech
Published: Oct. 16, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 5 seconds
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Grit and Gravity in International Law
Published: July 17, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 48 seconds
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A People Fractured: Shells, Strikes and Starvation in Yemen
Published: April 30, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 5 seconds
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Bars to Chance: A Nation Caged Under a Criminal Justice System Without Any Justice
Published: Dec. 28, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 39 seconds
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The Rest Is Silence: How Commodity Agriculture Turns Forests into Cemeteries
Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 4 seconds
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An Open Golden Door No More Part II: The Criminalization of Migration
Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 6 seconds
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An Open Golden Door No More: Incarcerating and Ostracizing Immigrants in America
Published: May 31, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 6 seconds
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The American Illusion: Chained to Poverty in the Land of the Free
Published: March 17, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 25 seconds
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A Marketplace of Misery: Human Trafficking in the United States
Published: Feb. 18, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 40 seconds
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In Exile at Home: Fifty Years of Human Rights Abuses in the Occupied Territories
Published: Dec. 28, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 50 seconds
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Spotlight on a Stabilocracy: Human Rights in Serbia (Part I)
Published: Oct. 1, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds
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Innocence Inviolate: The Menace of the Years
Published: Sept. 1, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 53 seconds
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Destination Interrupted: Refugees in Serbia
Published: Aug. 1, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 33 seconds
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Of Strawberries, Cigarettes and Sorrow: The Prevalence of Children Laboring in Our Fields
Published: June 30, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 46 seconds
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Pernicious Profits: Financing Terror and Catastrophe at the International Finance Corporation
Published: May 15, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 45 seconds
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Bytes on the Beat: How Predictive Analytics Amplifies Discriminatory Police Practices
Published: May 1, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 53 seconds
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Juvenile Injustice: How the Juvenile Justice System Reproduces and Entrenches Inequality
Published: April 15, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 35 seconds
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A Crude Affair in Canada : The Alberta Tar Sands and First Nations
Published: March 1, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 49 seconds
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Chained to Chocolate: Child Slavery in the Cacao Industry
Published: Feb. 1, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 26 seconds
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The Stand Against the Black Snake: The Dakota Access Pipeline
Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 33 seconds
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Bytes With Teeth: The Digital Dangers of Repression and Resistance
Published: Nov. 15, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 15 seconds
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Tapped Out: Shutting Off Water and Shutting Down Protest in Detroit
Published: Nov. 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 32 seconds
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Diplomacy in the Time of Cholera: Immunity Not Impunity
Published: Oct. 15, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 57 seconds
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Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink: Water Privatization and Resistance in South America
Published: Oct. 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds
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The Dirt on the Drought: Water Resources, Rights and Restrictions in California
Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds
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Well of Woe: Undocumented Immigrants and Poisoned Water in Flint
Published: Sept. 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds
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Nicaragua Canal Part II: Impending Environmental Catastrophe
Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 49 seconds
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Up Against the Knife
Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 47 seconds
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Gone with the Wind - Reproductive Rights in Retreat
Published: July 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 10 seconds
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Nicaragua Canal Part I: The Big Land Grab
Published: June 15, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds
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Housing Not Handcuffs
Published: June 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 27 seconds
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Imprisoned Lightning
Published: April 15, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 8 seconds
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Vote with your fork
Published: April 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 11 seconds
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