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“The Bund thinks Zionism is such a crackhead hallucination of an idea — Like, we’re all going to leave, all the millions of us. We’re going to leave our homes where we’ve lived for a thousand or thousands of years. We’re gonna leave those homes and move to [Palestine] to become collective farmers, something that we have no experience in.”

Molly Crabapple is a visual artist, writer, and fixture of radical social movements for the last decade-plus.

We dig in with her about her new best-selling book Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe, the Bund was secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. The Bundists fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine but “here where we live.”

Molly shares how this story lives in her lineage, the unsexy but beautiful work of a decade in the archives, and what this story teaches us about the work of building coalition as we fight for a better world.

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“I can make a film, and we can show examples of people having what they need.”

AirGo is joined by Sarah Oberholtzer, a filmmaker, educator, community organizer, and Respair collaborator who has just put some excellent art into the world. Sarah is the creator of We Call Each Other, a heartfelt short film about a community moving through drought and environmental racism. Weaving nonfiction recorded audio into a scripted story, it features characters who lean on one another to build safety and repair without relying on prisons or police. Built through a collaborative abolitionist writers room, the project is a great example of what it looks like to make new political realities legible. Sarah and the guys talk about the evolution of the project, how we need your support to make the second installment of the series come to fruition, and the relationship between faith and abolition.

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