Global Warning with AWKWORD is a video podcast series featuring 15-minute conversations with experts on democracy and anti-fascism — connecting past to present and future, and local to global.
Global Warning guests include Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Eric King, Pam Keith, Emily Gorcenski, Laura Jedeed, Melissa Ryan, Hunter Dunn (50501 movement), Amy Cooter, Melanie D’Arrigo, Chanelle Gallant, Noelle Cook, Dylan Rodriguez, Rebekah Jones, Maura Quint, Dean Spade, Anjali Enjeti, Candice Bernd, Caitlin M. Green, Mike Wendling, Andrew Hartman, Zed Anwar, Daniel Harper, Evania Pietrangelo-Porco, Twyla Baker, Charles Logan, Bianca Tylek, Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Joshua Clark Davis, Aaron Winter, Kay Whitlock, Jennifer Pozner, Josie Duffy Rice, AJ Bauer, Nitish Pahwa, Sydette Harry, Alex Mingus, Paul Paz y Miño, Pantea Javidan, Sheila Foster, Dana R. Fisher, Christopher Deutsch, Philip Loring, Moira Birss, Matt Cameron, and Jesse Myerson, among others.
Before each episode, AWKWORD goes live.
Episode 9: Melanie D’Arrigo
“It’s really all about control. If we can make people afraid, it’s easier to control us. It’s easier to control us if we have the fear of going bankrupt, if we have the fear of going sick, it’s easy to control us.”
Episode 8: Amy Cooter
“It’s really important to try to know which groups might be active in your area... Familiarize yourself with some of the taglines, some of the most common icons. And if you see something tagged around town, you at least know what’s likely there. Be willing to stand up and support your neighbors who may be targeted before you are.”
Episode 7: Hunter Dunn (50501 Movement)
“When Americans were looking for some way to resist at the beginning of the second Trump administration, we kind of had to do it ourselves… What if we all went to our state capitals on the same day, protesting with the same message? And that spread rapidly.”
Episode 6: Melissa Ryan
“The extreme right... The amount of resources behind them and the amount of power that they hold within the political establishment of their party is absolutely asymmetrical.”
Episode 5: Laura Jedeed
“It’s going to be a long fight, but the first part of it always is going to be finding your people and just getting a group together to do something... See if ICE is setting up anywhere, to distribute whistles so that people can alert people, to impede, throw sand in the gears, whatever one has to do. These things take time to ramp up, but unfortunately we’re in it now and we have to start slowly.”
Episode 4: Emily Gorcenski
“We’re not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can’t stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community”
Episode 3: Pam Keith
“There are a lot of messages that came across election night... The pushback against Republican leadership, that’s the thread that seems to be common to all of the victories from coast to coast, from north to south, be it federal, be it state, be it mayor’s races, school board races, referendums, you name it, the voters came out and voted against the Republicans.”
Episode 2: Eric King
“You don’t have to be everything to everyone, but you can give yourself and you should give what you can to your community because you would want that back to you. That’s mutual aid. I share with you what I have. You share with me what you have, whether it’s skills, resources, talents… As opposed to exploiting and commodifying each other.”
Episode 1: Daryle Lamont Jenkins
“You have strength. It doesn’t come from your government. It doesn’t come from your media. It comes from you. And sometimes it’s just a case of when you see things that need to be done, you might need to. Be that person that does it.”