Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers

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“Under the Tree” is a new podcast that focuses on freedom—a complex, layered, dynamic, and often contradictory idea—and takes you on a journey each week to fundamentally reimagine how we can bring freedom and liberation to life in relation to schools and schooling, equality and justice, and learning to live together in peace. Our podcast opens a crawl-space, a fugitive field and firmament where we can both explore our wildest freedom dreams, and organize for a liberating insurgency. "Under the Tree" is a seminar, and it runs the gamut from current events to the arts, from history lessons to scientific inquiries, and from essential readings to frequent guest speakers. We’re in the midst of the largest social uprising in US history—and what better time to dive headfirst into the wreckage, figuring out as we go how to support the rebellion, name it, and work together to realize its most radical possibilities—and to reach its farthest horizons?

Episode Date
The Red Lobster Declaration— A Manifesto for Educational Liberation with Jared Rock and Mike Schuwerk
Jul 30, 2026
We Who Believe in Freedom with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Jul 12, 2026
RUNNING TOWARD FREEDOM with Walter Riley
Jun 18, 2026
…AGAIN with Mark Nowak
Jun 04, 2026
Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent with Jessica Lawless
May 21, 2026
Levitating the Pentagon with Nancy Kurshan
Apr 30, 2026
Narrating Palestine: A Conversation on History and Art with Rashid Khalidi and Ismail Khalidi
Apr 15, 2026
The Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries with Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fischman
Mar 28, 2026
Find Your Joy in Resistance with Vijay Prashad
Mar 17, 2026
Iran on my Mind with Sepehr Vakil
Mar 07, 2026
Facing Reality with Nell and Leta Hirschmann-Levy
Feb 19, 2026
Our Grief is not a Cry for War with Jeremy Varon and co-host Jeff Jones
Feb 06, 2026
A New Constitution for Public Education with Jay Gillen and Jamarria Hall
Jan 24, 2026
Spiritual Criminals with Michelle Nickerson
Jan 08, 2026
Fire in Every Direction with Tareq Baconi
Dec 18, 2025
We Are Internationalists with Martha Biondi and Prexy Nesbitt
Dec 11, 2025
Fighting the Cops with Joshua Clark Davis
Dec 03, 2025
Somewhere Toward Freedom with Bennett Parten and special guest co-host Jeff Jones
Nov 19, 2025
Teaching in Dark Times with Kathryn (Kat) Zamarron
Nov 06, 2025
About Face: The History of GI Resistance with Aaron Hughes and Arti Walker-Peddakotla
Oct 22, 2025
Revolution & the Art of Creating the World with Zayd Dohrn & Lisa Lee
Oct 02, 2025
After Katrina: What We Stand to Lose with Kristen Buras
Sep 10, 2025
The Ghost of White Supremacy with Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
Aug 28, 2025
Family Policing with Erin Miles Cloud
Aug 13, 2025
Trapped in Reality, Walking Toward Freedom with Vijay Prashad
Jul 30, 2025
Remembering Red Summer with Franklin Cosey Gay and Peter Cole
Jul 16, 2025
Lost and Found, in Translation with Frank Wynne
Jul 02, 2025
Big Time with Rus Bradburd
Jun 18, 2025
Friends Helping Friends with Patrick Hoffman
Jun 02, 2025
More Beautiful, More Terrible: Teaching Truth with Jesse Hogapian
May 28, 2025
Common Good Organizing with Elizabeth Todd-Breland
May 22, 2025
Solidarity through Design with Lani Hanna and Josh MacPhee
May 15, 2025
NOlympics with Jules Boykoff
May 07, 2025
The Invisible Institute with Maira Khwaja and Trina Reynolds-Tyler
Apr 30, 2025
The Right to Think at All with Katherine Franke
Apr 23, 2025
Big Data/Predatory Data with Anita Say Chan
Apr 16, 2025
Everything for Everyone with M.E.O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
Apr 09, 2025
A Radical Reframing with Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg
Apr 02, 2025
Beyond Prison with Jimmy Soto
Mar 19, 2025
How We Get Free with Barbara Smith
Mar 05, 2025
Culture/Counterculture with Alex Zamalin
Feb 19, 2025
To be Close to Books with Emily Drabinski
Feb 05, 2025
Comix Theory with Eve Ewing and Ryan Alexander-Tanner
Jan 23, 2025
Goodbye to All That—Let’s Begin Again with Bill Ayers
Jan 08, 2025
Brave Community with Janine de Novais
Dec 19, 2024
Reckoning with the Wreckage with Davarian Baldwin and David Stovall
Dec 04, 2024
From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood with Christopher Emdin, Sam Seidel, and co-host Adam Bush
Nov 13, 2024
Parenting Toward Abolition with Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson
Oct 31, 2024
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle with Lawrence Grandpre
Oct 16, 2024
Citizen Printer with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
Oct 03, 2024
“A” is for Abortion with Alicia Hurtado
Sep 18, 2024
When Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation
Sep 04, 2024
The Whole World is Watching with Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, and Eleanor Stein
Aug 15, 2024
Project 2025 with Kevin Kumashir
Aug 07, 2024
Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power with Say Burgin
Jul 24, 2024
Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement with Barbara Ransby and Asha Ransby-Sporn
Jul 11, 2024
Road Trip! This is My Life I’m Talking About with Danny Lyon
Jun 26, 2024
Tea and Reparations with Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg
Jun 12, 2024
The Real Dragon with Stanley Howard
May 29, 2024
Breathe, Now Push with Jennifer Dohrn
May 15, 2024
American Precariat with Zeke Caligiuri
May 01, 2024
Again, Winter with Mark Nowak
Apr 17, 2024
Rattling the Cages with Eric King and Josh Davidson
Apr 03, 2024
Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy with Nathan Thrall
Mar 21, 2024
SPECIAL EDITION: Primary Election Voting with Girl, I Guess & InJustice Watch
Mar 16, 2024
Community as Resistance with Rashid Khalidi
Mar 07, 2024
Guilty of Journalism with Kevin Gosztola
Feb 19, 2024
Care with Premilla Nadasen
Feb 09, 2024
Investigating Apartheid with Omar Shaktir
Jan 24, 2024
SPECIAL: All Eyes on Palestine
Jan 11, 2024
Survival and Resistance with Janie Paul
Dec 31, 2023
Palestine on my Mind
Dec 15, 2023
Coming Together as Things Fall Apart with Astra Taylor
Nov 29, 2023
Stop the Genocide of the Palestinian People! Stop Cop City!
Nov 15, 2023
Indigenous Language Politics and Resistance with Mneesha Gellman
Nov 01, 2023
Mass Supervision with Vincent Schiraldi and special guest Renaldo Hudson
Oct 18, 2023
Voices of the Movement with Anthony Arnove & Haley Pessin
Oct 04, 2023
Monsters! with Claire Dederer
Sep 21, 2023
From the River to the Sea- Journeys in Solidarity
Sep 06, 2023
Help This Garden Grow with Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of AirGo
Aug 23, 2023
Fire and Freedom with Will Harling and Leif Carlson
Aug 09, 2023
The Ghost Forest with Greg King
Jul 26, 2023
Stranger in My Own Land with Fida Jiryis
Jul 12, 2023
The Long Haul with Rick Ayers
Jun 28, 2023
Welcome to Chicago with Juan Gonzalez
Jun 16, 2023
Fighting Times with Jon Melrod
May 09, 2023
Organizing to Change the World with Clément Petitjean
May 08, 2023
Open Your Mouths for the Muted; Fight for the Rights of the Destitute with Randolph Stone
May 03, 2023
With My Mind Stayed on Freedom with Dan Berger, Zoharah Simmons, and Michael Simmons
Apr 20, 2023
There But for Fortune with Michael Fischer
Apr 05, 2023
Socialism…Seriously with Danny Katch
Mar 22, 2023
From Dungeons to Focos with Destine Phillips, Denzel Burke, and Tommy Hagan from the R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative
Mar 08, 2023
Of Borders and Dreams with Susan Mills
Feb 23, 2023
Waiting for Democracy with Stephanie Skora
Feb 08, 2023
Chasing Justice: A Homecoming with Marshan Allen
Jan 25, 2023
Reimagining the Classroom with Theodore Richards
Jan 11, 2023
Episode #63: Dare to Struggle! Dare to Win! with Helen Shiller
Dec 14, 2022
"Freedom Has Always Been the Horizon." Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
Nov 30, 2022
Education for Liberation with Brian Jones
Nov 16, 2022
BONUS Episode: Talking Judges and Elections with Injustice Watch
Nov 04, 2022
Peace Now! with Medea Benjamin and Code Pink
Nov 02, 2022
Teach the Children Well: Ordinary Terrible Things with Anastasia Higginbotham
Oct 19, 2022
Playing Through Fire with Dave Zirin
Oct 05, 2022
Freedom Dreams
Sep 21, 2022
Portraits of Freedom
Sep 07, 2022
With Love at the Center
Aug 24, 2022
Mother Country Radicals
Aug 10, 2022
The Threads of Abolition (part 2)
Jul 27, 2022
Stitch by Stitch: The Threads of Abolition
Jul 13, 2022
Fight/Build! Maroon Spaces and Real Black Utopias
Jun 29, 2022
Searching for the Ghost of John Brown
Jun 15, 2022
The Dialectic of Freedom
May 26, 2022
I Have a Story to Tell
May 04, 2022
A Child is a Child is a Child
Apr 21, 2022
From Death Row to Life!
Apr 06, 2022
Joy and Justice: Collaborating toward Freedom
Mar 23, 2022
Freedom and the Poetry of Comix
Feb 10, 2022
When the US Boot Comes Down, Death and Chaos Follow
Jan 07, 2022
Transition: Malik Alim
Nov 14, 2021
"Hope is a State of Mind" ft. Dima Khalidi
Aug 11, 2021
Now is the Time of Monsters ft. Joel Westheimer
Aug 06, 2021
Educating for Insurgency ft. Jay Gillen
Jul 27, 2021
Haiti On My Mind ft. Walter Riley
Jul 17, 2021
Poet, Teacher, Prophet: Rhythms of Revolution ft. Tongo Eisen-Martin
Jul 04, 2021
Resist Curation/Curate Resistance ft. Therese Quinn
Jun 25, 2021
Love Your Mother ft. Peggy Shepard
Jun 22, 2021
Under the Knife ft. Howard Waitzkin
Jun 09, 2021
What’s the Problem, the Vision, and the Next Step Forward? ft. Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
May 28, 2021
"Exterminate All The Brutes!" ft. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
May 13, 2021
Love the People, Defend the Earth ft. Eleanor Stein & Jeff Jones
May 06, 2021
Hearing the Voices of Witness ft. Cliff Mayotte & Claire Kiefer
Apr 29, 2021
A Jailbreak of the Imagination ft. adrienne maree brown
Apr 20, 2021
Make Your Life a Constellation ft. Mariame Kaba
Apr 12, 2021
Every Human is a Philosopher ft. Adam Bush
Mar 31, 2021
The Schools We Want, The Schools We Deserve ft. Raynard Sanders
Mar 20, 2021
To Be Truly Free! ft. Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law
Mar 15, 2021
What Counts? ft. Rochelle Gutierrez
Mar 06, 2021
Free. Free Palestine! ft. Rashid Khalidi
Feb 27, 2021
What history do you stand on? What future do you stand for? ft. Flint Taylor
Feb 18, 2021
Insurrection for Whom, and Toward What Social Order? ft. Daphne Muse
Jan 30, 2021
Goodbye to All That!
Jan 19, 2021
A Word on Statistics ft. Kari Kokka
Jan 07, 2021
Violence is as American as Cherry Pie
Dec 23, 2020
Aligning our Practices with our Values ft. Eve Ewing
Dec 10, 2020
The Work of the World ft. Bill Fletcher Jr.
Dec 03, 2020
Liberation is a Curatorial Act ft. Kristiana Rae Colón
Nov 26, 2020
Back to Work ft. Aislinn Pulley
Nov 19, 2020
Know What Time It Is ft. Barbara Ransby
Nov 12, 2020
“A Vision of the Sea,” and of Freedom ft. Kathy Boudin
Oct 22, 2020
Interlude
Oct 14, 2020
History Matters ft. Aaron Dixon
Sep 24, 2020
"Artists Can Help to Make the Revolution Irresistible" ft. Lisa Yun Lee
Sep 17, 2020
Reparations Now! ft. Katherine Franke
Sep 11, 2020
An Education for Freedom ft. Kevin Kumashiro
Sep 02, 2020
Where in the World Are We? ft. Prexy Nesbitt
Aug 26, 2020
Defund the Police ft. Alec Karakatsanis
Aug 12, 2020
Imagine the Angels of Bread ft. Bernardine Dohrn
Aug 05, 2020
In Your Dream of Dreams, What Would Schools for Free People Look Like? ft. David Stovall
Jul 29, 2020
A Pedagogy of Love, Justice and Joy ft. Crystal Laura
Jul 23, 2020
Let's Talk About Freedom ft. Chesa Boudin
Jul 23, 2020
Introducing Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers
Jun 30, 2020