🧵Calla Walsh was live on a podcast this morning where she said she feels “lucky to be alive” watching what she hopes is the fall of the “US empire and the Zionist entity,” and called for urgent, concrete “material contributions” to an “international resistance front.”
I’ll be breaking this down further, including the names she dropped, what exactly she was calling for, and which podcast this was.
I think she was toning down her language for YouTube and Lara Sheehi’s new podcast, but keep in mind this is someone who previously asked, “Why weren’t there 100 more Elias Rodriguezes?” That's her definition of a "material contribution."
She namedropped two people: Helyeh Doutaghi and Bikrum Gill.
Neither is still in higher ed, but had been until their radical ties were exposed.
Doutaghi was the Yale legal scholar who fled the country after her Samidoun ties were exposed.
Gill was a Virginia Tech professor heavily involved in the encampments who also had a Samidoun connection, including an appearance on a DSA IC podcast with Charlotte Kates.
Both are now part of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, which includes many active professors. There is a strong pattern here between individuals with ties to Samidoun and those connected to The People’s Forum.
Search some of these names on my page and you will find video of more than half of them.
This is the new Psychic Militancy podcast from Lara Sheehi, the former George Washington University professor and wife of William & Mary professor Stephen Sheehi.
A lot of these fired professors are getting into the podcast game. Make of that what you will.
And lastly, here’s a thread on the Sheehis.
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