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IN SESSION #1 - Venezuela, Empire & the imperative for psychic militancy w/ Geo Maher and Alex Aviña

Release Date: 01/08/2026

Tankie Group Therapy #36 (LIVE!): Empire of Lulz

Psychic Militancy

The comrades from Tankie Group Therapy came together for the first ever LIVE to officially launch Psychic Militancy and to process, well, every f-ing thing that has been happening so that we don't have to do it alone. I hosted this comrade power line-up including your favorites, Justin Podur, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Alex Aviña, Sina Rahman, Jared Ware, Asa Winstanley, Adnan Hussein, Joe Emersberger, Arama Rata and Mikey Inouye. Make sure to Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and follow us on IG: @psychicmilitancypod & TikTok: @psychic.militancy And sign up to be a Patron to keep up with...

Diana Buttu: Keeping the pulse on reality in Palestine

Psychic Militancy

In this episode I sit down with Diana Buttu for a raw and moving conversation about how throughout the arch of her life and career she has remained aligned with the psychic, affective, and material reality of Palestine. She discusses being on Palestine's negotiating team under Yasser Arafat and shares exclusive details she has never before publicly spoken about. In discussing the importance of remaining psychically aligned for Palestine, we go into how sexism, racism, and attempts at psychic destabilization are all part of the aggression of Zionism and its expansionism. Most movingly,...

IN SESSION #2: Staying militantly clear in the face of all things Empire with Jared Ware

Psychic Militancy

My comrade Jared Ware from fan favorite podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism will be joining me for our first live together on Psychic Militancy! We will be continuing the ongoing conversations we have been having on MAKC Live! and unpack and analyze how to remain focused in the face of Empire's violent reach, including the spectacle(s) of ICE violence, carceral discipline we are subjected to, the ongoing aggression on Venezuela, psyops related to Iran, Palestine and Lebanon...and much more. Jared Ware is one of the hosts of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. He has published...

IN SESSION #1 - Venezuela, Empire & the imperative for psychic militancy w/ Geo Maher and Alex Aviña

Psychic Militancy

This was our first live stream, fittingly for the urgent times, with comrades Geo Maher and Alex Aviña. We address the most recent fascistic display of empire in Venezuela, listen to their analysis (some of the most precise and my personal favorite out there!), and importantly, unpack the psychological warfare that is at the heart of this aggression and how we can stay focused and committed to our revolutionary struggles. Geo Maher is Coordinator of the WEB Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and author of 5 books, including We Created Chávez and Building the...

Amy Greer: Embodied lawyering and resisting being a cog in the machine

Psychic Militancy

In this episode, I sit down with Amy Greer, who is best known to us as Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyer—the one he called on the day of his abduction by ICE agents. We discuss the ethical imperative for what she calls “embodied lawyering” and how one resist seduction of a carceral discipline intent on innocence under the guise of saviorism. Amy E. Greer is an associate attorney at Dratel & Lewis. She is a member of Mahmoud Khalil's legal team, and one of the lead attorneys in a jawbone First Amendment suit against Columbia University, the House Committee on Education and Workforce, and the...

Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as site of resistance

Psychic Militancy

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah to discuss the centrality of the clinic in the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Zionist settler state in Gaza, his concept of the biosphere of genocide, and importantly, the site of the clinic as central to resistance, refusal, and liberation. Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon. He completed his medical education at University of Glasgow in the U.K and his postgraduate residency training in London. In April of 2024 he was awarded and Honorary Doctorate from the American University of...

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Geo Maher is Coordinator of the WEB Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and author of 5 books, including We Created Chávez and Building the Commune. Please support the incredible project our comrades at the School for Abolition & Reconstruction are doing. You can follow their work on IG at: @abolitionschool and here on YouTube @AbolitionSchool . Check them out here and please consider donating to help support their incredible work and principled stance in terms of funding streams: https://abolitionschool.org/

You can find some of Geo's books here: Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela (https://www.versobooks.com/products/147-building-the-commune); We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution (https://dukeupress.edu/we-created-chavez); Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/anticolonial-eruptions/paper)

Alex Aviña is an Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is a historian of Mexico and Latin America. You can find some of Alex's analysis at Foreign Exchanges, with one of my favorites being: https://www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-american-maginot-line-part-3; and NACLA: Report on the Americas with one of my favorites being: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2025.2542070; and his book: Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/)

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