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On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 3/07 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests: Susan Abulhawa - Over five months into the genocide in Gaza, Israel and its Western backers have shown no signs of relenting. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 70,000 have been injured. While Israel continues its bombing campaign and threatens a ground invasion of Rafah, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian-American writer and political activist who recently returned from Gaza, shares the reality from on the ground in Gaza amid the ongoing genocide. Ivan Katchanovski - A Ukrainian court recently determined that the 2014 Maidan massacre, which saw over 100 protesters killed and led to the overthrow of Ukraine’s elected president Viktor Yanukovych, was a false flag operation. The court’s verdict concludes that far-right forces carried out the massacre of Maidan activists that the Yanukovych government was falsely blamed for, in an effort to precipitate regime change. Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian and Canadian political scientist at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, discusses the media blackout of the explosive findings and the hidden origins of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rutendo Matinyarare - The US has lifted its two-decade-old unilateral and illegal sanctions program on Zimbabwe, opting instead for targeted sanctions on specific individuals and entities, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Zimbabwe stands as one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, as different Western powers target the nation with sanctions in an effort to destabilize it for resisting their influence. Rutendo Matinyarare, the Chairperson of Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement (ZASM) and founder of Zimbabweans Unite Against US War Sanctions (ZUAUWS) joins the show to discuss what the US’s move means for Zimbabwe. Cecilia Prado & Indu Kumar - Formerly and currently incarcerated organizers are fighting back against Alabama's rigged carceral system, an institution upholding a system of modern-day slavery in the southern state. Organizers imprisoned at the St. Clair Correctional Facility have organized a “shutdown” of the prison to protest the shockingly inhumane conditions of state facilities and the draconian policies of the state’s Department of Corrections. Cecilia Prado and Induj Kumar with the Tennessee Student Solidarity Network and A Luta Sigue, join the show to discuss the DOC’s systematic practice of denying parole to inmates in order to feed the $450 million per-year prison labor industry. #BreakThroughNews
