Upstream is a quarterly documentary and bi-weekly conversation series that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. Blurring the line between economic analysis and storytelling, we look beyond the numbers to explore a wide variety of themes pertaining to our tumultuous 21st century economy.
188 episodes transcribedThe past decade or so was marked by mass protests—in fact, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history, from Occupy...
“The sign of a healthy economy should be a drinkable river,” these are the words of Li An Phoa, an environmental activist and our guest for this episo...
It may seem like a distant dream to imagine that the decades-long settler-colonial project which is Israel could finally end and transform into a stat...
Happy Winter Solstice! In this annual tradition, Della is joined by two fellow podcast hosts to reflect on the past year and set some intentions for t...
The ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip has been front and center in the world’s attention for the last couple of months, and it's important that we...
Before the Zionist project and the state of Israel placed their boots on the neck of Palestine, this region was a multicultural, multi-religious land,...
As the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians continues, it’s important that we also continue to raise a magnifying glass to its perpe...
For those of us living in the United States, today — what we call Thanksgiving — is a very significant holiday because, for some of us at least, it’s...
The Red Scare — perhaps most well known through the era of McCarthyism that dominated the social, political, and legal spheres of the U.S. in the 1950...
“This is the most important election of our lifetimes.” “Voting for a third-party candidate? Might as well throw away your vote!” “You may not like hi...
As we continue to work towards outer transformation, building the structures and models that will shape the transition to a post-capitalist society, i...
Before 1948, the land of Palestine was dotted with olive groves along rolling hills between mountains and the Mediterranean sea. Palestinians, Arabs,...
Before 1948, the land of Palestine was dotted with olive groves along rolling hills between mountains and the Mediterranean sea. Palestinians, Arabs,...
What Is To Be Done? This is the question so profoundly posed by the Russian Revolutionary and Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, in his landmark text o...
What is the connection between capitalism, colonialism, consumerism, and Christianity? How do these systems and ideologies uphold and support one anot...
Although the reference to war that you just heard could very much be real, actual military conflict — after all, our guest on today’s episode has foug...
It was once very difficult for people experiencing poverty in the Global South to obtain credit and loans because they were seen as unable to provide...
“It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Those words have been attributed to both the philosophers Fredric Jameson an...
Do you ever feel like time is marching in a particular direction? Towards, say, rising global temperatures, mass extinctions, ever-increasing division...
When you think about the philosophies and practices of Buddhism and Marxism, you might not immediately think that they have much in common. However, y...
