Project 2025 with Kevin Kumashir

Years of coordinated effort by the reactionary Heritage Foundation has culminated in a frighteningly dystopian document describing the future society they hope to build: Project 2025. At 900-plus pages, it’s been described as a blueprint for a second Trump presidential term, but it's so much more than that. It is in fact a sweeping manifesto, and a massive mapping of the key issues facing society. Project 2025 will outlive Trump by decades, providing a vision, guidance, and energy for organizing campaigns based on authoritarian themes and Christian Dominionist theology well into the future. Significantly, this effort has organized 110 disparate right-wing organizations and thousands of individuals into a united front. Attention peace activists, freedom fighters, and justice  organizers: this is what we’re up against! Our comrade and dear friend Kevin Kumashiro, author of several books including a new edition of his classic Against Common Sense, joins Under the Tree for a record third time to help us unpack the significance of Project 2025.

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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?