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Credits: Recorded Live at Le Guess Who? festival on November 8th, 2025 in Utrecht, Netherlands, produced by Z Park with a musical performance by the panelists and guest, Mohammad Mehrabani

Hello friends, family and comrades,

It’s 2026, the Sun is in Aquarius, and the people of the world are demanding revolution. It’s been an a rocky year to say the least, but there are hopeful signs of collective solidarity and people connecting the dots around the world. From ICE terrorizing the people of Minneapolis, to the IOF in Gaza and the West Bank, or neo-Colonial Imperialist fantasies coming to life of seizing land and resources in Latin America, the Middle East and Greenland, we are starting to understand how global capital strangles working people on every corner of this planet. These interconnected threats require international solidarity between oppressed people around the world, and we plant seeds by sharing stories, songs, strategies and struggle, in any way possible (don’t forget to participate in the general strike on Friday Jan 30, if you reside on Turtle Island/occupied US).

This was the premise of the Outernational podcast, and January’s special Live Edition is proof of concept. Featuring legendary poet/musician Saul Williams, Sonic Liberation Front founder, Dirar Kalash from Palestine and South African musicians Masello Motana and Asher Gamedze, we had a kaleidoscopic conversation across borders, histories and struggles, using Le Guess Who? festival as a community gathering. As Saul said during his set earlier that evening, every concert is a meeting. Music transcends borders and musicians know how to organize.

Listening to this conversation again gave me much needed inspiration to persist among escalating terrors in the United States and around the world. Each of these artists is a deep thinker and organizer in their community, using their platforms in ingenious, creative and subversive trickster ways. The conversation is bursting with wisdom, from historical lessons to deeply embodied cultural memory. After our discussion, we flowed directly into and improvised performance, joined by my dear Iranian-Canadian friend Mohammad Mehrabani aka Saint Abdullah. After tuning ourselves in dialogue, we tuned vibrationally, digesting our thoughts and allowing them to take sonic form.

I am so excited for people to hear this conversation in the form of our fifth episode of Outernational. More to come in 2026.

Solidarity forever,

Amirtha