Beyond Borders – s2e2 – Venezuela in Context, Taxpayers Against Genocide, The Tribunal Project
Judy Talaugon, Angela Marino, Seth Donnelly, Hernan Ramiro, Olga Kavran
Season 2 Episode 2
January 17, 2026
Judy Talaugon has a wide ranging discussion with Angela Marino about Venezuela and the Americas. She also gets an update from Seth Donnelly on Tax Payers Against Genocide. Hernan Ramiro talks with Olga Kavran about international criminal law.
2026 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
CREDITS– HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon, Hernan Ramiro. Featured Guests: Angela Marino, Seth Donnelly, Olga Kavran. Sound Design: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Theme Music: Mana Luca, arranged by Jay Rodriguez Sierra.
FEATURED GUEST
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Author, Activist, Teacher- Seth Donnelly
Read more: Author, Activist, Teacher- Seth DonnellySeth Donnelly is a public high school teacher in the Bay Area of California, where he has taught social studies for nearly two decades. He is also an activist with the Puerto Rican independence and Black liberation movements, doing solidarity work with prisoners from those movements. Donnelly has been involved in the Haiti Action Committee…
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Author, Researcher, Professor – Angela Marino
Read more: Author, Researcher, Professor – Angela MarinoAngela Marino’s research focuses on contemporary Venezuela and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America.
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International Criminal Law Expert – Olga Kavran
Read more: International Criminal Law Expert – Olga KavranOlga Kavran is a Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel completing a PhD on the topic of international criminal courts’ obligation to provide information to the public, and the Founding Director of IUSTICOM, established in 2021 as the first non-governmental organisation dedicated to communicating justice.
CD’s and Books
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The Lie of Global Prosperity, How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth Donnelly
Read more: The Lie of Global Prosperity, How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth DonnellyThis short book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation that global poverty—and the inequalities and misery that flourish within it—remains massive, afflicting the majority of the world’s population.
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Edited by Judith Talaugon and Angela Marino, Tribunal Rising
Read more: Edited by Judith Talaugon and Angela Marino, Tribunal RisingTribunal Rising commemorates the 1992 International Tribunal movement in the city of San Francisco to dismantle the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the Myth of Discovery. In 1990, “[a]t the culmination of the Special International Tribunal on the Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the US, the American Indian Movement…
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Certain Days: The 2026 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
Read more: Certain Days: The 2026 Freedom for Political Prisoners CalendarThis short book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation that global poverty—and the inequalities and misery that flourish within it—remains massive, afflicting the majority of the world’s population.
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