Essential Dissent

About Essential Dissent

From the Last Days of the U.S. Empire

Publisher

Essential Dissent

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

23 May 2019

Latest episode

3 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

111 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Sept 2026

   Due Process in Chains

   First Baptist Church, Community Room 309 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca Speakers: SEAN CHUNG, author of Due Process in Chains: A Self-Help Journal for Protecting Your Rights in the Criminal Justice System Topic: Legal strategies to hold guards accountable for their abuses JASON HOGE, former LAW-NY Reentry program director Topic: Legal resistance to employment and housing discrimination; correcting and clearing records CARL WILLIAMS, Cornell social movement lawyering clinic director Topic: Strategies for decarceration and abolition Event organized by Central New York Communities for Justice info: cnycfj@gmail.com Co-sponsors: OAR of Tompkins County - TC Workers Center - Southside Community Center Greater Ithaca Activity Center - Civic Ensemble & ReEntry Theatre Program Tompkins County SURJ - Group 73 of Amnesty International (Ithaca) - REACH - Ithaca Catholic Workers • Party for Socialism and Liberation, Upstate NY - Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America - Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine Donate via Village at Ithaca, select "Central New York Communities for Justice"

2. 

   18 Jun 2026

   Raymond Craib - Adventure Capitalism

3. 

   12 Jun 2026

   Flock Off! Ithaca

Who has been a guest on Essential Dissent

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Raymond Tyler
• Gabriel Rockhill
• Matthew Lyons
• Mosab Abu Toha
• Dan Cohen

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

28,984

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

68

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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