Monks and Punks is a podcast about fighting the power with all your heart.
Hosted by Sander Hicks, the show explores radical spirituality, nonviolence, punk rock, democratic socialist politics, grassroots activism, and the everyday work of resisting empire — from elections and organizing to culture, music, and building things with your hands.
These are long-form conversations and sharp arguments about how people actually challenge power, stay human, and refuse to give up — even when the odds are stacked against them.
This is not passive commentary.
It’s for listeners who still believe ideas, culture, and organized people can change the world.
Fight the Power, With All Your Heart!
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Connecting the Dots of 9/11– with Author Kevin Fenton— Expert on CIA Alec Station
This is Sander Hicks's hot new interview with Kevin Fenton, author of Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen (TrineDay, 2011) — one of the most rigorously sourced books ever written on the run-up to September 11th. Fenton's research names names: inside the CIA's Alec Station, officers Richard Blee and Tom Wilshire sat on intelligence about two known al-Qaeda operatives — intelligence that should have gone straight to the FBI. It didn't, for eighteen months, while future 9/11 hijackers lived openly in San Diego. Fenton traces the thread all the way back to NSA intercepts from an al-Qaeda hub in Yemen. The withholding isn't in dispute — it's documented, on the record, straight from declassified files. The open question is why. Was it incompetence? A protected operation that spun out of control? Fenton and Hicks dig into it live. This is expert witness testimony for the court of public opinion.
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26 Aug 2026
The Mayor Who Wouldn't Sell Out — Dennis Kucinich on War, Power, and Peace
At 31, Dennis Kucinich became the youngest mayor of a major American city — and immediately refused to sell Cleveland's public power system to the banks and the private utility trying to force his hand, even facing a real mob assassination plot over it. He carried that same refusal into eight terms in Congress: 341 floor speeches against the Iraq War, articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, and a two-decades-long push for a cabinet-level Department of Peace that's never passed — but never died either.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Kucinich is arguably the leading Democrat in America still willing to talk publicly about Building 7 and call for a new congressional investigation. On September 6th, he brings that record to Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting in Manhattan, a Quaker meetinghouse whose Peace Testimony lines up with his own life's work. Host Sander Hicks makes the case for why this free event is worth showing up for.
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12 May 2026
"Netanyahu Is Distorting the Bible: My Interview with Rabbi Andy Kahn"
Rabbi Andy Kahn leads the American Council for Judaism — one of America's oldest anti-Zionist Jewish organizations. In this conversation, we go deep: the Jubilee debt-forgiveness laws in Hebrew Scripture, the difference between the "Old Testament" and the Hebrew Bible, Netanyahu's weaponization of Amalek and the Book of Esther, and why the genocide in Gaza must be understood through a political economy lens. Kahn argues that Judaism's theological tradition demands integration, not nationalism — and that conflating Jews with Israel is antisemitism, even when Jews do it themselves.
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