Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers
Hosted by Bill Ayers · Under the Tree with Bill Ayers
4.8from 93 ratings
- 165
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 93
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers
“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?
- Publisher
- Under the Tree with Bill Ayers
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jun 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 165 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
WAKE NOW in the FIRE with Jarrett Dapier
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Debt Demands with Kristin Collier
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Witch Hunt with Tom Alter
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WAKE NOW in the FIRE with Jarrett Dapier
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And one of the things that's so hard for grownups and for the legal system and the school system to understand is that you have to hold in your mind two things when you work with young people. One is that they're full human beings, fully capable, fully. And secondly, that they're special human beings needing protections and so on. But I worked in daycare for a long time. And one of my theme songs, working with young children and in communities of early childhood workers was this exact theme, kids know everything. They don't always know it accurately. They don't always know it in a way that they can make full sense of it. […]
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- Jarrett Dapier
- Kristin Collier
- Tom Alter
- Eve L Ewing
- Jared Rock
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- YouTube views
- 1,521
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 80 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 13 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
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- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 85
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