Ben Barson and Gizelxanath at the Centro Cultural Tedoro Cano, Papantla, Mexico, performing for members of the Totonac people.

Ben performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's memorial service to Fred Ho.

Ben Barson with Fred Ho at the The University of Hawaiʻi

Gizelxanath and Ben Barson with the Afro Yaqui Music Collective

"Artists are here to disturb the Peace..." - James Baldwin

Culture and politics are one circle of human life that reflect and reinforce each other. Therefore, any meaningful revolutionary process will have music and the arts at its fuel and its forcefield.

As we enter a world on the brink of social and environmental disintegration, our task is nothing less than a total transformation of values that builds a world beyond capitalism.

The industrial world built by European colonization and genocide reaches its logical destruction. We move forward by returning to the source: practicing ecological sustainability by thinking seven generations ahead. In our music and our being we celebrate the contributions and resilience of Indigenous economics.

Ecosocialist Horizons Radio: hosted by Quincy Saul, Joel Kovel, and edited by Ben Barson.

Ecosocialist Horizons Hour is a monthly radio program that documents the struggle for a livable planet from activists across the world.

Music with Gizelxanath and the Afro Yaqui Music Collective

"Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace."
- James Baldwin