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Left POCket Project Podcast
Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.
This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.
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In this episode, I talk about the hypercapitalist hellscape back to school season has become, how this economic system leads to harm and neglect of children, and the ways parents and caregivers have historically pushed back (and still can in the present)! —Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, I speak with Sudip Bhattacharya, PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers about left political thought and organizing among BIPOC and the need for socialism as we collectively confront the ongoing harms of capitalism and neoliberalism. —Works/Issues Cited in the PodcastSudip Bhattavcharya - “Attacking Difference, Pursuing Unity: Building a Socialist Movement amidst a Dynamic Working Class” in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank (various authors, Colin Jenkins, editor)https://www.iskrabooks.org/hampton-readerSteve Phillipshttps://www.thenation.com/authors/steve-phillips/Daron Acemoğluhttps://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/daron-acemogluAssata Shakurhttp://www.assatashakur.org/ (archive of writings and interviews)Claudia Jones-Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Joneshttps://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx-Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean - Organize, Fight, Win:Black Communist Women's Political Writinghttps://www.versobooks.com/products/2881-organize-fight-win?srsltid=AfmBOorReXXKeF6V9ZfPtFvNO9ZlITZunNe7Bx5m4q5-CyOsjstuHuTR-The Political Writings of Claudia Joneshttps://1804books.com/products/a-fighting-dream-the-political-writings-of-claudia-jones?srsltid=AfmBOoodwNEnDwRcZk7gQC1oV-AoYrj_WeLs6rcFcZl46WNc2mF1IzsbEfrén O. Pérez - Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identityhttps://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo103673599.htmlJanelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn - Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identitieshttps://www.russellsage.org/publications/asian-american-political-participationSonia Song-Ha Lee - Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York Cityhttps://uncpress.org/book/9781469629803/building-a-latino-civil-rights-movement/Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earthhttps://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The%20Wretched%20Of%20The%20Earth.pdf Schuyler Mitchell - “Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked-Choice Voting”https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdanis-victory-shows-the-progressive-promise-of-ranked-choice-voting/Glen Ford - The Black Agendahttps://orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/ Mitchell Plitnick - ‘“Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts”https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno - “The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare”https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/ —Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
an unfiltered Comrade Mommy episode about the ways storytelling becomes a mode of resistance amid colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and racialized violence---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast by Left POCket Project Podcast
A discussion of race, class, and politics in the HBO series The Last of Us w/guest Dani. ---Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone-Outro: "Wonder & Amazement" (feat. Jeremy Glenn) [Deetron Amazement Dub] by Grand Corporation---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment, we discuss the Introduction and closing interview in the 2001 edition of Aimé Césaire's 1950 anticolonial manifesto Discourse on Colonialism---Readings & Resources:Brent Edwards - The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalismhttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011038Négritudehttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negritude/German Colonization of Africahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_AfricaMatthias Häussler - Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibiahttps://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HausslerHerero----Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone-Outro: "Pooh Pah" by I:Cube---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, Dr. Cassie Osei discusses her research on the history of Black women’s labor and related social change in Brazil, conducting research in Brazil as a Black woman herself, and the racial politics of the reality show Love Is Blind: Brazil. —Readings & Resources(from Dr, Osei):Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusionhttps://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.Barbara Weinstein - “How does the painting ‘The Redemption of Ham’ by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?”https://www.choices.edu/video/how-does-the-painting-the-redemption-of-ham-by-modesto-brocos-illustrate-ideas-of-whitening/Katia Costa Santos - “Black Girls of Ipanema”https://nacla.org/black-girls-ipanemaKeisha-Khan Perry - Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazilhttps://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grabKia Lilly Caldwell - Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identityhttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/negras-in-brazil/9780813539577Raquel Barreto - “Amefricanity: The black feminism of Lélia Gonzalez”https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/amefricanityPhDivas Podcast - “Afro-Brazilian Women’s History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei”https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/s6e8-afro-brazilian-womens-history-low-femme-theory-with-dr-cassie-osei/ Professor Osei on social media:Twitter: @tropigaliaInstagram:@brasilianista—(additional readings & resources):Edward Telles - Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazilhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691127927/race-in-another-america Juliana Barreto Farias (editor) - Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipationhttps://dafricapress.com/Black-Women-in-Brazil-in-Slavery-and-Post-Emancipation-p81850749 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman - The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Familieshttps://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477307885/ Silvio Almeida on youtube (em português)https://www.youtube.com/@silviolual “Maid Saved US$ 5,800 and Took Daughter to Disney World”https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/02/maid-saved-us5800-and-took-daughter-to-disney-world.shtmlLove Is Blind Brazilhttps://www.netflix.com/title/81284981 —-Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone-Outro: "Deixa Rolar” by MC Tas---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this preview episode, Wendi reads a brief excerpt from Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, our upcoming #ReadingRevolution series selection.—Readings & Resources:Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonialismhttps://nyupress.org/9781583670255/discourse-on-colonialism/https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US—Readings & Resources:“Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards”https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords“AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare”https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060“Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police” https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/“Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain”https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusionhttps://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memoryhttps://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/“New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn”https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/“Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King”https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990“Understanding the AI Alignment Problem”https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/E. M. Forster - The Machine Stopshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928.----Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone-Outro: "Let It Play” by Miguel Migs (ft. Martin Luther)---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@leftpocSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
A discussion of the "sad beige" trend and other aesthetic choices in childrearing that carry thinly-veiled messages of classism, moralism, and misogyny. --Readings & Resources:"The Sad Beige Trend Goes against All My Wild Instincts"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/04/the-sad-beige-trend-goes-against-all-my-wild-instincts"The Miseducation of Maria Montessori"https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miseducation-of-maria-montessori----Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone-Outro: "Prey for Peace" by Joyce Muniz---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocMedia Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5QSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
A quick update---Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone-Outro: "(Just Like We) Breakdown" by Hot Chip---Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOCFacebook: facebook.com/leftpocMedia Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpocReddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/Subscribe:Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpocSpreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpocSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcastsYoutube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5QSupport: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, we speak to Brent of Rad Reads, a youtube channel where discussions of radical texts takes center stage.
Readings & Resources
Audio/Video: Rad Reads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFDSgzcZsjOi8XnWD2TlKg -Review: Blood in My Eye by George Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_b-0ab5ljE -Discussion: Struggling with Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJdHNl4zcs -Other Media: Twitter: RadreadsB Instagram: radreads94 Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72413401-brent
Marxist Paul -”Wretched of the Earth with Rad Reads”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDDjC9ZlYA
Louis Allday - Liberated Texts: https://liberatedtexts.com/ Louis Allday - “Our Enemies Know the Power of Books” (Interview) - Millennials are Killing Capitalism Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/anticapitalist-millennials/our-enemies-know-the-power-of
Left POCket Project Podcast - “Combahee River Collective Statement” (Reading Revolution Discussion): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/47-combahee-river-collective-statement-readingrevolution/id1329313097?i=1000489874990
Books/Essays/Articles H. Rap Brown - Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
Frantz Fanon - Wretched of the Earth (Constance Farrington Translation)
James Yaki Sayles - Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings
George Jackson - Blood in My Eye
Robin D. G. Kelley - Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonalism
J. Moufawad-Paul - Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: A History
Edward Onaci - Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
Sanyika Shakur - Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy
Toni Morrison: Playing in the Dark The Bluest Eye Sula
Dan Berger - ““Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika” https://www.aaihs.org/free-the-land-fifty-years-of-the-republic-of-new-afrika/
Atiba Shanna - “On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: a New Afrikan Perspective http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/Republic_of_New_Afrika/513.RNA.Atiba.Shanna.On.Captured.Citizens.pdf
Additional Authors Mentioned: Gloria Naylor Ursula K. Le Guin Octavia Butler Walter Rodney Gerald Horne
In this episode - a Reading Revolution installment - we discuss the essay "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks and how it can apply to our contemporary leftist formations and debates on revolution.
Readings & Resources
bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (essay) https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf
"Love as the Practice of Freedom" (audio) https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/77-love-as-the-practice-of-freedom-readingrevolution-left-pocket-project-podcast
Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of "Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJKJZU7xXU&t=532s
bell hooks on Freire https://t.co/vIrwItLrO4
The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks
Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514
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A spicy take to close out 2021 and Podmas on "China in Africa"
-Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #20, I talk about the dark underbelly of mom and family based social media.
Readings & Resources
"Biracials Are Fighting for Their Lives on TikTok" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJBW8VkeZM
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #19, I talk about anger.
Readings & Resources
"What will the pandemic look like in 2022?" interview w/ Eric Topol https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2021/12/16/what-will-the-pandemic-look-like-in-2022
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
Image by Noa Denman
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In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment and Podmas #18, I read "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks.
Readings & Resources
bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, Podmas installment #17, we speak with Michael Salamone, the man behind our theme music, about his background, his activism, and the current political situation in the US.
Readings & Resources
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, Podmas installment #16, I give you all some Podmas updates.
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, Podmas installment #15, I talk about the holiday season, some of the struggles people are having, and the need for empathy and support.
Readings & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, Podmas installment #14, I talk about diversity in film and tv, how it frequently devolves into tokenism, and where it still falls short.
Readings & Resources
"And Just Like That on HBO: the Sex and the City revival turns Miranda into a white liberal nightmare" https://slate.com/culture/2021/12/sex-and-the-city-and-just-like-that-miranda.html
"Netflix Productions Are More Diverse Than Studio Films" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/business/media/netflix-diversity-movies-original-series.html
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In this episode, Podmas installment #13, I talk about debt and the tremendous burden it places on my generation and many more in the future.
Readings & Resources
"President Biden hasn't yet kept his student loan forgiveness promise" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/07/1062070001/student-loan-forgiveness-debt-president-biden-campaign-promise
"Americans' Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Know" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/upshot/medical-debt-americans-medicaid.html
‘What I Learned About the Cost of Giving Birth’ https://www.thecut.com/2021/04/what-5-women-learned-about-the-cost-of-giving-birth.html
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In this episode, Podmas installment #12, I talk about my fascination with the longstanding "Tradwife" trend in popular media and the limits of "choice."
Readings & Resources
The Housewives of White Supremacy https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/tradwives-women-alt-right.html
Fundie Fridays: "Checking In with Girl Defined" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIbM0VTttBo
"The Duggars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUVTHCKejYA&t=2464s
Tara Mooknee - "Classically Abby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP8wuQnZF6U
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In this Podmas installment #11 and #ReadingRevolution episode, I read and discuss Tressie McMillan Cottom's essay "A Few Notes on Gaslighting."
Readings & Resources
Tressie McMillan Cottom - "A Few Notes on Gaslighting" https://tressiemc.com/essays-2/a-few-notes-on-gaslighting/
Tressie McMillan Cottom - Thick https://thenewpress.com/books/thick
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In this episode, Podmas installment #10, I talk about the limits of academia when it comes to political expression and the pitfalls of professionalization.
Readings & Resources
Talk from Joy James at Brown University - "The Architects of Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and the Deradicalization of Prison Struggles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0
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In this episode, Podmas installment #9 and a LeftPOC of the Week edition, I finish my discussion on Black Brazilian communist, performer, thinker, and activist Thereza Santos.
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In this Podmas installment #8 and #ReadingRevolution episode, I read Amiri Baraka's 1962 essay "'Black' Is a Country"
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In this Podmas installment #7 and Comrade Mommy episode, I discuss frustrations about covid callousness.
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In this episode, Podmas installment #6 and LeftPOC of the Week edition, I discuss the early life of Black Brazilian communist, performer, thinker, and activist Thereza Santos. This is Part I.
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In this episode, Podmas installment #5, I discuss job applications (inspired by one of my recent tweets) and why they should disclose salaries upfront.
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In this episode, Podmas installment #4, I discuss the dangers of tokenism on all sides of the political spectrum and the double bind for leftists of color.
Readings & Resources Interview w/ Thurgood Marshall https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-29-mn-1178-story.html
Michael C. Dawson - Blacks in and Out of the Left https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057685
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In this episode, Podmas installment #3, I discuss healthcare, its financial strain on U.S.ians, and alternative healthcare realities abroad.
Readings & Resources
The U.S. Health Insurance System is Broken / I Can't Afford Health Insurance and I'm Not Alone https://youtu.be/a75qe8VdFLQ
Medicare for All https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all
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In this Comrade Mommy episode, Podmas installment #2, I discuss paperwork, its added burden in the already overwhelming lives of mothers, and excessive bureaucracy as an outgrowth of capitalism.
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In this episode, I go into a new plan for the month. Here goes!
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In this episode, I ...take a deep breath out.
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In this episode, we speak with organizer, writer, and researcher Jasson Perez about the defund movement, abolition, and organizing in Chicago against multiple forms of oppression toward its population.
Work by Jasson Perez "Lori Lightfoot is wrong. ‘We’ didn’t fail Adam Toledo.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/20/lori-lightfoot-is-wrong-we-didnt-fail-adam-toledo/
"The quest for justice for Adam Toledo requires that Lightfoot resign" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chicago-lightfoot-adam-toledo/
"Don't Blame Defund" https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dont-blame-defund
"Snatching Victory" https://spectrejournal.com/snatching-victory/
"The Left's 'Theoretical' Problem" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWiFjrjddUNcCHRiz0UvgW84zcRg17o_/view?usp=sharing
Additional Readings & Resources: Joy James - “The Architects of Abolitionism” (talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0
“Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html
Mariame Kaba - We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice https://www.akpress.org/we-do-this-til-we-free-us.html
Alex Vitale - The End of Policing (note: the e-book version here is still free!) https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
Angela Davis - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture https://www.akpress.org/abolitiondemocracy.html
Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 1 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/29-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast
Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 2 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/30-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-pt-2-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast
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In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss domestic work, how the women who perform it are made invisible, and what should be done to secure their rights.
Readings & Resources "Out of the Shadows" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/national-domestic-workers-alliance.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=80560529BCACC56EAF348EF466B3DF02&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL
"Não romantize as relações de trabalho: sua empregada não é quase da família" https://www.uol.com.br/universa/colunas/cris-guterres/2021/02/23/sua-empregada-nao-e-quase-da-familia.htm?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_content=geral&utm_campaign=universa&fbclid=IwAR0jLj1MnbWLB0R7byLhhEeVedFM9Jh2lTDQkNb62xrpoqKBB3hc2eklsSc
A Feminism Where 'Lean In' Means Leaning On Others https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/a-feminism-where-leaning-in-means-leaning-on-others/
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In this episode, we speak with Professor Yannick Marshall about his research on colonialism in Kenya, anti-colonialism around the world, and the need to expand the political imagination.
Work by Yannick Marshall https://www.yannickmarshall.net/
An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History https://www.aaihs.org/an-appeal-bring-the-maroon-to-the-foreground-in-black-intellectual-history/
Black liberal, your time is up https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/1/black-liberal-your-time-is-up
There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism https://www.aaihs.org/canada-is-not-a-relatively-benign-version-of-settler-colonialism/
On Kenosha and the difficulty of recognising Nazism in the US https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/8/on-kenosha-and-the-difficulty-of-recognising-nazism-in-the-us
After this election, we should not come together https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/16/after-this-election-we-should-not-come-together
Additional Readings: Maroons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons
On imperialism and the current situation in Haiti https://t.co/QHzbxKrSJa?amp=1
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In this episode, we discuss current news and catch up after our break. --- Readings & Resources
Osita Nwanevu - “The Democratic Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the QAnon Phenomenon” https://newrepublic.com/article/161266/qanon-classism-marjorie-taylor-greene
Ashley Reese - “The Cynical, Sexist Fantasy of AOC” https://theslot.jezebel.com/the-cynical-sexist-fantasy-of-aoc-1846189707
Jia Tolentino - “What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/what-mutual-aid-can-do-during-a-pandemic
Edward Ongweso, Jr. - “Investment Firms Are the Big Winners of the GameStop Stock Revolution So Far” https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gepx/investment-firms-are-the-big-winners-of-the-gamestop-stock-revolution-so-far
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In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss the need for giving and the correlation between the teachings of Maria Montessori and leftist ideology.
Readings & Resources
Montessori at Home - What Is Montessori? (& Why Do It?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEdP_RZhhI&list=PLdIZMnmUhOo4QquwIjMI7cAlyoykpo1-M&index=1&t=24s
Maria Montessori: What You May Not Know https://www.montessoriservices.com/ideas-insights/maria-montessori-what-you-may-not-know#:~:text=In%201933%2C%20denying%20any%20political,and%20later%20in%20The%20Netherlands.
*Correction: Montessori left her son at a foster home temporarily, not an aunt, but she pretended to be his aunt during her visits to him there.
Left POCket Project Podcast: Reading Revolution series on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/sets/readingrevolution-freire
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In this episode, we discuss current news and the challenges that lie ahead.
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the ways the pandemic has shifted gender roles - and not always for the better.
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
Readings & Resources
Women's Careers Could Take Long-Term Hit From Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.wsj.com/articles/womens-careers-could-take-long-term-hit-from-coronavirus-pandemic-11594814403
How the Coronavirus Crisis Threatens to Set Back Women’s Careers https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-threatens-to-set-back-womens-careers-11601438460
Here’s How the Pandemic Is Affecting Women’s Careers wsj.com/articles/heres-how-the-pandemic-is-affecting-womens-careers-11601920650
Women academics seem to be submitting fewer papers during coronavirus https://www.thelily.com/women-academics-seem-to-be-submitting-fewer-papers-during-coronavirus-never-seen-anything-like-it-says-one-editor/
How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/10/30/492582/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward/
Pandemic Could Scar a Generation of Working Mothers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/business/economy/coronavirus-working-women.html
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In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the election, politics, and how to broach the subject with children.
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In this episode, part of the Reading Revolution series, we discuss Che Guevara’s 1964 speech to the United Nations “Colonialism Is Doomed,” regarding the ongoing independence movements throughout the world and Cuba’s solidarity with oppressed peoples in their fight for sovereignty.
Readings & Resources Che Guevara - “Colonialism Is Doomed” 1964 Speech to the United Nations https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1964/12/11-alt.htm
Ada Ferrer - Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 https://uncpress.org/book/9780807847831/insurgent-cuba/
Aviva Chomsky - A History of the Cuban Revolution https://www.bookdepository.com/History-Cuban-Revolution-Aviva-Chomsky/9781118942284
Vijay Prashad - The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World https://thenewpress.com/books/darker-nations
Gregory Mann - Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century https://www.dukeupress.edu/native-sons
Christine Hatzky - Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976-1991 https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5216.htm
Assata Shakur - Assata: An Autobiography https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781556520747 about the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata:_An_Autobiography
Che Guevara on Face the Nation (1964) https://youtu.be/mzmOHy6Ine0
Che Guevara’s 1964 Address to the United Nations (excerpt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufHojkoGtw
Hannah Allam - "'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left" https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/893533916/i-am-antifa-one-activist-s-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left
Black Alliance for Peace - International Day of Action on Africom https://blackallianceforpeace.com/dayofactiononafricom?fbclid=IwAR1coF17j2EVFXIawscICHVqy50D32TRuyEmtyQix7Q9KKKfP1VhlEu0OZ4
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In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the meaning of "choice" and what it can mean beyond the rhetoric.
Readings & Resources
The Grapevine - Black Women & Childbirth
Sanoja Bhaumik - "In the 1970s, Racism Led to Women Being Sterilized Against Their Will. Could It Happen Again?" https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/09/14/in-the-1970s-racism-led-to-women-being-sterilized-against-their-will-could-it-happen-again/
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In this episode, I discuss Comrade Mommy (@ComradeMommy), a new sub-series of the Left POCket Project Podcast.
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In this episode, part of the #ReadingRevolution series, we discuss the Combahee River Collective Statement, a manifesto penned by black lesbian socialists in 1977 regarding the way forward in movement politics.
Readings & Resources
Combahee River Collective Statement https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html
In Spanish https://t.co/ot5aA3nbTn?amp=1
In Portuguese https://t.co/vvIB8cI4GX?amp=1
In French https://t.co/P5f9l0EYnO?amp=1
Digital Project on the Combahee River Collective https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editor- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free
“Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will be Free” https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-free
“Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y8jvNfAjCk
Delete Your Account - Blackwashing (ep. featuring Wendi & Richard) https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/episode-182-blackwashing
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In this episode, I speak with journalist Malaika Jabali about her thoughts on Kamala Harris being the vice presidential pick for the Biden ticket and the impact this may have on the left and the black community, especially black women.
Readings/Resources
Work by Malaika Jabali
“The Color of Economic Anxiety” https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety
“Democrats ignore black, working-class midwesterners at their peril” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/03/democrats-ignore-black-working-class-midwesterners-at-their-peril
“After the Obama disappointment, black voters want more than empty symbolism” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/05/black-voters-us-election-kamala-harris-obama
“What Do Black Women Want This Election Season?” https://www.essence.com/feature/black-womens-roundtable-survey-results-2019/
“Bernie and Black Voters” (interview on The Dig podcast) https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/bernie-and-black-voters-with-malaika-jabali-and-wendi-muse/
Left Out (documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubd2cnslP8A
Twitter: @MalaikaJabali
Additional readings
“Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE” https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html
“Kamala Harris meets with AIPAC leaders at her Senate office” https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435812-kamala-harris-meets-with-aipac-leaders-at-her-senate-office
“Angela Davis on Kamala Harris” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=773737800111695
“The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e
“Kamala Harris' Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison for Murder. Now He's Talking” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwkab/jamal-trulove-wants-kamala-harris-to-talk-about-his-wrongful-conviction
“Black Lives Matter Isn't Going to Just 'Shut Up and Vote' for Kamala Harris” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4n9d/black-lives-matter-isnt-going-to-just-shut-up-and-vote-for-kamala-harris
“Of course it’s Kamala!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iInStlR2boI
GoFundMe Thread (add your own; priority given to health & housing needs): https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1293989196324012034
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In this episode, I speak to Jacqueline and Abdus Luqman, journalists, activists, and hosts of Luqman Nation, a weekly politics show, on the recent protests for black lives, race on the left, the role of religion in liberation movements, and much more.
Readings & Resources
Luqman Nation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5hIQvTLrxgf4UvSJRCPhw
By Any Means Necessary https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/
The Real News Network https://therealnews.com/
Note: While these items are all available on amazon.com, I am doing my best to include links for suggested books on non-Amazon sites in solidarity with their workers (who face frequent rights violations).
Akinyele Omowale Umoja - We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781479886036
Charles E. Cobb Jr. - This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible https://www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviolent-stuffll-get-you-killed
Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: a History https://redemmas.org/titles/30721-pan-africanism--a-history
James H. Cone - Black Theology and Black Power https://www.orbisbooks.com/black-theology-and-black-power-en.html
“The African American who moved to Ghana 'to escape US racism’” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49394354
“Black Women Communists and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Minkah Makalani” https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-communists-and-pan-africanism-an-interview-with-minkah-makalani/
“America’s Brutal Police State Expands its Reach in Portland” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuK8rhnK6c&t=5s
George Floyd Protests in Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Washington,_D.C.
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In this episode, we discuss the protests that have erupted around the nation (and now the world) in response to racist police & vigilante violence in the US.
Readings & Resources “With Whom Are Many US Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator - Israel” https://www.amnestyusa.org/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/
“Israel Krav Maga Experts Teaching Officers in Brazil” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu8f1h-jGLc
“Does the Militarisation of US Police Encourage Excessive Force?” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/militarisation-police-encourage-excessive-force-200601195340742.html
“Democratic Leaders' Kneeling Was Fine. The Kente Cloth Was Not” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/educate-yourself-before-you-wear-kente/
“The Embarrassment of Democrats Wearing Kente-Cloth Stoles” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-embarrassment-of-democrats-wearing-kente-cloth-stoles
“Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html
Intercepted Podcast” Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition/
Ruth Wilson Gilmore - Golden Gulag https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag
Alex Vitale - The End of Policing Free e-book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-obsolete-by-angela-y-davis/ (Available in pdf form on multiple sites)
Angela Davis - Abolition Democracy https://www.akpress.org/abolitiondemocracy.html (Available in pdf form on multiple sites)
(Listen to our discussion of Abolition Democracy here: pt 1: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/29-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast pt 2: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/30-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-pt-2-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast)
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html?fbclid=IwAR1jiVdWcrv9udt2VFrNnAU1pdAbiQagq0rBXgopZMnKzjhBnuBHRwO5O_A
“Black Capitalism Won’t Save Us” https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nipsey-killer-mike-race-economics/
“Killer Mike, T.I. and Atlanta's Black Misleadership Class” https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/killer-mike-atlanta-speech-ti-video-george-floyd-a9543551.html
“Ilhan Omar Statement about Justice for George Floyd Unrest” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65weWcmjH_I
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In this episode, we speak to researcher and writer Dr. Edna Bonhomme on medicine, epidemics, and empire in the Middle East and North Africa as well as the current COVID-19 crisis.
Readings & Resources Related Work by Edna Bonhomme:
“Über Lebenslust,” Missy Magazine, May 2020, https://missy-magazine.de/blog/2020/05/11/ueber-lebenslust/
“The Cartography of Climate Apartheid in Yemen,” UN Magazine, May 2020, http://unprojects.org.au/magazine/issues/issue-14-1/edna-bonhomme/
“What Afro Shops Mean for the African Diaspora in Berlin,” The Funambulist, May 2020, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/states-of-emergency
“Ill Will,” The Baffler Magazine, April 2020, https://thebaffler.com/latest/ill-will-bonhomme
“Racism: the most dangerous ‘preexisting condition’,” Aljazeera English, April 2020, https://aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/racism-dangerous-pre-existing-condition-200414154246943.html
“The Racial Politics of ‘Return,’” The Nation, April 2020, https://thenation.com/article/world/slavery-tourism-ghana-africa/
“Covid-19 Denialism and Xenophobia,” Spectre Journal, April 2020, https://spectrejournal.com/covid-19-denialism-and-xenophobia/
“What coronavirus has taught us about inequality,” Aljazeera English, March 2020, https://aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-taught-inequality-200316204401117.html
“How They Treat Us,” The Baffler Magazine, November 2019, https://thebaffler.com/latest/how-they-treat-us-bonhomme
Decolonization in Action Podcast: https://decolonizationinaction.com/ | @decinaction
https://www.ednabonhomme.com/
Edna on Twitter: @jacobinoire
Additional Readings: Harriet A. Washington - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Apartheid-Experimentation-Americans-Colonial-ebook/dp/B0010SEOYE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1590540355&sr=8-1
Dorothy Roberts - Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Black-Body-Reproduction-Meaning/dp/0679758690
Matthew M. Heaton - Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry https://www.amazon.com/Black-Skin-White-Coats-Decolonization/dp/0821420704/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=black+skin+white+coats&qid=1590540436&sr=8-1
“Cuba Link Sought in Spread of AIDS” (1988) https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-01-31-8803260544-story.html
“Debate Grows on US Listing of Haitians in AIDS Category” (1983) https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/31/us/debate-grows-on-us-listing-of-haitians-in-aids-category.html
Mariel Boatlift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift
“Coronavirus: Africa will not be testing ground for vaccine, says WHO” (2020) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52192184
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In this episode, we catch up about the current coronavirus crisis, the hot mess that is the 2020 election, and the ramifications of the latest policies under the Trump administration.
Readings & Resources
How COVID-19 Deniers Are Also a Virus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PkIV5EaCk
Essential or Expendable? Gig Workers at Instacart & Grocery Stores Demand Safety Gear & Hazard Pay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQ-KWNXzkQ&t=907s
"Trump Defunds World Health Organization In the Middle of a Global Pandemic" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-defunds-world-health-organization-coronavirus
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In this episode, we speak with historian and researcher Elise Mitchell about pandemics in history, their impact on marginalized populations - particularly the enslaved - and the linkages to the social impact of the current COVID-19 crisis.
Readings & Resources
Elise Mitchell - "The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease - Humanity's Long History of Making Epidemics Worse" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/
Dayle B. DeLancey - "Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.3-4.0296
Ida Altman - "The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/revolt-of-enriquillo-and-the-historiography-of-early-spanish-america/AE46A808BFFB70C9DCE84F276821E650
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In this episode, I discuss the legacy of Brazilian activist and city councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was brutally murdered on March 14, 2018.
Readings & Resources
Previous episode on Marielle Franco (w/ additional information regarding her life and activism) https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/ep14-marielle-presente-left-pocket-project-podcast
Information regarding other Brazilian women activists mentioned in the episode: Erica Malunguinho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Malunguinho Thereza Santos: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thereza_Santos Leici Brandão: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leci_Brand%C3%A3o Áurea Carolina de Freitas e Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81urea_Carolina Andréia de Jesus Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9ia_de_Jesus Mônica Santos Francisco: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B4nica_Francisco Talíria Petrone: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal%C3%ADria_Petrone Theodosina Rosário Ribeiro: https://www.grupoescolar.com/pesquisa/theodosina-rosario-ribeiro.html Benedita da Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedita_da_Silva Olívia Santana: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%C3%ADvia_Santana Lélia Gonzalez: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9lia_Gonzalez
PSOL: Partido Socialismo e Liberdade https://psol50.org.br/
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, I discuss postpartum life, "healthcare" in the US, and coronavirus.
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, I discuss some updates for the project as well as introduce a new feature for the podcast!
Reading/Resources
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380
Bill Mullen - "By the Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao and the Making of Afro-Asian Radicalism, 1966–1975" in Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History www.patreon.com/posts/maos-little-red-32754249
"W.E.B. Du Bois & the Tradition of Radical Blackness" -Interview w/ Charisse Burden Stelly for the Left POCket Project Podcast Leftpoc – 35web-du-bois-the-tradition-of-radical-blackness-wcharisse-burden-stelly-leftpoc-podcast
Robeson Taj Frazier - The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination www.amazon.com/East-Black-China-…95&s=books&sr=1-1
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, we discuss the January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate.
Resources: CNN + Des Moines Register January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate (video) https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-des-moines-register-democratic-debate/index.html
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In this episode, part 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the larger global impact of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book.
Reading/Resources
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380
Bill Mullen - "By the Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao and the Making of Afro-Asian Radicalism, 1966–1975" in Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History https://www.patreon.com/posts/maos-little-red-32754249
"W.E.B. Du Bois & the Tradition of Radical Blackness" -Interview w/ Charisse Burden Stelly for the Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/35web-du-bois-the-tradition-of-radical-blackness-wcharisse-burden-stelly-leftpoc-podcast
Robeson Taj Frazier - The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination https://www.amazon.com/East-Black-China-Radical-Imagination/dp/0822357860/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=frazier+the+east+is+black&qid=1577841095&s=books&sr=1-1
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In this episode,we speak w/returning guest Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly about W.E.B. Du Bois, radical blackness,& black internationalism
Readings & Resources Charisse Burden-Stelly & Gerald Horne - W.E.B. Du Bois:A Life in American History https://www.amazon.com/W-B-Du-Bois-American/dp/1440864969/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dubois+charisse+burden-stelly&qid=1577219962&sr=8-1 Charisse Burden-Stelly “W.E.B. Du Bois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness:Radicalism, Repression, & Mutual Comradeship, 1930–1960” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300.2018.1575070 “In Battle for Peace during ‘Scoundrel Time’: W.E.B. Du Bois & United States Repression of Radical Black Peace Activism" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/in-battle-for-peace-during-scoundrel-time/F81265698C05F13CE8B852BF54014461/share/cc938e6f2392f29081d80e1178b9fb664f66e9d4?fbclid=IwAR3px-OtNOrURUApKIwFWeePtfBR0Kia6pyBSSYio1Qp6NQUrqWaqOir0iM (preview) “Left,Black,& Badass” -Interview w/LeftPOC https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-episode-5-left-black-badass-interview-wcharisse-burden-stelly “McCarthy Era Laid Groundwork for 60s Repression” -Interview w/Black Agenda Report https://www.blackagendareport.com/mccarthy-era-laid-groundwork-sixties-repression?fbclid=IwAR2gVBJU6sbF0PX9YORLMrB7qb90JtwRN-wIVzxvsxtoQxOT1VwygWT54Io Academia.edu: https://carleton.academia.edu/CharisseBurdenStellyPhD Instagram: @blackleftaf
Black Internationalism,Black Radicalism,& Pan-Africanism LeftPOC Thread on Harry Haywood: https://twitter.com/LeftPOC/status/976898822961090561?s=20 Black Belt Thesis: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-belt-republic-1928-1934/
Hubert Harrison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Harrison Hubert Harrison - The Negro & the Nation https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Nation-Hubert-Harrison-ebook/dp/B00KVUW47G/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=hubert+harrison&qid=1577238386&sr=8-5
Cedric J. Robinson Black Communism:The Making of the Black Radical Tradition https://www.amazon.com/Black-Marxism-Making-Radical-Tradition/dp/0807848298/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LM3UHICDNYAO&keywords=cedric+robinson+black+marxism&qid=1577238772&sprefix=cedric+robinson%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1 On Racial Capitalism,Black Internationalism,& Cultures of Resistance https://www.amazon.com/Cedric-Robinson-Capitalism-Internationalism-Resistance/dp/0745340032/ref=sr_1_2?crid=LM3UHICDNYAO&keywords=cedric+robinson+black+marxism&qid=1577238811&sprefix=cedric+robinson%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-2
Hakim Adi Pan-Africanism & Communism:The Communist International,Africa & the Diaspora,1919-39 https://www.amazon.com/Pan-Africanism-Communism-Communist-International-1919-1939/dp/1592219160/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577240823&s=books&sr=1-1 Pan-Africanism:A History https://www.amazon.com/Pan-Africanism-History-Hakim-Adi/dp/1474254276/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577239435&s=books&sr=1-2 West Africans in Britain 1900-60:Nationalism,Pan-Africanism & Communism https://www.amazon.com/West-Africans-Britain-1900-1960-Pan-Africanism-ebook/dp/B07YPTK2MG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577240823&s=books&sr=1-3
Mikah Makalani - In the Cause of Freedom:Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-39 https://www.amazon.com/Cause-Freedom-Radical-Internationalism-1917-1939/dp/1469617528/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=minkah+makalani&qid=1577239253&sr=8-1
Erik McDuffie - Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism https://www.amazon.com/Sojourning-Freedom-American-Communism-Feminism/dp/0822350505/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/147-1591993-2094153?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822350505&pd_rd_r=7e115c5d-d261-45d9-bb65-777c83082139&pd_rd_w=nTcw6&pd_rd_wg=i8jfB&pf_rd_p=5873ae95-9063-4a23-9b7e-eafa738c2269&pf_rd_r=M57RMEXS9D4907VSKDMX&psc=1&refRID=M57RMEXS9D4907VSKDMX
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In this episode, part 2 of 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the text Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book.
Reading/Resources
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380
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In this episode, part 1 of 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the text Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book.
Reading/Resources
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) https://www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, we discuss the platforms of the Green Party (US), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA).
Readings/Resources
Green Party (GPUS) Platform https://www.gp.org/platform
Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) Platform https://liberationschool.org/program-of-the-party-for-socialism-and-liberation/
Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Platform https://www.cpusa.org/party_info/party-program/
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, we continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of the book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, a set of interviews with Angela Davis.
Reading/Resources
Eduardo Mendieta (interviewing Angela Davis) - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-29344345
Angela Davis Discusses Her Book Abolition Democracy www.c-span.org/video/?191553-1/a…ns-torture-empire
Margaret Kimberly - "Ignoring Angela Davis" https://www.blackagendareport.com/ignoring_angela_davis
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Left POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 3, w/Special Guest Héctor Alcalá - Episode 30
We are joined by special guest Héctor Alcalá to discuss the third round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward.
Readings/Resources 2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UWVO0Trd1c
Richard Hunsinger - "Holocaust Capitalism" https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/08/21/holocaust-capitalism/
(related interview for This Is Hell - "Capitalism needs cages: On dispossession and fascism in America's new concentration camps" https://thisishell.com/interviews/1071-richard-hunsinger)
Robert Reich - "The Irony of Republican Disapproval of Obamacare" https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2013/1028/The-irony-of-Republican-disapproval-of-Obamacare
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, we have a #ReadingRevolution discussion of the book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, a set of interviews with Angela Davis.
Reading/Resources
Eduardo Mendieta (interviewing Angela Davis) - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (full text) https://www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-29344345
Angela Davis Discusses Her Book Abolition Democracy https://www.c-span.org/video/?191553-1/abolition-democracy-prisons-torture-empire
Angela Davis: An Autobiography https://www.amazon.com/Angela-Davis-Autobiography-Y/dp/0717806677
“Free Angela Davis!” (interactive page) https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=d93da4b2e4fa47fcbc999b1006fe51d6
Interview w/ Angela Davis from prison for Vibrations (1972) https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/190044
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness http://newjimcrow.com/
Douglas Blackmon - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (book) https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
Slavery by Another Name (documentary) http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/
Elizabeth Hinton - From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979826
“Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies” https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon
The Tuskegee Experiment https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
“Torture at Abu Grahib” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Left POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 2, w/Special Guest Kumars Salehi - Episode 28
We are joined by special guest Kumars Salehi to discuss the second round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward.
Readings/Resources 2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 2: night one: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/31/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-democratic-debate-day-one/index.html
night two: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/01/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-democratic-debate-day-two/index.html
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, we speak with researcher and writer William Jamal Richardson about his work on the development of modern American cities as settler colonial spaces.
Readings & Resources: Joyce A. Ladner - The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture https://www.amazon.com/Death-White-Sociology-Ladner/dp/1574780077
William J. Richardson - "Understanding the City as a Settler Colonial Structure" https://decolonialblack.com/2017/06/27/understanding-the-city-as-a-settler-colonial-structure/
William J. Richardson - By Any Magical Means Necessary (Black Shell Saga Book 1) https://t.co/P9NFVjcwln
William's Patreon Page to support his writing https://www.patreon.com/DecolonialBlack
PUSH Buffalo: People United for Sustainable Housing https://www.pushbuffalo.org/
On "Accessibility"(thread) https://t.co/7Qi00kmZ8C
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Left POCket Project Podcast - "2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 1, w/Special Guest Anoa Changa - Episode 26
We are joined by special guest Anoa Changa to discuss the first round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward.
Readings/Resources 2020 Democratic Primary Debates: night one: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-video-democratic-presidential-debate-night-1-62758981769 night two: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-video-democratic-presidential-debate-night-2-62848069759 (both pages also link to full transcripts for each night)
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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In this episode, we continue with part 2 of our discussion of Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution.
Readings & Resources Albert Memmi - The Colonizer and the Colonized (full text)https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972
"Why High-Class People Get Away with Incompetence" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html
"The Great Escape that Changed Africa's Future" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/great-escape-that-changed-africas-future?fbclid=IwAR36FqTJNJH345O_NXd9k6kZBcngq2W2fOdafwI0BZt0GWdIiSqh1SmFD8U
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In this episode, we discuss Albert Memmi's seminal work The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution.
You can find the entire text for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972
Additional Readings & Resources:
"Critics and Theorists: Albert Memmi" https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/19/memmi-albert/
"Albert Memmi's About-Face" http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0046.326
"Jews and Arabs" https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/21/archives/jews-and-arabs.html -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/
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In this episode, we speak to Professor Jakobi Williams about his book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago and his research on black political organizing and resistance to white supremacy and capitalism in Chicago throughout the 20th century.
Suggested Readings & Resources: Jakobi Williams - From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Ballot-Illinois-Coalition-Politics/dp/1469622106/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=jakobi+williams&qid=1553292176&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
Amy Sonnie and James Tracy - Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Nationalists-Urban-Rebels-Black/dp/1935554662/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Hillbilly+Nationalists%2C+Urban+Race+Rebels%2C+and+Black+Power%3A+Community+Organizing+in+Radical+Times&qid=1553292833&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
Jeffrey Haas - The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Chicago-Murdered/dp/1569767092/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+assassination+of+Fred+Hampton+%3A+how+the+FBI+and+the+Chicago+police+murdered+a+Black+Panther&qid=1553292441&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
Joshua Bloom - Black against Empire: The History of Politics of the Black Panther Party https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?keywords=black+panthers+chicago&pd_rd_i=0520293282&pd_rd_r=58cd0e1a-b13a-4807-91f2-e8517fade348&pd_rd_w=I4Z37&pd_rd_wg=MfSmd&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pf_rd_r=X0J9HNE1YYJXWNAK8MKJ&qid=1553292465&s=gateway
Robyn C. Spencer - The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Has-Come-Panther-Oakland/dp/0822362864/ref=pd_sim_14_4/145-7285454-7271234?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822362864&pd_rd_r=0212ec40-4cef-11e9-889b-8de6206c1d4a&pd_rd_w=86PET&pd_rd_wg=LTn69&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN&psc=1&refRID=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN
Davarian L. Baldwin - Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-New-Negroes-Modernity-Migration/dp/0807857998/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=black+chicago&qid=1553292916&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-7 Poor People’s Campaign https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/ -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/
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In Episode 22 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I have our last #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events.
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Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time) -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts
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In Episode 21 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events.
You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts.
Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time) -- Related Readings & Resources:
"Behind the Scenes in Venezuela" https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-03-03/new-evidence-the-trump-administration-is-meddling-in-venezuelas-elections
"Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ralph-northam-and-the-history-of-blackface
"A Terrible Failure to Protect School Girls in Liberia" https://africasacountry.com/2018/10/a-terrible-failure-to-protect-school-girls-in-liberia
"Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders" https://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/teach-for-america -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts
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In Episode 20 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I have a #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts.
Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time) -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts
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I'm baaaaack! Richard and I recorded this discussion a few weeks ago, once I had gotten back from Mozambique (though still in Brazil) as a sort of "year in review." We discuss the yellow vests protests in France, recent proposals for a Green New Deal in the US, and much much more.
Related Readings & Resources
France:
Short thread on Macron's policies toward poor POC & migrant communities in France: https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1071884065391947777
New French anti-terror law to replace 2-year state of emergency https://www.politico.eu/article/new-french-anti-terror-law-to-replace-2-year-state-of-emergency/
French Muslim arrested in roundup after Paris attacks says Macron victory cannot give him his life - or his country - back https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-election-halim-abdelmalek-paris-attacks-house-arrest-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-a7737286.html
French Activist: Emmanuel Macron is “Younger, Prettier” Face of Anti-Worker Reforms & a Police State https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/28/french_activist_emmanuel_macron_is_younger -- Environmental Issues
Billionaires Are the Leading Cause of Climate Change https://www.gq.com/story/billionaires-climate-change
Corporations Grabbing Land and Water Overseas https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/corporations-grabbing-land-and-water-overseas/
The Problem with "Overpopulation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYuo2QdNu88
Link to Pedagogy of the Oppressed for our upcoming discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-23145180
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In this discussion-based episode, Richard (my co-host for the #ReadingRevolution series) and I talk about the state of politics in the U.S. (including U.S. foreign policy), electoral drama in Brazil, and the need for having resolve on the left despite feeling disappointed.
Related Readings & Resources:
Instituto Paulo Freire http://www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)
“Quase 200 mil bolsistas da Capes podem ficar sem bolsa se orçamento de 2019 sofrer corte, diz conselho” (“Nearly 200,000 Capes scholarship recipient may lose their funding if the 2019 budget undergoes cuts, says council” https://g1.globo.com/educacao/noticia/2018/08/02/quase-200-mil-podem-ficar-sem-bolsa-se-orcamento-de-2019-sofrer-corte-diz-conselho-da-capes.ghtml
“Brazil: judge shuts border to Venezuelan migrants fleeing hunger and hardship” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/06/brazil-shuts-border-venezuelan-migrants
(Related update: “Brazil rules out closing border to Venezuelan immigrants” https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazil-rules-closing-border-venezuelan-immigrants-57293537)
Ataques a venezuelanos são açulados por fake news brasileiras (“Attacks against Venezuelans are spurred by Brazilian fake news”) https://nocaute.blog.br/2018/08/19/ataque-a-venezuelanos/
"Tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: stand by your principles — stand with Palestine!" https://mondoweiss.net/2018/07/alexandria-principles-palestine/
“Twenty Years On: The War on Terror in East Africa” https://items.ssrc.org/twenty-years-on-the-war-on-terror-in-east-africa/
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In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard and I have our third #ReadingRevolution discussion, this time about Brazilian Communist revolutionary Carlos Marighella’s 1969 work The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, the place of violence in anti-authoritarian movements, and the contemporary application of radical political measures.
Full Text (in English): https://t.co/67jJrv7Jnd
Suggested Readings & Resources:
Marighella (documentary, in Portuguese) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2Rt1-e8G8
Various – History of Marxism in Brazil (6 volume series, in Portuguese) http://www.anitagaribaldi.com.br/produtos/644/livros/socialismo-e-marxismo/colecao-historia-do-marxismo-no-brasil.html
James N. Green – We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States https://www.amazon.com/Cannot-Remain-Silent-Dictatorship-Perspectives/dp/0822347350/ref=pd_sim_14_10?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822347350&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W
Victoria Langland - Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Flowers-Movements-Remembering-Military/dp/0822353121/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065540&sr=1-1&keywords=victoria+langland+speaking+of+flowers
Thomas Skidmore – The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985 https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Military-Rule-Brazil-1964-1985/dp/0195063163
Maria Helena Moreira Alves - State and Opposition in Military Brazil https://www.amazon.com/Opposition-Military-Brazil-American-Monographs/dp/0292776179/ref=pd_sim_14_7?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0292776179&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W
Various - On Violence (selected essays by thinkers like Malcolm X, MLK, Hannah Arendt, Marx, and many others) https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reader-Bruce-B-Lawrence/dp/082233769X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065571&sr=1-4&keywords=on+violence
Angela Davis – 1972 Interview (Clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBqyBE1Ppw
In this episode, Richard is back for our second installment of #ReadingRevolution, and we are discussing the meaning of propaganda and agitation in leftist ideology and practice.
Related Readings & Resources
The 2 pieces we read: Scott Harrison – The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, Chapter 11, “Agitation and Propaganda” http://www.massline.info/mlms/mlch11.htm
“On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda” Revolution, 1978 https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/rcp-agit-prop.htm
References we make: “Trump’s grammar in speeches ‘just below 6th grade level,’ study finds” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/18/trumps-grammar-in-speeches-just-below-6th-grade-level-study-finds/?utm_term=.af2f7c866569
“Who Votes, Who Doesn’t, and Why” http://www.people-press.org/2006/10/18/who-votes-who-doesnt-and-why/
The William I am referring to at the beginning is William Richardson: twitter.com/DecolonialBlack
“In White America: Liberal Conscience vs. Radical Consciousness” – speech by Greg Calvert, SDS http://www.sds-1960s.org/Calvert-WhiteAmerica.pdf
Natural Readers information: https://www.naturalreaders.com/
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In this episode, I speak with Professor Anne-Marie Angelo on the history and legacy of the Israeli Black Panthers.
Suggested Readings: On the Israeli Black Panthers:
Oz Frankel – “What’s In a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17541320802063554?journalCode=rsix2
“Israeli black panthers remind us what their struggle was about” https://972mag.com/israels-black-panthers-remind-us-what-their-struggle-was-all-about/122566/
“Jewish Arabs and the birth of Israel's Black Panthers” https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/15/jewish-arabs-and-israels-black-panthers
“The Legacy of Israel’s Black Panthers” https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/16/the-legacy-of-israels-black-panthers
May 19, 2971 Demonstration by the Israeli Black Panthers (AP Archive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0T4-sd9fNk
Interview w/ Reuven Abergel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uSQA1TMbw&feature=youtu.be
“Saadia Marciano: Founder of Israel's Black Panthers” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/saadia-marciano-founder-of-israels-black-panthers-766842.html
On the UK Professors’ Strike:
University and College Union https://www.ucu.org.uk/
UCU Announces 14 Strike Dates at 61 Universities in Pensions Row https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/9242/UCU-announces-14-strike-dates-at-61-universities-in-pensions-row
UCU Members Have Voted to Accept the UUK Offer (update) https://www.ucu.org.uk/strikeforuss -- Pictured: Israeli Black Panthers Protest -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc
In Episode 14, I discuss black Brazilian activist and socialist city councilmember Marielle Franco a month after her assassination, and contextual her murder among other recent developments in Brazil’s contemporary political climate. I also read the letter I co-authored with several scholars who work on Brazil that was published in The Black Scholar and Folha de São Paulo.
Reading/Resources:
On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco (The Black Scholar) http://www.theblackscholar.org/on-the-imperative-of-transnational-solidarity-a-u-s-black-feminist-statement-on-the-assassination-of-marielle-franco/ (note: contains extensive links for additional information/context)
Declaração Feminista Negra dos EUA sobre o assassinato de Marielle (Folha de São Paulo) http://agoraequesaoelas.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2018/04/02/tbs-marielle/
Full thread for the Left POCket Project on Marielle Franco’s life, work, and related socio-historical and political context (includes videos, articles, and other resources): https://twitter.com/LeftPOC/status/976870039759532032
Thread in “unrolled” web form: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/974338513373188096.html?refreshed=yes
“Afro-Brazilian Leader, Witness in Marielle Franco’s Case, Killed” (TeleSur) https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Afro-Brazilian-Leader-Witness-in-Marielle-Francos-Case-Killed-20180409-0015.html
“Miscarriage of Justice: Ex-President Lula's Imprisonment in Brazil” (The Real News Network) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiUvhbjgLUw (video)
“Hidden History: The US “War on Corruption” In Brasil” (BrasilWire) http://www.brasilwire.com/dont-call-it-brazilgate/
“Under Threat of Military Coup, Brazil's Supreme Court Sends Lula to Prison” (The Real News Network) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFyde4033ic (vídeo)
ETA: Interview I did for Black and Intellectual on 4/14/18 on the political situation in Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmva-ruYejc&t=1s
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In Episode 13 - “Peach Progressivism” – I speak with Anoa Changa (@thewaywithanoa) - activist, attorney, and news commentator - about election 2016, the Southern political scene, her family’s black radical history, & much more.
Related Reading/Resources:
Discussion between Benjamin Dixon, Anoa Changa, & Wendi Muse on the Left-“Alt-Right” Alliance, Benjamin Dixon Show, March 12, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pold5hl3XBQ
Marcus Ferrell for State Representative, Arizona: http://www.ferrellfor24.com/
“Inequality in America: A National Town Hall” w/ Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Darrick Hamilton, Michael Moore, & guests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV8XfM9CZo
“Bernie Endorses Challenger to Antiabortion Candidate in IL” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/08/bernie-sanders-endorses-challenger-to-antiabortion-democrat-in-illinois/?utm_term=.67626789c7a6
“Why Is the DNC Embracing an Aggressively Anti-Choice Candidate?” https://rewire.news/article/2017/04/20/why-is-dnc-embracing-aggressively-anti-choice-democrat/
“Two Angry Black Ladies & a Microphone,” Anoa’s Interview of Imani Gandy, February 7, 2018 http://thewaywithanoa.com/2018/02/07/anoa-imani-gandy-two-angry-black-ladies-and-a-microphone/
The Peach Perspective (Anoa’s Georgia Politics Blog): http://peachperspective.com/
“BDS Vote Exposes Split between Democratic Leadership” http://peachperspective.com/2018/03/01/bds-vote-exposes-split-democratic-leadership-evans/
Coverage of Dwight Bullard at the Progressive Army http://progressivearmy.com/tag/dwight-bullard/
“Pro-Israel Billionaire Haim Saban Drops $100,000 against Donna Edwards in Maryland Senate Race” https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/pro-israel-billionaire-haim-saban-drops-100000-against-donna-edwards-in-maryland-senate-race/ *correction: it was indeed $100k! I made a mistake on the podcast.
Chuck Schumer’s Speech 2018 AIPAC Speech: http://www.policyconference.org/article/transcripts/2018/schumer.asp
“Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/business/economy/trump-steel-industry-layoffs.html
“An Untold Chapter in Black History: an Excerpt of Safiya Bukhari’s The War Before: https://monthlyreview.org/2010/02/01/an-untold-chapter-in-black-history/
More on Safiya Bukhari: http://safiyabukhari.com/
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In this episode, Richard (@ProgressivGreen) and I have our first #ReadingRevolution with a discussion of Fidel Castro’s 1953 speech “History Will Absolve Me”
Suggested Readings/Resources:
Fidel Castro – “History Will Absolve Me” (1953) Ful text: https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm
History Will Absolve Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Will_Absolve_Me
Louis A. Pérez,Jr. – “Chapter 3: c. 1930 – 1959,” Cuba a Short History (Leslie Bethell, editor) https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Short-History-Cambridge-America/dp/0521436826
The Moncada Barracks Attack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncada_Barracks
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/castro-failed-coup-moncada-barracks/
Pictured: Fidel Castro
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Episode 11 - "Making Millennials" A Conversation with Shaun Scott - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Shaun Scott, writer, historian, and author of the new book Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present, out now on Zero Books, about race, class, gender, and the left as young people continue to shape US politics. http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us
You can also check out Shaun's writing at City Arts, where he has a bi-weekly column "Faded Signs": http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/contributor/shaun-scott/
Related Readings & Resources:
Shaun Scott - Millennials and the Moments that Made US: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present (2018) http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us
Shaun Scott - "In Defense of Call Out Culture" http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/defense-call-culture/
Liz Ryerson and Shaun Scott, Guests - "The Vampire Castle" - Delete Your Account Podcast https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/the-vampire-castle
Mark Fisher - "Exiting the Vampire Castle" http://www.thenorthstar.info/2013/11/22/exiting-the-vampire-castle/
Meagan Day - "Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/under-neoliberalism-you-can-be-your-own-tyrannical-boss
Amber A'Lee Frost - "Cops on Campus" https://thebaffler.com/your-sorry-ass/cops-on-campus
Katie Herzog - "Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash" https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/01/23/25741141/call-out-culture-is-a-toxic-garbage-dumpster-fire-of-trash -- Pictured: Shaun Scott -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc
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In this episode, I speak with Beatrice Wayne about Ethiopian student movements of the 1960s, their engagement with leftist thought amid oppressive social and political conditions, and the complicated struggles for state control that followed.
Suggested Readings/Resources
Ethiopian Student Movement:
Bahru Zewde - The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960-1974 (2014) https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Socialist-Utopia-Ethiopian-1960-1974/dp/1847011640
Randi Rønning Balsvik - Haile Sellassie’s Students: The Intellectual and Social Background to Revolution. 1952- 1977 (1984) https://books.google.com/books/about/Haile_Sellassie_s_students.html?id=nZ8lAQAAIAAJ
Ethiopian Revolution and its diverse effects:
Gebru Tareke - The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa (2009) https://www.amazon.com/Ethiopian-Revolution-War-Horn-Africa/dp/0300204140
Donald L. Donham - Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (1999) https://www.amazon.com/Marxist-Modern-Ethnographic-Ethiopian-Revolution/dp/0520213297
Amrit Wilson - The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution (1991) https://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Road-Women-Eritrean-Revolution/dp/0932415717/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841852&sr=1-6&keywords=amrit+wilson
On student organizing across Africa more generally:
Leo Zeilig, editor - Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007) https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Protest-Politics-Sub-Saharan-International/dp/1780760434/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841914&sr=1-1&keywords=Revolt+and+Protest%3A+Student+Politics+and+Activism+in+Sub-Saharan+Africa
Oral history collection containing the reflections of former radical ESM students:
Zewde, Bahru Zewde, editor - Documenting the Ethiopian Student Movement: An Exercise in Oral History (2010) https://www.amazon.com/Documenting-Ethiopian-Student-Movement-Exercise/dp/9994450336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841950&sr=1-1&keywords=Documenting+the+Ethiopian+Student+Movement%3A+An+Exercise+in+Oral+History.
Beautifully written memoir of Hiwot Teffera, a woman who was deeply involved in the ESM, recounting her early involvement in the movement and following up through her incarceration:
Hiwot Teffera - Tower in the Sky (2012) https://books.google.com/books/about/Tower_in_the_Sky.html?id=9mzinQEACAAJ
Learn more about Beatrice’s research here: https://sydney.academia.edu/BeatriceWayne
-- Additional source added by Wendi for more information on the different student movements and political groups: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ethiopia/index.htm -- Pictured: Martha Mebrahtu, student activist, killed in 1972. For more information on Martha, please visit: https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/martha-manifesto-ethiopian-womans-dream and http://abyotawi.blogspot.com/2016/03/womens-history-month-martha-mebrahtu.html -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/
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In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, I speak with Richard (@ProgressvGreen) about his thoughts on making leftist discourse more easily accessible for a broad audience and we reveal a surprise I’ve had up my sleeve for some time. Have a listen to find out what it is!
Suggested Resources:
“The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” https://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Methodologies-Research-Indigenous-1999-03-15/dp/B01FIWTGMW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078430&sr=1-2&keywords=linda+tuhiwai+smith%2C+decolonizing+methodologies
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire https://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Anniversary-Paulo-Freire/dp/0826412769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078494&sr=1-1&keywords=paulo+freire
The episode of The Discourse that Richard mentions on the ties between science fiction and politics: https://soundcloud.com/expandthediscourse/the-time-after-time-ep
Music: “My Life as a Video Game” by Michael Salamone
Pictured: Fred Hampton, Chicago-based Black Panthers leader, holding a book
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Episode 8 - “A Movement of the People” w/Victor Monterrosa – Left POCket Project Podcast
Victor & I discuss the history of socio-economic challenges and related activism in Newark, NJ, his run for city council, & what inspired him to serve his community
About Victor’s Campaign for Newark City Council: Victor for Council: https://www.instagram.com/victorforcouncil/
Featured Profile for 100 People: “Newark” http://www.100people.org/wp/newark_gallery/victor-monterrosa/
More about the Campaign Platform & Fellow Candidates with A Movement of the People http://amovementofthepeople.com/
Related Reading & Resources:
Books: Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America by Kevin Mumford https://www.amazon.com/Newark-History-America-American-Culture/dp/0814795633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517238781&sr=8-1&keywords=history+of+newark
The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? By Dale Russakoff https://www.amazon.com/Prize-Whos-Charge-Americas-Schools-ebook/dp/B00AXS6BIE/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1517238820&sr=8-23&keywords=history+of+newark
Articles: “We Don’t Want Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity” by Jason Farbman https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/facebook-zuckerbergs-charity-gates-philantrophy
“The Amazon Sweepstakes” by Michal Rozworski https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/amazon-headquarters-incentives-investment-jeff-bezos
“Newark's Toxic Tomb; Six Acres Fouled by Dioxin, Agent Orange's Deadly Byproduct, Reside in the Shadow of an Awakening Downtown” by Laura Mansnerus http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/nyregion/newark-s-toxic-tomb-six-acres-fouled-dioxin-agent-orange-s-deadly-byproduct.html
Public Archives & Community Resources: Ironbound Environmental Justice History and Resource Center http://ncph.org/history-at-work/ironbound-ej-history/
The Latino Oral History Collection – New Jersey Hispanic Research & Information Center http://www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/njhric/LatinoOralHistory.html
Urban Cooperative Enterprise Legal Center http://www.theucelc.org/
Covenant House of New Jersey https://nj.covenanthouse.org/ -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/
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Left POCket Project - Episode 7 - Catching Up
Did you know that the Left POCket Project was not just a podcast? In this episode, Wendi Muse, creator of the Left POCket Project, talks about the origins and purpose of the project and how she sees it evolving in the future. She also talks about the connections between her own research, her frustration over Election 2016, and the Left POCket Project.
Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
Photo: Kathleen Cleaver, former Black Panther leader
Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words, a conversation w/Yasmina Price & Jazz Hooks
Follow AFROSOC, the Afro-Socialist & Socialists of Color Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, here: Twitter: @AFROSOCDSA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AFROSOCDSA/
Music: Intro: Michael Salamone, "My Life as a Video Game" Outro: WBEEZA, "Laying Here"
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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly
Suggested Reading Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72
Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935)
Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970)
Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112.
Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & practice: Gender, race, & class,”Socialism & Democracy 17 (2003),109-122
Carole Boyce Davies,Left of Karl Marx:The Political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones,(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007)
____,”Sisters Outside:Tracing the Caribbean/Black Intellectual Tradition,”Small Axe 28 (2009),217-228
____,Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment,(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher,Inc.,2011)
Combahee River Collective,“The Combahee River Collective Statement,” in Homegirls:A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith,(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1983),264-269
Dayo F. Gore et al.,eds.,Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle,(New York: New York University Press,2009)
____,Radicalism at The Crossroads:African American Activists in the Cold War,(New York: New York University Press,2011);
Cheryl Higashida, Black International Feminism:Women Writers of the Black Left,1945-1995 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011)
Gerald Horne,Race Woman:The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois, (New York: New York University Press,2000)
Buzz Johnson,“I Think of My Mother”:Notes on the Life & Times of Claudia Jones,(London: Karia Press,1985)
Erik McDuffie, “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’:Sojourning for Truth,Justice, & Civil Rights during the Early Cold War,”Radical History Review 101 (2008),81-106
____, “‘I wanted a Communist philosophy,but I wanted us to have a change to organize our people’:The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore & the origins of black power,” African & Black Diaspora 3 (2010),181-195
____,Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism,(Durham:Duke University Press,2011).
____,“‘For full freedom of… colored women in Africa,Asia,& in these United States…’: Black Women Radicals & the Practice of a Black Women’s International,”Palimpsest 1 (2012),1-30
Louise Thompson Patterson,“Toward a Brighter Dawn,”Woman Today,April 1936
Rhoda Reddock,“Radical Caribbean social thought:Race,class identity & the postcolonial nation,”Current Sociology 62 (2014),493-511
Marika Sherwood,Claudia Jones:A Life in Exile,(London: Lawrence & Wishart,1999)
Ula Taylor,“‘Reading Men & Nations’: Women in the Black Radical Tradition,”Souls 1 (1999),72-80
____,The Veiled Garvey:The Life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey,(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2002)
Stephen Ward,“The Third World Women’s Alliance:Black Feminist Radicalism & Black Power Politics,”in The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights- Black Power Era edited by Peniel E. Joseph,199-144,(New York: Routledge,2006)
Mary Helen Washington,“Alice Childress,Loraine Hansberry, & Claudia Jones Write the Popular Front,”in Left of the Color Line:Race,Radicalism, & Twentieth Century Literature of the United Stated edited by Bill V. Mullen & James Smethurst,183-204,(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2003) For the full list, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-pocket-5-w-16178909
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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/ Sangeetha Sudharshan (@sansdn)
music: "Hot Mess" by Logophilia
Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ guest Lauren Lefty Intro music: "Mastica, Chupa y Jala" by Ghetto Brothers Outro music: "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" by Ghetto Brothers
(music & suggested reading list by Lauren Lefty)
Suggested Reading
Academic Literature on Puerto Rico and its Diaspora:
Lorrin Thomas. Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City
Virginia Sánchez Korrol. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City
Andrés Torres and José E. Velasquez, eds.. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora
Sonia Song-Ha Lee. Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
Carlos Alamo-Pastrano. Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States
Solsiree del Moral. Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico
Nelson Denis. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. "Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón: The Young Lords, Black Power and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972," CENTRO Journal 18:1 (Fall 20016): 149-169.
Radical History Review issue: “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in a Postcolonial World?”: http://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/features/puerto-rico-a-us-colony-in-a-postcolonial-world/
Jones Act: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jones-act-20170927-story.html
Education (General):
And privatization/neoliberalism (recent): https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/education-privatization-charters-public-schools-betsy-devos
Podcast about Ed in the Time of Trump/Neoliberalism: https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast
Puerto Rican Education Activism in NYC
Anthony DeJesus and Madeline Perez, “From Community Control to Consent Decree: Puerto Ricans Organizing for Education and Language Rights in the 1960s and 70s NYC,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 7-31.
Lillian Jimenez, “Puerto Ricans and Educational Civil Rights: A History of the 1969 City College Takeover,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 159-175.
Lauren Lefty, "Evelina's Harlem: A Puerto Rican Educational Journey Through Space and Time," Columbia Teachers College Educating Harlem Project, http://educatingharlem.cdrs.columbia.edu/omeka/neatline/show/evelinas-harlem
Debt crisis and school closures/austerity: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/hedge-funds-puerto-rico-close-schools-fire-teachers-pay-us-back
Post-hurricane schools situation: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ewa-radio-115287/episodes/after-the-storms-uncertain-fut-22103781
Whitefish Contract Scandal: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-governor-says-contract-to-whitefish-company-should-be-canceled/2017/10/29/e5336cda-bcb8-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.6fe582ec606a
Ed and gentrification in NYC/El Barrio: http://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/ujju-aggarwal-edwin-mayorga-from-forgotten-to-fought-over-neoliberal-restructuring-public-schools-and-urban-space/
https://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/2016/11/18/a-master-plan-for-gentrifying-el-barrio-nyc/
Debt/Austerity:
PR Syllabus: https://puertoricosyllabus.com/
Austerity Post-María: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/puerto-rico-natural-disaster-hurricane-maria
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/31/san_juan_mayor_carmen_cruz_on
UPR Strike: https://www.thenation.com/article/students-are-now-leading-the-resistance-to-austerity-in-puerto-rico/
Left POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta)
Resources regarding this episode: “Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016) http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/
“Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017) http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problem
History of Zimbabwe:
Alois Mlambo https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlambo
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Sabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ASabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Terence Ranger https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=terence+ranger+zimbabwe&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aterence+ranger+zimbabwe
Simukai Chigudu (on cholera) https://oxford.academia.edu/SimukaiChigudu
Additional suggested reading:
Elizabeth Schmidt https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Intervention-Approaches-African-History-ebook/dp/B00B4V6IPU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512297774&sr=1-1&keywords=elizabeth+schmidt
Nick Turse https://www.nickturse.com/
Abayomi Azikiwe https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=abayomi+azikiwe&sprefix=abayomi+azikiw%2Caps%2C156&crid=2MBB8G755GGE
Walter Rodney https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=walter+rodney
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Left POCket Project - Episode 1 - Introduction
Music: "Thinking Back" by Kraak & Smaak
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