Conscientization 101

Donnie Mossberg On this episode we interview Donnie Mossberg! Donnie is a musician, technician, videographer, and a member and organizer of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party . If any of you have ever looked for a YouTube video with talks from John Henrik Clarke, Kwame Ture, Amos Wilson, and so many of our other ancestors, you probably watched a video Donnie edited/posted. We first...

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (December 5, 1924 – February 27, 1978), founder of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), is frequently omitted from the Western mainstream historical record of liberation struggles in Azania (South Africa). The PAC was formed by brake away members of the African National Congress (ANC) because of their uncompromising stance that Africa was for Africans, a stan...

Mandela pictured with known racist and white nationalist P.W. Botha, former prime minister of settler colonial South Africa. Botha is responsible for the death and mangling of countless Africans, but Mandela looks totally smitten! Compromise anyone? This is how one achieves racial harmony! On this episode we talk with Dr. Julian Kunnie about his book Is Apartheid Really Dead?: Pan-Africanist Worki...

Raggo Zulu Rebel Alright everyone, we got part 2 of our interview with Raggo Zulu Rebel! We continue our discussion about the fierce competition involved in the music industry and how it creates a myriad of distractions. We also discuss how competition engenders an environment where everyone is attempting to stake their place in the different “degrees of pimping”. Raggo breaks down the...

Raggo Zulu Rebel C-101 presents part one of a two-part series featuring excerpts from our interview with highly creative and prolific hip hop artist Raggo Zulu Rebel ! We discuss many aspects of the music industry, including how it is used to dominate and control people through cultural hegemony, the proliferation of “key word lyricism”, and music’s quotidian influence on people&...

Ezrah Aharone If you were to ask the average African in the Diaspora if they considered themselves free, chances are they would exclaim with tremendous fervor, “Hell yeah, I am free! Slavery was back then in them times long ago. Fool we got a Black president; we can do whatever white people do, so that means we are free!” When you hear something like that, you have to ask yourself is t...

Cyclonious The Natural Disaster Conscientization 101 interviews independent UK hip hop artist, Cyclonious The Natural Disaster . We discuss African nationhood and identity, 360 deals imposed by major record labels, and music as a form of social conditioning. Cyclonious also offers his analysis on the sloganeering of “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” and talks about his new project which he says is his best y...

As promised, we present the second and final part of our series on the book Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth . On this part we have a dialogue with Sasha Lilley and James Davis . Sasha’s contribution to the book is entitled “Great Chaos Under Heaven: Catastrophism and the Left” and James’s piece is entitled “At War with the Future: Catastrophism and the Right”. Durin...

Conscientization 101’s Managing Editor, Zari Sundiata and Eddie Yuen after our interview at The People’s Park in Oakland, California 2014. On this edition of C-101 podcast we sat down with Eddie Yuen to discuss his piece entitled “The Politics of Failure Have Failed: The Environmental Movement and Catastrophism”, in the book Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebir...

Leo Lameda (left) and Conscientization 101 Senior Editor James Stone (right) in Caracaras, Venezuela June 27, 2013. On March 5, 2013 the charismatic and revolutionary president of Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, died seemingly unexpectedly. While it was known that Chávez had undergone operations in Havana, Cuba to remove an abscessed tumor with cancerous cells, it was reported prior to his de...

Immortal Technique   On this edition of C-101 podcast, we feature an interview we conducted with Immortal Technique. We discussed many topics with Immortal Technique including state repression of Occupy Wall Street, Haiti, Libya, and much more. We also included an overview of Conscientization 101 web magazine’s objectives and what you can expect when you subscribe. Since this is our ope...