In Defense of Liberation

Name says it all - we’re talking about some frustrations, fears, hesitation and lack of clarity when it comes to organizing

What is freedom to an “American” today? Let’s get a conversation started. Can someone be free while being imprisoned? Poor? Oppressed? Racially discriminated? Disabled?

In this episode, we talk about the 2021 international tribunal on the human rights, abuses against black, brown, and indigenous peoples. Its history and its importance must be understood. We then talk about the spirit of Mandela briefly and the people senate initiate which more info on both can be found at Spiritofmandela.org

What’s up folks, little check in episode a bit more laid back, talking about some workplace stuffs and some general organizing ideas

In this we discuss in brief some examples and ideas of what organizing is and can look like among people everywhere, and why it is so important !

More on the discussion of importance of focusing on the needs of human beings not vague ideals of “Human Rights” in a world full of oppression, violence and poverty

In this episode, we talk about how frequent it is conveyed that the most important thing to humankind are these vague notions of human rights. Yet as Dr. Fidel Castro told us many times, there is a difference between human rights and the rights of humanity. There can be no discussion of human rights in the name of billions who live without so much as a piece of bread. There can be no discussion of...

Updates on some of the organizing I’ve been doing, calls for support, and mentions of struggles such as the Hands off Uhuru movement and the stop cop city movement

What is power? Is it simply military force? Is it the ability to persuade, to control, to dictate? Or is it more, less, why is power important, why do we care? Some questions we go over and cover in today’s episode.

In this episode we talk about the lack of true connection and humanity within organizing, and the need for developing true relations with the most oppressed and organizing towards their political, social, and economic control to be vested in their own hands!

In this episode, we read from the October 12, 1979 UN General assembly speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, on the necessity to end the suffering of the poor, the sick, and the ignorant, not through bombs, not through words, but through Liberation, Struggle, Unity, internationalism, and revolution. We then talk a little bit more about this and I hope to add more afterwards, links can be found on...

In this episode we speak about the Nova Scotia fires that are going on now, past practices of forest burning by indigenous nations/people, environmentalism, and the issues of spontaneity, disorganization, and a lack of cohesion among the different movements, parties, groups, etc. in the US and internationally.

In this episode I interrogate the capture of “pride month” and the uselessness of the commodification or “representation” or LGBTQIA+ folks if they do NOT have FIRST political power. We talk about what organizing is and what it isn’t, and how to get involved, plus some examples of how reactionism and fat right ideology seeps in even to the progressive, anarchists, socialist or communists formation...

Does democracy exist? What is it? What isn’t it? What are we told about it? Where do these ideas come from? Can capitalism, a system based on exploitation, profit, and oppression, truly be “liberal”, “free” or “Democratic”? For more on this and maybe an answer or to, give this episode a listen!

In this episode I discuss some recent books that I’ve finished and been reading about Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Claudia Jones, and the struggles for liberation in the Caribbean, Africa and the domestic colonies of and owned by the United States

In this episode, we expand on two previous episodes, one on capitalist exploitation, and the other on imperialism. In this episode, we talk about commodity production under capitalism, and especially, the shift from production for the use and needs of society to the production, for the sake of exchange and profit from exchange solely for the owning class. We also talk about imperialism, what its c...

In this episode, similarly to other reason, short introductory episodes, we go over the topic of imperialism in nine minutes. Of course, this doesn’t come close to covering every aspect or the historical development of the phenomenon known as Capitalism imperialism, however, it does bring us into a bit better have an understanding that the majority of us have from our high school education or from...

New segment alert! Since my drives are now less than 10 mins to work morning commutes will be very hard to record, so it will be becoming a much shorter episode - usually from 10-25 minutes - on the introduction to common, complex, or complicated ideas, histories, figures, theories, etc. in order to try to create and provide intro sources for folks to share and listen to for a laid back but inform...

In this episode, we talk about the Cuban revolution, Claudia Jones, Walter Rodney, the importance of social relations, the necessity to focus on the most oppressed in the most exploited, as well as introducing, some of the ways in which western leftists, have tended to make mistakes on the question of legitimate revolution, and what it takes

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, but what does that mean in a capitalist society? What does it mean to get your mom a card and a box of chocolates when she literally brought you to life? In this episode, we talk about the oppression of women generally, and especially the particular oppression of those who give birth, who are not women, the struggle of LGBTQ+ folks for liberation and freedom, over their o...

I want to thank John for coming on the program to speak about his experience having lived in Nicaragua for the last 20 or so years, meeting his lovely partner there, doing solidarity work with folks in Nicaragua, in the UK, the US Empire, and around the world. John is also an author and journalist who has written and spoken about his experiences, especially during the US-backed attempted coups in...

In this episode me and Sina speak about a range of topics beginning with Sina's feelings waking up every morning to check his phone and see "what unspeakable crimes the Empire has committed today", along with growing up as he called himself, "a citizen subject" of the US Empire, as many immigrants or simply non-white people have to deal with. We also touch on some of the sh...

For folks who don’t know the APSP (African People’s Socialist Party) leadership has been indicted under trumped up charges alleging that the APSP leadership “spread malign influence” on behalf of “foreign governments” without properly “registering” with FARA, as well as including an undertone accusation off inciting racial or national-based hatred + violence, of which none have any evidence or bas...

I am so excited to share this episode with you folks, big shoutout to Rookery Press for coming on the program to discuss the first volume of the "Collected Works of the Black Liberation Army" We discuss the history of the BLA, why the comrades at Rookery Press chose to produce the works they did, how they were able to access these files and republish them, the importance of first-person...

This episode, I briefly discuss some of what was brought up in a fantastic discussion within the black alliance for peace solidarity network on mass shootings, terrorism, and acts of systematized violence. As I mentioned, this is only an introduction, so do not expect groundbreaking analysis however, I believe some of the points which Ayeh and others within the solidarity Netwerk have presented th...