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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...

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-isr...

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 Magazin...

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://w...

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.theatlan...

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...

In this episode, I discuss postpartum life, "healthcare" in the US, and coronavirus. ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/u...

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...

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 Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/Left...

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, 196...

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...

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 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter:...

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 --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:...

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 Par...

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...

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....

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 Abolitio...

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://...

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 Coloni...

...bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time. --- 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/Re...

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 E...

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.ne...

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 B...

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. 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...

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...