Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

In this episode we talk to Nick Estes about his book  Our History Is The Future , the new collection he co-edited  Standing With Standing Rock and we also talked about his latest piece A Red Deal , which is a synopsis of a movement document that he and his comrades at The Red Nation have developed. Estes pulls together struggles against settler colonialism, imperialism, capitalism and the destruct...

In this episode we interview Danny Haiphong, who along with Roberto Servant recently co-authored the book  American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror  on Skyhorse Publishing. We discuss many aspects of how American Exceptionalism and American Innocence are weaponized domestically and internationally in the the nam...

In this episode we talk to Dr. Jesse Benjamin, co-editor of Walter Rodney's recently published The Russian Revolution: A View From the Third World .  We talk to Dr. Benjamin about Walter Rodney's relationship with CLR James.  Dr. Benjamin discusses what Tanzania was like for Rodney during the revolutionary period in which Rodney wrote the lectures that formed the book. And we discuss some of the n...

In this episode we talk to Eugene Puryear, who provides political analysis daily on By Any Means Necessary. Eugene is also a member of the Party For Socialism And Liberation. In this episode, Eugene shares analysis of recent events in Haiti, Venezuela, Sudan, South Africa and Iran. We talk to him about political movements spanning the globe and get a sense of some of the most important struggles t...

This episode we have an in-depth conversation with Morgan Artyukhina about their time with the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective. Morgan is an autistic transgender communist and journalist based in Washington, DC, Their reporting can be found on Twitter @LavenderNRed and in Liberation News. As a point of reference, we recorded this episode on May 14th. Two days after this episode was record...

In this episode we interview Brooke Terpstra, Oaklander forever, movement veteran, and IWOC worker. Brooke is an organizer with the Oakland chapter of IWOC, and was a member of the IWOC national media committee for the 2018 prison strike.   In this episode we talk about the origins IWOC and its relationship to the IWW or the Wobblies. We talk about the lesson they learned supporting the 2016 and 2...

In this episode we collaborated with Rev Left Radio to discuss the history of institutional racism and violence within the Philadelphia Police Department in the latter half of the 20th Century culminating, but not ending, with the city's bombing of MOVE members and the destruction of over 60 homes in West Philadelphia in 1985. We encourage people to engage and grapple with this recent history of r...

In this episode we talk to Alejo Stark. Alejo is an organizer with Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS) and a co-producer of Rustbelt Abolition Radio (RAR) . Between 2008 and 2013, he was an undocumented student organizer with the migrant justice movement, fighting against deportations in South Florida and Rhode Island. Alejo has a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics. In this episode we...

In this episode we talk with George Ciccariello-Maher. He is an organizer, writer, scholar and radical political theorist. He is also the author of Decolonizing Dialectics and two books on radical politics in Venezuela, We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, and Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela. We talk to Ciccariello-Maher about the current coup at...

In this episode we sat down with Clarissa Brooks.   Clarissa is a senior at Spelman College, a freelance journalist, and a community organizer. Originally from Charlotte, NC, Clarissa works to blend her love of community, ethical journalism and scholarship in a way that will create a better world. Clarissa was a member of AUC Shut It Down, she was also an ONA HBCU Fellow, Know Your IX Campus Organ...

In this episode we spoke with Erica Caines, creator of Liberation Through Reading and the Liberation Through Reading Book Club. We talk about her organizing, and the importance and power of reading and political education. Erica is a self published author and local community organizer in her perspective Maryland county. Erica's organizing is based on both an emphasis on literacy and political educ...

This week we're very excited to bring you a conversation with Mariame Kaba.   Mariame is an organizer, educator and curator. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. After over 20 years of living and organizing in Chicago, she moved back to her hometown of New York City in May 2016. In this e...

This week we have Mark Bray to talk all things in the world of anti-fascism following a slew of recent fascistic events. We touch on Bolsonaro's election in Brazil, and cover some of the points raised in Bray's book Antifa , which if you haven't read is an excellent history of European and American anti-fascist movements starting with those who opposed the German and Italian forms of fascism and m...

Jackie   Wang   is  s a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, filmmaker, performer, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at  Harvard  University in African and African American Studies. She  is  the author of  Carceral  Capitalism ( Semiotexte / MIT Press), a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, and a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunk...

[This episode was released in October of 2018 at the time Adryan was using a prior name, we have updated the description below and have updated some of the links to contact them, however the audio is dated by the use of their prior name] This week we interviewed Adryan Corcione,  a freelance cannabis and politics journalist based in Philadelphia. Their work has appeared in Vice, Leafly, Teen Vogue...

In this episode we talk to Ian Goodrum, who is a writer and editor at China Daily, an English-language newspaper based in Beijing. Who says that unlike his previous jobs at US newspapers, he no longer has to keep his communism a secret.  We talk to Ian about Western Media's representations of China, about notions of objectivity and subjectivity with regard to media, and about the ways and reasons...

Devyn Springer who many of you know as @HalfAtlanta on twitter, and Jay decided to do an episode where they discuss what prison abolition is, and both of their connections to it, along with a conversation about the prison strike. We'll be cross-promoting this episode on both of our podcasts, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism and Devyn's Groundings Podcast. For those who don't know Devyn, they are...

In this episode, we speak with Hyejin Shim, a second generation queer Korean in the US. Hyejin organizes with Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans (or HOBAK) a collective that is dedicated to building solidarity towards peace and reunification in Korea.    Her other political work focuses on supporting survivors of domestic/sexual violence, particularly at the intersections of criminalization and immi...

In Episode 19, we sit down with Arielle Iniko Newton.  Arielle  is a writer and organizer within the Movement for Black Lives. She currently serves as Senior Editor of  RaceBaitr ,  and Executive Director and Founder of the Black Giving Fund.  We talk with Arielle about the Black Giving Fund and it's mission, purpose and principles. We also talk about the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and why it w...

In this week's short episode, we sit down with filmmaker and musician Boots Riley to talk about his debut film  Sorry To Bother You , which hits theaters everywhere July 13th. Boots recently received Sundance Film Festival's Vanguard Award for the film. Boots talks with us about his artistic and organizing history, discusses how getting a film this is radical produced for mass consumption is possi...

This week we have two really exciting guests Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctor student in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. William C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the  Guardian,  MTV,  Truthout,  and  Pitchfork  among others. We had Zoé on the show all the way back in episode 2, and for William we've been wanting to have him on th...

On March 29th over 300 students took over the Administration Building at Howard University. The occupation was in response to a list of demands they had drafted, but also spontaneously seized upon widespread student concern following both housing shortage and a financial aid scandal. After occupying all floors of the A-Building, students liberated the building, turning it into the Kwame Ture Stude...

This week we're really excited to bring on Sankofa Brown. We talk to him about Black Radicalism, the appeal of Liberalism, armed self-defense, socialist organizing, and the urgent need to build revolutionary praxis.   As a speaker, organizer, and writer, Sankofa Brown fights to raise consciousness across the globe. Growing up in Kinston, North Carolina he learned the impact of inquality and injust...

This is part two of the two part interview with Josh and Jared about their own politics and experiences. Josh and Jared discuss the churches they went into growing up and their thoughts on religion in general. They also share their opinions on the complex role of religion in political life, revolutionary movements, and a post revolutionary society. Josh and Jared also answer a couple of listener q...

This episode was recorded as a reward for us reaching 25 patrons on patreon. Sorry that it took us a while to find the time to record it, but we want to personally thank all of you who are patrons, you have no idea how much that means to us and encourages us to keep the podcast going. If you haven't become one yet, we will be setting a new goal of one hundred patrons and we will be setting a new r...