Real Sankara Hours

Recorded February 3, 2021. Adam and Peter do a course correction to an Antifada podcast episode on the George Floyd rebellions and multiracial working-class coalitions. They discuss their agreements and disagreements. They mostly criticize the episode for engaging in riot porn and misinterpreting internal class dynamics within Black America.  To unlock the rest of the episode, subscribe for $5/mon...

Recorded January 28, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about the Biden/Harris inauguration and what to look forward to, including a split within the Black body politic. They also discuss Redditors buying up GameStop and AMC stock en masse to counter hedge fund shorting. Then Adam criticizes YouTuber Jimmy Dore for promulgating the idea of a populist right and populist left coalition.  Links: How WallStree...

Recorded January 14, 2021. Welcome to 2021! Adam and Peter are back and, in this episode, they talk about the pro-Trump, far-right near-insurrection at Capitol Hill, how it's a harbinger for more white supremacist extremism, and why left-wing anti-fascism is necessary.  Links: Capitol Hill siege was openly planned but ignored by law enforcement: https://theintercept.com/2021/01/07/capitol-trump-vi...

Recorded December 29, 2020. It's the end of 2020. Adam and Peter discuss ADOS, reparations, Kwanzaa, and reflect on crazy year that was 2020.    Links: ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery): https://ados101.com/ , https://ados101.com/about-ados , https://ados101.com/roadmap-to-reparations , https://ados101.com/black-agenda ; ADOS xenophobia: https://abcnews.go.com/US/controversial-group-ados-divi...

Recorded December 21, 2020. This is a bonus episode preview. Bonus episode -- Real Sankara After Hours. Adam and Peter talk about the recent progressive/left push, called for by comedian/commentator Jimmy Dore, for a House floor vote for Medicare-For-All and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi losing her House speakership if it doesn't happen. Others on the progressive/left has pushed back against it. Adam...

Recorded December 13, 2020. Adam and Peter are back. Peter talks about the Ohio police shooting of another Black man -- Casey Goodson, Jr. Adam talks about Brazilian security guards beating up and killing a Black man in Brazil, racism and slavery in Brazil, and systematic anti-Black racist oppression and Black-led movements against it are global. Then, for the bulk of the episode, the guys talk ab...

Recorded November 19, 2020. Adam and Peter are back to bring the smoke -- for Barack Obama. They begin by talking about the pandemic, cases spiking, a new round of lockdowns, and how the U.S. government completely failed to provide to the masses of people. Then Adam discusses Trump's troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia but how it still leaves behind drone bases. After that, Peter...

Recorded November 12, 2020. The 2020 American presidential election is finally over. Adam and Peter discuss Biden's victory in the 2020 election and other issues. They begin by talking about Black voters' feelings on victory, then the 2020 ballot results in California, Biden's transition team, Trump's continuation of war in Yemen, and how a Biden/Harris administration means a return to neoliberali...

Recorded October 29, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about Philadelphia cops shooting another Black man -- Walter Wallace, Jr. -- and the protests in the city. Then they discuss the #endSARS protests in Nigeria and the 2020 election.  Links: Philly cops shoot Walter Wallace, Jr.: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/walter-wallace-philadelphia-mental-health-20201029.html , https://6abc.com/lawyers...

Recorded October 22, 2020. Peter breaks down the socialist electoral victory in Bolivia. Then they talk about Proposition 22 in California, which was written by companies like Uber and Lyft to keep their workers as independent contractors so they have less benefits than an employee. Adam provides an update on the #endSARS protests in Nigeria. Then Adam talks about Ice Cube's meeting with Donald Tr...

Recorded October 12, 2020. Adam and Peter are back. The guys talk about Trump catching COVID-19 and how it will impact the 2020 election. They also mention the ongoing protests against SARS and police brutality in Nigeria. Peter watched the vice presidential debate and shares his thoughts. They talk more about the election. At the latter half, Adam shares his journalistic philosophy and ties it to...

Recorded October 2, 2020. This is a short one. Adam and Peter discuss the latest news: Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. They discuss what that means for the election. They also talk about the presidential debate and new information about the police shooting of Breonna Taylor, including evidence showing that her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, did not shoot at the cops.    Links: President Don...

Recorded September 24, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about the Louisville, Kentucky grand jury verdict over the police killing of Breonna Taylor -- the police who killed her were not indicted, the only cop who was indicted for charged for "wanton endangerment" for firing into a neighbor's wall. Adam explains why prosecutor Daniel Cameron is a race traitor. They also talk about the death of Supreme Cou...

Recorded September 17, 2020. Adam and Peter mostly focus on the election. First, they address the revelations of forced sterilization of migrant women at an immigrant detention facility in Georgia (support whistleblower Dawn Wooten: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-whistleblower-dawn-wooten ). Then they talk about how Michael Forest Reinoehl was killed without warning by the feds and Trump justi...

Recorded September 9, 2020. This is a packed but great episode. Adam interviews McKenna Peterson, an activist who went on hunger strike to protest police racist violence in Antioch, California. The hunger strike ended because of the city's lack of response but the protest encampment continues. Then Adam and Peter interview Jess Folero, a housing activist and organizer in Portland, Maine. After tho...

Recorded September 7, 2020. The Sankara fellas, Adam and Peter, are back. They talk about U.S. federal agents killing an antifa supporter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, who allegedly killed a far-right militiaman, Aaron "Jay" Danielson, in Portland, Oregon and how it connects to growing racist authoritarianism. Then they talk about declining white support for Black Lives Matter and the revanchist white...

Recorded August 26, 2020. Adam and Peter return to bring the flames. They mostly talk about the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the protests and Black resistance, and armed white racist terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse shooting 3 protesters, killing 2. Adam also talks about how California is (finally!) learning from Native American tribes on how to manage wildfires, which are becom...

Recorded August 19, 2020. Real Sankara Hours begins with some sad news. Peter's father died of COVID-19 recently. Peter lays out his feelings, pays tribute to his father, and how his death ties into broader systemic injustices that we talk about on the podcast. Adam talks about the ongoing California wildfires and how Kamala Harris fought to keep cheap prison labor as California Attorney General (...

Recorded August 5, 2020 (Adam: I uploaded and edited this and the show notes a little late. Sorry for the delay). Adam and Peter talk about a number of things. Peter covers the workers' strike at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and interviews one of the striking workers. Adam discusses a COVID-19 relief bill in the Senate to support independent music venues. They talk about the recent explosion on...

Recorded July 22, 2020. Adam and Peter are joined by Q (Andray Domise) of Rezistans Nwa, a newly-founded Black resistance podcast network. They talk about Trump's use of federal agents to snatch protesters and put them in unmarked vans in Portland, his expansion of this, and this is an example of authoritarianism that's been long in the making by both Republicans and Democrats. Then they pay tribu...

Recorded July 15, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about a range of topics but mostly focus on correcting mainstream misreadings of Afro-pessimism and how young Black voters are not excited about Joe Biden.  Links:  Wall Street is no longer betting on Trump: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-markets-fc3a760a-0d3d-4c34-a824-fadd219c4a52.html?chunk=0&utm_term=fbsocialshare&fbclid=IwAR0MeQscEWNS868I7L...

Recorded July 8, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about the removal of statues honoring violent colonizers, including Christopher Columbus, and how such statues serve as symbols of white supremacy and as forms of myth-making to sanitize American imperialism. They also ruthlessly trash the Hamilton play and critique the Harpers letter on "free speech" (i.e., elite media people and academics complaining th...

Recorded July 2, 2020. This is a doomer episode. Adam and Peter talk about the multiple compounding crises happening simultaneously, with a special emphasis on how the pandemic is triggering a deep economic depression and an impending eviction crisis.  Links:  CDC says U.S. has "way too much virus" to control pandemic: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/cdc-says-us-has-way-too-much-virus-to-control-p...

Recorded June 25, 2020. Adam and Peter have a long discussion about the harm of patriarchy, its ties to capitalism and white supremacy, and the need for Black men to liberate ourselves from it. They also criticize the latest police "reform" bill passed by Congress.    Links:  Noname and Boots Riley discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i12zRBXObI ; gender identities across different culture...

Recorded June 17, 2020. Peter and Adam talk to Tron (Twitter: @Activist_Arts) about operational/cyber security in Black activism and the U.S. surveillance state.  Links:  Interesting panel discussion of Liberians for Black Lives Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYR6e74QP4 ; 911 dispatchers support defunding the police: https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-911-emergency-dispatchers-are-ready...