Real Sankara Hours

Recorded June 10, 2020. Adam and Peter continue covering the protests against racism and police violence throughout the United States. Specifically, they discuss police abolition and why it's necessary to abolish the material conditions and hierarchies that necessitate the existence of police versus just abolishing police departments.     Links:  Bernie Sanders rejects calls to defund and/or aboli...

Recorded June 3, 2020. Peter and Adam discuss the protests against police violence across the United States. Peter talks about attending a protest in Portland, Maine. Adam discusses Obama's speech on George Floyd. The two also talk about "allies" to the Black struggle.  Links:  New York Times profile of protesters: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/protester-profiles-floyd-minneapolis.html ; c...

Recorded May 31, 2020. Bonus episode. Real Sankara After Hours. Adam and Peter read and discuss Harry Haywood's "For A Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question" and the Black Belt thesis. Most of the discussion is focused on Black self-determination, the limits of liberal integration to address racism, and fallacy of the race/class distinction. Links: Harry Haywood: https://www.marxists.org/hi...

Recorded May 27, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about multiple things: the Joe Biden "You ain't Black" if you don't vote for him comment, Amy Cooper (NYC Karen) calling the cops on an innocent Black man, the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd (recorded before the uprising got intense), and labor trafficking allegations against New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino's family and what it reveals about th...

Recorded May 15, 2020. Adam and Peter talk to Natalia (@AsterZephyrIsis on Twitter), a San Francisco local and activist, about the mutual aid work she's doing in San Francisco with SF Neighbors Solidarity Network ( @solidarity_sf ) to help vulnerable people during the pandemic. They also talk about gentrification in the Bay Area, the crisis of capitalism, and its impact on our politics and society...

Recorded May 7, 2020. Adam and Peter discuss the cold-blooded racist murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and what it reveals about the racist settler-colonial reality of America. They also talk about the gun-toting MAGA chuds protesting to re-open the country for business in the middle of a pandemic that's hurting the working-class.  Links:  The murder of Ahmaud Arbery: https://www.thedailybeast.co...

Recorded April 29, 2020. Adam and Peter interview Dr. Collette Harris (also a Stanford alum) about a terrible Van Jones op-ed, COVID-19, why capitalism is not compatible with public health, and why systemic racism is the root of Black America's health problems.  Links: Van Jones's op-ed on why Black people should make health and lifestyle changes to beat COVID-19:  www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/opinions…...

Recorded on April 23, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about why "re-opening" the American economy during the COVID-19 pandemic is a terrible idea. Then they get into the decline of oil prices, China, and Adam further explains why he thinks Black politics is dead in America.    Links:  Job growth since 2008 Great Recession wiped out in four weeks: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/202...

The previous audio recording got messed up. It's fixed and the new one is up now and good to go!  Recorded April 15, 2020. Real Sankara Hours has its first guests! Adam and Peter talk to Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, National Director of Move to Amend, and Nick Brana, a former Bernie staffer who now works with Movement for a People's Party, about exiting the Democratic Party and the need for a third maj...

Recorded April 8, 2020. Adam and Peter discuss Bernie Sanders suspending his presidential campaign, essentially dropping out of the race (he's still on the ballot to collect delegates). They talk about how and why the Sanders campaign lost and what lessons the Left should take away, such as building left institutions. Adam also explains why there is no Black politics in America.    Links:  Glenn G...

Recorded April 2, 2020. Adam and Peter discuss Joe Biden's odious political record and career, including his drug warrior record, how he opposed desegregation efforts, and his hawkish foreign policy record.  Links:   Joe Biden's record on the drug war and mass incarceration: https://theintercept.com/2019/09/17/the-untold-story-joe-biden-pushed-ronald-reagan-to-ramp-up-incarceration-not-the-other-w...

Recorded on March 26, 2020. Adam and Peter break down the coronavirus stimulus bill and how it's a massive slush fund for Wall Street and Corporate America. They explain why the capitalist market system is flawed.  (fact check: turns out Senator Michael Bennet deserves credit for the unemployment insurance expansion in the bill, not Bernie Sanders https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/202...

Recorded on March 19, 2020, Adam and Peter talk about COVID-19/coronavirus and how it reveals the shaky foundation of neoliberal capitalism.  Links discussed and worth reading:  History of 1665 bubonic plague and how social distancing helped: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/eyam-derbyshire-coronavirus-self-isolate-1665-plague ; "We Need Social Solidarity, Not Just Social Distancing"...

Recorded on March 11, 2020, Adam and Peter discuss the cultural legacy and impact of rapper Tupac Shakur.  Links discussed:  The full DJ Vlad interview with Ayanna Jackson, the woman who accused Tupac Shakur of sexual assault https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVBOv9O1GA     Follow us on Twitter:  Adam Hudson - @adamhudson5  Peter MGunn - @MGunnPeter  Real Sankara Hours - @sankarahours  This is a fr...

Recorded the Thursday (March 5) after Super Tuesday, Adam and Peter give an analysis of Super Tuesday, the likelihood of a brokered convention, the need for an alternative political party and vision, white liberal paternalism and white fragility, and the class divides among progressives.  Here are some links on Warren's appeal to mostly professional managerial class people: https://www.vox.com/202...

*Note*: This episode was recorded two days before Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary.  Peter gives a breakdown of South Carolina. Adam discusses how the Democratic Party establishment is willing to risk party damage, and potentially another four years of Donald Trump, in order to stop Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination. The guys give a brief breakdown about the life and importance of...

Our first episode of Real Sankara Hours. Co-hosts Adam Hudson and Peter MGunn introduce themselves, their political evolutions, and critique a racial justice scorecard that reveals the limitations of liberalism to achieve Black liberation.