We signed this #SitDownShaun letter written in solidarity with @ClarissaMBrooks & all other people who've dealt with Shaun King's opportunistic, exploitative, & harmful actions toward communities he claims to represent & those actually organizing in them link.medium.com/uJoPRPe47T
ICYMI, we had @ClarissaMBrooks on to talk about the need for more accountability for blue check celebrity activists and we're hopeful that we continue to always be a platform for organizers as we grow, rather than those who clamor for visibility -
If people want more details of what happened in Shaun's interactions with Clarissa, we suggest this conversation. And would note that this pattern of behavior also is reflected in interactions that we and other organizers have had with SK over the years -
This episode is a discussion of Rockhill's latest piece out now over at @monthly_review, "The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback"
In this conversation Rockhill largely examines the promotion of a certain sect of French intellectuals in the wake of the uprisings and strikes in May and June of 1968 in France. …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/paris-1968-fre…
We're really excited to share this conversation, we want to note that at the time that @prisonculture is seeking to raise $50,000 for the Online Abortion Resource Squad. You can support that drive here: secure.actblue.com/donate/pcabort…
This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba about their new book _Let This Radicalize You_. We appreciate the book and all their reflections and openness with us in sharing reflections and lessons from their own organizing …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/how-are-we-goi…
In this episode @dylanrodriguez discusses his conceptual work around white supremacy, White Being (directly based in Sylvia Wynter's Man1, Man2), white reconstruction as a process, & the current phase of multiculturalism (multicultural white supremacy) …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/white-reconstr…
Rodriguez talks to us about Barry Goldwater's involvement in the "Smoki people" a business-class white men's club that treated it's creepy fake indigenous rituals and artifacts as somehow honoring indigenous people …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/white-reconstr…
Today we're doing a thread on abolition. 2020 was certainly a year of abolition entering mainstream discourse on a large scale, with all the contradictions that creates. These are some of our favorite abolition convos from 2020:
Our two part conversation with Fred Moten & Stefano Harney was our most downloaded ever. Revisited their abolitionist text The Undercommons in a time of pandemic and rebellion.
A thread on episodes we did in 2020 related to Revolutionary organizing. In these episodes, we spoke with veteran organizers, former political prisoners, & scholars & journalists who covered their movements. Learning lessons from movement history & letting praxis teach
Was an incredible honor to interview Sekou Odinga. Veteran of the Black Liberation Army, NY & international chapters of the Black Panther Party. Veteran of Malcolm X's Organization of African-American Unity. 30 years a POW for his role in Assata's escape …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/episode-54-sek…
Our interview with Jennifer Lawson & Charlie Cobb from SNCC brought to life organizing in the Jim Crow south. Community-led self-defense networks against the Klan, the tactic of nonviolence & the reality of self-defense, & social reproduction of resistance …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/no-place-to-si…
In this episode we talk about Barbara Smith’s latest piece on the Hamer-Baker plan to dismantle white supremacy. We also discuss the work of the Combahee River Collective and Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/its-really-up-…