They're ALSO asking EVERYBODY to show up to the council meeting on the 17th if you're in NYC.
@nonewjails_nyc They are also asking folks to submit a comment to hearings@council.nyc.gov subject line “Borough-Based Jails” let council-members know if you're from New York City. Tell them that they need to close Rikers now, and build no new jails.
@nonewjails_nyc In the episode we talk about common misconceptions have about the "need for jails." And we talk about all the amazing things communities could do with the 11 billion dollars proposed to be wasted on new jails that New Yorkers don't want soundcloud.com/anticapitalist…
@nonewjails_nyc Marlene Nava Ramos, who is an organizer with @CR_NYC talks about @nonewjails_nyc as evolving out of both the fight to shut down Rikers, but also movements against Racial Capitalism in the US embodied by the Black Lives Matter movement patreon.com/posts/episode-…
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-…