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46. The Trouble with Kamala - Interview w/Malaika Jabali - Left POCket Project Podcast Aug 17, 2020

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In this episode, I speak with journalist Malaika Jabali about her thoughts on Kamala Harris being the vice presidential pick for the Biden ticket and the impact this may have on the left and the black community, especially black women. --- Readings/Resources Work by Malaika Jabali “The Color of Economic Anxiety” https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety “Democrats ignore black, working-class midwesterners at their peril” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/03/democrats-ignore-black-working-class-midwesterners-at-their-peril “After the Obama disappointment, black voters want more than empty symbolism” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/05/black-voters-us-election-kamala-harris-obama “What Do Black Women Want This Election Season?” https://www.essence.com/feature/black-womens-roundtable-survey-results-2019/ “Bernie and Black Voters” (interview on The Dig podcast) https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/bernie-and-black-voters-with-malaika-jabali-and-wendi-muse/ Left Out (documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubd2cnslP8A Twitter: @MalaikaJabali --- Additional readings “Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE” https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html “Kamala Harris meets with AIPAC leaders at her Senate office” https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435812-kamala-harris-meets-with-aipac-leaders-at-her-senate-office “Angela Davis on Kamala Harris” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=773737800111695 “The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e “Kamala Harris' Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison for Murder. Now He's Talking” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwkab/jamal-trulove-wants-kamala-harris-to-talk-about-his-wrongful-conviction “Black Lives Matter Isn't Going to Just 'Shut Up and Vote' for Kamala Harris” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4n9d/black-lives-matter-isnt-going-to-just-shut-up-and-vote-for-kamala-harris “Of course it’s Kamala!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iInStlR2boI GoFundMe Thread (add your own; priority given to health & housing needs): https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1293989196324012034 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

45. All about that Revolutionary Life - A Conversation w/the Luqmans - Left POCket Project Podcast Jul 30, 2020

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In this episode, I speak to Jacqueline and Abdus Luqman, journalists, activists, and hosts of Luqman Nation, a weekly politics show, on the recent protests for black lives, race on the left, the role of religion in liberation movements, and much more. --- Readings & Resources Luqman Nation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5hIQvTLrxgf4UvSJRCPhw By Any Means Necessary https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/ The Real News Network https://therealnews.com/ --- Note: While these items are all available on amazon.com, I am doing my best to include links for suggested books on non-Amazon sites in solidarity with their workers (who face frequent rights violations). Akinyele Omowale Umoja - We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781479886036 Charles E. Cobb Jr. - This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible https://www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviolent-stuffll-get-you-killed Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: a History https://redemmas.org/titles/30721-pan-africanism--a-history James H. Cone - Black Theology and Black Power https://www.orbisbooks.com/black-theology-and-black-power-en.html “The African American who moved to Ghana 'to escape US racism’” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49394354 “Black Women Communists and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Minkah Makalani” https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-communists-and-pan-africanism-an-interview-with-minkah-makalani/ “America’s Brutal Police State Expands its Reach in Portland” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuK8rhnK6c&t=5s George Floyd Protests in Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Washington,_D.C. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

44. The End of the World as We Know It - Left POCket Project Podcast Jun 14, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss the protests that have erupted around the nation (and now the world) in response to racist police & vigilante violence in the US. --- Readings & Resources “With Whom Are Many US Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator - Israel” https://www.amnestyusa.org/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/ “Israel Krav Maga Experts Teaching Officers in Brazil” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu8f1h-jGLc “Does the Militarisation of US Police Encourage Excessive Force?” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/militarisation-police-encourage-excessive-force-200601195340742.html “Democratic Leaders' Kneeling Was Fine. The Kente Cloth Was Not” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/educate-yourself-before-you-wear-kente/ “The Embarrassment of Democrats Wearing Kente-Cloth Stoles” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-embarrassment-of-democrats-wearing-kente-cloth-stoles “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Intercepted Podcast” Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore - Golden Gulag https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag Alex Vitale - The End of Policing Free e-book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-obsolete-by-angela-y-davis/ (Available in pdf form on multiple sites) Angela Davis - Abolition Democracy https://www.akpress.org/abolitiondemocracy.html (Available in pdf form on multiple sites) (Listen to our discussion of Abolition Democracy here: pt 1: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/29-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast pt 2: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/30-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-pt-2-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast) Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html?fbclid=IwAR1jiVdWcrv9udt2VFrNnAU1pdAbiQagq0rBXgopZMnKzjhBnuBHRwO5O_A “Black Capitalism Won’t Save Us” https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nipsey-killer-mike-race-economics/ “Killer Mike, T.I. and Atlanta's Black Misleadership Class” https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/killer-mike-atlanta-speech-ti-video-george-floyd-a9543551.html “Ilhan Omar Statement about Justice for George Floyd Unrest” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65weWcmjH_I --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

43. Medicine and Empire -Interview w. Edna Bonhomme - Left POCket Project Podcast May 27, 2020

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In this episode, we speak to researcher and writer Dr. Edna Bonhomme on medicine, epidemics, and empire in the Middle East and North Africa as well as the current COVID-19 crisis. --- Readings & Resources Related Work by Edna Bonhomme: “Über Lebenslust,” Missy Magazine, May 2020, https://missy-magazine.de/blog/2020/05/11/ueber-lebenslust/ “The Cartography of Climate Apartheid in Yemen,” UN Magazine, May 2020, http://unprojects.org.au/magazine/issues/issue-14-1/edna-bonhomme/ “What Afro Shops Mean for the African Diaspora in Berlin,” The Funambulist, May 2020, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/states-of-emergency “Ill Will,” The Baffler Magazine, April 2020, https://thebaffler.com/latest/ill-will-bonhomme “Racism: the most dangerous ‘preexisting condition’,” Aljazeera English, April 2020, https://aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/racism-dangerous-pre-existing-condition-200414154246943.html “The Racial Politics of ‘Return,’” The Nation, April 2020, https://thenation.com/article/world/slavery-tourism-ghana-africa/ “Covid-19 Denialism and Xenophobia,” Spectre Journal, April 2020, https://spectrejournal.com/covid-19-denialism-and-xenophobia/ “What coronavirus has taught us about inequality,” Aljazeera English, March 2020, https://aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-taught-inequality-200316204401117.html “How They Treat Us,” The Baffler Magazine, November 2019, https://thebaffler.com/latest/how-they-treat-us-bonhomme Decolonization in Action Podcast: https://decolonizationinaction.com/ | @decinaction https://www.ednabonhomme.com/ Edna on Twitter: @jacobinoire Additional Readings: Harriet A. Washington - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Apartheid-Experimentation-Americans-Colonial-ebook/dp/B0010SEOYE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1590540355&sr=8-1 Dorothy Roberts - Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Black-Body-Reproduction-Meaning/dp/0679758690 Matthew M. Heaton - Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry https://www.amazon.com/Black-Skin-White-Coats-Decolonization/dp/0821420704/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=black+skin+white+coats&qid=1590540436&sr=8-1 “Cuba Link Sought in Spread of AIDS” (1988) https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-01-31-8803260544-story.html “Debate Grows on US Listing of Haitians in AIDS Category” (1983) https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/31/us/debate-grows-on-us-listing-of-haitians-in-aids-category.html Mariel Boatlift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift “Coronavirus: Africa will not be testing ground for vaccine, says WHO” (2020) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52192184 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

42. Corona Chat - Left POCket Project Podcast Apr 25, 2020

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In this episode, we catch up about the current coronavirus crisis, the hot mess that is the 2020 election, and the ramifications of the latest policies under the Trump administration. --- Readings & Resources How COVID-19 Deniers Are Also a Virus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PkIV5EaCk Essential or Expendable? Gig Workers at Instacart & Grocery Stores Demand Safety Gear & Hazard Pay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQ-KWNXzkQ&t=907s "Trump Defunds World Health Organization In the Middle of a Global Pandemic" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-defunds-world-health-organization-coronavirus ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

41. Pandemic & Its Discontents w/Elise Mitchell - Left POCket Project Podcast Apr 03, 2020

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In this episode, we speak with historian and researcher Elise Mitchell about pandemics in history, their impact on marginalized populations - particularly the enslaved - and the linkages to the social impact of the current COVID-19 crisis. --- Readings & Resources Elise Mitchell - "The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease - Humanity's Long History of Making Epidemics Worse" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/ Dayle B. DeLancey - "Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.3-4.0296 Ida Altman - "The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/revolt-of-enriquillo-and-the-historiography-of-early-spanish-america/AE46A808BFFB70C9DCE84F276821E650 ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

40. Remembering Marielle Franco & Why Her Legacy Matters Now - Left POCket Project Podcast Mar 27, 2020

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In this episode, I discuss the legacy of Brazilian activist and city councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was brutally murdered on March 14, 2018. --- Readings & Resources Previous episode on Marielle Franco (w/ additional information regarding her life and activism) https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/ep14-marielle-presente-left-pocket-project-podcast Information regarding other Brazilian women activists mentioned in the episode: Erica Malunguinho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Malunguinho Thereza Santos: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thereza_Santos Leici Brandão: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leci_Brand%C3%A3o Áurea Carolina de Freitas e Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81urea_Carolina Andréia de Jesus Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9ia_de_Jesus Mônica Santos Francisco: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B4nica_Francisco Talíria Petrone: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal%C3%ADria_Petrone Theodosina Rosário Ribeiro: https://www.grupoescolar.com/pesquisa/theodosina-rosario-ribeiro.html Benedita da Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedita_da_Silva Olívia Santana: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%C3%ADvia_Santana Lélia Gonzalez: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9lia_Gonzalez PSOL: Partido Socialismo e Liberdade https://psol50.org.br/ ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

39. On Babies & Coronavirus, aka Why We Need Socialism Now - Left POCket Project Podcast Mar 18, 2020

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In this episode, I discuss postpartum life, "healthcare" in the US, and coronavirus. ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

38. Updates & Introducing...Left POCket Project Podcast Feb 14, 2020

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In this episode, I discuss some updates for the project as well as introduce a new feature for the podcast! --- Reading/Resources Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380 Bill Mullen - "By the Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao and the Making of Afro-Asian Radicalism, 1966–1975" in Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History www.patreon.com/posts/maos-little-red-32754249 "W.E.B. Du Bois & the Tradition of Radical Blackness" -Interview w/ Charisse Burden Stelly for the Left POCket Project Podcast Leftpoc – 35web-du-bois-the-tradition-of-radical-blackness-wcharisse-burden-stelly-leftpoc-podcast Robeson Taj Frazier - The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination www.amazon.com/East-Black-China-…95&s=books&sr=1-1 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

37. Dem Debates January 2020 LeftPOC Discussion - Left POCket Project Podcast Jan 16, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss the January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate. --- Resources: CNN + Des Moines Register January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate (video) https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-des-moines-register-democratic-debate/index.html Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

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