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Organize to Win with Andres Celin and Rapheal Randall Aug 14, 2020

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A must-listen conversation on organizing to win with two extraordinary organizers from Philadelphia’s Youth United for Change.

Download their book Y’all Tryna Win or Nah?! https://www.youthunitedforchange.org/y_all_tryna_win_or_nah

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Border Patrol with Kelly Lytle Hernández Aug 08, 2020

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Dan interviews Kelly Lytle Hernández on MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Dan’s 2017 interview with Lytle Hernández on City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965: thedigradio.com/podcast/a-history-of-human-caging-with-kelly-lytle-hernandez

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Goodbye Columbus with Matthew Frye Jacobson Jul 31, 2020

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Dan’s 2018 interview with Matthew Frye Jacobson on Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America. With a new intro from Dan on the Columbus myth and the politics of white ethnicity.

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Cops and Counterinsurgency with Stuart Schrader Jul 24, 2020

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Our police system is a product of Cold War US imperialism too. Dan interviews Stuart Schrader on Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing.

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Young Lords with Johanna Fernández Jul 17, 2020

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This is an incredible moment to learn about the Young Lords from historian Johanna Fernández, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History.

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Read This, Not White Fragility. With Jared Loggins and Wendi Muse. Jul 10, 2020

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Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead.

Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC

Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C Dawson
Dig interview with Michael Dawson

Democracy Remixed by Cathy Cohen
Dig interview with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali

Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil by Patricia de Santana Pinho

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
Dig interview with the Fields sisters

Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya

Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja

The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing Californiaby Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Nativist Carceral State: Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir Jul 04, 2020

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Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir on how policing and mass incarceration became core features of the war on immigrants and on his book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It.

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Buy Dan’s book at versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism

Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream Jun 26, 2020

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Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism.

Read Dan’s essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus

Not in the mood for a long, complex Dig interview? Check out Antibody, which is like commie This American Life: thedigradio.com/antibody

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Defund Police Organizers Forum Jun 20, 2020

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A Dig special. Zoom forum Dan hosted with leading defund police organizers from around the country. For more info:

blackvisionsmn.org
byp100.org
daretowin.org
reclaimRI.org
blmla.org

If you live in RI, support the fight for a people’s budget: actionnetwork.org/petitions/say-no-to-a-brutal-austerity-budget-in-rhode-island

Dan’s essay on Trump’s origins in ordinary bipartisan security politics: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus

Antibody, Ep 3: Combat Jun 16, 2020

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Antibody is a narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all.

In this episode:

All Cops Are Idiots (featuring Kafui Attoh, you can buy his book here: ugapress.org/book/9780820354217/rights-in-transit)

A Few Basic Demands (produced by Chenjerai Kumanyika (twitter.com/catchatweetdown)

After the Peak (by Karim Sariahmed (twitter.com/sariahmed), along with Alex Azan, Belicia Ding, Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko , Vanessa K. Ferrel, Michelle Gonzalez, Musaub Khan, and Marc Shi)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Mutual Aid (produced by Jackson Roach and Caroline Kanner (twitter.com/_idontCaroline)

Get in touch with DCH1 Amazonians United (facebook.com/DCH1United)

Support Put People First! Pennsylvania (putpeoplefirstpa.org)

The mutual aid groups featured in this episode include: Ground Game LA (groundgamela.org) K Town For All (ktownforall.org) The Red Nation (therednation.org) Brave Space Alliance (bravespacealliance.org) and the Indigenous Kinship Collective (indigenouskinshipcollective.com).

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