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In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss the need for giving and the correlation between the teachings of Maria Montessori and leftist ideology. --- Readings & Resources Montessori at Home - What Is Montessori? (& Why Do It?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEdP_RZhhI&list=PLdIZMnmUhOo4QquwIjMI7cAlyoykpo1-M&index=1&t=24s Maria Montessori: What You May Not Know https://www.montessoriservices.com/ideas-insights/maria-montessori-what-you-may-not-know#:~:text=In%201933%2C%20denying%20any%20political,and%20later%20in%20The%20Netherlands. *Correction: Montessori left her son at a foster home temporarily, not an aunt, but she pretended to be his aunt during her visits to him there. Left POCket Project Podcast: Reading Revolution series on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/sets/readingrevolution-freire --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebo

In this episode, we discuss current news and the challenges that lie ahead. --- 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

In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the ways the pandemic has shifted gender roles - and not always for the better. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Readings & Resources Women's Careers Could Take Long-Term Hit From Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.wsj.com/articles/womens-careers-could-take-long-term-hit-from-coronavirus-pandemic-11594814403 How the Coronavirus Crisis Threatens to Set Back Women’s Careers https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-threatens-to-set-back-womens-careers-11601438460 Here’s How the Pandemic Is Affecting Women’s Careers wsj.com/articles/heres-how-the-pandemic-is-affecting-womens-careers-11601920650 Women academics seem to be submitting fewer papers during coronavirus https://www.thelily.com/women-academics-seem-to-be-submitting-fewer-papers-during-coronavirus-never-seen-anything-like-it-says-one-editor/ How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/repo

In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the election, politics, and how to broach the subject with children. --- 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

In this episode, part of the Reading Revolution series, we discuss Che Guevara’s 1964 speech to the United Nations “Colonialism Is Doomed,” regarding the ongoing independence movements throughout the world and Cuba’s solidarity with oppressed peoples in their fight for sovereignty. --- Readings & Resources Che Guevara - “Colonialism Is Doomed” 1964 Speech to the United Nations https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1964/12/11-alt.htm Ada Ferrer - Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 https://uncpress.org/book/9780807847831/insurgent-cuba/ Aviva Chomsky - A History of the Cuban Revolution https://www.bookdepository.com/History-Cuban-Revolution-Aviva-Chomsky/9781118942284 Vijay Prashad - The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World https://thenewpress.com/books/darker-nations Gregory Mann - Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century https://www.dukeupress.edu/native-sons Christine Hatzky - Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer o

In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the meaning of "choice" and what it can mean beyond the rhetoric. --- Readings & Resources The Grapevine - Black Women & Childbirth Sanoja Bhaumik - "In the 1970s, Racism Led to Women Being Sterilized Against Their Will. Could It Happen Again?" https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/09/14/in-the-1970s-racism-led-to-women-being-sterilized-against-their-will-could-it-happen-again/ --- 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/

In this episode, I discuss Comrade Mommy (@ComradeMommy), a new sub-series of the Left POCket Project Podcast. --- 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

In this episode, part of the #ReadingRevolution series, we discuss the Combahee River Collective Statement, a manifesto penned by black lesbian socialists in 1977 regarding the way forward in movement politics. --- Readings & Resources Combahee River Collective Statement https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html In Spanish https://t.co/ot5aA3nbTn?amp=1 In Portuguese https://t.co/vvIB8cI4GX?amp=1 In French https://t.co/P5f9l0EYnO?amp=1 Digital Project on the Combahee River Collective https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editor- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free “Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will be Free” https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-free “Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President” https://www.youtube.com/wa

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-

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

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 Pris

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-g

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

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 mor

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

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

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/use

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

In this episode, part 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the larger global impact of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book. --- 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 https://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 https://soundcloud.com/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 https://www.amazon.com/East-Black-China-Radical-Imagination/dp/0822357860/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=frazier+the+east+is+black&qid=1577841095&s=books&sr=1-1 --- Music: "My Life as a Vi

In this episode,we speak w/returning guest Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly about W.E.B. Du Bois, radical blackness,& black internationalism --- Readings & Resources Charisse Burden-Stelly & Gerald Horne - W.E.B. Du Bois:A Life in American History https://www.amazon.com/W-B-Du-Bois-American/dp/1440864969/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dubois+charisse+burden-stelly&qid=1577219962&sr=8-1 Charisse Burden-Stelly “W.E.B. Du Bois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness:Radicalism, Repression, & Mutual Comradeship, 1930–1960” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300.2018.1575070 “In Battle for Peace during ‘Scoundrel Time’: W.E.B. Du Bois & United States Repression of Radical Black Peace Activism" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/in-battle-for-peace-during-scoundrel-time/F81265698C05F13CE8B852BF54014461/share/cc938e6f2392f29081d80e1178b9fb664f66e9d4?fbclid=IwAR3px-OtNOrURUApKIwFWeePtfBR0Kia6pyBSSYio1Qp6NQUrqWaqOir0iM (preview) “Left,Black,& Badass” -Inte