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In this episode, I speak with Professor Anne-Marie Angelo on the history and legacy of the Israeli Black Panthers. Suggested Readings: On the Israeli Black Panthers: Oz Frankel – “What’s In a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17541320802063554?journalCode=rsix2 “Israeli black panthers remind us what their struggle was about” https://972mag.com/israels-black-panthers-remind-us-what-their-struggle-was-all-about/122566/ “Jewish Arabs and the birth of Israel's Black Panthers” https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/15/jewish-arabs-and-israels-black-panthers “The Legacy of Israel’s Black Panthers” https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/16/the-legacy-of-israels-black-panthers May 19, 2971 Demonstration by the Israeli Black Panthers (AP Archive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0T4-sd9fNk Interview w/ Reuven Abergel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uSQA1TMbw&feature=youtu.be “Saadia Marciano: Founder of Israel's Black Panthers” https://www.i

In Episode 14, I discuss black Brazilian activist and socialist city councilmember Marielle Franco a month after her assassination, and contextual her murder among other recent developments in Brazil’s contemporary political climate. I also read the letter I co-authored with several scholars who work on Brazil that was published in The Black Scholar and Folha de São Paulo. Reading/Resources: On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco (The Black Scholar) http://www.theblackscholar.org/on-the-imperative-of-transnational-solidarity-a-u-s-black-feminist-statement-on-the-assassination-of-marielle-franco/ (note: contains extensive links for additional information/context) Declaração Feminista Negra dos EUA sobre o assassinato de Marielle (Folha de São Paulo) http://agoraequesaoelas.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2018/04/02/tbs-marielle/ Full thread for the Left POCket Project on Marielle Franco’s life, work, and related socio-historical and poli

In Episode 13 - “Peach Progressivism” – I speak with Anoa Changa (@thewaywithanoa) - activist, attorney, and news commentator - about election 2016, the Southern political scene, her family’s black radical history, & much more. Related Reading/Resources: Discussion between Benjamin Dixon, Anoa Changa, & Wendi Muse on the Left-“Alt-Right” Alliance, Benjamin Dixon Show, March 12, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pold5hl3XBQ Marcus Ferrell for State Representative, Arizona: http://www.ferrellfor24.com/ “Inequality in America: A National Town Hall” w/ Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Darrick Hamilton, Michael Moore, & guests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV8XfM9CZo “Bernie Endorses Challenger to Antiabortion Candidate in IL” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/08/bernie-sanders-endorses-challenger-to-antiabortion-democrat-in-illinois/?utm_term=.67626789c7a6 “Why Is the DNC Embracing an Aggressively Anti-Choice Candidate?” https://rewire.news/article/2017/04/20/why-is-dnc-emb

In this episode, Richard (@ProgressivGreen) and I have our first #ReadingRevolution with a discussion of Fidel Castro’s 1953 speech “History Will Absolve Me” Suggested Readings/Resources: Fidel Castro – “History Will Absolve Me” (1953) Ful text: https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm History Will Absolve Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Will_Absolve_Me Louis A. Pérez,Jr. – “Chapter 3: c. 1930 – 1959,” Cuba a Short History (Leslie Bethell, editor) https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Short-History-Cambridge-America/dp/0521436826 The Moncada Barracks Attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncada_Barracks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/castro-failed-coup-moncada-barracks/ -- Pictured: Fidel Castro -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Subscribe: Soundc

Episode 11 - "Making Millennials" A Conversation with Shaun Scott - Left POCket Project Podcast In this episode, I speak with Shaun Scott, writer, historian, and author of the new book Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present, out now on Zero Books, about race, class, gender, and the left as young people continue to shape US politics. http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us You can also check out Shaun's writing at City Arts, where he has a bi-weekly column "Faded Signs": http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/contributor/shaun-scott/ Related Readings & Resources: Shaun Scott - Millennials and the Moments that Made US: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present (2018) http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us Shaun Scott - "In Defense of Call Out Culture" http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/defense-call-culture/ Liz Ryerson and Shaun Scott, Guests - "The Vampire Castle" - Delete Your Account Podcast https://deleteyou

In this episode, I speak with Beatrice Wayne about Ethiopian student movements of the 1960s, their engagement with leftist thought amid oppressive social and political conditions, and the complicated struggles for state control that followed. Suggested Readings/Resources Ethiopian Student Movement: Bahru Zewde - The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960-1974 (2014) https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Socialist-Utopia-Ethiopian-1960-1974/dp/1847011640 Randi Rønning Balsvik - Haile Sellassie’s Students: The Intellectual and Social Background to Revolution. 1952- 1977 (1984) https://books.google.com/books/about/Haile_Sellassie_s_students.html?id=nZ8lAQAAIAAJ Ethiopian Revolution and its diverse effects: Gebru Tareke - The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa (2009) https://www.amazon.com/Ethiopian-Revolution-War-Horn-Africa/dp/0300204140 Donald L. Donham - Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (1999) https://www.amazon.com/Marxist-Modern-Ethn

In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, I speak with Richard (@ProgressvGreen) about his thoughts on making leftist discourse more easily accessible for a broad audience and we reveal a surprise I’ve had up my sleeve for some time. Have a listen to find out what it is! Suggested Resources: “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” https://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith  https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Methodologies-Research-Indigenous-1999-03-15/dp/B01FIWTGMW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078430&sr=1-2&keywords=linda+tuhiwai+smith%2C+decolonizing+methodologies Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire https://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Anniversary-Paulo-Freire/dp/0826412769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078494&sr=1-1&keywords=paulo+freire The episode of The Discourse that Richard mentions on the ties between science fiction and p

Episode 8 - “A Movement of the People” w/Victor Monterrosa – Left POCket Project Podcast Victor & I discuss the history of socio-economic challenges and related activism in Newark, NJ, his run for city council, & what inspired him to serve his community About Victor’s Campaign for Newark City Council: Victor for Council: https://www.instagram.com/victorforcouncil/ Featured Profile for 100 People: “Newark” http://www.100people.org/wp/newark_gallery/victor-monterrosa/ More about the Campaign Platform & Fellow Candidates with A Movement of the People http://amovementofthepeople.com/ Related Reading & Resources: Books: Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America by Kevin Mumford https://www.amazon.com/Newark-History-America-American-Culture/dp/0814795633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517238781&sr=8-1&keywords=history+of+newark The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? By Dale Russakoff https://www.amazon.com/Prize-Whos-Charge-Americas-Schools-ebook/dp/B00AXS6BIE/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=151

Left POCket Project - Episode 7 - Catching Up Did you know that the Left POCket Project was not just a podcast? In this episode, Wendi Muse, creator of the Left POCket Project, talks about the origins and purpose of the project and how she sees it evolving in the future. She also talks about the connections between her own research, her frustration over Election 2016, and the Left POCket Project. Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone Photo: Kathleen Cleaver, former Black Panther leader

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words, a conversation w/Yasmina Price & Jazz Hooks Follow AFROSOC, the Afro-Socialist & Socialists of Color Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, here: Twitter: @AFROSOCDSA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AFROSOCDSA/ --- Music: Intro: Michael Salamone, "My Life as a Video Game" Outro: WBEEZA, "Laying Here" --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project! Interact: twitter: @leftpoc facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc media revolt: mediarevolt.org/LeftPOC/ reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ #LeftPOC Listen: soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/leftpoc speaker: http://spreaker.com/user/leftpoc itunes: search "leftpoc" or subscribe here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftpoc/id1329313097?mt=2 … Support: patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly Suggested Reading Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72 Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935) Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970) Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112. Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & practice: Gender, race, & class,”Socialism & Democracy 17 (2003),109-122 Carole Boyce Davies,Left of Karl Marx:The Political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones,(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007) ____,”Sisters Outside:Tracing the Caribbean/Black Intellectual Tradition,”Small Axe 28 (2009),217-228 ____,Claudia Jones: Bey

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/ Sangeetha Sudharshan (@sansdn) music: "Hot Mess" by Logophilia

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ guest Lauren Lefty Intro music: "Mastica, Chupa y Jala" by Ghetto Brothers Outro music: "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" by Ghetto Brothers (music & suggested reading list by Lauren Lefty) --- Suggested Reading Academic Literature on Puerto Rico and its Diaspora: Lorrin Thomas. Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City Virginia Sánchez Korrol. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City Andrés Torres and José E. Velasquez, eds.. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora Sonia Song-Ha Lee. Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City Carlos Alamo-Pastrano. Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States Solsiree del Moral. Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico Nelson Denis. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolut

Left POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta) Resources regarding this episode: “Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016) http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/ “Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017) http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problem History of Zimbabwe: Alois Mlambo https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlambo Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Sabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ASabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni Terence Ranger https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=terence+ranger+zimbabwe&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Ate

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