ANTICONQUISTA

Kayla Pop and Danny Shaw speak with three women leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela: Taina González Rubio, Karen Echeto and Ingrid Carmona. They discuss U.S. imperialist aggression against the Bolivarian Revolution as well as the construction of socialism in Venezuela and the leading role of women.

ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editor Nicholas Ayala and Danny Shaw discuss the struggle in Haiti against neocolonialism and the anniversary of Chile's bloody U.S. coup on Sept. 11, 1973. Jean Jores Pierre of Haiti's Popular Alternative also joins to discuss conditions on the ground in Haiti.

Ariella and Ramiro discuss urban farming and guerrilla gardening. Ariella shares their experiences helping to transform an empty New York City lot into a thriving garden that produces healthy food for poor Black and Brown people. Ariella is an urban farmer, healer and community organizer based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Their main focus is the issue of food sovereignty and building autonomous systems of community care outside of the settler-colonial government. They believe in the liberation of all colonized and oppressed peoples by any means necessary.

A conversation with Yhamir Chabur about ongoing protests in Colombia and the struggle against police violence in the United States. Yhamir is a revolutionary artist and activist based in New York City. He is also a member of the Red Condor Collective.

Victor Coronado and Danny Shaw discuss the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, the NBA Players' strike and racist police killings in the United States.

A conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin about the 2020 Democratic National Convention and racism in the United States. Tongo is a movement worker, educator and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people for years.

A political education session hosted on August 21, 2020 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editor Ramiro Fúnez and Erica Caines. Erica is a poet, writer and organizer in Baltimore and the DMV area. She is an organizing committee member of the anti-war coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace as well as an outreach member of the Black-centered Ujima People’s Progress Party. Erica founded Liberation Through Reading in 2017 as a way to provide Black children with books that represent them. In this session, we discuss "To Die for the People" by the late Dr. Huey P. Newton, a communist revolutionary with the Black Panther Party.

A conversation with Cape Verde-based Djordji Andrade, aka “Supreme Understanding,” about what African liberation looks like in 2020. Follow Djordji on Instagram: @supremeoverstanding

A conversation with Matt Sedillo about the history of Chicano resistance. Matt is an internationally touring poet and one of the four founders of Tele-Jaguar, which produces media and analysis for Jaguar Nation. We discuss the revolutionary history of the Chicano people, including everything from Spanish colonization and U.S. annexation to Pachucos and the Brown Berets.

Danny Shaw and Yhamir Chabur discuss the roots of Black August and how its history can help guide revolutionary struggles today.