By Any Means Necessary

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nnamdi Lumumba, Ujima People’s Progress Party State Organizer to discuss the new eviction moratorium ordered by the Biden administration, the excuses politicians make when they refuse to provide solutions for life-threatening problems and why they refuse to solve these problems, and the realities that such refusal creates.

In this segment of By any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Atlanta-based organizer Monica Johnson to discuss DaBaby and the homophobic comments he made at Rolling Loud, the ludicrous ‘apologies’ he made after the fact, and his misogynist disrespect of Megan Thee Stallion and alliance with Tory Lanez.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Brian Becker, host of the Socialist Program, to discuss Cori Bush’s sit-in at the Capitol in protest of the inaction of Congress and the Biden administration on the federal eviction moratorium, the prioritization of war, death, and destruction over the needs of people, and the chance to galvanize broad sectors of society to build a mass movement and effect real change to meet people’s needs.


In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Frederick Mills, Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University and Co-Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, to discuss the push for an autonomous regional organization in Latin America, the continued brutal and hardline Latin American policy of the Biden administration, and the role of indigenous movements in the decolonial push for sovereignty in Latin America.


In the third segment, It’s Tuesday which means we’re doing our weekly segment Tech For the People, where we’re joined by technologist Chris Garaffa, the editor of TechforthePeople.org, to discuss the NLRB officer’s finding against Amazon’s interference in the Bessemer union drive and recommendation for a new election, the frat boy workplace culture of Activision Blizzard executives, harassment of women workers at the company, and its hiring of a union busting law firm.


Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Chuck Modiano, justice journalist and Sports writer for Deadspin, to discuss the conclusion of the New York Attorney General’s investigation of allegations of sexual harassment against Governor Andrew Cuomo, Nina Turner’s race in Ohio, and the foundation of political indoctrination and white supremacist ideology and mythology in the United States.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Brian Becker, host of the Socialist Program, to discuss Cori Bush’s sit-in at the Capitol in protest of the inaction of Congress and the Biden administration on the federal eviction moratorium, the prioritization of war, death, and destruction over the needs of people, and the chance to galvanize broad sectors of society to build a mass movement and effect real change to meet people’s needs.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by technologist Chris Garaffa, the editor of TechforthePeople.org, to discuss the NLRB officer’s finding against Amazon’s interference in the Bessemer union drive and recommendation for a new election, the frat boy workplace culture of Activision Blizzard executives, harassment of women workers at the company, and its hiring of a union busting law firm.

In this segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Frederick Mills, Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University and Co-Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, to discuss the push for an autonomous regional organization in Latin America, the continued brutal and hardline Latin American policy of the Biden administration, and the role of indigenous movements in the decolonial push for sovereignty in Latin America.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Amir Khafagy, an award-winning journalist based out of New York City who you can follow on Twitter @AmirKhafagy91, to discuss the expiration of the federal eviction moratorium, the refusal of politicians to keep people housed and prevent its expiration, and what people can do to organize for a real resolution to serious economic issues.

In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kym Smith, co-founder of Soda City Bail Fund and an outside liaison for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, to discuss the transition from chattel slavery to the penal labor system allowed the planter class to continue to exploit Black workers, and how activists can get involved in the fight against the prison-industrial complex.

In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Jalil Muntaqim, an activist, former political prisoner and Black Panther and author of ‘We Are Our Own Liberators’, to discuss the history of Black August, ongoing efforts of prison organizing, and the importance of commemorating prison struggles in today’s era of mass incarceration and international struggles for human rights and liberation.

Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Claudia De La Cruz, Director of Culture for The People's Forum, to discuss the surge of the delta variant across the United States and the economic and political realities that exacerbate its spread, the folly of ‘political pragmatism’ and and the state of the Progressive movement, and Latin American resistance to imperialism and the West’s growing struggle to maintain the current system.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Amir Khafagy, an award-winning journalist based out of New York City who you can follow on Twitter @AmirKhafagy91, to discuss the expiration of the federal eviction moratorium, the refusal of politicians to keep people housed and prevent its expiration, and what people can do to organize for a real resolution to serious economic issues.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Jalil Muntaqim, an activist, former political prisoner and Black Panther and author of ‘We Are Our Own Liberators’, to discuss the history of Black August, ongoing efforts of prison organizing, and the importance of commemorating prison struggles in today’s era of mass incarceration and international struggles for human rights and liberation.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Kym Smith, co-founder of Soda City Bail Fund and an outside liaison for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, to discuss how the transition from chattel slavery to the penal labor system allowed the planter class to continue to exploit Black workers, and how activists can get involved in the fight against the prison-industrial complex.