By Any Means Necessary

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Esther Iverem, artist, author and independent journalist, host and producer of “On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” on Pacifica Radio, to discuss the sentencing of now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years for his murder of George Floyd, why the latest ‘police lynching’ reinvigorated protests movements throughout Washington, D.C., and how police violence throughout the United States has its roots in the capitalist economic system which impacts so much of our lives.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Stacey Hopkins, Activist, Organizer, and political strategist, to discuss the failure of Democratic Party efforts to protect voting rights after the For the People Act failed to advance in the US Senate.


In the second segment, Sean is joined from Caracas, Venezuela by By Any Means Necessary producer Wyatt Reed to discuss the Bicentennial People’s Congress, the 19th summit of the heads of ALBA-TCP heads of state, and the future of regional integration and self-determination in Latin America.


In the third segment, Sean is joined by Nate Wallace, host of the Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the likely NCAA decision to permit student athletes to profit from usage of their likeness, and the historic news that Las Vegas Raiders Defensive End Carl Nassib has officially come out as the NFL’s first openly gay player.


Later in the show, Sean is joined by James Early, Former Director of Cultural Heritage Policy at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution and board member of the Institute for Policy Studies, to discuss former officer Derek Chauvin being sentenced for the racist police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signing a bill that compels students and professors o state their political beliefs, and how the world’s social movements are to respond to provocations of repression at home and imperialism abroad.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Nate Wallace, host of the Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the likely NCAA decision to permit student athletes to profit from usage of their likeness, and the historic news that Las Vegas Raiders Defensive End Carl Nassib has officially come out as the NFL’s first openly gay player.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Stacey Hopkins, Activist, Organizer, and political strategist, to discuss the failure of Democratic Party efforts to protect voting rights after the For the People Act failed to advance in the US Senate.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Bob Schlehuber, co-host of Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits, to discuss President Biden’s push to give billions to police departments across the country and why a record number of police officers are quitting the force after a historic summer of protest.


In the second segment, Sean is joined by writer and organizer Rohan Rice to discuss the outrage among both corporate media and the US and European governments over the arrests of opposition figures in Nicaragua, as well as the continuing repercussions of the failed 2018 coup attempt.


In the third segment, Sean is joined by Milton Allimadi, Chief Editor of Black Star News and producer and host of the Black Star News Show on WBAI, and author of “Manufacturing Hate: How Africa Was Demonized in Western Media,” to discuss apparent French efforts to outsource their occupation of the Sahel to the European Union as well as the enduring legacy of Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda.


Later in the show, Sean is joined by Jaribu Hill, founder and executive director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights, to discuss the annual global rejection of the US embargo on Cuba at the UN, the revolutionary potential of unorganized underclasses, and how a centuries-long history of medical experimentation on Black communities led to skepticism towards the Covid vaccine.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by writer and organizer Rohan Rice to discuss the outrage among both corporate media and the US and European governments over the arrests of opposition figures in Nicaragua, as well as the continuing repercussions of the failed 2018 coup attempt against the country’s elected government.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Milton Allimadi, Chief Editor of Black Star News and producer and host of the Black Star News Show on WBAI, and author of “Manufacturing Hate: How Africa Was Demonized in Western Media,” to discuss apparent French efforts to outsource their occupation of the Sahel to the European Union as well as the enduring legacy of Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Ben Becker, Editor in Chief of Breakthrough News, to discuss the apparent victory by Eric Adams in the Democratic primary for New York City’s mayoral race and the socialist candidate looking to take him on in the general election.


In the second segment, Sean is joined by Sputnik News analyst Morgan Artyukhina to discuss the Department of Justice’s seizure of the websites of major Iranian news outlets such as Press TV, the bizarre legal rationale used to justify the censorship, and the implications for America’s much vaunted free speech protections.


In the third segment, Sean is joined by Kim Ives, editor of the English Section of Haiti Liberte, to discuss his recent article, “Is a New Revolutionary Period Taking Shape in Haiti,” as well as the widely-misunderstood causes of the violence now consuming numerous neighborhoods in Port-Au-Prince.


Later in the show, Sean is joined by Jihad Abdulmumit, National Chair of the National Jericho Movement

to discuss the death of MOVE family member Consuewella Africa, the failure of the Democratic Party to pass legislation protecting the voting rights of the most vulnerable, and why the US government cracked down on last summer’s wave of protests whether they were peaceful or not.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Kim Ives, editor of the English Section of Haiti Liberte, to discuss his recent article, “Is a New Revolutionary Period Taking Shape in Haiti,” as well as the widely-misunderstood causes of the violence now consuming numerous neighborhoods in Port-Au-Prince.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Sputnik News analyst Morgan Artyukhina to discuss the Department of Justice’s seizure of the websites of major Iranian news outlets such as Press TV, the bizarre legal rationale used to justify the censorship, and the implications for America’s much vaunted free speech protections.