We are back in the studio this week for a wide ranging conversation with musician and comrade, Justin Pines. We talk about everything from his musical influences and the revolutionary capacity of hip hop, his organizing work to close Rikers Island, the costs of revolution, and what he sees as the keys to community building towards liberty.

We then move into the topics of the week including a Black Texas high school student losing a legal dispute over the school district’s racist hairstyle policy, Another Shooting In the NYC Subway and the continuing inadequacies of the police response, the leak of ShotSpotter device locations and how it reaffirms racists policing policy, the beating death of a nonbinary student in Oklahoma named Nex Benedict, Relly’s response to the moon landing, and the artist formerly known as Rachel Dolezal once again making headlines. 

Justin Pines (@pinesjustin on instagram) is a musician, listen to his stuff on Apple Music, Spotify, and other streaming platforms:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3W2iB5TUTmFgm37Ys4ilIy?si=O6qS2D0pQquH75Qg_Pq_CQ

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/justin-pines/1466104623 

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Rudy is the creator of Blacksky, an algorithm to connect Black users on Bluesky and the basis for other community algorithms on Bluesky

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Rudy also created Papertree.earth, a joint bank account for community groups to collectively manage finances.

Register and Join Rudy as he talks on a panel about Papertree at the Brooklyn Public Library next Saturday, March 2nd at 4 PM:

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/governable-spaces-tech-central-library-info-20240302 

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