Indigo Radio

Host Becca sits down with Dax who recently return from working and learning in India at Vandana Shiva's project Navdana. We discuss the historical and current work of agriculture. Navdana began as an example and teaching farm, showing that a farm without chemicals can exist. We also discuss on of the main aspect of the project, seeds saving as resistance to global capitalism.

Indigo host Anna sits down with Dr. Ari Brazier, community organizer & educator in Atlanta - Ari talks with us all about the #stopcopcity movement here in ATL, race, education, their work with ParentLab, children, abolition, and more!

*Photo of Remix, provided by Dr. Ari

Instagram accounts to follow

@atlparentlikeaboss

@stopcopcity

@thehighlanderschoolatl

@saveweelaunee

Songs:

1) Hard Times, Baby Huey

2) Violent, 2Pac

3) I Wish I Knew How to be Free, Nina Simone

4) Overjoyed, Stevie Wonder

Indigo host Anna sits down with Jasmine Burnett and Aja Arnold, organizers with Mainline ATL to talk about the upcoming Summer of Resistance here in Atlanta, learnings from past movements, organizing, and more.

"Through this campaign—which will include a series of rallies, demonstrations, teach-ins, and a three-day music festival & convergence hosted by Mainline—organizers and community members hope to reignite various types of activism and community building in the city. While the fight to #StopCopCity continues, organizers say it’s time to bring all intersections of Southern struggle and resistance together to fight against elements that preceded Cop City and allow police militarization to continue."

To connect with Summer of Resistance and follow events check out:

www.mainlineatl.com, Instagram pages: mainline_atl; strikeblac_scc; saveweelaunee; and stopcopcity

Songs:

Neith Sankofa - Hummingbird Medicine

Blue Scholars - Proletariat Blues

James Brown - Say it Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud

Show notes and resources:

https://www.mainlineatl.com/atlanta-organizers-announce-summer-of-resistance-stop-cop-city-juneteenth/

https://www.mainlineatl.com/police-escalate-harassment-south-atlanta-cop-city-site/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/cop-city-tortuguita-human-rights-investigation

Books Guests are reading:

Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton

The German Ideology by Karl Marx

In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter R. Echo-Hawk

On the morning of April 25th, 2024 students at Emory University began their Gaza Encampment in the national movement to end the genocide and for academic institutions to divest from Israeli apartheid. Listen to the speeches of these brave students along with Rev Keyanna Jones as they peacefully speak out; and continue to center what they are fighting for. Minutes later they were met with violent repression from the Atlanta PD, GA state patrol, and Emory police.

Student Op-Ed

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/we-are-occupying-emory-university-to-demand-immediate-divestment-from-israel-and-cop-city/

Hosts Anna & Chris sit down with Jayna Ahsaf & Jonathan Elwell of FreeHerVT. This show is Part II of our look at Vermont and prisons - from the historical context of VT carceral systems to today's campaign to stop new prison construction. Jayna Ahsaf is the lead field organizer for FreeHerVT and Jonathan an organizer. We talk with them about the FreeHerVT campaign, women in prison, criminalization of certain populations, & abolition.

You can find Part I here:

https://on.soundcloud.com/oT6SmwM8e6F6iPhJ8

Songs:

1) Loretta Lynn "Women's Prison"

2) Wanda Jackson "Tennessee Women's Prison"

3) Lightnin Hopkins "Jailhouse Blues"

Show notes:

- National website: https://www.nationalcouncil.us

- FreeHer Zine: drive.google.com/file/d/11hILxjEc…qg9zTc-8ut3/view

- VT’s website: https://www.nationalcouncil.us/vermont

- VT Landing page (more info & links):

http://the-council.us/freehervt

- Jonathan's article: https://www.rakevt.org/2024/01/04/behind-the-smoke-and-mirrors-the-true-story-of-prin/

- Mariame Kaba’s zine:

https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/what-about-the-rapists

Part I of a two-part show on Vermont and incarceration. Hosts Chris and Anna spend the hour with Jonathan Elwell, organizer with the FreeHerVT campaign. In Part I, Jonathan speaks with us about the purpose of prisons, the history of incarceration and surveillance in Vermont, and the criminalization of the poor.

Part II will air next week and will focus on the FreeHerVT campaign with Jayna Ahsaf and Jonathan.

Songs:

1) Tom Waits: "Fish in the Jailhouse"

2) Warren Zevon: "Prison Grove"

3) Felice Brothers: "Rockafeller Drug Laws"

4) Public Enemy: "Black Steel"

Photo: VT State Prison, Windsor 1907

show notes:

FreeHer: https://www.freehercampaign.org/vermont

FreeHer zine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11hILxjEcUBBU8KcjJOqxIqg9zTc-8ut3/view

Books:

Tip of the Spear - Orisanmi Burton

Golden Gulag - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Host Anna sits down with Emory University students Bella and Zach Hammond, two leading organizers with Students for Socialism @ Emory. Bella and Zach talk about what influences shaped their political thoughts, organizing at Emory (and beyond!), media role, and hopes they have.

Info on GILEE

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/atlanta-mayor-rejects-demand-end-israel-police-training

Songs:

1) "Change Tomorrow" by DAM

2) "Yama" by Gitkin

3) "Me Gustan Los Estudiantes" by Mercedes Sosa

In a recent interview on Democracy Now, director of “Unseen” Set Hernandez quoted Ursula Le Guin: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now. … We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.” In this episode we invited Emily and Nora Khilfeh, two Palestinian students: Emily is graduate student of writing at Arizona State University and she shares her poetry in our show today, Nora is a student at Edmonds College in Seattle. Both students share their experiences as Palestinian college students, their visits to their family home in Palestine, and poetry that speaks truth to power.

Song #1: Lowkey - Long Live Palestine ft Frankie Boyle, Maverick Sabre (Part 3) [Music Video] | GRM Daily (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEFrv-Xwtw)

Song #2: Ramallah Underground - Sijen ib Sijen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlRVdbMZSJk)

Listen to high school students in Vermont share their thoughts about what is happening in Gaza. C

On Sunday, March 10th ATLradicalart held a rally outside the High Museum in Atlanta, GA. Their rally was to say No Artwashing Israeli Apartheid! They ask: "How does Empire use Art against the people and to cover up complicity in genocide?" Listen to the voices from outside on the streets!

Songs/Speakers in order:

1) Song and chant - Priscilla Gay Smith

2) Opening with Rozina Shivaz Gilani

3) Umaymah Mohammad

4) Song by Emmanuel Lockett

5) Andrea Ornelas - Gaza Monologue

6) Nushrat Nur

7) Poem by Keara Skates

8) Gaza Monologue

9) Cristy York

10) Libre Sankara - Gaza Monologue

11) Song by Divina Salam