Guest host Dr. Melina Abdullah speaks with Dr. Tabatha Jones Jolivet and Dr. David Turner.  

Dr. Jones Jolivet is an educator, minister, organizer, and interdisciplinary scholar. She organizes with Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, Clergy 4 Black Lives, and the People’s Budget Los Angeles Coalition

Dr. David Turner is an Assistant Professor of Black Life and Racial Justice in the Department of Social Welfare at the Luskin School.

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Guest host Dr. Melina Abdullah speaks with Lavish Mack. Mack is a community organizer and advocate known for their work addressing police accountability and supporting families impacted by state violence. Lavish recently returned from an aid flotilla to Cuba. 

Check out Dr. Melina Abdullah’s socials @docmellymel & Lavish Mack’s @lavishmack

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I. An Urgent Call to Release Elders from California’s Women’s Prisons

In the first segment, Guest Host Thandisizwe Chimurenga speaks with members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and the Policy Advocacy Clinic (PAC) about No Time to Wait: A Case for Releasing Elders from California’s Women’s Prisons a New Report that Verifies the Urgent Need to Release Elders from California Women’s Prisons.

Guests:  Jane Dorotik is an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.  And, Maiya Zwerling is faculty member at the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law.

Find the full report of “No Time to Wait” here.

II. Promoting anti-racism & social justice throughout the CSU system and the CFA. 

In the second segment Host Thandisizwe Chimurenga talks with Audrena Redmond is Director for Anti-Racism & Social Justice at the California Faculty Association about the work the The Council for Racial & Social Justice does to promote anti-racism & social justice throughout the California State University (CSU) system and California Faculty Association (CFA).

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The Resistance in Residence Artist this week is actress, educator and “story midwife” Joyful Raven. Joyful is the author of two solo-shows, Tales of a Sexual Tomboy and Breed or Bust.  Joyful helps people tell their own stories through her story workshops.  Most recently, she has been working with the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project, helping formerly incarcerated people tell their own stories.  Learn more at joyful-raven.com

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On today’s show, guest host Dr. Melina Abudullah speaks with Dr. Butch Ware. Dr. Ware is an associate professor of history of West Africa and Islam at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is a public intellectual, activist, artist, and organizer, and supports communities across the country and around the world to challenge imperialism, ethnic cleansing, and war.

Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is director, teacher and solo-performer Kenny Yun.

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On Today’s show guest host Thandisizwe Chimerenga talks to Kali Akuno about the US wars in Iran and in Cuba and what we can do about it.  

Kali Akuno is an organizer, educator, and writer at the forefront of movements for Black self-determination, economic democracy, and ecological justice. He is co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, a visionary solidarity economy project anchored in Jackson, Mississippi, that builds networks of worker cooperatives, community land trusts, and democratic institutions.

Photo credit: Havana, Cuba by JF Martin on Unsplash

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On today’s show, guest host Kalonji Jama Changa is in conversation with Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party. He has organized for the liberation of African people worldwide since the 1960s and today leads the Uhuru Movement with active branches and black community economic development institutions throughout the U.S., in Africa and in Europe.

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On today’s show, guest host Kalonji Jama Changa is in conversation with W. Paul Coates, a former Black Panther Party leader in Baltimore. He established the George Jackson Prison Movement to bring Afrocentric literature to inmates. He is the founder of Black Classic Press, and an advocate for, and practitioner of, solidarity as a form of resistance to systemic oppression.  In addition, Paul Coates has organized Black Publishers and Writers Delegations to Havana Cuba for cultural exchange.

Kalonji Jama Changa is an organizer, founder of the FTP Movement, and the co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute and is co-founder of Black Power Media. He is also author of the bestselling book, “How to Build a People’s Army” and co-producer of the documentary “Organizing is the New Cool.”

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Guest: Gerald Horne is the Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston.  He is the author of many books, including “Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington D.C., 1900-2000” and “The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Facism.”

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Guests:

Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian Muslim American author, award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist.  She has been at the forefront of major civil rights campaigns including calling for an end to unwarranted surveillance of New York’s Muslim communities. She was the National Co-Chair of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, dubbed the largest single day protest in US history.

Samer Araabi is a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.

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