This week’s Resistence in Residence artist is Bay-Area hip-hop artist, educator and organizer Ras Ceylon.  He is noted for being the first Sri Lankan hip-hop performer to release an album (debut in 1999) in the west. He has been bringing uplifting messages to the masses for over 20 years, releasing 7 albums to date and appearing on multiple projects with notable Rap and Reggae artists. He works closely with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. Black Panther Party Cubs & is a member of Sizzla Kalonji’s Judgment Yard fam & Wu-Tang Killa Beez.

Follow Ras on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rasceylon/?hl=en

Check out his music on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5w1lCxPPraMukwqxfPtwcm

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October 22nd is the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality. The day was established by the October 22 Coalition in 1996 and serves as a nationwide call to action against police violence and repression. Today, we speak with Dr. Melina Abudllah. Dr. Melina Dr. Melina Abdullah is a professor and the chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots.

We’ll also hear from some families who have been impacted by police violence, including Arleta Nance, mother to Tahmon Wilson, Dionne Smith, mother to James Rivera Jr. and Roland Harris, whose son Jacob smith was also killed by police.

This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Oakland native, hip hop artist, community advocate, and owner of the brand and Oakland store Dope Era, Stanley Cox, also known as Stan Pablo, also known as Fabby Davis Jr, also known as F.A.B., but most commonly known as Mistah FAB.

Follow Mistah FAB on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MistahFAB

Follow Brooklyn Ivy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brooklyn_ivy_/

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Trump threated to send National Guard troops to San Francisco last week.  Organizers in the city say they won’t take it lying down.  In this episode, we hear from Bay Rising’s Jane Martin. Bay Rising is a regional coalition of grassroots organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area that works to build political power among working-class communities and communities of color.

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As ICE crackdowns and federal troop deployments continue to affect Blue cities nationwide, we hear from Portland’s Anna Wilcox.  Anna is a multimedia journalist with Portland’s KBOO who has been covering the protests at Portland’s ICE facility.

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As ICE crackdowns and federal troop deployments continue to affect Blue cities nationwide, we check in with Damon Williams from Chicago.  Damon is a movement builder, organizer, performing artist, educator, media creator and co-director of #LetUsBreathe Collective, an artistic activist organization birthed out of the Ferguson uprising.

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In this episode, we speak with Chris Smalls, labor organizer known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization in Staten Island. He is a co-founder and the former president of the Amazon Labor Union. Chris was also a member of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. He is joined by Hazami Barmada, a social entrepreneur and strategy consultant for the United Nations and the founder and owner of The Barmada Group, a Washington, DC-based boutique consulting firm. Together they are calling on the US U.S. labor movement to recognize genocide in Gaza and end arms shipments.

They are promoting a national protest and day of action at the AFL-CIO in Washington DC to demand that there be a labor boycott of Israel to stop the genocide and that the AFL-CIO formally oppose the genocide and support the campaign to hold Israel accountable for the war crimes and genocide.

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On today’s Palestine Post, we’ll speak with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. 

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On today’s episode, we speak with historian and author LaShawn Harris about the life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever—and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality. LaShawn’s new book Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City highlights the impact of anti-Black police violence on Bumpur’s community as well as black women around the country who’ve been brutalized by police.

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After Donald Trump took credit for negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli occupation forces killed several Palestinian civilians in Gaza on Tuesday of this week, violating a ceasefire as Israel’s government vowed to keep restricting aid to the devastated enclave until Hamas returns the bodies of hostages taken two years ago. On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. He is the author of many books including Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World which was published in 2019 by the University of California Press.

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After Donald Trump took credit for negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli occupation forces killed several Palestinian civilians in Gaza on Tuesday of this week, violating a ceasefire as Israel’s government vowed to keep restricting aid to the devastated enclave until Hamas returns the bodies of hostages taken two years ago. On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Samer Araabi, 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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