Left POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 3, w/Special Guest Héctor Alcalá - Episode 30

We are joined by special guest Héctor Alcalá to discuss the third round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward.
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Readings/Resources
2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UWVO0Trd1c

Richard Hunsinger - "Holocaust Capitalism"
https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/08/21/holocaust-capitalism/

(related interview for This Is Hell - "Capitalism needs cages: On dispossession and fascism in America's new concentration camps"
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1071-richard-hunsinger)

Robert Reich - "The Irony of Republican Disapproval of Obamacare"
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2013/1028/The-irony-of-Republican-disapproval-of-Obamacare
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In this episode, we have a #ReadingRevolution discussion of the book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, a set of interviews with Angela Davis.
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Reading/Resources

Eduardo Mendieta (interviewing Angela Davis) - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (full text)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-29344345

Angela Davis Discusses Her Book Abolition Democracy
https://www.c-span.org/video/?191553-1/abolition-democracy-prisons-torture-empire

Angela Davis: An Autobiography
https://www.amazon.com/Angela-Davis-Autobiography-Y/dp/0717806677

“Free Angela Davis!” (interactive page)
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=d93da4b2e4fa47fcbc999b1006fe51d6

Interview w/ Angela Davis from prison for Vibrations (1972)
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/190044

Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
http://newjimcrow.com/

Douglas Blackmon - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (book)
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702

Slavery by Another Name (documentary)
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/

Elizabeth Hinton - From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979826

“Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies”
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon

The Tuskegee Experiment
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study

“Torture at Abu Grahib”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib
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Left POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 2, w/Special Guest Kumars Salehi - Episode 28

We are joined by special guest Kumars Salehi to discuss the second round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward.
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Readings/Resources
2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 2:
night one: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/31/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-democratic-debate-day-one/index.html

night two: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/01/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-democratic-debate-day-two/index.html
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In this episode, we speak with researcher and writer William Jamal Richardson about his work on the development of modern American cities as settler colonial spaces.
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Readings & Resources:
Joyce A. Ladner - The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture
https://www.amazon.com/Death-White-Sociology-Ladner/dp/1574780077

William J. Richardson - "Understanding the City as a Settler Colonial Structure"
https://decolonialblack.com/2017/06/27/understanding-the-city-as-a-settler-colonial-structure/

William J. Richardson - By Any Magical Means Necessary (Black Shell Saga Book 1)
https://t.co/P9NFVjcwln

William's Patreon Page to support his writing
https://www.patreon.com/DecolonialBlack

PUSH Buffalo: People United for Sustainable Housing
https://www.pushbuffalo.org/

On "Accessibility"(thread)
https://t.co/7Qi00kmZ8C

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Left POCket Project Podcast - "2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 1, w/Special Guest Anoa Changa - Episode 26

We are joined by special guest Anoa Changa to discuss the first round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates.
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In this episode, we continue with part 2 of our discussion of Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution.
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Readings & Resources
Albert Memmi - The Colonizer and the Colonized
(full text)https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972

"Why High-Class People Get Away with Incompetence"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html

"The Great Escape that Changed Africa's Future"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/great-escape-that-changed-africas-future?fbclid=IwAR36FqTJNJH345O_NXd9k6kZBcngq2W2fOdafwI0BZt0GWdIiSqh1SmFD8U
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In this episode, we discuss Albert Memmi's seminal work The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution.

You can find the entire text for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972

Additional Readings & Resources:

"Critics and Theorists: Albert Memmi"
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/19/memmi-albert/

"Albert Memmi's About-Face"
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0046.326

"Jews and Arabs"
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/21/archives/jews-and-arabs.html
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In this episode, we speak to Professor Jakobi Williams about his book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago and his research on black political organizing and resistance to white supremacy and capitalism in Chicago throughout the 20th century.

Suggested Readings & Resources:
Jakobi Williams - From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago
https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Ballot-Illinois-Coalition-Politics/dp/1469622106/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=jakobi+williams&qid=1553292176&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Amy Sonnie and James Tracy - Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Nationalists-Urban-Rebels-Black/dp/1935554662/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Hillbilly+Nationalists%2C+Urban+Race+Rebels%2C+and+Black+Power%3A+Community+Organizing+in+Radical+Times&qid=1553292833&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Jeffrey Haas - The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Chicago-Murdered/dp/1569767092/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+assassination+of+Fred+Hampton+%3A+how+the+FBI+and+the+Chicago+police+murdered+a+Black+Panther&qid=1553292441&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Joshua Bloom - Black against Empire: The History of Politics of the Black Panther Party
https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?keywords=black+panthers+chicago&pd_rd_i=0520293282&pd_rd_r=58cd0e1a-b13a-4807-91f2-e8517fade348&pd_rd_w=I4Z37&pd_rd_wg=MfSmd&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pf_rd_r=X0J9HNE1YYJXWNAK8MKJ&qid=1553292465&s=gateway

Robyn C. Spencer - The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Has-Come-Panther-Oakland/dp/0822362864/ref=pd_sim_14_4/145-7285454-7271234?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822362864&pd_rd_r=0212ec40-4cef-11e9-889b-8de6206c1d4a&pd_rd_w=86PET&pd_rd_wg=LTn69&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN&psc=1&refRID=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN

Davarian L. Baldwin - Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-New-Negroes-Modernity-Migration/dp/0807857998/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=black+chicago&qid=1553292916&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-7
Poor People’s Campaign
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/
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In Episode 22 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I have our last #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events.

You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts.
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Instituto Paulo Freire
www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)
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In Episode 21 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events.

You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts.
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Instituto Paulo Freire
www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)
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"Behind the Scenes in Venezuela"
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-03-03/new-evidence-the-trump-administration-is-meddling-in-venezuelas-elections

"Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface"
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ralph-northam-and-the-history-of-blackface

"A Terrible Failure to Protect School Girls in Liberia"
https://africasacountry.com/2018/10/a-terrible-failure-to-protect-school-girls-in-liberia

"Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders"
https://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/teach-for-america
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