Episode 11 - "Making Millennials" A Conversation with Shaun Scott - Left POCket Podcast

In this episode, I speak with Shaun Scott, writer, historian, and author of the new book Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present, out now on Zero Books, about race, class, gender, and the left as young people continue to shape US politics.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us

You can also check out Shaun's writing at City Arts, where he has a bi-weekly column "Faded Signs": http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/contributor/shaun-scott/

Related Readings & Resources:

Shaun Scott - Millennials and the Moments that Made US: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present (2018)
http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us

Shaun Scott - "In Defense of Call Out Culture"
http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/defense-call-culture/

Liz Ryerson and Shaun Scott, Guests - "The Vampire Castle" - Delete Your Account Podcast
https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/the-vampire-castle

Mark Fisher - "Exiting the Vampire Castle"
http://www.thenorthstar.info/2013/11/22/exiting-the-vampire-castle/

Meagan Day - "Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss"
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/under-neoliberalism-you-can-be-your-own-tyrannical-boss

Amber A'Lee Frost - "Cops on Campus"
https://thebaffler.com/your-sorry-ass/cops-on-campus

Katie Herzog - "Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash"
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/01/23/25741141/call-out-culture-is-a-toxic-garbage-dumpster-fire-of-trash
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In this episode, I speak with Beatrice Wayne about Ethiopian student movements of the 1960s, their engagement with leftist thought amid oppressive social and political conditions, and the complicated struggles for state control that followed.

Suggested Readings/Resources

Ethiopian Student Movement:

Bahru Zewde - The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960-1974 (2014)
https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Socialist-Utopia-Ethiopian-1960-1974/dp/1847011640

Randi Rønning Balsvik - Haile Sellassie’s Students: The Intellectual and Social Background to Revolution. 1952- 1977 (1984)
https://books.google.com/books/about/Haile_Sellassie_s_students.html?id=nZ8lAQAAIAAJ

Ethiopian Revolution and its diverse effects:

Gebru Tareke - The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa (2009)
https://www.amazon.com/Ethiopian-Revolution-War-Horn-Africa/dp/0300204140

Donald L. Donham - Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (1999)
https://www.amazon.com/Marxist-Modern-Ethnographic-Ethiopian-Revolution/dp/0520213297

Amrit Wilson - The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution (1991)
https://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Road-Women-Eritrean-Revolution/dp/0932415717/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841852&sr=1-6&keywords=amrit+wilson

On student organizing across Africa more generally:

Leo Zeilig, editor - Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)
https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Protest-Politics-Sub-Saharan-International/dp/1780760434/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841914&sr=1-1&keywords=Revolt+and+Protest%3A+Student+Politics+and+Activism+in+Sub-Saharan+Africa

Oral history collection containing the reflections of former radical ESM students:

Zewde, Bahru Zewde, editor - Documenting the Ethiopian Student Movement: An Exercise in Oral History (2010)
https://www.amazon.com/Documenting-Ethiopian-Student-Movement-Exercise/dp/9994450336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841950&sr=1-1&keywords=Documenting+the+Ethiopian+Student+Movement%3A+An+Exercise+in+Oral+History.

Beautifully written memoir of Hiwot Teffera, a woman who was deeply involved in the ESM, recounting her early involvement in the movement and following up through her incarceration:

Hiwot Teffera - Tower in the Sky (2012)
https://books.google.com/books/about/Tower_in_the_Sky.html?id=9mzinQEACAAJ

Learn more about Beatrice’s research here: https://sydney.academia.edu/BeatriceWayne

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Additional source added by Wendi for more information on the different student movements and political groups:
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ethiopia/index.htm
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Pictured: Martha Mebrahtu, student activist, killed in 1972. For more information on Martha, please visit:
https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/martha-manifesto-ethiopian-womans-dream
and
http://abyotawi.blogspot.com/2016/03/womens-history-month-martha-mebrahtu.html
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In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, I speak with Richard (@ProgressvGreen) about his thoughts on making leftist discourse more easily accessible for a broad audience and we reveal a surprise I’ve had up my sleeve for some time. Have a listen to find out what it is!

Suggested Resources:

“The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther”
https://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith 
https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Methodologies-Research-Indigenous-1999-03-15/dp/B01FIWTGMW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078430&sr=1-2&keywords=linda+tuhiwai+smith%2C+decolonizing+methodologies

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
https://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Anniversary-Paulo-Freire/dp/0826412769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078494&sr=1-1&keywords=paulo+freire

The episode of The Discourse that Richard mentions on the ties between science fiction and politics: https://soundcloud.com/expandthediscourse/the-time-after-time-ep
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Episode 8 - “A Movement of the People” w/Victor Monterrosa – Left POCket Project Podcast

Victor & I discuss the history of socio-economic challenges and related activism in Newark, NJ, his run for city council, & what inspired him to serve his community

About Victor’s Campaign for Newark City Council:
Victor for Council: https://www.instagram.com/victorforcouncil/

Featured Profile for 100 People: “Newark”
http://www.100people.org/wp/newark_gallery/victor-monterrosa/

More about the Campaign Platform & Fellow Candidates with A Movement of the People
http://amovementofthepeople.com/

Related Reading & Resources:

Books:
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America by Kevin Mumford
https://www.amazon.com/Newark-History-America-American-Culture/dp/0814795633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517238781&sr=8-1&keywords=history+of+newark

The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? By Dale Russakoff
https://www.amazon.com/Prize-Whos-Charge-Americas-Schools-ebook/dp/B00AXS6BIE/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1517238820&sr=8-23&keywords=history+of+newark

Articles:
“We Don’t Want Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity” by Jason Farbman
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/facebook-zuckerbergs-charity-gates-philantrophy

“The Amazon Sweepstakes” by Michal Rozworski
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/amazon-headquarters-incentives-investment-jeff-bezos

“Newark's Toxic Tomb; Six Acres Fouled by Dioxin, Agent Orange's Deadly Byproduct, Reside in the Shadow of an Awakening Downtown” by Laura Mansnerus
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/nyregion/newark-s-toxic-tomb-six-acres-fouled-dioxin-agent-orange-s-deadly-byproduct.html

Public Archives & Community Resources:
Ironbound Environmental Justice History and Resource Center
http://ncph.org/history-at-work/ironbound-ej-history/

The Latino Oral History Collection – New Jersey Hispanic Research & Information Center
http://www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/njhric/LatinoOralHistory.html

Urban Cooperative Enterprise Legal Center
http://www.theucelc.org/

Covenant House of New Jersey
https://nj.covenanthouse.org/
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