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“We Need Socialism” - original discussion w/Sudip Bhattacharya:

https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-podcast-we

Sudip Bhattacharya’s works cited in the discussion

“There is no socialism without the end of u.s. empire”

https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2025/there-is-no-socialism-without-the-end-of-u-s-empire/

“The Illusion of a Renaissance” (on Jersey City)

https://strangematters.coop/jersey-city-gentrification-and-multiculturalism-steven-fulop/

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In this episode, I talk about the hypercapitalist hellscape back to school season has become, how this economic system leads to harm and neglect of children, and the ways parents and caregivers have historically pushed back (and still can in the present)!

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In this episode, I speak with Sudip Bhattacharya, PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers about left political thought and organizing among BIPOC and the need for socialism as we collectively confront the ongoing harms of capitalism and neoliberalism.

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Works/Issues Cited in the Podcast

Sudip Bhattavcharya - “Attacking Difference, Pursuing Unity: Building a Socialist Movement amidst a Dynamic Working Class” in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank (various authors, Colin Jenkins, editor)

https://www.iskrabooks.org/hampton-reader

Steve Phillips

https://www.thenation.com/authors/steve-phillips/

Daron Acemoğlu

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/daron-acemoglu

Assata Shakur

http://www.assatashakur.org/ (archive of writings and interviews)

Claudia Jones

-Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx

-Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean - Organize, Fight, Win:

Black Communist Women's Political Writing

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2881-organize-fight-win?srsltid=AfmBOorReXXKeF6V9ZfPtFvNO9ZlITZunNe7Bx5m4q5-CyOsjstuHuTR

-The Political Writings of Claudia Jones

https://1804books.com/products/a-fighting-dream-the-political-writings-of-claudia-jones?srsltid=AfmBOoodwNEnDwRcZk7gQC1oV-AoYrj_WeLs6rcFcZl46WNc2mF1Izsb

Efrén O. Pérez - Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo103673599.html

Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn - Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities

https://www.russellsage.org/publications/asian-american-political-participation

Sonia Song-Ha Lee - Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469629803/building-a-latino-civil-rights-movement/

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth

https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The%20Wretched%20Of%20The%20Earth.pdf

Schuyler Mitchell - “Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked-Choice Voting”

https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdanis-victory-shows-the-progressive-promise-of-ranked-choice-voting/

Glen Ford - The Black Agenda

https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/

Mitchell Plitnick - ‘“Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts”

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno - “The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare”

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/

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an unfiltered Comrade Mommy episode about the ways storytelling becomes a mode of resistance amid colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and racialized violence

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REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast by Left POCket Project Podcast

A discussion of race, class, and politics in the HBO series The Last of Us w/guest Dani.

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In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment, we discuss the Introduction and closing interview in the 2001 edition of Aimé Césaire's 1950 anticolonial manifesto Discourse on Colonialism

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Readings & Resources:

Brent Edwards - The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011038

Négritude

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negritude/

German Colonization of Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_Africa

Matthias Häussler -  Herero Genocide:  War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HausslerHerero

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-Outro: "Pooh Pah" by I:Cube

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In this episode, Dr. Cassie Osei discusses her research on the history of Black women’s labor and related social change in Brazil, conducting research in Brazil as a Black woman herself, and the racial politics of the reality show Love Is Blind: Brazil.

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Readings & Resources

(from Dr, Osei):

Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion

https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

Barbara Weinstein - “How does the painting ‘The Redemption of Ham’ by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?”

https://www.choices.edu/video/how-does-the-painting-the-redemption-of-ham-by-modesto-brocos-illustrate-ideas-of-whitening/

Katia Costa Santos - “Black Girls of Ipanema”

https://nacla.org/black-girls-ipanema

Keisha-Khan Perry - Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab

Kia Lilly Caldwell - Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/negras-in-brazil/9780813539577

Raquel Barreto - “Amefricanity: The black feminism of Lélia Gonzalez”

https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/amefricanity

PhDivas Podcast - “Afro-Brazilian Women’s History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei”

https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/s6e8-afro-brazilian-womens-history-low-femme-theory-with-dr-cassie-osei/

Professor Osei on social media:

Twitter: @tropigalia

Instagram:@brasilianista

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(additional readings & resources):

Edward Telles - Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691127927/race-in-another-america

Juliana Barreto Farias (editor) - Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation

https://dafricapress.com/Black-Women-in-Brazil-in-Slavery-and-Post-Emancipation-p81850749

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman - The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families

https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477307885/

Silvio Almeida on youtube (em português)

https://www.youtube.com/@silviolual

“Maid Saved US$ 5,800 and Took Daughter to Disney World”

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/02/maid-saved-us5800-and-took-daughter-to-disney-world.shtml

Love Is Blind Brazil

https://www.netflix.com/title/81284981

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-Outro: "Deixa Rolar” by MC Tas

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In this preview episode, Wendi reads a brief excerpt from Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, our upcoming #ReadingRevolution series selection.

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Readings & Resources:

Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonialism

https://nyupress.org/9781583670255/discourse-on-colonialism/

https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf

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In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US

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Readings & Resources:

“Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards”

https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords

“AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare”

https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060

“Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police”

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/

“Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/

Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion

https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memory

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/

“New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn”

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/

“Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990

“Understanding the AI Alignment Problem”

https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/

E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928.

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