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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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Left POCket Project - Episode 7 - Catching Up

Did you know that the Left POCket Project was not just a podcast? In this episode, Wendi Muse, creator of the Left POCket Project, talks about the origins and purpose of the project and how she sees it evolving in the future. She also talks about the connections between her own research, her frustration over Election 2016, and the Left POCket Project.

Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone

Photo: Kathleen Cleaver, former Black Panther leader

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words, a conversation w/Yasmina Price & Jazz Hooks

Follow AFROSOC, the Afro-Socialist & Socialists of Color Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, here:

Twitter: @AFROSOCDSA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AFROSOCDSA/

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Outro: WBEEZA, "Laying Here"

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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly

Suggested Reading

Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72

Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935)

Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970)

Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112.

Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & practice: Gender, race, & class,”Socialism & Democracy 17 (2003),109-122

Carole Boyce Davies,Left of Karl Marx:The Political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones,(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007)

____,”Sisters Outside:Tracing the Caribbean/Black Intellectual Tradition,”Small Axe 28 (2009),217-228

____,Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment,(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher,Inc.,2011)

Combahee River Collective,“The Combahee River Collective Statement,” in Homegirls:A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith,(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1983),264-269

Dayo F. Gore et al.,eds.,Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle,(New York: New York University Press,2009)

____,Radicalism at The Crossroads:African American Activists in the Cold War,(New York: New York University Press,2011);

Cheryl Higashida, Black International Feminism:Women Writers of the Black Left,1945-1995 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011)

Gerald Horne,Race Woman:The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois, (New York: New York University Press,2000)

Buzz Johnson,“I Think of My Mother”:Notes on the Life & Times of Claudia Jones,(London: Karia Press,1985)

Erik McDuffie, “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’:Sojourning for Truth,Justice, & Civil Rights during the Early Cold War,”Radical History Review 101 (2008),81-106

____, “‘I wanted a Communist philosophy,but I wanted us to have a change to organize our people’:The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore & the origins of black power,” African & Black Diaspora 3 (2010),181-195

____,Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism,(Durham:Duke University Press,2011).

____,“‘For full freedom of… colored women in Africa,Asia,& in these United States…’: Black Women Radicals & the Practice of a Black Women’s International,”Palimpsest 1 (2012),1-30

Louise Thompson Patterson,“Toward a Brighter Dawn,”Woman Today,April 1936

Rhoda Reddock,“Radical Caribbean social thought:Race,class identity & the postcolonial nation,”Current Sociology 62 (2014),493-511

Marika Sherwood,Claudia Jones:A Life in Exile,(London: Lawrence & Wishart,1999)

Ula Taylor,“‘Reading Men & Nations’: Women in the Black Radical Tradition,”Souls 1 (1999),72-80

____,The Veiled Garvey:The Life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey,(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2002)

Stephen Ward,“The Third World Women’s Alliance:Black Feminist Radicalism & Black Power Politics,”in The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights- Black Power Era edited by Peniel E. Joseph,199-144,(New York: Routledge,2006)

Mary Helen Washington,“Alice Childress,Loraine Hansberry, & Claudia Jones Write the Popular Front,”in Left of the Color Line:Race,Radicalism, & Twentieth Century Literature of the United Stated edited by Bill V. Mullen & James Smethurst,183-204,(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2003)

For the full list, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-pocket-5-w-16178909

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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/ Sangeetha Sudharshan (@sansdn)

music: "Hot Mess" by Logophilia

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ guest Lauren Lefty

Intro music: "Mastica, Chupa y Jala" by Ghetto Brothers

Outro music: "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" by Ghetto Brothers

(music & suggested reading list by Lauren Lefty)

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Suggested Reading

Academic Literature on Puerto Rico and its Diaspora:

Lorrin Thomas. Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City

Virginia Sánchez Korrol. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City

Andrés Torres and José E. Velasquez, eds.. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora

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

Carlos Alamo-Pastrano. Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States

Solsiree del Moral. Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico

Nelson Denis. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony

Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. "Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón: The Young Lords, Black Power and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972," CENTRO Journal 18:1 (Fall 20016): 149-169.

Radical History Review issue: “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in a Postcolonial World?”:

http://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/features/puerto-rico-a-us-colony-in-a-postcolonial-world/

Jones Act:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jones-act-20170927-story.html

Education (General):

And privatization/neoliberalism (recent): https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/education-privatization-charters-public-schools-betsy-devos

Podcast about Ed in the Time of Trump/Neoliberalism: https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast

Puerto Rican Education Activism in NYC

Anthony DeJesus and Madeline Perez, “From Community Control to Consent Decree: Puerto Ricans Organizing for Education and Language Rights in the 1960s and 70s NYC,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 7-31.

Lillian Jimenez, “Puerto Ricans and Educational Civil Rights: A History of the 1969 City College Takeover,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 159-175.

Lauren Lefty, "Evelina's Harlem: A Puerto Rican Educational Journey Through Space and Time," Columbia Teachers College Educating

Harlem Project, http://educatingharlem.cdrs.columbia.edu/omeka/neatline/show/evelinas-harlem

Debt crisis and school closures/austerity:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/hedge-funds-puerto-rico-close-schools-fire-teachers-pay-us-back

Post-hurricane schools situation:

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ewa-radio-115287/episodes/after-the-storms-uncertain-fut-22103781

Whitefish Contract Scandal:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-governor-says-contract-to-whitefish-company-should-be-canceled/2017/10/29/e5336cda-bcb8-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.6fe582ec606a

Ed and gentrification in NYC/El Barrio:

http://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/ujju-aggarwal-edwin-mayorga-from-forgotten-to-fought-over-neoliberal-restructuring-public-schools-and-urban-space/

https://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/2016/11/18/a-master-plan-for-gentrifying-el-barrio-nyc/

Debt/Austerity:

PR Syllabus: https://puertoricosyllabus.com/

Austerity Post-María: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/puerto-rico-natural-disaster-hurricane-maria

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/31/san_juan_mayor_carmen_cruz_on

UPR Strike:

https://www.thenation.com/article/students-are-now-leading-the-resistance-to-austerity-in-puerto-rico/

Left POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta)

Resources regarding this episode:

“Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016)

http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/

“Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017)

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problem

History of Zimbabwe:

Alois Mlambo

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlambo

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Sabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ASabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Terence Ranger

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=terence+ranger+zimbabwe&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aterence+ranger+zimbabwe

Simukai Chigudu (on cholera)

https://oxford.academia.edu/SimukaiChigudu

Additional suggested reading:

Elizabeth Schmidt

https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Intervention-Approaches-African-History-ebook/dp/B00B4V6IPU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512297774&sr=1-1&keywords=elizabeth+schmidt

Nick Turse

https://www.nickturse.com/

Abayomi Azikiwe

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=abayomi+azikiwe&sprefix=abayomi+azikiw%2Caps%2C156&crid=2MBB8G755GGE

Walter Rodney

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=walter+rodney

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Left POCket Project - Episode 1 - Introduction

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