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In this Podmas installment #8 and #ReadingRevolution episode, I read Amiri Baraka's 1962 essay "'Black' Is a Country"

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In this Podmas installment #7 and Comrade Mommy episode, I discuss frustrations about covid callousness.

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In this episode, Podmas installment #6 and LeftPOC of the Week edition, I discuss the early life of Black Brazilian communist, performer, thinker, and activist Thereza Santos. This is Part I.

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In this episode, Podmas installment #5, I discuss job applications (inspired by one of my recent tweets) and why they should disclose salaries upfront.

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In this episode, Podmas installment #4, I discuss the dangers of tokenism on all sides of the political spectrum and the double bind for leftists of color.

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Readings & Resources

Interview w/ Thurgood Marshall

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-29-mn-1178-story.html

Michael C. Dawson - Blacks in and Out of the Left

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057685

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In this episode, Podmas installment #3, I discuss healthcare, its financial strain on U.S.ians, and alternative healthcare realities abroad.

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Readings & Resources

The U.S. Health Insurance System is Broken / I Can't Afford Health Insurance and I'm Not Alone

https://youtu.be/a75qe8VdFLQ

Medicare for All

https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all

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In this Comrade Mommy episode, Podmas installment #2, I discuss paperwork, its added burden in the already overwhelming lives of mothers, and excessive bureaucracy as an outgrowth of capitalism.

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In this episode, I go into a new plan for the month. Here goes!

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In this episode, I ...take a deep breath out.

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In this episode, we speak with organizer, writer, and researcher Jasson Perez about the defund movement, abolition, and organizing in Chicago against multiple forms of oppression toward its population.

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Work by Jasson Perez

"Lori Lightfoot is wrong. ‘We’ didn’t fail Adam Toledo.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/20/lori-lightfoot-is-wrong-we-didnt-fail-adam-toledo/

"The quest for justice for Adam Toledo requires that Lightfoot resign"

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chicago-lightfoot-adam-toledo/

"Don't Blame Defund"

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dont-blame-defund

"Snatching Victory"

https://spectrejournal.com/snatching-victory/

"The Left's 'Theoretical' Problem"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWiFjrjddUNcCHRiz0UvgW84zcRg17o_/view?usp=sharing

Additional Readings & Resources:

Joy James - “The Architects of Abolitionism” (talk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0

“Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html

Mariame Kaba - We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

https://www.akpress.org/we-do-this-til-we-free-us.html

Alex Vitale - The End of Policing (note: the e-book version here is still free!)

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing

Angela Davis - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

https://www.akpress.org/abolitiondemocracy.html

Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 1 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast

https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/29-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast

Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 2 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast

https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/30-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-pt-2-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast

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