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In this episode, part of the #ReadingRevolution series, we discuss the Combahee River Collective Statement, a manifesto penned by black lesbian socialists in 1977 regarding the way forward in movement politics.

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Readings & Resources

Combahee River Collective Statement

https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html

In Spanish

https://t.co/ot5aA3nbTn?amp=1

In Portuguese

https://t.co/vvIB8cI4GX?amp=1

In French

https://t.co/P5f9l0EYnO?amp=1

Digital Project on the Combahee River Collective

https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editor- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free

“Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will be Free”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-free

“Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y8jvNfAjCk

Delete Your Account - Blackwashing (ep. featuring Wendi & Richard)

https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/episode-182-blackwashing

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In this episode, I speak with journalist Malaika Jabali about her thoughts on Kamala Harris being the vice presidential pick for the Biden ticket and the impact this may have on the left and the black community, especially black women.

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Readings/Resources

Work by Malaika Jabali

“The Color of Economic Anxiety”

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety

“Democrats ignore black, working-class midwesterners at their peril”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/03/democrats-ignore-black-working-class-midwesterners-at-their-peril

“After the Obama disappointment, black voters want more than empty symbolism”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/05/black-voters-us-election-kamala-harris-obama

“What Do Black Women Want This Election Season?”

https://www.essence.com/feature/black-womens-roundtable-survey-results-2019/

“Bernie and Black Voters” (interview on The Dig podcast)

https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/bernie-and-black-voters-with-malaika-jabali-and-wendi-muse/

Left Out (documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubd2cnslP8A

Twitter: @MalaikaJabali

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Additional readings

“Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE”

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html

“Kamala Harris meets with AIPAC leaders at her Senate office”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435812-kamala-harris-meets-with-aipac-leaders-at-her-senate-office

“Angela Davis on Kamala Harris”

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=773737800111695

“The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e

“Kamala Harris' Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison for Murder. Now He's Talking”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwkab/jamal-trulove-wants-kamala-harris-to-talk-about-his-wrongful-conviction

“Black Lives Matter Isn't Going to Just 'Shut Up and Vote' for Kamala Harris”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4n9d/black-lives-matter-isnt-going-to-just-shut-up-and-vote-for-kamala-harris

“Of course it’s Kamala!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iInStlR2boI

GoFundMe Thread (add your own; priority given to health & housing needs): https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1293989196324012034

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In this episode, I speak to Jacqueline and Abdus Luqman, journalists, activists, and hosts of Luqman Nation, a weekly politics show, on the recent protests for black lives, race on the left, the role of religion in liberation movements, and much more.

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Readings & Resources

Luqman Nation

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5hIQvTLrxgf4UvSJRCPhw

By Any Means Necessary

https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/

The Real News Network

https://therealnews.com/

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Note: While these items are all available on amazon.com, I am doing my best to include links for suggested books on non-Amazon sites in solidarity with their workers (who face frequent rights violations).

Akinyele Omowale Umoja - We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781479886036

Charles E. Cobb Jr. - This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

https://www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviolent-stuffll-get-you-killed

Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: a History

https://redemmas.org/titles/30721-pan-africanism--a-history

James H. Cone - Black Theology and Black Power

https://www.orbisbooks.com/black-theology-and-black-power-en.html

“The African American who moved to Ghana 'to escape US racism’”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49394354

“Black Women Communists and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Minkah Makalani”

https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-communists-and-pan-africanism-an-interview-with-minkah-makalani/

“America’s Brutal Police State Expands its Reach in Portland”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuK8rhnK6c&t=5s

George Floyd Protests in Washington, D.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Washington,_D.C.

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In this episode, we discuss the protests that have erupted around the nation (and now the world) in response to racist police & vigilante violence in the US.

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Readings & Resources

“With Whom Are Many US Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator - Israel”

https://www.amnestyusa.org/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/

“Israel Krav Maga Experts Teaching Officers in Brazil”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu8f1h-jGLc

“Does the Militarisation of US Police Encourage Excessive Force?”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/militarisation-police-encourage-excessive-force-200601195340742.html

“Democratic Leaders' Kneeling Was Fine. The Kente Cloth Was Not”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/educate-yourself-before-you-wear-kente/

“The Embarrassment of Democrats Wearing Kente-Cloth Stoles”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-embarrassment-of-democrats-wearing-kente-cloth-stoles

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

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

Intercepted Podcast” Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition/

Ruth Wilson Gilmore - Golden Gulag

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag

Alex Vitale - The End of Policing

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

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-obsolete-by-angela-y-davis/ (Available in pdf form on multiple sites)

Angela Davis - Abolition Democracy

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

(Available in pdf form on multiple sites)

(Listen to our discussion of Abolition Democracy here: pt 1: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/29-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast pt 2: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/30-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-pt-2-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast)

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html?fbclid=IwAR1jiVdWcrv9udt2VFrNnAU1pdAbiQagq0rBXgopZMnKzjhBnuBHRwO5O_A

“Black Capitalism Won’t Save Us”

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nipsey-killer-mike-race-economics/

“Killer Mike, T.I. and Atlanta's Black Misleadership Class”

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/killer-mike-atlanta-speech-ti-video-george-floyd-a9543551.html

“Ilhan Omar Statement about Justice for George Floyd Unrest”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65weWcmjH_I

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In this episode, we speak to researcher and writer Dr. Edna Bonhomme on medicine, epidemics, and empire in the Middle East and North Africa as well as the current COVID-19 crisis.

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Readings & Resources

Related Work by Edna Bonhomme:

“Über Lebenslust,” Missy Magazine, May 2020, https://missy-magazine.de/blog/2020/05/11/ueber-lebenslust/

“The Cartography of Climate Apartheid in Yemen,” UN Magazine, May 2020, http://unprojects.org.au/magazine/issues/issue-14-1/edna-bonhomme/

“What Afro Shops Mean for the African Diaspora in Berlin,” The Funambulist, May 2020, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/states-of-emergency

“Ill Will,” The Baffler Magazine, April 2020, https://thebaffler.com/latest/ill-will-bonhomme

“Racism: the most dangerous ‘preexisting condition’,” Aljazeera English, April 2020, https://aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/racism-dangerous-pre-existing-condition-200414154246943.html

“The Racial Politics of ‘Return,’” The Nation, April 2020, https://thenation.com/article/world/slavery-tourism-ghana-africa/

“Covid-19 Denialism and Xenophobia,” Spectre Journal, April 2020, https://spectrejournal.com/covid-19-denialism-and-xenophobia/

“What coronavirus has taught us about inequality,” Aljazeera English, March 2020, https://aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-taught-inequality-200316204401117.html

“How They Treat Us,” The Baffler Magazine, November 2019, https://thebaffler.com/latest/how-they-treat-us-bonhomme

Decolonization in Action Podcast: https://decolonizationinaction.com/ | @decinaction

https://www.ednabonhomme.com/

Edna on Twitter: @jacobinoire

Additional Readings:

Harriet A. Washington - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Apartheid-Experimentation-Americans-Colonial-ebook/dp/B0010SEOYE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1590540355&sr=8-1

Dorothy Roberts - Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Black-Body-Reproduction-Meaning/dp/0679758690

Matthew M. Heaton -

Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Skin-White-Coats-Decolonization/dp/0821420704/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=black+skin+white+coats&qid=1590540436&sr=8-1

“Cuba Link Sought in Spread of AIDS” (1988)

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-01-31-8803260544-story.html

“Debate Grows on US Listing of Haitians in AIDS Category” (1983)

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/31/us/debate-grows-on-us-listing-of-haitians-in-aids-category.html

Mariel Boatlift

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

“Coronavirus: Africa will not be testing ground for vaccine, says WHO” (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52192184

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In this episode, we catch up about the current coronavirus crisis, the hot mess that is the 2020 election, and the ramifications of the latest policies under the Trump administration.

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Readings & Resources

How COVID-19 Deniers Are Also a Virus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PkIV5EaCk

Essential or Expendable? Gig Workers at Instacart & Grocery Stores Demand Safety Gear & Hazard Pay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQ-KWNXzkQ&t=907s

"Trump Defunds World Health Organization In the Middle of a Global Pandemic"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-defunds-world-health-organization-coronavirus

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In this episode, we speak with historian and researcher Elise Mitchell about pandemics in history, their impact on marginalized populations - particularly the enslaved - and the linkages to the social impact of the current COVID-19 crisis.

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Readings & Resources

Elise Mitchell - "The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease - Humanity's Long History of Making Epidemics Worse"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/

Dayle B. DeLancey - "Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia"

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.3-4.0296

Ida Altman - "The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/revolt-of-enriquillo-and-the-historiography-of-early-spanish-america/AE46A808BFFB70C9DCE84F276821E650

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In this episode, I discuss the legacy of Brazilian activist and city councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was brutally murdered on March 14, 2018.

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Readings & Resources

Previous episode on Marielle Franco (w/ additional information regarding her life and activism)

https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/ep14-marielle-presente-left-pocket-project-podcast

Information regarding other Brazilian women activists mentioned in the episode:

Erica Malunguinho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Malunguinho

Thereza Santos: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thereza_Santos

Leici Brandão: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leci_Brand%C3%A3o

Áurea Carolina de Freitas e Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81urea_Carolina

Andréia de Jesus Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9ia_de_Jesus

Mônica Santos Francisco: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B4nica_Francisco

Talíria Petrone: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal%C3%ADria_Petrone

Theodosina Rosário Ribeiro: https://www.grupoescolar.com/pesquisa/theodosina-rosario-ribeiro.html

Benedita da Silva: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedita_da_Silva

Olívia Santana: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%C3%ADvia_Santana

Lélia Gonzalez: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9lia_Gonzalez

PSOL: Partido Socialismo e Liberdade

https://psol50.org.br/

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In this episode, I discuss postpartum life, "healthcare" in the US, and coronavirus.

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In this episode, I discuss some updates for the project as well as introduce a new feature for the podcast!

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Reading/Resources

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text)

www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380

Bill Mullen - "By the Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao and the Making of Afro-Asian Radicalism, 1966–1975" in Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History

www.patreon.com/posts/maos-little-red-32754249

"W.E.B. Du Bois & the Tradition of Radical Blackness" -Interview w/ Charisse Burden Stelly for the Left POCket Project Podcast

Leftpoc – 35web-du-bois-the-tradition-of-radical-blackness-wcharisse-burden-stelly-leftpoc-podcast

Robeson Taj Frazier - The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination

www.amazon.com/East-Black-China-…95&s=books&sr=1-1

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