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In this episode, we speak with researcher and writer William Jamal Richardson about his work on the development of modern American cities as settler colonial spaces.

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Readings & Resources:

Joyce A. Ladner - The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture

https://www.amazon.com/Death-White-Sociology-Ladner/dp/1574780077

William J. Richardson - "Understanding the City as a Settler Colonial Structure"

https://decolonialblack.com/2017/06/27/understanding-the-city-as-a-settler-colonial-structure/

William J. Richardson - By Any Magical Means Necessary (Black Shell Saga Book 1)

https://t.co/P9NFVjcwln

William's Patreon Page to support his writing

https://www.patreon.com/DecolonialBlack

PUSH Buffalo: People United for Sustainable Housing

https://www.pushbuffalo.org/

On "Accessibility"(thread)

https://t.co/7Qi00kmZ8C

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...bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.

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Left POCket Project Podcast - "2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 1, w/Special Guest Anoa Changa - Episode 26

We are joined by special guest Anoa Changa to discuss the first round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward.

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Readings/Resources

2020 Democratic Primary Debates:

night one: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-video-democratic-presidential-debate-night-1-62758981769

night two: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-video-democratic-presidential-debate-night-2-62848069759

(both pages also link to full transcripts for each night)

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In this episode, we continue with part 2 of our discussion of Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution.

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Readings & Resources

Albert Memmi - The Colonizer and the Colonized

(full text)https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972

"Why High-Class People Get Away with Incompetence"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html

"The Great Escape that Changed Africa's Future"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/great-escape-that-changed-africas-future?fbclid=IwAR36FqTJNJH345O_NXd9k6kZBcngq2W2fOdafwI0BZt0GWdIiSqh1SmFD8U

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In this episode, we discuss Albert Memmi's seminal work The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution.

You can find the entire text for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972

Additional Readings & Resources:

"Critics and Theorists: Albert Memmi"

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/19/memmi-albert/

"Albert Memmi's About-Face"

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0046.326

"Jews and Arabs"

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/21/archives/jews-and-arabs.html

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In this episode, we speak to Professor Jakobi Williams about his book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago and his research on black political organizing and resistance to white supremacy and capitalism in Chicago throughout the 20th century.

Suggested Readings & Resources:

Jakobi Williams - From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago

https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Ballot-Illinois-Coalition-Politics/dp/1469622106/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=jakobi+williams&qid=1553292176&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Amy Sonnie and James Tracy - Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times

https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Nationalists-Urban-Rebels-Black/dp/1935554662/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Hillbilly+Nationalists%2C+Urban+Race+Rebels%2C+and+Black+Power%3A+Community+Organizing+in+Radical+Times&qid=1553292833&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Jeffrey Haas - The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther

https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Chicago-Murdered/dp/1569767092/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+assassination+of+Fred+Hampton+%3A+how+the+FBI+and+the+Chicago+police+murdered+a+Black+Panther&qid=1553292441&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Joshua Bloom - Black against Empire: The History of Politics of the Black Panther Party

https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?keywords=black+panthers+chicago&pd_rd_i=0520293282&pd_rd_r=58cd0e1a-b13a-4807-91f2-e8517fade348&pd_rd_w=I4Z37&pd_rd_wg=MfSmd&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pf_rd_r=X0J9HNE1YYJXWNAK8MKJ&qid=1553292465&s=gateway

Robyn C. Spencer - The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Has-Come-Panther-Oakland/dp/0822362864/ref=pd_sim_14_4/145-7285454-7271234?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822362864&pd_rd_r=0212ec40-4cef-11e9-889b-8de6206c1d4a&pd_rd_w=86PET&pd_rd_wg=LTn69&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN&psc=1&refRID=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN

Davarian L. Baldwin - Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-New-Negroes-Modernity-Migration/dp/0807857998/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=black+chicago&qid=1553292916&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-7

Poor People’s Campaign

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/

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In Episode 22 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I have our last #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events.

You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts.

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Instituto Paulo Freire

www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)

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In Episode 21 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events.

You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts.

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Instituto Paulo Freire

www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)

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Related Readings & Resources:

"Behind the Scenes in Venezuela"

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-03-03/new-evidence-the-trump-administration-is-meddling-in-venezuelas-elections

"Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ralph-northam-and-the-history-of-blackface

"A Terrible Failure to Protect School Girls in Liberia"

https://africasacountry.com/2018/10/a-terrible-failure-to-protect-school-girls-in-liberia

"Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders"

https://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/teach-for-america

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In Episode 20 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I have a #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts.

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Instituto Paulo Freire

www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)

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I'm baaaaack! Richard and I recorded this discussion a few weeks ago, once I had gotten back from Mozambique (though still in Brazil) as a sort of "year in review." We discuss the yellow vests protests in France, recent proposals for a Green New Deal in the US, and much much more.

Related Readings & Resources

France:

Short thread on Macron's policies toward poor POC & migrant communities in France: https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1071884065391947777

New French anti-terror law to replace 2-year state of emergency

https://www.politico.eu/article/new-french-anti-terror-law-to-replace-2-year-state-of-emergency/

French Muslim arrested in roundup after Paris attacks says Macron victory cannot give him his life - or his country - back

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-election-halim-abdelmalek-paris-attacks-house-arrest-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-a7737286.html

French Activist: Emmanuel Macron is “Younger, Prettier” Face of Anti-Worker Reforms & a Police State

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/28/french_activist_emmanuel_macron_is_younger

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Environmental Issues

Billionaires Are the Leading Cause of Climate Change

https://www.gq.com/story/billionaires-climate-change

Corporations Grabbing Land and Water Overseas

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/corporations-grabbing-land-and-water-overseas/

The Problem with "Overpopulation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYuo2QdNu88

Link to Pedagogy of the Oppressed for our upcoming discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-23145180

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In this discussion-based episode, Richard (my co-host for the #ReadingRevolution series) and I talk about the state of politics in the U.S. (including U.S. foreign policy), electoral drama in Brazil, and the need for having resolve on the left despite feeling disappointed.

Related Readings & Resources:

Instituto Paulo Freire

http://www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)

“Quase 200 mil bolsistas da Capes podem ficar sem bolsa se orçamento de 2019 sofrer corte, diz conselho” (“Nearly 200,000 Capes scholarship recipient may lose their funding if the 2019 budget undergoes cuts, says council”

https://g1.globo.com/educacao/noticia/2018/08/02/quase-200-mil-podem-ficar-sem-bolsa-se-orcamento-de-2019-sofrer-corte-diz-conselho-da-capes.ghtml

“Brazil: judge shuts border to Venezuelan migrants fleeing hunger and hardship”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/06/brazil-shuts-border-venezuelan-migrants

(Related update: “Brazil rules out closing border to Venezuelan immigrants” https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazil-rules-closing-border-venezuelan-immigrants-57293537)

Ataques a venezuelanos são açulados por fake news brasileiras (“Attacks against Venezuelans are spurred by Brazilian fake news”)

https://nocaute.blog.br/2018/08/19/ataque-a-venezuelanos/

"Tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: stand by your principles — stand with Palestine!"

https://mondoweiss.net/2018/07/alexandria-principles-palestine/

“Twenty Years On: The War on Terror in East Africa”

https://items.ssrc.org/twenty-years-on-the-war-on-terror-in-east-africa/

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