What does it mean to develop discipline without reproducing authoritarianism? How can study become a form of preparation? How can remembering political prisoners change the way we understand incarceration happening around us now?

This is Black August 2026: Part 2.

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Media Featured for Black August in this episode

• Archival footage from Ellis Haizlip's Soul featuring Georgia Jackson, mother of George and Jonathan Jackson. | Watch more of SOUL! on this Youtube playlist

• A reading of Ya'Iyr Carter's "The Death of Jonathan Jackson," published through In the Belly

  
  

EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 Introducing the episode

01:50 Jonathan Jackson and the origins of Black August

15:00 Discipline without authoritarianism

37:00 ICE and Electric shock gloves

44:43 Legal support, jail support, and political education

56:00 Georgia Jackson on Soul

01:04:31 "The Death of Jonathan Jackson" by Ya'Iyr Carter

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More from this episode

George Jackson: Soledad Brother, Blood in My Eye

Other Books

Against the State — James Stout, Are Prisons Obsolete? — Angela Davis, Assata: An Autobiography — Assata Shakur, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Negroes with Guns — Robert F. Williams, Black Reconstruction in America — W.E.B. Du Bois, Revolutionary Suicide — Huey P. Newton

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This episode features readings and discussion from the 2026 Black August issue of In the Belly, a prisoner-led abolitionist magazine. The hosts discuss pieces by Pierre "Polo" Pinson and Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, alongside poetry by Assata Shakur and a poem featured in Judas and the Black Messiah. Together, these works raise questions about revolution, religion, spirituality, negotiation, reproductive labor, political education, and what it means to build a liberated world rather than simply seek reforms within the existing one.

This episode is an invitation to study history, question the promises of the present, and think seriously about what revolutionary practice can look like in our own lives.

Contact

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Chapters

00:00 looong intro

18:05 Rhinoceros Womane by Assata shakur

21:07 What is itb

24:06 Phantom of liberty by polo

31:56 reflection

48:45 God Is Here by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

52:42 Reflection

01:06:14 Poem from Judas and the Black Messiah, by actor Dominique Fishback as Akua Njeri

01:07:50 Reflection and outro

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A #RepressionWatch upload to The Dugout.

For this RepressionWatch episode, I talk with organizer Sammie (they/them) about the 2024 Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Michigan, the police raid that broke it up, and the lasting toll of being sprayed with a chemical agent called Deep Freeze. We get into the felony charges that followed, misogynoir in organizing spaces, and what it means to keep showing up for a movement after the state has already come for you.

EPISODE CORRECTION: Sammie refers to a co-defendant as an "Arab person", but meant to say he's "Pakistani".

GUEST: Sammie (they/them) is a Michigan-based community organizer whose work spans the George Floyd 2020 protests, housing organizing, and Palestine solidarity activism.

Instagram: @inkanduprising

Linktree: https://www.linktr.ee/Inkanduprising

Substack: https://www.inkanduprising.substack.com

Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvkmlEmy8Z8

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Resources Mentioned

• The Guardian, Oct 2024 — "Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel pushed to prosecute campus Gaza protesters"

• The Guardian, May 2025 — "Michigan drops charges against pro-Palestinian protesters"

• The Guardian, Apr 2025 — "Lawyer's phone searched at US border" —

• The Guardian, Sep 2025 — "Teargas and menstruation: the health effects of protest policing"

• EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) — statement of material facts, Alasaad v. Mayorkas

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In this episode of The Dugout, we speak with Lebanese anarchists about organizing and surviving through war, occupation, sectarianism, displacement, and economic crisis. We discuss what brought them to anarchism, how they understand Lebanon’s history, and why the experiences of South Lebanon and Beirut can look so different.

We talk about the realities of Israel’s attacks, the conditions facing migrant and kafala workers, and the everyday needs people are confronting as communities are displaced and homes are destroyed.

At the center of the conversation is a simple principle: abandon nobody.

What does solidarity look like when people are already overwhelmed? How do you provide relief without becoming another NGO? And how can anarchists build relationships, share skills, and meet people’s needs without taking control away from the communities they are trying to support?

Chapters

00:00 Intro

06:35 What motivated you to get into organizing

13:11 How do you get to anarchism and what does anarchism mean to you?

17:08 How would you introduce Lebanon to our listeners

24:33 How is south Lebanon’s history been shaped differently?

33:02 How is Beirut or the north different?

36:51 How has the day to day changed in recent attacks by Israel

41:05 How have condition changed for Migrant or Kafala workers?

43:15 What are people in Lebanon worried about right now and what are people doing to address those needs?

48:38 What are some misconception you see online about Lebanon?

58:28 How do you fight against disenfranchisement

01:05:36 What lessons or structures from previous uprising are at play today?

01:09:39 Details on a Lebanese anarchist organizing project

01:17:52 How are Lebanese anarchist working on relief efforts without becoming like typical NGO’s

01:24:55 What are conversation of healing or justice sounding like right now?

01:29:43 What solidarity efforts have you seen to be useful for your efforts

01:41:23 Last thoughts

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What does it mean to defend your community when the state has already decided it won't? Today we sit down with Alex, Manuel, and Solaris of Atlas Defense, a Twin Cities community defense collective. We get into what community defense actually means, how they built a cadre with no hierarchy, and how Indigenous sovereignty and death work shape the way they think about safety. We also talk about how their organizing shifted once ICE occupied the Twin Cities, and what it takes to keep each other safe under repression.

Show Notes on Patreon

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Guests: Alex, Manuel, and Solaris of Atlas Defense

• 📷 Alex: @alex_does80
• 🛡️ Atlas Defense: atlasdefensemn.com
• 📷 Atlas Defense: @atlasdefensemn
• 🖨️ Atlas Defense Print Subscription (People's Printer): atlasdefensemn.com/product/people-s-printer
• 🌐 Solaris: solarisism.org

On Atlas Defense: Atlas Defense is a Twin Cities community defense collective founded in 2016, built on the idea that abolition means abundance; training neighbors in everything from verbal de-escalation to firearms so that safety becomes a shared responsibility, not something outsourced to police or the state.

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📚 Mentioned Media

Books & Texts

📚 Black Liberation Army dictionary/resource — referenced re: "group and split" organizing model

📚 George Jackson's work:

Historical Reference

🔗 Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 — Teamsters Local 574, referenced as historical precedent for general strikes

Other Media

🔗 Solarism — Solaris's website

🔗 A Black Child's Lament — Solaris's essay

🔗 SWOP MPLS — sex worker organizing partner referenced re: firearm training

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Guests:Cal & Isaac, two of the Minnesota 15 defendants

In this episode of The Dugout, we sit down with Cal and Isaac, two of the fifteen people indicted following Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration occupation of the Twin Cities. We trace their political histories, from labor organizing and anti-cult work to anti-fascist organizing, and get a firsthand account of the ICE occupation of Minneapolis-St. Paul: the killing of Renee Goode, the general strike of January 23rd, and the federal raids that led to their arrest and indictment. We discuss the specific repression they're facing (including a pre-dawn SWAT raid): months-long surveillance, and federal charges that they argue amount to "thought crimes" and what kind of support actually matters right now.

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📣 Calls for Support

Legal defense fundraiser is active on Chuffed, funds go toward legal costs and material support for people who have lost jobs due to the prosecution:

🔗 https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund

Minnesota 15 Defense Page: https://minnesota15.org/

Minnesota 15 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Minnesota.15

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Where To Learn More

Unicorn Riot: https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/government-says-terabytes-of-signal-chats-are-central-to-the-case-against-minnesota-15/

'Minnesota 15' Defendants Cal & Ike Speak Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gek4xLNgi_8

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Episode Chapters

00:00 Intro
01:12 Audio disclaimer + support links
02:31 "What was young you like?"
03:26 "What brought you to the Twin Cities?"

11:41 "What has the last year been like organizing through the ICE surge?"

27:07 "What have you learned about state violence and solidarity?"

32:41 "Can you explain what a Starlight Tour is?"

41:22 "How did you learn about the indictment?"

51:43 "Where can people find reliable info and support?"

53:45 Outro

In this episode of The Dugout, we sit down with organizers Noura and F12 for a conversation about Palestine, abolition, Afropessimism, international solidarity, and what it actually takes to sustain struggle.

What does it mean to travel to Palestine without romanticizing struggle? What is “protective presence,” and what can international organizers actually offer communities living under occupation? How does the occupation control not only land and movement, but people's relationship to time, planning, and the future itself?

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About the Guests

Noura is an Oakland-based Palestinian American organizer. The daughter of refugees from the 1967 War, she has spent over two decades in international solidarity and non-violent direct action. She spent years organizing with the Stop Urban Shield Coalition to successfully dismantle militarized police expos in California.

Noura Instagram: @bint_fulusteen

Faz3a Pal Instagram: @faz3a_pal

F12 is a Sacramento-based Black radical organizer, writer, and abolitionist. After spending 14 years incarcerated, they expanded their work into internationalist solidarity, engaging in hands-on protective presence work in the West Bank, and much more.

F12 Substack: https://substack.com/@toussaintf12

F12 Instagram: @toussaintf12

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BOOKS & MEDIA MENTIONED

• George Jackson — Blood in My Eye
• Anarcho-Blackness
• Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children
• The Life and Work of George Jackson — Anasi’s Library documentary

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0:00 — Intro: What does solidarity actually demand of us in moments of crisis?

2:37 — Introductions: Nora and F12

3:04 — "What was young you like?"

11:39 — Follow-up: Was your depoliticization tied to familial trauma and survival/assimilation?

17:24 — What brought you into a deeper, lifelong organizing practice?

26:47 — How did you each first start getting involved with the Palestinian liberation movement?

43:52 — Can you talk about how the opportunity to go to Palestine came about, and what that material work looked like?

56:28 — What sort of traps do activists get caught in when thinking about traveling for solidarity work?

1:01:18 — Reflection: local privilege in solidarity movements and the "romanticism" of solidarity

1:06:40 — What's it like to travel as a decolonial organizer engaged in a cause so heavily based in land struggles, and how does that translate to organizing on Turtle Island?

1:14:28 — What does actionable decolonization look like, and why do people romanticize other struggles but not see their own lives as part of it?

1:25:26 — What alternative systems or decolonial economic practices have you seen in Palestine?

1:29:58 — How does anti-Blackness show up in movement spaces, and how do we build past aesthetic radicalism?

1:37:42 — What does state repression look like, and what does care work for each other look like?

1:37:58 — "How are you staying sane?"

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Modibo Kadalie and Andrew Zonneveld sit down for a conversation about the moments that shaped their politics over decades of organizing. Modibo reflects on the decision to resist the Vietnam draft and leave the United States, while both discuss what it was like raising children alongside anti-war organizing, how the history of Georgia and the Black South continues to influence their thinking, and where they see Pan-Africanism today. They also share what’s next for On Our Own Authority Publishing and close by reflecting on the movements, struggles, and everyday acts of resistance that continue to give them hope for the future.

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00:00 Intro

00:50 what was it live to make the decision to leave the USA

13:37 how was engaging in social movements as a new parent

22:18 how does being in Georgia impact your politics

31:34 what is the state of Pan-Africanism in your eyes

34:16 what are some new books or projects On Our Own Authority is planning?

43:14 What is giving you hope

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What does it take to build revolutionary institutions that last? In Part 1 of this interview, we’re joined by Andrew and Modibo of On Our Own Authority, a radical publishing collective and community bookstore in metro Atlanta. Together, we discuss the politics of publishing, preserving movement history, and creating spaces where revolutionary ideas can be studied, debated, and put into practice.

The conversation explores Black radical traditions, oral history, direct democracy, social ecology, independent bookstores, and why movements need physical spaces that outlive social media and political trends. Along the way, we reflect on writing history from below, the role of archives in liberation struggles, and what it means to build intellectual and cultural infrastructure rooted in collective power rather than hierarchy.

01:26 Intro

05:14 what was a young you like

10:51 Origins of The Dugout

14:13 How does the Dugout see our work being preserved or impactful

17:53 what have you learned through the process of having a bookstore

29:36 how has your approach to publishing evolved?

35:57 what key changed have you made to make model ore sustainable

10:46 Atlanta Radical Book fair

44:57 what does de-centering heroes in history look like?

Community Books

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On Our Own Authority

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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, we ask a simple question: what does America mean to those living through its violence today? From expanding state repression and political prisoners to the mythology of the Fourth of July, we reflect on what it means to reject nationalism while committing ourselves to solidarity, community, and revolutionary struggle.

Along the way, we discuss the Prairie Land defendants, Baldwin's complicated relationship to America, the future of resistance, and what it takes to build movements that can survive the years ahead.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

09:53 Why do we care

17:01 What are ways to engage with the propaganda of July 4th

36:46 Reading and discussion of Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

42:53 Reading Gord Hill

49:40 Reflection

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Mentioned Media:

BOOKS 

📚The Counter Revolution of 1836 Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism by Gerald Horne 

🔗⁠ In The Belly Magazine: https://inthebelly.squarespace.com/

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OTHER MEDIA

🔗 Defending Dissent In Texas: An Interview with DFW Prairieland Defense Committee

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