This week, Founding Member of the Hampton Institute and Host of A Different Lens podcast, Devon Bowers, joins the show to discuss the origins, trajectory, and needs of independent left political organizations and media outlets.

The Hampton Institute is a proletarian (working-class) think tank founded by Colin Jenkins in 2013 to counter right-wing so-called "think" tanks. Their writers, contributors, and editors come from Korea, Japan, Palestine, Syria, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, UK, Spain, Germany, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Brazil, and Iceland, among other places. The name is an homage to revolutionary martyr Fred Hampton, but its primary objective is influenced by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci and his notion of the "organic intellectual," everyday working and poor people with a wealth of knowledge not recognized by the institutions that grant pedigrees. For over a decade, the Institute has provided a platform for organic intellectuals to theorize, debate, discuss, and promote the issues that matter to our class through articles, books, and podcasts.

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