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44. The End of the World as We Know It - Left POCket Project Podcast
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English - June 14, 2020 10:08 - 2 hours - 181 MB - ★★★★★ - 145 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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