LeftPOC
94 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 145 ratingsBringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.
This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.
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Episodes
43. Medicine and Empire -Interview w. Edna Bonhomme - Left POCket Project Podcast
May 27, 2020 04:41 - 1 hour - 133 MBIn 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. --- 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 ...
42. Corona Chat - Left POCket Project Podcast
April 25, 2020 23:27 - 1 hour - 120 MBIn 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. --- 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 Mid...
41. Pandemic & Its Discontents w/Elise Mitchell - Left POCket Project Podcast
April 03, 2020 14:02 - 1 hour - 159 MBIn 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. --- 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 ...
40. Remembering Marielle Franco & Why Her Legacy Matters Now - Left POCket Project Podcast
March 27, 2020 14:07 - 30 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this episode, I discuss the legacy of Brazilian activist and city councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was brutally murdered on March 14, 2018. --- 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 ...
39. On Babies & Coronavirus, aka Why We Need Socialism Now - Left POCket Project Podcast
March 18, 2020 06:41 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBIn this episode, I discuss postpartum life, "healthcare" in the US, and coronavirus. ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: ...
38. Updates & Introducing...Left POCket Project Podcast
February 14, 2020 23:08 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this episode, I discuss some updates for the project as well as introduce a new feature for the podcast! --- 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/ ...
37. Dem Debates January 2020 LeftPOC Discussion - Left POCket Project Podcast
January 16, 2020 01:40 - 2 hours - 166 MBIn this episode, we discuss the January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate. --- Resources: CNN + Des Moines Register January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate (video) https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-des-moines-register-democratic-debate/index.html Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/use...
36. Mao's Little Red Book Pt 3 - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
January 01, 2020 01:12 - 1 hour - 165 MBIn this episode, part 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the larger global impact of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book. --- 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 https://www.patreon.com/posts/maos-little-r...
35.W.E.B. Du Bois & the Tradition of Radical Blackness w/Charisse Burden-Stelly- @LeftPOC Podcast
December 25, 2019 03:20 - 1 hour - 110 MBIn this episode,we speak w/returning guest Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly about W.E.B. Du Bois, radical blackness,& black internationalism --- Readings & Resources Charisse Burden-Stelly & Gerald Horne - W.E.B. Du Bois:A Life in American History https://www.amazon.com/W-B-Du-Bois-American/dp/1440864969/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dubois+charisse+burden-stelly&qid=1577219962&sr=8-1 Charisse Burden-Stelly “W.E.B. Du Bois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness:Radicalism, Repression, & Mutual Comrades...
34. Mao's Little Red Book Pt 2 - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
December 20, 2019 08:34 - 1 hour - 153 MBIn this episode, part 2 of 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the text Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book. --- Reading/Resources Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Redd...
33. Mao's Little Red Book Pt 1 - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
December 16, 2019 07:16 - 1 hour - 139 MBIn this episode, part 1 of 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the text Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book. --- Reading/Resources Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) https://www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/left...
32. Alternative Left Party Platforms - Left POCket Project Podcast
October 20, 2019 02:59 - 1 hour - 196 MBIn this episode, we discuss the platforms of the Green Party (US), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). --- Readings/Resources Green Party (GPUS) Platform https://www.gp.org/platform Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) Platform https://liberationschool.org/program-of-the-party-for-socialism-and-liberation/ Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Platform https://www.cpusa.org/party_info/party-program/ --- Music: "My Life a...
31. Angela Davis's Abolition Democracy Pt. 2 - Reading Revolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
September 27, 2019 16:59 - 1 hour - 141 MBIn this episode, we continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of the book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, a set of interviews with Angela Davis. --- Reading/Resources Eduardo Mendieta (interviewing Angela Davis) - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-29344345 Angela Davis Discusses Her Book Abolition Democracy www.c-span.org/video/?191553-1/a…ns-torture-empire Margaret Kimberly - "Ignoring Ang...
30. Dem Debates Round 3 Discussion w. Héctor Alcalá - Left POCket Project Podcast
September 13, 2019 21:36 - 1 hour - 119 MBLeft POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 3, w/Special Guest Héctor Alcalá - Episode 30 We are joined by special guest Héctor Alcalá to discuss the third round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward. --- Readings/Resources 2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UWVO0Trd1c Richard Hunsinger - "Holocaust Capitalism" https://cosmonaut.blog/2019...
29. Angela Davis's Abolition Democracy Pt1 - Reading Revolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
September 04, 2019 06:38 - 1 hour - 142 MBIn this episode, we have a #ReadingRevolution discussion of the book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, a set of interviews with Angela Davis. --- Reading/Resources Eduardo Mendieta (interviewing Angela Davis) - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (full text) https://www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-29344345 Angela Davis Discusses Her Book Abolition Democracy https://www.c-span.org/video/?191553-1/abolition-democracy-prisons-torture-empire...
28. 2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 2 w/Kumars Salehi - Left POCket Project Podcast
August 01, 2019 19:55 - 1 hour - 158 MBLeft POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 2, w/Special Guest Kumars Salehi - Episode 28 We are joined by special guest Kumars Salehi to discuss the second round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward. --- Readings/Resources 2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 2: night one: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/31/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-democratic-debate-day-one/index.html...
27. Colonial Presents w/William Richardson - Left POCket Project Podcast
July 15, 2019 13:06 - 1 hour - 187 MBIn 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. --- 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-colonia...
26. 2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 1 - w/Anoa Changa -Left POCket Project Podcast
June 28, 2019 21:22 - 1 hour - 132 MB...bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time. --- 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. --- Readings/Resources 2020 Democratic Primary Debates: night one: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-video-d...
25. The Colonizer & The Colonized Pt2 - Left POCket Project Podcast
June 21, 2019 19:12 - 1 hour - 162 MBIn this episode, we continue with part 2 of our discussion of Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution. --- 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-...
The Colonizer & The Colonized Pt1 - #ReadingRevolution- Left POCket Project Podcast Ep 24 (@LeftPOC)
June 03, 2019 14:48 - 2 hours - 216 MBIn 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/je...
From the Bullet to the Ballot:Black Organizing in Chicago w/Jakobi Williams - @LeftPOC Podcast Ep 23
March 22, 2019 22:25 - 1 hour - 141 MBIn 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 ...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Pt 3-#ReadingRevolution w/Richard - Left POCket Project Podcast - Ep 22
March 08, 2019 00:56 - 2 hours - 180 MBIn 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. --- Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes th...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Pt2 - #ReadingRevolution w.Richard- Left POCket Project Podcast - Ep 21
February 14, 2019 11:48 - 2 hours - 255 MBIn 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. --- Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Pt1 - #ReadingRevolution w.Richard- Left POCket Project Podcast - Ep 20
January 20, 2019 11:29 - 59 minutes - 102 MBIn 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. --- Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put yo...
"Year in Review" (w/Richard) - Episode 19 - Left POCket Project Podcast
December 22, 2018 22:16 - 2 hours - 279 MBI'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 repl...
"It's Like the Country's on Fire" - Left POCket Project Podcast- Episode 18 (w/ Richard) - @LeftPOC
August 22, 2018 01:28 - 1 hour - 184 MBIn 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 window...
Left POCket Project Podcast (@LeftPOC) - JULY UPDATE
July 17, 2018 22:36 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MBAn update on the Left POCket Project (and the podcast) :-)
Left POCket Project Podcast - Carlos Marighella's Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla
June 17, 2018 15:04 - 2 hours - 127 MBIn this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard and I have our third #ReadingRevolution discussion, this time about Brazilian Communist revolutionary Carlos Marighella’s 1969 work The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, the place of violence in anti-authoritarian movements, and the contemporary application of radical political measures. Full Text (in English): https://t.co/67jJrv7Jnd Suggested Readings & Resources: Marighella (documentary, in Portuguese) https://www.youtube.co...
"Propaganda & Agitation" #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
May 06, 2018 20:30 - 1 hour - 66 MBIn this episode, Richard is back for our second installment of #ReadingRevolution, and we are discussing the meaning of propaganda and agitation in leftist ideology and practice. Related Readings & Resources The 2 pieces we read: Scott Harrison – The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, Chapter 11, “Agitation and Propaganda” http://www.massline.info/mlms/mlch11.htm “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda” Revolution, 1978 https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/rcp-agit...
Ep 15 -"A Struggle Unfinished" the Israeli Black Panthers - a Conversation w/Prof. Anne-Marie Angelo
April 20, 2018 20:37 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBIn this episode, I speak with Professor Anne-Marie Angelo on the history and legacy of the Israeli Black Panthers. Suggested Readings: On the Israeli Black Panthers: Oz Frankel – “What’s In a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17541320802063554?journalCode=rsix2 “Israeli black panthers remind us what their struggle was about” https://972mag.com/israels-black-panthers-remind-us-what-their-struggle-was-all-about/122566/ “Jewish Arabs and the bi...
"Marielle Presente!" 1 month after the assassination of Marielle Franco-Left POCket Project Podcast
April 13, 2018 12:04 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBIn Episode 14, I discuss black Brazilian activist and socialist city councilmember Marielle Franco a month after her assassination, and contextual her murder among other recent developments in Brazil’s contemporary political climate. I also read the letter I co-authored with several scholars who work on Brazil that was published in The Black Scholar and Folha de São Paulo. Reading/Resources: On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination...
Episode 13- "Peach Progressivism" - a Discussion w/Anoa Changa - Left POCket Project Podcast
March 23, 2018 22:05 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBIn Episode 13 - “Peach Progressivism” – I speak with Anoa Changa (@thewaywithanoa) - activist, attorney, and news commentator - about election 2016, the Southern political scene, her family’s black radical history, & much more. Related Reading/Resources: Discussion between Benjamin Dixon, Anoa Changa, & Wendi Muse on the Left-“Alt-Right” Alliance, Benjamin Dixon Show, March 12, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pold5hl3XBQ Marcus Ferrell for State Representative, Arizona: http://www....
Episode 12 - "History Will Absolve Me" #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
March 10, 2018 16:57 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBIn this episode, Richard (@ProgressivGreen) and I have our first #ReadingRevolution with a discussion of Fidel Castro’s 1953 speech “History Will Absolve Me” Suggested Readings/Resources: Fidel Castro – “History Will Absolve Me” (1953) Ful text: https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm History Will Absolve Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Will_Absolve_Me Louis A. Pérez,Jr. – “Chapter 3: c. 1930 – 1959,” Cuba a Short History (Leslie Bethell, editor) http...
Episode 11 -"Making Millennials" A Conversation w/Shaun Scott - Left POCket Project Podcast
February 27, 2018 02:39 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBEpisode 11 - "Making Millennials" A Conversation with Shaun Scott - Left POCket Project Podcast In this episode, I speak with Shaun Scott, writer, historian, and author of the new book Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present, out now on Zero Books, about race, class, gender, and the left as young people continue to shape US politics. http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us You can also check out Shaun's writing at Cit...
Episode 10-"Guerrillas Rise to Power"-Student Movements in 1960s Ethiopia w/Beatrice Wayne
February 17, 2018 04:57 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBIn this episode, I speak with Beatrice Wayne about Ethiopian student movements of the 1960s, their engagement with leftist thought amid oppressive social and political conditions, and the complicated struggles for state control that followed. Suggested Readings/Resources Ethiopian Student Movement: Bahru Zewde - The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960-1974 (2014) https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Socialist-Utopia-Ethiopian-1960-1974/dp/1847011640 Randi Rønning B...
Episode 9 - "Reading Revolution" A conversation w/ @ProgressvGreen - Left POCket Project Podcast
February 08, 2018 09:14 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, I speak with Richard (@ProgressvGreen) about his thoughts on making leftist discourse more easily accessible for a broad audience and we reveal a surprise I’ve had up my sleeve for some time. Have a listen to find out what it is! Suggested Resources: “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” https://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how Decolonizing Met...
Episode 8 - "A Movement of the People" w/Victor Monterrosa - Left POCket Project Podcast
February 01, 2018 03:35 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBEpisode 8 - “A Movement of the People” w/Victor Monterrosa – Left POCket Project Podcast Victor & I discuss the history of socio-economic challenges and related activism in Newark, NJ, his run for city council, & what inspired him to serve his community About Victor’s Campaign for Newark City Council: Victor for Council: https://www.instagram.com/victorforcouncil/ Featured Profile for 100 People: “Newark” http://www.100people.org/wp/newark_gallery/victor-monterrosa/ More about the Campa...
Left POCket Project - Episode 7 - Catching Up
January 18, 2018 00:24 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBLeft POCket Project - Episode 7 - Catching Up Did you know that the Left POCket Project was not just a podcast? In this episode, Wendi Muse, creator of the Left POCket Project, talks about the origins and purpose of the project and how she sees it evolving in the future. She also talks about the connections between her own research, her frustration over Election 2016, and the Left POCket Project. Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone Photo: Kathleen Cleaver, former Black Pan...
Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words
January 08, 2018 22:29 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words, a conversation w/Yasmina Price & Jazz Hooks Follow AFROSOC, the Afro-Socialist & Socialists of Color Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, here: Twitter: @AFROSOCDSA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AFROSOCDSA/ --- Music: Intro: Michael Salamone, "My Life as a Video Game" Outro: WBEEZA, "Laying Here" --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project! Interact: twitter: @leftpoc facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc ...
Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly
January 01, 2018 22:19 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly Suggested Reading Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72 Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935) Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970) Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the...
Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/@sansdn
December 19, 2017 03:27 - 1 hour - 80.1 MBLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/ Sangeetha Sudharshan (@sansdn) music: "Hot Mess" by Logophilia
Left POCket Project - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ Guest Lauren Lefty
December 11, 2017 08:33 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ guest Lauren Lefty Intro music: "Mastica, Chupa y Jala" by Ghetto Brothers Outro music: "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" by Ghetto Brothers (music & suggested reading list by Lauren Lefty) --- Suggested Reading Academic Literature on Puerto Rico and its Diaspora: Lorrin Thomas. Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City Virginia Sánchez Korrol. From Colonia to Community: Th...
Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 2 - Is Africa an Afterthought? w/@ztsamudzi & @HalfAtlanta
December 01, 2017 00:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBLeft POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta) Resources regarding this episode: “Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016) http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/ “Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017) http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the...
Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 1- Introduction
November 27, 2017 22:58 - 2 minutes - 2.7 MBLeft POCket Project - Episode 1 - Introduction Music: "Thinking Back" by Kraak & Smaak Follow the Left POCket Project on Twitter: @leftpoc Follow the Left POCket Project on Facebook: www.facebook.com/leftpoc Support the Left POCket Project on Patreon: www.patreon.com/leftpoc