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As we start up the podcast again, we are posting this episode we had stored in our files to clear them for the episodes coming out this weekend. This is Social Report. A weekly series where we cover different social issues in america. This podcast has people from different points on the political spectrum from moderate to leftist. We hope that this allows for critical discussion and clear presentation of ideas that allows viewers to learn about topics and formulate their own ideas. This week Aadi and Alejandro go over some flaws of the criminal justice system highlighted in The New Jim Crow, Are Prison's Obsolete?, and Punishment Bureaucracy . Link to all readings- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a_jbWyfrS_-wB0kY1iu5Rc5NpogkUcVR?usp=sharing **Look at the top of the website to find a link to actions to take from home to support BLM***

**Note** While we are making this new podcast, we would appreciate feedback from y'all as well as questions so that we can make the podcast and learning experience better. Welcome to Theory for praxis! A weekly series where we sit down and discuss some academic works in hopes that those theories help inform your activism, organizing, or every day actions. Any theoretical discussion we do will always be tied back to concrete examples to help you understand and conceptualize these theories in everyday life. This week Aadi conducts a solo episode discussing Marx and his theory of history. David Harvey- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P65CGgHWx6sRV9xlwMFGWyQFCPJaeg8Z/view?usp=sharing The German Ideology- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mFRY9CcLhLzHvwLxjLQ0sAW-bEaxFGYf/view?usp=sharing

**NOTE** We apologize for the audio quality in this episode moving forward it will be fixed. This is Social Report. A weekly series where we cover different social issues in america. This podcast has people from political points on the political spectrum from moderates to leftist. We hope that this allows for critical discussion and clear presentation of ideas that allows viewers to learn about topics and formulate their own ideas. This week Aadi and Alejandro talk about the Black Lives Matter Movement and CHAZ. CHAZ demands- https://en.as.com/en/2020/06/12/other_sports/1591985502_814148.html The New Jim Crow and Are Prisons Obsolete?- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a_jbWyfrS_-wB0kY1iu5Rc5NpogkUcVR?usp=sharing Burn it Down: Abolition, Insurgent Political Praxis, and the Destruction of Decency- https://abolitionjournal.org/burn-it-down/

This is the first episode of Theory For Praxis, a weekly series where we sit down and discuss some academic works in hopes that those theories help inform your activism, organizing, or every day actions. Join us this week as Aadi and Alejandro look at the State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben to try and understand the current issues with policing and the rise of a police state in America. State of Exception- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nL1B_wRE37xqAn5_IBZbI42nJvCeF8as/view?usp=sharing List of actions- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N64uzvqB2FsfylBfVPVCDHMHLDaOMlFJrMQP1McXfaw/edit?usp=sharing