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Find me and the show on social media @DrWilmerLeon on X (Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube Our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd   TRANSCRIPT: Announcer (00:37): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Dr Wilmer Leon (00:45): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon and I am Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they occur in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode, my guests and I will have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between the current events and the broader historic context in which the events take place. This will enable you to better understand and analyze these events that impact the global village in which we live. On today's episode, the issue is the Guardian and other outlets have reported that the Biden campaign has decided to jumpstart its 2024 reelection by highlighting what they perceive to be a sharp contrast with former President Trump ailing in opinion polls. Biden has decided to jumpstart this campaign with events designed to symbolize the fight for democracy and racial justice against Trump. So the question is, what are Americans to do in a 2024 election when many of them don't have faith in the process and or the system? Well, for run insight into this, let's turn to my guest. He's a scholar and activist. He's an expert in WEB Du Bois, one of the most cited Du Bois scholars in the world. He's an organizer with the Philadelphia Saturday Free School. He's Dr. Anthony Montero. Tony, welcome to Connecting the Dots podcast. Dr Anthony Monteiro (02:31): Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here Dr Wilmer Leon (02:32): With you. And let's do this as a first point here, just a little data. Joe Biden's job approval. This is according to real clear politics, 40% approve, 56% disapprove. That's a negative, almost 16 rating direction of the country. Is the country headed in the right direction? About 24% say right direction, 67% say wrong direction. It's about a negative 42% spread. Tony, your thoughts on where we are right now as we look towards November of 2024? Dr Anthony Monteiro (03:30): Well, I think we have to start with the polling numbers. Over the last, almost five months now from reputable polling companies, Biden has been losing to Trump and his favorable numbers have been in decline. In fact, in many respects, Biden's approval numbers are below 40%. The real clear politics numbers are an average. Dr Wilmer Leon (04:13): Yeah, that's an aggregator. Yes, Dr Anthony Monteiro (04:15): That's right. But I think for the most part, for the most credible polls, we're continuing to see Biden in the mid thirties. This is unprecedented for a sitting president at this stage of a campaign, Dr Wilmer Leon (04:36): Not only in the mid thirties, but heading south. He's, and no pun intended as it relates to the border, but as they would say on the corner, he's hustling backwards. Dr Anthony Monteiro (04:50): Oh, yeah. There's no question this is unprecedented. I don't think this has ever been seen in the modern history of polling presidents and their attempts at reelection. I think what the public is saying is that we don't trust Biden. His presidency has failed. Inflation is still hitting working people in the lower middle class, very hard. The jobs that they are counting as showing a vibrant economy are in many cases, gig jobs, jobs without benefits, jobs without security, and in many cases at the lower end of the minimum wage. So Dr Wilmer Leon (06:00): In fact, hang on to that point because one of the things, the misnomers that people have about these employment or job numbers is that they equate job to one person working, one person, working one job. But in this gig economy, what that now means is in many instances you have one person working multiple jobs just to remain poor When you were growing up, when I was growing up, we heard these job numbers and they usually meant one person, one job. That's no longer the case. But they don't factor that into their analysis, particularly as they're explaining these numbers to the people. So when you hear, oh, unemployment down to 3.5%, there are also a lot of other factors that go into this that don't reflect a strong economy. What they reflect is a middle class, a working class in a poor group of people that are struggling to get by. Dr Anthony Monteiro (07:23): There's no question about it. And people are saying to pollsters what you, and I know that the majority of working people, the majority of the lower middle class, are not doing good at all. People cannot afford food. And that is where the rubber meets the road, where you go to the supermarket and try to buy eggs and milk and cereal and other things that you need. And there you discover that inflation is as bad as it's ever been while there's some relief at the gas pump. But when it comes to feeding your family, things are not good when it comes to paying rent or renting an apartment. Things are bad when it comes to getting a mortgage. You can almost forget that. So the Biden campaign, who in the spring and summer of last year said they're going to run on omics until they realized that that was a sure enough loser because Biden had produced an economy which was austerity for the majority and good times and big profits for the billionaire class reflecting the fact that inequality is greater now perhaps than at any time in the last 80 years. This is a serious situation for the people. And when people say that the country is moving in the wrong direction, forgive me when 70% of them say that what they are saying is things don't look good for them and things look even worse for their children and grandchildren, that is where we're at going into perhaps the most consequential election in the modern history of the United States. Dr Wilmer Leon (09:39): In fact, to that point, there have been studies and reports out recently indicating that the American dream is dying. I want to say, and I might be slightly off on my numbers, but the point is valid, that polling those who were born in 1940, almost 90% of those born in 1940 are now doing better than their parents were able to do those born in 1980, only 50% of those polled were able to say that they're doing better than their parents did. That tells us that the American dream is dying. You mentioned last year Biden wanted to run on omics, and I have to now wonder if it's been determined that omics is no more than voodoo economics, a La George HW Bush referring to Reagan's plan. So we're talking voodoo economics 4.0. Dr Anthony Monteiro (10:47): Yeah, we're looking at something like that. But we're looking at the fact that the Biden administration and the Biden campaign have no way to achieve narrative hegemony. That is, they thought that given the fact that most of the corporate media or all of the corporate media would be a propaganda arm of the Biden administration and of his reelection campaign, and given that elites, for example, university professors, politicians, part of the religious community, certain labor leaders or most labor leaders would all be on their side, that they would be able to achieve narrative hegemony, by which I mean that what they were putting forward would dominant over what their opposition would try to put forward. So the narrative would be controlled by the Biden campaign. That has not happened, and the reason it has not happened is that the nation is in a profound crisis of legitimacy where no matter what Biden says, the results will be the same in terms of the majority of people. They don't trust Biden, they don't trust insiders. They don't trust elites. Be they university professors or presidents, be they politicians, be they church leaders, be they labor leaders, be they military leaders. People do not trust the institutions and those who lead them in this country, and therefore this point (13:02) People will vote against rather than vote for necessarily. People. I think in November, and this will gather momentum throughout this year, will kind of set into a mindset that says anybody, but those who are currently in the highest office of the country, they will vote against Biden. Biden will not be able to dig out of the hole that he's in. So I would predict that in November we will have a new president, and not just a new president, but the nation will enter upon in this year a political realignment, the likes of which we have not seen since the Franklin Roosevelt years in the presidency. Dr Wilmer Leon (14:13): I wanted to throw out one more data point on the food issue because we have been seeing stories on local media affiliates about the rise of retail theft in this country, and we've been seeing the flash mobs that run into the high-end stores and steal Gucci bags and all kind of stuff. But what's not being reported as much is theft of retail in grocery stores, people stealing food and the guardian in the UK has us to the international implications of this, Brits stealing food to sell on the black market. The UK's cost of living crisis is fueling a record surge in shoplifting as people increasingly turn to black to the black market for food, the items most commonly stolen are meat, cheese, and sweets, because those are the items that can be stolen in large quantities and can be sold on the black market. So I wanted to make that demonstrate that point to show that it's not only happening here in the United States, it's also happening to some of the US allies that are blindly following the United States down this perilous rabbit hole. And you mentioned as a fellow political scientist, we were taught people tend not to vote against things. They vote for things, but in this instance, the script is being flipped because things are so bad. That's why Biden can't run on his record. He's got to run on, I'm not Trump a negative message trying to convince people to vote against something. And so I just wanted to, oh, final point. I don't think Biden's going to be on the ticket. Dr Anthony Monteiro (16:20): Yeah, why do you say that? I think that's a possibility. But why do you say it? Dr Wilmer Leon (16:24): I say that because the numbers are so bad. I don't understand how anybody in the Democrat party elite can look at these numbers and think they've got a winning ticket. That's one point. No, Dr Anthony Monteiro (16:44): That's fine. Dr Wilmer Leon (16:45): When you're at 35% approval rating, that means that you got 65% of people that disapprove. That's a losing bet. And also with his cognitive decline, I don't see, look, they're not having any debates in the primaries. They're not having any debates. They're not allowing any Democrat challengers to challenge him. And they've also come out now and said they may not even participate in the general election debates because they know that he cannot stand on a stage unscripted for 45 minutes and engage in combat, in intellectual combat. He can't do it. I don't see him on the ticket. Dr Anthony Monteiro (17:34): Well, I would agree with you, and I think given what you just said, there's a big irony here. The Democrats are shutting down all the primary opponents for Joe Biden, even though those opponents, Marian Williams and the other guy are doing abysmally poorly. I mean there's no way they can win, but the Democrats don't even want to have a public debate with those people. So they're shutting down democracy in the name of democracy of Dr Wilmer Leon (18:16): Democracy Dr Anthony Monteiro (18:18): And the claim that Trump is a threat to our democracy, when in fact what we see is that the Biden campaign is pursuing a campaign that is anti-democratic in the primaries and in the general election and supports. This is what is also interesting, supports the two states that have already kicked Biden off the ballot and the Trump Dr Wilmer Leon (18:53): Kicked Trump off Dr Anthony Monteiro (18:54): The ballot, Trump off the ballot, forgive me, and the 17 others that have legal suits that have been filed to put him off the ballot. So here we have in the name of democracy, perhaps the most anti-democratic campaign in our history. Dr Wilmer Leon (19:20): You mentioned people not trusting in the, well, I mentioned people not trusting in the system. You mentioned that as well, and I really want people to understand this conversation is not an antibi conversation. It's not an anti or pro-Trump conversation. We're social scientists and we're looking at the data, and Pew Research Center has a poll out from September of 23, public trust in government from 1958 to 2023, public trust in the federal government, which has been low for decades, has returned to mere record lows following a modest uptick up through 21. Currently fewer than two in 10 Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right. That's the data. That's not my opinion. That's not your opinion. That's the data. So I just wanted to throw out that data point. So the people listening to this saying, oh, these guys are going into this antibi conversation. No, Dr Anthony Monteiro (20:32): We're Dr Wilmer Leon (20:33): Just giving you the numbers. Dr Anthony Monteiro (20:35): And to your point about Biden not being on the ticket by the time of the Democratic National Convention. Dr Wilmer Leon (20:45): Now that is my opinion, but Dr Anthony Monteiro (20:47): Yeah, that's my opinion. But you have leading figures in the Democratic party calling for Biden to step aside. They're usually saying on the basis of age, but they're also saying more than that when they're not speaking publicly. A lot of this is coming from the Obama wing of the Democratic establishment. As you know, the Biden wing, which is also the Hillary Clinton wing is the most powerful side of this. However, the Obama people, especially Axelrod and probably some others have come Dr Wilmer Leon (21:41): Out. David Ignatius, Dr Anthony Monteiro (21:43): David Ignatius. Well, definitely I would say, but I would say he's not with the Obama wing. Oh, Dr Wilmer Leon (21:48): No, no, but no, I was just saying he wrote, he came out before Axelrod Dr Anthony Monteiro (21:53): Did. That's right. That's right. And so these figures are saying Biden can't win. Robert Kagan who writes mainly on foreign policy is saying that for the sake of national security, Biden should step aside and allow a more capable Democrat to challenge Trump. But the thing is, the question is will Biden do it and can he do it? What do they do? Who do they turn to if Biden is not the candidate? Kamala Harris, certainly not. No, I just don't. I mean maybe the governor of California, but besides winning California, which Democrats will win anyway, what does he bring to the conversation and to the contest for the presidency? I just don't think they have an alternative to Biden. They're going to have to go with him, come hell or high water. And that is the paradox, the dilemma of the Democratic Party at this moment. (23:17) And to add more hurt to the situation with the war in Gaza and people looking at babies and children and mothers being bombed, Biden has now lost the youth vote. Trump is leading him by six percentage points among young people. I don't know when in recent history a Republican has won the youth vote, maybe Reagan, but Democrats almost could take young people as a part of their coalition, and now they are bleeding. Black voters, especially black male voters who I contend are the angriest part of the electorate, the most alienated, the most angry. And those who say, for example, if you are in the barbershop, you might hear the conversation where one of the people says, I am for anybody except Biden, and I'm for the one that the Biden people and the establishment hate the most. If Biden hates them, I can see a path to aligning or voting for them. Dr Wilmer Leon (24:55): You mentioned who do the Democrats turn to in a baseball analogy? I will say they got no arms in the bullpen. They're calling the bullpen and nobody's answering the phone. But I think the only options they have are Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan. And I'm not saying that this is a winning ticket. What I'm saying is any port in a storm, and they don't have many options here. Gavin Newsom is young. Gavin Newsom is white. Gavin Newsom looks great in a suit, and he's the governor of California. (25:49) So let me say he checks off those boxes. Gretchen Whitmer is young, white female, fairly attractive, and the governor of Michigan, which is a state they can't afford to lose. And right now to your point, based upon Biden's approach to the genocide and Gaza, they've alienated African-Americans in Michigan. They've alienated Arabs in Michigan. So by putting Gretchen Whitmer on the ticket that might enable them to salvage Michigan, and by throwing Kamala Harris overboard because she's a big fat zero, by putting another female on the ticket, they may be able to offset some of that ire from females or from women who are angry about Kamala being jettison. So I'm not saying it's going to win. When I look at the options, when you have no options, that's your only option. Dr Anthony Monteiro (27:00): It's a desperate situation. And then you got Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And Cornell West, and who knows who else. If there's a no labels candidate like Joe Manchin or the former governor of Maryland and they're nipping at Biden's coattails, head up, Biden Trump, it gets close. But if you throw these independents in there, Trump goes ahead. It seems like the independents take more from Biden than they do from Trump. Trump. It's a very desperate situation for Biden and the elite of the ruling class, the ruling elite, they have no answers. It's just all over the place. The president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haes, went so far as to say the greatest threat to America's national security is not Russia or China. It's the rebellion of the people here at home who are against war, who are against war spending when there is not hardly enough being done for the people here and who are angry about open borders. I mean, it's a situation that I don't admire the people who have to live it and have to try to work through it. It's a lose lose situation, I think for the Democrats. Dr Wilmer Leon (28:48): I want to mention one more name, and we mentioned Kamala Harris, and so there are those who are listening that they're saying, wait a minute, why are y'all saying they're going to throw her overboard? Well, as the sous chef of the word salad, I don't know that Kamala Harris brings anything of substance to the game. She had to leave the campaign early and she didn't even make it to the first debate. Well, she did make it to the first debate, but she didn't make it to any primaries. She couldn't get 1% of the vote. So again, folks, this ain't anti Kamala. I'm looking at the numbers and the African-American community didn't want her. Why is the nation going to want her again, sous chef for the word salad? I don't see it. But you were also talking about people, black males and others voting for Trump. How much of this do you think will be actually people crossing over party lines versus people just deciding to stay home as a friend of mine says they're going to stay home and rake leaves, they're not going to turn out to vote. Dr Anthony Monteiro (30:17): Well, we see it here in Philadelphia. We just went through a mayoral election, the Democratic primary, which is the major election that chooses the mayor because the city is so overwhelmingly democratic and the leading candidate, one of the two or three leading candidates was a black woman. And in spite of that, 75% of registered black voters did not turn out when it got to the general election where her victory was more or less guaranteed. Again, only about 25 or 26% of registered black voters turned out, and this is for black woman, which would've made her the first black woman mayor in Philadelphia. Most black voters didn't see it as a historic opportunity to do anything. But that is prologue for what will happen in this November, black Philadelphia whose turnout decides which way the state of Pennsylvania goes in presidential elections, I would suggest to you will not turn out inadequate numbers to deliver Pennsylvania, which is a major battleground state to Biden. (31:52) They are fed up, they're tired, and in fact, they're sick and tired of being used by Democrats who once the election is over, look the other way, in fact run in the opposite direction from the black community and so on. All of the issues that people are concerned about in their day-to-day life, the Democrats who run this city have done horribly for people. And the separation between the Democratic party elite and politicians and the masses of black people who regularly vote overwhelmingly for Democrats is so wide that the way I see it right now, Biden would have a very difficult time winning the state of Pennsylvania. Dr Wilmer Leon (32:57): What do you think about the discussion that if in fact he loses or whoever they decide to put on the ticket does not prevail, they're going to blame black people for failing to turn out? We're seeing a number of articles. There was a New York Times article, black voters shift to Trump, why black, Latino and Asian voters are leaving the Democratic Party as black voters drift to Trump. Biden's allies say they have work to do. Some black men lose faith in Biden and Democrats In 2024, I remember the Hillary Clinton campaign, and when she lost, there were many and many African-Americans and African-American women of Democratic note that were coming out and saying we did not turn out. Therefore, we got stuck with Trump never taking into account that Hillary Clinton ran a horrific campaign in Philadelphia. She ran a horrific campaign. She didn't campaign in Michigan. She rolled out Barack Obama the last two or three days of the election, just as my older brother would say, just felony stupid kind of things, but then turned around and blamed us. Your thoughts, Dr Anthony Monteiro (34:32): My is so what I mean the blame game is going to be played however the election goes. And I think as a black man, most black men don't care anymore who blames us for whatever. We are the most politically alienated group in the electorate. We feel that we have nothing to lose by abandoning the Democratic party, which most black men feel, especially as you hit into the working class and the working poor, most black men feel that we have gotten nothing from the Democratic party. And let me tell you another thing, black men have a longer memory than people give us credit for. We haven't forgotten the crime Bill of 1994 and Joe Biden being the major spokesman for it publicly and in the Senate. So we haven't forgotten that. We haven't forgotten mass incarceration. We haven't forgotten the unequal treatment that black men experience in every sphere of social life in this country. There is deep resentment among black men. Polls can't fully detect and explain what black men feel, but it's a deep resentment and a sense of betrayal. So I think black men, no matter what elites say, don't care anymore. Dr Wilmer Leon (36:29): So now the Biden administration has decided that they're going to, they're going to retool. They're going to talk about democracy and saving democracy when in fact, not having democratic primaries, not allowing candidates on the ballot to run against Joe Biden not having debates is anti-democratic. So they want to save democracy by being anti-democratic. Help me understand that. But people also don't, probably many never knew and don't remember that after the 2020 election, Joe Biden was basically forced to have a meeting with African-American leadership, those that were responsible for putting him over the top. It was probably about 10 days, maybe two weeks after his inauguration that they finally got him into the room. And the readout from the meeting was that he was so disrespectful to the members of leadership that Reverend Sharpton and so many others, mignon Moore and all of these black Democrats begged him for the meeting. He comes to the meeting and I think it was a teleconference that they had or a Zoom meeting, and folks had to pull his coat and say, Hey, man. Instead of the leadership hanging up on him saying, Hey, dude, you talking to the wrong people, they, of course, they went ahead and took the whipping, but just another data point. So now they want to come out and talk about saving democracy and racism under Donald Trump, Dr Anthony Monteiro (38:27): Why people are not going to buy it. The whole country is in a state of protest against the establishment. I don't think people understand this very well. A crisis of legitimacy means that the people do not accept the leaders of the society. And that means in universities, it means politicians, it means journalists. It means wherever a dominant elite figures run things, people reject them, soundly reject them. I always mention the Italian revolutionary, Antonio Gramsci who said from a prison cell where he was confined by Benito Mussolini, the fascist leader of Italy in the 1930s, Graham, she said, the old is dying and the new cannot yet be born. I think in this country we see that the old system of political rule of the organization of political power is dying. However, I do see that the new is being born and it's from the bottom up, not from the top down. (40:03) And if you are a black leader who is connected to white elites, black folks see you as much illegitimate as the white power structure. They don't see a difference between the black leadership class as it is now called and the white establishment. So black people do not generally protest blacks in high spaces being fired by whites that control those spaces because they don't see those people as black in the sense of standing up for ordinary black people. So what is the end goal? What is the objective of this logic? It is a profound political realignment of the country. You see it in the labor movement. Labor leaders take one position and all the workers in those unions vote in the opposite way. Not all, but the majority of them vote opposite to what the leaders say or how the leaders say they should vote. That is a crisis of leadership, a crisis of legitimacy. (41:32) The same true in the black community. Most black leaders, the overwhelming majority of so-called black leaders are going to come out and say to black people, we should vote for Biden. I would say a huge part of the black electorate will not vote, and a considerable part of the black electorate will vote for Trump or one of the independent candidates, either Cornell West or JFK Jr or whoever else is out there. They're in rebellion, in the labor movement, in the black community, in the Mexican and Hispanic communities. There's a rebellion against the established order and the elites can't rule. They're not trusted. We have not seen this. We have not seen this, I don't know, even in the time of the Civil War, if it got this bad. Now, desperate times often produces desperate measures. Let's hope that the elites, especially those institutionalized in the deep state, don't attempt to do anything crazy like a provocation that could be used to justify calling the election off or a provocation that could lead to a major war, let us say with Iran or something serious with China where they could declare a national emergency and say that if Biden does not remain in office, the nation faces a foreign threat that could undermine our nation. (43:47) I don't rule any of that out. I think the easy way would be to remove Biden and put somebody else as the candidate. But that does not guarantee very much Gavin Newsom or anyone else might not do as well as Biden can do, even though they look good in a suit. But I think it's a more than desperate situation. It is an existential and a systemic crisis for the ruling elite for the political order as we have known it. And so Biden and knows who are the elites. The Democratic party is the party of elites. In fact, the two parties are almost the direct opposite of what they were 50 years ago where the Democrats were a party of black people in the working class and women and so on. Now, it is becoming the opposite that the Democratic Party is the party of the rich. (44:57) It is the richest party, the most wealthy party perhaps in human history. There's nothing like it. Whereas the Republicans have become what the Democrats were. And so it is a deep undoing of what was and the possible replacement with something that we have not seen since The Great Depression in Franklin Roosevelt. His administration was the result of a political realignment, and his presidency redefined what the Democratic Party was leading to John F. Kennedy. And finally, the alignment of the Democratic Party with the Civil rights movement. That was the last time we saw anything like this. But we are coming close to that happening similarly in this period, Dr Wilmer Leon (46:07): And you mentioned Black Elite coming out and telling African-Americans that they need to vote for the Democratic party, and let's unpack quickly what they're advocating that we vote for. They're advocating that we spend more money in Ukraine, that we waste more money in Ukraine, that we pay for the salaries of Ukrainian civil servants, that we pay for the retirement plans of Ukrainian civil servants that we pay for the healthcare for Ukrainians. We don't have those things here. That's when the Black Caucus votes in favor of this funding. This is what they're voting for. They're voting for us to send more weapons to commit genocide in Gaza. Your taxpayer dollars are paying for genocide. It's paying to try their damnedest to start a fight with China. We haven't won a fight since 1953. Dr Anthony Monteiro (47:23): Yeah, that's true. Dr Wilmer Leon (47:24): Unless you want to throw in Grenada and Panama. Dr Anthony Monteiro (47:31): Yeah, I think we won that, right? Maybe you could throw Iraq in there. No, Dr Wilmer Leon (47:38): That was an ass whooping too. Dr Anthony Monteiro (47:40): Oh, I didn't know that. I was going to say I wouldn't include Korea in there because that was a standoff. Dr Wilmer Leon (47:47): That fight still hasn't ended. Dr Anthony Monteiro (47:49): Yeah, that's right. Dr Wilmer Leon (47:51): So you mentioned Gramsci. I'll mention Fred Hampton as he said. That's why we come up with answers that don't answer explanations, that don't explain, and you come up with conclusions that don't conclude. When you have members of the caucus that want to convince black people that we need to pay Kenya to invade Haiti, these are the things that they are advocating that we do. And how do I know that? Because that's the stuff they voted for. Again, you just got to look at the data, Dr. Montero. Dr Anthony Monteiro (48:33): Well, of course, and I think, well, we've been talking about these matters for a long time. In a sense, the majority of black people have caught up to where we have been, and they don't trust the Black Congressional Caucus. They might sometimes trust their individual Congress person, but not the caucus, not the Congress Dr Wilmer Leon (49:05): As a body, Dr Anthony Monteiro (49:06): As a body. That's what I'm saying. Right. And certainly the more they learn about their individual Congress person, the less they will trust them. And you are right. Black people have returned after the Obama years to our historic position of being anti-war and anti-military spending, and most in the Congressional Black Caucus are big military spenders. They are big spenders on aid to Ukraine and now to the genocide in Gaza. Well, some people say that the Jewish lobby or better the Israeli lobby in the United States controls the Congressional Black Caucus and many of the mayors, black mayors in the United States, for example, the one in New York and the one here in Philadelphia who are embarrassments given the historic peace attitude, anti-war attitude of black folk. Dr Wilmer Leon (50:20): So really quickly to that point, help me with what I perceive to be hypocrisy here. We get our shorts all in a bunch when Russia is tampering with our election and our hair gets set on fire. China is tampering with our election, but somehow the Israeli lobby can spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying votes and influencing electoral outcomes at the state and local level. I see that as being somewhat hypocritical. Dr. Montero, what Say you? Dr Anthony Monteiro (50:59): I agree with you, Dr. It's profoundly hypocritical, but isn't that what American politics has descended into where money talks? The Congress for the most part, is bought and paid for, and it is really a grotesque thing for we black people to look at black elected officials who overwhelmingly are elected because of the black voter, and we have to be for real about it. We didn't actually, as a people have the vote until 1965, and now the people who have benefited from the struggle for voting rights and benefited from black people voting in hope, that by putting black people in high places, some things can change. We are now looking at, as you say, a hypocritical group of opportunist who dance to the piper that pays the most. Dr Wilmer Leon (52:18): That's why I called it. I wrote a piece called The Dangers of Menstrual Diplomacy. Dr Anthony Monteiro (52:24): I saw that. Yes. Dr Wilmer Leon (52:25): Because it's basically a black face on white folks foolishness. Dr Anthony Monteiro (52:31): That's right. Dr Wilmer Leon (52:32): Really quickly shifting gears are what has happened with the resignation of Harvard's president, Charlene Gay, and I bring that up because she's one of a few that have lost their positions recently. Do you see this as an attack on free speech? Do you see this as an attack on intellectualism at the academic level? Dr Anthony Monteiro (53:06): Well, yes, but it did not start with the president of Harvard or the president of the University of Pennsylvania or of MIT or the faculty at Cornell University or wherever. The universities, especially the elite ones, had been captured by the billionaire class some time ago. If you were looking for freedom of speech, maybe the last place that you should have gone would've been to a university. The professoriate has literally been subdued, silenced. They know how to keep their mouth shut, and they know that if they speak out on issues, they shouldn't speak out on the Palestinian cause, that they will be fired and driven out of the university and driven into poverty. Now as to the first black president of Harvard University, she wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, and in it, she drew attention to the fact that what she was going through was much larger than her and much larger than Harvard University. (54:40) And it was a matter of speech and the rights of students to speak as well as the rights of faculty. But I cannot believe that she did not know what she was getting herself into when she was made the president of Harvard, she had been around Harvard for some years. She knew, for example, that Cornell West was denied tenure while she was there. She wasn't president, but she was in the administration. Cornell West was denied tenure because of his views on Palestine. You knew that. So why is it all right to reduce Cornell West and to diminish him as a scholar and a public intellectual? And nothing is said by most of the black faculty, if not all of the black faculty and administration at Harvard, but suddenly, when it happens to you, it's something that we should all rise up and be concerned about. No, Harvard had done away with effective free speech several decades ago. The American University is a scandal of corruption, of money controlling what goes on of professors and departments being bought. It's a scandal. So yes, she is right. It is an attack upon free speech. But has it been free speech any of the time that Professor Gay has been at Harvard? I don't think so, Dr Wilmer Leon (56:49): And I go back to the George W. Bush administration. When Dick Cheney was vice president, his wife Liz, was one of those crusaders against liberal thought in academia, and I can't remember whether it was the Heritage Foundation that she was part of, but she led a crusade across this country getting what they deemed to be progressive thinking academics removed from their institution. So this goes back quite a while. Dr Anthony Monteiro (57:32): Yeah, no, when you said his wife, I think that's his daughter, Dr Wilmer Leon (57:36): Liz. His daughter is Lynn. Dr Anthony Monteiro (57:39): Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Well, Dr Wilmer Leon (57:41): Either way. Either way. It's either Lynn or Liz. Dr Anthony Monteiro (57:44): Yeah, Lynn or Liz. Okay. Dr Wilmer Leon (57:46): One of the Dr Anthony Monteiro (57:46): Two. I recall that very vividly. I know I had a situation at Temple University where what I stood for and the speech that I was trying to defend was not acceptable. Dr Wilmer Leon (58:05): Lynn Cheney, you're right. It's Lynn Cheney. Dr Anthony Monteiro (58:08): Yeah. It was not acceptable to the head of the department, and so I was fired. So this is not new. I'm saying to those who are now saying, well, I'm a victim because it happened to me. Well, why were you silent when it was happening to other people? Dr Wilmer Leon (58:30): It happened to me too. Dr Anthony Monteiro (58:32): Yeah, it happened to you too at a historically black college to show you that it does not end at the color line. And black people have learned well from white people how to silence, freedom of speech. But yeah, the American University has to be remade. It is a corrupt enterprise. It is a billionaire's playground. Universities are more interested in gentrification and building up their endowments than they are with educating students educat or discovering new truths. I think there was a recent article in one of the major newspapers, the New York Times, Washington Post or somewhere that said that at Yale University, everybody is given an A one. It's less work for the professors. They don't have to grade papers and so on, and everybody walks away happy. And so we find at universities this transactional relationship between professors and students. Students say, I'm going into debt to get a degree at a university, and the professor work for me, and you must give me what I want because I'm paying for an A or high grade. (01:00:03) I read someone somewhere where Professor said that, well, I gave a student an A, and they came to him. The student came to him and said, well, why didn't you give me credit for that outside presentation I gave? He said, because we don't give a pluses. Well, you could have made an exception. In my case, it's just that bad. And professor Gay, I think there's the other question of her scholarship and whether she plagiarized, and I think the university has acknowledged, or the committee that was looking into it, acknowledge that in fact, plagiarism did occur, but let's keep it real. That's normal in the academy where careers and tenure are the most important thing. So a professor might write on a very obscure matter that is published in a relatively obscure journal, which claims to be peer review and use that obscure article, which may be plagiarized for tenure. (01:01:27) And so the question is, what is going on among elites? Let's be real. The president of Harvard is part of the elite class. Professor Gay, as was the case with the president of the University of Pennsylvania, got caught up in elite conflict having to do with the question of Israel and Zionism, and whether or not Jews are a protected group, who stand above society and whose interest have to be defended. Even if in defending the rights of Jews and Zionists, you violate the right to freedom of speech of students and professors. That's what they got caught up in and that's what brought them down. Dr Wilmer Leon (01:02:36): And by defending that, you also are defending genocide. Dr Anthony Monteiro (01:02:39): Yes. Oh, no question. Dr Wilmer Leon (01:02:41): You mentioned plagiarism. Well, Joe Biden has plagiarized. He became president, so that seems to be the order of the day. Professor, Dr. Anthony Montero, my brother, thank you so much for your time. I greatly, greatly appreciate you joining me today, Anthony Montero Dr Anthony Monteiro (01:03:06): And thank you and good luck with your podcast Will. Dr Wilmer Leon (01:03:09): Amen. With interviews with brothers like you, this is nothing but success. I got to thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Woman Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. I'll see you again next time. Until then, I'm Dr. Wier Leon. Have a good one. Remember, folks, that this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history, converge talk without analysis is just chatter. We don't chatter on connecting the dots. Peace. I'm out  

On this special back-to-school episode of SPS, Pamela & Laurie discuss the recent Russell Brand controversy. Brand has been in the news lately, under some heat, as a result of public allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. We take this up in the context of the ongoing sex panic and the ongoing transformation of feminism after #metoo, which leads us to discuss the Barbie movie. On the second part of the episode, our members Evan and the current president of Platypus, Erin, sit down with Benjamin Studebaker, the author of the recently published book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut (2023). Studebaker explains that the crisis of American democracy is deeply embedded in the America economic system, and develops a theory of “legitimacy crisis”. They take this up in their interview and ask some questions about the current state of American politics as well as his formulations of the ends of a Left political movement. We hope you enjoy this expanded edition of SPS, if you like it, leave us a comment and maybe you'll find more of these longer episodes in the future. If you like the podcast share it and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, it helps us get the word out about the pod. Links: - System Update w/ Glenn Greenwald: “New Russell Brand Accusations Deserve Scrutiny & Due Process; Yoel Roth Wails Over Censorship-Regime Backlash; & 4 Republicans Demand Insane Ukraine Escalation” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-russell-brand-accusations-deserve-scrutiny-due/id1669610956?i=1000628426173 -Benjamin Studebaker, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut (2023) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28210-2 - “What is Marxism for?” A Panel with Benjamin Studebaker, Donald Parkinson, James Heartfield, and Chris Cutrone, PR# 153 (February 2023) https://platypus1917.org/2023/02/01/what-is-marxism-for/ - “Marxism and liberalism” A Panel with James Heartfield, Spencer Leonard, Anthony Monteiro, and Benjamin Studebaker, PR #150 (October 2022) https://platypus1917.org/2022/10/01/marxism-and-liberalism-2/ Original soundtracks by Tamas Vilaghy Editing work by Michael Woodson

This is part one of a two part conversation with Joshua Myers on his latest book Of Black Study.  In Of Black Study Joshua Myers examines the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson as well as June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, and what each contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge.  In this part of our two conversation on this book, Professor Myers talks about the selection of the six thinkers he centers the book around, and the type of project he is engaged in with the text. We also spend about an hour talking about two of the books chapters, the one centered around the interventions of W.E.B. Du Bois and Sylvia Wynter, as well as looking at each of their relationships to Marxist thought and analytical approaches, and their relationships to science, the humanities and academic disciplinary traditions. As well as what each of them finds among the Black masses and how what they finds there influences their work. Of Black Study is a new release from the Black Critique series on Pluto Press. This is our third conversation with Joshua Myers, both of our previous two have been discussions centered around Cedric Robinson. We have also done a number of discussions with authors and editors of the Black Critique series over the years, including discussions with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Bedour Alagraa, David Austin, and Michael Sawyer (links below). We strongly recommend this book, for anyone interested in Black Study and/or the critical interventions of the thinkers the book focuses on. It is an indispensable resource. it officially comes out later this week, but you can pre-order your copy now through Pluto Press or through our comrades over at Massive Bookshop. If you pre-order from Massive, 20% of the proceeds go to fund the abolitionist organization Project NIA. We've received word that Pluto Press will also be donating copies of this book to all the participants in the incarcerated study group that we support in partnership with Massive Bookshop and Prisons Kill. So we want to send a big shout-out to Pluto Press and Joshua Myers for that as well.  Part two - which focuses primarily on Myers' chapters on Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson - will come out in the next couple of days.  As always if you like what we do, and want to support our ability to do it, you can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. We have a goal of adding 31 patrons this month and currently we're at 13, so we're still working towards that goal.  Our first interview with Joshua Myers (on Cedric Robinson) Our second interview with Joshua Myers (on his biography of Cedric Robinson) Greg Thomas's interview of Sylvia Wynter from Proud Flesh  From Cooperation to Black Operation (Transversal Texts conversation with Harney & Moten)  Bedour Alagraa's Interview with Sylvia Wynter “What Will Be The Cure?”  Our interviews with authors and editors of the Black Critique series  Beyond Prisons interviews with Dr. Anthony Monteiro (first interview, second interview)    

In this episode, Aaron is joined by Anthony Monteiro. They discuss the Black Radical Tradition in the context of US empire and capitalism. They focus especially on the towering figure of W.E.B. Dubois. After many years as university professor--mostly at Temple University--Monteiro continues to work as a scholar and activist at the Saturday Free School in Philadelphia and at Black Agenda Report. Check out Abby Martin's Empire Files episode: The Black Radical Tradition with Cornel West, Mumia Abu-Jamal  Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "East Side Song" by Mock Orange

It's a doubleheader on this week's Connected! We're talking about reconditioning and how dealers can get vehicles front-line ready faster with two special guests: Brad Schafer from ReconTRAC and Anthony Monteiro from DRAIVER. Dealers are facing several challenges when it comes to reconditioning and the pandemic has only made things worse. Find out what forward thinking dealerships are doing to adapt to the situation. https://home.recontrac.com/ https://www.draiver.com/

Caleb Maupin, journalist and political analyst, joins us to wrap up the important stories for the week. North Korea is working on strengthening its missile program in light of US aggression and threats. Also, the US is arguing that they need to work with the Europeans to retard China's innovative advancement in technology. Dr. Anthony Monteiro joins us to talk about the US empire and a potential 2024 presidential run by Donald Trump. Robert Kagan has penned an article in the Washington Post wherein he discusses whether the government can or should do anything to prevent a second Trump presidency. Also, we discuss whether the US empire is losing its power as the world's hegemonic force.Jack Rasmus, professor in economics and politics at St. Mary's College in California, joins us to discuss the economic stories for the week. President Biden has signed the bipartisan bill which has temporarily halted a government shutdown. Also, we discuss the weekly jobless rates and the battle between the left flank of the Democratic party and the corporate leaders of the organization.Niko House, political activist, independent journalist and podcaster, and Jim Kavanagh, writer at thepolemicist.net & CounterPunch and the author of "Danger to Society: Against Vaccine Passports," come together to talk politics. Mike Pompeo has tacitly admitted to the claims that he threatened the life of Julian Assange by arguing that those who leaked this claim should be prosecuted for revealing state secrets. Also, we discuss YouTube's blocking of Russia Today Germany, Israel's influence in US politics, and the arms industry's economic stranglehold on Congress.Ray Baker, political analyst and host of the podcast Public Agenda, and Scott Ritter, former UN weapon inspector in Iraq, join us to discuss this week's important news stories. President Biden recently rejected a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN in New York. Also, President Biden's approval rating is dropping among key voters, the battle is heating up between corporate Democrats and their left flank, and the US envoy to Haiti has resigned in protest.

In Episode 3 we give a recap of the Monday night NFL game, we talk about the Yankee's and their hot streak, we give our prediction for the Wild Card in the American League, we play a game of Pretendors and Contenders, and we give our prediction for the Thursday night game. We were joined by Anthony Monteiro.

Ted and Anthony discuss the success of Draiver's pick-up and delivery service and technology and the impact it has on improving the service customers' experience. They also discuss some unexpected benefits for the variable side of the business. This episode originally aired in June of 2021 at The Fixed Ops Roundtable® - The Matrix event.

Ted and Anthony discuss the success of Draiver's pick-up and delivery service and technology and the impact it has on improving the service customers' experience. They also discuss some unexpected benefits for the variable side of the business. This episode originally aired in June of 2021 at The Fixed Ops Roundtable® - The Matrix event.

Anthony Monteiro Episode 47 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy.

We mark the centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the 50th anniversary of the Bangladeshi liberation struggle with audio recordings, presentations, and cultural performances. We discuss what Bangabandhu's legacy of fighting for peace and freedom means for our times with an international keynote panel of freedom fighters from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, including Professor Rehman Sobhan. This is Day 2 of a 2 Day event. Day 2, April 25th, 2021 Panel - Single Garment of Destiny: A New World, Western Collapse and a Rising Asia The international keynote panel discusses the possibilities for socialism and development in the context of the rise of Asia, and the need to complete the anti-colonial struggle as envisioned by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Dr. Anthony Monteiro, world renowned W.E.B. Du Bois Scholar, organizer of Saturday Free School and veteran of the Black freedom struggle Professor Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and former vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board Dr. Rehman Sobhan, economist, member of first Planning Commission of Bangladesh, head of the Centre for Policy Dialogue, veteran of Bangladeshi freedom struggle

Anthony Monteiro Episode 46 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. 01 Bicep - Apricots (Original Mix).mp3 02 Vintage Culture featuring Elise LeGrow - It Is What It Is (Club Mix).mp3 03 Wankelmut & Anna Leyne - Free At Last (Mousse T. Remix).mp3 04 Purple Disco Machine & Boris Dlugosch - Set It Out.mp3 05 Dario D'Attis & Shyam P - Devil In My Blood (Extended Mix).mp3 06 Jacq (UK) & Phonix (feat. SJ Johnson) - I Feel Good (Extended Mix).mp3 07 KC Lights - Girl (Tribal Edit).mp3 08 Alaia & Gallo & Michelle Weeks - Free 2 Be Me (Extended Mix).mp3 09 Earth n Days - Love Me Better (Original Mix).mp3 10 John Summit & Guz - Thin Line (Extended Mix).mp3 11 Kaz James Ft. Ali Love - Stronger (John Summit Remix) (Extended).mp3 12 Josh Butler - Get It Together (Original Mix).mp3 13 Eath N Days Feat. Terri B! - Walk On Water (Extended Club Mix).mp3 14 Gorgon City - Primal Call.mp3 15 House Divided, Plastic Robots - The Faith.mp3 16 Illyus & Barrientos (feat. Laura Davie) - Disco Hearts (Extended Mix).mp3 17 Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You (John Junior Remix).mp3

Anthony Monteiro Episode 45 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. 01 Selace - So Hooked On Your Lovin (Gorgon City Extended Remix). 02 Gorgon City - Elizabeth Street (Extended Mix) 03 Ben Delay -I Never Felt so Right (Original Mix) 04 Dennis Ferrer - The Red Room (OBJ Vocal Mix) 05 Aspen bizarre disco - Brooklyn Paradise (Original Mix) 06 Bajau ft. Zoe Kypri - Slow Motion 07 Chus & Ceballos, Leonardo Gonnelli - Soledad (Original Mix) 08 Dj Kone, Marc Palacios - Salute 09 Doblas - Eleven 10 84Bit - The Club (Original Mix) 11 John Summit - Deep End (Sidepiece Extended Remix) 12 LexaHill - Hedonism (Original Mix) 13 Natalie Wood, Ridney - Dont Wanna Let You Go (Olav Basoski Remix) 14 Juarez - Rio 15 Qubiko - Bidibody 16 Alaia & Gallo & Michelle Weeks - Free 2 Be Me (Extended Mix) 17 Worthy - 'This Time' 18 Volkoder & Sam Supplier - Tornado 19 Samuele Sartini & Amanda Wilson - About U (Original Mix) 20 Gorgon City - Sky High 21 Bicep — Apricots (Original Mix)

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Millions of young people in the United States now see themselves as agents of transformational change, and one of the best places to begin is by studying Malcolm X. We'll talk with an activist student of Malcolm's life and work.  And, white nationalist militias seem to feel right at home in western North Carolina.  A young activist from Gastonia says the whole country needs to undergo a process of DE-white supremafication.   But first – the world is reeling from the double whammy of Covid-19 pandemic and a global economic depression. The crisis has created an historic opportunity for the super-rich to massively restructure capitalist economies in ways that spell disaster for poor and working people. We spoke with Anthony Monteiro, a Duboisian scholar and activist with the Philadelpohia Saturday Free School.   The Black Radical Tradition has always emphasized that Black American liberation is part of a global struggle. Desmond Fonseca is a doctoral student of history at the University of California who has lately been immersing himself in the study of Malcolm X.  Fonseca is greatly impressed with Malcolm's writings, speeches and organizing work – especially in his latter years, when Malcolm was an outspoken advocate of Black American internationalism.   Lydia McCaskill is studying for both her Masters and Doctoral degrees at North Carolina Central University, and hopes to become a Constitutional Lawyer. But right now she's a whirlwind of political activism in her hometown of Gastonia, in western North Carolina. McCaskill has launched a Stop Injustice Initiative.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Millions of young people in the United States now see themselves as agents of transformational change, and one of the best places to begin is by studying Malcolm X. We’ll talk with an activist student of Malcolm’s life and work.  And, white nationalist militias seem to feel right at home in western North Carolina.  A young activist from Gastonia says the whole country needs to undergo a process of DE-white supremafication. But first – the world is reeling from the double whammy of Covid-19 pandemic and a global economic depression. The crisis has created an historic opportunity for the super-rich to massively restructure capitalist economies in ways that spell disaster for poor and working people. We spoke with Anthony Monteiro, a Duboisian scholar and activist with the Philadelpohia Saturday Free School. The Black Radical Tradition has always emphasized that Black American liberation is part of a global struggle. Desmond Fonseca is a doctoral student of history at the University of California who has lately been immersing himself in the study of Malcolm X.  Fonseca is greatly impressed with Malcolm’s writings, speeches and organizing work – especially in his latter years, when Malcolm was an outspoken advocate of Black American internationalism. Lydia McCaskill is studying for both her Masters and Doctoral degrees at North Carolina Central University, and hopes to become a Constitutional Lawyer. But right now she’s a whirlwind of political activism in her hometown of Gastonia, in western North Carolina. McCaskill has launched a Stop Injustice Initiative.

Anthony Monteiro Live Festival MaxxiMixx - Rosh Hashana 2020 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. Tracklist 01 Claptone - Good Sense (Simion Remix) 02 Syke 'n' Sugarstarr, Mirko & Meex - Ticket 2 Ride (Mirko & Meex Extended Remix) 03 John Summit - Deep End (Black V Neck Extended Remix) 04 Sofi Tukker & Gorgon City - House Arrest (Chris Lorenzo Extended Remix) 05 Bajau ft. Zoe Kypri - Slow Motion 06 Audiowhores & Haze - Stay (Audiowhores Club Mix) 07 Robyn - Baby Forgive Me (Floorplan Remix Audio) 08 Brodyr - Got It (Original Mix) 09 Tiga vs Audion - Let's Go Dancing (Hugo Cantarra Remix) 10 Exit 11 - For Me (Original Mix) 11 Max Millan, F A T - Maori (Original Mix) 12 Catz 'n Dogz - Sunset (Original Mix) 13 Melé - Esperanza (Extended Mix) 14 Coqui Selection - Heisemberg (Original Mix) 15 Joe Smooth - Promised Land (Erick Morillo Remix) 16 Erick Morillo - Fifth Element (Extended Mix) 17 Sono - Chasing the Light (Extended Mix) 18 Chus & CeballosThe Sun (Drums Mix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 43 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. Tracklist 01 Ferrer & Sydenham - Sandcastles (Mark Knight & MTV Remix) 02 Gorgon City · Drama - Nobody (Extended Mix) 03 Diplo & SIDEPIECE - On My Mind (Purple Disco Machine Remix) 04 Better Lost Than Stupid - Overboard (Mousse T Remix) 05 Floyd Lavine - Kusimama ft. Awen 06 Sean Finn, DJ Wady & MoonDark - Pasilda (Dj Kone & Marc Palacios Remix) 07 Qubiko - Know Me (Extended Mix) 08 Sofi Tukker & Gorgon City - House Arrest (Chris Lorenzo Extended Remix) 09 KC Lights - Girl (Extended Mix) 10 Alaia & Gallo, Angelo Ferreri Ft. Lee Wilson - Straight Up Brokenears Extended Remix 11 Biscits & MITA (BR) - Tribalism (Extended Mix) 12 Mark Knight (feat. Chenai & Mr. V) - Tonight (Extended Mix) 13 Melé - Esperanza (Extended Mix) 14 Milk & Sugar - Let the Sun Shine (Alaia & Gallo Extended Remix) 15 Junolarc & Erick Morillo feat. Ora Solar - Don't Belong (Extended Mix) 16 Alan Dixon - Acid Drop

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The Black Is Back Coalition will make freedom for all political prisoners the top item at its upcoming national conference. And, What is the meaning of Pan-Africanism today, in a post-colonial world?   But first—the entire planet remains in the grips of the Covid-19 contagion. The United States has fared worse than any other developed country, economically and in terms of loss of life. Everyone TALKS about how bad things are in the Age of Covid, but it's even more crucial to ask, What KIND of crisis is this? We posed that question to Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar.   The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations holds its national conference on August 15 and 16. Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela says the emphasis will be on the plight of political prisoners.   Many tens of millions of people of African descent live outside the Continent, but what does that mean, in political terms? We spoke with Jayne O. EE-FEK-WUN-EEG-WAY, a senior scholar at the Center for Genomics, Race, Identity and Difference at Duke University. She says the Africa connection means different things to different people.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The Black Is Back Coalition will make freedom for all political prisoners the top item at its upcoming national conference. And, What is the meaning of Pan-Africanism today, in a post-colonial world?   But first—the entire planet remains in the grips of the Covid-19 contagion. The United States has fared worse than any other developed country, economically and in terms of loss of life. Everyone TALKS about how bad things are in the Age of Covid, but it’s even more crucial to ask, What KIND of crisis is this? We posed that question to Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar.   The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations holds its national conference on August 15 and 16. Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela says the emphasis will be on the plight of political prisoners.   Many tens of millions of people of African descent live outside the Continent, but what does that mean, in political terms? We spoke with Jayne O. EE-FEK-WUN-EEG-WAY, a senior scholar at the Center for Genomics, Race, Identity and Difference at Duke University. She says the Africa connection means different things to different people.

Anthony Monteiro Episode 42 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. 01 Mike Vale - Just A Friend (Extended Mix) 02 Earth n Days Soulshakin' (Original Mix) 03 FormulaK feat. Tess Leah - I Pray (Earth n Days Remix) 04 Mescal Kids Never Knew (Extended Mix) 05 Will Taylor - The Way (John Summit & Kaysin Remix) 06 Flashmob - Deeper Underground (Kevin McKay Remix) 07 Copyright feat. Song Williamson - He Is (Alaia & Gallo Extended Remix) 08 Our Anthem - My Soul (Kevin McKay Extended Mix) 09 CamelPhat, Cari Golden - Freak (Original Mix) 10 Dom Dolla San Frandisco (Extended Mix) 11 Siwell Talisman - Original Mix 12 Dont Blink - The Umbrella (Original Mix) 13 Eli Brown, Love Regenerator - Moving (Original Mix) 14 Laroz - Under Your Skin Feat Sheera (Original Extended mix) 15 Dayne S, Ante Perry, IMYD - Veraloga (Tube & Berger Remix) 16 Joeski - Un Congo (Extended Mix) 17 Fernando Campo - Razor Sharp (Original Mix) 18 Hector Couto Fat Cut (Original Mix) 19 Dennis Ferrer-Sinfonia Della Notte (John Dahlback Remix) 20 Sandy B - Make The World Go Round (Ryan Blyth Club Mix)

Anthony Monteiro Summer Edition 2020 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. 01 Rachel McFarlane & Nick Hussey 'Let Nothing' 02 Antoine Clamaran, The Cube Guys feat. Jaren - You got the love 03 ATFC - U Got Me (Extended Mix) 04 Alexander Koning x Natalis - Looking For Action (KPD Remix) 05 Dennis Cruz feat. Leo Wood - To Burn (Extended Mix) 06 Doomwork - Sunshine and Mosquitos (Metodi Hristov Remix) 07 John Summit - Deep End 08 Kormak Let's Talk About It (Extended Mix) 09 Mark Maxwell Dance (Extended mix) 10 Siwell Talisman - Original Mix 11 Flashmob - Parrado (Original Mix) 12 John 'Julius' Knight · Roland Clark - This Is House (Marco Lys Extended Remix) 13 Michael Gray - The Weekend (Mat.Joe Prïma Mix) 14 Silvano Del Gado - Tropical Drumer (Original Mix) 15 Gadjo - So Many Time (Antoine Clamaran 2k17 Remix) 16 Rafa Barrios - Distraido (Original Mix) 17 Dj Gregory Elle (Frankie Feliciano Re-edit) 18 PAX & Rui Da Silva - Touch Me (Extended Mix) 19 Master KG - Jerusalema [Feat. Nomcebo]

Anthony Monteiro Episode 40 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 Silicone Soul - Right On, Right On (2020 Glowcast Remaster) 02 Diplo & SIDEPIECE - On My Mind 03 Loshmi - My Family 04 Richard Dinsdale - DJ, You've Got My Love (Original Club Mix) 05 DJ Kone & Marc Palacios Homecoming (Original Mix) 06 Claptone, Mylo - Drop The Pressure (Purple Disco Machine Remix) 07 Iaco - So Good (Original Mix) 08 Illyus & Barientos Losing Control (Extended Mix) 09 Jim Tonique, Patrick Bryze Better World Dave Kurtis Disco Remix 10 Our Anthem - My Soul (Kevin McKay Extended Mix) 11 Ridney, Inaya Day, Richard Earnshaw - Gotta Have (Glen Horsborough Remix) 12 David Penn & Jabato - El Sur (Original mix) 13 The Deepshakerz, Jako Diaz, Shyam P - No Questions (Ki Creighton Remix) 14 HRDY - I Feel So (Sinner & James Remix) 15 Ministers De La Funk, Jocelyn Brown - Believe (Harry Romero 2009 Remix) 16 Premiere La Fleur - Ravenwaves (Original Mix) 17 John Summit - Deep End 18 Animal Trainer - Let Me Sing (Original Mix) 19 Rafa Barrios - Palabras (Original Mix) 20 Thomas Courribet One Soft Touch (To Kill Me) (Original Mix) 21 Joeski - I Want You feat. Liberty (Disco Mix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 39 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 Huff & Puff Help Me Make It (Deep Mix) 02 Starley - Lovers + Strangers (Mousse T. Extended Remix) 03 Brokenears - Upside Down (Original Mix) 04 Laurent Simeca - Fuego (Original Mix) 05 Sneaky Sound System - Can't Help The Way That I Feel (David Penn remix) 06 DJ Vivona - Black (Marco Lys Remix) 07 Ivan Luceri - Free Rhythm 08 Money Chocolate feat. Sarah Webb - Keep The Love (Tom Staar Extended Remix) 09 Premiere La Fleur - Ravenwaves (Original Mix) - Power Plant 10 Anonymous Black After Neon (Original Mix) 11 Basement Jaxx Red Alert (The Cube Guys Remix) 12 Chus & Ceballos, Dario D'Attis - Heart of Afrika (Extended Mix) 13 Illyus & Barrientos ‘Scream’ (Extended Mix) 14 Hot Since 82 Rise (Extended Mix) 15 D Ramirez, Mark Knight - Colombian Soul (Sllash & Doppe Extended Mix) 16 Leonardo Rosa - Pump It Up (SPACEINVADERS24) 17 Lj Guru - Bingo Bongo (Original Mix) 18 Marco Lys, Mendo - This One (Original Mix) [Circus Recordings] 19 Mike Ivy, Chesser - The Vibe (Extended Mix) 20 NiCe7 - Groove Key (Original Mix) 21 Wh0 (feat. Salena Mastroianni) - Testify (Extended Mix) 22 Street Slang - You Get 23 Tensnake - Desire (Original Mix)

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The United States is in the grips of a health crisis and an economic crisis, but is the ruling class in crisis? A Black scholar says the oligarchy may be losing its grip. And, How do you sell Africa on the world market? You name a perfume after the continent, and make the commercial in Rome. Joe Biden has finally come up with a presidential campaign platform tailored to Black America. He calls it the “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Plan. But Ajamu Baraka, the 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate, doesn't see anything to sing about in Biden's plan. Is the current crisis an economic collapse with a health component, or a health crisis that set off an economic meltdown? We put that question to Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar. Half a century after most African nations emerged from colonialism, advertising agencies are busy marketing the continent and its people. Dr. Grace Adeniyi- Ogunyankin, a professor at Queens University, in Ontario, Canada, says Africa has been repackaged for the global market. She wrote an article that examined, among other things, a commercial hawking a perfume, called ‘Scent of Africa.” We asked Dr. Adeniyi- Ogunyankin why the perfume ad caught her attention.  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The United States is in the grips of a health crisis and an economic crisis, but is the ruling class in crisis? A Black scholar says the oligarchy may be losing its grip. And, How do you sell Africa on the world market? You name a perfume after the continent, and make the commercial in Rome. Joe Biden has finally come up with a presidential campaign platform tailored to Black America. He calls it the “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Plan. But Ajamu Baraka, the 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate, doesn’t see anything to sing about in Biden’s plan. Is the current crisis an economic collapse with a health component, or a health crisis that set off an economic meltdown? We put that question to Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar. Half a century after most African nations emerged from colonialism, advertising agencies are busy marketing the continent and its people. Dr. Grace Adeniyi- Ogunyankin, a professor at Queens University, in Ontario, Canada, says Africa has been repackaged for the global market. She wrote an article that examined, among other things, a commercial hawking a perfume, called ‘Scent of Africa.” We asked Dr. Adeniyi- Ogunyankin why the perfume ad caught her attention.  

Anthony Monteiro Episode 38 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 Wankelmut, Alexander Tidebrink - Work of Art (Kryder Remix) 02 The Fog, Chus Ceballos - Been A Long Time - Mark Knight Remix 03 Piem - Love Commandments (Alaia Gallo Remix) 04 Angelo ferreri From Disco To Disco (Original Mix) 05 Junior Jack, Tube Berger - E Samba 2018 06 Selace So Hooked On Your Lovin (Mousse T.s Extended Disco Shizzle) 07 Dante & Remmy, Band&dos - La Despedida (Original Mix) 08 Carol fernandez Morenita (Toney D Happy Mix) 09 Chus Ceballos, Dennis Cruz - The Sun (Vocal Mix) with Vocal work Master at work 10 Frank Nitty - La Fluta de Habana (Extended Mix) 11 Marco Lys The Story Continues (Extended Mix) 12 Florence The Machine - What The Water Gave Me (Nikos Diamantopoulos Mix) 13 Stones Bones - Amahloni feat Toshi (Manoo Remix) 14 Raidho, T.Etno - Dreamin feat. T.Etno (El Mundo Remix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 37 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 Sami Dee Dance!!! (Sami Dee's Dub Zone Mix) 02 Ticket 2 Ride (Sugarstarr's 2020 Disco Extended Mix) 03 Claptone & Mylo - Drop The Pressure (Extended Mix) 04 OFFAIAH - Private Show (Club Re-Edit) 05 GW Harrison - Hear My Soul (Extended Mix) 06 David Penn & KPD - Ain't Got No 07 Pagano - Latin Tales (Extended Mix) 08 CamelPhat feat. Cari Golden - Freak (Matthias Tanzmann Remix) 09 David Penn Con Son (feat. Africa G) (Marc Vedo Remix) 10 The Deepshakerz - Organic (Extended Mix) 11 Sovax - Somebody (Original Mix) 12 Tom Novy Jerry Ropero feat. Abigail Bailey - Touch Me (Original Mix) 13 Mousse T ft Suzie - All night long (D.I.S.C.O.) (Shik Stylko) 14 Sandy Rivera & Rae - Hide U (Chicola Extended Remix) 15 Studio Apartment feat. Rae - Your Words (David Penn Remix) 16 Eric Prydz - Opus

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: a young activist and writer explains why Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism doesn’t measure up to the real thing. A call for change-makers to imagine the unimaginable. And, Mumia Abu Jamal says the system that put him in prison is coming apart at the seams.   But first – the superpower that wants to rule the world can’t even muster the resources to combat a virus, the lowest form of life on the planet. In Philadelphia, Duboisian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro says the American people have lost trust and belief in the system. We asked him if that fits the description of a crisis of legitimacy. Joshua Briond is a North-Carolina-based activist and member of the Black Alliance for Peace who used to be an enthusiastic supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. But he sees the world differently, now. Briond recently wrote an article in which he related how he was finally introduced to authentic socialism with the words, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” If capitalism is in a late and fatal stage, after hundreds of years at the top, then what is to take its place? Minkah Makalani is an associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, who wrote a recent article titled, “The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought.”   Mumia Abu Jamal is a former Black Panther who became an award-winning reporter in Philadelphia – before he became the nation’s best known political prisoner. Abu Jamal filed this report for Prison Radio.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: a young activist and writer explains why Bernie Sanders' brand of socialism doesn't measure up to the real thing. A call for change-makers to imagine the unimaginable. And, Mumia Abu Jamal says the system that put him in prison is coming apart at the seams.   But first – the superpower that wants to rule the world can't even muster the resources to combat a virus, the lowest form of life on the planet. In Philadelphia, Duboisian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro says the American people have lost trust and belief in the system. We asked him if that fits the description of a crisis of legitimacy. Joshua Briond is a North-Carolina-based activist and member of the Black Alliance for Peace who used to be an enthusiastic supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. But he sees the world differently, now. Briond recently wrote an article in which he related how he was finally introduced to authentic socialism with the words, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” If capitalism is in a late and fatal stage, after hundreds of years at the top, then what is to take its place? Minkah Makalani is an associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, who wrote a recent article titled, “The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought.”   Mumia Abu Jamal is a former Black Panther who became an award-winning reporter in Philadelphia – before he became the nation's best known political prisoner. Abu Jamal filed this report for Prison Radio.

Anthony Monteiro Episode 36 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 David Guetta feat Estelle - One Love (Extended version) 02 Purple Disco Machine - Devil in Me Feat. Joe Killington & Duane Harden (Extended Mix) 03 Julien Jabre - Swimming Places (Purple Disco Machine Re-Work) 04 Claptone & Mylo - Drop The Pressure (Extended Mix) 05 Blackchild - Agartha (Original Mix) 06 Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (Riva Starr Paradise Garage Club Mix) 07 Frederick & Kusse - The Beat (Extended Mix) 08 Jacq - Where Do I Go (Extended Mix) 09 Kaz James - Through Your Love (feat. Mr.id & Kawtar Sadik) 10 Frederick & Kusse - Under (Extended Mix) 11 Erick Morillo - Fifth Element (Extended Mix) 12 OXIA - Domino (Rework) 13 CamelPhat feat. Jem Cooke - Rabbit Hole (Extended Mix) 14 Dermot Kennedy - Power Over Me (Meduza Extended Remix) 15 Duke Dumont & Zak Abel - The Power (Extended Mix) 16 MK & Sonny Fodera feat. Raphaella - One Night (Dom Dolla Extended Remix) 17 Kormak 'Love On The Line' (Extended Mix) 18 The Ones - Flawless (Club Mix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 35 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 Copyright He Is (feat. Song Williamson) (Ferrer & Sydenham Inc Vox Mix) 02 David Penn & KPD - Ain't Got No 03 Andres Power - Secrets [Black Turtle Records] 04 Elian Dust - Celtic Girl (Andrew Meller Extended Mix) 05 Pagano - Latin Tales (Extended Mix) 06 Miguel Bastida - Canto A La Luna (Radio Edit) 07 OFFAIAH - Private Show (Club Re-Edit) 08 Leftwing Kody & Camden Cox - Without You (Extended Mix) 09 Sophie Lloyd featuring Dames Brown - Raise Me Up (Alan Dixon 12 Version) 10 Florian Gasperini To The Trouble (Original Mix) 11 Dennis Cruz High 12 Monolink - Return To Oz (ARTBAT Remix) 13 Sandy Rivera & Rae - Hide U (Chicola Extended Remix) 14 Sovax - Somebody (Original Mix) 15 Tensnake Automatic (Extended Mix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 34 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 ATFC featuring Hannah Williams 'No Victim Song' 02 Maxinne & Mizbee - Want You To Know (Extended Mix) 03 Selace feat. Lisa Millett - Hooked On Bad Habits (Mousse T's Extended Edit) 04 Moreno Pezzolato - U Want Me Feat. Octahvia (Qubiko Remix) 05 Ann Nesby - So Much Joy (Alaia & Gallo Extended Remix) 06 Antranig and Erick Morillo - Afrotech (Extended Mix) 07 Holmes Ives feat. Avalon Frost - 8 Letters (David Penn Remix) 08 DJ Dove, Franco De Mulero - Gasira (Original Mix) 09 Sinner & James I Need U (Original Mix) 10 Jazzy 22 - Time Is Now (Original Mix) 11 Mason - Exceeder (UMEK & Mike Vale Remix) 12 Meines - Ajuti (Andre Rizo Extended Remix) 13 Optick & Adrian Eftimie - Primavera ( Sllash & Doppe remix) 14 Sllash & Doppe - I Want You Too 15 Sovax - Somebody (Original Mix) 16 Husko - Rave, Revival (Extended Mix) 17 Tensnake - Desire (Original Mix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 33 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 Clubland - Love Strain 2020 (Crazibiza Remix) 02 Donna Allen - He Is The Joy (Alaia & Gallo Extended Remix) 03 Martin Ikin feat. Malika - I'll Be (Extended Mix) 04 Leftwing Kody & Camden Cox - Without You (Extended Mix) 05 Qubiko — Disco Musique (Original Mix) 06 The Cube Guys, Roog - Can U Hear (Original Mix) 07 Meduza feat. SHELLS - 'Born To Love' (Extended Mix) 08 Friend Within - Space Jam (Extended Mix) 09 Nick Hook, Martin Sharp - Give Them What They Want (Extended Mix 10 Danny Bar - Lost In Music (Extended Mix) 11 K-Style - Cuba (Original Mix) 12 Fabio Neural & DJ Fronter - Brrr Baby Brrr (Original Mix) [Hot Creations] 13 Dj Lora Looking At Me (Original Mix) 14 Joeski - Soledad 15 Constipated Monkeys - Cro Magnon (Marco Lys Remix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 32 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music. 01 Starley - Lovers + Strangers (Mousse T. Extended Remix)(1) 02 Hooked On Bad Habits (feat. Lisa Millett) (Mousse T.'s Extended Edit) 03 Cada Noche (Original Mix) 04 Crazibiza - Cumbiano (Original Mix ) 05 Freak Out 06 Husky & Mark Maxwell feat. Roxy Lebrasse - To The Light (Extended Mix) 07 Jazzy 22 - Time Is Now (Original Mix) 08 Mark Knight - Mona Lisa (Extended Mix) 09 Qubiko, Picca & Mars - Superbia (Sllash & Doppe Remix) 10 Sllash & Doppe - Back To The House (Extended Mix) 11 For The People (Illyus & Barrientos Extended Remix) 12 Tough Love - Give It Up (Extended Mix) 13 Crazibiza - Soul Cool (Original Mix ) 14 Hosh & 1979 ft. Jalja - Midnight The Hanging Tree (Original Mix) 15 Toni Rios, NivesKa - Closer To You (Sascha Dive's S2 Remix)

Anthony Monteiro Episode 31 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: New scholarship explores the lives of the first Africans to fall under European rule, half a millennium ago; and, the birth of hip hop, in New York City. A Black scholar claims that urban destruction under neoliberal capitalism laid the groundwork for the new musical genre. The US assassination of a leading Iranian general threatens to bring the world once again to the brink of war. We spoke with Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar. The roots of Hip Hop music and culture have long been debated. Dr. Lisa Calvente teaches Intercultural Communications at DePaul University. She wrote a recent article for the political journal “Souls,” in which draws a straight line between neoliberal capitalism and the birth of hip hop in New York City.  Before Christopher Columbus ever set out for the New World, the Portuguese had been making raids on West Africa, and taking Black prisoners as slaves. Nick Jones is a professor of Spanish at Bucknell University. He’s written a book about the lives of those African captives of the Portuguese and Spanish empires. It’s titled, “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: New scholarship explores the lives of the first Africans to fall under European rule, half a millennium ago; and, the birth of hip hop, in New York City. A Black scholar claims that urban destruction under neoliberal capitalism laid the groundwork for the new musical genre. The US assassination of a leading Iranian general threatens to bring the world once again to the brink of war. We spoke with Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar. The roots of Hip Hop music and culture have long been debated. Dr. Lisa Calvente teaches Intercultural Communications at DePaul University. She wrote a recent article for the political journal “Souls,” in which draws a straight line between neoliberal capitalism and the birth of hip hop in New York City.  Before Christopher Columbus ever set out for the New World, the Portuguese had been making raids on West Africa, and taking Black prisoners as slaves. Nick Jones is a professor of Spanish at Bucknell University. He's written a book about the lives of those African captives of the Portuguese and Spanish empires. It's titled, “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: The Black Is Back Coalition recently marked it’s tenth year of agitation and organizing, with its annual march on the White House and a national conference in Washington DC; and, When did western Europe become wedded to the ideology of white supremacy? A Black scholar says the roots of anti-Blackness go back to the Middle Ages, when Black became synonymous with inferiority and evil in white minds. Only two years ago, polls showed Senator Bernie Sanders was the most popular politician in the nation. But, these days, if the Democrat-oriented media mention Sanders’ presidential campaign at all, it is to malign and disparage him and his sweeping social and economic proposals. Sander supporters are calling it the “Bernie Blackout.” We spoke with noted political analyst Dr. Anthony Monteiro, a Duboisian scholar who works closely with the Philadelphia Saturday Free School. Monteiro says there’s a direct connection between corporate media treatment of Sanders and the general crisis of legitimacy afflicting late stage capitalism. The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations recently celebrated its tenth anniversary with its traditional march on the White House, followed by a national conference. One of those who spoke was Jihad Abdulmumit, the chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, which fights for the rights of political prisoners. Abdulmumit is himself a former Black Panther Party political prisoner, and the Jericho Movement is a member organization of the Black Is Back Coalition. In recent decades, scholars have dug much deeper into the historical roots of white supremacy in western Europe, and its spread throughout the colonized world. Much of that scholarship contends that white supremacy has its roots in the trans-Atlantic slave trade – that a racist ideology was created to justify the plundering of non-white peoples and the enslavement of Africans. But Cord Whitaker, a professor of English at Wellesley College, has written a book that maintains white supremacy goes back to the Middle Ages, centuries before Christopher Columbus. Whitaker’s book is titled, “Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking.“

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: The Black Is Back Coalition recently marked it's tenth year of agitation and organizing, with its annual march on the White House and a national conference in Washington DC; and, When did western Europe become wedded to the ideology of white supremacy? A Black scholar says the roots of anti-Blackness go back to the Middle Ages, when Black became synonymous with inferiority and evil in white minds. Only two years ago, polls showed Senator Bernie Sanders was the most popular politician in the nation. But, these days, if the Democrat-oriented media mention Sanders' presidential campaign at all, it is to malign and disparage him and his sweeping social and economic proposals. Sander supporters are calling it the “Bernie Blackout.” We spoke with noted political analyst Dr. Anthony Monteiro, a Duboisian scholar who works closely with the Philadelphia Saturday Free School. Monteiro says there's a direct connection between corporate media treatment of Sanders and the general crisis of legitimacy afflicting late stage capitalism. The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations recently celebrated its tenth anniversary with its traditional march on the White House, followed by a national conference. One of those who spoke was Jihad Abdulmumit, the chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, which fights for the rights of political prisoners. Abdulmumit is himself a former Black Panther Party political prisoner, and the Jericho Movement is a member organization of the Black Is Back Coalition. In recent decades, scholars have dug much deeper into the historical roots of white supremacy in western Europe, and its spread throughout the colonized world. Much of that scholarship contends that white supremacy has its roots in the trans-Atlantic slave trade – that a racist ideology was created to justify the plundering of non-white peoples and the enslavement of Africans. But Cord Whitaker, a professor of English at Wellesley College, has written a book that maintains white supremacy goes back to the Middle Ages, centuries before Christopher Columbus. Whitaker's book is titled, “Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking.“

Anthony Monteiro Episode 30 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music All Night Long.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Gay, lesbian and other LGBTQ persons have garnered more political support than ever. But what does that mean for poor Black and Brown LGBTQ young people who are homeless on the streets of New York? And, peace and national reconciliation may finally be on the horizon in Syria, after eight years of U.S.-regime-change warfare against that country. We'll hear from Ajamu Baraka, of the Black Alliance for Peace.  There can be little doubt that the U.S. empire is in deep disarray – and it's not all about Donald Trump. Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar, says U.S. imperialism faces a multitude of crises, at home and abroad. Dr. Monteiro will be one of the speakers at Black Agenda Report's 13th anniversary celebration, this Saturday, October 26th, at the People's Forum, in New York City. The title of his talk will be, “Towards a Left that is Worthy of Black People and the Working Class. Black Alliance for Peace lead organizer Ajamu Baraka will also speak at the Black Agenda Report anniversary affair. Baraka is an editor and columnist at BAR. We asked Baraka for his analysis of the situation in Syria, where the eight year long U.S. regime-change war appears to be unraveling. After years of collaboration with the United States, the Syrian Kurds have now realigned with the national government in Damascus. We asked Baraka if peace and national reconciliation is finally in the cards for Syria.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Gay, lesbian and other LGBTQ persons have garnered more political support than ever. But what does that mean for poor Black and Brown LGBTQ young people who are homeless on the streets of New York? And, peace and national reconciliation may finally be on the horizon in Syria, after eight years of U.S.-regime-change warfare against that country. We’ll hear from Ajamu Baraka, of the Black Alliance for Peace.  There can be little doubt that the U.S. empire is in deep disarray – and it’s not all about Donald Trump. Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar, says U.S. imperialism faces a multitude of crises, at home and abroad. Dr. Monteiro will be one of the speakers at Black Agenda Report’s 13th anniversary celebration, this Saturday, October 26th, at the People’s Forum, in New York City. The title of his talk will be, “Towards a Left that is Worthy of Black People and the Working Class. Black Alliance for Peace lead organizer Ajamu Baraka will also speak at the Black Agenda Report anniversary affair. Baraka is an editor and columnist at BAR. We asked Baraka for his analysis of the situation in Syria, where the eight year long U.S. regime-change war appears to be unraveling. After years of collaboration with the United States, the Syrian Kurds have now realigned with the national government in Damascus. We asked Baraka if peace and national reconciliation is finally in the cards for Syria.

Anthony Monteiro To Paris To Porto Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music All Night Long.

Anthony Monteiro Episode 28 Booking: anthony.monteiro@live.fr https://www.facebook.com/monteiroanthony https://www.youtube.com/AnthonyMonteiroDj instagram @anthonymonteiro Enjoy. House Music All Night Long.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Lots of African Americans don't think of immigration as a Black issue. But a large proportion of people seeking to enter the U.S. come from the African Diaspora, and they may be getting the worst treatment of all. And,  Black women with guns --- have always been willing to confront the enemy with force.  President Trump has taken weaponization of the dollar to new levels of financial aggression. U.S. economic sanctions use to mean the United States would not trade with a country targeted by Washington. Now it means the targeted country is forbidden to use dollars, the world's reserve currency, and anybody that spends dollars to trade with the targeted country will also be punished. We spoke with Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Dubosian scholar based in Philadelphia. There has never been a time when U.S. immigration policy has not been shaped by race. Throughout U.S. history, Blacks have been unwelcome at U.S. borders, unless they arrived in chains.  Ben Ndugga Kabuye is on the staff of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. He says U.S. immigration policy has always been shaped by anti-Blackness. Jasmine Young is a doctoral fellow at the University of California's Department of African American Studies, where she's working on a manuscript titled, “Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle.” Young says Black women have always been represented in Black people's armed resistance to the racist powers that be.  

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Lots of African Americans don’t think of immigration as a Black issue. But a large proportion of people seeking to enter the U.S. come from the African Diaspora, and they may be getting the worst treatment of all. And,  Black women with guns --- have always been willing to confront the enemy with force.  President Trump has taken weaponization of the dollar to new levels of financial aggression. U.S. economic sanctions use to mean the United States would not trade with a country targeted by Washington. Now it means the targeted country is forbidden to use dollars, the world’s reserve currency, and anybody that spends dollars to trade with the targeted country will also be punished. We spoke with Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Dubosian scholar based in Philadelphia. There has never been a time when U.S. immigration policy has not been shaped by race. Throughout U.S. history, Blacks have been unwelcome at U.S. borders, unless they arrived in chains.  Ben Ndugga Kabuye is on the staff of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. He says U.S. immigration policy has always been shaped by anti-Blackness. Jasmine Young is a doctoral fellow at the University of California’s Department of African American Studies, where she’s working on a manuscript titled, “Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle.” Young says Black women have always been represented in Black people’s armed resistance to the racist powers that be.  

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: The United States is picking a fight with the two other big powers in the world, China and Russia. But, is the US overplaying its imperial hand? We’ll get an assessment from Dr. Anthony Monteiro. And, two women from the MOVE organization have been released from prison after 41 years behind bars. We’ll have details on their home-coming celebrations.  Reparations is a hot topic in the Democratic presidential race. Although reparations has always been part of the African American agenda, only recently have mainstream white politicians endorsed the concept. The Burning Spear, the newspaper of the African People’s Socialist Party, recently re-released a radio documentary of the 1982 World Tribunal on Reparations to Black People, held in New York City. One of the featured speakers was Afeni Shakur, the former Black Panther and mother of Hip Hop legend, Tupac Shakur. Here’s her testimony, from 37 years ago.  That was Afeni Shakur, the former Black Panther and member of the New York 21. Also speaking at that 1982 World Tribunal on Reparations to Black People, was Job Mashariki, of Black Veterans for Social Justice. The 1982 World Tribunal on Reparations to Black People was organized by the African People’s Socialist Party, whose chairman--  then, and now -- is Omali Yeshitela. The politics of that era was deeply influenced by Malcolm X and others who urged Blacks to take their case against the United States to an international arena. Omali Yeshitela explains. Both the Democrats and the Republicans seem intent on waging never-ending hostilities against the two other major powers on the planet: China and Russia, which have responded to US pressures by forming an even closer alliance. For an geopolitical analysis, we turned to Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Duboisian scholar based in Philadelphia. Two of the MOVE organization’s political prisoners have been released on parole after 41 years of incarceration. Janet Africa and Janine Africa are part of the MOVE 9, imprisoned in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, in 1978. Mumia Abu Jamal, who was also imprisoned in the death of a cop, has helped arrange a New York City welcome for Janet and Janine Africa. Activist Gwen DeBrow gives us some background on the MOVE organization.  Four of the US activists that defended the Venezuelan embassy in Washington from takeover by Donald Trump’s hand-picked puppets, face up to a year in prison. Glen Ford has this report.

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Zakiyyah finishes up covering Ras Ben’s book release of Great Mystery Philadelphia, and attends Dr. Anthony Monteiro’s conference entitled “W.E.B. Du Bois, Whither Now and Why, the Struggle for Peace and Freedom”. Ras Ben Website: http://rasben.comSelf described as a Humble Servant of Humanity, Student of History, Mystery and Prophecy, Source of Healing Treasures, Scribe of Rocks of Ages, Ra Sekhi Energy Healer, Reflexologist, Astrologer, Mediator/Peace KeeperDr. Anthony Monteiro – DuBois ScholarWebsite: http://www.saturdayfreeschool.org Link to Conference: https://www.yearofdubois.org Anthony (Tony) Monteiro at the Saturday Free School. He is a scholar/activist. He writes in areas having to do with W.E.B. DuBois Studies, Marxism and race. He lives in Philadelphia where he is active in social, economic and politcal struggles.Music: Philadelphia Jazz Project “Price | Diehl | Sunkett” - http://www.philajazzproject.org/index.php?id=pjp-mixtapes Lessazo “Soleil D’Hiver” – http://altermusique.org/Lessazo/Support the show (http://urbanislanders.org)

Zakiyyah attends “Ghandi, the Struggle Against White Domination”, a conference held by Dr. Tony Monteiro of the Saturday Free School at Church of the Advocate. This episode features:Dr. Anthony Monteiro – DuBois ScholarWebsite: http://www.saturdayfreeschool.org Link to Conference: https://www.yearofdubois.org Anthony (Tony) Monteiro at the Saturday Free School. He is a scholar/activist. He writes in areas having to do with W.E.B. DuBois Studies, Marxism and race. He lives in Philadelphia where he is active in social, economic and politcal struggles.P.K. Somarajan - Community Leader at Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam Panel Presentations by Archishman Raju, Meghna Chandra, and Divya Nair, followed by open discussionMusic: Philadelphia Jazz Project “Price | Diehl | Sunkett” - http://www.philajazzproject.org/index.php?id=pjp-mixtapesSupport the show (http://urbanislanders.org)

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Canada is possibly best known to those of us who live south of its border as place where everyone has access to single payer health care. However, racism is killing disproportionate numbers of Black Canadians, just like in the U.S; And, we’ll talk with a talented artist and intellectual from Kenya, whose current project is using comic books to help African girls navigate the terrain of sex, health and patriarchy. Russiagate has consumed the U.S. corporate media for the past two years, but the “no collusion” verdict of the Mueller investigation has caused the once-superheated scandal to finally fizzle. In Philadelphia, Duboisian scholar Anthony Monteiro says the implosion of Russiagate lays bare the deep crisis afflicting U.S. empire. Eternity Martis, is an award-winning Black journalist from Canada, whose work focuses on issues of race and gender. She’s author of a recent article on The Health Effects of Anti-Black Racism in Canada. Martis says Blacks in Toronto face a variety of health challenge, directly related to race. However, when people in the United States think of Canada at all, it’s often with admiration for their single payer health care system. Thousands of young girls in Canada are illuminating their own lives through the lens of comic books. Ann Moraa is a writer, editor, and performer who is dedicated to telling compelling stories through an African feminist lens. For the last five years, she’s been developing comics and magazines targeting girls in her east African country.    

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Rich people try to make us like them by giving money away, but their philanthropy is all about staying in power; and, feminism looks and sounds different to a landless African women in Uganda than it does to a rich white woman in the United States. President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to proclaim that there will never be a socialist government in the United States. We spoke with Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar. A handful of rich people own more wealth than half of the world’s population, and just three billionaires own more wealth than half the people in the United States. But rich people claim that society is better off because of their wealth. Carl Rhodes disagrees. Rhodes is a professor of Organization Studies at the University of Technology, in Sydney, Australia. He’s co-author of a recent article on the ways that rich people justify their status in society by giving some of their money away. Lots of people call themselves feminists, but the feminist project looks different, based on history, race and geography. Dr. Alicia Decker is a professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She’s also co-director of the African Feminist Initiative, which is currently publishing a new issue of its journal, Meridians. Dr. Maha Marouan is also part of the African Feminist Initiative, and a professor at Penn State. Dr. Marouan teaches African American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She was born in Morocco. Marouan says Muslim women in the U.S. are especially vulnerable to discrimination and attacks.

On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Jon Jeter, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience; and Dr. Anthony Monteiro, author, activist, DuBois Scholar and former professor in the African American Studies Department at Temple University.Venezuela's senior military figures signal backing for President Nicolás Maduro, as Russia, China, Iran, Syria and Cuba have come down on one side. The United States, Canada and countries in Western Europe are on the other. Senior figures in the Venezuelan military came out in support of Maduro today, a day after the US said it no longer recognized him as the country's leader and backed the opposition's Juan Guaidó instead. The geopolitical fault lines are clear. The US has decided to ignore the democratic process in Venezuela and is working to overtly orchestrate a coup, while at the same time accusing Russia of violating US law and undermining the US democratic process. What does this mean going forward? The Senate took its first votes today on competing Republican and Democratic plans to end the partial government shutdown. The Republican bill includes funding for President Donald Trump's border wall, while the Democratic plan does not. The Republican bill failed 50-47. Republicans needed 60 votes for it to get a full vote on the floor. The Democratic plan lost 52-44, and likewise would have needed 60 votes were needed to continue. As this shutdown drags on and decimates the finances of federal employees and contractors, Trump's Commerce Secretary does not understand the angst surrounding the impact. Meanwhile, a new report titled "The Racial Wealth Divide" further examines US economic failures and highlights how the racial wealth divide has grown between white households and households of color. Since the early 1980s, median wealth among black and Latino families has been stuck at less than $10,000. Meanwhile, white household median wealth grew from $105,300 to $140,500, adjusting for inflation.President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen indefinitely postponed his upcoming congressional testimony yesterday, citing “ongoing threats against his family from President Trump” and his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. Allegedly, the threats from the duo reached Cohen and his family as recently as this past weekend, according to a statement from Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis. Trump responded yesterday to the announcement, denying the allegations. “He's only been threatened by the truth,” the president said. When does a line get crossed?

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Is the U.S. empire coming apart at the seams? A Black political analyst says, “Yes, it is.” And, Americans think they are the nicest, most generous people in the world, even as they bomb a great portion of the planet. But a new book shows that American Niceness is a mask, and even a weapon. President Donald Trump shocked the U.S. military and imperial establishment with his decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria and to remove half of American military personnel from Afghanistan. The Black Alliance for Peace welcomed Trump’s withdrawals. Ajamu Baraka, the Green Party 2016 candidate for vice president, is the lead organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace. The Democrats and others in the U.S. War party act as if Donald Trump is the cause of the U.S. domestic and international crisis. But Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Dubosian scholar based in Philadelphia, says Trump didn’t create the acute crisis that U.S. imperialism is undergoing…that it’s been a long time coming. Americans, especially white Americans, seem to think that they are among the nicest people in the world, both personally and as a nation. Most of the world does NOT share that opinion. Dr. Carrie BRAY-man, a professor of English at Buffalo State University, in New York, has written a book on the subject. It’s called  “American Niceness: A Cultural History.” BRAY-man says smiling faces can be very dangerous.

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Philadelphia activsts hold a two-day conference on the role central role of Black working people in reshaping U.S. society; and, Haiti is still occupied by foreign soldiers, but its people are in the streets, demanding that the U.S.-backed regime step down. The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is gearing up for its annual march on the White House and conference, on November 3rd and 4th. This year the theme is “US Out of Africa.” Omali Yeshitela is chairman of Black Is Back. He says the U.S. military command in Africa, AFRICOM, is there to prop up foreign economic and political control over the continent. But Yeshitela says American global rule is in disarray. In Philadelphia, activists are gearing up for an examination of the role of the Black worker. The two-day event, November 8th and 9th, is part of a year-long celebration of the life and work of WEB Dubois. Dr. Anthony Monteiro is a Duboisian scholar and activist with the Philadelphia Free School, the organizers of the event on Black workers. The people of Haiti took to the streets, this month, to protest government corruption and massive hikes in the prices of fuel. In New York City, members of the Committee  to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti have been protesting outside the Haitian consulate, every Thursday, denouncing the Haitian government as a puppet of the United States. Committee spokesperson Daoud Andre says Haitians want an end to the regime.

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: A professor of theology says Black folks would do well to return to a time when leadership followed a higher law; Dr. Anthony Monteiro says the U.S. empire is in crisis, largely because Russia and China refuse to buckle under to Washington; and, the President of Cuba will meet this week with community members in New York City. The author of a new book says sports can never be separated from the racial history of the United States. David Leonard is a professor at Washington State University. His book is titled “Playing While White: Privilege and Power On and Off the Field.” Leonard says, even whites that are involved in mass shootings are treated as redeemable, but Black people who have never been charged with a crime are still marked as dangerous to society. Another author whose work has recently been the focus of the Black Agenda Book Forum, is Vincent Lloyd, an associate professor of Theology at Villanova University. Professor Lloyd believes that the finest hours of Black political organizing occurred when leaders appealed to a higher law of justice. Dr. Anthony Monteiro is a Duboisian scholar in Philadelphia, where he works with the Saturday Free School. Monteiro says the world has changed in ways that auger badly for U.S. imperialism. he president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, will be among the many global heads of state that will be in New York City this week for the opening of this year’s session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Wednesday, President Diaz-Canel will speak with community members at New York’s historic Riverside Church. One of the organizers of the event is Gail Walker, executive director of IFCO, the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizations. Walker was interviewed by Black Agenda Radio Producer Kyle Fraser.

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Black political prisoners have been languishing behind bars for half a century, but are have finally gotten some major media attention: and, Are Black people’s individual identities more deeply rooted in the social life and fortunes of the larger Black group. We’ll talk with author of the book, “Consent Not To Be A Single Being.” Apple has become the first corporation in history to be valued at a trillion dollars. But, what kind of mileston is that? We put that question to Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Dubosian scholar who is active with the Saturday Free School, in Philadelphia. Black political prisoners in the United States got some much needed publicity, last week, from a British-based newspapers. The Guardian ran a series of articles, written by Ed Pinkington, on the plight of Black political prisoners, most of them former members of the Black Panther Party. Black Agenda Radio producer Kyle Fraser spoke with Jihad Abdulmumit, chairperson of the Jericho Movement and a former political prisoners, himself. Several months ago, Black Agenda Report inaugurated a weekly Book Forum, edited by Roberto Sirvent, featuring authors whose works are relevant to the African American condition. One of them is Dr. Fred Moten, a poet and scholar who is currently a professor at New York University. Dr. Moten’s latest book is a trilogy, entitled “Consent Not To Be a Single Being.” Writers and critics have associated Dr. Moten with so-called Black Pessimism, Black Optimism, and even Black Mysticism. But he doesn’t recognize himself in any of those “isms.”  

There were many stages of Madiba's life. We'll examine how his consciousness evolved, and actualized in his organizational and ideological activity and most importantly how he emerged as a revolutionary. On this episode of The Critical Hour with Dr. Wilmer Leon, we examine the life of Former South African President Nelson Mandela. He would have turned 100 today, July 18. After a remarkable life on the global stage, Madiba (a title of respect from his Xhosa clan name) passed away in December 2013 at 95 years of age.My first guest, Dr. Anthony Monteiro believes that Nelson Mandela lived a long life, with 3 careers, one before he was locked up, another while in prison, and a third after his 1990 release. He wrote an incredibly insightful analysis and reflection upon the life, the lessons and the legacies of Nelson Mandela for Black Agenda Report entitled, Nelson Mandela, The Contradictions Of His Life And Legacies.In our last segment, Democrats have been hit with a number of , but will the party take these ripples seriously as the tide going out before a sunami or will the establishment leadership engage in politics as usual.Dianne Feinstein lost the California Democratic Party's endorsement in a stunning vote last week at the party's executive board meeting in Oakland. Many believe that De León's victory reflects the increasing strength of the state party's liberal activist core, which was energized by the election of Republican Donald Trump as president.When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Joe Crowley in the primary June primary many dismissed her victory and democratic-socialist leaning as a one-off.There are other ripples in the water that should not be ignored. Congressman Ro Khanna who represents California's 17th Congressional District, plans to throw his full weight behind Barbara Lee, his fellow representative from California, if she makes a final decision to run for caucus chair, a leadership position being vacated by New York's Rep. Joe Crowley.Can they weather the storm or will they change direction?GUESTS: Dr. Anthony Monteiro - Author and Activist.Dr. Ron Daniels - President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) and veteran community organizer and political activist. He served as Executive Director of the National Rainbow Coalition in 1987 and Southern Regional Coordinator and Deputy Campaign Manager for the Jesse Jackson for President Campaign in 1988. He currently serves as Distinguished Lecturer at York College, City University of New York.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: We’ll have a radical analysis of the importance of the the summit meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, from Dr. Tony Monteiro, who says the U.S. can no longer demand obedience to Washington’s version of how the world should be run; and, rebellion continues to simmer behind the prison walls in South Carolina. The massive popular rebellion that rocked the streets of most of Haiti’s cities has brought down the prime minister and cabinet of the US-backed regime. The disorder was ignited by the government’s massive hike in the price of kerosene, gasoline and diesel fuel, under orders from the International Monetary Fund. In Brooklyn, New York, we spoke with Dahoud Andre, of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. Andre is also host of a popular Haitian radio program. He says the people of Haiti want the country’s president to step down, as well. The summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki, Finland, occurs at a time of clear decline of the United States, economically and in terms of influence in the world. For three years, Russia has militarily prevented Washington and its Islamic jihadist proxies from overthrowing the government in Syria, Russia’s longtime ally. And, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, with Russia and China in the lead, is creating an alternative economic and political center on the planet, further diluting the influence of the U.S. and Europe. We spoke with Dubosian scholar and political analyst Dr. Anthony Monteiro. He says the world is quite different than the picture painted by the New York Times and the Washington Post. South Carolina experienced the world prison violence in many years back in April. There’s very little news from the corporate media and current conditions behind the bars, but activists say the rebellion is still simmering. Efia Nwangaza is a veteran of the struggle against the criminal IN-JUSTICE system. Nwangaza is director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, and also directs WMXP Radio, in Greenville, South Carolina. She says the revolt against oppression in the state’s prisons has not been quelled.    

Dr. Anthony Monteiro - scholar/activist. He writes in areas having to do with W.E.B. DuBois Studies. His commitment to struggle is undeniable and unparalleled.They discuss his thoughts on Kim Jong Un and our relationship with Korea, as many have accused President Trump of acquiescing to Chairman Kim Jong-un and being duped. Dr. Monteiro believes that we will look back at the Korea talks as a pivotal point in history. They later discuss Donald Trump recently said that he no longer wants to see the sight of a Mercedes on Fifth Avenue in New York. Then as he tries to justify his morally bankrupt policy of detaining children in cages at the US/Mexico border by seizing on the current disagreements within Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition about refugee policy. He tweets, The German people were "turning against their leadership," and followed that up with a blatant lie, saying "crime in Germany is way up." Europe, he intimated, had made the big mistake of letting in millions of people who had "violently" changed the culture. Raising the question, how will this play out for the US in a globalized economy and world? Dr. Gerald Horne - author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles. They discuss fewer births than deaths among whites in majority of U.S. States. According to a Census data brief by the Applied Population Lab, in 2016, more non-Hispanic whites died than were born in twenty-six states; more than at any time in U.S. history. Some 179 million residents or roughly 56 percent of the U.S. population, lived in these 26 states In contrast, non-Hispanic white (hereafter referred to as white) deaths exceeded births in just four states in 2004 and seventeen as recently as 2014. They ask if this will have any affect on politics.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: The world has changed, at least a little bit, over the past two weeks. In Canada, a meeting of the G7 countries failed to achieve a consensus between the U.S., western Europe and Japan on trade, or on relations with Russia. But, just a few days later, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached the beginnings of an agreement on establishing peace on the Korean peninsula, after nearly 70 years of hair-trigger hostilities and threats of nuclear confrontation. We’ll talk with Duboisian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro, Ajamu Baraka, of the Black Alliance for Peace, and Omali Yeshitela, of the Black Is Back Coalition. we talk with David Swanson, the veteran anti-war activist and director of World Beyond War. The Democratic Party used to be thought of as at least somewhat less warlike that the Republicans. But most Democrats are opposed to Donald Trump making peace with North Korea.  In Philadelphia, Dubosian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro sees the Korea talks as a pivotal point in history. One would think that anyone that is truly interested in avoiding nuclear war would have had a positive response to the agreement between Trump and North Korea. We spoke with Ajamu Baraka, the national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. Before President Trump had his successful meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, he travelled to Canada to meet with leaders of the United States’ European, Canadian and Japanese allies. Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition, has been closely following the unfolding crisis in U.S. relations with its allies. Trump’s Canada trip was anything but triumphant.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by peace activist and scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro and author Paul Atwood.Tensions across Eastern Europe are heating up as NATO inches towards the Russian border, disputes over missile installations flare, and the head of the U.S. Marine Corps bluntly declares, “there’s a war coming”. Just how much longer can the “Russiagate” probes keep going? Despite uncovering no hard evidence, Nancy Pelosi is demanding that the House continue its investigation, and FBI Deputy Director McCabe appears before the intelligence committee. Brian and John speak with Peter Lavelle, host of RT's flagship show CrossTalk.A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of violating the emoluments clause of the constitution. However, the judge did not rule that Trump was not in violation of the clause, simply that the plaintiff lacked standing. Dan Kovalik, a labor rights lawyers, joins the show to discuss the case.Pro-independence political parties held onto their majority in the Catalan parliament in yesterday’s election. The stage appears to be set for another round of confrontation between Catalonia and the central Spanish government. Joining the show is political analyst Denis Rogatyuk. Boris Johnson is in Moscow today for talks with Russian officials, the first such visit by a British Foreign Secretary in five years. Brian and John are joined by Alexander Mercouris, editor-in-chief of The Duran. Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan yesterday, insisting that the U.S. was on a path to victory in the country and bragging about the Trump administration’s move to increase the military’s budget. Brian Terrell, a long time peace activist and a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, joins the show.Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, resigned yesterday. The reasons are myriad, but what’s more important is what happens next for the company that has become synonymous with the internet.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OTG-NOV10-2017DIST-SMALL.mp3 We hear a major address given in DC by scholar and activist Anthony Monteiro to mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and its impact around the world during the last century. Plus headlines: -On Nov. 7 elections -The Black is Back Coalition conference -Young immigrants rally for a legislation for DACA, or Deferred Action for Child Arrivals. -Climate News -Saudi Arabia -Bill Binney -Gorka goes to Fox -Color of Change's new superheroes -Delores Kendrick joins the ancestors Links: WeAreHeretoStay.org DemocraticAutopsy.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation BlackIsBackCoalition.org ColorOfChange.org

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by by Ramona Africa, minister of communication for the MOVE organization; by activist and scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro; and by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.Today is the 63rd birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal, perhaps the most well known of the political prisoners currently being held in the United States. Mumia is also in court today, as his supporters will take to the streets in Philadelphia. His lifetime of struggle, beginning with his membership in the Black Panther Party, has been an inspiration for generations of activists, and his case has been taken up by those seeking social justice across the world. But Mumia is far from the only political prisoner being held in U.S. prisons today. We’ll discuss this for the full hour today.

Kim and Brian talk with Dr. Anthony Monteiro, who is a long-time prison abolitionist, activist, scholar, and one of the foremost authorities on the scholarship and life of W.E. B. Du Bois. We discuss Dr. Monteiro 's work as a prison abolitionist, the influence that Du Bois and James Baldwin had on him, and how their writings remain relevant today. Dr. Monteiro answers the question "what does it mean to be human?" --- Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on iTunes. Send us tips, comments, and questions: beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @Beyond_Prison @phillyprof03 @bsonenstein Music & Production: Jared Ware

In this final post-election episode of CounterPunch Radio, Eric welcomes back to the show scholar and activist Anthony Monteiro to discuss the results of the election and what it means for the future of the US and the world. Eric and Tony discuss a wide range of topics from the media narrative in the post-election days to divisions within the ruling class, from election fraud to the fraud of Hillary Clinton and neoliberalism itself. The conversation got a bit testy at times with some important disagreements on a number of points, while also highlighting the many points of agreement. This was a fun conversation, don't miss it. Music: Max Romeo - "Socialism Is Love"

In this final post-election episode of CounterPunch Radio, Eric welcomes back to the show scholar and activist Anthony Monteiro to discuss the results of the election and what it means for the future of the US and the world. Eric and Tony discuss a wide range of topics from the media narrative in the post-election days to divisions within the ruling class, from election fraud to the fraud of Hillary Clinton and neoliberalism itself. The conversation got a bit testy at times with some important disagreements on a number of points, while also highlighting the many points of agreement. This was a fun conversation, don't miss it. Music: Max Romeo - "Socialism Is Love" More The post Anthony Monteiro – Episode 65 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

The general election campaign is in full swing. After a bruising and often absurd primary fight in both of the major parties, the political situation looks set to intensify even further. Historic numbers of people are planning on voting for a third-party, and the Democrats’ lesser-evil rhetoric is ramping up in response. There is no doubt that Trump is a reprehensible bigot and an open supporter of torture - banning muslims and more - but the lesser-of-two-evils argument conceals just how “evil” Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party really is. Today, we spend the show examining Clinton and her party - their foreign policy, their loyalty to Wall Street and the underhanded, essentially fraudulent methods they employed to extinguish the Sanders insurgency. Brian is joined for the full hour to discuss these issues by Dr. Anthony Monteiro, W.E.B. DuBois scholar and member of the Black Radical Organizing Collective, Jane Cutter, editor of Liberationnews.org, Derek Ford, Assistant Professor of Education Studies at DePauw University who is the co-author of Marx, Capital, and Education: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming, and in studio by Walter Smolarek, producer of Loud and Clear.

This week Eric welcomes to the show activist and scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro to discuss his recent trip to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention, and what he learned about the Trump movement. The conversation touches on the class character of the Trumpen Proletariat, and whether or not this represents a transformation of the Republican Party, and potentially US politics as a whole. Eric and Tony examine the nature of fascism, how it has manifested in the US today, and what the future may hold. They go into everything from the ascendance of the far right in Europe, to the potential for substantive solutions and movement-building here in the US. All this and so so much more in this lively chat between two friends on the radical left. Musical Interlude: The Doors - "Strange Days"

This week Eric welcomes to the show activist and scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro to discuss his recent trip to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention, and what he learned about the Trump movement. The conversation touches on the class character of the Trumpen Proletariat, and whether or not this represents a transformation of the Republican Party, and potentially US politics as a whole. Eric and Tony examine the nature of fascism, how it has manifested in the US today, and what the future may hold. They go into everything from the ascendance of the far right in Europe, to the potential for substantive solutions and movement-building here in the US. All this and so so much more in this lively chat between two friends on the radical left. Musical Interlude: The Doors - "Strange Days" More The post Dr. Anthony Monteiro – Episode 50 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

On today's special episode of Loud & Clear, Brian spends the full hour looking at the state of the Democratic Party and the candidate they are preparing to coronate - Hillary Clinton.The Democratic Party begins its national convention today in Philadelphia. After a bruising primary fight, the party will attempt to unify itself for the November election. But thousands of protesters are gathering outside, expressing their outrage at the party elite who are fully at the service of Wall Street. Inside the convention, there is the prospect of a serious floor fight over the structure of the party and the way it selects its candidate.Brian is joined by Dr. Anthony Monteiro, a scholar and activist with the Black Radical Organizing Collective, Gloria La Riva, the 2016 presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Eric Draitser, political analyst and founder of StopImperialism.org.