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A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music!Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tourYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriberInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_ElliotSpotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864Mein Kampf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54270.Mein_Kampf?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ovwYMtecRX&rank=1The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=e1URNvJNzt&rank=1 Amusing Ourselves to Death: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=QflaH4J2oW&rank=1The Technological Society: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rgzFLjmZo6&rank=2Propaganda: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MJ0Jt4z7sR&rank=1Taking the Risk out of Democracy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120159.Taking_the_Risk_Out_of_Democracy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZxSDv6Pmbg&rank=1#Radio Free Dixie: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448669.Radio_Free_Dixie?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=uGxfhd7aPn&rank=1Negroes with Guns: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591966.Negroes_with_Guns?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wQCrsAZi9K&rank=1War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=RlES4OU70M&rank=1Ordinary Men: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.Ordinary_Men?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=25su7U5vdK&rank=1They Thought They Were Free: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/978689.They_Thought_They_Were_Free?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=RWDbW6fePA&rank=1 The Art of War: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ROLaW6yH3C&rank=1How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=AQAMpj0Euk&rank=1The Internationalists: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753784-the-internationalists?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=T6SzEBTOOH&rank=1My episode on the Internationalists: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/draft-117-independence-day-grotius-and-the-internationalistsThe Dawn of Everything: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kyjUybYn98&rank=1Sikes Picot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaPWlKv7n0YCongolese father stares at child's severed limbs: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/Apotheosis of Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_WashingtonMarsh's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248389-strange-gloryBonhoeffer the Assassin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17321394-bonhoeffer-the-assassin?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=azvmmkJ1uU&rank=1Metaxas's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7501962-bonhoefferMetaxas: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/eric-metaxas-trump-bloodshed-american-apocalypse-live-not-by-lies/Bonhoeffer: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/22/the-nazi-mind/ Hijacking Bonhoeffer: https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2010-09/hijacking-bonhoeffer Moltke not wanting to assassinate Hitler: https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2020-01-26/ty-article/.premium/the-evangelical-who-was-part-of-the-german-resistance-against-hitler/0000017f-e0d6-d75c-a7ff-fcdfd6010000Bonhoeffer's "Behold the Man!": https://swordofthespirit.net/wp-content/bulwark/february2016p4.htmMy Previous Bonhoeffer Episode Part 1: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9fa9d76My Previous Episode Part 2: https://dashboard.transistor.fm/shows/the-fourth-way/episodes/47-se5-bonhoeffer-pacifist-or-assassin/edit Thanks to our monthly supporters Laverne Miller Jesse Killion ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

There is so much to write about to introduce this episode. Instead I will leave the bare facts for people to encourage them to locate and follow the 3 fantastic guests I had here. I have also included below their suggestions for further reading and if other people have suggestions of their own to make, then please feel free to send them in.Ademola Topic: The continuing humanitarian crisis in Congo. This crisis remains completely underreported by the media. It is a glaring example of how colonialism continues to affect African nations today. The uninspiring leadership that we see in Africa is structured by some men in Washington, London and Berlin. Multinational business interest struggling for dominance in Congo is at the heart of the crisis and thereby interfering in the internal governance of the country.@OgbeniDemolaBook recommendations: Women's liberation and the African Women's Struggle by Thomas SankaraThe End of Oil by Paul MiddletonPodcast: Ubuntu: The African Perspective with Ademola and Dele Ogun Esheru: Extraction and exportation. These are the primary goals of all the international interests present on the continent of Africa today and that work to the absolute detriment of the local peoples. The world needs Africa, Africa doesn't need the world.@esherukwakuBook recommendations:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyAfrican Women: A Historical Panorama by Patricia W. Romero Florah: Speaks about September 5th when the Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegai was horribly killed by her ex-partner. Florah also refers to feminist philosopher Maria Lugones explaining how post-colonialism African countries were 50 times more likely to have domestic violence cases than those countries that had not been under colonial rule. We also need to look at the connection between social and environmental phenomena and crises and gender-based violence.Book recommendations:The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. By Mona Eltahawy. Invention of women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses by Oyeronke OyewumiMany thanks to Esheru, Ademola and Florah for your wisdom, time and insight.TwoandaMic clocking out.Enjoy!

What gets centred and what gets framed as marginal? Who decides? And what are the consequences? UN expert, feminist scholar and social historian Rhoda Reddock – Professor Emerita at The University of the West Indies – joins us from Trinidad and Tobago to discuss the theme of margins, reflecting on the importance of radical Caribbean thought, the contested meaning of the “global south” and the evolution and significance of Caribbean feminism from the 70s to today.As a member of the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Rhoda shares her reflections of moving between Switzerland and Trinidad and Tobago for her work. She also gives advice to scholars striving to make an impact – and to those questioning the necessity of moving to the “global north”. Why, Rhoda asks, does scholarship from the “global south” too often get perceived as regionally specific, while the “north” remains regarded as the centre of sociological thought? And how, Rosie and Alexis ask, has the Caribbean typically been regarded – or indeed, dismissed – by the discipline?Plus: Rhoda also shines a spotlight on Trinidadian-American scholar Oliver C. Cox, author of “Caste, Class and Race”, whose work was a precursor to Wallerstein's “World Systems Theory” and also to women's studies today. A fascinating discussion, also featuring celebration of thinkers including CLR James and Walter Rodney, author of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”.Guest: Rhoda ReddockHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon SenseEpisode ResourcesBy Rhoda ReddockRadical Caribbean Social ThoughtWomen and Slavery in the Caribbean“Conceptualizing ‘Difference' in Caribbean Feminist Theory” in New Caribbean ThoughtRhoda's online profileFrom the Sociological Review FoundationEuropeans, with Manuela  Boatcă – Uncommon Sense podcast episodeGlobal Sociology – online magazine essay collectionDecolonising Methodologies, 20 Years On: The Sociological Review Annual Lecture – Linda Tuhiwai SmithFurther resourcesThe UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)“North-South: A Programme for Survival” – Willy Brandt“Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science” – Raewyn Connell“How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” – Walter Rodney“Caste, Class and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics” – Oliver C. CoxSupport our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense

In Today's final Lecture, we review a final graded quiz that explores the concepts covered over the two semesters; to prepare the class for the exam on August 15th, 2024. We begin the Lecture by discussing how learning has evolved with Technology and Artificial Intelligence and how Learning must be memorable. Section A: Differentiate between? a. Global North vs. Global South: b. Democratic Socialism Versus Dependent Capitalism: c. Capitalism vs. Marxism: d. Orientalism vs. Occidentalism: e. Granted Versus Taken Freedoms: f. CPI of zero Vs. CPI one hundred: Section B: Discuss in on paragraph 1. Why is it considered a myth by some academics of the subaltern that Haiti had once colonized the Dominican Republic? 2. What separates Haiti and Cuba from other Caribbean Islands? 3. What is the difference between Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism? 4. Why is Obeah considered evil and what is the original purpose of Voodoo and Obeah? 5. What socio-political condition gave rise to Reggae as a religion and philosophy? 6. The Caribbean is said to be an invention. Who is credited with this idea and do you agree with this description of the Caribbean? Section C: Describe The Following Caribbean Thinkers 1. C.L.R James: Known for works like "The Black Jacobins," was a Marxist historian and political theorist... 2. Walter Rodney: "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" is a seminal work in postcolonial studies. Rodney's Marxist analysis exposed the exploitative nature of European colonialism and its role in perpetuating underdevelopment in Africa and the Caribbean. 3. Homi Bhabha: A postcolonial theorist, is known for his concept of "cultural hybridity" and his critiques of colonial discourse. His work emphasizes the complexities of cultural identity and how colonized peoples negotiate their identities in relation to the dominant. 4. Frantz Fanon: Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" is a foundational text in postcolonial theory and decolonization movements. Fanon's work explores the psychological effects of colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized. 5. Bob Marley: 6. Edith Clarke (The Caribbean Sociologist) 7. Garnett Roper: 8. Rex Nettleford: 9. Norman Meeks: Section D: Write Short Essays on any of the following: A. Should theology transcend Culture? Write an essay arguing whether or not you believe that Theology should or should not transcend culture. B. The Jamaican government has announced that it will begin open discussions on the legalization of Obeah in Jamaica. Write an essay arguing for or against the legalization of Obeah in Jamaica. E. It is said that Haiti colonized The Dominican Republic between 1822 and 1844, however many historians such as Eller argue that Haiti's takeover of DR was a lie created by the US and former colonial powers, including Spain. Do you agree or disagree with this narrative that Haitians colonized DR? Explain why you agree or disagree. F. Documentary films such as Life and Debt, and Caribbean Post-Colonial Skeptics such as Ramesh Ramsarwan and David Witter argue that the Caribbean's position of dependency and unstable development is a result of Structural Adjustment policies imposed by Post Industrial countries of the Global North. However, some argue that Caribbean Politicians and leaders were weak-kneed and lacked vision while others such as Prof. Trevor Monroe of the National Integrity Agency in a 2014 documentary film entitled: “Combatting Corruption in Jamaica” blamed political mismanagement of funds and corruption as slowing Jamaica's development. Write an essay making a case for what you believe is responsible for Jamaica's and the Caribbean position today as dependent, vulnerable, and uncompetitive states. The Lecture is delivered by Rev. Renaldo McKenzie (Prof), Author of Neoliberalism and Content Chief/Creator at The Neoliberal. Visit us at https://theneoliberal.com Support us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support Email us at theneoliberalround@renaldocmckenzie.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

Walter Rodney was a historian, political activist, and academic. Born in 1942 in Georgetown Guyana, Rodney's research focused on slavery and colonial imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, his home city, in 1980 at the age of 38.  In this episode, we produced Walter Rodney's lecture on “Crisis in the Periphery: Africa and the Caribbean.”

On Episode 52 of the VITAL HOOPS Podcast, Vladimir and Fernando discuss the following topics. - moving from Guantanamo to Ciego De Avila - the important of Cuban Hip Hop to black consciousness in Cuba - playing basketball in the streets of Cuba - The Cuban basketball league and the national team beating the USA - FIBA world rankings and the Basketball Africa League - The importance of Haiti ad the hypocrisy of Canada - Afro Cubans and police brutality in Cuba Books Recommendation from Vladimir: "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney Habana Negra https://www.youtube.com/@Habananegra2024 Vladimir Mitchell Gonzalez IG: VladMglez Facebook: Vlad Mglez VITAL HOOPS Podcast IG: VitalHoopsPodcast Facebook: Vital Hoops Twitter: VitalHoopsPod Email: vitalhoopspodcast@gmail.com https://www.vitalhoops.net VITAL HOOPS is 4 THE KULTURE

This is the third installment of the Fruitless Bookclub, a show-within-a-show, featuring Chris Barker and Jake the Lawyer, where we read all those nonfiction books we've been meaning to read. Today's episode is about How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyNext month: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven StollBecome a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141Check out Fruitless on YouTubeFind more of Josiah's work here: https://linktr.ee/josiahwsuttonFollow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsuttonOther references"Reconsidering a Classic: Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,'" Vanderbilt University on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiuFRiOW28.Debt: The First 5000 Years by David GraeberStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. KendiChildren of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Slavery in Brazil, edited by Robert Edgar Conrad, quote from Section 2.9. "There Are Plantations Where the Slaves Are Numb with Hunger": A Medical Thesis on Plantation Diseases and Their Causes (1847). We got the quote from a smarter person than us on an r/AskHistorians thread, which is here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ztoexl/comment/j39waqr/."One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains," Richard Hornbeck and Trevon Logan, Becker Friedman Institute, https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/one-giant-leap-emancipation-and-aggregate-economic-gains. This is the UChicago article about how slavery is, in fact, unprofitable--the worst thing in the world to UChicago."Oh Dearism," directed by Adam Curtis. I (Josiah) kept referencing the "oh dear" sentiment from this six-minute Curtis documentary but forgot to actually bring it up, so it's right here for the citation perverts reading these notes: https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism.MusicYesterday – bloom.In My Dreams – bloom.

Well it's probably about time we approached the question of what role the exploitation and appropriation of African labor both before and during colonization played in the development of capitalism. Turns out, it was quite a large one. Reading: Chapters 3-5 from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FAgdS9UD

This is the second installment of the Fruitless Bookclub (Chris didn't like it being called the Barker Bookclub), a show-within-a-show where we read all those nonfiction books we've been meaning to read. Today's episode is about Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis.Next month: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyBecome a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141Check out Fruitless on YouTubeFind more of Josiah's work here: https://linktr.ee/josiahwsuttonFollow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsuttonMusicYesterday – bloom.In My Dreams – bloom. 

In this discussion we talk to CalvinJohn Smiley about his book Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition, which examines how individuals returning to society navigate and negotiate this process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas.  CalvinJohn Smiley, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department of Hunter College-City University of New York. He also has worked to abolish the death penalty, and currently volunteers at Rikers Island and Horizon Juvenile Center facilitating restorative justice programming. We talk to Smiley about his concept of purgatory citizenship, and understanding reentry as a verb rather than a noun. We talk through his application of Walter Rodney's analytical tools from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa to the history of Newark, NJ. Much of this conversation is centered on the experiences of folks returning from prison, and barriers presented by parole and probation processes, navigating housing, employment and many other visible and less visible hurdles. We also discuss the Prison Reentry Industry and its role within the Prison Industrial Complex or Carceral Continuum. You can pick up this book from our friends over at Massive Bookshop.  And speaking of radical abolitionist re-entry work. Our comrades over at Jailhouse Lawyers Speak have been working to build a housing center for women returning from prison. That is still a work in progress and can be supported so we'll put a link to that project in the show notes where you can learn more and support their work there. https://www.jlshousingcenter.com And of course a friendly reminder to support the podcast on patreon if you can. Between the study, the preparation, the editing and all the other aspects of running this show it is more than a full time job for me. Josh also puts in a significant number of hours to the show in addition to other work obligations. We really appreciate all the folks who chip in and make this show possible and if you are a listener who has not yet become a patron of the show, if you can afford to part with as little as $1 a month you can help us keep this show going. We have struggled to hit our goals in recent months and are hoping we can hit our goal for the month of September.  So kick in at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism if you can.

We take a look at the centuries long conspiracy of the U.S. against Haiti. 0:00 - Introduction9:20 - What's in a Myth?15:15 - What is Conspiracy?17:35 - Wade in the Water20:00 - Columbus in Haiti24:00 - Haitian Revolution32:30 - French Revolution41:30 - Condercet, Galton, & Le Bon49:40 - Threat of a Good Example55:55 - Haiti's Reparations59:40 - Frederick Douglass in Haiti1:03:55 - Spain, Philippines, & Cuba1:13:00 - U.S. Invades Haiti1:25:55 - Dogs on a Leash1:35:40 - Coups A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864 Episode Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vPjVG55_B5mC4mHEP-hdx0RwRnbisd9z4kpwn9h83O8/edit?usp=sharing  Balasa's Paintings: https://www.wikiart.org/en/sabin-balasa Robert Meeropol Episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/bd7d18d2 What to Believe Now: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14319314-what-to-believe-now?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=XiqRqlKrUb&rank=1 The Crowd: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25870624-the-crowd?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16 Threat of a Good Example:  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26593431-the-new-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=LzlDcuvBRW&rank=2 Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16145154-fresh-fruit-broken-bodies?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_13 OEC Imports/Exports: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/hti?yearlyTradeFlowSelector=flow1 Haiti's self-sufficiency: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/may/13/haitians-self-sufficiency#:~:text=When%20the%20cost%20of%20US,the%20dependence%20on%20food%20aid Truth About Haiti: https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5018 America Invades Haiti: https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/invasion_of_grenada_foresight.pdf America Invades Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2R_FyKisRk Threat of a Good Example: https://chomsky.info/unclesam01/ U.K. Pays Slaveholders: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-u-k-paid-off-debts-slave-owning-families-2015/3283908001/ Lincoln and Slavery: https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-black-resettlement-haiti Colonizing Freed Slaves: https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2015-1-page-6.htm Code Noir: https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/01/slavery-in-the-french-colonies/ Paul Farmer: https://religionandpolitics.org/2016/03/01/the-liberation-theology-of-dr-paul-farmer/ The Uses of Haiti: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10234.The_Uses_of_Haiti?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=h6F1axpyr9&rank=1 Charlamagne Peralte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne_P%C3%A9ralte Jefferson on Taking Land: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0500 Douglass and American Empire: https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/editors-choice/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/ Smedley Butler and Haiti: https://newrepublic.com/article/164825/smedley-butler-marine-critic-american-empire Jefferson to Madison: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-3827 Damn the Filipinos: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/u/unknownlyrics/damndamndamnthefilipinoslyrics.html Jefferson on Haiti: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/01/americas-curse-on-haiti/34183/ Hamilton for Haiti: https://itshamiltime.com/2012/12/07/hamiltons-views-on-race-and-slavery-haiti/#:~:text=Hamilton%20supported%20the%20Haitian%20revolution,of%20a%20free%20black%20republic Rochambeau Genocide: http://islandluminous.fiu.edu/part02-slide13.html Haiti's Nightmare: https://thevillagesun.com/haitis-nightmare-the-cocaine-coup-the-c-i-a-connection Dependency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPdV7ShkVic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19 General Clark on Conspiracy of Empire: https://youtu.be/6Knt3rKTqCk  U.S. Assassinations and Coups: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/cia-long-history-kill-leaders-around-the-world-north-korea Every Coup Mapped: https://youtu.be/_wIOqHSsV9c  U.S. and the DR: https://progressive.org/40-years-later-u.s.-invasion-still-haunts-dominican-republic/  Dominican Republic and Clientism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/29766464 Thanks to our monthly supporters Laverne Miller Jesse Killion ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's the final episode of the season! This week we're talking about the books that have revolutionised us personally in some way and also revolutionary books as a genre. Join us as we discuss whether it's important to read the books that have revolutionised the world and constructed society as we know it today and look out for some recommendations like Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney!Thank you so much for joining us this season, we've loved sharing these discussions with you

A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing  Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dhT8BEf9sUA_IzJ-DXTJTNhAdKFb7-m0KYx4uClk-ZU/edit?usp=sharing Embezzlement - The Corporate Sin of Contemporary Christianity: https://fragmentsandreflections.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ray-mayhew-embezzlement.pdf Early Church and Economic Justice: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/what-did-the-early-church-say-about-economic-justice How early church made peace with prosperity: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119011923/https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/december-web-only/how-early-church-made-peace-with-prosperity.html&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1668782838843771&usg=AOvVaw3sQ7loLRiSg_03ISB6XZHb Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGupes7NvI Max Weber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICppFQ6Tabw Jon Wesley and Money: https://dwswanson.com/2007/09/10/john-wesley-on-money/ Patient Firment of the Early Church: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26266696-the-patient-ferment-of-the-early-church?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=M9EqfDoP5R&rank=1 On the Government of God: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17181811-on-the-government-of-god?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=72Wx6xJnXN&rank=1 Fair Play: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176691.Fair_Play?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9oa4n8cB9n&rank=1 Bonhoeffer Prison Letters: https://ms.wearesparkhouse.org/downloads/9781506402741_Editor's%20Introduction%20to%20the%20Reader's%20Edition.pdf War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=88xEPJIbOk&rank=1 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=CckKb8zO68&rank=1 Base Nation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22320467-base-nation?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9p1Bz89Wbf&rank=1 Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD):Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul…Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase…“I am wronging no one,” you say, “I am merely holding on to what is mine.” What is yours! Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That's what the rich are like; having seized what belongs to all, they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor.Did you not come naked out of the womb? Will you not go naked back into the earth? (Job 1) So where did the wealth you now enjoy come from? If you say “from nowhere,” you deny God, ignore the Creator, are ungrateful to the Giver. If you say “from God,” then explain why it was given to you.When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not.If you are rich, how can you remain so? If you cared for the poor, it would consume your wealth. When each one receives a little for one's needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than his neighbor.Yet it is plain that you have very many lands. Why? Because you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you are deficient in love.Saint John Chrysostom (347–407 AD):If a poor man comes to you asking for bread, there is no end of complaints and reproaches and charges of idleness; you upbraid him, insult him, jeer at him. You fail to realize that you too are idle and yet God grants you gifts.Now don't tell me that you actually work hard. If you call earning money, making business deals, and caring for your possessions “work”, I say, “No, that is not work. But alms, prayers, the protection of the injured and the like – these are genuine work.” You charge the poor with idleness; I charge you with corrupt behavior.Don't you realize that, as the poor man withdraws silently, sighing and in tears, you actually thrust a sword into yourself, that it is you who received the more serious wound?Let us learn that as often as we have not given alms, we shall be punished like those who have plundered. For what we possess is not personal property; it belongs to all.God generously gives all things that are much more necessary than money, such as air, water, fire, the sun – all such things. All these things are to be distributed equally to all.“Mine” and “thine” – these chilling words which introduce innumerable wars into the world – should be eliminated from the church. Then the poor would not envy the rich, because there would be no rich. Neither would the poor be despised by the rich, for there would be no poor. All things would be in common.Wesley: I am pained for you that are “rich in this world.” Do you give all you can? You who receive five hundred pounds a year, and spend only two hundred, do you give three hundred back to God? If not, you certainly rob God of that three hundred. You that receive two hundred, and spend but one, do you give God the other hundred? If not, you rob him of just so much. “Nay, may I not do what I will with my own?” Here lies the ground of your mistake. It is not your own. It cannot be, unless you are Lord of heaven and earth. “However, I must provide for my children.” Certainly. But how? By making them rich? Then you will probably make them Heathens, as some of you have done already. “What shall I do, then?” Leave them enough to live on, not in idleness and luxury, but by honest industry. And if you have not children, upon what scriptural or rational principle can you leave a groat behind you more than will bury you? I pray consider, what are you the better for what you leave behind you? What does it signify, whether you leave behind you ten thousand pounds, or ten thousand shoes and boots? O leave nothing behind you! Send all you have before you into a better world! Lend it, lend it all unto the Lord, and it shall be paid you again! Is there any danger that his truth should fail? It is fixed as the pillars of heaven. Haste, haste, my brethren, haste! Lest you be called away before you settled what you have on this security! When this is done, you may boldly say, “Now I have nothing to do but to die! Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit! Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly! Thanks to our monthly supporters Laverne Miller Jesse Killion Michael de Nijs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

*This episode is releasing on April 9, 2023, at dawn, Berlin time. This is in commemoration of the execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who stood up to the lies and deception of Hitler, and who paid for it with his life. He died at dawn exactly 77 years ago from this moment. I dig into Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to explore the mind of an early master propagandist, and how we might avoid being bewitched by another iteration of him in the future. 0:00 - Bonhoeffer Introduction15:00 - Our aversion to reading Hitler21:45 - How this episode connects with the season23:30 - Hitler's/Germany's struggle: injustice and imperialism33:00 - Racial ideology38:00 - Hitler's moral lens42:45 - Hitler's grounding of authority49:00 - Hitler the progressive51:15 - Why focus on the masses?53:30 - How to propagandize the masses59:30 - The elite are disconnected from the masses1:06:00 - How the elite propagandize the masses like Hitler1:12:30 - Ellul and Hitler's overlap1:13:45 - Importance of truth at the core of propaganda1:16:00 - Importance of polarizing groups and issues1:20:10 - Mithridatism and saturation1:20:50 - Vary forms of propaganda1:21:25 - Propaganda aims at effectiveness1:22:00 - Concluding thoughts*Correction to Holmes's quote. It is "three generations of imbeciles is enough," not one generation.  A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing  Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864 Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fu9uSiLBr_UZIu69_szJmJVN_TyMQBk0Lq-rtneqtBg/edit?usp=sharing  Mein Kampf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54270.Mein_Kampf?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ovwYMtecRX&rank=1 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=e1URNvJNzt&rank=1  Amusing Ourselves to Death: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=QflaH4J2oW&rank=1 The Technological Society: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rgzFLjmZo6&rank=2 Propaganda: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MJ0Jt4z7sR&rank=1 Taking the Risk out of Democracy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120159.Taking_the_Risk_Out_of_Democracy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZxSDv6Pmbg&rank=1# Radio Free Dixie: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448669.Radio_Free_Dixie?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=uGxfhd7aPn&rank=1 Negroes with Guns: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591966.Negroes_with_Guns?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wQCrsAZi9K&rank=1 War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=RlES4OU70M&rank=1 Ordinary Men: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.Ordinary_Men?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=25su7U5vdK&rank=1 They Thought They Were Free: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/978689.They_Thought_They_Were_Free?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=RWDbW6fePA&rank=1  The Art of War: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ROLaW6yH3C&rank=1 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=AQAMpj0Euk&rank=1 The Internationalists: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753784-the-internationalists?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=T6SzEBTOOH&rank=1 My episode on the Internationalists: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/draft-117-independence-day-grotius-and-the-internationalists The Dawn of Everything: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kyjUybYn98&rank=1 Sikes Picot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaPWlKv7n0Y Congolese father stares at child's severed limbs: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/ Apotheosis of Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington Marsh's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248389-strange-glory Bonhoeffer the Assassin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17321394-bonhoeffer-the-assassin?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=azvmmkJ1uU&rank=1 Metaxas's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7501962-bonhoeffer Metaxas: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/eric-metaxas-trump-bloodshed-american-apocalypse-live-not-by-lies/ Bonhoeffer: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/22/the-nazi-mind/  Hijacking Bonhoeffer: https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2010-09/hijacking-bonhoeffer  Moltke not wanting to assassinate Hitler: https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2020-01-26/ty-article/.premium/the-evangelical-who-was-part-of-the-german-resistance-against-hitler/0000017f-e0d6-d75c-a7ff-fcdfd6010000 Bonhoeffer's "Behold the Man!": https://swordofthespirit.net/wp-content/bulwark/february2016p4.htm My Previous Bonhoeffer Episode Part 1: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9fa9d76 My Previous Episode Part 2: https://dashboard.transistor.fm/shows/the-fourth-way/episodes/47-se5-bonhoeffer-pacifist-or-assassin/edit Thanks to our monthly supporters Michael de Nijs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We interview Leo Zeiling on the life and legacy of Guyanese scholar, activist, and writer Walter Rodney. Rodney's classic "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a great occasion to read Zeilig's "A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story," which was published this year.We talk about Rodney's legacy, his understanding of race, his approach to international solidarity, and his theory of how Africa's fate has been tethered to capitalist development in the West. Send your questions and comments in! To jkstearn [at] sfu [dot] ca; baumafred [at] gmail [dot] com.

0:00 Episode Preview17:00 Guest Intro and background1:02:00 - Introduce government and communism discussion1:23:00 - Rethinking communism1:35:00 - What about force, legislation, and redistribution?1:42:00 - Demerits of capitalism1:55:30 - What about the negative examples of what communism leads to?1:58:00 - Cuba2:00:30 - U.S. manipulation of socialist countries2:13:00 - Owner and consumer responsibilities2:19:30 - Communism and capitalism are both wielded in empire seeking endeavors A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot My Reading List Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10h_yL0vO8-Ja_sxUJFclff11nwUONOG6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103262818858083924733&rtpof=true&sd=true Taylor's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newtranscendentalist/  The Radical King: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22125264-the-radical-king?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=GiFTlbW5Vt&rank=1  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76401.Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16 Negroes with Guns: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591966.Negroes_with_Guns?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17 Radio Free Dixie: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448669.Radio_Free_Dixie?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Kph13p1JCh&rank=1  How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_25  Kleptopia: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45306313-kleptopia?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=naXJW9PJO6&rank=1 Death in the Haymarket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171634.Death_in_the_Haymarket?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=MqKatTHcDM&rank=1 Vischer on Evangelicalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiiRnO7UTTk Fitzgerald on Evangelicalism: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753872-the-evangelicals?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_23 Richard Wolff's socialism for dummies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZC0JOYYWw&t=520s ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're taking a month off due to scheduling but we'll be back in July. Until then we want to leave you with this episode, “What's Africa Got to Do with Me? This myth corresponds with some of the new episodes we have coming up so we thought this would be a good time to re-air it. Enjoy! Original description "Regardless of how one identifies, the facts are clear that the state of Africa has a tremendous impact on our daily lives. The resources stolen from Africa are sold as products in America, the exploitation of Africa funds the system that oppresses us in America, both of the American ghetto and African communities operate as neo-colonies for extraction, and the entire African Diaspora is sold myths of propaganda about each other. We establish these connections by digging into the book "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by activist-scholar Walter Rodney. This episode is premiering on the day that would have been his 79th birthday. March 23rd, Is also our one-year anniversary as a podcast. Thank you to all of our supporters."

Lavinya is the founder of The Black Curriculum, a social enterprise on a mission to address the lack of black British history being taught in schools across the UK. They believe that by delivering arts focused Black history programmes, providing teacher training and campaigning through mobilising young people, they can facilitate social change. They launched in late 2018, and have since gone on to directly reach thousands of young people, teachers and senior leaders in over 12 countries.   In this interview we discuss Lavinya's upbringing and how this has shaped the person she is now, getting excluded from school, her early activism work, founding The Black Curriculum, the importance of teaching children black British history and developing a sense of identity and much more!   At 1000 Voices we are on a mission to create a more equitable society for black Britons. Like what we're about? Support by subscribing to our channel!    —————————————————————————   ✉️ Are you or do you know someone with a powerful story that you believe needs to be amplified? Send us an email: hello@1000voicesuk.com  

A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot My Reading List Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10h_yL0vO8-Ja_sxUJFclff11nwUONOG6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103262818858083924733&rtpof=true&sd=true A Solemn Review of the Custom of War: https://archive.org/details/solemnreviewofcu00worc How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/390635665/How-Europe-Underdeveloped-Africa?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google_search&utm_campaign=3Q_Google_DSA_NB_RoW&utm_device=c&gclid=CjwKCAjwxZqSBhAHEiwASr9n9INX3RsRxRdms3lyp1VFHH5BqE7vIZkBqAzOF8qf9nW6cj0vFF1OXxoC4-sQAvD_BwE Proximate vs. Efficient Causes: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/does-god-cause-sin ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Happy 1 year anniversary of The Lavender Menace Podcast! We are dedicating our anniversary, season 3 finale, and 2022 Easter episode to answering three listener submitted hot takes, going over all of Taylor Swift's Easter eggs pointing to her being gay, and reflecting on the media recommendations we've given each other in the past year. In discussing being a communist on the day to day, we recommend some beginner level theory: Angela Davis books (Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Women Race and Class, Women Culture and Politics, Are Prisons Obsolete,) Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti, Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider, Lenin's State and Revolution, Gender Accelerationist Manifesto, base and superstructure, Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin, the podcast episodes Stalin was a mensch & Stalin a Marxist Leninist perspective. We also mention The Black Jacobins, Robin DG Kelley's Hammer and Hoe, The Foundations of Lenininism by Stalin, The Castle of Truth and Other Stories by Hermynia Zur Muhlen, and Mao's Combat Liberalism. (Also not mentioned in the episode but other really good theory recommendations: Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah, Women's Liberation and he African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara). We respond to a listener facing biphobia allegations and give our thoughts on radical feminism/trans exclusionary radical feminists (aka TERFs) with leads us to talking about attraction and sexual orientation's relationship to one's politics, “monosexuals”, heterosexual women's misogyny, gay men's misogyny, centering and attraction to men, the Bechdel test, and opposing transmisogyny. For another listener submitted hot take, we discuss how “androphobia” isn't real, break down the phenomenon of fetishizing of transmisogyny, and namedrop @butchboyfriend on Tik Tok. Renaissance then leads the conversation into material conditions in response to the gender binary and patriarchy, lesbophobia vs biphobia, visibility vs material conditions, the gender trinary, and trans men/butch history. Finally, we tackle the hot takes around lesbians and ‘genital preferences' and the politics of attraction. For the shared media portion of this episode, Renaissance goes through the timeline of Taylor Swift's queer coded Easter eggs and get into Dianna Agron and RED. Sunny rants about reputation and Lover's gayness and breaks down Cruel Summer which leads to Renaissance bringing up illicit affairs, Karlie Kloss, more Swiftgron, and an emphasis on Taylor's lyricism: “the world was black and white but we were in screaming color” etc. Also, “ME! Out now” on lesbian visibility day. For the final and third section of today's episode, we go through the things we've previously recommended each other on the podcast and have since consumed and enjoyed: Fleabag, Fortune Favors The Dead, Conversations With Friends, Assassination Nation, Professor Marsten and the Wonder Woman, Stella Bomkivist, and of course, the our love lasts so long article. Finally, get excited for our 4/20 bonus episode coming soon on Patreon!!! We get high and talk shit, and get more details on our origin story. Get 2 bonus episodes a month, early access, exclusive merch & more by supporting us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenaceThanks for joining us for this episode, and you can find us on twitter, instagram, Tik Tok, and letterboxd if you want to connect! Send your hot takes to thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com.

Stand up to U.S. and NATO Encirclement of Russia and Provocations in the Ukraine. Highlights from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and Genius of Walter Rodney. Aired on Tuesday March 1st, 2022 | 3 PM PST Highlights of the Strategy Center and National Leadership School for Strategic Organizing Webinar The Genius of Walter Rodney—How Europe Underdeveloped Africa February 17, 2022 Last week we played the full presentation of Professor Robin D.G. Kelley's brilliant presentation (please go to our podcast at Voicesfromthefrontlines.com if you missed it. This Week the Stars Continue Channing Martinez—director of organizing of LCSC—How Europe Underdeveloped Africa helped me better understand neo-colonialism in Belize and South-Central Los Angeles Patricia Rodney—Chair of the Walter Rodney Foundation—Personal Insights into Walter the man and the writing of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Asha Rodney—Organizer of the Annual Walter Rodney Symposium—March 26, 2022 Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson—co-executive director, the Highlander Research and Education Center—How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and the Black struggle in the South today Commentary by Eric Mann Stand up to U.S. and NATO Encirclement of Russia and Provocations in the Ukraine. Eric will read with great appreciation, Chris Hedges' Chronicle of War Foretold—Counterpunch, February 25, 2022

BONUS EPISODE ON HBO EUPHORIA'S SEASON 2 FINALE UP ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/join/TheLavenderMenace Welcome to episode 8 of season 3! Here is a comma separated, hopefully exhaustive list of things we discuss: "tankies," the misuse of the word "nuance," debunking the idea of “state capitalism,” (books referenced- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Blood In My Eye by George Jackson, Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah, The Unfree Origins Of American Capitalism by Seth Rockman, Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin), the silliness of a sapphic Tik Tok about the oppression of bottoms, "you're so valid" etc, opposing the gender trinary, material reality of gendered oppression, the new Netflix lesbian short film Heart Shot is kind of corny, Void dir. Emma Seligman, D.E.B.S., Leading Lady Parts, Shiva Baby, Recicatif (in reference to discussing Passing on season 3 episode 3), adaptations, Arrival and Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life and Others, Asali Solomon's new novel The Days of Afrekete. Bonus episode on The Watermelon Woman available for Patrons soon! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, Letterboxd, and YouTube for extra The Lavender Menace slay, and you can email us your hot takes to discuss at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com!

We all know that something is wrong with our education, but today we learn that it was designed to be that way. Digressions Include Fluffling (Google It), How sucky the English Language is, and a whole bunch of “woooosaaahhhs” Our Sponsor: DataVerse Machine Learning Course! Sign up for classes here: https://forms.gle/hagQVST8AcL6ymzaA Sources Anirban Mitra, The Infamous Macaulay Speech That Never Was (2017) Aparna Basu, Colonial Education Policies: A Comparative Approach in Essays in the history of Indian Education (1982) Çağrı Tuğrul Mart, British colonial education policy in Africa (2011) Jeffrey Willis Grooms, A Gentleman 's Burden: Difference and the Development of British Education at Home and in the Empire During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (2016) Kisilu M. Kitainge, Reforming education and training? Lessons from development of vocational education and training in Kenya (2004) Martin Luther King, "The Purpose of Education" (1947) Molly Cunningham, Colonial Echoes in Kenyan Education: A First Person Account (2006) Mũkũyũ, Gikuyu Sex Training for Youth – Nguīko (2014) Peter Kallaway, Welfare and Education in British Colonial Africa, 1918-1945 (2020) Peter Kallaway, Welfare and Education in British Colonial Africa, 1918-1945 in Damiano Matasci, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and Hugo Gonçalves Dores, Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa: Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s–1980s (2020) Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1973)

This week we highlight Robin Kelley's keynote talk on movement lessons from Walter Rodney in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Walter Rodney's text as the perfect case for reparations for the Black Nation inside and beyond the borders of the U.S. On Thursday February 17th, 2022 the Strategy Center launched its National Leadership School for Strategic Organizing with a hybrid event featuring the legacy of Walter Rodney. Speakers included Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann. We're proud to have been welcomed by the Walter Rodney Foundation. Robin D.G. Kelley gave a keynote talk along with Panelists: Imani Countess, Jamala Rogers, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, and Akunna Uka. The event hosted 22 people in person and more than 200 online. Join us in re-listening and please send us your reflections, thoughts, and questions to info@thestrategycenter.org. For those who did not get to join the event, there will be a video recording posted soon, please make sure to subscribe to our newsletter (www.thestrategycenter.org)for updates

In this episode, host Meg Arenberg chats with Walter Bgoya, towering Tanzanian intellectual, long time progressive publisher, and founder of the country's long-running independent press, Mkuki na Nyota (Spear and Star). Bgoya describes his early years as a publisher amid the radical ferment of Dar es Salaam in the 1970s and the porous boundaries between publishing, activism, and public intellectualism. As director of the parastatal Tanzania Publishing House from 1972 to 1990, Bgoya oversaw the publication of such influential anti-imperialist texts as Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Agostinho Neto's Sacred Hope, Samora Machel's Establishing People's Power to Serve the Masses, and Issa Shivji's Class Struggle in Tanzania. He is also a founding member of the African Books Collective, a member-owned international distribution collective for African publishers across the continent. Joined by his son and successor, Mkuki na Nyota's Creative Director Mkuki Bgoya, midway through the interview, the discussion shifts to the press's more recent projects, the challenges and opportunities of the digital age, audio books, film adaptations, and the dynamic duo's ideas for strengthening independent publishing and building reading culture in Tanzania and across the continent.  https://mkukinanyota.com/ (https://mkukinanyota.com/) https://www.africanbookscollective.com/ (https://www.africanbookscollective.com/) Meg Arenberg is the Managing Director of the Radical Books Collective and the host for their BookRising podcast.

In dieser sechsten Folge sprechen wir im Anschluss an die letzte Theoriefolge darüber, wie der Marxismus Geschichte und Gesellschaft versteht. Dabei schlagen wir einen großen Bogen, sprechen über grundlegende Begriffe wie Produktionsweise, Produktivkräfte und Produktionsverhältnisse, Basis, Überbau und Gesellschaftsformation. Wir klären, welchen Entwicklungsbegriff der Marxismus besitzt, welche Geschichte hinter und und vor uns liegt, was es mit dem Klassenkampf auf sich hat und wie Evolution und Revolution zusammenspielen.Wir erheben keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit. Wenn euch etwas fehlt, ihr Kritik, Anregungen oder auch Lob loswerden wollt, schreibt uns gerne unter linketheorie@gmx.de.Wir gehören keiner politischen Organisation an und erhalten auch keine Förderung, sondern arbeiten komplett unabhängig und ehrenamtlich neben Arbeit, Studium und unserem politischen Engagement. Deshalb freuen wir uns über jede kleine Unterstützung unter ko-fi.com/linketheorie. Danke!Hier findet ihr unsere Transkripte zu den einzelnen Folgen.Weiterlesen:Althusser, L.: Widerspruch und Überdetermination. Anmerkungen für eine Untersuchung.Engels, F.: Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft.Engels, F.: Das Begräbnis von Karl Marx.Engels, F.: Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft (Anti-Dühring).Engels, F.: Anteil der Arbeit an der Menschwerdung des Affen.Engels, F.: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staats. Im Anschluß an Lewis H. Morgans Forschungen. (Genutzter Teil: Vorwort zur ersten Auflage, 1884)Engels, F.: Ludwig Feuerbach und der Ausgang der klassischen deutschen Philosophie.Engels, F.: Engels an Joseph Bloch in Königsberg vom 21. Sept. 1890.Fiedler, F./Friedrich, H./Richter, F./Ruhnow, M./Steußloff, H. (Hrsg.): Dialektischer und historischer Materialismus. Lehrbuch für das marxistisch-leninistische Grundlagenstudium.Krämer, R.: Kapitalismus verstehen.Lenin, W. I.: Was sind die “Volksfreunde” und wie kämpfen sie gegen die Sozialdemokraten? (Antwort auf die gegen die Marxisten gerichteten Artikel des “Russkoje Bogatstwo”).Lenin, W. I.: Über unsere Revolution.Lenin, W. I.: Der linke “Radikalismus”, die Kinderkrankheit des Kommunismus.Losurdo, D.: Klassenkampf oder die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten.Mandel: Einführung in den Marxismus.Lütten, J./Bernhold, C./Eckert, F.: Zur Kritik des Intersektionalismus. In: Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung (126), S. 18-30.Mao, Z.: Über den Widerspruch.Marx, K.: Thesen über Feuerbach.Marx, K./Engels, F.: Die deutsche Ideologie.Marx, K.: Elend der Philosophie.Marx, K.: Lohnarbeit und Kapital.Marx, K.: Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte.Marx, K.: Zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie.Marx, K.: Brief an die Redaktion der „Otetschestwennyje Sapiski".Marx, K.: Das Kapital, Bd. 1.Marx, K.: Das Kapital, Bd. 3.Merleau-Ponty, M.: Humanismus und Terror.Rodney, W.: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.Samaha, A.: How the West is Underdeveloping Itself. In: Peace, Land, & Bread (4), S. 18-46.Schleifstein, J.: Einführung in das Studium von Marx, Engels und Lenin. (Genutzter Teil: Kapitel 3: Die materialistische Geschichtsauffassung)Trotzki, L.: Ihre Moral und unsere (Genutzter Teil: Die dialektische Wechselbeziehung zwischen Ziel und Mittel)Trotzki, L.: Über dialektischen Materialismus. Auszüge aus Trotzkis Notizbüchern von 1933-35.

In dieser dritten Folge sprechen wir über die Kritik am Kapitalismus aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Es geht darum, wie der Mensch im Kapitalismus umgeformt wird, wie Mensch und Arbeitskraft ausgebeutet werden, warum der Kapitalismus Krisen und Monopole hervorbringt und was dieses ökonomische System mit Klimakatastrophe, Rassismus und dem Patriarchat zu tun hat.Wir erheben keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit. Wenn euch etwas fehlt, ihr Kritik, Anregungen oder auch Lob loswerden wollt, schreibt uns gerne unter linketheorie@gmx.de.Wir gehören keiner politischen Organisation an und erhalten auch keine Förderung, sondern arbeiten komplett unabhängig und ehrenamtlich neben Arbeit, Studium und unserem politischen Engagement. Deshalb freuen wir uns über jede kleine Unterstützung unter ko-fi.com/linketheorie. Danke!Weiterlesen:Agarwal, A.; Narain, S.: Globale Erwärmung in einer ungleichen Welt. Ein Fall von Öko-Kolonialismus.Amin, S.: Accumulation on a World Scale.Castro Varela, M.; Dhawan, N.: Postkoloniale Theorie. Eine kritische Einführung. Edenhofer, O.; Jakob, M.: Klimapolitik. Ziele, Konflike, Lösungen. Engels, F.: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats.Federici, S.: Caliban und die Hexe. Frauen, der Körper und die ursprüngliche Akkumulation. Foster, J. B.; Clark, B.: Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism. Galeano, E.: Die offenen Adern LateinamerikasHickel, J.: The Divide. A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and ist Solutions. Klein, N.: Die Entscheidung. Kapitalismus vs. Klima.Krämer, R.: Kapitalismus verstehen. Einführung in die Politische Ökonomie der Gegenwart. Malcolm X: Rede „The Harlem Hate-Gang-Scare“Marx, K.: Das Kapital. Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (Erster Band). Mintz, S.: Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery.Müller, K.: Boom und Krise. Penny, L.: Fleischmarkt.Rodney, W.: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.Vogel, L.: Marxismus und Frauenunterdrückung.

“Forthright but also full of grace”: that could be a mantra for how we should all live our lives. It's also how Jacqui Patterson has described her ideal as she fights for environmental justice in a world that can feel like it's submerged completely in environmental injustice.From the South Side of Chicago, to Jamaica, to South Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Jacqui has continually asked what deep, transformative change looks like. She grounds her theory of change in community-led advocacy. She envisions a world of eco-communities and works with real communities across the country who have already created elements of these utopian visions.But never does she lose sight of climate change and environmental exploitation as multipliers of injustice.Jacqui Patterson directed the Environmental and Climate Justice Program at NAACP from 2009 to 2021. Most recently, she is Founder and Executive Director of The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership.I've had the great privilege of knowing Jacqui for the last few years, and she's an advisor on my current documentary film in post production, called Raising Aniya.In our conversation, Jacqui discusses the origins of the environmental justice movement and the importance of community-led activism, and she charts her path to a life devoted to the struggle for environmental justice.This is the first episode of the Chrysalis podcast! You can listen on Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.Please rate, review, and share to help us spread the word!Jacqui PattersonJacqui Patterson is the Founder and Executive Director at The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. Since 2007, Jacqui has served as coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United. She directed of the Environmental and Climate Justice Program at NAACP from 2009 to 2021. Jacqui has worked as a researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist working on women‘s rights, violence against women, HIV&AIDS, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice. Jacqui served as a Senior Women's Rights Policy Analyst for ActionAid where she integrated a women's rights lens for the issues of food rights, macroeconomics, and climate change as well as the intersection of violence against women and HIV&AIDS. Previously, she served as Assistant Vice-President of HIV/AIDS Programs for IMA World Health providing management and technical assistance to medical facilities and programs in 23 countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Jacqui served as the Outreach Project Associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Research Coordinator for Johns Hopkins University. She also served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica, West Indies.  Jacqui holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves on the Steering Committee for Interfaith Moral Action on Climate, Advisory Board for Center for Earth Ethics as well as on the Boards of Directors for the Institute of the Black World, The Hive: Gender and Climate Justice Fund, the American Society of Adaptation Professionals, Greenprint Partners, Bill Anderson Fund and the National Black Workers Center.Quotations Read by Jacqui Patterson“If you come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because, you know, and feel that your liberation is bound to mine, let's walk together.” - Lilla Watson“you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land” - From "Home" by Warsan Shire“If one of us is oppressed, none of us are free.” - Unknown“the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” - Che GuevaraRecommended Readings & MediaTranscriptionIntroJohn Fiege “Forthright but also full of grace”: that could be a mantra for how we should all live our lives. It's also how Jacqui Patterson has described her ideal as she fights for environmental justice in a world that can feel like it's submerged completely in environmental injustice.From the South Side of Chicago, to Jamaica, to South Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Jacqui has continually asked what deep, transformative change looks like. She grounds her theory of change in community-led advocacy. She envisions a world of eco-communities and works with real communities across the country who have already created elements of these utopian visions.But never does she lose sight of climate change and environmental exploitation as multipliers of injustice.Jacqui PattersonFor example, if a child is having a hard time paying attention in school, because lead and manganese are some of the toxins that come out of these, these smokestacks, or if a child is having a heart is not able to go to school on poor air quality days, or if the school that 71% of African Americans live in counties in violation of air pollution standards, and an African American family making $50,000 a year is more likely to live next to a toxic facility than the white American family making $15,000 a year. And we know that. But yeah, then on average, if you're living next to a toxic facility, your property values are significantly lower, and property values go directly into funding our school system. So if you have all of these challenges with being in school in the first place, learning in school, and then the school itself doesn't have the level of quality of other schools, then studies show that if you're not on grade level, by the third grade, you're more likely to enter into the school to prison pipeline.John FiegeI'm John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis.Jacqui Patterson directed the Environmental and Climate Justice Program at NAACP from 2009 to 2021. Most recently, she is founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. I've had the great privilege of knowing Jacqui for the last few years, and she's an advisor on my current documentary film in post production, called Raising Aniya.In our conversation, Jacqui discusses the origins of the environmental justice movement and the importance of community-led activism, and she charts her path to a life devoted to the struggle for environmental justice.Here is Jacqui Patterson.---ConversationJohn Fiege  You grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Could you start by talking a bit about the neighborhood where you grew up how that shaped you and you know, being an urban environment, how you viewed your relationship to the rest of nature?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, growing up on the South Side of Chicago, been an area where it was, there was lots of, of trees, there was lots of I was just talking with someone yesterday about how how we would get excited when we would see a Blue Jay or a Robin in our trees, there were squirrels, there was an occasional rabbit, which was very exciting. And, and there was a lot like summers were all about being outside. Winters were moderately about being outside John Fiege  If there was snowJacqui Patterson  Exactly. Only if there's snow. And otherwise it was being huddled inside and and at the same time, there was the other side's being to being born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, which is that it was a gang land area with the Black P Stone Nation and the El Rukns. As the main gangs and the pressure on boys to to affiliate and the guns, as you hear the challenges you would have. So being outside was also challenged by that as well. I mean, it didn't, I don't remember it being kind of a constant thing, but I don't remember it necessarily meaning that we didn't go outside but I do remember a couple of times where, where, where there were times when they were kind of fights or so forth, it would be inside. So to put my dad was from Jamaica, so we took a trip, we went to the park often and my dad was definitely big on the outdoors. And so we would go to the park frequently, both our local park as well as sometimes going to a national park to hike.John Fiege  Oh, awesome. And, you know, that must impact your view of what the environment is to when you, you know, you see the birds in the trees and those beautiful, tree lined streets of South Side of Chicago. And at the same time, there's this, like, this potentially dangerous environment you're dealing with sometimes as well.Jacqui Patterson  Yes, it definitely, definitely makes it a mixed situation. It reminds me of when I was at a  conference of the Power Shift Network, I was moderating a panel with youth. And, and this person who was on the panel, I mean, it was a real striking and moving moment because the person was on the panel stood up and she said, You know, I would like for me being you know, I would love to be able to have the luxury to go to the park and so forth. But for me just surviving was the objective and and if I can get beyond just focusing on survival to be able to go to the park, you know, that would be a good day. And she actually started crying while she was saying that because I think it was such an emotional moment to be attacked about the very thing that you know, about the very thing that that kind of puts in stark relief, the difference in realities and what's what's kind of normal to other people would be a luxury to her.John Fiege  And survival survival is a prerequisite for enjoying the world  Jacqui Patterson  exactly, exactly.John Fiege  Well, not not only is your father from Jamaica, but you spent time in the Peace Corps in Jamaica. Yeah, which I find really, I find so interesting, because not many Peace Corps volunteers work in a country so close to their roots. Can you can you tell me about the path? This this young girl from the South Side of Chicago took to Jamaica and and how that experience influenced you?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, sure. Um, I grew up I grew up very active in the church, we'd be in the church like five days out of the week, during the summer. And, and during the winter, this at least a couple of times weekly. When during the summer, so I was always a Sunday school teacher and during the summer, I was a vacation Bible school teacher and and as I decided on my career path, I decided I wanted to be a teacher. And so and then I was watching TV one day and saw this commercial about the shortage of special education teachers. Oh, I could do that. And I decided to do that as well. And so after I, long story short, I was in Boston going to school for undergrad at Boston University. And it was. And that was when I first started to really get involved around social justice. I was working in a shelter for homeless people who were unhoused in Boston, and then also at the same time getting involved in the Housing Now movement there. Anyway, then I fast forward to deciding after I graduated to go to Peace Corps, what was interesting there in terms of the time between me going to Peace Corps and a place that I know is that to make us known was the recruiter was telling me that Jamaica was I had actually wanted to go to a place that where I could learn Spanish or French, or some other language, you know. And so she was she really put a hard pressure on me to go to Jamaica, because it has a high rate of attrition of people dropping out. And, and so she also needed like someone who was kind of specialized in special education, and it's a little bit at the back then it was almost rare to be able to do something that's so aligned with your actual career that I'd like there was someone there in my group who was a drama major in school, and she ended up being a bananas extension officer with the Agriculture Department. So it's kind of funny. So anyway, she says, Yeah, so all of that is what led to me being in in Jamaica.John Fiege  What did you see there and experience that you can connect with what you did later, you know, what you're doing now and what you did later with your work?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, so a couple things. One is, as a special education teacher in the parish of St. Thomas one situation arose where there was a whole group of three year olds who had hearing impairments because, you know, a little bit over three years ago, almost four years ago, they had an outbreak of rubella. And I guess when a mom has rubella, then it's more likely for her child to be born with a hearing impairment. And so, so I ended up being because I had taken one sign language class in undergrad, I ended up being a sign language teacher to these, these, these parents and their children, it was like a parent child group, and so helping them to be able to communicate. And so both that in and other kind of situations of people with special needs, there are who are differently abled was just struck me in terms of being a systemic issue, kind of people not having either choices and not having resources to live a thriving life, in those circumstances of being differently abled made me really think about the prevention aspect, you know, and so I, I started to decide I was coming, come back and go into, into public health, and also do a double degree one in public health, on the technical side of things, as well as one in social work, but macro level social work, to learn about community organizing, because at that point, point, it was just clear that important to community voice, community power community leadership, parallel, or, you know, at the same time, I was also kind of in Jamaica, just observing the circumstances in terms of, you know, what led there to be not the resources to have to have the rubella vaccine in a place that is so beautiful, so, so much possibility for people to be able to, to a to have the, the whether it's that natural resources to eat or the natural resources to, to provide energy for the country and all of these different things. And then also the the natural beauty that attracts, you know, millions of tourists there with all of the billions of dollars that are coming with with that. And yet we have communities where the you know, people are living in abject poverty. And so, so, so seeing that, watching films like Life and Debt that talked about structural adjustment programs, and then and then reading books, like How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I started to really understand some of these systemic issues as well. So that was an important kind of politicization. And then the last thing I'll say is also I was there I was in a community where the water supply was contaminated by Shell Oil and the community had to push for, for justice and that situation, but in that situation, it was definitely a David and Goliath, where the community ended up getting as part of their settlement a series of ventilated improve pit latrines for the community, as well as some money given to the school for three Rs program. So that was the settlementJohn Fiege  in exchange for a billions of dollars worth of oil,Jacqui Patterson  and in exchange for having their water supply contaminated, drinking poison for several, yeah, I mean, whatever long term illnesses that was that was caused. And so these were the so these are the things these are the lessons I learned in my short time in Peace Corps, they really kind of all all contributed to the trajectory of my life since thenJohn Fiege  I find that so interesting, when there's something there's some short period of time when in when you're young, and you can find in that period of time, so many seeds that germinated later in your life. And when you're talking about Jamaican, like, I'm hearing like all of the elements of your later work. It's so interesting. Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, it is fascinating. John Fiege  So I've heard you say that climate change is a multiplier of injustice, which is, which is really beautifully succinct. Can you explain what that means?Jacqui Patterson  Absolutely. So both on the on the the whole climate continuum, we think about in terms of the drivers of climate change, and the impacts of climate change. on the driver side, you have all of the polluting practices that contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. And so the fact that these facilities are disproportionately located in BIPOC communities, whether it's coal plants, or or oil and gas refineries, or other or fracking, or it's even near roadway, air pollution, and air in the ways that that impacts all of those are disproportionately located in, in in BIPOC communities and also in trash incineration, and landfills and so forth. And I could make more, agricultural, like confined animal feeding operations, etc. So with all of those being disproportionately located communities of color, it's not only that they're emitting greenhouse gases, but they're all also emitting pollutants that that also harm that compound harm to the public health and well being of those communities. And so whether it's the sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, which is tied to asthma rates, and African American children are three to five times more likely to go to the hospital for asthma attack two to three times more likely to die of an asthma attack, or it is the mercury which is known to be an endocrine disruptor. And we know that low birth weights, infant mortality, etc, are much higher, for example, in African American communities and beyond. So there's just so many examples of these negative health impacts. But then on top of it all, we talk about multiplier as well, it's a multiplier of a multiplicity of issues. And so, for example, if a child is having a hard time paying attention in school because lead and manganese are some of the toxins that come out of these, these smokestacks, or if a child is having is not able to go to school on poor air quality days, or if the school, 71% of African Americans live in counties in violation of air pollution standards, and an African American family making $50,000 a year is more likely to live next to a toxic facility than the white American family making $15,000 a year and we know that then on average, if you're living next to a toxic facility, your property values are significantly lower and property values go directly into funding our school system. So if you have all of these challenges with being in school in the first place, learning in school, and then the school itself doesn't have the level of quality of other schools, then studies show that if you're not on grade level by the third grade, you're more likely to enter into the school to prison pipeline. So we see all of these interconnected, you know, multiplier issues, and then a multiplicity of issues that they get exacerbated. And so these are, and that's just one scenario. That is an example when we talk about the gender, gender and justice that already exist, and then on the pipelines, along the lines of the pipeline, there's a high rate of sexual assault of Indigenous women in particular, along those pipelines. Also, around the man camps that are propped up around these oil and gas rigs, there is a high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous women, there's a drug trade that's come up, there's trafficking that that happens in those areas. And, just a known level that you know that you can when googled one can see all the different statistics and stories around this. And so that's just on the driver side of the continuum. And then we go on the other side in terms of the impact. We know that climate change that, for example, when we talk about the increase in frequency and severity of extreme weather events, that women are more likely to experience violence against women after disasters. Whether it's, yeah, so we saw that with the earthquake in Gujarat, the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, for sure. And even the BP oil drilling disaster where I was down there and that the, the police blotters showed a four fold increase in domestic violence in one particular area, I was sitting in Alabama, and we look at place after place, it was the same thing. And they even though the BP oil drilling disaster wasn't caused by climate change, it also was on the other driver's side of the continuum as well. So anyway, so then, then, when we talk about the the shifts in agricultural yield, we know that already, for example, 26% of African American families are food insecure. And when we have shift in agricultural yields that mean that healthy nutritious foods are going to be even more inaccessible and less affordable, than that just exacerbates what's already a bad situation for for African American families who too often live in communities where it's easier to get a Dorito or a Cheeto or Frito than kiwi or quinoa or anything. So when we, when we see that then we also see how these various chronic health conditions that are that are causing premature deaths and shorten our very life expectancy as a people. And then that has made us even more vulnerable to the impacts of of COVID-19 and has contributed to our high rates of mortality. Then when we talk about sea level rise, also communities that are less likely to be homeowners, we know that 44% of African Americans are homeowners versus 75% of white Americans, for example. And so when when you know when you have when you need to move or even impacted by disasters, all of that, being in a homeowner, you know, when you have equity you have in not only do you have equity in your home, conceivably, but you're also also some of the aid from FEMA and so forth is directly tied to being a homeowner and the work of relocation is still emerging and how that's going to be financed and what the mechanisms are going to be. ButJohn Fiege  I wonder who I wonder who wrote those, those rules?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, as I say, we can pretty much rest assured thatJohn Fiege  they were homeowners at least,Jacqui Patterson  yeah, that's really something. So all of these things. Oh, and then finally, I'll just say to as it relates to sea level rise, combined with, combined with the frequency and severity of extreme weather events is the fact that even after we think we find out that the levee fortification is, like so many other things was tied to property values after Hurricane Katrina, where they decided to to fortify all these levees in Louisiana. they used a formula to decide which levees they were going to be fortifying first. And it was based on what the economic impact would be if the levy was overtaken, which literally legislates or institutionalizes the the disregard for the people who are the most vulnerable, just literally by definition, by design.John Fiege  Early on in the COVID pandemic, you wrote an article for Color Lines, that that connects the pandemic to climate justice, among other things.  So you write:  "Centuries of racist policy and practice have shaped the neighborhoods we live in, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, our access to education and justice, and the health care we receive (or don't). Layers of harm, generation after generation, alter our bodies at the molecular level and even the genes we pass on to our children. Those harms, past and present, render us more vulnerable to the coronavirus—and also to the longer-term crises caused by climate change."  Wow, it's really amazing how you can connect dots and wrap so much into this single paragraph. Can you talk about the importance of seeing whole systems, rather than separating out these interconnected issues in order to envision what you call deep transformative change?Jacqui Patterson  Yes, absolutely. So when we have a system that, as I said before, is doing exactly what it was designed to do by those who, as you said, designed it. And, and when we continue to try to tweak a system, which at its core has a different intention, then then what we should be seeking, which is literally liberty and justice for all, then then we have to think transformation rather than than reform. But we have a system that means that, that certain people are only more likely to live in certain communities when you have a system that says that those communities are, by definition, are the communities that are the asthma clusters, the cancer clusters, the communities where the life expectancy is shorter, too often by decades, sometimes by almost a lifetime, when we talk about infant mortality, and and, and so forth. So when we talk when we have a system where before African Americans were emancipated from slavery, there were policies that enabled white people to be able to access these grants for land for those for schools, or for farming or otherwise. So and when African Americans were emancipated, not only had they put in this in slave labor, that that to build a country that was completely uncompensated, but also didn't even have the legal rights to be able to write legal wills to pass down their property. And so not only do we have white Americans who, for whom, African Americans were part of the, their actual generational wealth, but then on top of it all, they were given all these additional aids by by the government system. And so it's clear why at this point, we have white wealth at $171,000 on average, per household, African American wealth at $17,000 per household. And then yeah, there will be a layer gender on top of it all, we have African American female headed households with the average wealth of $5. And so if we just continue to try to tweak a system that's doing exactly what it was designed to do in the first place, you know, now 400 years after the transatlantic slave trade, this is where we are. So what's going to be the increments of change? And what what, what century will there be equality if we don't actually do something transformational now?John Fiege  Yeah, I, I talk a lot about the problem with how we've set up environmental issues where, you know, if somebody wants to learn about why we have environmental problems, they're often told to go study science or to go study economics. But the best place to start really is American history. You can't separate how the systems were built from the problems they've caused, and to pretend that we can address them without acknowledging and confronting those those things is so delusional.Jacqui Patterson  Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Thank you.John Fiege  So to talk about the NAACP and the roots of the environmental justice movement. Many people consider the birthplace of the environmental justice movement to be in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1982, when 500 people were arrested, protesting the siting of a toxic waste dump for PCB laden soil and a county that was predominantly African American, and one of the poorest counties in the state. Among the coalition of community members of the Civil Rights Organizations, was the NAACP and Reverend Benjamin Chavez, who later became the executive director of NAACP. Can you talk about the importance of this moment, both for the movement and the NAACP?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, thank you. Um, yes. So one thing that is important about that, that the rise The movement in its inception is the power of the people and the importance of frontline community leadership, it was never going to be some organization or some entity that's outside of the community looking at and seeing this is wrong. And then, you know, organizing a plan and in and so forth, it was the power of the people that that really unsurface the situation that that the push for the type of change that they need to have and, and that we all need to have. And really gave rise to this movement. And so it needs to kind of go as it started in terms of the movement. And this is why we're always pushing for frontline community leadership. And so for us, that situation was critical around the the roots of the problem and the depth of the problem. And it was critical around the, in terms of just like the extreme level of contamination and so forth in the health impacts and so forth. And it was also critical in terms of the method and the ethos behind the solution of the problem and addressing it. And so for us, it just means that we, but it also was critical in terms of how long it took. And we often now when I'm doing presentations often show this kind of four image slide of three, of four toxic situations, the Flint water crisis, the Chicago Indiana arsenic and lead crisis and Eight Mile Alabama Mercaptan oil spill and then I show the Porter Ranch gas spill that happened and talk about how you know for each of the other situation it was they were decades, you know, decades and still seeking justice. Before the Porter Ranch gas spill, it was literally within a matter of months there was kept within a matter of less than a year that they were they were given $4 million in damages to this white wealthier white community versus decades and hundreds of 1000s of dollars at best for these other communities. John Fiege  Yeah, well, the coalition is the coalition around that event was, was incredible. And, you know, this kind of genealogy of civil rights within environmental justice, it seems to really be you know, NAACP is a is a huge national organization, just like the big environmental organizations. But do you see that it's kind of history and valuing and ability to work with local groups on the ground changes the way this giant national organization interacts with communities?Jacqui Patterson  I do. So for one thing, one of the things that has that drew me to the work and has kept me at the NAACP is the fact that we are accountable first and foremost to our frontline community leadership and so that that being the marching orders for for us as a program and for the association really does set it apart from from other organizations in that sense, like we do things because our state and local branches think that they are important. And so that's quite different than if you are setting an agenda and then you're deploying all of these, these these chapters to do like some other large national organizations. And so but but when we're when we're working in the environmental climate justice program, for example, we're we're out there in the branches and we're saying, like, let's, let's do a visioning session, what do you want for your community, and then now, well, we can help with political education, we can help developing a strategy. We can walk alongside you once you have your action plan of what you want to do and help connect you to resources and so forth. So that model of like, it's about what you want for your community. And then we kind of see the patterns of what people are interested in and what they're facing. And then we roll that up into a national agenda that we get res ources for on behalf of the units and that we then advocate for at the federal policy level as well. So if a community might be working on, you know, a lead crisis in their backyard, we might be helping them with how to deal with that. Then at the at the federal level, we're working on the lead and copper rule under the Clean Air Act and so forth. So that's always kind of a corresponding national agenda, but it corresponds with the leadership of our state and local units.John Fiege  Oh, that's, that's interesting. And it's such so important. Always going back to that. Yeah, accountability to the communities. So key. So can you talk a bit about your theory of change and the work you're doing, and maybe first describe what a theory of change is? And then how your theory of change has shifted over time as you've engaged ever more deeply in this work?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, thank you. So, first, the theory of change is exactly what the words imply, is the theory of how change happens in our world. So for us, and it's interesting to even when we were kind of like, formally crafting our theory of change, there was kind of the difference between the change that's needed, and how do we get there. And then there's also kind of models and theories of change that were more granular, but our broader theory of change is rooted in the just transition framework that we work with the Climate Justice Alliance, and others facilitated Movement Generation, when we, when we talk about the just transition framework, we are moving from a society that is rooted in exploitation, domination, extraction, and enclosure of wealth and power militarism, as a vehicle to do it. And so moving from that, to what we consider is a living economy, versus an extractive economy, a living economy that's rooted in principles of caring, caring for the sacred cooperation. And really, kind of honoring the earth and honoring each other, as well as really rooting it all in deep democracy. And so, for us, that means that the work that we do, in terms of how we get there is around visioning, starting with a visioning, visioning of our communities and then helping with political education so that if a community has a certain vision, then thinking about how they get there is rooted in understanding how it fits in with this broader context. And then three is then working with the community to develop a strategy to advance change. And then four is then working with communities on developing an action plan based on that strategy and their understanding of the political education, but rooted in their vision, and then we accompany folks through achieving that action plan helping along the way with connecting them to formational, technical, financial resources and so forth. And and so our overarching work as a national program is, is is around, you know, all starts and ends with with that with our community vision. And then we also work on the types of policy changes that need to shift the system. And we also work on narrative shifts, because too often narrative dictates what's happening from the very beginning, in terms of this false narrative of scarcity that has pushed so much of this notion that there's an inverse relationship between my well being and your well being I can only be well if you're not well because there's only so much to go around and so that has pervaded so much of this decision making and actions that we see and even down to, you know, our kind of extremely divided political system it is so based on that people feeling threatened people feeling fear people feeling whether it's the immigration, or it's this notion of Black Lives Matter, kind of meaning that other lives don't. So...so all of this so, so yes, a narrative shift is a critical piece as well as the policy change. And again, all rooted in the vision of our communities.John Fiege  Yeah, awesome. Yeah. And you know, as you can imagine, you know, I'm super interested in narrative and environmental storytelling and how we're telling the stories that matter. And so that really caught my eye when you talked about controlling the narrative. Can you give maybe an example of like, what does controlling the narrative mean? What does that look like?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, I'll give an example on the, the problem up to till now in terms of some of the ways of the narrative has been controlled a wedge resulted in and then on the other side, so we have everything from, you know, at that end, again with African American folks, the ways that the narratives that have been advanced, whether it's the rise of the term super predator, or the ways that the black men have been considered to be an enemy or something to be feared, or someone to be feared, and though, and how that has led to in black folks in general, but definitely black men, and how that that led has led to profiling. And then that led to, to kind of this criminalization as well as police brutality and what has resulted in state sponsored violence. I talk about how, in the context of Hurricane Katrina, how there is this image that I show where it's two white couple, and they're in these floodwaters, and then there's African American, male in floodwaters and it's the same day. Associated Press is the outlet telling the story in both cases, but the caption with the two white people is, you know, "Two residents wade through chesty floodwaters after 'finding' bread and soda in the grocery store." With African American young man it says "A young man waves through testy floodwaters after looting a grocery store." And so that kind of characterization and a difference of it is exactly what leads to this racial profiling. And then leads to that criminalization and then to, for group of families on the Danziger bridge, where they were crossing in again, trying to find food, trying to find relatives, they were going back into New Orleans, and someone called the police on them and said that they wer e, you know, probably looking to loot and so they were unarmed and the police encountered them on the Danziger bridge and killed some of them as a result so that racial profiling that image of those two folks that you know, seemingly just an image in a newspaper but what it contributes to a narrative that certain people are up to no good and so we've seen how these days they're talking about living while black all the ways, I just myself I'm staying at an Airbnb in Florida and I went outside to, anyway there's some construction going on and so they left a package in the front that they're supposed to bring around to the back anyway, so I had to go under the construction tape to get the package and as I'm walking out I hear this voice go, May I help you? And it was this lady across the street who thought that I was stealing the package I mean, so and the irony was that I had met her like a couple days ago and had a conversation with her and she just didn't remember it. So but unfortunately but so the other day there was a whole another situation with another package and I walked around the neighborhood and I saw the packages, it had been delivered to another neighbor but I didn't want to kind of walk up and look at them for sure and didn't even want to knock on the door because, and so I called the person who owns the Airbnb and I'm like, do you know the lady who lives a couple doors down you know, and then there was a whole long two hour long process where she was trying to get Jonathan the real estate age all these different things you know, just so that I could get my my packages there on this door a couple of days back. So this is the kind of difference in life, you know that and reality but that's just you know, but that could have fatal effects or someone saw me skulking around it was they would have characterized it, and, you know, considered themselves to be defending their property, and people have the right to do that. And these, you know, again, with our system, this is what results and so, so all of this go on on the negative side of narrative, but and the importance of why, you know, and then when we talk about environment, this notion of 'job killing regulations' and, and again, that's based on scarcity assuming that like the only way that people will be able to work is that if they work at least jobs that also are fatal for other like people killing pollution, you know, the post job killing regulations and so we as communities are reframing to say it is possible for us to have all the jobs that we want, it is possible for us to have it in the context of clean air, clean water. And what we, what we do often is to do that by saying that it's already happening, here's where it's happening. And it's possible for us to take this to scale. John Fiege  Well, how much of that taking back the narrative is, I mean, there's, you know, your example of Hurricane Katrina and, and the AP captions on the photos, you know, that kind of ties into this, the myth of objective journalism, and kind of these outside folks who are building a narrative that you're trying to counter, but in some ways, I'm wondering how much you have to reformulate the narrative from within your own ranks. You know, I'm thinking about early on environmental justice movement. You know, there were some communities that were pushing back against some environmental regulations, because they were concerned that the jobs in these communities were going to be reduced or or go away. And, you know, even today, we're seeing, you know, pushback from unions around the shift to to electric vehicles, because it's there gonna be fewer jobs involved. So what is that? How do you navigate that of like, people who are on your side, are also buying into some of these narratives?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, I mean, it's kind of what I just said, is really helping people to see how how all of it is possible. So that's true for whoever's on whatever side is the importance of that. And so we have, for example, put together the Black Labor Initiative on Just Transition. And, and for that initiative, we work with folks who stand to be impacted by these job shifts, that will happen and we say, okay, we need to make sure that we're supporting you who is impacted, and that you're in the driver's seat. So it's not, that's not something that's happening to you, but you're saying, here's what's happening, you know, in terms of the the needs of the earth, in our communities, and here's how I'm going to be impacted. If I don't say, Alright, this is what I want, that's going to allow us to have clean air clean water, and allow me to have a livelihood at the standard that I need to support my family. And so then both kind of making sure that people are in the driver's seat, and we're not just trying to tell them that this is better, they're actually determining that for themselves, and we're supporting that, but then also, so they, they will also be the ones who are able to educate and inform their, their peers as well. So, that's definitely what's most important, working with working with people to be able to self actualize whatever enlightenment might come, and what the path is.John Fiege  So that that's what I hear you saying is that's, that's the key element of taking back the narrative and controlling the narrative is, is telling that story within your community and having that spread. Is that accurate?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, making sure that the community themselves kind of generate the story, like really being in dialogue with the community and have having that conversation, which are always always right, always kind of results in, in the truth versus, versus people kind of parroting what's been told to them. And so for us, it's all about an organic process. John Fiege  Ok. That's awesome. Great. So, in in 2013, you released a report, a report called "And the People Shall Lead" which which is a great title. And it has, it has a subtitle, "Centralizing Frontline Community Leadership, and the Movement Towards a Sustainable Planet." So the report addresses working with big national environmental groups or big greens as you call them here.  And you open the report this way: "How often do we hear frontline communities say, “We refuse to work with Big Green A until we hear an apology for past wrongs and a commitment to a fundamental change in how they operate” Or, “Why would I want to work with Big Green B? They will take the credit for the work I do!” Or, “I'll never work with Big Green C again. They have no respect for my culture.” At the same time, we often hear mainstream enviros speak with angst, “We want to work more with grassroots groups but we don't know how to engage them.” Or, “We reached out, and they didn't respond.” Or, “This plant is bad for this community but they just don't get it! We are trying to help them.” So that really cuts to the chase and shines a light on on the history of the kind of rocky relationship between white led and Black and brown led organizations when it comes to environmental justice. What has changed and what hasn't changed since 2013?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, thank you. Oh, that brings back memories. I haven't. Yeah, so what has changed is that those questions are less happening behind closed doors, particularly on the grassroots side. And also, what has also changed is that there have been formations that have been put together to deal directly with this issue, like the Building Equity and Alignment, no, Building Equity and Alignment for Impact one way, or like the B...Yep, that's exactly the B--Building Equity and Alignment for Impact, which is a combination of kind of these large green organizations, frontline grassroots groups, and philanthropy coming together to talk about to talk about these challenges, and how do we build more alignment recognizing that, yeah, that we know, we need it sorely. And so trying to work through some of those challenges that have been surfaced. But recognizing that, that, that the the power is in the collaboration and saying that we have to do this, we have to, we have to do this. And so that has changed, recognizing that and, and the formations to deal with it. And also certainly, what's also changed is the fact that philanthropy is supporting the need for that shift, and supporting the spaces to help to bridge those challenges. And that philanthropy is also recognizing that continuing to put, you know, millions upon millions of dollars and resources in the hands of only in the hands of big green organizations is actually exacerbating some of those dynamics and challenges. And there's a lot more of an effort to support frontline grassroots groups. So all of those things have changed, as well as the urgency of the climate clock, that it hasn't changed, but it's become much more well known. And, and therefore, as Martin Luther King says, "People are feeling the fierce urgency of now" in terms of the the nature of a critical this of kind of getting it together. So not to say that in some ways, all those things have shifted. And, and, and some and and the very same things are still being said at the same time. You know what I mean? John Fiege  RightJacqui Patterson  Yeah, so the problems persist, but at least there's an acknowledgement of them, which is the first step and some, some steps in the right direction. John Fiege  Right. It's a process. Always a process. Jacqui Patterson  Exactly Yes. John Fiege  So what does antiracism look like in the environmental movement? Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, in the environmental movement, it means that across the board and all the work that we do around the environment, we have to acknowledge and intersectionally address the impacts of racism. I famously talked about when I was doing a talk for a funder, a funder ask me to do a talk to a group of solar, like solar industry, folks. And when I gave my slides, the funder was like, "Yeah, we just want you to focus on solar, you know, and on energy. And so, so I, I said, so after kind of going back and forth with them, I was like, Alright, I'm not gonna use slides, and I'm renaming my talk. Black Lives Matter, Energy Democracy in the NAACP Civil Rights Agenda, and after I gave the talk like people, like it was kind of a well, it was an exponentially better received talk than if I had just I don't know what they what even just talking about this would mean in the context of, you know, the reality of life. But but but, but the folks in the industry really saw a new purpose and what they were seeing doing and political purpose and what they were doing, and they felt brought meaning to the work that they do. And so, so, so in some, it's first of all, kind of understanding that a) how how racism impacts how it impacts environment, environmental work and environment in the environment and b) understanding that, and that the very same systemic underpinnings that are driving climate change, are rooted in racism and so forth, and that we and if we don't kind of address these issues at their roots, we we won't be able to address climate change. And so that that's another piece that people need to understand. John Fiege  Can you talk about your work across the international borders and how it fits into what you're doing here in the US?Jacqui Patterson  Sure. Yeah. When we first went to actually one of the first things that I did, when I joined the NAACP, actually, I was already I was already going to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, before I joined the staff and so so I ended up going in kind of this hybrid role of kind of starting to join the end up starting to be a staff member of the NAACP and already planning to go as part of this project I'd started through Women of Color United looking at the intersection of gender and climate. And at that UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties will call it COP that I first encountered the Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), and and I had been my work my work leading to working with NAACP had been International, that's the work that I do so I always had that international orientation and seeing how things are connected and so forth. But and in the context of connecting with the PACJA, done other international groups, we now have a memorandum of agreement with PACJA,. And being a part of the US Climate Action Network, which is part of the Global Climate Action Network, we we see the connections between US policies, domestic and quote unquote, foreign policy, and and everything from at those UN climate talks. Historically, no matter what administration the US has played an obstructive role always wanting to kind of commit as little as possible from an national standpoint, but then that also impacts the level of commitment across the board, if you have one group bringing it down, it kind of waters down  the the teeth and the aspirations and the ambition in the in the agreements. And so recognizing that we need to be there as us voters to hold  the delegation that's there to you and climate talks accountable for, for not weighing down because we can't like if we even if we all in the US stopped all of our emissions tomorrow, we're still in a globe. And if we're kind of weighing down the rest of the processes, then other people's a missions like yeah, we are 25% of the global emissions. So it would definitely have a significant impact. But we need to we need everybody to stop emitting in order for us to as a as a world to advance. And so the US has to be there making commitments on its own part, and it has to push for ambition with all the industrialized nations who are driving climate change for us all to be able to survive and thrive. So that's one thing. We in our connection with the Panfrican Climate Justice Alliance, we in our storytelling that we've done since then,we go there for those UN climate talks. We were in Nairobi for those conversations they've come here, and what's emerged as the story of our connections are like the same ways that countries in the Global South and BIPOC communities in the global north are least responsible for climate change. We all share... We all share the fact that we're at least responsible and we all share the fact that we're most impacted. And we all share the fact that we're the least politically powerful in terms of the decision making thats had, so we have our organizing as a bloc to say, you know, we, as global Afro descendant, leaders on environmental and climate justice, want to have a common agenda so that we are, we're pushing in concert and building power of as a global majority, in terms of BIPOC folks. And so with that, that means that we like even as I push for something here, or if our if our communities and movement here push for like stopping the burning of coal, then at the same time, we're pushing to stop global exports of coal. And at the same time, countries in Sub Saharan Africa are pushing to stop the global imports of coal. So we really we deal at all sides of that, that continuum. So those are just some...and then I'll just end with another example of kind of those connections as well. So as we talk about immigration policy, again, US being 4% of the population, but 25% of the emissions that drive climate change. But yet we have these punitive immigration policies so that when people are driven out of their nations because of disaster, or because their breadbasket has dried up as a result of our actions, on climate me on on emissions, but also our kind of imperialist actions, and the ways that the structural adjustment programs that others have made, have made those nations in, you know, uninhabitable, in some cases in some of the communities, then instead of kind of offering refuge in sanctuary, we're putting people in cages. And so while we work on better immigration policies to really so that not just, you know, so we're taking responsibility and being accountable for the actions that are driven people from their nations, but at the very least, but ideally, just because people need need they their need, and we and we have abundance, again, pushing back on that false narrative of scarcity. But then at the same time, we're also pushing for the types of policies that allow countries to be self sufficient, and able to address the impacts of climate change or avoid climate change in the first place. So through the US commitments to the UNFCCC and so forth, and that we're helping the to work with our kind of partners in the Global South, to be able to have nations where we where people don't have to kind of flee in order to survive. And I'll just end with a quote from, Warsan Shire, which is... Somali...a Kenyan, a Somali born Kenyan poet. Anyway, she says, "You have to understand that no one puts their children in a boat. Unless the water is safer than the land."John Fiege  Wow. That's a good punctuation mark. Yeah, it makes me think back to what you were saying earlier about whole systems and the absolutely importance and importance of thinking in terms of whole systems. So how is your work change since the killing of George Floyd and the blossoming of the movement for Black Lives?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, for one is gotten more, we've been just crushed by by demands that so that's one thing. And not only, the full the fulfilling the demands is kind of the least of it in terms of capacity, because we, for the most part, don't even get there. But uh, but just fielding all of their demands, as is so many and trying to filter out which ones are from people who are pushing or  are performative, because you know, they look good, which ones are people who are trying to do something because a funder is saying that they need to do this,John Fiege  What are folks asking of you?Jacqui Patterson  It's everything from just wanting to quote unquote, pick our brains. Like, "Here's what's going on in my company," like sometimes it's corporations sometimes is organizations. "Here's what's going on in my organization. Here's what I'm planning to do. Can you give them feedback on it?" That kind of thing. A lot of times is wanting people wanting us to come and speak, you know, just kind of help to educate folks. So that's another thing. Sometimes it's wanting us to recommend consultants, which is another thing. Giving feedback on on documents. And sometimes it seems like it's just so people want to be able to say that they talk to us, so it's just kind of wanting to have a conversation. Um, and then a lot of people wanting us to join, whether it's advisory groups or boards or steering committees or all these other things, because so various, various things.John Fiege  A lot of things that are asking for a lot of time. Jacqui Patterson  Yes, definitely. So there's that. On the other side, though. Some, some, some groups have come and they've said, Oh, now what you said, we see what you were saying all these years ago, and are kind of pulling, you know, dusting off some memo that I may have written way back way back when say, and actually taking it seriously now. So that's been interesting. And so that, so so on a positive side, there are there are organizations, companies and so forth that are making concrete commitments as a result of what has come. Yes. And so some folks are going beyond the statements and shifted their funding priorities shifting the way that they do the work integrating, at least a more anti racist frame into the work that they do. So that kind of enlightenment and action has definitely moved the ball in an important way. For sure.John Fiege  So social movements often focus on what's wrong and what needs to change. But sometimes, they don't spend enough time imagining what could be, and getting people excited about those dreams of alternative possibilities. I've heard you talk about creating eco communities and locally controlled sustainable food and energy systems, with the potential for communities to become the owners and beneficiaries of local distributed generation and micro grid energy systems. I personally really love this kind of thinking, can you talk about some of these specific regenerative, self reliant eco-community ideas? And in how you think about what might be called utopian visions?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, definitely. So first, as I was talking about before, in terms of the type of societal shifts that we need, we know that the way each and every one of the systems around the commons are designed have been problematic, and not delivering universally what's needed. And, at best, and then at worst, actually causing harm in the generation and the delivery of, of whatever the good is. So we talk about our energy systems, we're saying we need to shift to, to more energy efficiency, to clean energy. And we need to have a distributed system of doing so we know that not only you know, whether we've we've already talked about extensively in terms of the pollution and so forth, but the energy sector, but the other thing that's important to note is the is the the energy companies in the millions...the billions of dollars in profits that they've made and how they've, they've invested that in, and not only anti-regulatory lobbying, and anti clean energy lobbying, but also invested in groups like ALEC, that push on voter suppression, water privatization, school privatization, prison privatization, etc. And so for us, when we talk about the alternative, it is about making sure that there's affordable and accessible energy for all and it's about making sure that that becomes the focus of the energy sector, versus the focus now which is on, again enclosure of wealth and power to the tune of billions of dollars. And so that's why we feel like the whole sector needs to shift. And so that's just a little bit of background there. And so we we've been able to lift up the stories where people are developing, whether it's micro grids, or even larger grids in for example, on Navajo Nation. They're replacing the Navajo Generating Station, which was one of the largest, most polluting coal fired power plants in the country, and now they have a Navajo Nation owned a solar farm. That is creating energy in a way that don't pollute, and it is owned and operated by the Navajo Nation. John Fiege  That's awesome. Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, that's awesome. John Fiege  One thing that's exciting to me about the green new deal and similar ideas that came before it is, is the possibility for labor and sustainability to be on the same side for issues rather than constantly to be pitted against one another. What are your thoughts about how labor and justice and environment can can build solidarity as as we move into this new era?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah, so we put together this Black Labor Initiative on Just Transition for that very reason. So that we are all talking together at the same table with a common agenda, we were speaking at the coalition of Black Trade Union this meeting a couple of years ago. And when someone asked us about the Cold Blooded Report, and we spoke on that, then someone raised their hand in the audience, and they were like, "Well, we're from the United Mine Workers of America. And we kind of take exception to this Cold Blooded framing." And so we really had a chat about that. And understood where they were coming from, and really kind of talk about how we had reached out to them, we put together the Black Labor Initiative on Just Transition a couple of years before. And we would love if they consider coming back to the table there. And so they they did, and we really had a great conversation that resulted in...I was going literally from that meeting, to a meeting of the 100% Building Blocks, which is being put together by this 100% Renewable Network. And so as one of the authors of the Building Blocks, I really pushed hard for us to have a building block that's dedicated  to labor. And it was out of that conversation that I said, we need to have, like, right alongside the renewable portfolio standards and the energy efficiency standards we need to have in just right in tandem demands for high road jobs, for pensions, and for health care for transitioning workers. Like that can be like an afterthought, and "Oh, we need to do this too." It's not like, it's like, these are the things we need to do not like we need to do this too, because that automatically is like, but no, like we like these are the things we need to do. No caveat, no qualifier. Just like these are the things; renewable portfolio, standard energy, local higher provision, disadvantaged business, enterprise division, health, you know, health care, pensions and high road jobs for transitioning workers are inextricably tied prerequisites for this transition.John Fiege  Yeah, and that goes back to what you talked about before of rooting, the work in the dialogue with with multiple groups, multiple people, multiple stakeholders, and finding truth through that negotiation discussion, rather than imposing it in some theoretical way on top of other people.  So when the internet started to roll out in the 1990s, and 2000s, there was this, what was called the digital divide. Well, you know, wealthier, whiter, more urban communities got access to computers and the Internet, poorer communities, more rural communities, communities of color, were often not at the negotiating table and left out of the digital revolution. Some people are concerned that the rapid shift to green energy could cause a similar divide. Maybe you know, you could maybe call it a "green divide." What's your view on, on how this concern is playing out? And what do you see as the key elements to understanding what's going on and what to do about it?Jacqui Patterson  Yeah. So before what I was talking about one of the groups wiping off the dust off of a memo I had written some years ago, it was on that very thing, basically saying that, you know, how we need to have leadership of frontline groups in the new energy economy. And again, similar to what I was just saying about Black labor and labor in general, that it can't be an afterthought, like you can't continue to focus as a sole industry on quote-unquote, the low hanging fruit or this false notion that "a rising tide lifts all boats." And so that's all to say that, uh, that we need to make sure that we're working with with, with the, with the policies to make sure that we have clean energy in terms of universal access, we have to make sure that we're working with communities to make sure that they understand what the routes are to be able to access, we have to work with these regulatory agencies, whether it's for FERC, or, or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or the PCs and the PSCs, to make sure that they are, that they're holding these utilities accountable for practices that are pushing us to where we need to go as a society towards clean and efficient energy. So all of that needs to happen in concert to make sure that we don't have those kinds of separations, in terms of who acts who's accessing it, who's paying the price. John Fiege  That your narrative doesn't get co opted by people with a furious intention for using that narrative. That's exactly ridiculous. Yeah. Well, going back to young Jackie, growing up in the south side of Chicago, how has your thinking changed since then, about who you are, and about your relationship to the rest of life on the planet?Jacqui Patterson  Hmm. One is, I see that...for one thing I now understand in a way that I now understand the relationship between whether I turn the light switch on, you know, this, this relationship to this larger world, like this, literally the implications of turning my life switch on and were, like, tracing that back to its roots, and then tracing it out to its impacts. Similarly to, if I "throw something away"  knowing know where that will go and what its impacts will be like. So now just from being that innocent child who, who didn't, who didn't have a sense of that larger world, now I see all of that. And see like my, my, the importance of my individual actions, but then the importance of my actions as a part of a collective, and the and the possibilities of a change as a change agent, and shifting from a person who kind of life happened to me, to someone who is actually able to influence what's happening in in the world in a different way. So that's a major shift. Also, just like the innocence of childhood, I was were aware of racism fairly early on, because it was a constant refrain with my mom, and so forth. My brother, a

Greetings Glocal Citizens! In the next conversation it's a "Throwback Tuesday" as I reconnect with another old friend who is taking us on a journey between her home country of St. Croix to Denmark and back again. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, raised in and now based in the Virgin Islands, La Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. Borrowing from elements of architecture, history and archeology Belle creates narratives that challenge colonial hierarchies and invisibility. La Vaughn explores the material culture of coloniality and her work presents countervisualities and narratives. Working in a variety of disciplines her practice includes: painting, installation, photography, writing, video and public interventions. Her work with colonial era pottery led to a commission with the renowned brand of porcelain products, the Royal Copenhagen. She has exhibited her work in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe in institutions such as the Museo del Barrio (NY), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), the Museum of the African Diaspora (CA) and Christiansborg Palace (DK). Her art is in the collections of the National Photography Museum and the Vestsjælland Museum in Denmark. She is the co-creator of “I Am Queen Mary”, the artist-led groundbreaking monument that confronted the Danish colonial amnesia while commemorating the legacies of resistance of the African people who were brought to the former Danish West Indies. The project was featured in over 100 media outlets around the world including the NY Times, Politiken, VICE, the BBC and Le Monde. Belle holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba and an MA and BA from Columbia University in NY. She was a finalist for the She Built NYC project to develop a monument to memorialize the legacy of Shirley Chisholm and for the Inequality in Bronze project in Philadelphia to redesign one of the first monuments to an enslaved woman at the Stenton historic house museum. As a 2018-2020 fellow at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Research Center for Women at Columbia University she worked on a project about the ‘citizenless' Virgin Islanders in the Harlem Renaissance. This two-part conversation bookends the US Indepencence Day holiday, and at a time when so much about identity and nationalism is begging for long overdue examination, these episodes are healthy food for thought. In true #TBT fashion you'll want to come back to these discussion for the learning and insights into the continued work of deconstructing colonialism. Where to find La Vaughn and her works? www.lavaughnbelle.com (http://www.lavaughnbelle.com/) I Am Queen Mary (https://www.iamqueenmary.com/) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lavaughnbelle/) On Twitter (https://twitter.com/lavaughnbelle?lang=en) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lavaughnbelle/?hl=en) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/lavaughnbellestudio/) What's La Vaughn reading? Just As I Am: A Memoir (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08425MPGS&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_B7ME6BXWR2G5PVKD9F3E&tag=glocalcitiz0e-20) by Cicely Tyson A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08G1KLXGG&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_GVF0J7PSSGMRAMG8J7Y0&tag=glocalcitiz0e-20) by Dr. Shefali Tsabary Other topics of interest: Teach for America (https://www.teachforamerica.org/) Helle Stenum (https://wecarryitwithinus.com/home/) Salsa Cubano (https://www.salsavida.com/salsa-dance-terms/cuban-style-salsa-cubana/) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07JWGDVFL/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6FGNXVSP5Y9E4ES2YA6F) by Walter Rodney About the Virgin Islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands) Special Guest: La Vaughn Belle.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! In the next conversation it's a "Throwback Tuesday" as I reconnect with another old friend who is taking us on a journey between her home country of St. Croix to Denmark and back again. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, raised in and now based in the Virgin Islands, La Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. Borrowing from elements of architecture, history and archeology Belle creates narratives that challenge colonial hierarchies and invisibility. La Vaughn explores the material culture of coloniality and her work presents countervisualities and narratives. Working in a variety of disciplines her practice includes: painting, installation, photography, writing, video and public interventions. Her work with colonial era pottery led to a commission with the renowned brand of porcelain products, the Royal Copenhagen. She has exhibited her work in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe in institutions such as the Museo del Barrio (NY), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), the Museum of the African Diaspora (CA) and Christiansborg Palace (DK). Her art is in the collections of the National Photography Museum and the Vestsjælland Museum in Denmark. She is the co-creator of “I Am Queen Mary”, the artist-led groundbreaking monument that confronted the Danish colonial amnesia while commemorating the legacies of resistance of the African people who were brought to the former Danish West Indies. The project was featured in over 100 media outlets around the world including the NY Times, Politiken, VICE, the BBC and Le Monde. Belle holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba and an MA and BA from Columbia University in NY. She was a finalist for the She Built NYC project to develop a monument to memorialize the legacy of Shirley Chisholm and for the Inequality in Bronze project in Philadelphia to redesign one of the first monuments to an enslaved woman at the Stenton historic house museum. As a 2018-2020 fellow at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Research Center for Women at Columbia University she worked on a project about the ‘citizenless' Virgin Islanders in the Harlem Renaissance. This two-part conversation bookends the US Indepencence Day holiday, and at a time when so much about identity and nationalism is begging for long overdue examination, these episodes are healthy food for thought. In true #TBT fashion you'll want to come back to these discussion for the learning and insights into the continued work of deconstructing colonialism. Where to find La Vaughn and her works? www.lavaughnbelle.com (http://www.lavaughnbelle.com/) I Am Queen Mary (https://www.iamqueenmary.com/) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lavaughnbelle/) On Twitter (https://twitter.com/lavaughnbelle?lang=en) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lavaughnbelle/?hl=en) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/lavaughnbellestudio/) What's La Vaughn reading? Just As I Am: A Memoir (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08425MPGS&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_B7ME6BXWR2G5PVKD9F3E&tag=glocalcitiz0e-20) by Cicely Tyson A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08G1KLXGG&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_GVF0J7PSSGMRAMG8J7Y0&tag=glocalcitiz0e-20) by Dr. Shefali Tsabary Other topics of interest: Teach for America (https://www.teachforamerica.org/) Helle Stenum (https://wecarryitwithinus.com/home/) Salsa Cubano (https://www.salsavida.com/salsa-dance-terms/cuban-style-salsa-cubana/) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07JWGDVFL/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6FGNXVSP5Y9E4ES2YA6F)by Walter Rodney About the Virgin Islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands) Special Guest: La Vaughn Belle.

A political education session hosted on March 4, 2021 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editors Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez and Nick Ayala and featuring comrade Chantei. Our guest is Erica Caines. Erica is a poet, writer and organizer in Baltimore and the DMV area. She is an organizing committee member of the anti-war coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace as well as an outreach member of the Black-centered Ujima People’s Progress Party. Erica founded Liberation Through Reading in 2017 as a way to provide Black children with books that represent them. In this session, we discuss "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," a book published in 1972 by African revolutionary Walter Rodney, who had roots in Guyana. In his book, Rodney explains how wealth and prosperity in Europe is directly correlated with the colonization and exploitation of Africa. Podcast: * * Visit Us | Visítanos https://anticonquista.com/​​​ Like Us on Facebook | Denos 'Me Gusta' en Facebook https://www.facebook.com/anticonquista/ Follow Us on Twitter | Síganos en Twitter https://twitter.com/anticonquista/​​​ Follow Us on Instagram | Síguenos en Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anticonquista/​ Read Our Books | Lea nuestros libros http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ANTICONQUISTA/ Listen to Our Podcasts | Escucha nuestro podcasts https://soundcloud.com/anticonquista/​​​ Fund the Resistance | Ayude a la resistencia https://www.patreon.com/anticonquista/​​​ Shop | Tienda https://anticonquista.com/shop/

In this episode we interview Devyn Springer. This is the third episode we’ve recorded over the years with Springer, but the first since the summer of 2018.  Devyn Springer is a cultural worker, community organizer, and independent researcher. They are a member of the Walter Rodney Foundation and the host of the Groundings podcast. In this episode we revisit some of our discussion from 2017 on Walter Rodney, touching on How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, the dialectic of underdevelopment and development, and the apocalyptic impact of the transatlantic slave trade on the African continent. Devyn also shares insights on key issues facing African peoples today in Africa and across the diaspora. And Josh and Devyn discuss the continued relevance of Springer’s piece from 2017, Does The Western Left Have An Africa Problem? We also revisit concepts of the guerrilla intellectual and the misleadership class. Finally Devyn adds some thoughts on critical struggles for the Pan African Left today, including freeing political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal. As always if you appreciate what we do and want to help sustain our work here at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, you can do so by contributing to our patreon. And just a note Devyn announces on this episode a forthcoming season of Groundings and multiple other projects they are working on, so remember to support their patreon as well.

Regardless of how one identifies, the facts are clear that the state of Africa has a tremendous impact on our daily lives. The resources stolen from Africa are sold as products in America, the exploitation of Africa funds the system that oppresses us in America, both of the American ghetto and African communities operate as neo-colonies for extraction, and the entire African Diaspora is sold myths of propaganda about each other. We establish these connections by digging into the book "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by activist-scholar Walter Rodney. This episode is premiering on the day that would have been his 79th birthday. March 23rd, Is also our one-year anniversary as a podcast. Thank you to all of our supporters. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths

We list our *Top 5 Revolutionary Reggae Songs* of all time. Ras Jamal from Royal Ethiopian Sound joins the discussion to give his analysis. We define what a revolutionary song is and how the music of the 70s differs from the messages in today's music. There are different kinds of revolutions. The conversation takes us through the some responses that have emerged as a result of today's struggle for racial justice. Jah9, Yeza, Kabaka Pyramid, Protoje, Akae Beka, Lutan Fyah, Warrior King, Anthony B, Sizzla, and Queen Ifrica are commended for their contributions to the movement. We each listed some honorable mentions in addition to our top 5 revolutionary reggae songs. *Kahlil Wonda's Top 5 Revolutionary Reggae Songs* * Bob Marley - Burning and Looting * Bob Marley - Revolution * Peter Tosh - Equal Rights * Sizzla - Made Of * Bob Marley - Slave Driver *AGARD's Top 5 Revolutionary Reggae Songs* * Bob Andy - Unchained * The Abyssinians - Declaration of Rights * Peter Tosh - Equal Rights * Dennis Brown - Revolution * Bob Marley - War *Ras Jamal's Top 5 Revolutionary Reggae Songs* * John Holt - Police In Helicopter * Bob Marley - War * Peter Tosh - Equal Rights * Dennis Brown - Revolution * Beres Hammond - Another Day In The System *We also debated topics like:* * Where is the revolutionary music of this generation? * What is the difference between conscious music and positive music? * Is reggae supposed to teach or help people? * Outside of revolutionary music, what tactics can lead to the results we seek? * Does an artist have to be a rasta to be conscious? *The Tastemaker* * Protoje's "In Search of Lost Time" album. Notable track, "In Bloom" ft. Lila Ike. * Sevana's 'Mango' from the "Be Somebody" EP. *Buzzworthy* Super Cat releases a new single, "Push Crime" with production by Salam Remi. A new album is forthcoming. *Ras Jamal's Recommended Books for Ongoing Learning* * The Sankofa Movement: ReAfrikanization and the Reality of War by Kwame Agyei and Akua Nson Akoto. * Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani. * Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson. * Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams. * How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney. * Any books by Eric Williams, John Henrik Clarke, or Marcus Garvey. *Full Show Notes* ( http://reggaelover.com ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/reggae-lover/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary on Radio Sputnik hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Sputnik News analyst and Transgender rights activist Morgan Artyukhina to talk about yesterday's surprising ruling by the Supreme Court extending civil rights protections to LGBTQ people, the strangely-conservative rationale behind the decision, and why "at-will employment" and "right to work" legislation limits the real impact of the ruling on the lives of working Gay and Transgender people.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nicole Roussell, Sputnik News analyst and a producer for Loud and Clear with Brian Becker, to talk about the wave of assaults on members of the press by police amid the ongoing uprising, why the different "reforms" offered by President Trump and the Democrats strike so many protesters as inadequate, and why the hyper-militarized response to the uprising by politicians of both parties only energized demonstrators more.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Jesse Benjamin, an organizer, associate professor at Kennesaw State University, and Board Member of the Walter Rodney Foundation, to talk about the legacy of Walter Rodney as we mark the 40th anniversary of his assassination, the role of his seminal work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" in shifting public consciousnesss, and the enduring impact of his analysis amid the ongoing uprising against racism and police terror.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kristine Hendrix, President to the University City School Board, Junior Bayard Rustin Fellow with the Fellowship for Reconciliation and contributor to the Truth-Telling Project and "We Stay Woke" podcast, to talk about the response by the political establishment in this country to the coronavirus pandemic and the protest movement, why it's so important to emphasize the role of capitalism in the logic of racist policing, and California Democratic Representative Barbara Lee's proposed legislation to redirect hundreds of billions from military spending towards social spending.

We have our first social distancing episode! Join Adam, James, and Matt as we interview Dr. Jamie Parker, freshly off his dissertation defense, on his dissertation: "The Fluidity of Late Colonial Development: Water Management, State Building, and Rural Resistance in Kenya 1938-63." On the heels of James and Matt's dissertation defenses, we work through defending dissertations in the mid-March pandemic stages during the first couple weeks of Massachusetts shutting down. Jamie talks about how the British colonial government in Kenyan took resources away from natives and gave them to white settlers in the name of progress and profit. Jamie makes his intervention into the history of development and water resources in the British Empire, using Kenya as his case study. He shows how prioritizing specific economic growth by people far away over all else leads to disastrous consequences. He looks at the power dynamics and how tribal groups interacted with settlers, the colonial government, and the London offices. Jamie lays out the timeline of the Kenyan water mismanagement from the war to the Mau Mau rebellion through independence and post-colonial structures, with the focus on cash-crops. How does that play out in the larger globe, when development agencies replicate putting specific models onto larger population centers? What led Dr. Parker to look to Kenyan colonial water management? What was defending his dissertation like during a pandemic like? What's next for Dr. Jamie Parker and the rest of the newly minted doctors of history? Book mentioned in the episode: "The Development Century" by Stephen J Macekura and Erez Manela https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40012143-the-development-century "Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism" by Joseph M. Hodge https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2139250.Triumph_of_the_Expert "Empire State-Building: War And Welfare In Kenya 1925-52" by Joanna Lewis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8349599-empire-state-building "Seeing Like a Citizen: Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945–1980" by Kara Moskowitz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44665459-seeing-like-a-citizen "Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya" by Martin S. Shanguhyia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27910250-population-tradition-and-environmental-control-in-colonial-kenya "Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro" by Matthew V. Bender https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41839963-water-brings-no-harm "Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa: An Environmental History" by Heather J. Hoag https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18049134-developing-the-rivers-of-east-and-west-africa "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Cassie Cloutier Theme Music: Kieran Legg Today's hosts were: Matt Bowser, James Robinson, Adam Tomasi twitter: @BreakingHistPod

In, Amilcar Cabral and the Theory of the National Liberation Struggle, Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja writes that: “Amilcar Cabral's contribution to understanding the success and failures of liberation movements, resides in his demonstration that national liberation struggles have two phases: the national phase and the social phase, with the latter being more crucial to its ultimate conclusion (1972: 102-110). This analysis is of course theorized within the reality that nation states themselves have deep inherent structural implications that will come into conflict with communities of people that are excluded in its fundamental assumptions of how and for whom society should be organized. It also is based on the reality that nation states, as advanced through European projects, were themselves developed as a direct product of imperialism and its attendant forms of colonialism (direct, indirect, neo, settler, internal). According to Amiri Baraka in Towards Ideological Clarity, “the 18th century [a time when European nation states, driven by the old wars between tribal Europe rapidly began to solidify their existence in national entities] was, also, the time when European capitalism amassed the initial wealth it needed to bring about the unprecedented technological advances responsible for what was later called the: industrial revolution. This primitive accumulation cannot be separated from the European Slave Trade...". Writing in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney further argues that: “throughout the 17th and 18th centuries and for most of the 19th century, the exploitation of Africa and African labor continued to be a source for the accumulation of capital to be re-invested in Western Europe. The African contribution to European capitalist growth extended over such vital sectors as shipping, insurance, [the formation of international corporations-such as but not limited to, the African Royal Company, East Indian Company, etc], capitalist agriculture, technology and the manufacture of machinery...". The legacy of this is encapsulated in an African world left to wrestle with the contradictions inherent in sociopolitical and economic structures where the exploitation of human and natural resources is the foundational ethos and the human response is a reclamation of its humanity as developed from a critical consciousness—in the case of the African world, a critical Africana consciousness. Today, AWNP is in conversation with veteran activist and political theorist, Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party. In 1966, Chairman Omali Yeshitela after ripping down a racist mural from the walls of City Hall in St Petersburg, Florida, developing a political and intellectual trajectory informed by anti-colonial movements around the world and the struggle for liberation by people of African descent in the U.S., Yeshitela has dedicated his life to refining a praxis that seeks to institutionalize freedom for the African world. In 1972, the African People's Socialist Party was formed along with the worldwide Uhuru Movement and the African Socialist International, with branches active in the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean and on the continent of Africa. Last year, Chair Omali, as Malcolm X did 55 years ago, traveled to London to participate in the formal debates at the Oxford Union. He was asked to argue in favor of the house embracing an ever-closer African union. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples! For more: https://apspuhuru.org/

Today on Sojourner Truth: We remember a key figure, woman and human rights campaigner in the Caribbean region, Andaiye. She was a collaborator and comrade of Walter Rodney. Rodney is known in the United States and around the world for his groundbreaking book, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa." Andaiye died on May 31, 2019. Today, we dig into the history of struggles in the region, their interrelationship to the struggles in which she was involved in, and struggles in the United States, the Americas and Europe. She worked mainly in the movement outside of government, but she was part of the CARICOM delegation to the final UN conference on women that was held in Beijing, China in 1995. Andaiye's impact on the region and beyond is why her death is being so deeply felt " from Guyana, Jamaica, Haiti, England and elsewhere. Robin Kelly, head of Africana Studies at UCLA, is the author of the foreword to Andaiye's upcoming anthology, titled "The Point Is To Change The World." We honor and remember our sister warrior who was against sexism, racism, imperialism and for racial unity, human rights and freedom. Our guests include a number of people who worked with her in Guyana but also in other parts of the world. They are Joy Marcus, Jocelyn Dow, Eusi Kwayana, Alissa Trotz, Selma James.

    Listen, support, and interact: https://linktr.ee/theentrylevelleft     01:25 What is uneven development? https://bit.ly/2aDmqkh   03:00: "Uneven development” via Rostow's Stages https://bit.ly/2gC2hjP   07:36: How is uneven development related to imperialism and colonialism?   11:40: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney https://bit.ly/2JhgzWB   16:32: What are the scopes and causes of uneven development?   18:27: Redlining, denial of mortgage loans, and disinvestment in Chicago https://bit.ly/2DSqsXk   20:25: What is the legacy of uneven development today?   20:35: Case studies of uneven development in Zambia and Tanzania https://bit.ly/2H2PxR4   22:15: Structural Adjustments of the IMF or World Bank cause poverty https://bit.ly/1qfKSOl   26:10: Thomas Sankara on foreign aid https://bit.ly/2VSv9u6   29:30: Therapy is less effective for people in poverty https://bit.ly/2JypKmD   30:00: Socioeconomic status correlating with social outcomes https://bit.ly/2J3jVgw   31:45: How does capitalism enable market attitudes that trend toward uneven development?   36:00: Capitalist market logic applied to West Virginia https://bit.ly/2H51khO   36:02: Richard Ojeda, milquetoast orange-man-bad liberal https://bit.ly/2VNWcXx   43:10: How are social relations relevant to examples of uneven development?   49:05: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein https://bit.ly/2WEcI9y   51:20: New Urbanism: https://bit.ly/2gGaaq0   56:50: Boyle Heights gentrification protests https://bit.ly/2H5Pt21   59:30: Betsy DeVos privatizing education https://bit.ly/2J34x3D   1:00:30: How does uneven development foster nationalistic, reactionary tendencies?   1:03:00: Local examples: White flight, displacement, gentrification https://bit.ly/2VRt3uD     1:06:00: Eagle's Landing in Atlanta, GA https://bit.ly/2V7wnxa   1:09:50: Low investment in neighborhoods equals low public school funding     Music produced by @southpointe__ on Instagram.

https://www.bittermedicineblogs.com – On today’s show we discuss the Bitter Medicine Book Club July reading: “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney! Even though July is over, you can still read the book and join the discussion! Listen to find out more. Book Club: Join the August Book Cub! We are reading “The Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays” by Bobby E. Wright. Order the book here: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2NAAnmy DONATE 2 THE SHOW: https://goo.gl/pTFiAC Follow Us on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bittermedz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BitterMedicineShow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bittermedicine Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/bittermedz Website: https://goo.gl/DywnPr Follow KWAZ RADIO: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KWAZRADIO/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kwazradio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kwazradio YouTube: https://goo.gl/a6eXJZ Website: https://www.kwazradio.com

https://www.bittermedicineblogs.com – On today’s show we have a discussion with Khepera El, founder/coordinator of Melinated Conscious Society (www.melinatedconscioussociety.com). Our discussion covers the challenges and rewards to organizing in the Black community. We also talk about the need for more support from our people. Listen to find out more. Contact Melinated Conscious Society: www.melinatedconscioussociety.com 904-452-4506 melinatedconscioussociety@gmail.com www.facebook.com/khepera.el Book Club: Join the July Book Cub! We are reading “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney. Order the book here: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2Kp8KzP Kindle: https://amzn.to/2z0Z4pK DONATE 2 THE SHOW: https://goo.gl/pTFiAC Follow Us on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bittermedz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BitterMedicineShow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bittermedicine Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/bittermedz Website: https://goo.gl/DywnPr Follow KWAZ RADIO: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KWAZRADIO/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kwazradio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kwazradio YouTube: https://goo.gl/a6eXJZ Website: https://www.kwazradio.com

https://www.bittermedicineblogs.com – On today’s show we have a on “Toxic Black Masculinity”. It’s largely a myth. There is a war being waged on Black Manhood. The toxic behaviors you might see from Black males in the community come from another (overlooked) place. Listen to find out more. Join the July Book Cub! We are reading “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney. Order the book here: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2Kp8KzP Kindle: https://amzn.to/2z0Z4pK DONATE 2 THE SHOW: https://goo.gl/pTFiAC Follow Us on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bittermedz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BitterMedicineShow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bittermedicine Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/bittermedz Website: https://goo.gl/DywnPr Follow KWAZ RADIO: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KWAZRADIO/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kwazradio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kwazradio YouTube: https://goo.gl/a6eXJZ Website: https://www.kwazradio.com

*Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts (bit.ly/BetterOffRediTunes) and share with friends. If you like Better Off Red, consider donating on Patreon. (bit.ly/PatreonRedPod)* This week we talk to Lee Wengraf about her book, Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa (bit.ly/ExtractingProfit). Lee’s book challenges the prevailing myths that shape how most people understand the persistence of war and poverty in Africa. These come not only in outright racist forms, but also as paternalistic, liberal tropes. We discuss the Guyanese Marxist Walter Rodney’s groundbreaking work How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Lee describes how economic and social development was reversed in Africa history as a result of colonial intervention. She argues that this is not only in the colonial past, but that imperialism and neoliberalism have continued to shape the development of Africa. Lee extends Rodney’s analysis to discuss the role of the IMF, the World Bank and neoliberal economic policy since the establishment of national independence throughout most of Africa. Today there is a new scramble for Africa, with the US and China competing for access to oil and mineral assets. Extractive industries have threatened the ecological sustainability of the continent and are displacing local communities. But they are also creating a powerful working-class. Lee talks about her recent trip to attend a conference of left-wing activists in Tanzania and then to South Africa, where she was able to witness a one-day national strike. She talks about how the debates that African socialists have wrestled with for many decades, and which are discussed in her book, have taken on a pressing urgency today. In our opener, we wish Karl Marx’s a happy 200th birthday (which was on May 5th). We discuss the centrality of struggle from below, the concept of self-emancipation and why Marxism is not just a narrow economic struggle but a strategy for full human liberation. We point to the teachers’ strikes as a vindication of Marx’s project of working-class self-emancipation and end our opening segment with interviews with Arizona teachers on strike. For more resources on materials covered in this episode, explore: You can purchase Lee’s book at Haymarket Books (bit.ly/ExtractingProfit). If you want to learn more about Walter Rodney, you can see the video of Lee’s presentation for the Socialism Conference (bit.ly/Socialism2018) at our YouTube channel (bit.ly/RodneyVideo). For more about class struggles in South Africa after independence, two excellent talks are available at We Are Many (bit.ly/WeareMany): Pranav Jani on After Independence (bit.ly/AfterIndependenceJani); and, Aaron Amaral on Class Struggle in South Africa Today (bit.ly/SouthAfricaAmaral). If you liked what we had to say about Karl Marx’ relevance today, read Todd Chretien on How Marx Became a Marxist (bit.ly/SWMarxist) for Socialist Worker’s 200th birthday feature. To find out more about socialism and ways to get involved, check out Socialism 2018 , held in Chicago, July 5-8 (bit.ly/Socialism2018). The NYC ISO, DSA and Jacobin are hosting a meeting on the Lessons of the Teachers’ Revolt (bit.ly/LessonsTeachers) May 9th at Verso in NYC - you can watch the livestream at Jacobin's facebook page (bit.ly/JacobinFB). Music The Boy & Sister Alma, “Lizard Eyes” (Dead Sea Captains Remix) DJ Mujava, “Township Funk,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBNYjAhEsx4 Amandla, “Sasol,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fu9N1U9fFY Band Aid 1984, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE Seun Kuti, “IMF,” ft. M1 (from Dead Prez), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fGcf3GODKE Y'en a Marre, “Dox ak sa Gox,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YyD_SB33U Fela Kuti, “International Thief Thief (I.T.T.),” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptR_YwCs3o