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In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment and Podmas #18, I read "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks. --- Readings & Resources bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this Podmas installment #11 and #ReadingRevolution episode, I read and discuss Tressie McMillan Cottom's essay "A Few Notes on Gaslighting." --- Readings & Resources Tressie McMillan Cottom - "A Few Notes on Gaslighting" https://tressiemc.com/essays-2/a-few-notes-on-gaslighting/ Tressie McMillan Cottom - Thick https://thenewpress.com/books/thick --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this Podmas installment #8 and #ReadingRevolution episode, I read Amiri Baraka's 1962 essay "'Black' Is a Country" --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, part of the Reading Revolution series, we discuss Che Guevara’s 1964 speech to the United Nations “Colonialism Is Doomed,” regarding the ongoing independence movements throughout the world and Cuba’s solidarity with oppressed peoples in their fight for sovereignty. --- Readings & Resources Che Guevara - “Colonialism Is Doomed” 1964 Speech to the United Nations https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1964/12/11-alt.htm Ada Ferrer - Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 https://uncpress.org/book/9780807847831/insurgent-cuba/ Aviva Chomsky - A History of the Cuban Revolution https://www.bookdepository.com/History-Cuban-Revolution-Aviva-Chomsky/9781118942284 Vijay Prashad - The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World https://thenewpress.com/books/darker-nations Gregory Mann - Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century https://www.dukeupress.edu/native-sons Christine Hatzky - Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976-1991 https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5216.htm Assata Shakur - Assata: An Autobiography https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781556520747 about the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata:_An_Autobiography Che Guevara on Face the Nation (1964) https://youtu.be/mzmOHy6Ine0 Che Guevara’s 1964 Address to the United Nations (excerpt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufHojkoGtw Hannah Allam - "'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left" https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/893533916/i-am-antifa-one-activist-s-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left Black Alliance for Peace - International Day of Action on Africom https://blackallianceforpeace.com/dayofactiononafricom?fbclid=IwAR1coF17j2EVFXIawscICHVqy50D32TRuyEmtyQix7Q9KKKfP1VhlEu0OZ4 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, part of the #ReadingRevolution series, we discuss the Combahee River Collective Statement, a manifesto penned by black lesbian socialists in 1977 regarding the way forward in movement politics. --- Readings & Resources Combahee River Collective Statement https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html In Spanish https://t.co/ot5aA3nbTn?amp=1 In Portuguese https://t.co/vvIB8cI4GX?amp=1 In French https://t.co/P5f9l0EYnO?amp=1 Digital Project on the Combahee River Collective https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editor- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free “Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will be Free” https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-free “Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y8jvNfAjCk Delete Your Account - Blackwashing (ep. featuring Wendi & Richard) https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/episode-182-blackwashing --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, part 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the larger global impact of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book. --- Reading/Resources Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380 Bill Mullen - "By the Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao and the Making of Afro-Asian Radicalism, 1966–1975" in Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History https://www.patreon.com/posts/maos-little-red-32754249 "W.E.B. Du Bois & the Tradition of Radical Blackness" -Interview w/ Charisse Burden Stelly for the Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/35web-du-bois-the-tradition-of-radical-blackness-wcharisse-burden-stelly-leftpoc-podcast Robeson Taj Frazier - The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination https://www.amazon.com/East-Black-China-Radical-Imagination/dp/0822357860/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=frazier+the+east+is+black&qid=1577841095&s=books&sr=1-1 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, part 2 of 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the text Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book. --- Reading/Resources Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, part 1 of 3 in a #ReadingRevolution series, we will be discussing the text Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, also known as The Little Red Book. --- Reading/Resources Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (full text) https://www.patreon.com/posts/next-up-for-red-32226380 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, we continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of the book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, a set of interviews with Angela Davis. --- Reading/Resources Eduardo Mendieta (interviewing Angela Davis) - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (full text) www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-29344345 Angela Davis Discusses Her Book Abolition Democracy www.c-span.org/video/?191553-1/a…ns-torture-empire Margaret Kimberly - "Ignoring Angela Davis" https://www.blackagendareport.com/ignoring_angela_davis --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, we have a #ReadingRevolution discussion of the book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, a set of interviews with Angela Davis. --- Reading/Resources Eduardo Mendieta (interviewing Angela Davis) - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (full text) https://www.patreon.com/posts/readingrevolutio-29344345 Angela Davis Discusses Her Book Abolition Democracy https://www.c-span.org/video/?191553-1/abolition-democracy-prisons-torture-empire Angela Davis: An Autobiography https://www.amazon.com/Angela-Davis-Autobiography-Y/dp/0717806677 “Free Angela Davis!” (interactive page) https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=d93da4b2e4fa47fcbc999b1006fe51d6 Interview w/ Angela Davis from prison for Vibrations (1972) https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/190044 Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness http://newjimcrow.com/ Douglas Blackmon - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (book) https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702 Slavery by Another Name (documentary) http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/ Elizabeth Hinton - From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979826 “Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies” https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon The Tuskegee Experiment https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study “Torture at Abu Grahib” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, we continue with part 2 of our discussion of Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution. --- Readings & Resources Albert Memmi - The Colonizer and the Colonized (full text)https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972 "Why High-Class People Get Away with Incompetence" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html "The Great Escape that Changed Africa's Future" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/great-escape-that-changed-africas-future?fbclid=IwAR36FqTJNJH345O_NXd9k6kZBcngq2W2fOdafwI0BZt0GWdIiSqh1SmFD8U --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts
In this episode, we discuss Albert Memmi's seminal work The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution. You can find the entire text for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972 Additional Readings & Resources: "Critics and Theorists: Albert Memmi" https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/19/memmi-albert/ "Albert Memmi's About-Face" http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0046.326 "Jews and Arabs" https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/21/archives/jews-and-arabs.html -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc
On today's podcast, Grace, one our #ReadingRevolution members discusses It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by @firoozehdumas #sciajourney
This week two of our Reading Revolution members, Trinity and Alyssa, review Alan Gratz's book Refugee.
In Episode 22 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I have our last #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events. You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts. --- Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time) -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc
In Episode 21 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events. You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts. --- Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time) -- Related Readings & Resources: "Behind the Scenes in Venezuela" https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-03-03/new-evidence-the-trump-administration-is-meddling-in-venezuelas-elections "Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ralph-northam-and-the-history-of-blackface "A Terrible Failure to Protect School Girls in Liberia" https://africasacountry.com/2018/10/a-terrible-failure-to-protect-school-girls-in-liberia "Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders" https://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/teach-for-america -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc
In Episode 20 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I have a #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts. --- Instituto Paulo Freire www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time) -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this discussion-based episode, Richard (my co-host for the #ReadingRevolution series) and I talk about the state of politics in the U.S. (including U.S. foreign policy), electoral drama in Brazil, and the need for having resolve on the left despite feeling disappointed. Related Readings & Resources: Instituto Paulo Freire http://www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time) “Quase 200 mil bolsistas da Capes podem ficar sem bolsa se orçamento de 2019 sofrer corte, diz conselho” (“Nearly 200,000 Capes scholarship recipient may lose their funding if the 2019 budget undergoes cuts, says council” https://g1.globo.com/educacao/noticia/2018/08/02/quase-200-mil-podem-ficar-sem-bolsa-se-orcamento-de-2019-sofrer-corte-diz-conselho-da-capes.ghtml “Brazil: judge shuts border to Venezuelan migrants fleeing hunger and hardship” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/06/brazil-shuts-border-venezuelan-migrants (Related update: “Brazil rules out closing border to Venezuelan immigrants” https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazil-rules-closing-border-venezuelan-immigrants-57293537) Ataques a venezuelanos são açulados por fake news brasileiras (“Attacks against Venezuelans are spurred by Brazilian fake news”) https://nocaute.blog.br/2018/08/19/ataque-a-venezuelanos/ "Tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: stand by your principles — stand with Palestine!" https://mondoweiss.net/2018/07/alexandria-principles-palestine/ “Twenty Years On: The War on Terror in East Africa” https://items.ssrc.org/twenty-years-on-the-war-on-terror-in-east-africa/ --- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard and I have our third #ReadingRevolution discussion, this time about Brazilian Communist revolutionary Carlos Marighella’s 1969 work The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, the place of violence in anti-authoritarian movements, and the contemporary application of radical political measures. Full Text (in English): https://t.co/67jJrv7Jnd Suggested Readings & Resources: Marighella (documentary, in Portuguese) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2Rt1-e8G8 Various – History of Marxism in Brazil (6 volume series, in Portuguese) http://www.anitagaribaldi.com.br/produtos/644/livros/socialismo-e-marxismo/colecao-historia-do-marxismo-no-brasil.html James N. Green – We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States https://www.amazon.com/Cannot-Remain-Silent-Dictatorship-Perspectives/dp/0822347350/ref=pd_sim_14_10?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822347350&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W Victoria Langland - Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Flowers-Movements-Remembering-Military/dp/0822353121/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065540&sr=1-1&keywords=victoria+langland+speaking+of+flowers Thomas Skidmore – The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985 https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Military-Rule-Brazil-1964-1985/dp/0195063163 Maria Helena Moreira Alves - State and Opposition in Military Brazil https://www.amazon.com/Opposition-Military-Brazil-American-Monographs/dp/0292776179/ref=pd_sim_14_7?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0292776179&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W Various - On Violence (selected essays by thinkers like Malcolm X, MLK, Hannah Arendt, Marx, and many others) https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reader-Bruce-B-Lawrence/dp/082233769X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065571&sr=1-4&keywords=on+violence Angela Davis – 1972 Interview (Clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBqyBE1Ppw
In this episode, Richard is back for our second installment of #ReadingRevolution, and we are discussing the meaning of propaganda and agitation in leftist ideology and practice. Related Readings & Resources The 2 pieces we read: Scott Harrison – The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, Chapter 11, “Agitation and Propaganda” http://www.massline.info/mlms/mlch11.htm “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda” Revolution, 1978 https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/rcp-agit-prop.htm --- References we make: “Trump’s grammar in speeches ‘just below 6th grade level,’ study finds” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/18/trumps-grammar-in-speeches-just-below-6th-grade-level-study-finds/?utm_term=.af2f7c866569 “Who Votes, Who Doesn’t, and Why” http://www.people-press.org/2006/10/18/who-votes-who-doesnt-and-why/ The William I am referring to at the beginning is William Richardson: twitter.com/DecolonialBlack “In White America: Liberal Conscience vs. Radical Consciousness” – speech by Greg Calvert, SDS http://www.sds-1960s.org/Calvert-WhiteAmerica.pdf Natural Readers information: https://www.naturalreaders.com/ -- Pictured: Soviet propaganda poster from WWII that reads: “Fascism is women’s worst enemy. Everyone [join] in the fight against fascism.” -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc
In this episode, Richard (@ProgressivGreen) and I have our first #ReadingRevolution with a discussion of Fidel Castro’s 1953 speech “History Will Absolve Me” Suggested Readings/Resources: Fidel Castro – “History Will Absolve Me” (1953) Ful text: https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm History Will Absolve Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Will_Absolve_Me Louis A. Pérez,Jr. – “Chapter 3: c. 1930 – 1959,” Cuba a Short History (Leslie Bethell, editor) https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Short-History-Cambridge-America/dp/0521436826 The Moncada Barracks Attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncada_Barracks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/castro-failed-coup-moncada-barracks/ -- Pictured: Fidel Castro -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Curious Cat: www.curiouscat.me/leftpoc Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc