Podcasts about Ruth First

  On the African Revolutionary series this week, Clement speaks to ANC veteran and author Pallo Jordan as they discuss the legacy and life of struggle icon, Journalist, and anti – apartheid activist Ruth Heloise First.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of Parallax Views, anthropologist David H. Price, author of Weaponizing Anthropology and Cold War Anthropology: Social Science in the Service of the Militarized State, returns to discuss his latest book The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent. The conversation begins with David H. Price discussing his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about interactions between American anthropologist, the FBI, the CIA, and American military agencies. We delve into how David became involved in looking at how anthropologists and social science were utilized in the global War on Terror, especially through the Human Terrain System program. In other words, the use of anthropology and social science for social monitoring and control. From there we delve into the thesis of The American Surveillance State and the idea, put forth by CIA whistleblower Philip Agee, that agencies like the FBI and CIA act as "the secret police of American capitalism". In this regard we discuss how intelligence agency institutions became powerful surveillance apparatuses that often targeted the labor and radical leftist movements. This also allows us to discuss the (in)famous figure of longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and some conversation about the period of WWII and the transition into the Cold War. Among other topics we also manage to discuss: - The history of phone surveillance and wiretapping - The Total Information Awareness program and mass data collection - The issue of corporate surveillance as well as government surveillance - The American Surveillance State's targeting of anthropologist Gene Weltfish, Native American activist Archie Phinney, and South African anti-apartheid activist Ruth First; the targeted surveillance of activists who sought to expose systems of racial inequality - American anthropology, racial inequality, and the American surveillance state in the era of Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare in the 1940s and 1950s - Addressing arguments that the massive surveillance and suppression of privacy and individual rights is necessary to fighting security threats like terrorism - The deep roots of anti-communism in the U.S. Liberal anti-communism in the CIA and right-wing anti-communism in Hoover's FBI; President Harry S. Truman and the Truman loyalty oaths program (which targeted federal employees) as a precursor to McCarthyism; Truman vs. Harry Wallace and the weaponizing the surveillance state against political enemies - The FBI's targeting of liberal anti-communists; liberal anti-communist German-American anthropologist Andre Gunder Frank, the Global South, and Frank's critique of American economic hegemony; the FBI's massive file on Andre Gunder Frank - The FBI file on left-wing Academy Award-winning cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, who directed the film Medium Cool (a movie filmed in the midst of the riots at the Chicago Democratic National Convention (DNC) in 1968; Wexler's film on the Weather Underground and FBI surveillance of Wexler - Court trials, jury selection, prosecutors, and the FBI - The FBI and Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, the founder of postcolonial studies; the monitoring of Said, who was known for his pro-Palestinian views - The FBI file on the late left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch; the American Surviellance State and Alexander Cockburn's visa - Anthropologist Melville Jacobs, who was a student of Franz Boaz, and how he was targeted for his involvement with communism; pre-McCarthy threats against anthropologists who addresses issues of inequality; academic freedom, Cold Wars paranoia/fears, and the rumored-to-be-antisemitic academic who acted as an FBI informant against Jewish professors - Spanish anthropologist Angel Palerm, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the monitoring of Palerm over his work on Latin America; informants in the OAS - Why is certain information redacted in FOIA documents?; why is some information withheld or claimed to be non-existent when it comes to FOIA requests? - FBI incompetence and FOIA - Price's thoughts on the FBI and it's handling of modern domestic terrorism threats, specifically far right-wing groups like the Proud Boys and white supremacist organizations; how surveillance of right-wing groups like the Ku Klux Klan arguably differs from surveillance of left-wing groups; intelligence agency responses to the far-right as being far too late and far less numerous than targeting of left-wing activists - Liberal sentiments that the FBI and other intelligence agencies are the heroes that will save America from Trump and the far-right; Price's response to this - How to make a FOIA request; the ins and outs of making a FOIA request - Has Price ever requested a FOIA on himself?; the CIA's review of one of Price's books - Responding to people who believe that any talk of the surveillance state is just tinfoil hat, right-wing conspiracy theory crankery territory - The CIA vs. the FBI during the Cold War and the roots of the CIA at Yale University - J. Edgar Hoover as a creature of the FBI rather than the Cold War FBI being a creature of Hoover; analysis of institutions vs. hyper-focusing on specific individuals like Hoover - Edward Snowden and the need for a new Watergate moment which will bring about new investigations into the American Surveillance State and possible reforms; FBI oversight, the Pike Committee, and the response to the Watergate scandal - Are we too numb to the American Surveillance State at this point to be outraged by it? - And more!

Thanks for listening to Afrofiles! In this episode, Dr. Miles Tendi, professor of Politics and African Studies at Oxford University, talks with Luke St. Pierre and Sarah Daly about recent coups in north and west Africa. Find Miles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MilesTendi and check out his most recent book, The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Solomon Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker (2020) See references discussed in the interview: · Ruth First, Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État(1970) https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/term/cluster/barrel-gun · The famous picture of Condé on his couch during the coup, when he was detained in his office: https://news365.co.ke/2021/09/06/president-conde/ · Kevin Koehler and Holger Albrecht, “Revolutions and the Military: Endgame Coups, Instability, and Prospects for Democracy,” Armed Forces and Society (November 4, 2019). · Holger Albrecht, Kevin Koehler, and Austin Shutz, “Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy,” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 4 (December 2021). · Samuel Decalo, Coups & Army Rule in Africa, 1990, https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Samuel-Decalo/Coups-and-Army-Rule-in-Africa--Motivations-and-Constraints-Second-Edition/12827694 · Elizabeth Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (2013); and Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (2018); https://www.loyola.edu/academics/history/faculty/schmidt · Boubacar N'Diaye, various publications, https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Boubacar-NDiaye-2002747900 · Larry Diamond, “Democratic Regression in Comparative Perspective: Scope, Methods, and Causes,” Democratization 28, no. 1 (2021), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2020.1807517 This episode was produced by Luke St. Pierre and Sarah Daly, with help from Ed Hendrickson. This episode was edited by Sarah, which explains any and all listening woes.

In today's episode I discuss Babe Ruth's debut, ‘First Base' from 1972. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedecibelsdeeppodcast/support

I detta avsnitt inspelat på ljuvliga studio Cyklopen har vi tagit Svante till hjälp att ta oss an Muammar al-Khadaffi, den gröna boken och revolutionen, lockelsen den hade på sin tids svenska anarkister och Libyens uppgång och senare fall för Clintonklanens och JAS-planens skoningslösa blodtörst. Diktator eller demokrat, frälsare eller fiende? Som vanligt är det inte helt enkelt. Tagga en kamrat som håller lite för långa tal. Vi har läst: Libya: The Elusive Revolution, Ruth First, 1974 https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/term/cluster/libya-elusive-revolution Den gröna boken, Moammar al-Kadhafi, 198-? (övers. Anders Hallengren) Anarkistisk tidskrift, nr 6-7, 1992 https://www.sac.se/Om-SAC/Historik/Arkiv/Tidningsarkiv/Tidningar-utgivna-av-andra-frihetliga-organisationer/Anarkistisk-tidskrift/Anarkistisk-tidskrift-06 Kulturdebatt om anarkisterna och Libyen, 2011 https://www.expressen.se/debatt/johan-lundberg-sa-tystnade-snacket-om-broder-khadaffi/ https://www.expressen.se/debatt/mattias-gardell-som-att-kalla-lundberg-for-gardellkramare/ https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/bKLmd5/hogern-ar-de-stora-gaddafi-kramarna https://warlenius.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/gardell-khadaffi-och-hogern/ "Enväldigt massvälde: analys av den libyska ideologin och det libyska samhället i historiskt perspektiv", Alexander Johansson, D-uppsats, Luleå tekniska universitet, 2005 https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1032701/FULLTEXT01.pdf Om det sponsrade ishockeylaget: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/18/sports/qaddafi-foiled-as-an-ice-hockey-patron.html Khadaffi intervjuad, 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhZmO6P0NU Vänsterpartiet och Libyen - en dokumentation: https://marxistarkiv.se/afrika/libyen/v_och_libyen.pdf "Interventionen mot Libyen", Lars-Gunnar Liljestrand, ur Lagen mot krig, 2013 (sid 112-121) https://www.alliansfriheten.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Lagen-mot-krig.pdf Om det "progressiva" i att kvinnor tryckte på knappen för bomberna: https://www.thedailybeast.com/libya-airstrikes-hillary-clinton-and-the-women-who-called-for-war Glöm inte sponsra oss på patreon.com/kominternpodd om du vill att Andreas röst ska fortsätta präglas av ett slitsamt leverne. Tack till GRK north-eath för introt Outro var Ahmed Fakroun – Soleil Soleil Vi finns där poddar finns, tex Radio Noden Följ oss på instagram.com/kominternpodd Skamlösa förslag och skammanden skickas till kominternpodd@gmail.com

Durée : 4:06 - A l'occasion des SECD (Semaines d'Education et de lutte Contre toutes les formes de Discriminations), focus sur la journaliste et résistante sud-africaine Ruth First !

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In 1991 the South African schooling system desegregated and historically white schools opened up and accepted children of all races. The first black students in these schools seemed to live up to their place in history. They populated the school awards ceremonies, became prefects and notice boards with black, African names featured for the first time. This was seen as a victory. In 2015, the generation of students who followed the 80s cohort into previously white schools led a nation-wide protest movement which would become known as #FeesMustFall. For this 90s cohort who entered universities, the reality of an untransformed society hit. They called for free education, increased funding to universities, the removal of colonial and apartheid statues, and the decolonization of education. If that was the fight of the 90s cohort, where does that leave the “victory” of the previous generation, the 80s cohort which was the first to enter previously white schools? What did it mean to be a black body, a guinea pigs in the desegregation of the South African schooling system? Award-winning news and current affairs editor, journalist, gender rights activist, speaker, and social commentator, Nolwazi Tusini delivers an edited version of her Ruth First Lecture titled The 80s kids: A story of collaboration as disruption. The lecture is based on her research on the first generation of black children to enter desegregated multi-racial schools in South Africa.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Black women have taken the lead in calling for a basic makeover in health care in the United States, a profession that was largely built on experimentation on enslaved Black people, and which has failed to serve Black men, women and children, ever since. And, reading may be fundamental, but much of what young people read in school is a racist lie. We’ll talk with a professor whose reading list tries to correct the misinformation of US and world history. Democrats and Republicans alike stood up and cheered at President Trump’s State of the Union Address, when he introduced Juan Guaido, the right-wing politician who last year proclaimed himself president of Venezuela. Nobody voted for Guaido, and Venezuela already had an elected government, but the U.S. recognized Guaido, anyway. American activists then occupied the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, to keep it from being taken over by Guaido supporters. They called themselves the Embassy Defenders. After almost a month-long siege, four of the Defenders were arrested. They face trial on February 11th, and could be imprisoned for up to a year and fined $100,000 each. One of the defenders is Kevin Zeese, of Popular Resistance. He says they’re being prevented from mounting an effective defense. Black women in the United States are three times as likely to die in childbirth than white women, and Black American infant mortality is worse than in many poor countries of the world. Deirdre Cooper Owens is with the Department of History and the Humanities-in-Medicine Program of the University of Nebraska. She co-wrote a paper entitled, “Black Maternal and Infant Health: the Historical Legacies of Slavery.” Cooper Owens says much of modern U.S. medicine is based on medical practices devised during slavery. It’s often said that reading is fundamental. But, what if most of what people read is historically wrong? Nana Osei-Opare teaches history at Fordham University. He submitted an article to Black Agenda Report’s “Books I Teach” feature. Osei-Opare has his students read a comprehensive list of authors and subjects, from the Kenyan Mau Mau, to South African liberationist Steve, former Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah, and radical writer and psychiatrist Franz Fanon. Near the top of the list is a book by Ruth First, who was assassinated by the white regime in South Africa.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Black women have taken the lead in calling for a basic makeover in health care in the United States, a profession that was largely built on experimentation on enslaved Black people, and which has failed to serve Black men, women and children, ever since. And, reading may be fundamental, but much of what young people read in school is a racist lie. We'll talk with a professor whose reading list tries to correct the misinformation of US and world history. Democrats and Republicans alike stood up and cheered at President Trump's State of the Union Address, when he introduced Juan Guaido, the right-wing politician who last year proclaimed himself president of Venezuela. Nobody voted for Guaido, and Venezuela already had an elected government, but the U.S. recognized Guaido, anyway. American activists then occupied the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, to keep it from being taken over by Guaido supporters. They called themselves the Embassy Defenders. After almost a month-long siege, four of the Defenders were arrested. They face trial on February 11th, and could be imprisoned for up to a year and fined $100,000 each. One of the defenders is Kevin Zeese, of Popular Resistance. He says they're being prevented from mounting an effective defense. Black women in the United States are three times as likely to die in childbirth than white women, and Black American infant mortality is worse than in many poor countries of the world. Deirdre Cooper Owens is with the Department of History and the Humanities-in-Medicine Program of the University of Nebraska. She co-wrote a paper entitled, “Black Maternal and Infant Health: the Historical Legacies of Slavery.” Cooper Owens says much of modern U.S. medicine is based on medical practices devised during slavery. It's often said that reading is fundamental. But, what if most of what people read is historically wrong? Nana Osei-Opare teaches history at Fordham University. He submitted an article to Black Agenda Report's “Books I Teach” feature. Osei-Opare has his students read a comprehensive list of authors and subjects, from the Kenyan Mau Mau, to South African liberationist Steve, former Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah, and radical writer and psychiatrist Franz Fanon. Near the top of the list is a book by Ruth First, who was assassinated by the white regime in South Africa.

Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are central to this interesting discussion.

Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are central to this interesting discussion.

Niren Tolsi is an award-winning South African journalist,a former Ruth First Fellow and an avid cricket fan. He covers issues around social justice, the constitution, politics, and violence. He is a co-founder of the now defunct The Con, and and associate editor/writer for New Frame. Our discussion focuses on a number of themes that emerge from some of his recent writing including a series  articles about South African cricketing great Hashim Amla, his 2018 Ruth First lecture  that focused on the state of the  South African media landscape, his ongoing work about the families of the miners massacred at Marikana in 2012, and a current project looking at politics and violence in kwaZulu-Natal. So during our chat we spoke about the lack of transformation in sport, the media and business as well as the structure and nature of the South African media, and the state of the ANC through the violence in kwaZulu-Natal. Read The Rainbow Beauty of Hashim Amla here (http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1131324/the-rainbow-beauty-of-hashim-amla) . The Meaning of Hashim Amla (https://www.newframe.com/the-meaning-of-hashim-amla/) Niren's Ruth First lecture (http://journalism.co.za/2018-ruth-first-memorial-lecture-delivered-by-niren-tolsi-full-paper/) . Marikana (https://marikana.mg.co.za/)

In this episode, we conclude our two-part investigation into the life and assassination of Ruth First. A journalist working in South Africa during the era of apartheid, Ruth exposed the brutalities of life for blacks living in the country. With her husband, Joe Slovo, she became a leading member of the South African Communist Party and a supporter of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.This episode features ads for Free Your Tea and Shaker & Spoon. Get 10% off a subscription to Free Your Tea by visiting freeyourtea.com and entering code ASSASSINATIONS at checkout. You can also get $20 off a cocktail box subscription by visiting shakerandspoon.com/assassin.This episode features a promo for Presidencies of the United States Podcast, available on iTunes.Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

This is the first installment of our two-part investigation into the life and assassination of Ruth First. A journalist working in South Africa during the era of apartheid, Ruth exposed the brutalities of life for blacks living in the country. With her husband, Joe Slovo, she became a leading member of the South African Communist Party and a supporter of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.This episode features ads for Free Your Tea and Shaker & Spoon. Get 10% off a subscription to Free Your Tea by visiting freeyourtea.com and entering code ASSASSINATIONS at checkout. You can also get $20 off a cocktail box subscription by visiting shakerandspoon.com/assassin.This episode features a promo for French History Podcast, available on iTunes.Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

RUTH FIRST raccontata da Riccardo Michelucci

CliffCentral.com — Andrew Levy and Rorisang Tshabalala kick off a series of conversations on black anger and black pain. They discuss this topic with Mbe Mbhele, who famously told whites to "f*#% off" at the Ruth First lecture, as well as Thabiso Afarakan Mohare.

Former anti-apartheid activist Alpheus Manghezi recalls the day in August 1982 when his colleague Ruth First was killed by a parcel bomb delivered to her office. Both Manghezi and First were living in exile in Mozambique. Manghezi describes how he visited the scene together with the Mozambican president, Samora Machel. The assassins were later identified as agents of the South African state. (Image: Former South African president Nelson Mandela unveiling a plaque dedicated to Ruth First and Joe Slovo in London. Credit: Getty Images)

James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust, a courtroom drama set in post-apartheid South Africa. Gillian is the daughter of Joe Slovo, one of the founding members of the African National Congress, and Ruth First, an anti-apartheid campaigner murdered by security forces in the early 1980s. The novel draws heavily on Gillian's own experience of coming face to face with her mother's killer during the Truth and Reconciliation hearings of the new South Africa.