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UPDATE (7/1/2022): One day after this segment aired, prison authorities announced that they had “reconsidered” their earlier decision, clearing the way for Atiba to earn his degree.Education is one of the few rehabilitative options available to incarcerated people, yet all across America prisoners are prevented from pursuing their education. “Atiba” Demetrius Brown, for instance, has been dedicated to improving himself and his post-incarceration prospects by taking correspondence courses while incarcerated in Maryland, but thanks to a draconian new decree by the Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS), Atiba can't take his exams. In this installment of Rattling the Bars, Victor Wallis joins Mansa Musa to discuss the case of “Atiba” Demetrius Brown and the calculated cruelty of the prison-industrial complex.Victor Wallis is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been involved in prisoner support activities since the 1970s in Indiana, and he is the author of numerous books, including Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on US Politics, which has been used in prison education projects.To contact “Atiba” Demetrius Brown:Demetrius Brown #401226sid #2642892MCTC18800 Roxbury Rd.Hagerstown, MD 21746Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/how-maryland-is-preventing-prisoners-from-getting-college-degreesPre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Cameron GranadinoHelp us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-pod-rtbSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-pod-rtbGet Rattling the Bars updates: https://therealnews.com/up-pod-rtbLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Education is one of the few rehabilitative options available to incarcerated people, yet all across America prisoners are prevented from pursuing their education. “Atiba” Demetrius Brown, for instance, has been dedicated to improving himself and his post-incarceration prospects by taking correspondence courses while incarcerated in Maryland, but thanks to a draconian new decree by the Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS), Atiba can't take his exams. In this installment of Rattling the Bars, Victor Wallis joins Mansa Musa to discuss the case of “Atiba” Demetrius Brown and the calculated cruelty of the prison-industrial complex.Victor Wallis is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been involved in prisoner support activities since the 1970s in Indiana, and he is the author of numerous books, including Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on US Politics, which has been used in prison education projects.To contact “Atiba” Demetrius Brown:Demetrius Brown #401226sid #2642892MCTC18800 Roxbury Rd.Hagerstown, MD 21746Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Cameron GranadinoRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/how-maryland-is-preventing-prisoners-from-getting-college-degreesHelp us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-pod-rtbSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-pod-rtbGet Rattling the Bars updates: https://therealnews.com/up-pod-rtbLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Welcome to Voices from the Frontlines, your national movement building show. We'll begin with Victor Wallis, a long-time comrade who is doing a zoom exhibition of his mother's painting—The Art of Diane Esmond—An appreciation by her son, to be video cast this Friday, November 26 at 11 AM PST. Please go to the Marxist Education Project Website and scroll to November 26 to register. Then we'll hear from Ernesto Arce and his dynamic South Central/Third World News as he discusses the commutation of the death penalty of Julius Jones and now the fight for his release for a murder he did not commit at the same time as Kyle Rittenhouse was release even before his trial for murders he did commit! Then Eric will have a moving conversation with Mark Masaoka, one of the long-time leaders in the Japanese American community and United Auto Workers as we discuss his formative years and how we joined paths as auto workers and members of the League of Revolutionary Struggle. Part II of this III part conversation will play on subsequent shows. Then, we'll go out with Aguanile, the amazing, hypnotic, Afro-Cuban, Guaguanco, Santeria, orisha embodied by the Fania legend Hector Lavoe We hope you enjoy our efforts and more complex, more time-consuming to produce, programming.. Please send us appreciations and comments at eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com and go on our site, Voicesfromthefrontlines.com to register so we know who you are and you can get our weekly mailings on the day of the show and later with the link to the podcast. Thanks to Ernesto Arce and Channing Martinez for production and publicity.

Longtime socialist professor and activist Victor Wallis lays out his socialist agenda. Read More: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/12/11/sketches-of-a-socialist-dream/

An amazing conversation with an amazing man who has lived an amazing life and written 2 amazing books. In 1952, a Communist, a Jew, and a U.S. soldier stationed in Germany, fearing imprisonment under the McCarren Act if he returned, decided to defect to East Germany. Not as the dancers or athletes from the Soviet Union whose defection, orchestrated by the CIA, are made into front page news in praise of U.S. imperialism, but simply as a man swimming across the Danube River to an uncertain future in a nation and system he had only imagined. He lived, loved, and built East Germany from 1952 until its final defeat by the capitalist west in 1990, and even now, 30 years later, he is able to discuss, dissect, and defend, not without a critical eye, The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was the anti-Fascist Germany that was finally defeated by the Fascist U.S. and West Germany. Grossman’s brilliant exposure of how almost all the anti-fascists went to East Germany and almost all the German fascists went to West Germany and the U.S. is almost too painful to read. I met Victor Grossman (born Stephen Wechsler) through my dear friend Victor Wallis, long-time editor of Socialism and Democracy who introduces me to a lot of great people. When Lian Hurst Mann and I were in Berlin as guests of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation that had invited her to speak I was able to visit Victor Grossman in his modest but more than ample apartment in which he has lived for decades—now on Karl Marx Allee. Victor puts out a monthly political commentary on Germany and the world that is brilliant. He is 92, goes for long walks, has a sharp mind and wit, and I am honored to know him. He will be up at midnight Berlin time so he can speak to Voices Listeners. I strongly urge you to get his book: A Socialist Defector: from Harvard to Karl Marx Alle (thanks to Monthly Review Press) online, as I hope it will also be in our Strategy and Soul bookstore very soon. My main takeaway from reading his brilliant history is that East Germany, with only 1/3 of Germany, the least wealthy part of the nation, surrounded by the U.S., the West Germany economy propped up by U.S. imperialism right after the war at the same time it tried to destroy the Soviet Union, really had no chance to breathe and was fortunate, through its own courage, to last 45 years! As the U.S. now moves to war with China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and any other country that simply wants to live in peace without U.S. intervention, we need to listen to Victor’s dire warnings about U.S. plans to start another world war if needed to destroy any semblance of opposition to its objectives.

This episode is a deep dive with Victor Wallis (author of Democracy Denied and Red-Green Revolution) about how the Left can and should relate to elections and to threats to democracy in the United States. Victor is joined in conversation by nationally renowned organizer Medea Benjamin (Code Pink). What are the opportunities and dangers represented by the 2020 Election? Questions and issues explored include: how should socialists relate to the Republican and Democratic Parties? To third party efforts? What can we learn from history in terms of how the Left can effectively engage the electoral process without getting sucked into compromised politics that undermine our goals and values? What are the threats to electoral democracy in the USA today and why is it important to defend the ballot box and defeat the Right, even while recognizing the compromised nature of the Democratic Biden ticket? What needs to be done to defend democracy in the USA, via the ballot box and beyond? Victor Wallis is a socialist scholar and long-time editor of the journal Socialism & Democracy. He is a frequent to contributor to Monthly Review, New Political Science, and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and is author of three books: Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on American Politics, Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Eco-Socialism, and Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories.

What if workers, not bosses, collectively made all the important decisions in and about their workplaces and production processes? Victor Wallis examines whether and how workers' control was achieved in past periods of revolution and upheaval, including the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, and Chile under Salvador Allende. Victor Wallis, Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 The post Social Upheaval and Workers' Control appeared first on KPFA.

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to writer, teacher and activist Victor Wallis about the prospect and need for ecosocialism. Wallis’ book is entitled ‘Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism’.

Today on Sojourner Truth: The Trump administration's proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian "peace plan." The "Clash of Civilizations" backdrop to the economic war between China and the United States. And, Mike Pompeo ignores global warming and touts melting sea ice as a "boom" to the U.S. economy. Our guests are Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, and Victor Wallis, who teaches Political Science at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Wallis was the managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism."

Today on Sojourner Truth: The Trump administration's proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian "peace plan." The "Clash of Civilizations" backdrop to the economic war between China and the United States. And, Mike Pompeo ignores global warming and touts melting sea ice as a "boom" to the U.S. economy. Our guests are Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, and Victor Wallis, who teaches Political Science at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Wallis was the managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism."

Today on Sojourner Truth: The Trump administration's proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian "peace plan." The "Clash of Civilizations" backdrop to the economic war between China and the United States. And, Mike Pompeo ignores global warming and touts melting sea ice as a "boom" to the U.S. economy. Our guests are Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, and Victor Wallis, who teaches Political Science at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Wallis was the managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism."

Today on Sojourner Truth: The Trump administration's proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian "peace plan." The "Clash of Civilizations" backdrop to the economic war between China and the United States. And, Mike Pompeo ignores global warming and touts melting sea ice as a "boom" to the U.S. economy. Our guests are Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, and Victor Wallis, who teaches Political Science at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Wallis was the managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism."

Today on Sojourner Truth: The Trump administration's proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian "peace plan." The "Clash of Civilizations" backdrop to the economic war between China and the United States. And, Mike Pompeo ignores global warming and touts melting sea ice as a "boom" to the U.S. economy. Our guests are Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, and Victor Wallis, who teaches Political Science at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Wallis was the managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism."

Today on Sojourner Truth: The Trump administration's proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian "peace plan." The "Clash of Civilizations" backdrop to the economic war between China and the United States. And, Mike Pompeo ignores global warming and touts melting sea ice as a "boom" to the U.S. economy. Our guests are Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, and Victor Wallis, who teaches Political Science at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Wallis was the managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism."

Today on Sojourner Truth: The Trump administration's proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian "peace plan." The "Clash of Civilizations" backdrop to the economic war between China and the United States. And, Mike Pompeo ignores global warming and touts melting sea ice as a "boom" to the U.S. economy. Our guests are Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, and Victor Wallis, who teaches Political Science at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Wallis was the managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism."

Victor Wallis teaches college & preaches revolution. Among his many books is Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism. Dalton & Nick, ever fascinated by far-left politics, ask Victor about the red-green revolution, & raise the objections you knew were coming. Despite our allegiance to capitalism, we also found some things we could all agree on.

Every society has a technological dimension. So what does, or should, a socialist technology look like? What ends would such a technology serve, and who would decide which products or devices get deployed, and for what purposes? Victor Wallis sketches the contours of what he calls an authentically socialist technology. (Encore presentation.) Victor Wallis, Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism Political Animal Press, 2018 The post Socialist Technology appeared first on KPFA.

Victor Wallis is a professor at the Berklee College of Music and was for 20 years the managing editor of Socialism and Democracy. Several months ago he joined us to talk about the radical intervention he saw as necessary to deal with the threat from climate change. He outlined this in his book Red-Green Revolution. Now Victor Wallis returns to WhoWhatWhy to talk about his broad alternative framework of America, which he lays out in his new work, Democracy Denied. This project began as a series of lectures he was to give in China, to an audience that didn’t understand America. As he worked on it, he realized that many of the ideas he was presenting were also not known by most Americans. In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, he talks first about what he sees as the flawed notion of “American exceptionalism:” the supposed moral authority by which we proselytize for freedom while having the highest incarceration rate in the world and increasing levels of inequality. He explains how our moralizing leads to and perpetuates the kind of police state necessary to take on a war on drugs, encourage law and order, and plan for potential rebellion. Wallis talks about US imperialism— 800 bases around the world, the projection of American power directly on to the regimes of other countries, and our constant need to pass judgment on those regimes. This is one of the hallmarks of imperialism, as he sees it. He combines all of this with a sharp critique of the long history of racism in America and shows how it has, from our very beginnings, defined how we see, judge, and sometimes look down upon, people around the world who are not just like us. Wallis provides us with his alternative view of the world in a kind of economic and geopolitical tour de force.

Highlights of some of the best commentary presented on Against the Grain in 2018, featuring Vijay Prashad on investment strikes; Priya Satia on the Industrial Revolution; Michael Hardt and Paul Christopher Gray on social-change strategies; Raka Ray on colonialism and gender; Victor Wallis on energy consumption; and Osagie Obasogie on race-specific medicine.     The post A Look Back appeared first on KPFA.

Every society has a technological dimension. So what does, or should, a socialist technology look like? What ends would such a technology serve, and who would decide which products or devices get deployed, and for what purposes? Victor Wallis sketches the contours of what he calls an authentically socialist technology. Victor Wallis, Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism Political Animal Press, 2018 The post Socialist Technology appeared first on KPFA.

Two major crises of our era are growing wealth inequality and its resultant poverty and climate change, which is connected to a variety of environmental issues. Neither of these crises can be resolved without addressing the underlying root cause of capitalism, but many people are uncertain about what an economy beyond capitalism looks like. In his new book, Red Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism, Victor Wallis explains why a livable future must be ecosocialist, what ecosocialism is and how we get there. We discuss his book and the latest news. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.