Groundings

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Groundings is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. It's where the past meets the present, and political education happens. The title "Groundings" is in honor of the revolutionary educator Walter Rodney, whose concept of "groundings" as a form of radical, political, and communal education inspires the conversations on this podcast. Groundings: we sit, we listen, we talk, we share, and we learn.

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Episodes

The Linkages of Black, Jewish, and Palestinian Solidarity

Documentary filmmaker, activist, and writer Rebecca Pierce discusses her work documenting the resistance of those most oppressed by the Israel apartheid state. We discuss the ways her work highlights the oppression and resistance of African migrants in Israel, how Palestinians exercise solidarity with those migrants, and how many groups that are oppressed by Israel form linkages of solidarity and action. We also discuss the recent mass shootings at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and a Kroger in Kentu...

Dec 09, 2018•49 min•Season 2Ep. 1

The (un)Logic of Afro-Pessimism and Anti-Blackness

Organizer and academic Annie Olaloku-Teriba discusses her recent essay , which is a critique of Afro-Pessimism, "anti-blackness" theory, and how these two things often negatively impact organizing spaces. We try to break down lots of academic jargon and wordy concepts to dive into a conversation which is crucial right now for Black studies and the movements it represents. This is one of my favorite episodes yet; a conversation which dives deep into the world and currently contemptuous debates oc...

Nov 24, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 10

The Anti-Indigenous, Imperialist, Racist Marketing of Coca-Cola

(This episode was a Patreon exclusive for several days prior to release elsewhere. ) In this episode, Native activist and writer Dani Miller breaks down the various ways that the brand identity of Coca-Cola, a brand known and admired worldwide, is built on a mountain of anti-Indigenous tropes, racism, and what she calls " conglomerate imperialism ." She then discusses the need for a Native anti-imperialist perspective, connecting Indigenous struggles in the U.S. to struggles globally, and explor...

Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 9

The Praxis of Abolition & Prison Strikes

Co-host of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Jared Ware joins me for a conversation on the material practice of prison abolition. Prison abolition is such an imaginative theory, but beyond simply discussing Abolition as an idea, we target the question of what does abolitionist organizing look like, and what are we doing to work towards abolition? More than just this, we discuss what abolition means on a global scale, especially given the colonial and imperialist roots of the global prison-indus...

Aug 20, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 8

The Critique of TLGBQ "Inclusion"

In this episode I speak with writer, activist, and academic Yasmin Nair , who is highly critical of liberal narratives of "diversity" and TLGBQ+ "inclusion" inside of violent and imperialist institutions like the US military. Recently, Nair co-wrote a piece with Eli Massey which gave a radical left and queer critique of the mainstream push for trans inclusion in the military, and that serves as the basis for our discussion. Then, we discuss the intentional erasing of the legacy of radical queer ...

Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7

The Experiences of Detained Immigrants, In Their Own Words

In this special interview, we speak over the phone with two Black immigrants who are detained in Atlanta City Detention Center, as well as Kevin Caron , a local Atlanta organizer and abolitionist that does tremendous work with immigrant communities. Throughout the interview you will notice difficulties with telephone connection and communication; we decided not to edit these things out, and instead to leave these various difficulties in the audio as to expose the listeners to the vast difficulti...

Jun 22, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 6

The Way Capitalism Underdevelops Hip-Hop

Multi-disciplinary artist Bocafloja , one of Mexico's first rappers, discusses global politics and capitalism where they intersect with hip-hop. He also discusses his documentary Nana Dijo which explores anti-Blackness in Latin America. Along with this, we also have an in-depth conversation on navigating the capitalist music industry, cultural hegemony, and the social construct of the "conscious rapper."...

May 04, 2018•49 min•Season 1Ep. 5

The Assassination of Walter Rodney

"Your consciousness can come from anywhere. but the point is, it needs to come urgently." — Asha Rodney An Interview with Asha Rodney, scholar-activist, lawyer, and youngest child of Walter Rodney. Asha discusses the assassination of her father by the hands of an immensely repressive Guyanese government in 1980, describes what a "groundings" session is, and gives us suggestions for how to implement her father's work and legacy in our organizing today. Asha Rodney, along with the rest of the Rodn...

Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 3

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Beyond Propaganda

Organizer and educator Derek Ford gives a historical context for the current imperialist aggression surrounding the DPRK , explains the 'Juche' ideology, and recounts some firsthand propaganda-shattering experiences from his travels inside the country. The day after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the travel ban for US citizens to North Korea, Derek Ford traveled to the country on a fact-finding delegation. In this episode, he shares many of those firsthand experiences with me, and...

Feb 21, 2018•49 min•Season 1Ep. 2

The Black Arts Movement

Revolutionary Pan-Africanist writer, artist, and organizer Sobukwe Shakur gives a first-hand account of the history of the Black Art Movement, a movement which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and ran parallel to the Black Power Movement. Sobukwe Shukur is a multi-media cultural worker, the host of the Revolutionary African Perspectives radio show on Georgia's independent WRFG station, a cadre and organizer in Nkrumah’s brainchild, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) and a for...

Feb 08, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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