The Revolution Can't Be Quarantined
Apr 19, 2020•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 2
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Episode description
Philadelphia based community organizer and writer Steven Powers helps run a community based, free, socialist gym, the People Power Gym, and is involved in a number of other community survival projects. In this episode we discuss how his organization was able to turn these survival programs into a Covid-19 mutual aid grocery program, delivering free groceries throughout their neighborhood. We also discuss how capitalism has exacerbated this pandemic into a crisis with blood on its hands, the need for community organizing, a cautious understanding of 'mutual aid', and Sock'em Boppers.
Support their fundraiser here. You can read Safiyah Bukhari's The War Before here, and George Jackson's Soledad Brother here.
Audio samples used:
- Assata Shakur, Eyes of the Rainbow
- Mumia Abu-Jamal, Safiyah Bukhari: Lioness for Liberation
- Fred Hampton, On the Importance of Education
- Ericka Huggins, On Meditation
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