In this episode we talk to Eugene Puryear, who provides political analysis daily on By Any Means Necessary. Eugene is also a member of the Party For Socialism And Liberation. In this episode, Eugene shares analysis of recent events in Haiti, Venezuela, Sudan, South Africa and Iran. We talk to him about political movements spanning the globe and get a sense of some of the most important struggles that are often not covered or misrepresented in mainstream media. For point of reference it’s importa...
Jun 14, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 35
This episode we have an in-depth conversation with Morgan Artyukhina about their time with the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective. Morgan is an autistic transgender communist and journalist based in Washington, DC, Their reporting can be found on Twitter @LavenderNRed and in Liberation News. As a point of reference, we recorded this episode on May 14th. Two days after this episode was recorded, activists within the Embassy were arrested by DC police in what seems to be in clear violation o...
May 27, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 34
In this episode we interview Brooke Terpstra, Oaklander forever, movement veteran, and IWOC worker. Brooke is an organizer with the Oakland chapter of IWOC, and was a member of the IWOC national media committee for the 2018 prison strike. In this episode we talk about the origins IWOC and its relationship to the IWW or the Wobblies. We talk about the lesson they learned supporting the 2016 and 2018 national prison strikes. We talk about building a local chapter and the work that IWOC members do ...
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 33
In this episode we collaborated with Rev Left Radio to discuss the history of institutional racism and violence within the Philadelphia Police Department in the latter half of the 20th Century culminating, but not ending, with the city's bombing of MOVE members and the destruction of over 60 homes in West Philadelphia in 1985. We encourage people to engage and grapple with this recent history of racist state violence and to learn more about the MOVE organization and support them in their ongoing...
Apr 09, 2019•2 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this episode we talk to Alejo Stark. Alejo is an organizer with Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS) and a co-producer of Rustbelt Abolition Radio (RAR) . Between 2008 and 2013, he was an undocumented student organizer with the migrant justice movement, fighting against deportations in South Florida and Rhode Island. Alejo has a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics. In this episode we take a high level view of the Zapatista movement, 25 years after the uprising of 1994. Alejo shares...
Feb 20, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 31
In this episode we talk with George Ciccariello-Maher. He is an organizer, writer, scholar and radical political theorist. He is also the author of Decolonizing Dialectics and two books on radical politics in Venezuela, We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution, and Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela. We talk to Ciccariello-Maher about the current coup attempt in Venezuela, Juan Guaido, Nicolas Maduro, the opposition, and Chavismo in as much complexity ...
Feb 14, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 30
In this episode we sat down with Clarissa Brooks. Clarissa is a senior at Spelman College, a freelance journalist, and a community organizer. Originally from Charlotte, NC, Clarissa works to blend her love of community, ethical journalism and scholarship in a way that will create a better world. Clarissa was a member of AUC Shut It Down, she was also an ONA HBCU Fellow, Know Your IX Campus Organizer among other projects. In this episode we have a roundtable discussion touching on accountability,...
Feb 04, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 29
In this episode we spoke with Erica Caines, creator of Liberation Through Reading and the Liberation Through Reading Book Club. We talk about her organizing, and the importance and power of reading and political education. Erica is a self published author and local community organizer in her perspective Maryland county. Erica’s organizing is based on both an emphasis on literacy and political education. To date, she’s gifted over 1000 books to Black children and has organized an online book club...
Jan 21, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 28
This week we’re very excited to bring you a conversation with Mariame Kaba. Mariame is an organizer, educator and curator. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. After over 20 years of living and organizing in Chicago, she moved back to her hometown of New York City in May 2016. In this episode we talk to Mariame about where her interest in US Communist Party came from and talk about some...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 26
This week we have Mark Bray to talk all things in the world of anti-fascism following a slew of recent fascistic events. We touch on Bolsonaro's election in Brazil, and cover some of the points raised in Bray’s book Antifa , which if you haven’t read is an excellent history of European and American anti-fascist movements starting with those who opposed the German and Italian forms of fascism and moving into the modern era. MARK BRAY is a political organizer and historian of human rights, terrori...
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Jackie Wang is s a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, filmmaker, performer, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at Harvard University in African and African American Studies. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte / MIT Press), a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, and a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious). In her most recent work she has been researching the bail bonds industry and...
Nov 08, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 24
[This episode was released in October of 2018 at the time Adryan was using a prior name, we have updated the description below and have updated some of the links to contact them, however the audio is dated by the use of their prior name] This week we interviewed Adryan Corcione, a freelance cannabis and politics journalist based in Philadelphia. Their work has appeared in Vice, Leafly, Teen Vogue, and more. We talk to them about their advocacy for Comrade Alyssa, an imprisoned Black trans woman ...
Oct 25, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 23
In this episode we talk to Ian Goodrum, who is a writer and editor at China Daily, an English-language newspaper based in Beijing. Who says that unlike his previous jobs at US newspapers, he no longer has to keep his communism a secret. We talk to Ian about Western Media's representations of China, about notions of objectivity and subjectivity with regard to media, and about the ways and reasons through which certain situations in China can be exaggerated by the Western press. Ian also discusses...
Sep 29, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Devyn Springer who many of you know as @HalfAtlanta on twitter, and Jay decided to do an episode where they discuss what prison abolition is, and both of their connections to it, along with a conversation about the prison strike. We’ll be cross-promoting this episode on both of our podcasts, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism and Devyn’s Groundings Podcast. For those who don’t know Devyn, they are an accomplished artist, organizer, member of the Worker’s World Party and the host and producer of ...
Aug 19, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode, we speak with Hyejin Shim, a second generation queer Korean in the US. Hyejin organizes with Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans (or HOBAK) a collective that is dedicated to building solidarity towards peace and reunification in Korea. Her other political work focuses on supporting survivors of domestic/sexual violence, particularly at the intersections of criminalization and immigration. She is a founding member and co-organizer of Survived and Punished, and a member of the queer/...
Aug 03, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In Episode 19, we sit down with Arielle Iniko Newton. Arielle is a writer and organizer within the Movement for Black Lives. She currently serves as Senior Editor of RaceBaitr , and Executive Director and Founder of the Black Giving Fund. We talk with Arielle about the Black Giving Fund and it's mission, purpose and principles. We also talk about the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and why it will always be inadequate in the pursuit of Black Liberation. Arielle talks about BGF's work, giving direc...
Jul 09, 2018•43 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this week's short episode, we sit down with filmmaker and musician Boots Riley to talk about his debut film Sorry To Bother You , which hits theaters everywhere July 13th. Boots recently received Sundance Film Festival's Vanguard Award for the film. Boots talks with us about his artistic and organizing history, discusses how getting a film this is radical produced for mass consumption is possible in a society like ours, and discusses the importance of militant labor organizing in the left’s a...
Jun 18, 2018•28 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This week we have two really exciting guests Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctor student in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. William C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian, MTV, Truthout, and Pitchfork among others. We had Zoé on the show all the way back in episode 2, and for William we’ve been wanting to have him on the show for a long time and this was a great opportunity. This week we’re talking to them about their new b...
Jun 05, 2018•51 min•Season 1Ep. 17
On March 29th over 300 students took over the Administration Building at Howard University. The occupation was in response to a list of demands they had drafted, but also spontaneously seized upon widespread student concern following both housing shortage and a financial aid scandal. After occupying all floors of the A-Building, students liberated the building, turning it into the Kwame Ture Student Center, a nod to a long unfulfilled promise of a student center on Howard’s campus. They held the...
May 09, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This week we’re really excited to bring on Sankofa Brown. We talk to him about Black Radicalism, the appeal of Liberalism, armed self-defense, socialist organizing, and the urgent need to build revolutionary praxis. As a speaker, organizer, and writer, Sankofa Brown fights to raise consciousness across the globe. Growing up in Kinston, North Carolina he learned the impact of inquality and injustice, After seeing several friends fall victim to street violence and the prison industrial complex, Sa...
Apr 25, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 15
This is part two of the two part interview with Josh and Jared about their own politics and experiences. Josh and Jared discuss the churches they went into growing up and their thoughts on religion in general. They also share their opinions on the complex role of religion in political life, revolutionary movements, and a post revolutionary society. Josh and Jared also answer a couple of listener questions, discussing approaches to dealing with anticommunist propaganda, talking a little bit about...
Apr 09, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This episode was recorded as a reward for us reaching 25 patrons on patreon. Sorry that it took us a while to find the time to record it, but we want to personally thank all of you who are patrons, you have no idea how much that means to us and encourages us to keep the podcast going. If you haven’t become one yet, we will be setting a new goal of one hundred patrons and we will be setting a new reward for when we reach that goal. We’re looking for your thoughts on what the reward should be so f...
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Anoa Changa is an attorney in the Greater Atlanta Metropolitan area. She holds a Master in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University as well as a Juris Doctorate from West Virginia University College of Law where she was a W.E.B Dubois fellowship recipient. Anoa serves on the board of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL). Aside from her life as an attorney, Anoa has been a grassroots digital organizer providing strategic support to several progressive organizations. A ...
Mar 22, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Da'Shaun Harrison is a student at Morehouse College studying Sociology and African-American Studies. He is a Black Queer organizer and abolitionist in Atlanta, GA, where he also has the privilege of serving as Editor-in-Chief of the newly-founded digital publication, Queer Black Millennial. We talk to Da’Shaun about the time period in which he went from mainstream to more radical politics, his involvement with the first major protest against Hillary Clinton with #AUCShutItDown during the 2016 el...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This episode's guest Charlene A. Carruthers is a Black, queer feminist community organizer and writer with over 10 years of experience in racial justice, feminist and youth leadership development movement work. As the founding national director of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), she has worked alongside hundreds of young Black activists to build a national base of activist member-led organization of Black 18-35 year olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Her p...
Feb 13, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This week we caught up to Zev Wolf and Lina Assi to talk about their organization Palestinians and Jews Decolonize and provide listeners with some context for the current situation in Palestine including responses to the US declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the arrest and detainment of Ahed Tamimi and how Lina and Andrew see their organization’s role within Jewish and Palestinian politics. Palestinians and Jews Decolonize (PJD) is a socialist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist o...
Jan 29, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode William Jamal Richardson joins the show to talk about Nkrumah-Toureism and the relationship between settler colonialism, slavery, and capitalism in American society. William talks about how his parents involvement in the All African People's Revolution Party” shaped some of his politics growing up. He also gives a brief overview of who Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure were and how their different personal backgrounds, perspectives and philosophies complimented each other. He also di...
Jan 11, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode we caught up with artist, organizer, educator, and writer Devyn Springer to talk about the work and legacy of Walter Rodney. Devyn also spoke about the Rodney family and the Walter Rodney Foundation and the work they do in Atlanta. Josh and Jay asked Devyn about how he utilizes Rodney's pedagogy as a teacher and organizer, what Rodney's most important contributions were, and Rodney's theory of development and underdevelopment. Devyn Springer is an Atlanta-based artist, writer, or...
Dec 28, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week as a special cup of holiday anti-capitalist cheer we’re joined by George Ciccariello-Maher. He’s a writer, professor, organizer, and the author of Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, Decolonizing Dialectics, and We Created Chavez: A People’s History of Venezuelan Revolution, which has now been translated into French, Arabic, and Spanish. In this episode George recaps some of the moments in 2017 that inspired him the most. We also talk about Decolonizing US Dialectics,...
Dec 21, 2017•38 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode we talk to Wendi Muse, a PhD candidate in History at New York University. Her research concerns intellectual and political exchange between Brazilians and Portuguese-speaking African scholars, journalists, and activists during their concurrent respective struggles against authoritarian regimes of a military dictatorship and colonialism and its impact on Brazilian leftist practice & thought. Wendi is the creator of the LeftPOC hashtag and the LeftPOCket Project, which bridges ...
Dec 13, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 4
