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Election 2020

Left POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta) 

Resources regarding this episode:
“Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016)
http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/

“Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017)
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problem

History of Zimbabwe:

Alois Mlambo
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlambo

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Sabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ASabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Terence Ranger
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=terence+ranger+zimbabwe&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aterence+ranger+zimbabwe

Simukai Chigudu (on cholera)
https://oxford.academia.edu/SimukaiChigudu


Additional suggested reading:

Elizabeth Schmidt
https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Intervention-Approaches-African-History-ebook/dp/B00B4V6IPU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512297774&sr=1-1&keywords=elizabeth+schmidt

Nick Turse
https://www.nickturse.com/

Abayomi Azikiwe
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=abayomi+azikiwe&sprefix=abayomi+azikiw%2Caps%2C156&crid=2MBB8G755GGE

Walter Rodney
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=walter+rodney

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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 2 - Is Africa an Afterthought? w/@ztsamudzi & @HalfAtlanta

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ guest Lauren Lefty
Intro music: "Mastica, Chupa y Jala" by Ghetto Brothers
Outro music: "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" by Ghetto Brothers

(music & suggested reading list by Lauren Lefty)

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Suggested Reading

Academic Literature on Puerto Rico and its Diaspora:

Lorrin Thomas. Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City 

Virginia Sánchez Korrol. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City 

Andrés Torres and José E. Velasquez, eds.. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora

Sonia Song-Ha Lee. Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

Carlos Alamo-Pastrano. Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States

Solsiree del Moral. Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico

Nelson Denis. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony

Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. "Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón: The Young Lords, Black Power and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972," CENTRO Journal 18:1 (Fall 20016): 149-169.

Radical History Review issue: “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in a Postcolonial World?”: 
http://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/features/puerto-rico-a-us-colony-in-a-postcolonial-world/ 

Jones Act:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jones-act-20170927-story.html 

Education (General):

And privatization/neoliberalism (recent): https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/education-privatization-charters-public-schools-betsy-devos

Podcast about Ed in the Time of Trump/Neoliberalism: https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast 

Puerto Rican Education Activism in NYC

Anthony DeJesus and Madeline Perez, “From Community Control to Consent Decree: Puerto Ricans Organizing for Education and Language Rights in the 1960s and 70s NYC,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 7-31. 

Lillian Jimenez, “Puerto Ricans and Educational Civil Rights: A History of the 1969 City College Takeover,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 159-175.

            Lauren Lefty, "Evelina's Harlem: A Puerto Rican Educational Journey Through Space and Time," Columbia Teachers College Educating 
  Harlem Project, http://educatingharlem.cdrs.columbia.edu/omeka/neatline/show/evelinas-harlem 

Debt crisis and school closures/austerity: 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/hedge-funds-puerto-rico-close-schools-fire-teachers-pay-us-back

Post-hurricane schools situation: 
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ewa-radio-115287/episodes/after-the-storms-uncertain-fut-22103781 

Whitefish Contract Scandal: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-governor-says-contract-to-whitefish-company-should-be-canceled/2017/10/29/e5336cda-bcb8-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.6fe582ec606a

Ed and gentrification in NYC/El Barrio: 
http://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/ujju-aggarwal-edwin-mayorga-from-forgotten-to-fought-over-neoliberal-restructuring-public-schools-and-urban-space/

https://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/2016/11/18/a-master-plan-for-gentrifying-el-barrio-nyc/ 

Debt/Austerity:

PR Syllabus: https://puertoricosyllabus.com/ 

Austerity Post-María: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/puerto-rico-natural-disaster-hurricane-maria 

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/31/san_juan_mayor_carmen_cruz_on 

UPR Strike:
https://www.thenation.com/article/students-are-now-leading-the-resistance-to-austerity-in-puerto-rico/

Left POCket Project - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ Guest Lauren Lefty

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/ Sangeetha Sudharshan (@sansdn)

music: "Hot Mess" by Logophilia

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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/@sansdn

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly

Suggested Reading
Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72

Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935)

Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970)

Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112.

Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & practice: Gender, race, & class,”Socialism & Democracy 17 (2003),109-122

Carole Boyce Davies,Left of Karl Marx:The Political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones,(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007)

____,”Sisters Outside:Tracing the Caribbean/Black Intellectual Tradition,”Small Axe 28 (2009),217-228

____,Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment,(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher,Inc.,2011)

Combahee River Collective,“The Combahee River Collective Statement,” in Homegirls:A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith,(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1983),264-269

Dayo F. Gore et al.,eds.,Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle,(New York: New York University Press,2009)

____,Radicalism at The Crossroads:African American Activists in the Cold War,(New York: New York University Press,2011);

Cheryl Higashida, Black International Feminism:Women Writers of the Black Left,1945-1995 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011)

Gerald Horne,Race Woman:The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois, (New York: New York University Press,2000)

Buzz Johnson,“I Think of My Mother”:Notes on the Life & Times of Claudia Jones,(London: Karia Press,1985) 

Erik McDuffie, “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’:Sojourning for Truth,Justice, & Civil Rights during the Early Cold War,”Radical History Review 101 (2008),81-106

____, “‘I wanted a Communist philosophy,but I wanted us to have a change to organize our people’:The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore & the origins of black power,” African & Black Diaspora 3 (2010),181-195

____,Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism,(Durham:Duke University Press,2011).

____,“‘For full freedom of… colored women in Africa,Asia,& in these United States…’: Black Women Radicals & the Practice of a Black Women’s International,”Palimpsest 1 (2012),1-30

Louise Thompson Patterson,“Toward a Brighter Dawn,”Woman Today,April 1936

Rhoda Reddock,“Radical Caribbean social thought:Race,class identity & the postcolonial nation,”Current Sociology 62 (2014),493-511

Marika Sherwood,Claudia Jones:A Life in Exile,(London: Lawrence & Wishart,1999)

Ula Taylor,“‘Reading Men & Nations’: Women in the Black Radical Tradition,”Souls 1 (1999),72-80

____,The Veiled Garvey:The Life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey,(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2002)

Stephen Ward,“The Third World Women’s Alliance:Black Feminist Radicalism & Black Power Politics,”in The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights- Black Power Era edited by Peniel E. Joseph,199-144,(New York: Routledge,2006)

Mary Helen Washington,“Alice Childress,Loraine Hansberry, & Claudia Jones Write the Popular Front,”in Left of the Color Line:Race,Radicalism, & Twentieth Century Literature of the United Stated edited by Bill V. Mullen & James Smethurst,183-204,(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2003)
For the full list, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-pocket-5-w-16178909
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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words, a conversation w/Yasmina Price & Jazz Hooks

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Left POCket Project Podcast - "2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 1, w/Special Guest Anoa Changa - Episode 26

We are joined by special guest Anoa Changa to discuss the first round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward. 
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Readings/Resources
2020 Democratic Primary Debates:
night one: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-video-democratic-presidential-debate-night-1-62758981769
night two: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-video-democratic-presidential-debate-night-2-62848069759
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26. 2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 1 - w/Anoa Changa -Left POCket Project Podcast

Billie Bottoms Brown, the 85 year-old mother of Anthony Bottoms, also known as Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, hopes to take her son on a sea cruise if he is granted parole in September, his eleventh appearance before the board. Muntaqim has spend 48 years in prison in the death of two New York City cops. His co-defendant, Herman Bell, was released last year over the objections of the governor and the mayor. Billie Bottoms Brown says she’ll try to help Muntaqim “relax, unwind and try to reacclimate himself to outside of those walls.”

Jalil Muntaqim’s Family Awaits Him

Margaret Kimberley: Corporate media hate Trump but love war.
Jeff Bryant: Black school districts need democracy plus money.
Howie Hawkins: AOC diluted his Green New Deal.
Mumia Abu Jamal celebrates release of MOVE activist Eddie Africa.
Black Panther political prisoner Jalil Abdul Muntaqim’s mother hopes he’ll win parole in September.

Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 1, 2019

The cops that caused the deaths of Eric Garner, Sandra Bland and countless other Black people are protected by a “social contract” with the rulers of the nation, sais New York City activist Shannon Jones, of Why Accountability. The arrangement provides killer cops with impunity in return for maintaining control over people of color.

Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops

Left POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 2, w/Special Guest Kumars Salehi - Episode 28

We are joined by special guest Kumars Salehi to discuss the second round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward. 
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Readings/Resources
2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 2:
night one: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/31/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-democratic-debate-day-one/index.html

night two: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/01/app-news-section/watch-full-cnn-democratic-debate-day-two/index.html
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Left POCket Project Podcast - 2020 Democratic Primary Debates, Round 3, w/Special Guest Héctor Alcalá - Episode 30

We are joined by special guest Héctor Alcalá to discuss the third round of 2020 Democratic Primary Debates. We don't focus on "winners" or "losers," but the issues that matter now and going forward. 
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Readings/Resources
2020 Democratic Primary Debates - Round 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UWVO0Trd1c

Richard Hunsinger - "Holocaust Capitalism"
https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/08/21/holocaust-capitalism/

(related interview for This Is Hell - "Capitalism needs cages: On dispossession and fascism in America's new concentration camps"
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1071-richard-hunsinger)

Robert Reich - "The Irony of Republican Disapproval of Obamacare"
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2013/1028/The-irony-of-Republican-disapproval-of-Obamacare
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30. Dem Debates Round 3 Discussion w. Héctor Alcalá - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, we discuss the platforms of the Green Party (US), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA).
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Readings/Resources

Green Party (GPUS) Platform
https://www.gp.org/platform

Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) Platform
https://liberationschool.org/program-of-the-party-for-socialism-and-liberation/

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Platform
https://www.cpusa.org/party_info/party-program/

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32. Alternative Left Party Platforms - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, we discuss the January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate.
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CNN + Des Moines Register January 2020 Democratic Primary Debate (video)
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37. Dem Debates January 2020 LeftPOC Discussion - Left POCket Project Podcast

Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.

This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.

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