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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Up next on the program, we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with conversations featuring Alice Walker, Gary Younge and some of King’s most memorable speeches. we play a number of speeches of Dr King. One is King speaking to youth at a middle … Continued
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Today we’ll present to you the Pacifica Radio Archives introduction to the Black Panthers. Based on historic audio tapes preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives this sixth CD set is an attempt to bring you a window to the past to the hopes the dreams the difficulties and yes the missteps of the Black Panthers. … Continued
How to organize for social justice under situations of great duress? That’s both a question for our times and for much of the last half century. Trainer and longtime organizer Mike Miller discusses empowering people to change their world, drawing from the Civil Rights movement and other historic struggles. He also talks about the contested … Continued
We talk with organizer, writer and freedom dreamer Alicia Garza, one of the founders of the #Black Lives Matter network. .Alicia is also Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. And Giovanna Capone discusses the … Continued
For the last forty years, unions and the left more broadly have been in decline. Clearly the business class went on the offensive during this time, but is that the whole story? Veteran organizer Jane McAlevey argues that the left abandoned deep organizing just at the moment when the right was organizing its grassroots, and … Continued
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Lineage: Conversation with Thinkers & Activists historian, journalist, and educator Dr. Jelani Cobb (Columbia University) who will be interviewed by his friend and comrade Alicia Garza, Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-Founder of #BlackLivesMatter. http://oakland.impacthub.net/event/lineage-conversations-w-thinkers-activists-jelani-cobb-alicia-garza/
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We speak with Raptivist Jasiri X about organizing strategies in the era of Trump. About Jasiri X: He is the first independent hip-hop artist to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate, which he received from Chicago Theological Seminary in 2016. This recognition grew out of the spiritual/political urgency and artistic vision he shared on songs like … Continued
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we continue our conversation on Art and Actvism w/ Talib Kweli. And Poor News Network discuss Standing Rock.
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Davey D talks with Gus Newport about Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Bumpy Johnson and more.
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Davey D speak with American civil rights leader and the executive director of Color of Change, Rashad Robinson and Will Randolph a member of The Black Resurgents. Below watch a video of Will Randolph of the Black Resurgents
