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>Ashanti O. Alston, author of "Anarchist Panther," is joined by co-editor William C. Anderson to celebrate the release of his new collection of essays, interviews, and speeches. Together they discuss the editorial process, learning from our failures, working in multi-tendency spaces, the enduring power of Black nationalism, and more!
About the book
>Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston" traces Alston's ideas and influences, including those on psychology, political prisoner support, feminism, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the Zapatista rebellion, and Black anarchism. Anarchist Panther brings to life the beautiful movement expression "all power to the people!
REJECT THE BILLIONAIRES. VOTE IN EVERY LOCAL ELECTION.
EJ Carrion has been arrested for ... "profanity". He is in jail.
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This is sick. They're starting to arrest the protesters for free speech. The only thing Alisa did was raise her hand in solidarity, after WE THE PEOPLE started to chant SHAME. They're labeling her like some type of riot-inciting officer threat. Tim O'Hare tried to cut nearly half our polling locations, and then silence speakers all in the name of unevenly applied decorum policies (donors got to stay). The people weren't having it. Tim calls the 153 speakers that signed up "the mob", "a social media circus", blaming Alisa Simmons for everything after she made 1 post talking about their plan to nearly halve voting locations. It appears as if CLEAT is now trying to conflate extremely minor decorum rule breaking like profanity with anti-police agitation, punishable with criminal intent.
CLEAT always supports Maga extremists, including the highly unpopular anti-public-education self proclaimed "ULTRA MAGA" Leigh Wambsganss, who lost by a landslide to veteran and union president Taylor Rehmet.
It might be getting too dangerous to post. They're starting to arrest political opponents for nonsense charges. What do you think?
These are not religious people. They're hate-thy-neighbor heretic hate-triots, using Jesus as their own personal shield from the consequences of their hate speech and hate actions, against every teaching of Jesus in the New Testament. It's Christianity without the Christ, for pure performative posturing themselves selfishly as a moral minority. In practice they attack the weak and marginalized, and militarize officers against the elderly defending them. Hate-thy-neighbor anti-Christ values.
Reject their attempt to revive the red scare movement
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THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE EXAMPLES OF US. THEY'RE TRYING TO DRIVE FEAR. REJECT WHEN TYRANTS TRY TAKING AWAY OUR FREEDOMS / RIGHTS WHILE SAYING IT'S FOR OUR SAFETY.
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More than 60 years later, Watts stands out as an integral part of a revolutionary movement. The struggles carried out in Watts and similar rebellions are part of the larger movement against class and national oppression.
Uprisings like Watts, which display the revolutionary potential and rage of poor and working class people, should always be supported and studied for lessons necessary for our fights ahead.
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Dr. Fernandez was my confidente & for a time, my muse from a classic Eddie Kendricks song & always my intellectual superior. But I didn’t even know her fav color or fav 💐 We never discussed such things. We spoke of books, revolution, dismantling a system, Mumia, her obligation to care for her papi, good food & rum. When we 1st met, I had just launched We Act Radio So she arranged for @mumiaabujamalofficial to appear on our station. I assigned the interview to our biggest show. Unbeknownst to me, they gave Mumia a hostile interview, rehashing the facts of his case that landed him on death row & not his new book! I was out of town at the time, so I wasn’t in the studio to hear the interview, but boy did Johanna blow my phone up! She cursed me out like only a Black woman & an Afro-Latina can! She punched me in my chest like a man when she saw me & told me I wouldn’t be able to go to Philly again if I don’t fix this.
After several people intervened, incl Dave Zirin chimed in as character witnesses on Mumia’s behalf that he was not deserving of such treatment reserved for cop killers. That he was in fact, a journalist himself & in an equitable, fair world, of superior stature. That was the 1st crisis I had ever managed in my new capacity at the helm of an indie broadcast station. Challenging Neo-liberal ideology, pushing the status quo to recognize the validity & beauty of radical politics & history.
This is all the strength & inspiration I gleaned from the late great Dr. Johanna Fernandez This is the power that forced her to finish her book on “The Young Lords: A Radical History.” This masterpiece would have made the historian, playwright & activist Howard Zinn proud! Many times I saw her writing that book. Like Zinn, she utilized a people’s POV accounting of history. I was the playwright & of course we both were activists. When my play #NiteMJDied appeared in NYC at the historic @sobsnyc Johanna of course came & gave me notes on the production. I saw she had lost weight, but knew from her eyes it wasn’t from a diet & she didn’t want to talk about it. Now, whatever Lil fear i had left in me died w/ her. Until we meet again, my revolutionary 💜