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94. A Defense of (Ethical, Inclusive, & Decolonized) Homeschooling - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast by Left POCket Project Podcast

See full show notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dXuc9D8b8vxZmr8bd2J33Z11Cwt2dQ3gzaAuCbs9MGw/edit?usp=sharing --- “We Need Socialism” - original discussion w/Sudip Bhattacharya: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-podcast-we Sudip Bhattacharya’s works cited in the discussion “There is no socialism without the end of u.s. empire” https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2025/there-is-no-socialism-without-the-end-of-u-s-empire/ “The Illusion of a Renaissance” (on Jersey City) https://strangematters.coop/jersey-city-gentrification-and-multiculturalism-steven-fulop/ — Theme song by Michael Salamone Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, I talk about the hypercapitalist hellscape back to school season has become, how this economic system leads to harm and neglect of children, and the ways parents and caregivers have historically pushed back (and still can in the present)! — Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:
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In this episode, I speak with Sudip Bhattacharya, PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers about left political thought and organizing among BIPOC and the need for socialism as we collectively confront the ongoing harms of capitalism and neoliberalism. — Works/Issues Cited in the Podcast Sudip Bhattavcharya - “Attacking Difference, Pursuing Unity: Building a Socialist Movement amidst a Dynamic Working Class” in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank (various authors, Colin Jenkins, editor) https://www.iskrabooks.org/hampton-reader Steve Phillips https://www.thenation.com/authors/steve-phillips/ Daron Acemoğlu https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/daron-acemoglu Assata Shakur http://www.assatashakur.org/ (archive of writings and interviews) Claudia Jones -Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx -Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean - Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing https://www.versobooks.com/products/2881-organize-fight-win?srsltid=AfmBOorReXXKeF6V9ZfPtFvNO9ZlITZunNe7Bx5m4q5-CyOsjstuHuTR -The Political Writings of Claudia Jones https://1804books.com/products/a-fighting-dream-the-political-writings-of-claudia-jones?srsltid=AfmBOoodwNEnDwRcZk7gQC1oV-AoYrj_WeLs6rcFcZl46WNc2mF1Izsb Efrén O. Pérez - Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo103673599.html Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn - Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities https://www.russellsage.org/publications/asian-american-political-participation Sonia Song-Ha Lee - Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City https://uncpress.org/book/9781469629803/building-a-latino-civil-rights-movement/ Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The%20Wretched%20Of%20The%20Earth.pdf Schuyler Mitchell - “Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked-Choice Voting” https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdanis-victory-shows-the-progressive-promise-of-ranked-choice-voting/ Glen Ford - The Black Agenda https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/ Mitchell Plitnick - ‘“Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts” https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/ Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno - “The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare” https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/ — Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:
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an unfiltered Comrade Mommy episode about the ways storytelling becomes a mode of resistance amid colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and racialized violence --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast by Left POCket Project Podcast

A discussion of race, class, and politics in the HBO series The Last of Us w/guest Dani. --- Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Wonder & Amazement" (feat. Jeremy Glenn) [Deetron Amazement Dub] by Grand Corporation --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment, we discuss the Introduction and closing interview in the 2001 edition of Aimé Césaire's 1950 anticolonial manifesto Discourse on Colonialism --- Readings & Resources: Brent Edwards - The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011038 Négritude https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negritude/ German Colonization of Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_Africa Matthias Häussler -  Herero Genocide:  War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HausslerHerero ---- Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Pooh Pah" by I:Cube --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Dr. Cassie Osei discusses her research on the history of Black women’s labor and related social change in Brazil, conducting research in Brazil as a Black woman herself, and the racial politics of the reality show Love Is Blind: Brazil. — Readings & Resources (from Dr, Osei): Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil. Barbara Weinstein - “How does the painting ‘The Redemption of Ham’ by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?” https://www.choices.edu/video/how-does-the-painting-the-redemption-of-ham-by-modesto-brocos-illustrate-ideas-of-whitening/ Katia Costa Santos - “Black Girls of Ipanema” https://nacla.org/black-girls-ipanema Keisha-Khan Perry - Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab Kia Lilly Caldwell - Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/negras-in-brazil/9780813539577 Raquel Barreto - “Amefricanity: The black feminism of Lélia Gonzalez” https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/amefricanity PhDivas Podcast - “Afro-Brazilian Women’s History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei” https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/s6e8-afro-brazilian-womens-history-low-femme-theory-with-dr-cassie-osei/ Professor Osei on social media: Twitter: @tropigalia Instagram:@brasilianista — (additional readings & resources): Edward Telles - Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691127927/race-in-another-america Juliana Barreto Farias (editor) - Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation https://dafricapress.com/Black-Women-in-Brazil-in-Slavery-and-Post-Emancipation-p81850749 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman - The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477307885/ Silvio Almeida on youtube (em português) https://www.youtube.com/@silviolual “Maid Saved US$ 5,800 and Took Daughter to Disney World” https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/02/maid-saved-us5800-and-took-daughter-to-disney-world.shtml Love Is Blind Brazil https://www.netflix.com/title/81284981 — -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Deixa Rolar” by MC Tas --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this preview episode, Wendi reads a brief excerpt from Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, our upcoming #ReadingRevolution series selection. — Readings & Resources: Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonialism https://nyupress.org/9781583670255/discourse-on-colonialism/ https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US — Readings & Resources: “Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards” https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords “AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare” https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060 “Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police” https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/ “Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain” https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/ Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil. Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memory https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/ “New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn” https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/ “Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990 “Understanding the AI Alignment Problem” https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/ E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928. --- -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Let It Play” by Miguel Migs (ft. Martin Luther) --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

A discussion of the "sad beige" trend and other aesthetic choices in childrearing that carry thinly-veiled messages of classism, moralism, and misogyny. -- Readings & Resources: "The Sad Beige Trend Goes against All My Wild Instincts" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/04/the-sad-beige-trend-goes-against-all-my-wild-instincts "The Miseducation of Maria Montessori" https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miseducation-of-maria-montessori --- -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Prey for Peace" by Joyce Muniz --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

A quick update -- -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "(Just Like We) Breakdown" by Hot Chip --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, we speak to Brent of Rad Reads, a youtube channel where discussions of radical texts takes center stage. Readings & Resources Audio/Video: Rad Reads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFDSgzcZsjOi8XnWD2TlKg -Review: Blood in My Eye by George Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_b-0ab5ljE -Discussion: Struggling with Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJdHNl4zcs -Other Media: Twitter: RadreadsB Instagram: radreads94 Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72413401-brent Marxist Paul -”Wretched of the Earth with Rad Reads”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDDjC9ZlYA Louis Allday - Liberated Texts: https://liberatedtexts.com/ Louis Allday - “Our Enemies Know the Power of Books” (Interview) - Millennials are Killing Capitalism Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/anticapitalist-millennials/our-enemies-know-the-power-of Left POCket Project Podcast - “Combahee River Collective Statement” (Reading Revolution Discussion): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/47-combahee-river-collective-statement-readingrevolution/id1329313097?i=1000489874990 Books/Essays/Articles H. Rap Brown - Die N****r Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin Frantz Fanon - Wretched of the Earth (Constance Farrington Translation) James Yaki Sayles - Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings George Jackson - Blood in My Eye Robin D. G. Kelley - Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonalism J. Moufawad-Paul - Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: A History Edward Onaci - Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State Sanyika Shakur - Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy Toni Morrison: Playing in the Dark The Bluest Eye Sula Dan Berger - ““Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika” https://www.aaihs.org/free-the-land-fifty-years-of-the-republic-of-new-afrika/ Atiba Shanna - “On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: a New Afrikan Perspective http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/Republic_of_New_Afrika/513.RNA.Atiba.Shanna.On.Captured.Citizens.pdf Additional Authors Mentioned: Gloria Naylor Ursula K. Le Guin Octavia Butler Walter Rodney Gerald Horne

In this episode - a Reading Revolution installment - we discuss the essay "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks and how it can apply to our contemporary leftist formations and debates on revolution. --- Readings & Resources bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (essay) https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (audio) https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/77-love-as-the-practice-of-freedom-readingrevolution-left-pocket-project-podcast Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of "Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJKJZU7xXU&t=532s bell hooks on Freire https://t.co/vIrwItLrO4 The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514 ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc