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Real Sankara Hours is a Pan-African socialist political podcast that covers domestic and international politics, current events, race, Black radical political theory, and Black culture. Hosted by Adam Hudson and Peter MGunn. Website: https://realsankarahours.org/ Subscribe to us on Patreon to get bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/realsankarahours Our SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/realsankarahours
Episodes
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Recorded June 25, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about Biden admitting he won't do much on reparations, along with how liberals are watering down the reparations fight to vouchers and piecemeal reforms that are not reparations at all and still reinforce the system of racism and capitalism. Then they talk about the right-wing backlash and controversy over critical race theory and how their agenda: whitewash American history and beat back BLM and anti-racist activism. They conclude the episode talking about the rough world millennials are inheriting and how it's impacting their ability to buy homes and start families.
Links: Biden tells lawmakers not to expect much on reparations: https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/06/02/biden-reparations-tulsa-491607 ; how reparations program in Evanston, Illinois is fake reparations: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/country-s-first-municipal-reparations-program-rocky-start-n1269289 , https://www.the-sun.com/news/2945200/evanston-illinois-slavery-reparations-program-slammed-black-residents/ ; conservative backlash against critical race theory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/19/critical-race-theory-rufo-republicans/ , https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/for-conservatives-critical-race-theory-has-come-to-represent-any-conversation-about-race-that-makes-them-uncomfortable/Content?oid=29506183 , https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/what-do-conservatives-fear-about-critical-race-theory , https://newrepublic.com/article/162737/critical-race-theory-conservative-scam , what is critical race theory: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/22/texas-critical-race-theory-explained/ , https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/29/critical-race-theory-bans-schools/ , https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05 , https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1009182206/academic-who-brought-critical-race-theory-to-education-says-bills-are-misguided , bans on critical race theory in schools: https://www.postandcourier.com/myrtle-beach/critical-race-theory-isnt-taught-in-horry-schools-grand-strand-patriots-want-it-to-stay/article_f802b022-d2ae-11eb-a9b8-3f33eb5d3b15.html , https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/21/critical-race-theory-ban-florida/ , https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/15/abbott-critical-race-theory-law/ , ; conservative effort to ban critical race theory in schools and whitewashing history: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/conservatives-are-hellbent-on-attacking-critical-race-theory-theyre-whitewashing-structural-racism/ , https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-invades-school-boards-help-conservative-groups-n1270794 ; millennial adulthood: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/middle-aged-millennials-are-homeowners-but-burdened-by-debt.html;
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Pan-African Community Library in Burkina Faso: https://gofund.me/4b276440
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
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Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
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Saturday Jun 12, 2021
Saturday Jun 12, 2021
Recorded June 10, 2021. Adam and Peter begin this episode by talking about the Ethiopia-Tigray crisis. Then they talk about Germany recognizing its genocide in Namibia and paying the Namibian government over $1 billion in "reconciliation," even though the victims are demanding financial reparations and their land back. Adam explains why this is a crucial lesson for reparations for African-Americans in the United States. They end the episode by discussing the pandemic.
Links: info. on Ethiopia-Tigray crisis: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1FOf1NhkwFFlZfvLcaTG7j?si=O8magQWlTLOW9TJ00gGxEQ&dl_branch=1; Germany recognizes its genocide in Namibia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/germany-agrees-to-pay-namibia-11bn-over-historical-herero-nama-genocide , https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/germany-acknowledges-genocide-namibia-stops-short-reparations-180977886/ ; what happened during Germany's genocide in Namibia: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/europe/germany-namibia-genocide.html; reparations law and what reparations actually entails: https://www.reparationlaw.com/reparations/what-is-reparation.php , https://www.reparationlaw.com/legal-instruments/rights-remedy-reparations-general-assembly.pdf ;
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Pan-African Community Library in Burkina Faso: https://gofund.me/4b276440
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
Follow us on Twitter:
Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5
Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours
Adam's SoundCloud -- @adamhudson5
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Saturday May 29, 2021
Saturday May 29, 2021
Recorded May 26, 2021. It's been on year since the police murder of George Floyd. Adam and Peter discuss how there has been no substantive police reform in Ferguson (where the first BLM uprising started in 2014) and how activists and changing their approach, rising crime in the United States and it's caused by the economic fallout of the pandemic but mainstream media, politicians, and the police want to use crime as a wedge against the demands of BLM, the Palestine ceasefire and how Biden is falsely claiming credit for it, and how the AP fired a young journalist, Emily Wilder, for her pro-Palestine activism and how they caved to a right-wing smear campaign against her.
Links: Tulsa massacre survivors testify in front of Congress: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/viola-fletcher-tulsa-race-massacre-congress-oldest-survivor ; political pressure to add more police a year after Floyd murder in response to rising crime: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/us/george-floyd-police.html ; Ferguson fight for police reform is changing up: https://revealnews.org/article/the-fight-has-to-change-why-ferguson-activists-ditched-police-reform/ ; Biden handling of Palestine: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1268102?espv=1; AP firing Emily Wilder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/26/ap-wilder-firing/ ;
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
Follow us on Twitter:
Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5
Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours
Adam's SoundCloud -- @adamhudson5
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Make a one-time donation to our PayPal: https://paypal.me/realsankarahours?locale.x=en_US
Thursday May 13, 2021
Thursday May 13, 2021
Recorded May 12, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about the COVID-19 catastrophe in India and the human toll in the country. Then they talk about protests in Colombia and a deadly police raid in Brazil, the deadliest in Rio's history, and how police violence in Brazil targeting mostly poor Black people is similar to the racist police violence in the United States. After that, they focus half of the episode talking about Israel-Palestine, specifically the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and protests against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by Israeli settlers which has now escalated into intense violence between Israel and Palestine, especially current Israeli airstrikes and bombing of Gaza (the airstrikes are now intensifying and there are Israeli ground troops near Gaza preparing for invasion: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/13/israel-bombs-high-rise-buildings-as-gaza-marks-deadly-eid-live ).
Links: COVID-19 catastrophe in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbZLE4WvTg4&t=4s , https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/28/crime-against-humanity-arundhati-roy-india-covid-catastrophe , https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/estimating-covid-deaths-india.html , https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-bidens-push-for-vaccine-patent-waivers-wont-save-india , (U.S. waves vaccine patent: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/biden-says-plans-back-wto-waiver-vaccines-2021-05-05/ ) ; protests in Colombia: https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/could-colombias-protests-derail-its-basic-income-experiment/ , https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/world/americas/colombia-protests-police-brutality.html , https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995173022/deadly-protests-against-economic-inequality-and-police-brutality-continue-in-col , https://www.afroresistance.org/post/colombia-is-awake, https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombian-cities-brace-more-covid-infections-after-protests-2021-05-11/ ; deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/8/death-toll-from-police-raid-on-rio-de-janeiro-favela-increases , https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57000382 , https://time.com/6047032/jair-bolsonaro-crime-policies-brazils-favelas/, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/07/was-massacre-brazilian-police-kill-two-dozen-deadliest-favela-raid-rios-history ; Israel/Palestine (Israeli settlers expel Palestinian families from their homes, leads to protests, now the situation has escalated; this is the context of Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestine and apartheid against Palestinians): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/11/sheikh-jarrah-residents-speak-out-on-israels-forced-expulsions , https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/10/world-reacts-after-israeli-forces-wound-hundreds-in-al-aqsa-raid , https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/jerusalem-seethes-as-the-rockets-begin-on-day-of-rising-tension , https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/israel-kills-9-palestinians-in-gaza-injures-hundreds-in-jerusalem-as-al-aqsa-tensions-flare/ , https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/12/unicef-warns-looming-full-scale-war-israel-continues-bombing-gaza , (Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian and wants to steal their home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8&t=1s )
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
Reclaim the Block -- @reclaimtheblock (Twitter) secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHB…zC-lQfhEaey0U
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
Black Hills Legal Defense Fund -- bhlegalfund.org
Follow us on Twitter:
Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5
Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours
Adam's SoundCloud -- @adamhudson5
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Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Recorded April 27, 2021. Adam and Peter are back. First, they begin the episode discussing how Blaise Compaore will be tried in absentia for assassinating Thomas Sankara. They also talk about the recent police killings of Ma'khia Bryant, Adam Toledo, and Daunte Wright. After that, they weigh in on the ongoing debate about police abolition versus community control over policing. They explain how the community control over policing proposal by Pan-African Community Action has been mischaracterized; it's not narrow oversight but, rather, self-determination for community needs, empowering Black communities so they don't need police.
Links: Ex-cop Derek Chauvin found guilty and convicted for killing George Floyd: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/us/derek-chauvin-trial-george-floyd-deliberations/index.html ; police killing of Ma'khia Bryant: https://apnews.com/article/makhia-bryant-ohio-shooting-video-recordings-186abfbcfd1717a8c42a38021a83de4b , https://thegrio.com/2021/04/23/makhia-bryant-foster-system-black-children/ , https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/23/fact-check-makhia-bryant-did-not-approach-officer-before-shooting/7356176002/ ; police killing of Adam Toledo: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56768217 , https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/4/26/22386140/adam-toledo-shooting-timeline-video-police-cpd-little-village; police killing of Daunte Wright: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56724798 , https://www.nytimes.com/article/daunte-wright-death-minnesota.html; Blaise Compaore will be tried for assassinating Thomas Sankara: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/13/trial-in-absentia-burkina-faso-ex-president-blaise-compaore; the debate over police abolition vs community control over policing: https://forgeorganizing.org/article/fantasy-community-control-police , https://spectrejournal.com/the-radical-practicality-of-community-control-over-policing/
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
Reclaim the Block -- @reclaimtheblock (Twitter) secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHB…zC-lQfhEaey0U
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
Black Hills Legal Defense Fund -- bhlegalfund.org
Follow us on Twitter:
Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5
Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours
Adam's SoundCloud -- @adamhudson5
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Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Recorded April 11, 2021. Real Sankara Hours hosts Adam Hudson and Peter MGunn talk to Boston University professor Takeo Rivera about the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and their roots in white supremacy and U.S. imperialism and colonialism.
Links: NPR segment with numbers on anti-Asian hate crime perpetrators (5% are Black): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/980437156; white supremacy is the root of race-related violence in the U.S.: https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566 ; Capitol Hill rioters were mostly white people from areas with declining white populations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/06/capitol-insurrection-arrests-cpost-analysis/ , https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/politics/capitol-riot-study.html ;
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
Reclaim the Block -- @reclaimtheblock (Twitter) secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHB…zC-lQfhEaey0U
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
Black Hills Legal Defense Fund -- bhlegalfund.org
Follow us on Twitter:
Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5
Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours
Adam's SoundCloud -- @adamhudson5
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Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Recorded March 14, 2021. It's been one year since the COVID-19 pandemic started so Adam and Peter do a retrospective on the past year. They talk about protests in Senegal, a CIA base in the Sahara, the impact of the pandemic, and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests -- how the dialogue has somewhat shifted but that doesn't mean a substantive change in policy.
Links: protests in Senegal: https://news.yahoo.com/senegal-protests-teenager-killed-clashes-121540279.html ; CIA base in the Sahara: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/politics/cia-drones-sahara-niger-libya.html ; House approves mild police reform bill named after George Floyd: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973111306/house-approves-police-reform-bill-named-after-george-floyd (fact sheet: https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/george_floyd_jpa_2021_fact_sheet_.pdf?utm_campaign=5874-519) ; teens are experiencing severe mental health issues, like depression, because of the pandemic and repeated lockdowns: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/health/covid-teenagers-mental-health.html; BLM protesters are grappling with their arrests months later: https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5b39x/blm-protesters-are-still-grappling-with-their-arrests-months-later ; Tamir Rice's mother, Samaria, criticizing Tamika Mallory and other BLM leaders for "clout chasing": https://www.complex.com/life/tamir-rice-mother-criticizes-tamika-mallory-after-lil-baby-grammys-performance ; Black Lives Matter Global Network made over $90 million last year: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-exclusive-black-lives-matter-171452160.html; Movement for Black Lives opposes the George Floyd Justice Act: https://apnews.com/article/movement-for-black-lives-oppose-george-floyd-justice-act-dd6e724e8cce87ace9ecc06067ef8e8e?fbclid=IwAR07wCo0r_4dvGCDuh3UpO19K1zJL3Je2hhBfiqUoMiuMgrPUjmCfMFyKHM ; the George Floyd Act wouldn't have saved George Floyd: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/04/the-george-floyd-act-wouldnt-have-saved-george-floyds-life-thats-says-it-all?fbclid=IwAR3PAaZw0mgPVVaHwcYZOrpx8pqtRiUJ6B-UxlNWMtpNbza-YWkWDLrzP-w ; AU chairperson condemns police murder of George Floyd: https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20200529/statement-chairperson-following-murder-george-floyd-usa ; UN establishes inquiry on racism after George Floyd murder: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-un/u-n-sets-up-inquiry-into-racism-after-george-floyd-death-idUSKBN23Q2GE ; African UN officials push for more action to address systemic racism: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1066242 ;
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
Reclaim the Block -- @reclaimtheblock (Twitter) secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHB…zC-lQfhEaey0U
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
Black Hills Legal Defense Fund -- bhlegalfund.org
Follow us on Twitter:
Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5
Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours
Adam's SoundCloud -- @adamhudson5
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Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Recorded February 28, 2020. February is over and Adam and Peter are back. They talk about Biden's airstrike in Syria. Then they talk about two additional police killings (of Kurt Reinhold and Angelo Quinto), including one in Antioch, California and how the city council recently passed police reforms. Then they wrap up by discussing the next COVID relief bill in Congress and wondering when the hell our next stimulus checks are coming.
Links: Biden launches U.S. airstrike in Syria: https://apnews.com/article/us-airstrike-syria-explained-0276818ed191a48fafcd1c2c57d1a1d9 , https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/02/26/us-airstrike-first-under-biden-kills-iran-backed-militiaman-militia-reserves-right-to-retaliate/ ; "Walking while Black"...Kurt Reinhold, an unarmed Black man, was shot and killed by police in Orange County, California for allegedly jaywalking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBPj5T_VfNU, https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-police-filmed-shooting-man-171042986.html ; Angelo Quinto, 30-year-old Filipino and Navy vet, was killed by police kneeling on his neck (similar to George Floyd) in Antioch, California during a mental health crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/24/angelo-quinto-us-navy-veteran-mental-health-crisis-died-officer-knelt-neck , https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/us/angelo-quinto-death-police-kneel.html; Antioch, California passes police reforms: https://abc7news.com/antioch-police-reform-department/10374773/ , https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/antioch-city-council-moves-forward-with-series-of-police-reform-measures/ ; demographics of Antioch, California: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/antioch-ca/ , demographics of Pittsburg, California: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/pittsburg-ca/ ; man dies in police custody after Antioch police tase him: https://www.ktvu.com/news/man-dies-after-being-tased-in-antioch-police-custody; House Democrats preparing to approve Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/26/us/joe-biden-news ; Senate parliamentarian holds sway: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/us/politics/stimulus-senate-parliamentarian.html; parliamentarian disqualifies minimum wage from stimulus plan: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/us/politics/federal-minimum-wage.html ; Biden open to give fewer people stimulus checks: https://www.newsweek.com/biden-open-giving-fewer-people-stimulus-checks-weeks-delays-loom-1572686 ;
Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"
Peter MGunn -- bass guitar
Adam Hudson -- drums
Support the struggle:
Anti-Police Terror Project -- @APTPaction (Twitter)
Reclaim the Block -- @reclaimtheblock (Twitter) secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHB…zC-lQfhEaey0U
People's Breakfast Oakland -- @PeoplesBreakOak
Black Hills Legal Defense Fund -- bhlegalfund.org
Follow us on Twitter:
Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5
Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter
Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours
Adam's SoundCloud -- @adamhudson5
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Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
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Recorded February 21, 2021. Bonus episode, Real Sankara After Hours portion. Adam and Peter talk to Raz, a writer and activist in Texas, about the polar vortex, the blackouts, ERCOT, climate change creating more disasters with both California and Texas as examples of what's to come (and already here), why nationalizing the electrical grid is the most sensible approach, how the repressive right-wing state government works against the interests of regular Texans and how to fight it.
Links: map of USA electrical grid: http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/national_energy_grid/united-states-of-america/americannationalelectricitygrid.shtml; climate change poses for U.S.'s electrical grid: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-power-grid-failures.html ; Texas ERCOT set state up for disaster: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/texas-electricity-ercot-blackouts.html ; Texas Freedom Colonies Project: https://andrearobertsphd.com/the-texas-freedom-colonies-project/ ; Bonton Farms: https://bontonfarms.org/about-2/ ; Jen Sarduy for District 2: https://sarduyfordistrict2.com/ ; Re+Birth Equity Alliance: https://www.rebirthequity.org/about ;