Real Sankara Hours

RSH 46 -- The Empire Is Eating Itself (8.7.2020)

Recorded August 5, 2020 (Adam: I uploaded and edited this and the show notes a little late. Sorry for the delay). Adam and Peter talk about a number of things. Peter covers the workers' strike at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and interviews one of the striking workers. Adam discusses a COVID-19 relief bill in the Senate to support independent music venues. They talk about the recent explosion on Beirut, Lebanon and the Zimbabwean government's $3.5 billion in "reparations" to white settlers. 

 

Links: General Dynamics and AeroVironment give combat vehicles drone technology: https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/ausa/2018/10/09/general-dynamics-aerovironment-join-forces-to-give-combat-vehicles-their-own-drones/ ; "Save Our Stages Act" to provide COVID-19 relief to small, independent music venues: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/senate-bill-independent-venues-covid-19-relief-aid-1032542/?fbclid=IwAR03BS8Ea8_NINJ_noJenBUraXTgN3GkoZtzuyxRg3iFjlxydZ4BdCiznTQ ; Zimbabwe pays $3.5 billion compensation to white settlers: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/zimbabwe-pay-white-farmer-35bn-land-compensation-deal-200729135752062.html , https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zimbabwe-farmers/zimbabwe-agrees-to-pay-3-5-billion-compensation-to-white-farmers-idUSKCN24U1OM; Zimbabwe government cracks down on opponents and protesters: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/zimbabwe-president-vows-flush-opponents-200804141615075.html ; Beirut explosion: https://www.theguardian.com/world/audio/2020/aug/11/after-deadly-explosion-will-anything-change-beirut-podcast , https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/world/middleeast/beirut-explosion-us-contractor.html , https://www.npr.org/2020/08/07/899776352/beiruts-explosion-looks-like-an-accident-and-a-sign-of-the-country-s-collapse ,   ; 

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RSH 43 -- Fascism Is Already Here (feat. Q) (7.23.2020)

Recorded July 22, 2020. Adam and Peter are joined by Q (Andray Domise) of Rezistans Nwa, a newly-founded Black resistance podcast network. They talk about Trump's use of federal agents to snatch protesters and put them in unmarked vans in Portland, his expansion of this, and this is an example of authoritarianism that's been long in the making by both Republicans and Democrats. Then they pay tribute to the late Michael Brooks, a leftist journalist and commentator who passed away recently.   

 

Links: U.S. Border Patrol was responsible for the arrests in Portland: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/border-patrol-portland-arrest/ ; Trump ordered federal agents to snatch protesters in unmarked vehicles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/17/trump-ordered-federal-agents-are-reportedly-pulling-protesters-into-unmarked-vehicles-drawing-outrage/?fbclid=IwAR06Srx5K1F9ymlpyOe1Beih2LHaFPyXPWpfdCd7PLwaf0QPLX0CAm6AOF8#3156dc3670de ; Trump consulted with Bush-era torture memo lawyer John Yoo: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/20/trump-john-yoo-lawyer-torture-waterboarding?fbclid=IwAR0rcsypojIUJ5EUlcFspJNzBTkTRV0pxRc5xSEIaeAU64arBu6oeDvCA0Y ; Trump orders surge hundreds of federal agents to cities: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53507660?fbclid=IwAR06M3qPJEc-OoRQF9Ln-Bls5kMgCEFqYBike9d6gy_gnEpgPa_5cG-KjFg ; Homan Square, Chicago's black site where Black people are detained: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands , https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/05/homan-square-chicago-thousands-detained ; the feds have a long history of snatching people up: https://theappeal.org/the-feds-have-a-long-history-of-snatching-people-up-only-now-they-are-targeting-middle-class-white-people/ ; Obama signs the NDAA 2012, allowing for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/#7c2ef90a11b6 , https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law , https://www.propublica.org/article/cutting-through-the-controversy-about-indefinite-detention-and-the-ndaa ; Michael Brooks passes away: https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/michael-brooks-dead/ , https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/michael-brooks-dead-dies-political-commentator-majority-report-1234712010/ , https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/remembering-our-friend-and-comrade-michael-brooks ,  ;  

 

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RSH 41 -- Joe Biden, Eat My Ass (7.18.2020)

Recorded July 15, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about a range of topics but mostly focus on correcting mainstream misreadings of Afro-pessimism and how young Black voters are not excited about Joe Biden. 

Links: 

Wall Street is no longer betting on Trump: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-markets-fc3a760a-0d3d-4c34-a824-fadd219c4a52.html?chunk=0&utm_term=fbsocialshare&fbclid=IwAR0MeQscEWNS868I7LukWyIrAOPQ5VE4QlR5qGnHXC1XZAYQ6YxqLRT_-Jo#story0 ; young Black voters are not excited about Joe Biden: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/07/08/joe-biden-young-black-voters-say-not-excited-candidate/5344135002/?fbclid=IwAR3nMYB3hKNSL76gLZD35p_Fu4Ak1VMTqVygx9aiJGmOoW1PLMN4EOeSmyA , https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/05/black-voters-biden-301850 , https://www.forbes.com/sites/maiahoskin/2020/06/30/not-so-fast-democrats-young-black-voters-are-still-not-fully-convinced-and-it-might-cost-joe-biden-the-election/#335f940f6f46 ; 87 people protesting for Breonna Taylor arrested and charged with a felony: https://newsone.com/3977160/breonna-taylor-protesters-are-charged-with-felonies/?fbclid=IwAR3yyB6xxFs6kJfGPOQbOg6D_l933MEhZm48JfDy40YqEYBAtul1LWIaDkU ; Dr. Frank Wilderson III interview on Afro-pessimism: https://mg.co.za/friday/2020-07-02-part-iii-afropessimism-and-rituals-of-anti-black-violence/?fbclid=IwAR3ZUnDQ85zgBKfZO1sniKOLR3G5u1NXAVVLHvgBP7J2j4u-4WEPWhZ3x3c ; 

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RSH 39 -- America's Statuesque Horror (7.10.2020)

Recorded July 8, 2020. Adam and Peter talk about the removal of statues honoring violent colonizers, including Christopher Columbus, and how such statues serve as symbols of white supremacy and as forms of myth-making to sanitize American imperialism. They also ruthlessly trash the Hamilton play and critique the Harpers letter on "free speech" (i.e., elite media people and academics complaining that college kids don't like them). 

 

Links: 

Harpers free speech letter: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ ; New York Times article on the free speech letter: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html ; the LSA's letter on Steven Pinker: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZqWl5grm_F5Kn_0OarY9Q2jlOnk200PvhM5e3isPvY/preview?pru=AAABc1WKs2U*HHOobnHUzqNwcP2V2P24RA ; Hamilton Nolan on free speech manipulated to coddle elites: http://inthesetimes.com/article/22648/free-speech-labor-journalism-harpers-coddling-elites ; Osita Nwanevu on reactionary liberalism and "cancel culture": https://newrepublic.com/article/158346/willful-blindness-reactionary-liberalism ; Cary Nelson was behind getting Steven Salaita fired: https://electronicintifada.net/content/salaita-case-and-cary-nelsons-use-academic-freedom-silence-dissent/13756 , https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/15/cary-nelson-faces-backlash-over-his-views-controversial-scholar; what happened to Dr. Tommy J. Curry: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/03/what-is-a-black-professor-in-america-allowed-to-say-tommy-j-curry, https://moguldom.com/188982/dr-tommy-curry-got-death-threats-for-his-comments-on-race-now-hes-leaving-the-u-s-to-teach-in-scotland/ ; Trump supporters, MAGA dipshits paint over and vandalize a city-permitted Black Lives Matter mural on Martinez, CA: https://sfist.com/2020/07/06/calling-racism-a-leftist-lie-two-trump-supporters-attempt-to-paint-over-blm-mural-in-martinez/, MAGA dipshit vandals charged with hate crime: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/07/07/alleged-martinez-black-lives-matter-mural-vandals-charged-with-hate-crime/?fbclid=IwAR3_DoUVQfNklBLTtdYJ5vrXKo-9WOx5U9KDBhota41ikAdZnW-kqb0uvRQ ; White Lives Matter written on Martinez, CA street: https://abc7news.com/white-lives-matter-written-on-martinez-street-3-days-after-blm-mural-vandalized/6306209/?fbclid=IwAR02uSxZbe9-bMJda2u8KdOVGVhfJxC4yCIPO5Y5kvBChDQpNyPN7xhx98w ; court shuts down DAPL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pipeline-energy-transfer-idUSKBN2471TQ?fbclid=IwAR0I_0mi66wxXyr_Ci6WAklLv1STSXo9Zn5FhwwI0CWSqKVZTVKJD4sWCJQ ; the brutal truth and atrocities of Junipero Serra and the California missions: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/pope-francis-junipero-serra-sainthood-washington-california ; why it's hard to teach the "hard history" of slavery: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/04/582468315/why-schools-fail-to-teach-slaverys-hard-history ; police murder of Breonna Taylor connected to gentrification: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/05/lawyers-breonna-taylor-case-connected-gentrification-plan/5381352002/ ; car attacks on BLM protesters: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kp4ja/people-keep-attacking-black-lives-matter-protesters-with-their-cars ; Harpers in 1859 on slavery: https://www.loc.gov/item/92838021/?fbclid=IwAR039jHfz9Kum3fjdtWY_FawWg1sN-YDy-XT4I6ccVQfmZDXVdgeSZw-p8g ; Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed26.asp, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed35.asp ; 

 

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RSH 37 -- Real Doomer Shit: Pandemic, eviction crisis, depression (7.4.2020)

Recorded July 2, 2020. This is a doomer episode. Adam and Peter talk about the multiple compounding crises happening simultaneously, with a special emphasis on how the pandemic is triggering a deep economic depression and an impending eviction crisis. 

Links: 

CDC says U.S. has "way too much virus" to control pandemic: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/cdc-says-us-has-way-too-much-virus-to-control-pandemic-as-cases-surge-across-country.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar ; wave of evictions expected as unemployment and coronavirus protections expire: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/how-to-prevent-the-coming-coronavirus-tsunami-of-evictions.html ; COVID-19 cases by U.S. county: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map?fbclid=IwAR0s3MFoFUIx30-KLjisQObtDQYQsFHf4k9EoFqZ85oToVmIYsz5_e7nhI4 ; COVID-19 cases in California: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/california-coronavirus-cases.html#county ; COVID-19 cases in California increased after Memorial Day: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2020-06-29/california-coronavirus-hot-spot-memorial-day , https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/california-coronavirus-reopening.html?fbclid=IwAR1-1dZEPQsw0tF8s-aLsARUSCvZY-ogCK2_aqPj9x3o9DijFdQP5PSCUzE; California "wall of debt" coming: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-30/california-wall-of-debt-returns-as-state-bets-on-federal-aid?fbclid=IwAR1nA8lF-fSZYNJ6lMxLn0NOrBOue7wD1y8Hh9M20vsj02BgCP1a8hCnSvQ ; racist police violence in Brazil: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-17/a-teens-killing-stirs-black-lives-matter-protests-in-brazil; Egypt's central bank sells $509.3 million in T-bills: https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/3/88425/Egypt%E2%80%99s-central-bank-sells-509-3M-on-T-bills-Tuesday?fbclid=IwAR0BUwbN8lDZfrsvQiIgIt-Zz-1Ilqgv4zbnKYSBlZ6RvyfQuubSY-oJKKk   

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RSH 35 -- The Master's Tools Were Patriarchy All Along (6.26.2020)

Recorded June 25, 2020. Adam and Peter have a long discussion about the harm of patriarchy, its ties to capitalism and white supremacy, and the need for Black men to liberate ourselves from it. They also criticize the latest police "reform" bill passed by Congress. 

 

Links: 

Noname and Boots Riley discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i12zRBXObI ; gender identities across different cultures: https://www.facebook.com/eris.versri/posts/281197166335917 , https://medium.com/@janelane_62637/the-splendor-of-gender-non-conformity-in-africa-f894ff5706e1; Congress's police reform bill: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ahead-house-vote-pelosi-says-bill-george-floyd-s-name-n1232114?fbclid=IwAR0zV2W5mJzGetqgGL8b8o79QmDluUBYtQia-kw-fxxWRWCEE-ZWRJKC-W0 ; 

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RSH 33 -- OpSec and the Surveillance State with Tron (6.19.2020)

Recorded June 17, 2020. Peter and Adam talk to Tron (Twitter: @Activist_Arts) about operational/cyber security in Black activism and the U.S. surveillance state. 

Links: 

Interesting panel discussion of Liberians for Black Lives Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYR6e74QP4 ; 911 dispatchers support defunding the police: https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-911-emergency-dispatchers-are-ready-to-defund-the-police ; Toyin's death: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/oluwatoyin-salau-dead-aaron-glee.html ; "implicit bias" trainings do not work: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/implicit-bias-training-doesnt-actually-change-police-behavior_n_5ee28fc3c5b60b32f010ed48?fbclid=IwAR34Ge_FKxoyhvo_hH8Bwmcqf1kHiHiv94d30SzP-nWRbsq0eDlCX3XWxjg&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANgNQcuPQLu3ZAFlZgS2qLD3EuSZWh2gh6pCQV6fb0L2YsY_l9zI1alvcREbb_uLPohjrfeUcxnRkTBRk50CYeithEEn0bYat9vAbMETmbNVQ5toqIZ4iKoSlnlHNoVCKOWwACQituLTN76rpc4e1ypXi82cPsGPfIyRauHXVLiZ ; Adam's piece on how tech companies support the U.S. war machine: https://www.alternet.org/2014/08/how-google-and-big-tech-companies-are-helping-maintain-americas-empire/?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark ; UN holds panel on police brutality and racism: https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/15/877299937/u-n-human-rights-council-to-hold-urgent-debate-on-police-brutality-racism?fbclid=IwAR3IvoQMX1Q10RjYcJB6e5u4jzJ62Yq-Kg2pOdj8wddrEV30yVMD74R9Daw, letter: https://twitter.com/jdakwar/status/1271624767423029248/photo/3 ; Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing: https://news.trust.org/item/20200617163319-tib7v/?fbclid=IwAR1OI0nh2ns3Yx5X2ztrxayjXBweWIrXMk6OB51fm4-R1oOMvvz-KaRZrDo ; New York Supreme Court rules protesters can be indefinitely detained: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/deeply-disturbing-new-york-supreme-court-judge-rules-protesters-can-be-detained?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0JAtsEoG3xjLEwjWipY6HW5UhSa9nXKdZCrngP-2zEEXW61cPRyRHLD74 ; 

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RSH 31 -- Fuck 12 and Bernie Sanders (6.12.2020)

Recorded June 10, 2020. Adam and Peter continue covering the protests against racism and police violence throughout the United States. Specifically, they discuss police abolition and why it's necessary to abolish the material conditions and hierarchies that necessitate the existence of police versus just abolishing police departments.  

 

Links: 

Bernie Sanders rejects calls to defund and/or abolish the police: https://news.yahoo.com/sanders-dismisses-progressive-calls-defund-195628874.html ; https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bernie-sanders-is-not-done-fighting ; Reason Magazine wants to privatize the police: https://reason.com/2020/06/08/professionalizing-policing-hasnt-worked-privatize-it-instead/ ; community control of police: https://www.blackagendareport.com/community-control-vs-defunding-police-critical-analysis?fbclid=IwAR0sp5O1UEoWFUEpSC6y79Ig0BrPQTzyGxF7OZ957Ijvwq6rM_JfoAqmXPc , https://howiehawkins.us/community-control-of-the-police-an-idea-whose-time-came-and-never-left/ ; police disbanded in Camden, New Jersey: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/08/guardians-not-warriors-how-crime-fell-when-new-jersey-city-dismantled-police-dept/ ; Democrats release police "reform" bill: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/democrats-release-police-reform-bill-after-george-floyd-protests.html ; the power of police unions in blocking reform: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html ; confessions of a former bastard cop: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 ; Ruth Wilson Gilmore on prison abolition and eliminating the conditions that make prison a solution to social ills: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html , https://twitter.com/endywen/status/1250900201771954176 

 

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RSH 29 -- Keep The Faith (6.4.2020)

Recorded June 3, 2020. Peter and Adam discuss the protests against police violence across the United States. Peter talks about attending a protest in Portland, Maine. Adam discusses Obama's speech on George Floyd. The two also talk about "allies" to the Black struggle. 

Links: 

New York Times profile of protesters: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/protester-profiles-floyd-minneapolis.html ; calls to defund police are gaining mainstream support: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/04/defund-the-police-us-george-floyd-budgets; most Americans support the George Floyd protests and even burning down the police precinct: https://www.axios.com/54-americans-support-george-floyd-demonstrations-d413bfb3-a6a0-4c3d-8d8c-5da451e267e0.html ; https://truthout.org/articles/majority-of-americans-support-uprisings-disagree-with-trump-poll-finds/ ; https://www.newsweek.com/54-americans-think-burning-down-minneapolis-police-precinct-was-justified-after-george-floyds-1508452 ; Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.'s speech at UCLA on January 10, 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv2rEy0dNbU ; Adam's webinar panel talk discussing anti-Blackness, police violence, and the War on Terror: https://www.facebook.com/civilfreedoms/videos/915822285601515/ ; how much do we really need police?: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police ; allies versus accomplices: http://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/?fbclid=IwAR17w3FGk6L3a3RQV82r63lR4aEsLwF0FF5Zm4QHksDrsVhDLyFPF__fCgA ;   

 

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UNLOCKED RSH 28 -- Harry Haywood Brings the Flames (6.2.2020)

Recorded May 31, 2020. Bonus episode. Real Sankara After Hours. Adam and Peter read and discuss Harry Haywood's "For A Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question" and the Black Belt thesis. Most of the discussion is focused on Black self-determination, the limits of liberal integration to address racism, and fallacy of the race/class distinction.

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Harry Haywood: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1956-1960/haywood02.htm;  

 

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