Real Sankara Hours

RSH 53 -- I Don't Mind...Stealin' Bread...From the Mouths of Decadence (9.12.2020)

Recorded September 9, 2020. This is a packed but great episode. Adam interviews McKenna Peterson, an activist who went on hunger strike to protest police racist violence in Antioch, California. The hunger strike ended because of the city's lack of response but the protest encampment continues. Then Adam and Peter interview Jess Folero, a housing activist and organizer in Portland, Maine. After those interviews, the guys talk about the newly-released tape of President Donald Trump saying he intentionally misled the public about the danger of the COVID-19 pandemic. They close out by talking about another Rachel Dolezal -- C.V. Vitolo, a white Italian person (activist and academic) who pretended to be Black/P.O.C. 

Time stamps: 

Djembe interlude #1: 4:58 

Antioch hunger strike and protest: 6:05 

Djembe interlude #2: 36:20 

Jess interview: 37:58 

Djembe interlude #3: 1:33:48 

Latter half analysis and commentary: 1:34:34 

 

Links: Antioch hunger strike ends but protest continues: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/09/09/activists-frustrated-by-lack-of-response-from-city-end-hunger-strike/ ; Trump intentionally downplayed the severity of COVID-19 pandemic to the public: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html ; C.V. Vitolo, Rachel Dolezal 3.0, a white Italian person who falsely assumed Black/POC identity is outed: https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/10/more-allegations-racial-fraud-academe?fbclid=IwAR20BMJUi5aynWvgcYiN5WjjJofgbL2EDf-yR2kEXyOjbyrC84sMD27IiEw#.X1oQ3tisX1E.twitter, https://medium.com/@cvvitolo/a-first-step-da38275071e1 , "apology": https://medium.com/@cvvitolo/a-second-step-9fe0c6511ff3(Jessica Krug -- Rachel Dolezal 2.0: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/09/jessica-krug-white-scholar-black-latina) ; sundown towns in California: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c1db3f66764249beb999f3a81290398c, https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/content.php?file=sundowntowns-whitemap.html, https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntowns.php, https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?state=CA ; 

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Peter MGunn -- bass guitar

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RSH 51 -- Authoritarianism and the Inevitable White Backlash (9.9.2020)

Recorded September 7, 2020. The Sankara fellas, Adam and Peter, are back. They talk about U.S. federal agents killing an antifa supporter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, who allegedly killed a far-right militiaman, Aaron "Jay" Danielson, in Portland, Oregon and how it connects to growing racist authoritarianism. Then they talk about declining white support for Black Lives Matter and the revanchist white racist backlash to protests against police racism and violence. 

 

Links: during arrest, feds kill an antifa supporter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, who allegedly killed a far-right militiaman in Portland, Oregon: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/michael-reinoehl-arrest-portland-shooting.html , https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/09/man-sought-in-the-fatal-downtown-portland-shooting-reported-to-have-been-killed-by-officers-in-wa.html , https://www.thedailybeast.com/portland-shooting-suspect-michael-forest-reinoehl-killed-during-arrest-attempt?via=twitter_page , Reinoehl's interview with VICE: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7g8vb/man-linked-to-killing-at-a-portland-protest-says-he-acted-in-self-defense , U.S. marshals task force killed Reinoehl: https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/crime/article245485220.html  ; far-right militiaman killed in Portland on August 30, 2020 was Aaron "Jay" Danielson and member of far-right group Patriot Prayer: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/man-fatally-shot-after-pro-trump-caravan-was-patriot-prayer-friend-and-supporter.html, https://nypost.com/2020/08/30/patriot-prayer-supporter-identified-as-portland-shooting-victim/ , https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-trump-rally-shooting.html , Danielson was also a Jeremy Christian supporter: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/10/08/19375638/a-man-had-a-gun-stowed-in-his-scooter-at-todays-patriot-prayer-rally-he-was-arrested , Patriot Prayer tried to incite violence in San Francisco in summer of 2017 after Charlottesville: https://sfist.com/2020/08/30/member-of-right-wing-group-that-tried-to-make-trouble-in-sf-three-years-ago-fatally-shot-in-portland/ ; white support for Black Lives Matter drops: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/01/opinion/support-black-lives-matter-is-dropping-among-white-americans/ (movement is co-opted and gentrified: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-04/black-lives-matter-white-people-portland-protests-nfl) ; white backlash to Black Lives Matter: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/blake-white-people-backlash/ ; Trump cracking down on federal anti-racism training: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/04/trump-antiracism-training-white-privilege-critical-race-theory ; Trump calls for cutting funding to schools that teach the 1619 Project: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-1619-project-funding_n_5f556a47c5b62b3add4270fd?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=bv_fb&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&fbclid=IwAR0GF4-13UCzIqw1H0md_i5VuByJ570dhH1RuvhQpm00chiAdh7WHPiV1js ; Trump casts himself as the defender of White America: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/trump-race-2020-election.html ; SFPD shooting of Luis Gongora Pat in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/12/luis-gongora-san-francisco-police-shooting-homelessness ; 

 

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RSH 49 -- Kenosha on Fire (8.27.2020)

Recorded August 26, 2020. Adam and Peter return to bring the flames. They mostly talk about the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the protests and Black resistance, and armed white racist terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse shooting 3 protesters, killing 2. Adam also talks about how California is (finally!) learning from Native American tribes on how to manage wildfires, which are becoming deadlier throughout the state. 

 

Links: Jacob Blake paralyzed from waist down: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/25/21400481/jacob-blake-kenosha-police-shooting-riots-evanston?fbclid=IwAR3Ws1KsZObL-2BZvZGslZprwBcm--IMYsEhde3ffE_Shjn5SWRwAysWROc ; Kenosha protesters burn down Wisconsin corrections building in aftermath of Jacob Blake shooting: https://nypost.com/2020/08/25/kenosha-protesters-burn-down-wisconsin-corrections-building/?fbclid=IwAR3daWmZPHylkcJXKOcdNyUy8hIcK5-C-nkWbltnRqtBy1mEtUd6oE76VmI ; 17-year-old white vigilante shoots and kills Kenosha protester: https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/chilling-photos-show-moment-gunman-fatally-shoots-man-in-kenosha/ , https://www.the-sun.com/news/1371066/black-lives-matter-protester-shot-head-kenosha/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ussunnewsfacebookbreaking ; video footage of Rittenhouse shooting protesters trying to disarm him (CONTENT WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC FOOTAGE); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlUcPJSxS1M ; Rittenhouse is charged with murder: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8pxj/a-17-year-old-aspiring-cop-has-been-charged-with-murder-in-kenosha?fbclid=IwAR2socs446W_coR4SY2SBgSYIMjA02nsK4_yhRmKTT8epvxjfi4R2oEr4Ec ; Kenosha police chief blames protesters for their death: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/kenosha-police-chief-daniel-miskinis-blames-protesters-for-own-deaths.html?fbclid=IwAR209cGzZnhz0zWNc6wEvNm9JM0omUMZ24wTUCCLL7UPfuQN_LO2uQhigqc ; Kenosha car dealer whose dealership was burned down at the protests supports protesters: https://twitter.com/aleemmaqbool/status/1298300499230425088?s=21&fbclid=IwAR3LSuyw-mkCGIguNwFXLF8Wk47x7DNFhXpuvMrwmPrIV3cmsh1VW2BEXTQ ; St. Louis couple brandishing guns at BLM protesters speak at RNC: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/24/mccloskey-convention-speech-guns-suburbs-401297 ; Lakers, Clippers "boycott" (technically, go on strike) the NBA season: https://thespun.com/nba/los-angeles-lakers/lakers-clippers-boycott-nba-season?fbclid=IwAR3E7x-nrKUZ0TRIwR93ShLoammeWPYQJLwc9E4bMfkKRzbLdPTCimrXRBk (the strike ends: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/27/sport/la-lakers-clippers-boycott-nba-season-jacob-blake-spt-intl/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2j8vHE1qBFEt5dgrxi_4Jks-midQdduQ01IgYMgpnrju2-HubDozyYAfI); Republican National Convention got 6 times more viewers than the Democratic National Convention: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513507-first-night-of-gop-convention-delivers-nearly-six-times-more-views-than-start?fbclid=IwAR1ElSQlTDTE4xMnRSqT6nDM8ez2JCFnGRO8L-ZDX7wyNV00o56TBwQu8sM ; Kenosha shooting victims: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/victims-kenosha-jacob-blake-protest_n_5f4801a3c5b64f17e13a9546 ; California learning from Native American tribes to manage wildfires: https://theconversation.com/what-western-states-can-learn-from-native-american-wildfire-management-strategies-120731, https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along ; the literature of white liberalism: https://bostonreview.net/race/melissa-phruksachart-literature-white-liberalism?fbclid=IwAR2au8N74zjRzdrC76HxY4YhOkvXIv-mQPcveu3m7pVEEZe78rn_b5imgYs ; Black Lives Matter in France: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-europe/assa-traore-and-the-fight-for-black-lives-in-france ; Nick Tilsen's arrest, facing 17 years in prison: https://www.newsweek.com/i-stood-indigenous-rights-mount-rushmore-now-im-facing-17-years-opinion-1526763, https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/leader-of-mount-rushmore-protest-faces-new-charges-up-to-17-years-in-prison/article_c51eaadb-ff08-545d-88d5-47701ae620de.html?fbclid=IwAR3BHwty_BmJ-kKgMzHxDRzHDTR_V8xiZ3RQ6sz3r-VMdKHKFzOn6tOHaGs, https://twitter.com/ndncollective/status/1298306370345656320 ; racism in Milwaukee: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbnzv3/crime-and-punishment-racial-injustice-in-milwaukee?fbclid=IwAR1QHx1kD1EzTbg5ipMSHV0K6xxdE-qiVfZQAOQuzxe7BxxFZhDn-APkOVI ; 

 

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RSH 48 -- This Shit is Real (8.21.2020)

Recorded August 19, 2020. Real Sankara Hours begins with some sad news. Peter's father died of COVID-19 recently. Peter lays out his feelings, pays tribute to his father, and how his death ties into broader systemic injustices that we talk about on the podcast. Adam talks about the ongoing California wildfires and how Kamala Harris fought to keep cheap prison labor as California Attorney General (despite legal demands to reduce the prison population). The two talk about the Democratic National Convention, the election, and lessons from the 1972 Gary Convention.  

 

Links: Kamala Harris's Attorney General office fought to keep inmates locked up for cheap prison labor, including inmate labor for the state's firefighting force, despite demands to reduce the state's prison population: https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-ag-office-tried-to-keep-inmates-locked-up-for-cheap-labor , https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-climate-danger-of-kamala-harris-prison-labor-legac-1844712734 ; Democratic National Committee drops demand to end fossil fuel subsidies from party platform: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-national-committee-climate_n_5f3c2907c5b6d8a9173f0268?fbclid=IwAR0c0cpHveU9_eUYah77OgpubAnsksx1zC9mxDixKvBHU-WV3b0PYjhmV7M ; too many California inmates are sick with COVID, depleting state's firefighter force (which relies heavily on prisoners as firefighters): https://amp.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article243977827.html?__twitter_impression=true ; 1972 Gary Convention: https://blog.history.in.gov/tired-of-going-to-funerals-the-1972-national-black-political-convention-in-gary/ , https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/gary-declaration-national-black-political-convention-1972/ , https://socialistworker.org/2013/03/22/the-national-black-political-convention ; the People's Convention: https://peoplesconvention.org/ ; 

 

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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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