December 4, 2020

Listen to and/or download the episode here. 250 million people participate in countrywide strike in India Help NYC drivers launch a platform cooperative Open Letter to Gov. Newsom: Hold police accountable and investigate the police killing of Sean Monterrosa by Maggie Harrison in El Tecolote A Call for Ivy+ Libraries to Divest from Police and Prisons and Invest in Life-Giving Resources Online Teach-in with Haymarket Books & Center for Political Education: People Get Ready Join Center for Political Education and Haymarket Books for a conversation on beating the right, strengthening the Left, and building power. Saturday, December 12, 1:00-7:00 PM … Continue reading December 4, 2020

November 27, 2020

Listen to the episode here. Articles shared this week: Amazon workers in Germany to go on strike on ‘Black Friday’ Trans people can now self-identify their gender with a few clicks as India launches revolutionary online portal DA Boudin charges fired SFPD officer with manslaughter over fatal shooting Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Thanksgiving: “It Has Never Been About Honoring Native Americans” Homework: Questions About “Home”~ This worksheet was inspired by​ and out created by Qwul’sih’yah’maht, Robina Thomas (LyacksonoftheCoast Salish Nation). It has been developed with input from Corrina Gould (Chochenyo Ohlone from the Confederated Villages of Lisjan), Johnella LaRose (Shoshone-Bannock), … Continue reading November 27, 2020

November 20, 2020 with Dylan Rodríguez

Listen and/or download the episode here episode starts around 9 minutes in. Dylan Rodríguez is an abolitionist teacher, scholar, and activist. He was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and is President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021).  He has worked as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001, and recently served as the faculty-elected Chair of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate (2016-2020) and Chair of Ethnic Studies (2009-2016). Dylan’s thinking, writing, teaching, and scholarly activist labors address the complexity and normalized proliferation of historical regimes and logics of anti-Blackness and … Continue reading November 20, 2020 with Dylan Rodríguez

November 13, 2020

Listen to the episode here. Links/Resources mentioned on this episode: STILL ON THE LINE! Macy’s IUOE 39 Engineers Still Fighting Give-backs & Scabs After 63 Day Strike We Do it For Our Gente – Organized by Mijente: “Join us to hear from leaders in #Arizona, #Georgia, #NorthCarolina, & #PuertoRico to learn about the role of grassroots organizing in this election & how they mobilized communities to vote! 👏🏾“ So You’re Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist by Mariame Kaba Playlist of music from this week Continue reading November 13, 2020

November 6, 2020 with Shawna Virago

Listen to the episode here, starts about 4 minutes in. Links: SF Transgender Film Festival November 12-15, 2020 – ONLINE! Shawna Virago Berkeley Copwatch & Refuse to Be Abused! Volunteer with Berkeley Copwatch! Nov. 9 at 6PM Center For Political Education To Prevent Abhorrent State-Run Voter Suppression and Police Brutality, Look to Local Action beyond Election Years by Anoa Changa for Scalawag Seven Lessons the US Left Can Learn from Egypt to Resist Post-Election Fascism by Nadine Naber and Atef Said for Truthout Shawna Virago’s new single “Heaven Sent Delinquent” (Electric Mix): Continue reading November 6, 2020 with Shawna Virago

October 30, 2020 with Jess from CCSF

Listen to the episode here. We hear from Jess who updates us on what CCSF students are asking from Board of Trustees around 1hour and 16 minutes in. Links of topics discussed on today’s show: CCSF Collective & AN OPEN LETTER REGARDING THE CCSF BOARD OF TRUSTEE ELECTIONS About Face: Veterans Against the War resource: Troop Support and Report Form Nearly 1,000 instances of police brutality recorded in US anti-racism protests What 2,392 Incarcerated People Think About #DefundThePolice We Should Still Defund the Police Abolitionist Educators Webinar/ Campus after Cops: Building Abolitionist Communities NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS Combatting falsehoods … Continue reading October 30, 2020 with Jess from CCSF

October 23, 2020 with Nicole Maxali

Listen and/or download the full episode here. Interview with Nicole Maxali begins around half an hour in. Links: Generations of Consciousness, Culture & Community: The Salaver Family Story Saturday, Oct 24th at 6pm PST San Francisco State Strike 1968, Black students & Third World Liberation Front (content warning: Video footage of police violence) Manifesting Magic with Nicole Maxali Support Indigenous Rights and the restoration of Indigenous foodways by telling Warren Buffett and PacifiCorp to remove the KlamathDams! California Court of Appeal Orders 50% Population Reduction at San Quentin Activists Build Facial Recognition to ID Cops Who Hide Their Badges Nigeria’s … Continue reading October 23, 2020 with Nicole Maxali

October 16, 2020

Listen and/or download the episode here. We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity Upcoming Online event Nov 12, 2020 Shit’s Totally FUCKED! What Can We Do?: A Mutual Aid Explainer Amazon Vans Burned in Solidarity with Terra Incognita and Liebig34 in Berlin Wave of 1000 strikes ripples across the US as crisis bites #NoOn22 Statewide Caravan Rally on Oct 15, 2020 in front of Uber HQ Embracing the Gifts of Conflict for Social Change & Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook Turning Towards Each Other: Navigating Conflict for Social Change – Part I Fri Oct … Continue reading October 16, 2020

October 9, 2020

Listen to today’s episode here. NDN Collective has developed the LANDBACK campaign, a mutli-faceted campaign to get Indigenous lands back into Indigenous hands, and empower Indigenous people across Turtle Island with the tools and strategies to do LANDBACK work in their own communities. Monica Roberts in her own words Monica Roberts speaks at All in for Equality Advocacy Day in Austin History of black bloc and how to bloc up safely Fascist Golden Dawn declared criminal organization in Athens Know Your Rights with Berkeley Copwatch Training – Intro to constitutional rights Berkeley Copwatch Presents “Know Your Rights: Defend the Unhoused” … Continue reading October 9, 2020

October 2, 2020 – VOTE NO on Prop 22 with We Drive Progress & Gig Workers Rising

Listen to the episode here: Interviews begin around 29 mintues in – lots of reasons to Vote NO on Prop 22 this November. Big thank you to Cherrie, Edan, & Alan for calling in, and Catalina for helping organize the call. Links: We Drive Progress, Gig Workers Rising , Gig Workers Rising Pledge to Vote No on 22 Cops Off Campus – Support the call to abolish police from UC campuses by Sept 2021 Thread on demonization of anti-fascism in the U.S. Playlist of music featured in the episode NorCal Resist Continue reading October 2, 2020 – VOTE NO on Prop 22 with We Drive Progress & Gig Workers Rising