We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public. Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower. We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core...
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episode 84: Community Movement Builders and Liberated Zones Theory with Kamau Franklin
In this episode we speak to Kamau Franklin. Kamau is the founder of Community Movement Builders a grassroots organization dedicated to creating sustainable Black communities through organizing and cooperative development. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over twenty-five years, first in New York City and now based in the south. He has worked on various issues including community cop-watch programs, freedom school programs for youth, electoral and policy campaigns, large-scale community gardens, and programmatic alternatives to incarceration. He is also the co-host of the Renegade Culture podcast.
Franklin has written many essays and articles for various publications. Notably his essay “An Ivory Tower Assassination of Malcolm X” appears in the book, A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X. He also wrote an essay entitled “A New Southern Strategy” which was published in the book Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Ms.
Franklin was the first campaign manager for Chokwe Lumumba’s successful mayoral election, in Jackson, Ms and practiced law in New York for many years.
We talk to Kamau about the work of Community Movement Builders, the theoretical basis for their model and various examples of their organizing practice and vision for development.
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