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 48: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak's 2020 Call To Action
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS) is a collective of imprisoned human rights advocates. We talk about their recent national call for outside solidarity actions from August 21st through September 9th. We also talk about the state of prisoner movements today and solidarity organizing on the outside.
He also discusses the dangers of celebrities co-opting prisoner resistance and speaking over their demands to impose bad solutions, like recent calls for increases in the numbers of prison guards in Mississippi.
JLS has an International Law Project underway to document the inhumane conditions in prisons in all 50 US states, for the purpose of presenting these conditions before the UN Human Rights council. We talk about that project as well as JLS’s organizational stance on the 2020 elections.