On January 7th, Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year old prize winning poet and mother of three was murdered in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross. I joined Alex Doherty at Politics Theory Other to talk about the political background to the current situation in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.
Appearance Type: podcast
Black Against Amazon: a Belabored and Black Work Talk Crossover
Just a few days after voting closes, historian Robin D. G. Kelley will join Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, co-hosts of Dissent’s Belabored podcast, and Steven Pitts, host of the Black Work Talk podcast on Organizing Upgrade, to discuss the effort, its import, and what it has to say about the state of the Black working class today.
Citations Needed: 30 Under 30 Lists and The Problem with Our Youth-Obsessed ‘Success’ Narratives
I joined Nima and Adam at Citations Needed podcast to talk about the media’s obsession with youth, achievement, and weird capitalist metrics of the good life and how toxic it all is. Enjoy!
Belabored (Virtually) Live in Seattle: Cal Winslow on the Seattle General Strike
As part of Red May, we’re interviewing Cal Winslow about his excellent book Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919. 6pm Seattle time, 9pm Eastern, click the link above to watch! And find more Red May here.
Novara Media: The Organised Left is Back!
At The World Transformed in September I sat down with James Butler to compare the current situation of left movements in the US and the UK and the links between organised labour and party politics both here and in the US.
TWT.FM: Sarah Jaffe and Ajay Singh Chaudhary on patronising the working class
I sat down, along with comrade Ajay Chaudhary, with the good folks at TWT.FM at The World Transformed conference, and we talked about how far too many people think that The Workers are always some Other over there, and often project their worst traits onto them.