Aaron Hood

We’ve been working toward this for a long time!

🔗 EPISODE 266! 🔗 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Lessons From Fights For Public Control of Banking and Broadband Infrastructure”, ft. a convo between Adem Sengal, @trinitytran.bsky.social, & Sean Gonsalves in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social (in collaboration w/ @liberation-gen.bsky.social).

⛓️‍💥 EPISODE 249! ⛓️‍💥 In today’s episode, we discuss an @interruptcrim.bsky.social zine titled “Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism – Volume 1: A Conversation with the YoNoFui Collective of Argentina” by @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social (in collaboration with YoNoFui).

📚 EPISODE 260! 📚 In today’s episode, we discuss the book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social (and published by @versobooks.bsky.social).

📜 EPISODE 259! 📜 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Do You Understand Your Own Language?” by Robin D. G. Kelley in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

💵 EPISODE 258! 💵 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Over 160 Years After Abolition, Anti-Black Racism Still Structures US Economy” by CJ Polychroniou in @truthout.org.

💡 EPISODE 256! 💡 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “The Martin Luther King Jr. We Don’t Know” by @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

Check out our episode to hear what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Listen to this episode now wherever you podcast!

This piece highlights and analyzes the harmful effects of carceral AI technologies in our criminal punishment system across the country and how abolitionist activism and organizing can work to fight and resist the carceral state.

🔔 EPISODE 254! 🔔 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Carceral AI is here. It’s time to fight back.” by @dashapruss.bsky.social in @inquest.bsky.social.

🏠 EPISODE 253! 🏠 In today’s episode, we discuss “When Disaster Strikes: Housing Inequality and The Rising Threat of Disaster Capitalism” ft. a convo between Andrea Portillo, Iris Craige, Stella Adams, and Audrey Aradanas in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social (in collab. w/ @liberation-gen.bsky.social).

📕 EPISODE 252! 📕 In today’s episode, we discuss the book No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement, edited by @kamaufranklin.bsky.social, @micahh.bsky.social, and Mariah Parker (and published by @haymarketbooks.org).

This piece explores & analyzes the ways the ruling class in the South has combined anti-Blackness & anti-labor politics to exploit the working class, & highlights how the exploitation of Southern labor may be replicated across the country.

📣 EPISODE 251! 📣 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “May Day: Exporting the Southern Plantocracy” by Sherronda J. Brown, Tea Troutman, and Aarohi Sheth in Scalawag.

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

It’s our 250th episode of @interdependentstudy.com! Proud of this work and love getting to do it with @aaronhood.net. Check it out wherever you podcast!

We had a great conversation with Beth about her book! Check it out on all the platforms. pod.link/1546863866/e...

I’m a few days late but this article is great and our conversation about it is pretty great too

This piece highlights and analyzes how the Trump administration has weaponized racism and DEI initiatives to distract from the shared economic uncertainty and insecurity for all Americans—including white people—and the significant impact of these actions on our society.

🔗 EPISODE 244! 🔗 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House” by @keeanga.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

One thing that we all know - the past three years of horrific livestreamed genocides & the complete break down of the neoliberal elite facade means that literally *nobody* takes the pundit class seriously. Most people want livable futures. *We* are not in an echo chamber, they are.

Border & Rule is a hell of a book and we had a great conversation about it. Check it out: pod.link/1546863866/e...

💡 EPISODE 242! 💡 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Capitalism Without Humans” by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com.

📍 EPISODE 241! 📍 In today’s episode, we discuss “US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call for Regime Change” by @sharonzhang.bsky.social and “As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine” by @neginowl.bsky.social in @truthout.org.

All of this.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

💡 EPISODE 239! 💡 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Our Prescription for Winning: Give Organizers What They Need to Thrive” by Alicia Jay, Kara Park, and Rebecca Gorena in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social.

📖 EPISODE 238! 📖 In today’s episode, we are joined by special guest Stephanie Olson to discuss the book Black History Is for Everyone by @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social (and published by @haymarketbooks.org).

The music in this restaurant just went from Filter to Paul Simon. Wild.

📣 EPISODE 237! 📣 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “The US Occupation of Gaza Is Officially Beginning” by Mitchell Plintick (@mjplitnick.bsky.social) in @truthout.org.

🔥 EPISODE 236! 🔥 In today’s episode, we discuss two @inthesetimes.com pieces about the recent movement activity in Minnesota against ICE, one by @sarahlazare.bsky.social and another by @thomasbirm.bsky.social & @bloomekatz.bsky.social.

💵 EPISODE 234! 💵 In today’s episode, we discuss “Following the Money” from the six-part series titled “Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belt” in @inquest.bsky.social ft. a convo between @lydiajean.bsky.social, Judah Schept, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, & @craiggilmore.bsky.social.

🎥 EPISODE 233! 🎥 In today’s episode, we discuss the documentary “Eyes of Gaza” (directed by Mahmoud Al-Atassi). @kanopy.com

Any highlights out there?

This book is a great treatise on the radical power and practice of friendship. Which is a fitting thing for us to read and discuss on our little podcast.

This series from Inquest is real good. You should read it. And then listen to us yap about it if you’re so inclined.

🎥 EPISODE 227! 🎥 In today’s episode, we are joined by special guest Dakarai Larriett to discuss the documentary “The Alabama Solution” (directed by Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman).

I’m reading Fierce Vulnerability by Kazu Haga and noticing a lot of interconnection between this work and @aarongoggans.bsky.social’s work from his letter in Read This When Things Fall Apart.

📢 EPISODE 226! 📢 In today’s episode, we discuss a @hammerandhope.bsky.social piece titled “Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy” ft. a convo between @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social & @elizabethkai.bsky.social.

This book is a compilation of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines of social movement work offering wisdom, history, personal anecdotes, and practical advice for navigating fascism, social ills, loss, and the challenging times we face.

📖 EPISODE 225! 📖 In today’s episode, we discuss the book Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (and published by @akpress.org).

🔗 EPISODE 224! 🔗 In today’s episode, we discuss the third piece in a six-part series titled “Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belt” in @inquest.bsky.social called “Custody and Power” ft. a convo between @lydiajean.bsky.social, Judah Schept, Ruth Wilson Gilmore & @craiggilmore.bsky.social.

This book explores and analyzes the concepts of radical unlearning and neuropsychology, as well as many of the possible pathways to free ourselves of dangerous and supremacist ways of thinking and being as individuals and collectively.

📚 EPISODE 223! 📚 In today’s episode, we discuss the book Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within by @lewispants.bsky.social (and published by @beaconpress.bsky.social).

Check out our episode to hear what we learn and take away from this incredible docuseries episode in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Listen now wherever you podcast!

This docuseries episode chronicles the years during Barack Obama’s presidency when hope soared for real change in America but racism, vigilante violence, and police brutality surged and sparked the #BlackLivesMatter movement.