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This piece explores and analyzes the Democratic Party establishment’s fear about the fact that its base is embracing more left-wing and democratic socialist politics and candidates, as well as the best path forward for how we should organize today.

🗳️ EPISODE 272! 🗳️ In today’s episode, we discuss “The Democrats’ ‘Woke’ Panic and the Left’s Response”, ft. a conversation between the Hammer & Hope team w/ @keeanga.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

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This convo explores and analyzes the ways in which our individual, collective, and government monies are contributing to the strength and impact of corporate power and the oppression economy across the country.

💸 EPISODE 271! 💸 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “How Our Money Feeds Corporate Power”, ft. a convo between Emanuel Nieves, Sue Holmberg (@ilsr.bsky.social), and Lenore Palladino (UMass Amherst) in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social (in collab w/ @liberation-gen.bsky.social.

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These pieces highlight & analyze the use of 120,000+ Flock Security cameras & supplemental devices across the country, the troubling use of these cameras by law enforcement agencies, & the impact of a cybersecurity researcher’s camera map on Flock’s operations & data security effectiveness.

📷 EPISODE 270! 📷 In today’s episode, we discuss “Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around” by @sambiddle.com and “Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline” by Nikita Mazurov in @theintercept.com.

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🧟 EPISODE 269! 🧟 In today’s episode, we discuss “Post-9/11 zombie terrorism” and “Zombies at the border” by Sherronda J. Brown in Scalawag, which highlight and analyze the history, role, and impact of the concept of the zombie racial Other in our media, pop culture, politics, and society.

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This book features a convo between Riley & Strauss where Riley shares political reflections & lessons from eight decades of his own movement work, & a discussion of the importance of relationship-building & political action in our personal & collective organizing, activism, & learning work.

📚 EPISODE 268! 📚 In today’s episode, we discuss the book Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley, edited by Jesse Strauss (and published by @akpress.org).

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This piece highlights and analyzes the planning and passage of Israel's new Death Penalty for Terrorists law, as well as the parallels and connections that exist between the authoritarian regimes of the United States and Israel.

📣 EPISODE 267! 📣 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Israel’s New Lynching Law Was Inspired by America’s Death Penalty” by Khury Petersen-Smith in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

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This piece and convo explores the fight against corporate power in the context of the organizing and advocacy work for public banking and public broadband infrastructure and access in communities across the country.

🔗 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).

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This resource from @interruptcrim.bsky.social serves as a guide for the media and journalists on how to properly cover and report the criminalization of trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit+ communities to effectively interrupt the noise of anti-trans propaganda.

🚨 EPISODE 265! 🚨 In today’s episode, we discuss “Don’t Be A Copagandist: Trans Criminalization Edition” by Arielle Rebekah (from Trans & Caffeinated Communications) and @lewispants.bsky.social & @dreanyc123.bsky.social (from @interruptcrim.bsky.social) & published by Interrupting Criminalization.

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This piece highlights and analyzes the dangerous impact of various carceral AI technologies being used across the country to surveil, flag, track, and push students into the school-to-prison pipeline and expand the reach of the carceral state and criminal punishment system.

‼️ EPISODE 264! ‼️ In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “The Algorithmic School-to-Prison Pipeline” by Nicholas E. Stewart in @inquest.bsky.social.

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This book analyzes the traditions & applications of Indigenous resistance, including fights against the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, Pick-Sloan dams, American Indian Movement, etc. through to present-day organizing work to fight against fossil fuel pipelines.

📚 EPISODE 263! 📚 In today’s episode, we discuss the book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by @nicke.bsky.social (originally published by @versobooks.bsky.social and republished by @haymarketbooks.org).

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This piece analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais decision and its impact on the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and reversal of Black electoral power in this country.

🗳️ EPISODE 262! 🗳️ In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “The Supreme Court Blesses the Destruction of Black Electoral Power” by Vincent M. Southerland in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

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This piece explores and analyzes the history of corporate power and monopoly power and how marginalized communities have resisted and organized against corporate power and for economic and social justice in various ways.

💰 EPISODE 261! 💰 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “How We Beat Corporate Power Before”, featuring a conversation between Adem Sengal, Ron Knox, and Candace Milner in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social (in collaboration with @liberation-gen.bsky.social).

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This book outlines and analyzes mutual aid as an organizing tactic and strategy for building solidarity and addressing the needs of our communities in response to the wide array of crises we are and will collectively face.

📚 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).

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This piece explores the language in and about the Declaration of Independence and critiques and analysis of the document by Black radicals, thinkers, and abolitionists throughout history, as well as the implications and impact of this language on the United States today.

📜 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.

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This piece is a conversation between CJ Polychroniou and economic scholars Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim about how anti-Blackness and racism have developed in the contemporary United States and their role on our political economy.

💵 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.

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This piece highlights and analyzes the dangerous impact of biometric technologies to predict the likelihood of crime and criminality and expand the reach of the carceral state and criminal punishment system.

‼️ EPISODE 257! ‼️ In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Precrime Is No Longer Science Fiction” by Sarah Fathallah in @inquest.bsky.social.