

LeftPOC
Left POCket Project Podcast
Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.
This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.
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This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.
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Episodes
Mentioned books

Jan 2, 2023 • 11min
83. I Promise I Am Alive - Left POCket Project Podcast
A quick update
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-Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
-Outro: "(Just Like We) Breakdown" by Hot Chip
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May 11, 2022 • 1h 6min
82. Words that Light Fires - Interview w/Brent of Rad Reads - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, we speak to Brent of Rad Reads, a youtube channel where discussions of radical texts takes center stage.
Readings & Resources
Audio/Video:
Rad Reads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFDSgzcZsjOi8XnWD2TlKg
-Review: Blood in My Eye by George Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_b-0ab5ljE
-Discussion: Struggling with Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJdHNl4zcs
-Other Media:
Twitter: RadreadsB
Instagram: radreads94
Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72413401-brent
Marxist Paul -”Wretched of the Earth with Rad Reads”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDDjC9ZlYA
Louis Allday - Liberated Texts: https://liberatedtexts.com/
Louis Allday - “Our Enemies Know the Power of Books” (Interview) - Millennials are Killing Capitalism Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/anticapitalist-millennials/our-enemies-know-the-power-of
Left POCket Project Podcast - “Combahee River Collective Statement” (Reading Revolution Discussion): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/47-combahee-river-collective-statement-readingrevolution/id1329313097?i=1000489874990
Books/Essays/Articles
H. Rap Brown - Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
Frantz Fanon - Wretched of the Earth (Constance Farrington Translation)
James Yaki Sayles - Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings
George Jackson - Blood in My Eye
Robin D. G. Kelley - Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonalism
J. Moufawad-Paul - Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: A History
Edward Onaci - Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
Sanyika Shakur - Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy
Toni Morrison:
Playing in the Dark
The Bluest Eye
Sula
Dan Berger - ““Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika”
https://www.aaihs.org/free-the-land-fifty-years-of-the-republic-of-new-afrika/
Atiba Shanna - “On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: a New Afrikan Perspective http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/Republic_of_New_Afrika/513.RNA.Atiba.Shanna.On.Captured.Citizens.pdf
Additional Authors Mentioned:
Gloria Naylor
Ursula K. Le Guin
Octavia Butler
Walter Rodney
Gerald Horne

Jan 24, 2022 • 1h 21min
81. Love as the Practice of Freedom (discussion) - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode - a Reading Revolution installment - we discuss the essay "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks and how it can apply to our contemporary leftist formations and debates on revolution.
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Readings & Resources
bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (essay)
https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf
"Love as the Practice of Freedom" (audio)
https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/77-love-as-the-practice-of-freedom-readingrevolution-left-pocket-project-podcast
Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of "Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJKJZU7xXU&t=532s
bell hooks on Freire
https://t.co/vIrwItLrO4
The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks
Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism
https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Jan 12, 2022 • 11min
Mutual Aid Alert - MASKS
I'm taking requests again for N95s
Contact me for a packet if you're:
-an outward-facing worker in financial need
-disabled/pregnant/elderly/caretaker in financial need who requires high-grade masks for daily tasks
twitter: @MuseWendi
twitter: @LeftPOC
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email: leftpocketproject@gmail.com
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please write "masks" in the notes & be sure to spell my name correctly (i not a y) so it goes to the right place
finally, please find the funding/spending chart here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n5GRmfPjOdapwFVFdPpd7rQRp31Gc6SrPiyjREAmbU4/edit?usp=sharing

Dec 31, 2021 • 37min
80. My Problem with China in Africa - Left POCket Project Podcast
A spicy take to close out 2021 and Podmas on "China in Africa"
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-Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Dec 31, 2021 • 39min
79. What Goes Unsaid on Family Social Media - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #20, I talk about the dark underbelly of mom and family based social media.
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Readings & Resources
"Biracials Are Fighting for Their Lives on TikTok"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJBW8VkeZM
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Dec 28, 2021 • 42min
78. Anger - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #19, I talk about anger.
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Readings & Resources
"What will the pandemic look like in 2022?" interview w/ Eric Topol
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2021/12/16/what-will-the-pandemic-look-like-in-2022
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Image by Noa Denman
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Dec 25, 2021 • 27min
77. "Love as the Practice of Freedom" - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment and Podmas #18, I read "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks.
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Readings & Resources
bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom"
https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Dec 21, 2021 • 1h 14min
76. "Finding the Spark" Interview w. Michael Salamone - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, Podmas installment #17, we speak with Michael Salamone, the man behind our theme music, about his background, his activism, and the current political situation in the US.
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Readings & Resources
michaelsalamone.com
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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Dec 19, 2021 • 23min
75. Podmas Updates - Left POCket Project Podcast
In this episode, Podmas installment #16, I give you all some Podmas updates.
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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