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In this episode, Podmas installment #5, I discuss job applications (inspired by one of my recent tweets) and why they should disclose salaries upfront. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #4, I discuss the dangers of tokenism on all sides of the political spectrum and the double bind for leftists of color. --- Readings & Resources Interview w/ Thurgood Marshall https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-29-mn-1178-story.html Michael C. Dawson - Blacks in and Out of the Left https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057685 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #3, I discuss healthcare, its financial strain on U.S.ians, and alternative healthcare realities abroad. --- Readings & Resources The U.S. Health Insurance System is Broken / I Can't Afford Health Insurance and I'm Not Alone https://youtu.be/a75qe8VdFLQ Medicare for All https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this Comrade Mommy episode, Podmas installment #2, I discuss paperwork, its added burden in the already overwhelming lives of mothers, and excessive bureaucracy as an outgrowth of capitalism. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, I go into a new plan for the month. Here goes! --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, I ...take a deep breath out. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, we speak with organizer, writer, and researcher Jasson Perez about the defund movement, abolition, and organizing in Chicago against multiple forms of oppression toward its population. --- Work by Jasson Perez "Lori Lightfoot is wrong. ‘We’ didn’t fail Adam Toledo.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/20/lori-lightfoot-is-wrong-we-didnt-fail-adam-toledo/ "The quest for justice for Adam Toledo requires that Lightfoot resign" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chicago-lightfoot-adam-toledo/ "Don't Blame Defund" https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dont-blame-defund "Snatching Victory" https://spectrejournal.com/snatching-victory/ "The Left's 'Theoretical' Problem" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWiFjrjddUNcCHRiz0UvgW84zcRg17o_/view?usp=sharing Additional Readings & Resources: Joy James - “The Architects of Abolitionism” (talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0 “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Mariame Kaba - We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice https://www.akpress.org/we-do-this-til-we-free-us.html Alex Vitale - The End of Policing (note: the e-book version here is still free!) https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing Angela Davis - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture https://www.akpress.org/abolitiondemocracy.html Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 1 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/29-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 2 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/30-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-pt-2-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss domestic work, how the women who perform it are made invisible, and what should be done to secure their rights. --- Readings & Resources "Out of the Shadows" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/national-domestic-workers-alliance.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=80560529BCACC56EAF348EF466B3DF02&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL "Não romantize as relações de trabalho: sua empregada não é quase da família" https://www.uol.com.br/universa/colunas/cris-guterres/2021/02/23/sua-empregada-nao-e-quase-da-familia.htm?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_content=geral&utm_campaign=universa&fbclid=IwAR0jLj1MnbWLB0R7byLhhEeVedFM9Jh2lTDQkNb62xrpoqKBB3hc2eklsSc A Feminism Where 'Lean In' Means Leaning On Others https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/a-feminism-where-leaning-in-means-leaning-on-others/ --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, we speak with Professor Yannick Marshall about his research on colonialism in Kenya, anti-colonialism around the world, and the need to expand the political imagination. --- Work by Yannick Marshall https://www.yannickmarshall.net/ An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History https://www.aaihs.org/an-appeal-bring-the-maroon-to-the-foreground-in-black-intellectual-history/ Black liberal, your time is up https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/1/black-liberal-your-time-is-up There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism https://www.aaihs.org/canada-is-not-a-relatively-benign-version-of-settler-colonialism/ On Kenosha and the difficulty of recognising Nazism in the US https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/8/on-kenosha-and-the-difficulty-of-recognising-nazism-in-the-us After this election, we should not come together https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/16/after-this-election-we-should-not-come-together Additional Readings: Maroons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons On imperialism and the current situation in Haiti https://t.co/QHzbxKrSJa?amp=1 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, we discuss current news and catch up after our break. 
--- Readings & Resources Osita Nwanevu - “The Democratic Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the QAnon Phenomenon” https://newrepublic.com/article/161266/qanon-classism-marjorie-taylor-greene Ashley Reese - “The Cynical, Sexist Fantasy of AOC” https://theslot.jezebel.com/the-cynical-sexist-fantasy-of-aoc-1846189707 Jia Tolentino - “What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/what-mutual-aid-can-do-during-a-pandemic Edward Ongweso, Jr. - “Investment Firms Are the Big Winners of the GameStop Stock Revolution So Far” https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gepx/investment-firms-are-the-big-winners-of-the-gamestop-stock-revolution-so-far --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone 
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