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In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss the need for giving and the correlation between the teachings of Maria Montessori and leftist ideology. --- Readings & Resources Montessori at Home - What Is Montessori? (& Why Do It?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEdP_RZhhI&list=PLdIZMnmUhOo4QquwIjMI7cAlyoykpo1-M&index=1&t=24s Maria Montessori: What You May Not Know https://www.montessoriservices.com/ideas-insights/maria-montessori-what-you-may-not-know#:~:text=In%201933%2C%20denying%20any%20political,and%20later%20in%20The%20Netherlands. *Correction: Montessori left her son at a foster home temporarily, not an aunt, but she pretended to be his aunt during her visits to him there. Left POCket Project Podcast: Reading Revolution series on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/sets/readingrevolution-freire --- 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 the challenges that lie ahead. --- 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, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the ways the pandemic has shifted gender roles - and not always for the better. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Readings & Resources Women's Careers Could Take Long-Term Hit From Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.wsj.com/articles/womens-careers-could-take-long-term-hit-from-coronavirus-pandemic-11594814403 How the Coronavirus Crisis Threatens to Set Back Women’s Careers https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-threatens-to-set-back-womens-careers-11601438460 Here’s How the Pandemic Is Affecting Women’s Careers wsj.com/articles/heres-how-the-pandemic-is-affecting-womens-careers-11601920650 Women academics seem to be submitting fewer papers during coronavirus https://www.thelily.com/women-academics-seem-to-be-submitting-fewer-papers-during-coronavirus-never-seen-anything-like-it-says-one-editor/ How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/10/30/492582/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward/ Pandemic Could Scar a Generation of Working Mothers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/business/economy/coronavirus-working-women.html --- 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, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the election, politics, and how to broach the subject with children. --- 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, part of the Reading Revolution series, we discuss Che Guevara’s 1964 speech to the United Nations “Colonialism Is Doomed,” regarding the ongoing independence movements throughout the world and Cuba’s solidarity with oppressed peoples in their fight for sovereignty. --- Readings & Resources Che Guevara - “Colonialism Is Doomed” 1964 Speech to the United Nations https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1964/12/11-alt.htm Ada Ferrer - Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 https://uncpress.org/book/9780807847831/insurgent-cuba/ Aviva Chomsky - A History of the Cuban Revolution https://www.bookdepository.com/History-Cuban-Revolution-Aviva-Chomsky/9781118942284 Vijay Prashad - The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World https://thenewpress.com/books/darker-nations Gregory Mann - Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century https://www.dukeupress.edu/native-sons Christine Hatzky - Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976-1991 https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5216.htm Assata Shakur - Assata: An Autobiography https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781556520747 about the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata:_An_Autobiography Che Guevara on Face the Nation (1964) https://youtu.be/mzmOHy6Ine0 Che Guevara’s 1964 Address to the United Nations (excerpt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufHojkoGtw Hannah Allam - "'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left" https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/893533916/i-am-antifa-one-activist-s-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left Black Alliance for Peace - International Day of Action on Africom https://blackallianceforpeace.com/dayofactiononafricom?fbclid=IwAR1coF17j2EVFXIawscICHVqy50D32TRuyEmtyQix7Q9KKKfP1VhlEu0OZ4 --- 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, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the meaning of "choice" and what it can mean beyond the rhetoric. --- Readings & Resources The Grapevine - Black Women & Childbirth Sanoja Bhaumik - "In the 1970s, Racism Led to Women Being Sterilized Against Their Will. Could It Happen Again?" https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/09/14/in-the-1970s-racism-led-to-women-being-sterilized-against-their-will-could-it-happen-again/ --- 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 discuss Comrade Mommy (@ComradeMommy), a new sub-series of the 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, part of the #ReadingRevolution series, we discuss the Combahee River Collective Statement, a manifesto penned by black lesbian socialists in 1977 regarding the way forward in movement politics. --- Readings & Resources Combahee River Collective Statement https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html In Spanish https://t.co/ot5aA3nbTn?amp=1 In Portuguese https://t.co/vvIB8cI4GX?amp=1 In French https://t.co/P5f9l0EYnO?amp=1 Digital Project on the Combahee River Collective https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editor- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free “Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will be Free” https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-free “Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y8jvNfAjCk Delete Your Account - Blackwashing (ep. featuring Wendi & Richard) https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/episode-182-blackwashing --- 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 speak with journalist Malaika Jabali about her thoughts on Kamala Harris being the vice presidential pick for the Biden ticket and the impact this may have on the left and the black community, especially black women. --- Readings/Resources Work by Malaika Jabali “The Color of Economic Anxiety” https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety “Democrats ignore black, working-class midwesterners at their peril” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/03/democrats-ignore-black-working-class-midwesterners-at-their-peril “After the Obama disappointment, black voters want more than empty symbolism” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/05/black-voters-us-election-kamala-harris-obama “What Do Black Women Want This Election Season?” https://www.essence.com/feature/black-womens-roundtable-survey-results-2019/ “Bernie and Black Voters” (interview on The Dig podcast) https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/bernie-and-black-voters-with-malaika-jabali-and-wendi-muse/ Left Out (documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubd2cnslP8A Twitter: @MalaikaJabali --- Additional readings “Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE” https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html “Kamala Harris meets with AIPAC leaders at her Senate office” https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435812-kamala-harris-meets-with-aipac-leaders-at-her-senate-office “Angela Davis on Kamala Harris” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=773737800111695 “The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e “Kamala Harris' Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison for Murder. Now He's Talking” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwkab/jamal-trulove-wants-kamala-harris-to-talk-about-his-wrongful-conviction “Black Lives Matter Isn't Going to Just 'Shut Up and Vote' for Kamala Harris” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4n9d/black-lives-matter-isnt-going-to-just-shut-up-and-vote-for-kamala-harris “Of course it’s Kamala!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iInStlR2boI GoFundMe Thread (add your own; priority given to health & housing needs): https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1293989196324012034 --- 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 speak to Jacqueline and Abdus Luqman, journalists, activists, and hosts of Luqman Nation, a weekly politics show, on the recent protests for black lives, race on the left, the role of religion in liberation movements, and much more. --- Readings & Resources Luqman Nation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5hIQvTLrxgf4UvSJRCPhw By Any Means Necessary https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/ The Real News Network https://therealnews.com/ --- Note: While these items are all available on amazon.com, I am doing my best to include links for suggested books on non-Amazon sites in solidarity with their workers (who face frequent rights violations). Akinyele Omowale Umoja - We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781479886036 Charles E. Cobb Jr. - This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible https://www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviolent-stuffll-get-you-killed Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: a History https://redemmas.org/titles/30721-pan-africanism--a-history James H. Cone - Black Theology and Black Power https://www.orbisbooks.com/black-theology-and-black-power-en.html “The African American who moved to Ghana 'to escape US racism’” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49394354 “Black Women Communists and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Minkah Makalani” https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-communists-and-pan-africanism-an-interview-with-minkah-makalani/ “America’s Brutal Police State Expands its Reach in Portland” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuK8rhnK6c&t=5s George Floyd Protests in Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Washington,_D.C. --- 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