We’re back off hiatus! For our 18th episode, we kept the conversation in-house for what we are calling People’s City Corner. You’ll hear from People’s City Council organizers Jason Reedy, Albert Corado and Ricci Sergienko as we recap what they witnessed at the USC, UCLA and CSULA encampments. We also get into why you should shut the fuck up when it comes to the pigs and what might be on the horizon for the student intifada.

episode credits:

hosted by Jason Reedy, Albert Corado, and Ricci Sergienko.

follow us on twitter @pplscityprop and @pplscitycouncil

follow our hosts Jason Reedy @AxumSelassie + Albert Corado @digitalurn

PCP theme song: Adam Smith @AdamOfTheSmiths

recorded at the Robinson S.P.A.C.E @RobinsonSpaceLA

For our 17th episode, it’s an ALL Blackity Black pod. We chop it up with Maraky Alemseged from Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and speak on a wide variety of topics centered on Blackness.

This pod covers some of BAJI's groundbreaking reports on CBP’s policing of the George Floyd uprising and the Darien Gap. We also speak on the difference between a sanctuary city and a freedom city, the relationship between abolition and mushrooms, and why Black people should care about Palestine (and beyond)

Maraky Alemseged is a queer nonbinary Black woman (yes, both) and BAJI’s Los Angeles Organizer. They are a first generation Ethiopian-American abolitionist & Pan-Africanist organizer passionate about approaching social justice from an intersectional lens. BAJI fights for the rights of Black migrants and African Americans through organizing, legal advocacy, research, policy, and narrative building to improve the conditions of Black communities by advancing racial justice and migrant rights.

episode credits:

hosted by Jason Reedy

follow BAJI @BAJItweet and @InstaBAJI on IG

follow us on twitter @pplscityprop and @pplscitycouncil

follow our host Jason Reedy @AxumSelassie

PCP theme song: Adam Smith @AdamOfTheSmiths

recorded at the Robinson S.P.A.C.E @RobinsonSpaceLA

editing by Jason Reedy

sound mixing by Phillip Kim

mentions of mushrooms: clusters and troops!

For our 16th episode, we conversed with the powerful duo of Zen Sekizawa and Mario Correa, organizers and artists with the collective, J-Town Action and Solidarity.

We cover the genesis of J-Town Action and Solidarity, their efforts to fight back against gentrification in Little Tokyo, and the role art can play within the movement. Our candid conversation delves into the Atomic Cafe, Zen’s famed family restaurant, how art undergirds Zen and Mario's organizing and what it’s like being in a relationship in movement space!

Zen Sekizawa has been working as a photographer, director and artist in her hometown of Los Angeles. She is a second generation Angeleno and fourth generation Japanese Amerikan. Since earning her BFA in Photography from the Art Center College of Design in 1999, Zen’s practice has grown into exploring, critiquing and acting on the intersection of art, politics and community care.

Mario Correa is an artist based in Los Angeles. In 2001, he received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Mario maintains a practice that encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking and woodworking. Enlisting a wide variety of techniques and materials, he moves through genres of abstraction, still life, and portraiture with an emphasis on mark making and its relationship to the body.

In 2020, Mario and Zen helped establish J-Town Action and Solidarity, a grassroots collective dedicated to revolutionary organizing and building collective power in Little Tokyo. JAS has a weekly mutual event every Saturday afternoon in Little Tokyo with We the Unhoused as well as facilitating political education study groups, organizing direct actions, sweep defense support, self defense and art workshops

episode credits:

hosted by Jason Reedy

follow our guests Zen and Mario @JTOWNACTION

follow us on twitter @pplscityprop and @pplscitycouncil

follow our host Jason Reedy @AxumSelassie

PCP theme song: Adam Smith @AdamOfTheSmiths

recorded at the Robinson S.P.A.C.E @RobinsonSpaceLA

editing by Jason Reedy & sound mixing by Phillip Kim

mentions of Jason Bourne: too many!