Welcome to another episode of the Comrades Classroom Podcast! We are finally back.  Our team has been hard at work trying to keep our two core programs running. In this episode, we listen to a speech from Haunani Kay Trask, a scholar poet, and champion of sovereignty for the Hawaiian people. Her life's work was dedicated to the liberation and self-determination of the Indigenous people of Hawaii.

This month, our curriculum is centered around her best-known book, "Notes from a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii." We thought it would be fitting to study her, best-known speech which she gave at the 'lolani palace in Honolulu on January 17th, 1993, which was the centennial of the illegal, overthrow of the Hawaiian people.

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Welcome back to another episode of the Comrades' Classroom podcast. This month, our community took time to study concepts and frameworks that have emerged out of queer the liberation movement and especially those that are grounded in the revolutionary tradition of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

On this episode, we play back a brilliant book launch of Eric A. Stanley's book Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable. The discussion was put on by the Othering and Belonging Institute and you can find the full video on youtube through this link. We are asking our listeners to show support for this episode by donating to the LGBTQ Books to Prisoners program. Thank you for your support! Everything for everyone, nothing for ourselves. Free the land!

What up everybody! We're back and trying to get on schedule for some weekly content for our listeners. On this episode of the Comrades Classroom Podcast, we sit down with members of Neighbor Program and Agape movement to discuss their development of a community center called the Shakur Center for Health and Wellness. If you haven't yet, go back and listen to our previous episodes with each of these organizations. The Shakur Center will be located in Oak Park, Sacramento and it will house various decolonizations including but not limited to a Daily Grocery Program, a Community School, a Legal Clinic, a Medical Clinic, an Arts and Cultural Center, a Farming Program, and more.

In this conversation, we sit down to talk about the development of the center, its purpose, and the many ways it was influenced by the Oakland Community School developed by the Black Panther Party. We focus most of our attention on the Malcolm X Academy and the development of a community school which has received a gracious blessing of approval from former Black Panther Party Member Ericka Huggins.

We are so excited to host this incredible conversation and we hope our listeners will help us to spread the word about the Malcolm X Academy so we can raise funds and open its doors in the Fall of 2022. To find out more information please visit the GoFundMe page here and the Neighbor Program website here. Free the People, Free the Land.

For this episode, we turn the Zine 'Accomplices Not Allies' by Indigenous Action Media into an audio essay for our listeners! "This provocation is intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work as the current trajectories are counter-liberatory from my perspective. Special thanks to DS in Phoenix for convos that lead to this ‘zine and all those who provided comments/questions/disagreements. Don’t construe this as being for “white young middle-class allies”, just for paid activists, non-profits, or as a friend said, “downwardly-mobile anarchists or students.” There are many so-called “allies” in the migrant rights struggle who support “comprehensive immigration reform” which furthers militarization of Indigenous lands."  To donate to Indigenous Action Media, please follow this link to their website! #WeGotUs

Welcome to another episode of the Comrade's Classroom Podcast! In this episode, we turn y'all onto one of our favorite Disability Justice resources from our curriculum titled "Re-envisioning the Revolutionary Body" a talk by Mia Mingus. This talk is about the ways in which ableism and disability impact organizing, organizations, and so much more. In the first part of the discussion, Mia will focus on building our knowledge about disability, ableism, and the medical-industrial complex. In what ways can we better show up for ourselves and our comrades? During the second half, Mia will explore the connections between disability, reproductive justice, race, queerness, and social justice movements. To support Mia Mingus and their work financially please donate to them using this link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MiaMingus. Or on Venmo: miamingus. We ask that all donations for this episode be directed to Mia!