The Comrades Classroom Podcast

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 t...

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...

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. Do...

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 ...

For Black August, we began by honoring the legacy of Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz and that's how we hope to end this month as well. Shoatz is a dedicated community activist, founding member of the Black Unity Council, a former member of the Black Panther Party, and a soldier in the Black Liberation Army. He is serving multiple life sentences as a US-held political prisoner/prisoner of war. This is Part Two of our Audio Essay of 'Auton...

For Black August, we begin by honoring the legacy of Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz. Shoatz is a dedicated community activist, founding member of the Black Unity Council, a former member of the Black Panther Party, and a soldier in the Black Liberation Army. He is serving multiple life sentences as a US-held political prisoner/prisoner of war. In the next two episodes, we turn his incredible compilation of writings 'Autonomous Resistanc...

On this episode of the Comrades Classroom Podcast, we sat down with the hosts of the podcast 'Building Our Power' to talk about the process of political education and the state of political consciousness on the Western Left. Subscribe, leave a review, and share with the homies—we appreciate everyone's support thus far. If you fuck with the work we doing and want to support our survival programs in the field please become a sustaine...

What up everybody! The purpose of this project is to raise political consciousness and encourage our listeners to get involved with or form their own abolitionist organization.

In this episode, we sit down with Red and Lindsay from From The Heart PNW. We discuss the foundations of From the Heart PNW, building institutions hand-in-h...

What up everybody! The purpose of this project is to raise political consciousness and encourage our listeners to get involved with or form their own abolitionist organization.

In this episode, we sit down with Mikey and Michaela from Feed The Block Inland Empire. We had an amazing discussion about the foundations and guiding principles of Feed The Block IE, the necessity and urgency of political education, and the cooptation of li...

What up everybody! The purpose of this project is to raise political consciousness and encourage our listeners to get involved with or form their own abolitionist organization. In this episode, we sit down with the founder of a political education project called, Agape Movement where we had an incredible conversation about political education and radical love. In addition to her PE work with agapemvmt, mel is involved as a voluntee...

EMERGENCY EPISODE! In this episode, we spoke to the Red Condor Collective to learn about the current situation in Colombia. As protestors throughout the country mobilized against the government’s recent neoliberal reforms, we have seen the Colombian government use repressive tactics to eliminate the possibility of a liberation movement. To understand how global capitalism and policing play a role in Colombia’s current circumstances...

In this episode, we sit down with Malik, a member of the Revolutionary Abolition Movement who was one of the authors of Burning Down the American Plantation. They're also joined by one of their comrades and fellow educators, Christy! They both guide us through some important conversations about revolutionary Abolition, the inevitable societal collapse under capitalism, and the necessity of community survival.

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In this episode, we get to sit down with a panel of sex workers and grassroots organizers (@adrierising, @prolepeach, @xoxoLaurenKiley, and @GemmaParadiseXO) to talk about decarceration of the sex industry and how idealism on the left produces harmful discourse that minimizes the material conditions of sex workers and erases their liberatory organizing.

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In this episode, we get to sit down for a conversation with Kingsley, a graduate student and member of the All African People's Revolutionary Party, and Broderick, a graduate student and member of the Black Power Collective out in IE. They share a lot of expertise about direct organizing and why it's important to study alongside the work we do in the field. To support the podcast share with friends and leave us a review on Apple Po...

Welcome to another episode of the Comrades Classroom Podcast! On it, we get to sit down with two of our comrades from Neighbor Program up in Sacramento and they talk a bit about their own journey of political education as well as the survival programs they're building within their community. Follow and support their work @NeighborProgram (@neighbornewsppr) on Instagram and support their work on Patreon! To support the podcast share...