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-d…

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 l…

On this episode, we sit down with members of the Orange County Rapid Response Network (OCRRN). OCRRN is an interconnected system of non-profit and grassroots organizations, civil rights attorneys, law school clinics, and individuals working together to respond to dehumanizing immigration enforcement activities and policies in Orange County. Through…

Welcome to another episode of the Comrades' Classroom Podcast! On it, we playback for you a live interview done by Neighbor Program with Dr. Cornell West (watch the full video here). In this interview, Dr. West talks about growing up in Sacramento, the History of the Black Panthers in Oak Park, and the Importance of the Malcolm X Academy being deve…

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…

On this episode of the Comrade's Classroom Podcast, we've turned one of our favorite documentaries into an audio episode for our listeners. 'The Aqueduct Between Us' is a film project that documents radical oral histories about water in los angeles county as told by the Indigenous people of tovaangar (los angeles) and payahuunadü (the owens valley)…

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 tha…

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. I…

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-hel…

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…

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 …

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-hand with our neig…

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…

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 r…

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 understa…

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 colla…

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 organi…

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 t…

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 (@neighbor…

In our final episode of our Disability Justice Series, we get to sit down with two of our comrades Sam and RT as they discuss the everyday violence of ableism through their personal experiences. To support our work please subscribe to our Patreon or donate via Venmo! Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, or wherever else you get your podcasts…

In this episode, you'll get to listen in on snippets from our weekly conversations in December and January! Our comrades sat down to talk about the "Cripping Transformative Justice" and the difficulties of addressing harm within collective spaces, accountability, grace, and all the ways we imagine implementing Disability Justice frameworks into our…

In this episode, we sit down at Neighbor School with our homies from Sacramento to talk about Disability Justice and other frameworks of collective care developed by Eliot Fukui. On it, we discuss why we, as a collective, believe it's important to implement practices of Disability and Healing Justice to sustain our survival programs. For access to …

In this episode, we playback audio from a documentary done with former Black Liberation Army member, Thomas "Blood" McCreary (starts at 2 min. 8 sec.). Following the audio playback, you will hear clips from our group discussion (starts at 52 min. 3 sec.) -- we talk about the BLA's impact on the community, security culture, and how our current movem…

This discussion centers on the movement for Palestinian liberation through sources provided by our wonderful guest facilitators from the Palestinian Youth Movement—follow them @palestinianyouthmovement on Instagram. We outline the barbaric history of Zionism, we discuss the Palestinian Liberatio Front, and we also talk about why the occupation of P…

This discussion centers on the political and organizational foundations of The Peoples Coalition. In an interview with graduate students from Cal State Dominguez Hills, two members of the Coalition share the history of the foundation and growth of the organization and the principles that guide the mutual aid and survival programs undertaken by We G…

This Jazz Classic Talk Show/Interview will be with author Helene LaFaro-Fernandez and feature her biography of her brother Scott Lafaro, "Jade Visions." Join me, Jose Reyes (Jazz Con Class Radio) and my co-host Noal Cohen (Author of "Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce") and learn more about the innovative Jazz bassist Scott LaFaro. We w…

Jose Reyes of Jazz Con Class Radio will be interviewing author and historian Cary Ginell. They will be concentrating on all the jazz related projects Cary has been involved with and is currently working on. Cary has also written an array of jazz related books on legendary musicians and on essential jazz dicographies. Listen in and or call in, enjoy…

Alan (Giants of Jazz Radio) and Jose (Jazz Con Class Radio) are very honored to have with us jazz historian, jazz journalist and author Scott Yanow. We will cover his biography in detail and then concentrate on "West Coast Jazz." We will decipher this sub-genre of "Cool Jazz" by discussing its roots and its history. We will also touch on the 60's J…

Alan Bramwell (Giants of Jazz Radio) and Jose Reyes (Jazz Con Class Radio) will be interviewing Jeremy Yudkin, author of "Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop." The co-hosts will mostly concentrate on the book but there will be much more covered with Jeremy, he is very qualified in the field of music.The listeners will have a golden opportun…

John Goodman is the author the book "Mingus Speaks." John will be chatting with co-hosts Alan Bramwell (Giants of Jazz Radio) and Jose Reyes (Jazz Con Class Radio). This interview will mostly concentrate on this revealing book and also on Mingus' amazing career. He was a genius but was very temperamental and was sometimes very hard to work with as …

John Goodman discusses a series of interviews with bassist Charles Mingus.By University of California Press

Guthrie Ramsey discusses the life and work of jazz pianist Bud Powell.By University of California Press

An interview with Joshua Bloom about the history and politics of the Black Panther Party.By University of California Press

Chris Gondek interviews Sydney Nathans of Duke University about the efforts of escaped slave Mary Walker to liberate her family from North Carolina.By Harvard University Press

Chris Gondek interviews Kenneth Warren about the relationship between Jim Crow and African American Literature.By Harvard University Press

Chris Gondek interviews Nikhil Pal Singh, the editor of Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell.By University of California Press

Chris Gondek interviews Stephen Tuck, the author of We Ain't What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama.By Harvard University Press

Chris Gondek interviews Suzanne E. Smith, the author of To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death.By Harvard University Press

Chris Gondek interviews Judith A. Carney about her new book, In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World.By University of California Press

Chris Gondek interviews Steven Hahn, the author of The Poltical Worlds of Slavery and Freedom.By Harvard University Press

An interview with Joyce Lee Malcolm, the author of Peter's War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution.By Yale University Press

An interview with Eric Sundquist, the author of King's Dream.By Yale University Press

Chris Gondek interviews Risa Goluboff, author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights.By Harvard University Press

An interview with Dr. Allen Dwight Callahan, author of The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible.By Yale University Press