Love of Revolution: Tom Porter Remembers Amiri Baraka

Love of Revolution: Tom Porter & Jared Ball Remember Amiri BarakaWatch this video on YouTube Movement veteran, philosopher, educator and radio man, Mr. Tom Porter returns for the second part of our discussion about radicalism in the Black Liberation Movement and in particular his friendship with Amiri Baraka. See PART ONE of this interview!

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Race as Political Context of Surveillance with Tom Porter

Mr. Tom Porter, educator, activist, author, joined us to discuss recently discovered documents about the federal government surveillance he and others were under as organizers of The Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Cincinnati, Ohio.   See also our previous interview about Leonard Ball with Jamil Muhammad.

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Fantasies vs. Nightmares, Prison Abolition vs. Medical Genocide: As The “Free Mumia” Movement Prepares To Celebrate His Birthday, A Cruel, Late April Fool’s Joke About Abu-Jamal Possibly Having COVID-19 Symptoms Backfires

The harassment of radical senior citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal continues, even during a pandemic. It’s not enough that’s he’s been in jail for almost 40 years (he turns 66 on April 24). Now Pennsylvania prison authorities–the world’s sorest-winner champions–cruelly lied that he was ill, possibly with COVID. By Todd Steven Burroughs Death’s shadow can replicate over…

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