As the frontline communities and others of good conscience grieve and revolt, the US’s democratic trappings yield to its iron fist core. What are must be done to re-energize the long revolution against slavery and capitalism and for democracy and freedom? Long-time radical intellectual and pan-Africanist, Bill Fletcher and the Marxist activist-scholar August Nimtz join…

COVID-19 has exposed the brittle core of higher education today: super-exploited academic workers going by dozens of titles–temporary, part-timer, adjunct, visiting, precarious, etc.–all meaning “contingent” i.e. workers who provide most of the teaching but who receive few benefits and next to no job security. It has also raised sharply the question of the university’s relationship…

A conversation about the government and corporate class campaigns to use the COVID moment to privatize or destroy our most critical public services: The US Postal Service, public K-12, and higher education, public hospitals, the Veterans Affairs health services, and more. We are joined by postal worker organizer, Charles Zlatkin, New York Labor Communications Council,…

S&S’s first social hour! Framing questions: What book has most resonated with you during this unprecedented time, and why? Share with others what you are enjoying and what you are taking away from the text. Reading and sharing what’s valuable on the page can help us cope with–and deepen our grasp of– the challenges we…

In our fifth episode of Shelter & Solidarity, we are scholar-activists Aviva Chomsky (author of Undocumented, ‘They Take Our Jobs!’ and Twenty Other Myths about Immigration), Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki (co-authors of the book, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid), as well as veteran organizerAlma De…

Shelter & Solidarity show 4, a two-part episode, addresses higher education and also the organizing for May Day in a time of global pandemic and economic depression. In the first part, Joe Ramsey interviews Anna Kornbluh, Ben Manski, Barbara Madeloni, and Chris Newfield. Together they address the paradoxes of increased militancy and reduced organizational capacity….

In the episode, hosts Joe Ramsey and Tim Sheard interview Tre Kwon and Jesse Martin about emergency conditions facing front line workers and those in their care. Both decry the tendency of employers and government to cut corners in pursuit of profits at the expense of those in need of care and their caregivers.

In this our second episode of Shelter & Solidarity, we’re joined by co-host Barbara Madeloni (of Labor Notes), and guests Doug Henwood (of Behind the News) and Matt Stoller (of the American Economic Liberties Project) for a critical discussion of the recently passed over $2 Trillion Federal “Stimulus” Package. Join us to Breakdown the Bailout,…

This is our first show! Featured Guests:Johanna Fernandez, author, radio host, and organizer http://sdonline.org/66/locking-up-black-dissidents-and-punishing-the-poor-the-roots-of-mass-incarceration-in-the-us-2/ José Saldana, Director of the RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison) campaign in NY. http://rappcampaign.com/ Kevin Rashid Johnson, Minister of Defense, New Afrikan Black Panther Party, currently incarcerated inside an Indiana state prison). http://rashidmod.com/?p=2770 Frontline Report from inside Rikers Island Jail,…

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