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Queer Radical Communists. #BuildingOurPower

Are you ready to Build Power? Building Our Power is an educational podcast dedicated to teaching and learning from others about social awareness and life. Building Our Power works to highlight community leaders and others, like you, to provide authentic stories to real life situations.

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Building Our Power Building Our Power

- Society & Culture
- 4.6 • 41 Ratings

- JUN 7, 2021
How The Civil Rights Movement Failed

How The Civil Rights Movement Failed

Topics Discussed:
- Voter Education Project
- Why Marching Stop Working
- What Can We Learn From them
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woU9PV4n2i0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_Education_Project
- 27 min
- MAY 31, 2021
Prison Reform is BULLS**T

Prison Reform is BULLS**T

Topics Discussed:
- Prison abolition
- Why prison reform is bs
- Biden bringing George Floyd’s daughter to the White House

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 Works Cited:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice
- 29 min
- MAY 24, 2021
MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS A SELLOUT!

MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS A SELLOUT!

Topics Discussed:

- M19 Communist Organization
- Revisionist History: Martin Luther King Jr
- The March on Washington

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Works Cited:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_19th_Communist_Organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Liberation_Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_to_the_Grass_Roots
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/message-to-the-grassroots-speech-transcript-malcolm-x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a59Kwp35Z80
https://archive.org/details/martinmalcolmame00jame
- 27 min
- MAY 17, 2021
How to: Radicalize Your Kinfolks

How to: Radicalize Your Kinfolks

Topics Discussed:
- Tactics to start a conversation around leftist radicalism with family and friends

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Works Cited:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/black-power-the-politics-of-liberation/
https://www.memphis.edu/socialwork/research/2019povertyfactsheet.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMsi-A56ds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXBYlC4-0bQ&t=1051s
- 26 min
- MAY 10, 2021
Karl Marx is the New Jesus

Karl Marx is the New Jesus

Topics Discussed:
- Communism is just a replacement of Christianity for white leftists.
- White leftists see the revolution as the rapture.
- Why is learning to garden & arm yourself important?
- Anti-Wokeness
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Special Guest:
https://twitter.com/HavenTheHaitian

Works Cited:
** KT misspoke in this episode - Mao did speak on racism in 1963, prior to the March on Washington.
**https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/mao-tsetung-discrimination
**https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/usufruct-collective-introduction-to-neighborhood-assemblies
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-black-anarchism-a-reader
- 52 min
- MAY 3, 2021
Cashapp is NOT Mutual Aid

Cashapp is NOT Mutual Aid

Topics Discussed:
- What is mutual aid?
- What's the difference between mutual aid & charity?
- What was Fannie Lou Hamer doing for mutual aid?
- Biden bans swishers?
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Mutual Aid:
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Works Cited:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-administration-declares-war-on-menthol-sparking-opposition-across-political-spectrum/ar-BB1geQqM
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/clintschnekloth/2020/11/why-your-charity-isnt-helping-on-mutual-aid-and-accompaniment/
https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/100285/former-black-panther-launches-oakland-urban-farm-to-give-ex-prisoners-a-fresh-start
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid_(organization_theory)#Mutual_aid_vs._charity
https://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/
- 26 min

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