Radicals for Good

Radicals for Good
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Radicals for Good is a podcast and network that aims to encourage everyday people to take small yet revolutionary action towards collective good. Our podcast is a means to amplify and support the radical work happening across the globe but always connecting back to our hometown of Detroit, Michigan – one of the most radical cities with some of the most radical thinkers and leaders in the country. It aims to shift the stigmatized verbiage of ‘radical’ to a more accepted and fluid adjective. Hosted by Shayla Zimmerman. radicalspod.substack.com

Episodes

  1. MAY 3

    s1e5: Tactics for Worker Solidarity with Loren Branch

    “To me, the Beloved Community is a realistic vision of an achievable society, one in which problems and conflict exist, but are resolved peacefully and without bitterness.” -Coretta Scott King In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss different tactics, like boycotting and strikes, we can use to build solidarity in the working class with Loren Branch (Nyerere Omowale), an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), writer, street drummer and popular political educator. Loren Branch (aka Nyerere Omawale) is a New Afrikan Revolutionary Socialist from the westside of Detroit, Joy Road to be exact. From Chicago to Detroit, Loren has been building independent working class power across liberation struggles including Black liberation, Palestine Solidarity movement, queer liberation, immigrant rights, police murder, anti-war, and more. Rooted in Marxism, the Black Radical tradition, and Pan-Africanism—Loren is a product of UAW Local 600 and the Republic of New Afrika. His ultimate life goals are to become a father and to build the world dignity and self-determination we need and deserve. To play a role in advancing the unfinished revolution of his ancestors and elders—ending capitalism and building a new socialist system run for and by The People. To see Detroit and the global working class liberated in our lifetime. Sources https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future: https://1804books.com/products/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880: https://1804books.com/products/black-reconstruction-in-america-1860-1880 Assata: https://www.commabookstore.com/shop/p/assata-an-autobiography Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374307/motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries The Civil Rights Revolution & Montgomery Bus Boycott: https://liberationschool.org/civil-rights-and-the-u-s-revolution/ Debunking the myth that “we’re not ready” for a general strike in the U.S.: https://liberationnews.org/debunking-the-myth-that-were-not-ready-for-a-general-strike-in-the-u-s/ Alkebu-lan Village & Inner City Sub Center: https://liberationnews.org/dc-to-detroit-30-years-later-million-man-march-black-liberation/ The Republic of New Afrika: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/521c580a15244ad0bee5e33f121c2bff Peaches Anderson (my grandmother): https://www.congress.gov/114/crec/2016/06/09/162/91/CREC-2016-06-09-pt1-PgE867.pdf Learn more about PSL and get involved in the socialist movement: https://www2.pslweb.org/action PSL Detroit: https://www.instagram.com/psldetroit https://liberationnews.org/07-11-20-revolutionary-optimism-socialist-html/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn-xR0Yw1QZiLgUtZJiAghqwsCjPObvdLxZMWzgAZBQoG1fTgdmf_SJcL_qe0_aem_EaFPq1Uqvl0IhHdwIw9A8g https://radicalreads.com/black-panthers-favorite-books/ Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

    58 min

  2. APR 5

    s1e4: Technology in Movements with Tawana Petty

    “It’s not our fault but it is our fight.” -Monica Lewis Patrick In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss utilizing technology in movement spaces and what digital justice could look like in Detroit with Tawana Petty, a mother, digital justice organizer, poet, and author. Tawana Petty, also known by her poetry stage name Honeycomb, is a mother, social justice organizer, poet, author, facilitator and keynote lecturer. Her work focuses on racial justice, equity, privacy, and consent. She is the founding Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc., an artist incubator, which leverages poetry, policy literacy and advocacy, anti-racism facilitation, political education and community-centered initiatives in pursuit of data and digital justice and racial and environmental justice. In 2024, Petty was named on Business Insider’s AI Power List for Policy and Ethics. Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement https://unsplash.com/photos/text-zO7VVw7Hxik https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroiters-get-oversight-of-surveillance-technology-but-is-it-enough/ https://www.bridgedetroit.com/michigan-central-is-collecting-a-lot-of-data-can-we-trust-it/ https://open.substack.com/pub/tawanapetty/p/defending-detroit?r=7g7rur&utm_medium=ios https://tawanapetty.org/selected-media/f/defending-black-lives-means-banning-facial-recognition https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/11/tsa-airport-security-facial-recognition/ https://stoplapdspying.org/ https://voicesfromthegrassroots.org/lewis-patrick-monica/ https://www.detroitk12.org/about-dpscd/initiatives/one-to-one-student-technology-iniiative https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/detroit-police-to-enforce-ticket-people-not-following-stay-at-home-order https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/PST045224 https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/14dd97b35cbb4a4298786c75855f8080 https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/08/28/detroit-police-department-celebrates-1k-project-green-light-partners/ https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/09/detroit-bridges-internet-access-digital-divide/ https://connectyourcommunity.org/cleveland-and-detroit-lead-worst-connected-large-cities-of-2023/ https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/10/07/grim-reality-more-than-half-of-detroit-children-are-now-living-in-poverty-census-bureau-data-shows/ https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/detroit-partnership-on-economic-mobility/ https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World by Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Colin Schupfer Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

    49 min
  3. s1e3: Raising Revolutionaries with Alia Harvey-Quinn

    MAR 13

    s1e3: Raising Revolutionaries with Alia Harvey-Quinn

    Please donate to Alia's founding nonprofit, FORCE Detroit! Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement  https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/100-years-black-history-origins-anti-hunger-movement  https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan/2025/07/24/violence-intervention-leaders-gather-in-lansing-to-advocate-for-funding/85327767007/ https://detroitmi.gov/news/mayor-sheffield-launches-mayors-office-neighborhood-and-community-safety-strengthen-violence https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-origins-free-breakfast-and-food-justice-movement https://www.blkhlth.com/resources/racial-gaps-in-colorectal-cancer-tnt2y-9pegt https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change   The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

    39 min

  4. FEB 13

    s1e2: Generational Resistance

    Please donate to Namira's neighborhood nonprofit, Dream of Detroit! https://dreamofdetroit.org/donate/ Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement  https://medium.com/@niawrites/16-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked-my-immigrant-father-214570fe1e44 (please email hey@radicalsforgood.com for a friend link)   https://planetdetroit.org/2021/10/its-all-waawiyaatanong/  https://pixabay.com/photos/skyline-river-water-detroit-8061846/  https://medium.com/dsa-detroit-newspaper/waawiyatanong-resists-43f4d7806c1c https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8814474/ https://planetdetroit.org/2021/01/detroits-battle-with-climate-change-flooding-asthma-and-infrastructure/ https://www.mindful.org/a-6-minute-loving-kindness-meditation-to-expand-your-awareness/ https://www.nqa.org/what-is-qigong https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-use-new-technology-to-track-individual-monarch-butterfly-migrations  Video by SimplyArt4794: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-video-of-butterflies-7787029/ https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx8sf82#zcyq2v4 Becoming Good Ancestors by David Ehrenfeld We Do This Until We Free Us by Mariame Kaba Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

    44 min
  5. Season 1 Episode 1 - Radical Introductions

    JAN 13

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Radical Introductions

    On our very first episode of Radicals for Good, we give a radical introduction to our podcast and host. We discuss the history and current moment of Detroit and why we believe hosting this podcast in the most radical city in the United States is timely and necessary. And why we believe it’s important to share this podcast in this moment ‘on the clock of the world’. Sources: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-statue-of-a-fist-is-suspended-by-a-crane-xs1W9DoYEVs https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement https://againstthecurrent.org/atc168/p4071/ https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/parks-rosa https://the-spark.net/o_ford1941.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/race-riot-1943 https://urbanhistory.willmackintosh.org/project/madelines-project/ https://time.com/4879062/detroit-1967-real-history/ https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/1963-march-washington https://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/what-time-is-it-on-the-clock-of-the-world-by-grace-lee-boggs/ Freedom is a constant Struggle by Angela Davis https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/blog/remembering-mlks-influence-detroit https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/362782#slide=gs-200036 https://unsplash.com/photos/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-mathew-ahmann-in-a-crowd-of-demonstrators-at-the-march-on-washington-bTF3gkd2L28 Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe

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Radicals for Good is a podcast and network that aims to encourage everyday people to take small yet revolutionary action towards collective good. Our podcast is a means to amplify and support the radical work happening across the globe but always connecting back to our hometown of Detroit, Michigan – one of the most radical cities with some of the most radical thinkers and leaders in the country. It aims to shift the stigmatized verbiage of ‘radical’ to a more accepted and fluid adjective. Hosted by Shayla Zimmerman. radicalspod.substack.com

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