Tag: freedom movement

• Episode # 72: Open Your Mouths for the Muted; Fight for the Rights of the Destitute with Randolph Stone

  This political moment—complex, contradictory, characterized by escalating crises—urges us to focus our attention on movement building. Beyond campaigns, projects, policies, or organizations, we need to find multiple ways to weave our work together into a sturdy quilt, or a mighty and irresistible social upheaval that advances the cause of peace and freedom, joy and justice…

  May 4, 2023

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  abolition, activists, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project, death penalty, freedom movement, justice, juvenile justice, legal aid, liberation, police accountability, Pontiac prison, public defender

• Episode # 71: With My Mind Stayed on Freedom with Dan Berger, Zoharah Simmons, and Michael Simmons

  The struggle for Black Freedom was intensifying in 1966, and when the term “Black Power!” leapt from the March Against Fear in Mississippi into the mainstream, the Freedom Movement was newly energized. White supremacist hearts were all aflutter, and Mister Backlash went into overdrive with the usual bullshit: Black Power is hate! Is racist! Is…

  April 20, 2023

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  authors, black freedom, Black power, Dan Berger, freedom movement, Michael Simmons, Stayed on Freedom, writer, Zoharah Simmons