Class Time with Kenzo Shibata [FREE FEED]

Mukbanging, Parenting, and COVID with Street Fight’s Brett Payne

August 4, 2020

ATL Democratic Socialists of America Chair Councilman khalid kamau ditches chapter, leaders respond

July 6, 2020

TWITTER: @KenzoShibata Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClassTimePod/ Patreon: Patreon.com/KenzoShibata Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/classtime Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/classtime/ Via Brandyn Buchanan (MADSA DSA): Today, Councilman #khalidkamau resigned as chair of Metro Atlanta #DSA’s Executive Committee. In his resignation press release, khalid left out an incredible amount of information that people deserve to know. So we decided to take a few hours and lay out the details so people can make their own decisions about our collective character, and his. I’m writing this in my own voice, but this statement has the support of the entire Executive committee. The Background When we all came together in September, the press releases were really happy to note that we were the youngest and most diverse EC in the history of the chapter. Let’s just briefly talk about what that entails: It’s an EC of six people that featured two Black men (plus khalid, so three) and an indigenous woman. People of color are a voting majority here. We’re all working people on really low income, doing a tremendous amount of work to equip our members and comrades in Atlanta to fight racism, capitalism, and imperialism. So are we gonna do that with a bottom up democracy that listens to people, learns about their struggles and then engages in the fight with them? Or will it come from a “president” or “CEO” type that goes to nice dinners, makes political promises and then demands that the membership haul ass to make good on them? Councilman khalid is resigning from the chapter because he’s not getting his way on this central question of what we are: period. We are a member organization, not a PAC. Our over one thousand members are responsible for setting the political line of our organization. We’re happy to work with anybody with good will from across the political spectrum (obvious receipts to come), but people have to know what’s going on, know who we’re signing on with and give approval. When he discovered he couldn’t do all this in his style, by hisself, he jumped out. The Endorsement Process In his resignation statement, khalid makes a number of false statements about our endorsement process, and also levels an accusation that the EC blocked endorsements. Let’s dig into those. A member of the Local Electoral working group (and person of color!) submitted a resolution for our June general meeting agenda to reorient our electoral strategy towards #ClassStruggleElections. This resolution is cosponsored by over 40 members, including nearly every influential person of color in the organization. To give you some background, we currently have a two-meeting endorsement process, where candidates are expected to give a Q&A in one meeting and then members debate and vote whether to endorse in a second meeting. Read the rest here: https://medium.com/@heybrandyn/metro-... Councilman Kamau's initial post: https://medium.com/@khalidCares/black... The catalyst for this sad tale was me. I signed on to a mission that any undergraduate Sociology major with an understanding of the pathology of white supremacist thinking would have known was impossible. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have long been criticized as a toxic environment for women and people of color. After an exodus of organizers of color from 2016–2018, local DSA chapters in cities like New York and Chicago underwent transformations worthy of the organization’s radical reputation, diversifying the complexion of their leadership, electoral organizing and other outreach. However, some local DSA chapters continued doing the same thing, expecting different results. The Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America (MADSA) has been one such chapter. In 2019, I was asked to give the Opening Speech at DSA’s National Convention in Atlanta. At the time, I was one of only three elected officials in the State of Georgia that openly-identified as a Democratic Socialist. MADSA was on its third chair of color in less than one year. Two Black leaders had publicly split with the chapter, criticizing MADSA as both racist and sexist. I would like to pause here to apologize to those two women. My male privilege blinded me to the seriousness of their allegations, and I was lulled into thinking that my celebrity as an elected official would propel me over the institutional barriers that previous leaders of color had faced. I allowed myself to be convinced that I was a magical negro who could transform a troubled institution.

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Sarah Jaffe (Dissent, Nation, Necessary Trouble) on George Floyd, Protests, Unions, Defunding Police

June 14, 2020

Labor Journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe on Twitter and sarahljaffe.com) talks about the murder of George Floyd, the protests, mutual aid, carework, police abolition, racism, Phil Rizzo, Tucker Carlson, the Philly MOVE house protests, and more!

Sarah references the following pieces in the video:

https://www.hulu.com/movie/crime-puni...

https://youtu.be/_77w1DX-3yI

https://uncpress.org/book/97814696254...

Dr. Touré Reed (Illinois State University) Talks Amy Cooper, George Floyd, Race Reductionism + more!

June 6, 2020

Dr. Reed and I discuss his new book Toward Freedom (https://www.versobooks.com/). We also discuss Charles Bronson movies, heavy metal guitarists, and Bloomingon-Normal life. Touré F. Reed is an Associate Professor of 20th Century US and Afro-American History at Illinois State University. He has published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, LABOR, Nonsite.org, BlackAgendaReport, Jacobin and The New Republic. Dr. Reed is the author of Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950 (UNC Press). Toward Freedom: In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. But who is the culprit? For many progressives, racial identities are the engine of American history, and by extension, contemporary politics. They, in short, want to separate race from class. While policymakers and pundits find an almost metaphysical racism, or the survival of an ancient and primordial tribalism at the heart of American life, these inequities are better understood when traced to more comprehensible forces: to the contradictions in access to New Deal era welfare programs, to the blinders imposed by the Cold War, to Ronald Reagan’s neoliberal assault on the half-century long Keynesian consensus. As Touré Reed argues in this rigorously constructed book, the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else, the fate of poor and working-class African Americans is inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans.

PRISON PLANET CARAVAN — OZ EP 4 “Capital P”

May 30, 2020

It's a listen-along ep so cue up your Oz Box for this one.

[UNLOCKED] The GLIBERAL MEDIA w/ BRYAN QUINBY (STREET FIGHT), SAM KNIGHT & SAM SACKS (DISTRICT SENTINEL + MEANS MORNING NEWS), NAOMI LACHANCE

May 30, 2020

Why does the media suck? The glib liberal voices on the left and the far right nutjobs have voice, but what about a voice for the militant working class?

He's not just a jock, you see.

The Myth of the White Democrat

May 23, 2020

Voting Democrat makes you a POC. Sounds crazy? I break down here how Biden is merely staying on message and the roots of that message.

Class Time with Kenzo Shibata [FREE FEED]

Class Time with Kenzo Shibata [FREE FEED]

Mukbanging, Parenting, and COVID with Street Fight’s Brett Payne

ATL Democratic Socialists of America Chair Councilman khalid kamau ditches chapter, leaders respond

Sarah Jaffe (Dissent, Nation, Necessary Trouble) on George Floyd, Protests, Unions, Defunding Police

Dr. Touré Reed (Illinois State University) Talks Amy Cooper, George Floyd, Race Reductionism + more!

PRISON PLANET CARAVAN — OZ EP 4 “Capital P”

[UNLOCKED] The GLIBERAL MEDIA w/ BRYAN QUINBY (STREET FIGHT), SAM KNIGHT & SAM SACKS (DISTRICT SENTINEL + MEANS MORNING NEWS), NAOMI LACHANCE

HOTDISH AND STREET HEAT! FTP! Burn MN Burn!

Democratic Socialist Jabari Brisport is running for New York State Senate

PRISON PLANET CARAVAN Ep 3 God’s Chillin’ with @CRAPPY OATS of the Southpaws Pod and Means TV Sports

The Myth of the White Democrat

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