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Day 38 | Biden Bombs Syria; Death Bed Confessions Of Malcolm X Assassination; Police Accountability Activist Facing 48 Years in Prison

26 Fri Feb 2021

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LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Friday, 26 FEB 2021, 04:36 PST]  These are truly amazing times we are living through, people. The Pacifica Radio family learned yesterday on Flashpoints about a young woman, Lillian House, who is facing 48 years in prison for exposing crimes of state and for working in her local community for police accountability. 48 years!

Meanwhile, the white supremacists, who marauded through the Capitol Building in D.C. are roaming free. We recall young Kyle Rittenhouse was photographed, underage drinking at a bar, wearing a T-shirt that read: Free As Fuck, after he was given kudos by cops for being a good white vigilante and shooting a Black Lives Matter protestor.

Some of us are taken all the way back to the Clinton ’90s, when some of us naively supported the Clinton administration, thinking it was a healthy alternative to the clearly racist Republican Party. We saw Bill Clinton play the sax on the Arsenio Hall show and figured, he’s alright. If Arsenio Hall says he’s okay…

Well, at least that was clear to us, people of color, if not to our white friends or liberal or bourgeois friends, that the Republican Party is racist, toxic, illegitimate. We have always understood the Republican Party to be an institution, which is inimical to the interests of, not only people of color, but all working class people. Surely, this fact must be obvious to all. The only subscribers, at this point, to the Republican Party must be those individuals, who feel they have a stake in white nationalism. And, of course, all subscribers to the status quo have a stake, whether unconscious or not, in US imperialism and proto-fascism. None of us in America would enjoy our current standard of living without the socioeconomic oppression of the global south.

For some Americans, their subscriptions to white supremacy and/or white nationalism are unconscious subscriptions. The beauty—or horror, depending on one’s perspective—of white privilege is the fact that, in order to derive its benefits, the only thing a white person must do is nothing. Since Dr. Michelle Alexander, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Dr. Joy Degruy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and so many other doctors and learned people have all told us about the structural nature of racism and white supremacy. We have long known about the structural violence of institutions, such as racism, militarism, militarized policing, and materialism.

So, since people of color have always known about the toxicity of the Republican Party, and since now only toxic people will support it, since it’s been exposed so thoroughly. The only question now is whether good people of conscience will also recognize the toxicity of the Democrat Party. Are you a Democrat voter? Is it a form of cognitive dissonance to sincerely position oneself on the left of the political spectrum, but support voting Democrat?

As young people in the 1990s, all we had to do was watch the Clinton administration for a while. Soon, we observed police state repression, domestically, and imperialist aggression, abroad. This is exactly what we are seeing under Mr. Biden. It would have been better if our elders had warned us about the falsity of the Democrat Party. Well, Dr. King and Malcolm X tried to warn us. But that history was obfuscated. So, here we are again, America, still in a similar place we were when Malcolm X and Dr. King tried to heal our nation.

A courageous young woman, Lillian House, is facing 48 years, people, 48 years. This is America. We clearly have a two-tiered justice system. One tier of justice is for people, who conform to the demands of the state, as steered by whatever political grouping happens to be in charge at the moment. When you conform, the state won’t persecute you. When you resist, even if it is resisting evil, the state persecutes you. This is the pattern, which people of color have observed. This is why Fred Hampton warned us that nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.

@LumpenProles, 09:17 PST, 28 FEB 2021

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Notes from a working class left perspective…

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Friday, February 26, 2021

Notes below are our semi-edited notes of broadcast highlights for future reference.  For now, it’s just me, taking notes in between stolen moments, stealing away from the daily grind of begging for work in the struggle for survival…

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06:00 PST, WPFW > Climate Fridays > […] 0622 Mahalia pipeline, oklahoma to gulf [TW] direct legal action ‘they’re starting to threaten people with imminent domain ‘targeted low-income residents to push out […] 06:26 PST, “Memphis” ‘they said clean water is not our problem ‘

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06:00 PST, WBAI > 0628 ‘Youth Blast product’? Sounds like snake oil. Anti-aging? There’s a doctor, who wrote a book, Growing Young, it’s called, if memory serves. But the only way is a lifestyle of fitness and nutrition and mastering your physiology, metabolism, microbiomes, and so forth. Wonder products will disappoint every time. To look like an athlete, one must move like an athlete. One must keep moving, or exercise before or after desk jockeying. Solidarity.

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Transcript

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, Democracynow.org, the Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. To talk more about the assassination of Malcolm X, we are joined by his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. She joined Reggie Wood on Saturday when he released the deathbed confession of his cousin, the late undercover police officer Raymond Wood, who described being part of a police and FBI conspiracy that targeted Malcolm X, was there at his assassination.

Ilyasah Shabazz is professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, a community organizer, motivational speaker, activist and award-winning author. Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany Jackson have just cowritten a new book for young adults titled The Awakening of Malcolm X. Before we go back in time to the book and Malcolm X’s history, Ilyasah, can you respond to this bombshell deathbed revelation that Reggie just shared with us?

ILYASAH SHABAZZ: Wow. I think it’s deplorable. I think it’s good that he came forward with this letter, because many people just did not understand how intricately involved our—people in powerful positions were to infiltrate organizations that set out to improve society.

AMY GOODMAN: I mean, true that Raymond Wood not only infiltrated Malcolm X’s organization, but CORE, the Panther 21, all these different groupings. Now, you have dealt with this slow drip of revelations over the decades. You are Malcolm X’s daughter. Can you talk about the effect on your family and what you’re calling for now? Do you join Ben Crump in calling for a reopening of the investigation of your father’s assassination?

ILYASAH SHABAZZ: Absolutely. We want the truth uncovered. And if it’s the Manhattan District Attorney, the United States Congress, we would like them to do a thorough investigation on the assassination of our father, Malcolm X. It was quite challenging, you can imagine, for my mother, who was a young woman, pregnant with my youngest sisters, the twins, had four babies, to walk into the Audubon excited to see her husband because their home had been firebombed just a week prior on the evening of Valentine’s Day. And for her to be able to go and see her husband with her family, she must have walked into that Audubon Sunday afternoon really excited, and left, shattered.

And when I discovered this letter, when I discovered Reggie Wood with this information, you know, I thought of my mother. I thought of my father, just a young man. All he wanted was for America to live up to her promise of liberty and justice for all. And he worked quite diligently for 12 years looking for solutions to this ongoing problem. And he provided the biggest critique of America. And I am happy that the truth can finally be uncovered. And so whatever it takes, I and my five sisters are supportive of that effort.

AMY GOODMAN: You were there 56 years ago, horrifyingly. How old were you, two years old?
In the Audubon ballroom where you returned this past weekend. Of course, you have been there many times. It’s now the Shabazz Center. Fifty-six years ago, when he was gunned down, you were there with your sisters and mom.

ILYASAH SHABAZZ: That’s right. That’s right. And again, I always go back to my mother. It had to have been just so difficult for her and how she safeguarded her husband’s legacy. Because, look, what most people are discovering now is that all of what they learned about Malcolm X, it was absolutely inaccurate. This past summer while young people were politicized because of this global pandemic, because of being forced to watch this horrific death of George Floyd, going out into the streets, protesting, 50 states in this country, 18 countries abroad, and we discovered that my father was quoted 53.7 thousand times per hour in social media. And this is the clearest indication that people wanted to know the truth about Malcolm X. They knew that Malcolm spoke truth and that he provided strategies and tactics that they could employ to meet these socioeconomic challenges head on. And so I take my hat off to these young people for being diligent as well.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go to an excerpt of a speech your dad gave at the Audubon Ballroom in ’64, about half a year before he was assassinated there. It’s called “By Any Means Necessary.”

MALCOLM X: One of the first things that the independent African nations did was to form an organization called the Organization of African Unity. The purpose of our organization of Afro-American Unity, which has the same aim and objective, to fight whoever gets in our way. [APPLAUSE] To bring about the complete independence of people of African descent here in the Western Hemisphere and first, here in the United States, and bring about the freedom of these people by any means necessary.[APPLAUSE]

AMY GOODMAN: That was Malcolm X in the months before he was assassinated. Ilyasah Shabazz, you have now written a book for young adults called The Awakening of Malcolm X and it really focuses on his time in jail. Talk about why you chose this period and what do you think is so critical for young people to take from it?

ILYASAH SHABAZZ: Well, I wanted to first make sure that I showed that Malcolm didn’t go to jail and miraculously become Malcolm X. That his parents instilled specific values. And it speaks to all the smart forward-thinking adults that, you know, we have to provide guidance for our children. They need an education curriculum that teaches the truth. We can’t sit back and expect someone else to do these things for us.

If our young people understood that, say, in world history classes, as I teach my students, that Africa is the cradle of the most advanced thriving civilization ever to exist in mankind and if they also learned about the impressive kingdoms of Benin, Fuuta Jaloo, Mali, Egypt, to the same degree that we teach them of ancient Greece and Rome, then we might better appreciate the beauty and magnificence of nonwhite civilizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. And we would have the opportunity to teach our children love, respect instead of instilling these values of hate and discrimination. Rather, love and respect for ourselves and then for humanity. I think all of these things are extremely important.

AMY GOODMAN: You write the book in the first person. What was it like to inhabit your father’s perspective in this way?

ILYASAH SHABAZZ: Well, talking about the values that were instilled in him by his parents, and Malcolm running from himself, running from his identity, running from the fact that his father was lynched. His father was the chapter president of an organization that was commanded by millions of followers in the 1920s, that he purchased land that was then reserved for whites only and, you know, the KKK lynched him. They targeted his family. His mother, who was the recording secretary, instilling values of compassion, human compassion, literary. All of these things that we see in Malcolm later in his life was put into an institution. The family was separated. The land was taken.

And so when Malcolm finds himself in jail, we find that Malcolm is still smart. He ends up being a star debater on the debate team. The prison debated against Ivy League schools, Harvard, MIT, Boston University. And Malcolm debated about capital punishment. And so we see his compassion. We see his wit. We see his ability to inform and engage others. And so what we find is that Malcolm studied the dictionary not so that he could learn how to read and write, but he studied the dictionary so he could learn the etymology, the root words, so he could be his best.

And when we look at today the criminal justice system, we know that there are over three million people behind bars. That the U.S. spent in 2012 $80 billion taxpayer dollars on correction facilities, not education, not after-school programs. And so the incarcerated population has increased by 700% and we wanted to focus on the humanity of these people behind bars.

AMY GOODMAN: And of course you dedicate the book to the incarcerated. Ilyasah Shabazz, we want to thank you so much for being with us. The book is called The Awakening of Malcolm X. I’m Amy Goodman. Wear a mask. Stay safe.The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

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The Assassination of Malcolm X: Ex-Undercover Officer Admits Role in FBI & Police Conspiracy

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06:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > Democracy Now! > […] 0629, death bed confession on X, Raymond Wood, Gene Robe4ts […] 0638, ‘police-orchestrated plot to blow up the statue of liberty’, feb 16 arrests, days before assassination. […] Yuri kuchiyama ID’d Ray Woods | 0648, music break: “Malcolm X” by Dennis Brown | 0649, Malcolm X’s daughter? […] 0658, ‘Malcolm studied the etymologies of words’ Indeed. We try to teach our kids everything we have learned, as well. In fact, your author may have taught his whole family about etymologies. I will never forget Mrs. Gates, my 8th grade English teacher at Borel Middle School in San Mateo, California. Mrs. Gates taught us how to study the etymologies of words. We kept a journal throughout the school year, in which we entered words, including analyses of the etymologies. It was eye-opening to learn that the language we knew as English was actually a big mixture of a bunch of other languages. The root words of English words were not just English. Many words have Greek or Latin roots, but also Germanic and Nordic. But, then, there’s a huge influx of French from the Norman invasions and whatnot. But, yes, indeed, young people: Always look up words you don’t know in a good dictionary. And not all dictionaries are created equal. Know their differences. Some are pocket versions, desk versions, big versions. Your author has pretty much stayed with American Heritage dictionaries at home (since high school); and Wiktionary online. So, remember: Always look up words you don’t know. (We used to write words down to look up later, when we had to use paper and writing implements, in the pre-digital world.) And, when you look up a new word, be sure to also look up the etymology. After a while, you’ll notice all of the usual patterns from Greek or Latin roots or whatnot. Before you know it, you’re a lexicon wizard.

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07:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein (rebroadcast from 26 FEB 2021) [TW] THIS IS A CRITICAL BROADCAST ABOUT POLITICAL PERSECUTION AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITY BY POLICE AGAINST FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. A 26-year old woman is facing 48 years in prison for working in her community for police accountability by exercising her Constitutional rights. […] 07:15 PST, “We were abducted [by the police].” ‘And we were held in for eight days, longer than law allows. But Aurora and such locales have never seen such protests.’ […] 07:20 PST, music break […] 07:24 PST, update on the US-Mexico-Central America borders […] 07:35 PST, Langston Hughes, archival audio.

The other day, I saw a truck on the road, which was emblematic of a ubiquitous type these days: White guys have been rockin’ beards for a while, since at least bands like My Morning Jacket and whatnot. The truck had decal symbolism: “WORKFORIT” read one decal. Also, a thin blue line flag was the center-piece. This seems like an obvious racist ‘Blue Wall’ symbol, which it is. But, when challenged, people with that flag simply say it’s not racist, that it’s about honoring officers, who died in the line of duty. But this is only one symbol. When scrutiny reaches a symbol, other more obscure and secretive symbols appear. The truck’s rear glas also had a Tennessee sticker with two flags, one is USA, the other is presumably a Tennessee flag. Decals on rear glass of 4×4 Toyota Tacoma. China = bad, Japan = good?

0800 wpfw […] 0823, LSB? […] arab show, ‘apocalyptic sci-fi cf. Vervaeke Awakening From the Meaning Crisis […] 0836, [TW] caller asked about program change. Manager said that’s personal? […] I called in

0900 Gary Null bias in Wikipedia [TW] gaslighting behaviors by Wikipedia bosses ‘#13 website in tye world

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10:00 PST, KPFA > Economic Update with Richard Wolff [TW] Fire, from Dr. Wolff. […] 10:33 PST, BET just said they’ll discuss “employment and re-employment”. Why no MMT? Why no job guarantee? Why no Dr. Stephanie Kelton, my former professor, former economic advisor to Bernie Sanders, now NY Times Bestseller, The Deficit Myth. Even ask Ice Cube. He tweeted about her book. […] 10:51 PST, BET just alluded to the pitfalls of confirmation bias, which, given the context of de facto suppression of MMT on KPFA and Pacifica, smacks of insidious evil. We must call them on this, by reaching out for an interview. […] 10:53 PST,

11:00 PST, KPFA > Voices of the Middle East and North Africa > Exposing Macron as an opportunist, fake leftist. This corroborated our take, especially after hearing Macron speak at the Munich Summit recently, last week, if memory serves. [Tw] experience of Arab brown folk in France is important to understand for brown folk struggle for freedom elsewhere, including USA. […] 11:42, ‘It’s all about repression. There is no interest in understanding. And this lack of confidence in Muslims is at the core of this new law [of censorship and repression] proposed by the Macron administration.’ […] 11:47 PST,

12:00 PST, KPFA > > News Headlines with Mark Mericle | Mericle just reported that ‘an airstrike hit Syria’. No mention of Mr. Biden. Why not, Mr. Mericle. Is this cover for the evils of the Democrat Party, which Malcolm X and Dr. King tried to warn us about? […] 12:06 PST, […] 1209, excerpt: Speaking Peace, Marshall Rosenberg. […] 12:18 PST, ongoing clip. […] 1238, ‘needs literacy’ and ‘feelings literacy’ we need a vocabulary to express our feelings. Again, all this is true at the interpersonal level. And when dealing with people in good faith. What can we say about people who deal in bad faith? Evil? Narcissistic abusers? Racists? Genocidal people? […] 12:49 PST, THIS IS A REBROADCAST. […] 12:50 PST, next clip from Marshall Rosenberg: ‘Use positive action words’ […] 12:57 PST, CS Soong just interpreted Marshall Rosenberg as holding the philosophical or theoretical or practical position that what is guilt-inducing is not non-violent. Perhaps. But if one feels guilt, and if one is deserving of said guilt, at least in the eyes of the observer, then one must feel the violence of the guilt. As Meredith Miller (Inner Integration) and others acknowledge: The only way to heal it is to feel it. And that means all of it, even the feedback from others. […] 13:02 PST,

1210, wbai, danny glover on Haiti and Haitian.

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13:00 PST, KPFA > Project Censored with Mickey Huff > We’re 99% sure this is a rebroadcast from last week. But please listen twice, even thrice! It’s that good. Real talk. […] 13:05 PST,

13:00 PST, WPFW > […] 13:07 PST, sincere- and honest-sounding voices. [TW] An interview with a “Little Mason”, a pre-teen-sounding entrepreneur selling love shirts at the local and black-owned Nubian Human located in D.C. Don’t support evil corporations, when good alternatives exist. […] 13:10 PST, ‘We’re about to make it real blackity-black on the Fantastic Friday Show.’ […] 13:11 PST, music break: dope hip hop vibes.

13:11 PST, WBAI > On the Ground | Yes! This is one of our Top Ten shows on Pacifica Radio. We hope to publish a Best of Pacifica list. […] 1327, Wow, Esther just articulated so much better what your author poorly tried to articulate to Mr. Robruken on the Robruken Podcast recently. […] 13:29 PST, ‘Angola’ ‘Capoera(sp?) combat sport, Brazilian style.’ […] ‘the Battle Royal’ (cf. Conan the Barbarian masculinity, we saw that movie heavily in the 1980s) ‘Bo Jack’ […] | 13:55 PST, News Headlines with Sue Goodwin. [TW]

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“Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity” by Academy of Ideas, 26 FEB 2021.

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14:00 PST, WPFW > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod > ‘Sojourner Truth Malcolm X Special on Saturday(?)’ [TW] It seems Malcolm’s case is open and “active”. This is glorious news, brother and sisters. This is how we win our freedom. We must fight for justice for our martyrs and our political prisoners. When the oppressor learns they can kill a revolutionary, but they can’t kill the revolution, that is the moment of kairos. That is the light at the end of the tunnel to freedom. […] 14:05 PST, […] News Headlines with Aileen Alfandary (KPFA News)

14:00 PST, WBAI > […] 14:08 PST, “Reggie and I will be pitching.” It sounds like Dr. Gary Null. ‘pineal gland’ ‘melatonin’ Indeed. We agree with Dr. Null on physiology, nutrition, and fitness. But we disagree with his blanket statements, or generalizations against communism. […] 14:18 PST,

14:00 PST, KPFT > […] 14:19 PST, ‘teaching hospital’ ‘trained Haitians’ ‘So, I’m delighted to be with all of you today and Lara Flynn(sp?) and Danny Glover.’ ‘struggle for freedom and democracy‘ ‘the Dr. Aristide foundation‘ […] 14:22 PST, […] N.B.: Danny Glover also discussed Haiti earlier today on WBAI. […] 14:23 PST, next speaker: Mrs. Aristide. [TW] […] 14:23 PST, It sounds like Sunsara Taylor. WBAI.org simply says, “Special”, in its description of this broadcast. (See screenshot above.) […] 14:28 PST, music break. […] Margaret Prescod just announced the name of the special. Apologies, it was roughly called, Independence for Haiti or something to that effect. Busy doing chores. Revolutionary struggle also involves taking out the trash, washing dishes, and other housekeeping (until we get more volunteers, lol). […] extended description of clinics established in Haiti […] 14:43 PST, ‘UNIFA board’ ‘commissioned’ Wait, is this Mrs. Aristide? Or is it someone reading her words? […] 14:45, ‘Dr. Ford, a Haitian-born doctor, who visits regularly, to speak on the health situation in Haiti. “Mildred, all I can say is wow, double wow.” ‘You really painted a picture like no one else can because you are living it. So, I will dispense with my prepared remarks because I am so inspired. I was born in Haiti. […] 14:47, ‘Haiti needed my money, but also my talent and skills.’ […] 14:48 PST, ‘I can say that after spending two of the hardest years of my life trying to save lives after the earthquake…’ […] ‘So, it became clear to me that I had to go back…’ […] ‘also to teach…’ […] ‘because a lot of babies were dying of very pedestrian medical problems’ […] 14:49, ‘Then, I had the privilege of meeting Mr. & Mrs. Aristide. And I learned of their bold vision. I was skeptical, but I thought, if anybody can do it, Mildred and President Aristide could do it.’ […] Indeed. But the US empire got rid of Aristide, didn’t they? […] 14:51 PST, ‘So, Haiti needs more doctors. So, we need medical schools. But, then, we need hospitals to train doctors in. Hence, the teaching hospital…’ […] 14:53 PST, next speaker, ‘Ira Kerzan(sp?)’, who has worked for decades fighting for human rights, including work with the Aristides. […] Haiti Emergency Relief Fund organized the webinar, said Margaret Prescod. […] 14:58 PST, the univ of Aristide Foundation, UNIFA, has opened a teaching hospital. The Aristides remain in exile. We remember Sean Penn going down to Haiti and endorsing a candidate, seemingly unaware of the Aristides in exile. […] 15:00 “an airstrike of questionable legality”, said Aileen Alfandary, a bit more honestly than Mark Mericle earlier today. Thankfully, Sonali Kolhatkar framed it even more honestly than that in her broadcast today on Rising Up.

15:00 PST, KPFA > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar > News with Sonali, highlights: KKK Act?| 300K sign 350.org petition to halt pipeline builds | Biden admin declassified CIA docs re: Kadhoggi Assassination | topic: ? […] 1512, ‘white-sounding guy was on with Sabrina Jacobs this morning.’ She’s legit. We met her back circa 2007, if memory serves.

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“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The German Ideology” by Epoch Philosophy, 26 FEB 2021.

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Day 35 | Sometimes, We Lower the External Volume to Hear the Internal, the Truth

23 Tue Feb 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Narcissism, Anti-Racism, Macroeconomic Analysis, Memoirs, Mindfulness

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LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Tuesday, 23 FEB 2021, 06:53 PST]  Susan Rogers is an educator and researcher, an expert in audio recording and, indeed, in the human aural experience. She takes the art of audio recording seriously. These paltry words, not afforded their proper drafting and redrafting, will have to suffice as a quick sketch of an idea Susan Rogers shared with us, which we now want to share with you. We refer to (an) excellent interview(s) Susan Rogers gave to the Prince Podcast. Susan Rogers is, perhaps, best known for her work with the young rising star of Prince Rogers Nelson, the musical genius from Minneapolis.

There is so much to share about those brilliant interviews, which will have to wait until another time. But the big takeaway for us, at Lumpenproletariat, was the bit where Susan Rogers talked about turning off all external inputs from time to time, to be able to hear the music inside. She said Prince would do that. Prince knew how to shut out the noise of the world to hear the beauty within.

Prince’s Controversy was the first album I ever bought, as a kid, a third-grader in California. Funk music was all around me, almost as far back as mariachi music. Such was the musical climate of Californian barrios in the 1970s. Brown people love Prince, almost as much as black people, maybe more. Maybe white people love Prince most, though, or, at least they were the ones, who ended up buying most of the concert tickets, it seems.

But Susan Rogers talked about influences and how we all strive to build on the shoulders of giants. Some of us remember losing ourselves for hours at brick-and-mortar wrecka stowes. But the danger is to become too fascinated with the external, with external validation, that we forget to hear our own internal voice, our own internal inspiration, which allows us to create something new and interesting and maybe even beautiful, maybe even valuable, maybe even life-affirming, life-advancing.

But if we never unplug, if we never turn off the algorithms of oppression, we will never again hear the internal, the eternal. We heard Ram Dass say something similar on Pacifica Radio recently: We become so fascinated with the things we’re aware of, such that we forget about awareness itself. At university, one of the big takeaways from a deeper reading of Adam Smith, under Dr. John Henry (UMKC Economics course, The History of Economic Thought), distilled the impartial observer. In Adam Smith’s important work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, we encounter the importance of having the ability to detach our awareness from our self, to observe our own behavior, as if from outside of ourselves, as an impartial observer. We strive toward self-awareness, without self-censorship, wisdom.

Mary Oliver gently reminded us, we don’t have to crawl across the desert upon thorns, repenting. We only have to let the soft animal within love what it loves.

Music is the easiest way for most people to meditate. Soon we learn to meditate without music. Soon we learn to meditate as we walk, or wash dishes. We reflect for respect. We reflect for dignity. We reflect for love.

“Colonized Mind” by Prince, 2009.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

Solidarity.

@LumpenProles, 14:28 PST

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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“Something In the Way” by Nirvana

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“About a Girl” by Nirvana

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“Private Idaho” by The B-52s

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“Money” by Suede

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“The Chemistry Between Us” by Suede

“Oh, Class A, Class B; Is that the only chemistry?“

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“Under Control” by The Strokes

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“The Tracks of My Tears” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

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Corazón Chicano… Brown-eyed soul…

“Smile now, Cry Later” by Sunny and the Sunliners

Red Power to Red People!

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“Confessin’ a feelin’” by Sly, Slick and Wicked

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Brown Power to Brown People!

“Making Ends Meet” by Thee Midniters (from East L.A.)

Black Power to Black People!

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“Ain’t No Big Thing” by The Radiants

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White Power to White People!

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“Chicano Power” by Thee Midniters.

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All Power to the People!

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08:00 PST, WPFW > 08:12 PST, real talk. “workshops” ‘ a magazine’ ‘a picture of some gangster rapper’ ‘but he was a fraud” wrote mcpherson. But McPherson was not honest.’

Bai 0815 TW Nam dilamumbo clearing the fog Margaret Flowers 0823, on new working class party and third party anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist politics 0855 pst, sue Goodwin: more killer cops? [TW]

0900 bai gary null show […] 09:28, ‘Well, I want people to get to slow cooking, slow eating, slow digesting.’ Indeed. But capitalist social relations value excess, as Dr. Null noted last Wednesday morning. That was such a great broadcast. It seems Dr. Null’s boss has commandeered The Gary Null Show today, perhaps, to keep Dr. Null in line, as he has a tendency to wander off the beaten path, get into the weeds, and expose some ugly or inconvenient truths or uncomfortable perspectives. But many of us tuned in for that, Ms. Linda Perry, over there at WBAI [NYC]. Please let Dr. Gary Null speak freely. It’s good that we’re discussing health and nutrition, as we all need to strengthen our microbiomes, mind-gut connections, mind-muscle connections, and immune systems. But what about all of this drug-pushing? Please ask Dr. Null about the controversial questions around the for-profit vaccine industry.

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11:00 PST, KPFK > music. […] new album of music from Willie Nelson coming out this week, on Friday. cf. ‘In the wee small hours of the night’. Willie Nelson has recorded a beautiful interpretation of the Frank Sinatra classic.

“Willie Nelson – THAT’S LIFE – coming February 26th!” by Willie Nelson, 12 DEC 2020.

12:00 PST, KPFK > It sounds like Jimi Hendrix, live?

12:00 PST, KPFA > ATG | News | […] ‘a geographer discusses a legacy’ […] “critical geography” […] 12:12, ‘struggles by people of color” “struggles by women” geographer ‘Rachel Brizinski(sp?)’ […] 1234, ‘Chicano activists in the ’60s’ […] ‘But now its a park’ […] 12:42, ‘We were very influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement’ […] ‘We talk about Alex Nieto Park. It was also a story of gentrification’ and police terrorism, or behavior, like the Spanish Inquisition, to send a message to the lumpenproletariat. This is what we can do to you, not only if you step out of line, but if we do. […] THIS IS A FUND DRIVE BROADCAST. PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO KPFA. PLEASE DONATE TODAY.

1300 KPFA > The Herbal Highway | topic: ‘medicinal plants from the African Continent used on the North American Continent.’ […] 13:10 PST,

13:00 PST, WBAI > Democracy Now! | […] 13:11 PST, ‘Dr. Spencer, on the half million dead Americans, who have died of COVID-19-related deaths’ […] 13:27 PST, ‘the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed existing ethnic (i.e., “racial”) disparities in the U.S.’ […] Amy Goodman: ‘Dr. Spencer, we’ve heard a lot about the horrors about the pandemic. What about the solutions? What about Medicare For All? […] 13:30 PST, ‘We need to be prepsred to make those health investments now.’ […] 13:30 PST, ‘Octavia Butler, she died 15 years ago this week.’ […] music break: ‘Walkin’ in your footsteps’ […] ‘Parable of the Sower is set in California in 2220?’ ‘She also wrote about racism, about fascism‘ […] ‘the mother of afro-futurism‘ […] 13:34 PST, How did you first start writing science fiction?’ […] I saw a bad movie and got into competition with it.’ ‘Devil Girl from Mars’

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16:00 PST, KPFA > Hard Knock Radio > Freedom Archive’ ‘Community ‘ […] ‘COINTELPRO’ […] ‘about “the movie”, Judas? […] 16:11 ‘Huey P Newton’ ‘dialectical materialism is about adapting to changing conditions’ […] 16:13, ‘it centered the story on the state’ […] ‘Fred, Jr. acknowledged that, yes… […]’ ‘The film exposed the lengths the state will go to smash black leadership.’ […] 16:15 PST, ‘We have an archive’ ‘as an alternative to what’s taught in schools, that can be drawn upon to create curricula.’ […] 16:17 PST, ‘How does COINTELPRO manifest itself today?’ […] ‘State violence […] is a history of conquest and slavery and expansion into northern Mexico, Guam, the Philippines, Hawai’i, understanding US imperialism. So, of course we see the police state and the carceral state as part of the empire. Why does this state align itself with the occupying forces of Zionist Israel at the expense of the indigenous Palestinians?’ […] ‘Before J. Edgar Hoover targeted Fred Hampton, Sr., he cut his teeth on Marcus Garvey.’ […] THIS IS A FUND DRIVE BROADCAST. PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO KPFA. […] 16:32 ‘BlackSolidarity.org‘ […] 16:43 PST, ‘Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt‘ […] ‘Claude Marx(sp?) and Tur Ha(sp?)’

16:00 PST, WPFW > […] 16:49 PST, real talk; lecture. Bad ass white-sounding lady on ‘the most revolutionary radical time since the 1930s’ […] mass incarceration of people of color, especially black people, after the Civil War and after the 1960s. […] Remembering Attaca., the Attica Rebellion. They said, we have found the answer. It’s called unity.’ […] 16:55 PST, Ann thom,author Blood In the Water. Sounds like Sunsara Taylor. Yes, it is. She’s such an awesome radio personality! […] 16:58 PST, Cierra Shine! We recall she invited callers on the air, in the Aftermath of the Sieges of State Capitols Around the Nation on January 6th. She let us plug our blog, Lumpenproletariat.org. ‘Remember, hunan nature is not the problem. It is the nature of the system that is the problem.’

17:00 PST, KPFA > Flashpoints > ENDELON (sp?) “Salvador Saramieto( ‘DB: ‘ We have a change in the administration. The hopes are high.’ Guest; “Sure.” ‘ a crisis of racism’ […] 17:18 PST,

17:00 PST, WBAI > […] 1754, ‘LSB Members’ What? LSB? We missed it? Archives? […] Kpftx.org, wed nar 10 7pm wed mar 17 7pm(?) Next wed | Next Report to the Listeners is on mar 31st […] 17:56 PST,

1700 PST, KPFT[HD2] > […] 1757, on the Sieges of State Capitols Around the Nation on January 6th | ‘squibbs'(?) ‘Babbit wheeled out with half-exposed breast?’ […]17:58 PST, ‘ritual mockery’ ‘default public consent’ | “THE great Reset” ‘The Most Dangerous Blog in the World’ ‘The Project for the New American Century’ […] ‘Ken Baine(sp?) ‘Welcom back to In Other News(sp?) Suddenly, the broadcast cut away to music, South Asian? No glitch. Clock says 18:00 PST. It must be automated?

18:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > First Voices Radio, all Native hosted, now in Apple Tunes, Spotify, etc. First Guest: Leona Morgan, Dineh, fighting nuclear colonialism since the ’90s. Haulno.com(?) Rad Monitoring. Org? Facebook? Cf. International Initiative: Don’t Nuke the Climate. […] 18:04 PST,

18:00 PST, KPFA > 18:17 PST, The first testimony ‘The Norfolk Memo’ ‘That report noted’ ‘be ready to fight’ ‘get violent’ ‘go there ready for war’ ‘we get our president or we die’ ‘Did you get that report?’ […] ‘No leadership, including myself got that report. […] ‘Roy Blunt‘ ‘Why would it take an hour?’ […] ‘I didn’t get that report until 2pm’ […] ‘conservative Federalist website’ […] ‘agent provocateurs turn unsuspecting marchers into an invading mob’ […] ‘But Klobichar(sp?) dismissed the theory’ […] | 18:21, ‘the Golden State Stimulus‘, ‘$600 checks’, including ‘farmworkers’ including “households of mixed status”. “And for that we are not ashamed; we are proud,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. […] $5-$20K small business grants.

19:00 PST, KPFA > East Bay Yesterday […] 19:22, BET pitch THIS IS A FUND DRIVE BROADCAST. PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO KPFA. PLEASE DONATE TODAY. […] 19:24, ‘The establishment of the police review board’ […] ‘It was really a PR move.’ ‘It was not set up to have real power.’ […] ‘It didn’t have subpoena power.’ […] 19:25 PST, BET […] 19:30 PST, back to the broadcast on ‘organizing around police violence’

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“Keiser Report | China Overtakes the U.S. (Yet Again) | E1662” by RT, 23 FEB 2021.

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“CPAC Chairman explains why they’re giving Trump a platform” by CNN, 23 FEB 2021.

“CNN’s Chris Cuomo questions CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp about giving former president Donald Trump a platform following the former President’s claims of election fraud.”

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“Do Not Go Gentle Intro That Good Night (Official Video), 23 FEB 2021.

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20:00 PST, KPFA > Sounds like Avotcja(sp?), celebrating the music if Deedee Bridgewater. […] ‘A Night In Tunisia’ […] ‘Nina Simone’s ‘Four Women’ […] 20:18 PST,

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A Night In Tunisia

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“Four Women” interpreted by Deedee Bridgewater.

“My skin is brown; my manner is tough…”

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“Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” by Prince.

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Please remember to pick up a good book and read it. Check out our reading list, if you’re looking for ideas. Solidarity.

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[23 FEB 2021]

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Transcript: Richard Medhurst Statement On Julian Assange Extradition Hearing Outside the Old Bailey

03 Sat Oct 2020

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Anti-War, First Amendment (U.S. Constitution), Freedom of the Press, Political Prisoners

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Thanks to @MaxBlumenthal for tweeting this concise statement by Richard Medhurst.

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—Below is our transcript of the public statement made by Richard Medhurst outside of the Old Bailey about the Julian Assange extradition hearing on Friday, October 2, 2020:

RICHARD MEDHURST: “The lack of access to journalists during this extradition trial is an abomination.  The lack of media attention is an abomination, even—not just among corporate media—but also independent news media. Some of them, even putting out statements saying that: Oh, where’s the attention on the Assange trial? And criticizing them, and then continuing not to cover the Assange hearing.

“This is an attack on press freedoms.  It’s an attack on whatever semblance of justice the UK system has. It’s a violation of EU law.  It’s a violation of UK law, US law, international law.

“And it’s a fucking abomination that we have Julian Assange put on trial for exposing war crimes.  We have Chelsea Manning that’s been tortured and then thrown back in jail for exposing war crimes, for uncovering mass graves of 15,000 Iraqis.  And the people, who committed these war crimes—Tony Blair, George Bush, Jack Straw—they’re all gone—Paul Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld.  We didn’t even hear their names once inside this goddamn courtroom. 

“You know, this might be the City of London.  But it’s the United States, that’s holding the gavel.  They’re the ones running this show.  And this is disgusting.

“And everything, that WikiLeaks did, and everything Julian Assange did, these were valid acts of anti-imperialism.  And they need to be portrayed as such.  And we need to recall the real crimes, that they exposed here.

“It’s not just an attack on the freedom of the press.  It’s an attack on the very lives of people, that are bombed everyday, the people that are killed every day.  We talk about them, like they’re ants or something.  This is unacceptable. 

“And they wanna make us feel sorry for imaginary informants, that were never hurt. And the United States, by its own admission, told us that no one was ever harmed by Wikileaks.  So, what’s going on here?

“This is a disgusting violation of Julian Assange’s human rights. This is a disgusting violation of journalistic freedoms and the freedom of the press.  And it’s an absolute mockery of any kind of semblance of justice in this country.  Thank you.”

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During the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, post-9/11, the US imperial military along with its minions, including the UK, committed war crimes. Julian Assange helped report these crimes exposed by video evidence provided by whistleblower Chelsea Manning. For these acts of humanitarian and anti-imperialist intervention, the US empire is extraditing Julian Assange to punish him, inquisition style, and make an example of him to anyone else, who has the nerve to engage in journalism, which exposes imperialism and war crimes.

Today, in 2020, we are witnessing the final step listed in Naomi Wolf’s 2007 book, The End of America, about the steps historically taken by nations in the past to close an open society, to go from a free society to a totalitarian society.

This final step described by Naomi Wolf is to subvert the rule of law. That is exactly what the US/NATO Empire is doing to international law right now with its inquisition of Julian Assange, as we’re distracted in the US by neocivil war, killer cops, racist thugs, plandemic authoritarianism, and economic collapse.

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[3 OCT 2020]

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