Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay May 2013 SHOW

AUDIOS are from the May 5, 2013 broadcast of Radio Autonomía: RadioZapatismo in the Bay on Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1FM, livestream at Berkeley Liberation Radio

For todays show we wanted to present a conversation around 2 themes: Community Regeneration and Self determination. We define community regeneration as acts or practices that heal and empower communities to restore their dignity and build resiliency. We define self determination as practices of communities the look and learn from themselves, rather than the state, to articulate their own needs, desires, solutions and answers.

We situate this conversation of resistance within capitalism’s ability to isolate and destroy individuals and communities through 2 major forces: The predatory lending or debt institutions and the Prison Industrial Complex.

In the first part of our show we look at the notion of “debt” and how it keeps us isolated and ashamed. What if we began to reframe the conversation of debt without the state being the one we owe or are obligated to? What if we were in debt or obligated to our neighbors or community members? How do we build relationships of obligation and trust In the first part of our show we talk to STRIKE DEBT a national coalition built out of Ocuppy that looks to build a popular resistance to all forms of debt imposed on us by predatory lending institutions.

In the second part of our show we explore how the prison industrial complex isolates and criminalizes individuals both on the outside and inside of the prison walls. We look to 2 community organizers from (All of Us or None and the Prison Hunger Solidarity Coalition and The Oakland Community Medics), to share analysis of and shed light to the effects of the PIC in communities of color and low income communities. We hope to then share strategies from communities that are finding new ways to restore dignity through solidarity with those on the inside.

We see these conversations as, one, a challenge to reformist approaches that reinforce symbolic and physical violence in our communities and, two, rejecting the isolating effects of capital by creating spaces of community convergence to support each other.

To listen to the audio from the show, click on the links below.

1. Full Show

2. Strike Debt Interview

3. Interview with Organizer Manuel La Fontain (All of Us or None and Prison Hunger Solidarity Coalition) and Author and Activist Anita Wills (Oakland Community Medics)

For information about the featured stories, check out these links:

Part 1:

Strike Debt Bay Area

Part 2:

Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity

All of Us or None

Anita Wills’s book: Black Minqua The Life and Times of Henry Green

Facebook Page for my son Kerry Baxter Senior

Petition: We Demand Freedom An Investigation into the Wrongful Conviction of Kerry Baxter Senior

Anita Wills’s Facebook Page

Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay April 2013 SHOW

AUDIOS are from the April 7, 2013 broadcast of Radio Autonomía: RadioZapatismo in the Bay on Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1FM, livestream at Berkeley Liberation Radio

We want to frame April’s show by referencing John Hollaway’s recent book “crack capitalism”. In this book he states in order to break the current system of capitalism we have to “break it in as many ways as we can and try to expand and multiply the cracks and promote their confluence ( or merging)”. He then goes further to describe cracks as  ”the perfectly ordinary creation of a space or moment in which we assert a different type of doing.”  We hope to archive and share the resonances of people, movements and spaces that are imagining a different type of doing, a doing that rejects the behaviors and systems that capitalism produces.

In order to understand a bit more of what cracks are and what revolution and autonomous struggles look like today we will start off with an Interview with John Hollaway. We were able to meet up with him During his recent visit to San Francisco, where he presented a three part lecture series titled “After Capitalism.”

In documenting and sharing current “cracks” we look to the Zapatistas and read a brief synopsis of the new parts to their communique entitled “ellos y nosotros” or “them and us.” We will then hear audio from Gloria Munoz and Laura Carlson’s current speaking tour “Chaos and Grassroots Mobilizations in Mexico.”

For the 2nd part of our show we focus on how communities and individuals are producing and converging cracks within the United States. We will start with a live phone interview with the Coalition of Immokalee workers and the Student Farmworker Alliance about their recent 200 mile march for Rights, Respect and Fair Food. We then will hear from a critical poet, hip hop and spoken word artist; Boca Floja. We were able to attend a spoken word event at the Hold-Out in which Boca Floja shares some of his recent poems and reflects on their anti-colonial  and anti-capitalist implications.

Finally, we have  audio of John Holloway’s “After Capitalism” lecture series hosted by the Anthropology and Social Change Department at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco March 26-28. Below please find the audio for the three lectures.

 To listen to the audio from the show, click on the links below.

1. Full Show

2. Interview with John Holloway

3. Chiapas Update

4. Gloria Munoz Talk

5. Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Student Farm Worker Alliance Interview

6. Boca Floja

For information about the featured stories, check out these links:

Quilombo Arte
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Student Farmworker Alliance

 

 

“After Capitalism” Lecture Series:

1. Who We Are

2. Capital: The Social Cohesion that Strangles Us

3. We are the Crisis of Capitalism

Interview with John Holloway: The Meaning of Revolution & Autonomous Struggle Today

During his recent visit to San Francisco, where he presented a three part lecture series titled “After Capitalism,” we had the opportunity to meet with John to talk a bit about the meaning of revolution and autonomous struggle today.

Click HERE to listen to the complete interview

 

 

 

For audios of John Holloway’s complete lectures in San Francisco, check in on our website: radioautonomia.wordpress.com

For more information about his work, visit his website: johnholloway.com.mx

“Urban Zapatismo” & “After Capitalism”: Upcoming Events with John Holloway in San Francisco (March 26-28)

John Holloway (author of Crack Capitalism and Change the World Without Taking Power) will be in San Francisco March 26-28 for a series of lectures  ”After Capitalism” at the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS).

The lectures will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 26-28, 7.00-9.00 p.m. Namaste Hall at CIIS  <http://www.ciis.edu/Academics/Graduate_Programs/Anthropology_and_Social_Change.html>

Arrangements have also been with comrade Holloway for a conversation about Urban Zapatismo  on Thursday 3/28, 2.00-4.00 p.m. room 560, at the CIIS.
We hope that this additional space will be an opportunity for our Bay Area Zapatista solidarity community to converge and compare notes about our efforts at solidarity work and, at times, our successes in going beyond solidarity. Given the recent mobilizations by the Zapatistas, we imagine a spirited discussion about the challenges of urban Zapatismo.
Please join us!

Please check out Acción Zapatista South Bay’s Zapatismo digital archive at <http://cril.mitotedigital.org/zapatismo>

Audio from Event with BOCAFLOJA & Jorge González

“De diáspora, colonia, melanina, y otras rimas: Race Relations in Latin America & Counter-hegemonic Cultural Production”
Dialogue, Spoken Word Presentation, Q&A with:

Bocafloja (poet & hip-hop artist from Mexico City)
&
Jorge González (researcher on Afromexican politics)

The event started with a presentation by Jorge González on the construction of AfroMexican identity. This was followed by a spoken word set by Bocafloja, which included a piece by surprise guest Cambio (MC from Watsonville). We closed out the night with a Q&A and dialogue with the audience.

Click on the links below to hear the AUDIO:

1. Full Event Audio: Jorge González & Bocafloja

2. Bocafloja Spoken Word Set

                              Big thanks to The Holdout crew for hosting us!

The Holdout Crew with Bocafloja, Cambio & Jorge González

Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay MARCH 2013 SHOW

AUDIOS are from the March 3rd, 2013 broadcast of Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay on Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1FM, livestream at http://www.berkeleyliberationradio.net

 

Our show for March 3, 2013 is organized in 2 parts.

In the first part we hear updates and analysis about current movements happening in Mexico. We begin with an interview with Simón Sedillo from ManoVuelta Films about his new documentary “Guarda Bosques”; a report from DJ Plebe about the Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his new appointment at Harvard University; and audio with Pablo Obando from FrayBa Center for Human Rights in Chiapas about political prisoners and self defense in Chiapas from their recent speaking tour in the US.

The second part of our show features updates and audios from collectives and movements in the United States. We will hear an interview with the Foxy 6 Defense Team about repression against Zapatista Supporters in LA; an announcement from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers; and finally Audio from a Critical Resistance event: “Stong Minds, Strong Movements” celebrating the release of the current issue of The Abolitionist.

To listen to the audio from the show, click on the links below.

1. Full Show

2. Interview with Simon Sedillo (ManoVuelta Films) about “GuardaBosques” documentary

3. DJ Plebe Report about Felipe Calderón at Harvard

4. Audio from Pablo Obando (FrayBa Center Chiapas) Speaking Tour

5. Interview with Foxy6 Defense Team (LA) about Repression against Zapatista Supporters

6. Coalition of Immokalee Workers Announcement

7. Audio from Critical Resistance Event: “Strong Minds, Strong Movements”

 

 

Audio from Critical Resistance Event: “Strong Minds, Strong Movements” Celebrating the release of 19th issue of The Abolitionist

On Feb 25th the Oakland Chapter of Critical Resistance held an event at the East Side Cultural Center to celebrate the release of the 19th issue of the Abolitionist: a publication dedicated to the abolition of the strategy and practice of the prison industrial complex. The event was titled “Strong Mind Strong Movements “ and invited people to join in on a discussion about how policing, surveillance and imprisonment compromise our mental health and the ways that organizing can keep us connected, healthy and strong. CR had invited Azadeh Zohrabie of Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, Aurora Lopez of Xicana Moratorium Coalition and Claude Marks, former political prisoner and founder of Freedom Archives.

The first audio below is the entire audio from the event. The 2nd audio is a segment of the event that will be aired on Berkeley Liberation Radio for our March show. The audio begins with an introduction by Isaac Ontiveros and Rachel Herzig of Critical Resistance framing the night and breaking down the theme and importance of this current issue of The Abolitionist. The second part of the audio is Aurora Lopez, Azdeh Zhorabie and then Claude Marks answering the questions:“when you think about some of the impacts of imprisonment, surveillance and the prison industrial complex are on our health and wellbeing, especially our psychological and mental health and what do you think of?” and “what are some of the things that contribute to our resilience and our ability to stay healthy?”

To Subscribe to the Abolitionist check out The Abolitionist

To find out more about Critical Resistance check out their website: criticalresistance.org/

Click here to listen to the entire audio of the event

Click here to listen to a edited segment of the event that will be aired on Radio Autonomia’s March Show