Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments:
African-Americans and the Bomb: When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community had no history of protest against the bomb. That, he quickly discovered, was completely false. The Black community, in fact, has a long and rich history of organizing for peace and against nuclear weapons going back to Black radicals WEB DuBois and Paul Robeson during the early post WWII era. Patricia Kullberg speaks with Dr. Intondi, who traces peace activism among African-Americans over decades, how they linked the bomb to racism and colonialism, the ways they were smeared as communist dupes and how that generated splits within the movement. Dr. Intondi is the author of African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism and the Black Freedom Movement. He is the Executive Director of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and a research scholar at Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and has over twenty years of grassroots organizing, academic, and NGO experience.
For a Tax Strike to Shut Down ICE: With the federal government being steadily transformed into a pain, death, and detention delivery machine, the taxes we pay are quite literally imperiling us. With Tax Day still a good three months away, Desiree Hellegers explores the case for the strategic power, moral imperative, and fundamentals of mass federal tax resistance, alongside other mass mobilizations to shut down and abolish ICE.
Campus Police in the ICE Age: Kate Petersen, President of Students for Justice in Palestine at Washington State University Vancouver, discusses campus safety. In remarks from a recent campus event, she explains why abolishing ICE should also entail abolishing the police, and how real public safety means community solidarity.
Book Mole: Thirsty Creek: Recent history is full of examples of humans messing with nature in order to increase profits, only to cause lasting ecological damage that wasn’t taken into account. The mystery novel Thirsty Creek, by Portland lawyer and writer Jennie Bricker, reviewed by writer and photographer Matt Witt, draws from an actual example of that here in Oregon.