First of all, SPOILER ALERT (11:08-16:59)! Revolutionary Baddies start this episode with a little discussion of Sinners- the greatest movie of 2025. What was highlighted in Sinners serves the discussion of how we relate to each other and embody a sense of community despite the circumstances. It also highlights the need for organizing. Not closets and arranging wardrobes, but moving people into action with values and principles in the face of uncertainty. But how do you organize? What constitutes an organizer? Luckily, one of the host of this podcast is a community organizer with experience from the local, statewide, and national level. She discusses the difference between mobilizing and organizing while pulling examples and leaders from historical movements in the US. Dee Dee shares the story of what brought Durham Beyond Policing to life, and how the campaign met the moment in 2016 and brought in multiple fights for critical demands to win. This episode is an opportunity to hear directly from an organizer the beauty and challenge of transforming communities to change our conditions. We need power. We need community. But how?

Questions for our listeners:

If you were to build a new community, what would it look like? How would you act?

What is community?

Links for the Show: Season 1. Episode 9

Irish Republican Army(IRA)

Eyes On The Prize Docuseries

Royal Ice Cream Parlour Sit-In

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Mortal Man- Kendrick Lamar

Soweto Uprising

Children’s Crusades March

Student Nonviolent Coordinator Committee

Fred Hampton’s Assasination

Kwame Ture on Mobilization and Organization

Ella Baker Organizes NAACP Chapters in the South

Southerners On New Ground

Demanding Justice for Chuy

Durham Beyond Policing

I Write What I Like by Steve Biko

Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean

Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism by Stokely Carmichael(Kwame Ture)

Disarm: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America by Kristin A. Goss

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