Happy Black August!! The final episode of this very special Black August series, Revolutionary Baddies delves into this question of the future. Generally, each episode is dedicated to honoring powerful history but our visions for the future can be just as powerful. Grounding in the words of brother George Jackson, “If we fail through fear and lack of aggressive imagination, then the slaves of the future will curse us, as we sometimes curse those of yesterday. I don’t want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated..”. Who would you be if you were free? How can we envision our societies, hearts, minds, and behaviors beyond capitalism? So much of the violence, policing, punishment, colonization, and wars have been visions by people grounded in destruction and hegemony but what would the other side of this spectrum look like? We have the opportunity to bring the potential of a caring and just society to life, but we got to have VISION!!!

Question for our listeners-

Who would you be if you were free?

Links for the show: Season 1. Episode 13

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

A Few Rules For Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler

Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon

Founder of Zionism

The Neoliberalism of Public Spaces and the Infringement of Civil Liberties

Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara

Escuela Nacional de Arte(Cuba)

“I Wish I Knew What It Would Feel Like To Be Free” by Miss Nina Simone

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Happy Black August!! In the second episode of the very special Black August series, Revolutionary Baddies contend and bring to life a dialogue about political consciousness. A big, complex topic that spans across generations and often determines our future. In society, we often hear someone say, “I don't do politics.” or "I'm not the political type.”. In reality, what folks really mean is they are mentally and tangibly removed from politicians and what they do/don't do. However, this is only one way of navigating or engaging in politics. RB continues their Black August discussion focusing on notable writers, organizers, artists, and freedom fighters ideologies and how they practiced those ideologies. In the United States, McCarthyism and the “Red Scare” have systemically removed and villainized more progressive economic and social systems such as Socialism and Communism. Despite their best efforts, there are more young people supportive and in alignment with socialist values than in recent decades. In this episode, Brittany and Dee Dee manage to disrupt the stigma and propaganda surrounding these political frameworks and its very Black lineage. Check out our comprehensive resources and books to further our collective understanding.

Questions for our listeners:

What do you think is your current ideology?

How are you maturing your consciousness?

Links for the Show: Season 1. Episode 12

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Black Scare/Red Scare by Charisse Burden-Stelly

Life with Gracie: Why Black Babies in Cuba Have A Better Chance At Life Than Ours

Black Visions: The Roots of African-American Contemporary Ideologies

Why Im Not Voting by W.E.B. Dubois

The Master’s Tools by Audre Lorde

Left of Karl Marx by Carole Boyce Davis

African Blood Brother for African Liberation and Redemption

Fred Hampton and the Rainbow Coalition

Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases

Soundtrack to a Coup D’etat Documemtary

When W.E.B. Dubois was “Un-American” by Andrew Lanham

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Happy Black August!! Welcome to the beginning of Revolutionary Baddies Podcast Black August Series. This month, Brittany and Dee Dee have crafted a series of episodes dedicated to the Black August Tradition. Black August is an annual commemoration of Black radical resistance throughout our history. From the Nat Turner Rebellion to the attempted escape and assassination of political prisoner John Jackson. Black August is a necessary charge to the radical movement for more discipline, awareness, and education in the fight to free ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS and continue the struggle against colonialism. In this episode, RB makes the special announcement you’ve been waiting for but you gotta tap in. Black August is an opportunity for all of us to speak more clearly and learn more thoroughly what prison and police abolition could look like in this country and what our role is in it. Dee Dee shares some examples of abolition organizing happening and how the work of abolition is truly about building, not just destroying. The hope for the Black August is that the listeners walk away with a sense of pride in the traditions created by Black Americans for honoring our resistance, and a desire for building a more just future for all.

Questions for our listeners

For Black August:

• How are you fasting?
• What are you studying?
• How are you training?
• What are you fighting for?

Links for the Show: Season 1. Episode 11

Blood In My Eye by George Jackson

Soledad Brothers by George Jackson

Community Safety & Wellness Task Force

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz”

Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time Docuseries

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