Jacobin Radio

Suzi talks to two student activist/leaders of #StudentsDeserve, Sarah Djato at Dorsey high school, and Asia Bryant, who just graduated from Hamilton High, about their organizing, in partnership with Black Lives Matter LA, to defund school police and reallocate the money ($70 million of the LAUSD budget) to bring in counselors, services, and programs that serve black and brown youth as “students, not suspects.” That idea has now been endorsed by UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles), and will be taken up at the LAUSD School Board meeting this week. Suzi then talks to Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist, former US Attorney Harry Litman to discuss AG William Barr and President Trump against Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Friday night Barr announced Berman would resign, but Berman refused, and Saturday afternoon Trump fired Berman. But it doesn’t stop there, and Harry Litman helps us understand the dizzying array of legal and practical questions this raises. We also talk to Harry about the surprising decision on the Bostock v. Clayton Country Georgia case announced last week that saw our very conservative Supreme Court come to an unexpected rule, by a vote of 6-3 that says Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status — a hugely significant result.

Eric Reinhart on jails as COVID-19 spreaders (article here, AER article on pretrial detention here). Then, Erin Hatton on “coerced” workers, from prisoners to grad students.

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. The episode from June 20, 2020, features Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa is a Country and associate professor of international affairs at The New School, to discuss recent BLM protests and their links to protests in Africa.Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLkBrooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooksKasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

A Dig special: the recording of a Zoom forum Dan hosted with leading defund police organizers from around the country. For more info:blackvisionsmn.orgbyp100.orgdaretowin.orgreclaimRI.orgblmla.orgIf you live in RI, support the fight for a people's budget: actionnetwork.org/petitions/say-no-to-a-brutal-austerity-budget-in-rhode-islandDan's essay on Trump's origins in ordinary bipartisan security politics: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus

In this episode, we talk with historian and socialist-feminist Sheila Rowbotham about her own political and intellectual development. Rowbotham was a close friend of Edward and Dorothy Thompson, a participant in the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and a prominent political writer and historian. We also discuss Chapters 12 and 13: the different meanings of discipline in working-class life, the Irish presence, and class-struggle elections in ninteenth-century Westminster.References:Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, and Lynne Segal, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (https://books.google.com/<wbr />books/about/Beyond_the_<wbr />Fragments.html?id=<wbr />OlYqAAAAYAAJ&source=kp_book_<wbr />description)Sheila Rowbotham, Woman's Consciousness, Man's World (https://www.versobooks.com/<wbr />books/1768-woman-s-<wbr />consciousness-man-s-world)Sheila Rowbotham, Women, Resistance, and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World (https://www.versobooks.<wbr />com/books/1558-women-<wbr />resistance-and-revolution)Sheila Rowbotham, Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (https://www.plutobooks.com/<wbr />9780904383560/hidden-from-<wbr />history/)"How Science Can Tell If Your Great-Grandparents Were Strikebreakers" https://www.<wbr />motherjones.com/environment/<wbr />2014/12/inquiring-minds-<wbr />christine-kenneally/Black Dwarf https://www.marxists.<wbr />org/history/etol/newspape/<wbr />black-dwarf/index.htm

Antibody is a narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. In this episode: All Cops Are Idiots (featuring Kafui Attoh, you can buy his book here: ugapress.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;book/9780820354217/rights-in-&lt;wbr /&gt;transit) A Few Basic Demands (produced by Chenjerai Kumanyika (twitter.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;catchatweetdown) After the Peak (by Karim Sariahmed (twitter.com/sariahmed<wbr />), along with Alex Azan, Belicia Ding, Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko , Vanessa K. Ferrel, Michelle Gonzalez, Musaub Khan, and Marc Shi) What We Talk About When We Talk About Mutual Aid (produced by Jackson Roach and Caroline Kanner (twitter.com/_&lt;wbr /&gt;idontCaroline) Get in touch with DCH1 Amazonians United (facebook.&lt;wbr /&gt;com/DCH1United) Support Put People First! Pennsylvania (putpeoplefirstpa.org) The mutual aid groups featured in this episode include: Ground Game LA (groundgamela.org) K Town For All (ktownforall.org) The Red Nation (therednation.org) <wbr />Brave Space Alliance (bravespacealliance.org) and the Indigenous Kinship Collective (indigenouskinshipcollective.&lt;wbr /&gt;com). Further reading on mutual aid: Regan De Loggans' mutual aid zine (mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;wp-content/uploads/2020/05/&lt;wbr /&gt;LOGGANS-mutual-aid-zine.pdf) The complete text of Kropotkin's book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (theanarchistlibrary.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-&lt;wbr /&gt;aid-a-factor-of-evolution) Mutual Aid Hub (mutualaidhub.org)

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This week, June 13, 2020, features the socialist councilwoman from Seattle, Kshama Sawant, who has been active at the recently formed Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLkBrooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooksKasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

Dan interviews returning guests Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the long history behind the crisis of American imperial legitimation that has become so manifest amid the pandemic.Some works by Bâli and Rana cited in this interview:bostonreview.net/war-security-politics-global-justice/asl%C4%B1-u-b%C3%A2li-aziz-rana-sanctions-are-inhumane%E2%80%94now-and-alwayslawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/constitutionalism-and-american-imperial-imaginationPlease support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Chapters ten and eleven — "Standards and Experiences" and "The Transforming Power of the Cross" — plus guest Jane Humphries, professor of economic history at Oxford University.Supplementary Reading:Jane Humphries. ChildhoodandchildlabourintheBritishIndustrialRevolution(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

The demand to "defund the police" has become central to the protests that have kicked off all around the United States over the last two weeks. We talked with Chicago socialist city council members Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez and Jeanette Taylor about it. Rodriguez-Sanchez and Taylor are two of the four coauthors of the op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times calling to defund the police, which you can read here: https://chicago.&lt;wbr /&gt;suntimes.com/2020/6/8/&lt;wbr /&gt;21284037/chicago-police-&lt;wbr /&gt;department-unfunding-cpd-city-&lt;wbr /&gt;council-budget