Jacobin Radio

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.<wbr />suntimes.com/2020/6/8/<wbr />21284037/chicago-police-<wbr />department-unfunding-cpd-city-<wbr />council-budget

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Ana's out this week, June 6, 2020, but we have the writer Touré Reed to discuss recent protests, Amy Cooper, and race essentialism.Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLkBrooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooksKasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

Suzi talks to Philip V. McHarris about defunding and disbanding the police. Just two weeks ago the call to defund the police would have been thought of as hopelessly utopian. Now, after the public lynching of George Floyd on May 25, that demand is part of the national conversation. Mayor Garcetti in Los Angeles, along with mayors elsewhere, has said he'll redirect $250 million from the LAPD police to jobs, health, and other programs supporting communities of color. That would have been unthinkable before demonstrators marched to his house with one demand: "Defund the Police." The Minneapolis City Council has announced with a veto-proof majority that it will disband the police and start over. We get insights and innovative ideas for reform fromMcHarris, who has written widely on the questions of race, policing, and the criminal justice system.

Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, on why cops are being so brutal and what should be done with them. Then, Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logicmagazine, on tech worker organizing (essay here).

Antibody is a narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all.In this episode:The Corner (featuring Pablo Alvarado and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network)Stranger Pleasure (featuring Samuel Delany; produced by David Gutherz)One House in Oakland (produced by Sophie Kasakove)Role Call (produced by Andrea Long Chu)Support day laborer economic survival with a contribution at ndlon.org

Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed.Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn.orgCheck out Malaika's short film Left Out.

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. The guest on May 30, 2020: culture writer at The Athletic, Wosny Lambre on the protests against police brutality, politics in the NBA, and more.Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLkBrooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooksKasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparianLambre on Twitter https://twitter.com/BigWos

Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all.In this episode:Zoom Canvass (featuring Nikil Saval)Hardwood Flesh (produced by Ari Mejia)Dial 3 to Admit Your Personal Failure (produced by Ian Lewis and Caroline Kanner)You Can't Go Home Again (written by Alex Press)The International Trans Person Helpline (produced by Cass Adair and Arlie Adlington)

We talked with longtime socialist thinker Leo Panitch about key socialist concepts beyond the basics. The conversation is based on Leo's book The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders (coauthored with Sam Gindin and Stephen Maher). You can read Eric Blanc's review of the book here: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />2020/05/the-socialist-<wbr />challenge-today-corbyn-sanders You can buy the book here: https://www.<wbr />haymarketbooks.org/books/1473-<wbr />the-socialist-challenge-today And you can watch Leo's lecture on Ralph Miliband here: https://www.youtube.com/<wbr />watch?v=oBJR3xfmgA4

From The Dig and Jacobin: a new narrative series about how COVID-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. The first of three episodes is coming soon.