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Class is in session. Interdependent Study is about the learning and unlearning work for social justice and collective liberation. Interdependent Study is hosted by Damien Franze, an angry Black man from Baltimore who wears his heart on his sleeve, and Aaron Hood, an angry white man from Florida who is always thinking. We’re two friends who work in education and share a commitment to social justice. People constantly learn and unlearn by reflecting on their experiences. Interdependent Study is designed to be a community for this work.
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- 2 days ago40 min
Organized People Beat Organized Money
We’ve got a special episode this week! Organized people power played a huge role in the midterm election’s blue wave rebuke of the Trump administration and rampant authoritarianism present throughout our country. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss Aaron’s recent organizing experience with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) to support William Lawrence’s successful campaign for Michigan’s 7th District, and what we learn and take away from Aaron’s experience in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
- 1 weeks ago22 min
Healthcare & Copaganda
With the increased presence of ICE in our cities, schools, and health care facilities, it is more important than ever for the media, journalists, and health care workers to avoid copagandist rhetoric and activity for the safety and well-being of our communities. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the resource “Don’t Be A Copagandist: Health Care Workers Edition” by Interrupting Criminalization, which serves as a guide for the media, journalists, and health care workers (and all of us) on challenging copaganda when discussing law enforcement and criminalization in and around hospitals and health care spaces, and what we learn and take away from this incredible resource in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
- 2 weeks ago31 min
Policing, Capitalism, & Abolition
Policing (and the police state) is deeply connected to and intertwined with capitalism, imperialism, and anti-Black racism. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition by brian bean (and published by Haymarket Books), which explores and analyzes the history and roots of policing in global capitalism around the world, how policing is intertwined with the institutions of capitalism, imperialism, and racism, and the need for the revolutionary abolition of policing and capitalism for our collective safety and liberation, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.Follow us on social media and visit our website!Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
- 3 weeks ago28 min
Democrats Woke Socialist Panic
The leadership of the Democratic Party is way too focused on the surge of support for left-wing and democratic socialist candidates as opposed to the fascist administration running the country. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “The Democrats’ ‘Woke’ Panic and the Left’s Response”, featuring a conversation between the Hammer & Hope team with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Hammer & Hope, which explores and analyzes the Democratic Party establishment’s fear about the fact that its base is embracing and leaning towards more left-wing and democratic socialist politics and candidates, as well as the best path forward for how we should organize today, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece and conversation in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.Follow us on social media and visit our website!Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
- Oct 14, 202626 min
Local Money Feeding Corporate Power
There are so many ways that we are financially contributing to corporate power and the oppression economy through our collective money. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “How Our Money Feeds Corporate Power”, featuring a conversation between Emanuel Nieves (Liberation in a Generation), Sue Holmberg (Institute for Local Self-Reliance), and Lenore Palladino (University of Massachusetts Amherst) in The Forge (in collaboration with Liberation in a Generation), which explores and analyzes the ways in which our individual, collective, and government monies are contributing to the strength and impact of corporate power and the oppression economy across the country, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece and conversation in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. (This is our fifth episode this year discussing The Forge’s Corporate Power series. Check out our other episodes wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.) Follow us on social media and visit our website!Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
- Oct 7, 202623 min
Flock, Surveillance, and Data Leaks
Surveillance technology from Flock Security has been installed across the country and is being used in suspicious and dangerous ways by law enforcement agencies. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the pieces “Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around” by Sam Biddle and “Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline” by Nikita Mazurov in The Intercept, which highlight and analyze the existence and use of 120,000+ cameras and additional supplemental devices by Flock Security all across the country, the troubling ways law enforcement agencies are using this surveillance technology, and the impact of a cybersecurity researcher’s camera map on the state of Flock’s operations and data security effectiveness, as well as the concerns about and impact of this surveillance technology on our privacy and safety, and what we learn and take away from these incredible pieces in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
- Sep 30, 202631 min
Zombies & Racial Othering
There is a clear connection between zombies and foreign bodies—the racialized Other—in our media, pop culture, politics, and society, especially in the aftermath of the September 11th Attacks. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the pieces “Post-9/11 zombie terrorism” and “Zombies at the border” by Sherronda J. Brown in Scalawag, which highlight and analyze the history, role, and impact of the concept of the zombie racial Other in our media, pop culture, politics, and society, and what we learn and take away from these incredible pieces in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
- Sep 23, 202628 min
Build Relationships, Fight Structures
There’s so much to learn from the life, work, and legacy of civil rights activist, organizer, and lawyer Walter Riley. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley, edited by Jesse Strauss (and published by AK Press), which features a conversation between Walter Riley and Jesse Strauss in which Riley shares political reflections and lessons from eight decades of his own movement work, and a discussion of the importance of relationship- and coalition-building and political action in our personal and collective organizing, activism, learning, and reflection work, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.Follow us on social media and visit our website! Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
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Class is in session. Interdependent Study is about the learning and unlearning work for social justice and collective liberation. Interdependent Study is hosted by Damien Franze, an angry Black man from Baltimore who wears his heart on his sleeve, and Aaron Hood, an angry white man from Florida who is always thinking. We’re two friends who work in education and share a commitment to social justice. People constantly learn and unlearn by reflecting on their experiences. Interdependent Study is designed to be a community for this work.
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