Huey P. Newton Gun Club - Alpha Company: Self-Defense and Community Organizing

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 10 November 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Breht talks with Yafeuh Balogun and Steven from the Huey P Newton Gun Club - Alpha Company about their organizing, armed self-defense, police brutality, the theory of intercommunalism, anti-fascism, survivalism, and much more!

Check out, learn about, and support the Huey P. Newton Gun Club here: https://hueypnewtongunclub.org/

Outro Music: 'Sharp Shooters' by Talib Kweli & Dead Prez

Check out Talib's music and podcast here: www.talibkweli.com/

Check out Dead Prez here: www.deadprezblog.wordpress.com/blog/

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:09.4	Today we have a special episode for you.
0:11.4	We have Yafal Balagoon and Steven from the Huey P. Newton Gun Club Alpha Company on the
0:17.2	show to talk about their organization, some of the programs they run, their influences,
0:23.1	intercommunalism as a theory and fascism, the collection in 2020 and much more.
0:29.2	Really great conversations, long overdue, I've wanted to talk to these comrades for a very
0:33.0	long time so I'm happy that we can finally do it.
0:36.1	Just at the end when we really get into strategies for moving forward, they make a point to say
0:42.3	coordination is so important, coordination regionally, coordination nationally between
0:47.7	armed left groups but just left groups broadly even to have that coordination.
0:52.2	Those connections are incredibly important.
0:54.7	They also wanted me to mention because I don't think we got to it in the episode itself.
0:58.3	They just wanted to clear up any confusion that the Huey P. Newton Gun Club Alpha Company
1:02.7	is not just for one race, right?
1:04.8	They want to push back on any notions of separatism or more black supremacism and they want
1:10.4	to reiterate this fact that they are proletarian internationalists and they're down to work with
1:16.2	anybody who is principled and wants to work with them.
1:19.6	That is the primary reason that we formed the Alpha Company was to aim away from separatism
1:26.2	and nationalism and move more towards inner Communalism but also we wanted to make sure
1:31.0	that people know that this is an open organization as far as membership is concerned.
1:34.9	It doesn't matter about race or ethnicity, orientation, identity or any of those things.
1:41.0	If you believe in organizing and revolution then we welcome you as a member.
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