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The Katie Halper Show

Mark Ames, Yasha Levine On Russian Coup & Omali Yeshitela On Being Indicted For Free Speech

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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To hear the rest of my discussion with Mark Ames & Yasha Levine, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/mark-ames-yasha-85348916 Mark Ames and Yasha Levine talk about what just happened in Russia. What do we even call it? A coup? A mutiny? What do we need to know about The Wagner Group and Yevgeny Prigozhin? But first Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess, and Leonard Goodman talk about the indictment of the Uhuru Movement and African People's Socialist Party and why this targeting threatens free speech and The First Amendment. Chairman Omali Yeshitela leads the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement. He has organized for black power for over 50 years, beginning with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee registering black people to vote in the '60s. He has traveled the world building the movement for African unification and liberation, establishing relations of solidarity with anti-colonial struggles. He is the primary target of current U.S. government charges of "sowing discord" at the behest of a foreign government. Penny Hess is Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee which she has led since its founding in 1976. She has built an international movement for reparations from the white community, working under the leadership and at the behest of the APSP. She is author of the book, "Overturning the Culture of Violence" and another of the Uhuru 3 facing federal charges. Leonard Goodman is the attorney representing Penny Hess, one of the Uhuru 3. Goodman is a distinguished criminal law attorney based in Chicago who has won high profile and precedent-setting cases including in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Illinois Supreme Court. He is a prolific published columnist covering legal and social justice topics and teaches Federal Criminal Law at DePaul University. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He's the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," "A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley," "The Koch Brothers: A Short History" and "The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell." He's the co-host of The Russians podcast and writes at https://yasha.substack.com/ Mark Ames is a journalist and writer who lived in Moscow for 13 years. for He co-hosts the podcast Radio War Nerd with John Dolan. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New York Press and GQ. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy

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0:36.7

Hi everyone, welcome to the Katie Helper Show, so excited to be here with you.

0:44.5

We have a great show for you today.

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We are going to be talking to journalists Yasha Levine and Mark Ames about the failed

0:52.5

mutiny kicked off by the Wagner group that has already been kind of resolved.

0:58.6

We're going to get into that what it means, what it meant, what the current state of affairs

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there is now and it's changing every second, so we'll try to keep you as updated as possible.

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It's going to be a great discussion, especially because Yasha Levine is himself Russian

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American and Mark Ames spent 13 years living in Moscow on and off.

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But before we talk about the war, the proxy war in Ukraine, we're going to be talking

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about a war here, right here at home, a war on free speech and political dissent.

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We're going to be talking to members of the who movement and the African people socialist

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party.

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People probably know because we've covered this before, but they've been charged with

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showing discord and weaponizing free speech and they've been accused of being Russian

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agents.

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