Polynesian Politics: Māori Indigenous History & Marxist Prison Abolition
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Emmy Rakete, a Māori communist and organizer from New Zealand, joins Breht to discuss Māori indigenous history in Polynesia, Marxism-Leninism, Prison Abolition, Colonialism, Climate Change, culture, and much more!
Learn about and support her prison abolitionist organization PAPA here: https://papa.org.nz/publications/
Read the free PDF version of the book "Abolitionist Demands" that she contributed to and recommended in the interview here: https://papa.org.nz/assets/bca4acc165/Abolitionist-Demands.pdf
Check out her podcast "Shit Hot People's Politburo" here: https://peoplespolitburo.com/blog/
Follow Emmy on twitter @cannibality
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host Anne Comrade Redo-Shei, and today we have on Emmy from New Zealand to talk |
| 0:13.6 | about Maori Indigenous politics as well as Marxist prison abolition. |
| 0:18.6 | Before we get into the interview though, I do want to make an announcement about a future |
| 0:22.0 | announcement. |
| 0:23.0 | A big announcement is coming this month about Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm going to include a radical restructuring of the Patreon account as well as the show itself. |
| 0:32.8 | It's going to include a RevLeft book club. |
| 0:35.8 | It's going to include a plethora of spin-off podcasts. |
| 0:38.8 | And I'll also add in that announcement, a piece where I can sort of deconstruct an anti-socialist argument made by Joe Rogan. |
| 0:45.8 | So it'll be like a big announcement plus a response to a really shitty anti-Marxist argument by Joe Rogan. |
| 0:51.8 | He has a huge platform, one of the biggest podcasts in the world. |
| 0:55.8 | And so when he says shit about Marxism and socialism, it's our duty to sort of respond to that. |
| 1:01.8 | So just be aware it's going to be in late September, the end of this month, and it's going to be really, really big. |
| 1:07.8 | And so we're excited about this. |
| 1:09.8 | A lot of weird shit has happened in my life that's allowing for this to occur. |
| 1:14.8 | So I just want to kind of give everybody a heads up that at the end of this month, |
| 1:17.8 | when something pops up in your feed, that's like 20 minutes long, and it's just entitled big announcement plus response to Joe Rogan. |
| 1:26.8 | To click on that and listen to it because it's going to be really detailed, |
| 1:29.8 | it's going to get out every new thing we're trying to do with the expansion of this platform and giving other comrades a platform that they otherwise might not have had. |
| 1:37.8 | So we're really excited about that. |
| 1:39.8 | Stay on the lookout for that. And as always, if you enjoy what we do here at Revolutionary Left Radio, |
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