The Dig: Radicalizing Jackson with Chokwe Antar Lumumba

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🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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It's yet the latest installment in our ongoing series on the Left and electoral politics. Dan’s guest is Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Last year, Mayor Lumumba pledged to make Jackson "the most radical city on the planet." Lumumba, who comes out of a decades-old revolutionary black nationalist movement, is serious about that. But he also faces challenges: Jackson is a majority black city which, like many such cities, has much of its wealth appropriated by its largely white suburbs. The human and infrastructural needs are enormous, and the tax base is thin. This is precisely why so many on the Left have found what's going on in Jackson to be so interesting, and why Dan was eager to invite the mayor onto the show.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,
0:06.9	which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:13.0	One that you might like is Deport Deprive Extradite 21st Century State Extremism by Nisha Kapoor.
0:21.0	The extradition of Tair suspects reveals the worst features of the
0:25.9	security state. In 2012, five Muslim men were extradited from Britain to the
0:31.8	U.S. to face terrorism-related charges.
0:35.2	Fajad Hashmi was deported a few years before.
0:39.0	Abid Nasir and Harun-ASwat would follow shortly. They were subject to pre-trial incarceration
0:45.5	for up to 17 years. Police brutality, secret trials, secret evidence, long-term
0:51.7	detention in solitary confinement, citizenship deprivation, and more.
0:57.0	Deport Deprive Extradite draws on their stories as starting points to explore what they illuminate about the disciplinary
1:04.6	features of state power and its securitizing conditions. In looking at these
1:10.7	stories of Muslim men accused of terrorism-related offenses,
1:14.4	Nisha Kapoor explores how these racialized subjects are dehumanized,
1:19.6	made non-human, both in terms of how they are represented and via the disciplinary
1:25.0	techniques used to expel them. She explores how these cases illuminate and enable
1:31.1	intensifying authoritarianism and the diminishment of democratic systems.
1:36.2	Deport Deprive Extradite 21st Century State Extremism by Nisha Kapoor.
1:43.2	Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
1:59.2	I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
2:03.0	This is yet the latest installment in our ongoing series
2:06.7	on the left and electoral politics.
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