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Jacobin Radio

Weekends: June 20, 2020 (ft. Sean Jacobs)

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. The episode from June 20, 2020, features Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa is a Country and associate professor of international affairs at The New School, to discuss recent BLM protests and their links to protests in Africa.

Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk

Brooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks

Kasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome to weekends with Anna Kasparian and Michael Brooks. I'm Michael Brooks. I'm Anna Casparian.

0:25.7

And on today's show we have Sean Jacobs from Africa as a country joining us talking about the global dimension, the global and local

0:35.9

dimension of the uprisings against police violence, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, and a whole bunch more. Really excited about that.

0:47.6

If you're watching this, please make sure to hit like at the end of today's show.

0:52.4

We'll try to take a couple of super chat questions and of

0:55.9

course we have salt. We have a whole bunch of stuff to get to as we always do and go get yourself a proper subscription to Jack of the magazine.

1:06.2

That's all the whole thing runs and check out the teaching series, the archives.

1:11.7

There was just a great one on Juneteenth with Bill Fletcher Jr that I just watched it was great.

1:16.9

Anna, how you doing? I'm doing great, yeah. One of the

1:27.5

series that I appreciated on Jacobin was with Baskar and Adolf Reed, so good. And just so many important conversations being had, thought-provoking, interesting, and I love that.

1:36.3

I love that.

1:37.3

One of the things that I've been thinking about a lot this week, Michael, is, you know,

1:42.4

Met's how you be wrote a pretty provocative piece.

1:45.0

There was all sorts of infighting on Twitter over it,

1:48.8

but I think that he, while I disagree with some portions

1:52.4

of what he wrote, I think he raises a lot of

1:55.1

serious concerns that we should be aware of the this notion of like moral cruelty

2:01.8

right which we see on Twitter a lot and I think that you got to keep your eye on the prize and on the priorities and that is to ensure that everyone has their basic human needs met.

2:16.0

And unless we all work together and fight together aggressively

2:19.9

and not get distracted by BS drama and gossip, I think we can accomplish those things.

2:26.2

There's just this virus that affects the left that I just can't stand and it's the

2:31.1

infighting.

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