Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-01-06, 2021-01-06

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and The Lady of Rage

Date of episode: January 6, 2021

Interviewee: Equani, unnamed second caller, Erica, Tionia

Project: Free ‘Em All Radio Collection

00:00:04 -- Intro music

00:04:56 -- New intro music

00:10:10 -- Host self-introductions and opening of call-in line

00:11:22 -- Tamir Rice and Jacob Blake case overviews and analysis of state repression of popular action

00:13:09 -- Criticism of electoral strategy and national politicians

00:15:20 -- Analysis of U.S. imperial structures and strategies

00:18:00 -- Modern day struggles against contemporary iterations of oppression rooted in slavery, like the Democrats and Republican parties

00:20:00 -- Clubhouse social media platform

00:22:04 -- Utilizing new technologies for political activation and communication

00:24:09 -- Effects of the U.S. embargo of Cuba on Cuban trade capacities

00:25:18 -- More Clubhouse details

00:27:00 -- Effects of proletarian media access on bourgeois political power and vice versa

00:31:20 -- More details and analysis of Tamir Rice’s and Jacob Blake’s cases

00:36:00 -- Disproportionate rates of incarceration for Black people in comparison to white people

00:38:52 -- Proud Boys rally and absence of white response to extremist groups

00:40:20 -- Police response to white supremacist rally in comparison to actions from the Black community and political organizations like the Black Panther Party

00:41:59 -- People’s Party event

00:43:53 -- Music (by Ghetto Boys)

00:49:33 -- First caller from South Carolina (maybe Equani)

00:50:32 -- Seeking liberation as Afrikan prisoners of war in the U.S.

00:51:10 -- Criticism of peaceful protests

00:52:32 -- Ancestral veneration

00:54:33 -- Kyle Rittenhouse and disparity by race in treatment by the state and white society

00:56:00 -- Jethro Devane suing the Columbia Police Department; Joshua Ruffin police murder

01:01:09 -- Climate of political conversations; dog whistles and non-verbal cues

01:04:03 -- Cook county judge story from Chairman

01:05:01 -- Decision to not charge the cop who killed Jacob Blake; impacts on Black children who witness the shooting and murder of their parents

01:08:03 -- Social media suppression of political content

01:09:50 -- Dual consciousness created by U.S. imperialism in colonized people; dynamics of neocolonialism

01:12:48 -- Analysis on how Fred Hampton Sr. heightened contradictions; heightening contradictions contemporarily

01:15:25 -- Atlanta story from Chairman

01:20:00 -- Resisting the protection of the cancer that is capitalism

01:23:09 -- Normalization of trauma at the hands of the state inflicted on Black people

01:25:30 -- Judas and the Black Messiah screening story from Chairman; anniversary of assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. and corresponding trauma

01:30:12 -- Second caller, from prison; advocating SB 2054 and 3233 in Illinois and writing lawmakers

01:35:40 -- Covid-19 related conditions in Illinois prisons and jails; two related fatalities

01:39:27 -- Third caller, Erica; Covid-19 in prisons

01:43:43 -- Fourth caller, Tionia; learning from the program and the People’s Ball; helping with the fundraiser

01:46:20 -- Shoutouts to fundraising links for the Hampton House and political prisoners

01:48:02 -- Outro music